Tracks
- The American Metaphysical Circus
- Hard Coming Love
- Cloud Song
- The Garden of Earthly Delights
- I Won't Leave My Wooden Wife for You, Sugar
- Where Is Yesterday
- Coming Down
- Love Song for the Dead Ché
- Stranded in Time
- The American Way of Love
- Part I - Metaphor for an Older Man
- Part II - California Good-time Music
- Part III - Love Is All
Wikipedia suggests there were two covers for this album. However, I think the cover on the left is a paper outer wrapper that the album was contained in and the cover on the right is the actual album cover.
The United States of America is a colorful album. The songs are rock and roll. This music is experimental and heavy like the music of the Mothers of Invention and the Velvet Underground and has a similarly mischievous like the Mothers of Invention. However, their music does push the boundaries like the music of the other two. It's certainly more listener-friendly.
I liked this album—I really liked Dorothy Moskovitz's singing—and I think it's worth listening to, but I'm not yet convinced this album should be on the list. The album is certainly a more refined type of psychedelic music and seems to be suggesting a new direction for that style. It's certainly a lot more interesting than a lot of the rock and roll from 1967 and 1968 that has been on the list, but I'm not sure it's noticeably different either.
The stand out songs are The American Metaphysical Circus, Hard Coming Love, Cloud Song, The Garden of Earthly Delights, Where Is Yesterday, Coming Down, Love Song for the Dead Ché and The American Way of Love.
★★★★★★★★★☆
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