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.
Hassles in My Mind is the second of these, and like the first (
Get on Our Swing), it's rather mediocre late-'60s psychedelia. The only notable difference is that the songs are longer this time around, usually hovering around the five-minute mark, and in one case ("My Child, He Walks Alone") running ten minutes. Many of the attributes of psychedelia as it began turning into hard rock are here -- muscular overwrought vocals, fuzz guitar, thick organ riffs, grinding ominous melodies -- though
the Corporation had somewhat more soul and jazz influences than the usual such outfit, especially when
John Kondos took to his flute. The improvisational-sounding instrumental passages are actually more together and disciplined than they are on many such obscure discs from the era, but the songwriting isn't too good, and the lyrics are occasionally embarrassingly clumsy. The record was combined with the first
Corporation album on Age of Aquarius,
Get on Our Swing, for a single-disc CD reissue on Big Beat in 2008.