The Underground - Psychotic Reaction (Count Five Cover) video free download

From '' Psychedelic Visions ''

Label: Mercury -- WC 16337,

Format: Vinyl, 12"

Country: US

Released: 1967

Tracklist

A1 Psychotic Reaction

A2 Shout

A3 Psychedelic Dream

A4 Psychotic Vibrations

A5 Tobacco Road

B1 Turn On Your Love Light

B2 (We Ain't Got) Nothin' Yet

B3 Psychedelic Visions

B4 Mind Jammer

B5 The Warper

Different years invariably are recalled by the musical styles that prevailed or were originated.

So it is we associate the early Forties with Swing, the late Forties with Bop, the Fifties with Rock, and, of course, the early Sixties with the "British" sound.

This present year undoubtedly will be recalled as the "psychedelic year", the time in which electrical musical sounds reached new dimensions.

Such musical explorations were carried on with the intent of producing "mind expansion" among the listeners (and "mind expanding" is what "psychedelic" really means!).

It was an "underground" music form that surfaced this year.

Here are assembled in a group of selections ideally suited for "psychedelic" interpretation. and the members of The Underground are just waiting to take you along on their musical trip.

Listen, and maybe you'll have visions of your own.

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Lyrics

I feel depressed, I feel so bad.

'Cause you're the best girl that I ever had.

I can't get your love, I can't get a fraction.

Uh-oh, little girl, psychotic reaction.

And it feels like this!

I feel so lonely night and day.

I can't get your love, I must stay away.

I need you girl, by my side.

Uh-oh, little girl, would you like to take a ride, now.

I can't get your love, I can't get satisfaction.

Uh-oh, little girl, psychotic reaction.

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"Psychotic Reaction" is an early garage rock song released by the American rock band Count Five in 1966, and also the title of their only album.

Guitarist John "Sean" Byrne was sitting in a Health Education class in his freshman year at San Jose City College in California, learning about psychosis.

His friend Ron Lamb leaned over and whispered: "You know what would be a great name for a song? Psychotic Reaction."

Byrne had been writing a tune in his head that day, and used the title to finish it, with the entire band given writing credit.

The song hit number five on the Billboard charts.

The song was modeled after the Yardbirds's song "I'm a Man", with a repetitious rhythm that eventually changes to a faster beat, an electric guitar playing a hypnotic melody going up the scales, and a similar style of percussion to that of the Yardbirds hit.

This song was popular in the Vietnam War era, and appears in the game Battlefield Vietnam.

Probably the best known of the many obscure covers that were made in the 1960s is the one by Positively 13 O'Clock that was included on the original Pebbles compilation album.

The song was covered by The Cramps on their 1983 live mini-album, Smell of Female, and by Nash the Slash on his album American Bandages. Television included this in their early sets, emphasizing the "rave-up" section.

It was also recorded in more heavily psychedelic manner by the 60's studio only band The Leathercoated Minds in 1966 on their album A Trip Down the Sunset Strip.

The song is one of the many songs quoted and parodied on the album The Third Reich 'n Roll by the avantgarde group The Residents.

This song is also played live by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers on the Playback box set and seen in the currently out of print concert video, "Take the Highway".

John Byrne died on December 15, 2008 at 61, from cirrhosis of the liver.