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Travel With Your Mind

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This 20 song compilation of Seeds' standarts, outtakes, rehearsals and rare versions is better than you could expect. Maybe it's not a best introduction to one of the most seminal garage rock bands, but it's a highly entertaining document, with strong feeling of music expression freedom. Opening "Satisfy You" is one of the best garage rock thunderous tracks i ever heard, sparring with most frenetic records by the Sonics or The Troggs. "Pushing Too Hard" is another gem, and is more famous single closing this album. In between there's a lot hit'n'miss items, most of them are easily to love with first listening.
Totally, this compilation is not top-form Seeds, however it sounds impressively fresh and fun.

This CD is a companion piece to an earlier Seeds CD, which featured their first two albums. This one features the "best" songs that were not on their first two albums, other than "Pushin' Too Hard", which was. My personal favorite song is the haunting "The Wind Blows Your Hair". Some other good ones include "Satisfy You", "Flower Lady and Her Assistant", "A Thousand Shadows", "Nobody Spoil My Fun" and "900 Million People Daily" (available here for the first time in the uncut ten minute version). Some of the other songs are rather mediocre, though. The Seeds actually recorded a blues album, which was a mistake, as they didn't really have an affinity for that type of material (thankfully only one song from that album is included here). Not every song is a winner, but there aren't any complete failures here, either. Fans of the '60s garage band or psychedelic scenes should enjoy it.

Well assembled twenty track disc of The Seed's repertoire between l965-67. Duration of CD, 65:50. This is one of those lesser known '60's garage / psych bands that true fans of such can never completely let go of. Cuts that I was sort of taken away with were "Satisfy You", "Pretty Girl", the heavy psych "Chocolate River", "Out Of The Question", the title track "Travel With Your Mind", "Flower Lady", "900 Million People Daily" (great fuzz guitar), "Nobody Spoil My Fun" and the two versions of their sole hit "Pushin' Too Hard". Line-up: Sky Saxon-guitar,keyboards&vocals, Daryl Hooper-vocals, Jan Savage-lead guitar and Rick Andridge-drums. Will most likely appeal to fans of Music Machine, Barbarians, Chocolate Watchband and The Kingsmen. A should-have.