The Corporation - Get On Our Swing / Hassels In My Mind (1970) [2008]

After recording their sole album to receive wide national distribution (1969's The Corporation, released on Capitol), the Corporation recorded two LPs of additional material that found release the following year on Age of Aquarius, a small Wisconsin label. Get on Our Swing is the first of these, and is a pretty average -- perhaps even slightly below average -- slice of late-'60s psychedelia. Comprised entirely of original material, it's also quite short, clocking in at a little more than 20 minutes. While the Milwaukee band favored a generally bluesy hard rock sound, there were also strong hints of brassy soul music in the arrangements, particularly Danny Peil's trembling vocals. There were also traces of melancholy West Coast psychedelia in some of the melodies, vocal harmonies, and gothic organ, often lending a somewhat downbeat tone to the material even when the lyrics are somewhat upbeat or romantic. The record was combined with the second Corporation album on Age of Aquarius, Hassles in My Mind, for a single-disc CD reissue on Big Beat in 2008.