CD Details
- Released: February 23, 1999
- Originally Released: 1999
- Label: Collectables Records
Description by OLDIES.com:
Count Five was a psychedelic garage rock quintet of teenagers from San Jose. They're remembered equally for their music as they are for being the inspiration for Rock critic Lester Bang's best-selling book "Psychotic Reaction and Carburetor Dung". This CD spotlights their hit single, "Psychotic Reaction", which was a #5 Pop single in 1966 as well as their entire output for Double Shot Records.
Tracks:
- 1.Psychotic Reaction
- 2.Double Decker Bus
- 3.Pretty Big Mouth
- 4.World
- 5.My Generation
- 6.She's Fine
- 7.Peace Of Mind
- 8.They're Gonna Get You
- 9.The Morning After
- 10.Can't Get Your Lovin'
- 11.Our In The Street
- 12.Teeny Bopper, Teeny Bopper
- 13.You Must Believe Me
- 14.Contrast
- 15.Merry-Go-Round
- 16.Declaration Of Independence
- 17.Revelation In Slow Motion
- 18.Mailman
Product Description:
Personnel: John "Sean" Byrne (vocals, guitar); Kenn Ellner (vocals, harmonica, tambourine); John Michalski (guitar); Craig "Butch" Atkinson (drums).
Liner Note Author: Jud Cost.
Photographer: Bernard Yeszin.
PSYCHOTIC REACTION: THE VERY BEST OF COUNT FIVE contains all 11 songs from the San Jose, California, garage rockers' sole album, plus six tracks from rare post-LP singles. (Sorry, Lester Bangs fans: all the later Count Five albums in his famous essay "Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung" are fictional.) It is not entirely comprehensive--Big Beat's 23-track PSYCHOTIC REVELATION has the lot--but it's as much Count Five as all but the most obsessive garage rock historian will ever need, attractively packaged and with more than adequate sound.