The United States of America is a 1968 album by psychedelic rock band The United States of America. Produced by David Rubinson, it was released by Columbia Records in 1968. The album was the only release by The United States of America when they were still together and received positive reviews on its release, charting at 181 on the Billboard 200. The album has been re-issued several times and continues to receive critical acclaim decades after its original release.

Music critic Richie Unterberger gave the album a rating of four and half stars out of five, and referred to the album as "one of the most exciting and experimental psychedelic albums of the late 1960s" and compared some of the bands more hard-edged material to early Pink Floyd and The Velvet Underground.

Track listing

Side one

No.

Title

Length

1.

"The American Metaphysical Circus" (Joseph Byrd)

4:56

2.

"Hard Coming Love" (Byrd, Dorothy Moskowitz)

4:41

3.

"Cloud Song" (Byrd, Moskowitz)

3:18

4.

"The Garden of Earthly Delights" (Byrd, Moskowitz)

2:39

5.

"I Won't Leave My Wooden Wife for You, Sugar" (Byrd, Moskowitz)

3:51

Side two

No.

Title

Length

6.

"Where Is Yesterday" (Gordon Marron, Ed Bogas, Moskowitz)

3:08

7.

"Coming Down" (Byrd, Moskowitz)

2:37

8.

"Love Song for the Dead Ché" (Byrd)

3:25

9.

"Stranded in Time" (Marron, Bogas)

1:49

10.

"The American Way of Love"

"Metaphor for an Older Man" (Byrd)

"California Good time Music" (Byrd)

"Love Is All" (Byrd, Moskowitz, Rand Forbes, Craig Woodson, Marron)"

The band

Joseph Byrd – electronic music, electric harpsichord, organ, calliope, piano, vocals

Dorothy Moskowitz – lead vocals

Gordon Marron – electric violin, ring modulator, vocals (on "Where is Yesterday" and "Stranded in Time")

Rand Forbes – electric bass

Craig Woodson – electric drums, percussion

Additional musicians

Ed Bogas – occasional organ, piano, calliope

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