The United States Of America

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Total Tracks: 20   Total Length: 66:25

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Scene: San Francisco 1966-69
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Scene: San Francisco 1966-69

By Lenny Kaye, eMusic Contributor

The perfect storm creates an awe-inspiring rainbow. In the Summer of Love, that star-crossed solstice of the psychotropic year of 1967, all third eyes pointed toward San Francisco at the nexus of Haight and Ashbury, a sound-and-vision track of mind-genre expansion. Set and setting, like the happenstance of tripping itself, enhanced the soupcon of musical expression that shot the Bay Area to the forefront of popular consciousness. The counter-cultural and political upheavals of the 1960s had… more »

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Originally released on Columbia in 1968, The United States of America is one of the legendary pure psychedelic space records. Some of the harder-rocking tunes have a fun house recklessness that recalls aspects of early Pink Floyd and the Velvet Underground at their freakiest; the sedate, exquisitely orchestrated ballads, especially “Cloud Song” and the wonderfully titled “Love Song for the Dead Che,” are among the best relics of dreamy psychedelia. Occasionally things get too excessive and self-conscious, and the attempts at comedy are a bit flat, but otherwise this is a near classic. – Richie Unterberger