Volume 3: A Child's Guide to Good and Evil

Volume 3: A Child's Guide To Good And Evil
Studio album by The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band
Released 1968
Genre Psychedelic rock
Label Reprise
Producer Jimmy Bowen & Bob Markley
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band chronology
Vol. 2 (Breaking Through)
(1967)
Volume 3: A Child's Guide to Good and Evil
(1968)
Where's My Daddy?
(1969)

Volume 3: A Child's Guide To Good And Evil, is a psychedelic rock album by The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band. The group's third album, released on Reprise (RS 6298 stereo and promo R 6298 mono), it is widely regarded as their best. In 2005, Mojo Magazine voted it 31 in its list of the 40 Greatest Psychedelic Albums Of All Time.

The closing track, "Anniversary Of World War III," is two minutes of total silence.

Track listing

  1. "Eighteen Is Over the Hill" (Bob Markley, Ron Morgan)
  2. "In the Country" (Markley, Shaun Harris, Terry Kath)
  3. "Ritual #1" (Markley, Harris, John Ware)
  4. "Our Drummer Always Plays in the Nude" (Markley, Harris)
  5. "As the World Rises and Falls" (Markley, Morgan)
  6. "Until the Poorest People Have Money to Spend" (Markley, Harris)
  7. "Watch Yourself" (Buddy Guy, Robert Yaezel)
  8. "A Child's Guide to Good and Evil" (Markley, Harris)
  9. "Ritual #2" (Markley, Harris)
  10. "A Child of a Few Hours Is Burning to Death" (Markley, Morgan)
  11. "As Kind as Summer" (Markley, Harris, Roger Bryant)
  12. "Anniversary of World War III" (Markley)
2001 CD Bonus Tracks
  1. "Shifting Sands (Single Mix)" (Baker Knight)
  2. "1906 (Single Mix)" (Markley, Morgan)

Performers