The Most / Greatest Psychedelic Albums of All Time
Submitted by Feif Umgotnn on Wed, 03/10/2010 - 23:45
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- Top Tierrors: albums that drill into MY skull and sever MYself from MYself, time and again
- The Doors: The Doors (1966)
- Pink Floyd: Piper at the Gates of Dawn (1967)
- The Outsiders: CQ (1968)
- Hash Jar Tempo: Well Oiled (1997)
- Red Krayola: Parable of Arable Land (1967)
- Robert Rich: Somnium (2001) - try and listen to all-the-way through, I dare you, I double dog dare you!
- Les Rallizes Dénudés: '77 Live (1977)
- Taj Mahal Travllers: August 1974 (1974)
- The Velvet Underground: The Velvet Underground & Nico (1966)
- Mercury Rev: Yerself Is Steam (1991)
- Pärson Sound: Pärson Sound (1968)
- The Velvet Underground: White Light/White Heat (1967)
- Bardo Pond: Bufo Alvarius, Amen 29:15 (1995)
- Yume Bitsu: Yume Bitsu (1999)
- Taj Mahal Travellers: July 15, 1972 (1972)
- The United States of America: The United States of America (1967)
- My Bloody Valentine: Loveless (1990)
- Chrome: Half Machine Lip Moves (1979)
- These albums can be, or have been, powerful but are not ULTIMATE psychedelic experience for me
- Silver Apples: Silver Apples (1968) – contact is next to listen to
- Tim Buckley: Starsailor (1970)
- Shit & Shine: Ladybird (2004) - "Practicing To Be A Doctor" is the more psychedelic track but has too much chaos around it
- Fifty Foot Hose: Cauldron (1967)
- Pink Floyd: A Saucerful of Secrets (1968)
- Third Ear Band: Alchemy (1969)
- SubArachnoid Space: Almost Invisible (1996)
- Bruce Palmer: The Cycle is Complete (1971)
- Peter Green: End of the Game (1970)
- Seventh Sons: Raga (1964)
- Galaxie 500: On Fire (1989)
- White Heaven: Out (1991)
- White Noise: An Electric Storm (1968) – here for now – there really is too much vocalization going on here
- Windy & Carl: Drawing of Sound (1996) - i have 2 more albums of theirs to listen to
- Kaleidoscope: Beacon From Mars (1968)
- Jimi Hendrix: Electric Ladyland (1968)
- The Velvet Underground: 1969: Live With Lou Reed (1969)
- Stereolab: Transient Random-Noise Bursts with Announcements (1993)
- Third Ear Band: Third Ear Band aka Elements (1970)
- Pink Floyd: Ummagumma (1969)
- Haphash & the Coloured Coat: Featuring the Human Host and the Heavy Metal Kids (1967)
- Jimi Hendrix: Axis: Bold As Love (1967)
- Surface of Eceyon: The King Beneath the mountain ()
- Sleep: Dopesmoker (recorded 1995, released 2003) – a stoner rock manifesto, not psychedelic enough
- Dreamies: Auralgraphic Entertainment (1974) - a.k.a. Dreamies
- SubArachnoid Space: Delicate Membrane ()
- The Doors: Strange Days (1967)
- Grateful Dead: Live/Dead (1969)
- Grateful Dead: Anthem of the Sun (1968)
- Floaters: these are psychedelic to the point that they make me forget where I am, but do not send me down any rabbit holes, or if they do, not to the other side
- Ant-Bee: Pure Electric Honey (1990)
- Ya Ho Wa 13: Penetration, An Aquarian Symphony (1974)
- The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band: Part One (1967)
- Syd Barrett: Barrett (1970)
- Mazinga Phaser: Cruising in the Neon Glories of the New American Night (1996)
- Jefferson Airplane: After Bathing At Baxter’s (1967)
- High Rise: Live (1994)
- The Beatles: Magical Mystery Tour (1967)
- Gang Gang Dance: Hillulah (2005)
- Arzachel: Arzachel (1969)
- One: One (1972)
- Jimi Hendrix: Are You Experienced? [US] (1967)
- Can: Future Days (1973)
- Mercury Rev: Boces (1993)
- Royal Trux: Twin Infinitives (1990)
- Dadamah: This Is Not A Dream (1992)
- Gong: Flying Teapot (Radio Gnome Invisible Pt. 1) (1973)
- Pere Ubu: The Modern Dance (1977)
- Faust: Faust (1971)
- The Soft Boys: Underwater Moonlight (1980)
- Suicide: Suicide (1977)
- Neu!: Neu! (1971)
- The Jesus and Mary Chain: Psychocandy (1985)
- Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O.: Pataphisical Freak Out MU!! (1999)
- Limbus 3: New Atlantis - Cosmic Music Experience (1969)
- The Flaming Lips: Telepathic Surgery (1989)
- Hawkwind: Space Ritual (1973)
- Quicksilver Messenger Service: Happy Trails (1969)
- Gong: Angel's Egg (Radio Gnome Invisible, Pt. 2) (1973)
- The Index: The Index (1967)
- Shit & Shine: Cunts With Roses (2007)
- Hash Jar Tempo: Under Glass (1999)
- Alvin Lucier: I Am Sitting In A Room (1981)
- Twink: Think Pink (1970)
- Electric Prunes: Mass in F Minor (1968)
- International Harvester: Sov Gott Rose-Marie (1968)
- Guru Guru: U.F.O. (1970)
- Shpongle Are You Shpongled? (1998)
- Pere Ubu: The Art of Walking (1980)
- Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band: Safe As Milk (1967)
- Alexander ‘Skip’ Spence: Oar (1969)
- Rainbow Ffolly: Sallies Fforth (1968)
- Acid Mothers Temple Family Compilation: Do Whatever You Want, Don't Do Whatever You Don't Want!! (2002)
- Pink Floyd: Atom Heart Mother (1970)
- The Strawberry Alarm Clock: Incense and Peppermints (1968)
- Tomorrow: Tomorrow (1968)
- Pisces: A Lovely Sight (comp/archival released in 2009, recorded in 196?) – a great pop album
- The Dream Syndicate: The Days of Wine and Roses (1982)
- Eric Burden & the Animals: Love Is (1968)
- Can: Tago Mago (1971)
- The Bevis Frond: Tryptich (1988)
- Brain Ticket: Cottonwoodhill (1970)
- Mad River: Mad River (1968)
- The Pretty things: S. F. Sorrow (1967)
- Art: Supernatural Fairy Tales (1967)
- The Five Day Week Straw People: The Five Day Week Straw People (1968)
- Underground Lovers: Leaves Me Blind (1992)
- Deviants: Ptooff!! (1967)
- 13th Floor Elevators: The Psychedelic Sounds of the 13th Floor Elevators (1966)
- Spirit: Twelve Dreams of Dr. Sardonicus
- Azailia Snail: Burnt Sienna (1992)
- The Stone Roses: The Stone Roses [US] (1989)
- Fever Tree: Fever Tree (1968)
- Blue Cheer: Outsideinside (1968)
- Tombstone Valentine: Hidden World
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ANY SUGGESTIONS ARE WELCOME, FROM ANY GENRE; OBVIOUS OR OBSCURE ALBUMS, JUST INUNDATE ME WITH PSYCHEDELIA
I used to think i was an "expert", or on the verge of being an "expert", on this subject, that is, I would track down and listen to 10 psychedelic albums a day, all-the-way through, and just trip the days and nights away. I have left that behind. What is left is a decent list for people who are interested in finding the best stuff to escape reality with, even if it is only for an hour or less.
None of these albums need volume, and I recommend to listen to all music only loud enough to hear all the instruments, or all the major instruments if the production is horrible, and not a decibel louder. Your ears are not indestructible.
I wanted to make a much more exhaustive list of tracks--"Light my fire" would be #1--and a better list of albums, but it has been a while.
YES to the instrumental bridge in Light My Fire.
yeah, that one was not even close. it would be followed by the "Freak Outs" by Krayola (especially the opening crash); midway through the jam of "The Gift" on WL/WH; the eruption near the end of "Chasing A Bee"; the percussive guitars in the live version of "What Goes On"; the melody Hedrix culls out cuts out of the feedback in "Third Stone From The Sun"; the psychotic blast of guitar in "Trickle Down"; the slow, methodical meandering of the entire Grateful Dead in "Dark Star"; the haunting austerity of "I Won't Hurt You" and "CQ"; the spiritual drive of "II Car Raga"; the build of "Careful with that axe, Eugene", and chaotic species of voices in "Small Fury Animals...", and the drums of "Grand Vizier's Garden"; the blast from "Blind Promise" and melancholic strumming fractured midway through "Mandrax Town"; and the various vocal performances of Eric Burden on Love Is...just some other moments off the top of my head that send me into other places of there.
do you have any favorite moments, or complete tracks i may leave out, or just want to reinforce as great?
I know I recommended them on this list on RYM as well but hopefully it might bump them up your 'to relisten to'. Silver Apples - Silver Apples especially Velvet Cave and Brian Eno - Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy) especially The Great Pretender. To those I'd also add White Noise - An Electric Storm especially Love Without Sound.
To that list of most psychedelic tracks I'd add The American Way Of Love, Bike, Corporal Clegg, Dr Who Theme (By Delia Derbyshire) and the track Strange Days. The American Way Of Love may well be the most psychedelic track in my opinion.
Silver Apples will be on here, when i reorder everything - too many of my favorites higher than more psychedelic albums. i'm not sure about Eno, but An Electric Storm will probably go on here as well.
both bookends to USA's album are tops, i just forgot the other, and "Strange Days" is definitely up there.
thanks
How do we define psychedelic? Just trippy?
I'd probably put 13th Floor higher, and vehemently disagree with Psychocandy, but I just dislike that album, so...
DJ Shadow's Endtroducing !
No Residents? (not nominally psych but effectively so)
Irrlicht (this really takes me there)
Other recs:
Amon Duul II -- Yeti
Paix by Catherine Ribeiro
Future Days(esp. title track and Bel Air)
Barrett (really need this one somewhere)
(maybe) Soft Machine Volume II
Kevin Ayers first 2 albums
You don't think Wish You Were Here or Dark Side qualify? Yes, they are production and "sound"-driven, but that creates such a HEADY atmosphere.
Oh, and finally, "Don't Be A Bloke!" by Vegetable Caller. Can't forget that one.
psychedelic: the ability to sever the physical from the metaphysical, and then the metaphysical from the 'pataphysical; causing fissures throughout my various consciousnesses, then boil them to a goo which slushes from here to here again allowing me to literally separate from reality with lights on or off, eyes open or closed, mind occupied or not, alone or at a party....
if i come up with any other stipulations on the definition i will amend them to the list.
onto the albums: those are all on my invisible "considerations" list - i will post ALL of those, as well as the albums i reject as psychedelic (Grateful Dead and Jefferson Airplane fans may get very angry).
i'm not sure about those Floyd albums, i have always disliked Dark Side, all of the 70's Floyd albums may not show up, even Meddle.
i need a complete salad my good chum before i start calling any vegetable...!
Dig that definition, I do. That should be SAVED.
Have I not whet your appetite? Well, you shall be satiated before too long by mine Demon Eye.
save it, because i willn't. i need a new eye, send it on over.
Treat her nicely, a wee sapling she is: Demon Eye.
sounds like Dogbowl. it is ok, but i think you should mirror the vocals with the lyrics by whispering the words in the beginning the beginning of the song (with your current vocals floating distant in the background as a safety blanket for the object), never truly getting a complete word out (full lipped and tongued). As the song progresses so should the percussion, growing in measure and various manipulations uprooting more of the demonic aspect of the song. the vocals should always be omnipresent, even if they are sung sotto voce, but as the song progresses the vocals should progress, (possibly) by seething the words through your teeth (with psychotic throat undulations). Then bring the emotions back to the sensitive beginning, thus reassuring the object that the persona is not out to hurt them with their "Demon Eye", but simply wants to share its wondrous qualities, and that it should not be feared but welcomed to accompany their demon eye - misery loves company, or is it company loves misery, i always get those adage-mah-jiggers mixed and fixed up right 'n' proppper.
Funny thing about Demon Eye is that it's dynamic, really open to different manifestations and interpretations, so I like your suggestions. I will attempt this and dub it the Feif Entreaty Mix. No matter how I deliver it, though, it needs to retain a powerful spiritual aspect from which the song was spawned. You have a demon eye, too, Feif, and one day it will shine like a kaleidoscope through the valley of your own splendid creation.
i have had it all my life, it just cannot handle the light that shines on these pitiful earthly delights. that day may be coming sooner than i thought...(very very soon).
the suggestions i made would not only retain the spiritual aspect, but may even push it to new heights (depths), but you will only know when you put the pen to paper and not just talk about it.
if i do not lose myself this next week in any of the various ways i am able to lost myself, prepare for a monstrous suite titled "Pretty Little Lady Girl" (i may change the title by the time i finish it). and i will try and piece together some other solo acoustic guitar songs together that i will TRY to record with good equipment--then i will send it to you and see how you can "treat" them.
also, to end "Demon Eye" i think you should have some sort of ghostly drone of a harmonica, or violin...to BE the (singular) Demon Eye, always present, ethereal, and powerful - that it gets the final say of the song.
i really wish i could co-produce this stuff with you, in the same room, so i could better relate all my thoughts, even if you potentially GET IT PERFECTLY as i write it to you. anyhow, keep up the good work!
Monstrous suite! Nice! Great title too. It would be fun to collaborate in the same room but we can always do it long-distance. You can send me mp3s of parts, I send you mp3s of parts, and together we construct a shiny skeleton.
Demon Eye is expanding, a much wider periphery than before, its universality undeniable.
In the meantime, check out my latest, and play it loud so you can catch all minutiae.
Great list! Ever consider adding any psychedelic trance/psychedelic house/psychedelic techno (psytekk)/psychedelic ambient to the list? All 3 styles are certainly prime candidates for the list (after all, they have psychedelic right in their genre titles, and their scenes are infested with LSD and magic mushroom dropping hippies).
I'd recommend these to start:
Hallucinogen - LSD
Shpongle - Are You Shpongled? [psychedelic ambient]
Etnica - The Juggling Alchemists Under the Black Light
Man With No Name - Moment of Truth
Pleaidians - Identified Flying Object
Of course, if that's not your bag, that's cool too. I just don't think a list of psychedelic albums would be complete without at least some of these genres' masterpieces.
i will throw them on my list "to be listened to" and feel free to keep them coming.
Excellent. I'll pass you some more once you've taken a look at the above albums (because if you hate those with passion after a few listens, there's not much point to sending you more psychedelic electronic dance and psychedelic ambient music. Although, this one seems particularly well-accepted by less experienced electronic listeners, and hardcore psytrance freaks alike:
Infected Mushroom - Classical Mushroom
It's a pretty good album. On that note:
Infected Mushroom - IM the Supervisor.
That one is even more pop-sensible, although not so much my thing. Perhaps it might appeal to you, since you have a bit more orientation towards pop.
send 100, don't worry if you think i will not like it because i am not heavy on electronic music. what you might want to do is categorize them considering the albums i have listed in what order above.
are the electronic albums just going to be corny "techno-beats" (like most of the 60's pop/psych albums are just pop albums treated with effects) or are the electronic albums going to make me forget i exist for an hour?
i have no problem with any genre, i have a problem with crap, and if i feel something is wasting my time i just move on. but, if i feel something has potential i keep it in case i may change my mind later on, on a full stomach or good/bad nights rest....
It's pretty subjective, but I think the albums on the first mini-list I sent you are considerably more artistic and interesting. The Shpongle and Hallucinogen albums are particularly good (Shpongle is more journey-like, since it's downtempo). They make me forget I exist for an hour, but it may be different for you, hard to say. Those 2 are the best to start with, however.
It may take a couple of listens to those albums, to get into the genre. Still, if you're not big on electronic, it might not be for you, period. We'll have to see, I suppose.
at a glance, the only album worth my time is Shpongle. the others sound like cliche electronic albums - they are like boy band albums are to pop music, or music in general. that is something that you will never get me into. if you have more stuff like Shpongle, without the (annoying) cliche beats that everyone puts into their electronic music send 'em all my way. there is a large void between what Amon Tobin and Autechtre seem to be doing, and what Man With No Name is doing in the electronic realm. thanks for the suggestions.
Fair enough. I'm pretty able to ignore the cliche beat (it pervades virtually everything electronic dance related) - it serves more of a functional purpose (that is, easy dancing) than for intensive home listening. For me, that sort of music is usually either for dancing, driving, or for background music to get me a bit more energized, thus requiring that pumping, though very standard beat. I'll send more psybient your way in that case, when I have time to pore through my collection and find some worthwhile selections. I recommend this one as a second album to check out:
Pushmipulyu - 133 Thursdays
It's very acid jazz-tinged, like say, Ninja Tune does psybient.
You are quite correct that Amon Tobin and Autechre and the like are musically superior to all of this sort of thing.
Endtroducing??? Ahhh, I can't work out whether it's psychedelic. It certainly sends me into a 'trip'...but is it psychedelic? And it's electronic and you're fucking soooo pissed off by most of it.
i tried it, and i do like the album, but it was not what i am looking for with respect to this list. i didn't lose myself in it.
Interesting list. Never really thought of The Doors or The Velvet Underground as psychedelic groups before, though I suppose the subject matters they dealt with as well as some of their musical experiments could warrant their inclusion on this list. Parable of Arable Land would probably be my number 1.
Some other albums you might want to consider:
Fifth Dimension (The Byrds, 1966)
Revolver (The Beatles, 1966)
The Great San Bernardino Birthday (John Fahey, 1966)
Younger Than Yesterday (The Byrds, 1967)
The Moray Eels Eat The Holy Modal Rounders (The Holy Modal Rounders, 1969)
Mutantes (Os Mutantes, 1969)
Unicorn (T. Rex, 1969)
U.F.O. (Guru Guru, 1970)
Satori (Flower Travellin Band, 1971)
Satwa (Satwa, 1973)
Parable of Arable Land is A #1, just not mine, but it was THE album that i would recommend to people when they asked me about my psychedliaphilia a few years ago, so it would have been #1 then.
thanks for all the others, i will throw them up right now. my only problem will be with Revolver: some tracks are clearly VERY psychedelic, and others annoy me: Elenor Rigby, I'm Only Sleeping, Dr. Robert, Got To Get You Into My Life, Here, There and Everywhere - i personally have always disliked Elenor, from the first listen, i think it is the strings, or my hatred of 99% Paul McCartney (Yesterday, Penny Lane, Fool on the hill) - but my problem with these tracks, and to some degree most of the album, is that they sound like demos for Pepper or MMT. but i will try it ONE more time.
thanks, and feel free to post as many as you like, though it may take months/a year to get to them.... this is a lot harder than i thought it would be. i used to hate A Beacon From Mars and now, well, i have it in the top tier...so, maybe Revolver will not anger me.
When Revolver was being recorded psychedelic rock was in its infancy and it was really a prelude to Sgt Pepper and Magical Mystery Tour. Yet to me Revolver is IMO much better. I think some of you guys on Listology miss the essence of the Beatles. Albums like Revolver and Sgt.Pepper are not the most experimental albums ever though "Strawberry Fields Forever" is very experimental and it's not on either album. Creating effects to make psychedelic music is really part of the compositional process in writing songs at the time. Using the studio as an instrument was also part of the songwriting process. So when you hear effects on Sgt. Pepper it's part of the song. Everyone was doing it at the time not just pop/rock music.
It's a fact they were experimental with great songs done by the world's greatest pop group showing that rock could be a serious genre. It was one thing for the Velvet Underground, Pink Floyd or Frank Zappa do their weird experimental stuff. Their ideas may have been more out there than the Beatles. The fact is that since they were not on the world stage of music at this point, they could be dismissed as an anomaly. The Beatles put out an album with the experimental trappings, without sacrificing all of their great melodies, the world had no choice but to take notice. Rock, pop, and all of it's cousins, was here to stay.
Listen to what's going on with Revolver including the single "Rain"/"Paperback Writer" you had ""Eleanor Rigby," "I'm Only Sleeping," "Love You To," "She Said She Said," "Good Day Sunshine," "I Want To Tell You," Taxman," and "Tomorrow Never Knows" are pretty revelatory and groundbreaking for pop in general, in the realms of garage styling, guitar-less tracks, backwards dubbing, Indian music, guitar amplification, bass augmentation, avant-garde structuring, and sampling. "Tomorrow Never Knows" had feedback/psychedelic loops/backward-tapes rock over a loud drum and bass sound nothing like it really before. No artist invented anything, music constantly evolves and builds on past influences.
other than this list, or another list i have on RYM--The MOst Out-THeRE albumS of AlL-TimEs--experimental is not a criteria for my great albums. The Beatles could have done anything and be accepted as long as they did not create more songs like "Revolution #9". everyone was up in arms when Dylan went electric, but they kept buying his albums because he was the great Bob Dylan. i am not the fan of the Beatles that you are. rhetorically, why is it that "we" are missing something, and it is not you? you are assuming to much about the role of objectivity in art.
Ok let's be dismissive and say the Beatles could have done anything and be accepted. It's not as easy as that. Instead I gave them credit and many others will say helped pushed the boundaries of what rock groups were capable of, but they were still operating as a cohesive unit. And yes, this stylistic stretching of the canvass like Revolver helped to set the stage for prog.
I only have Revolver ranked 54 as my greatest psychedelic albums but I respect what's going on there like The full-blown raga sounds of "Love You To" had never touched a slab of rock and roll vinyl before Revolver, but they could be found on more psychedelic albums in the following years. What’s really important is the quality of the songwriting was superb overall (despite a handful of throwaways) and their sound was increasingly confident and innovative
I love the music of the Doors debut album but it's still very traditional in it's approach to instrumentation and Western forms of music despite how weird it sounds. What matters is the quality of the songwriting so in that aspect I can't disagree if you think The Doors is your greatest album.
prog music was pushed not by any rock musician, it was the avant-garde musicians of the 1950's.
Love You To is not the first full blown raga sound on an album, and i do not put "rock and roll" in there because there was a band named The Seventh Sons who made an album called Raga, but did not get it released because they were not The Rolling Stones, The Beatles, The Beach Boys, Bob Dylan, etc. but "Love You To" is certainly a new more powerful raga performance on record and that is one of the highlights of the album. it is some of the other songs that take away from what they could have done if they put their collective energies of Revolver, Pepper, and MMT together to make a single or double album of great pop music.
we can go back and forth on what we like, and i think that what The Doors did, not as simple sounds (which superficially they are), but as a collective experience the album is far beyond what other people were doing with the same basic technology. whereas Zappa was pushing the bounds of the studio along with others in POP music, but remember that this is not an indictment of The Beatles, Zappa was behind the times as well. Zappa was using what others had done before him...in a pop setting. Varese, Cage, Stockhausen, etc. all did things beyond what Zappa did, experimentally, and i don't think anyone in Western culture should get credit for integrating Indian Raga into music just because they can. but i am also not a fan of putting Beefheart's Trout Mask Replica on the top shelf because he supposedly integrated free-jazz, delta blues, beat poetry, blathos, i put it there because i think the structures of the songs, sonically and lyrically, are the best that the "rock" genre has ever produced. i am just not the fan of The Beatles as you are, and really that is not a fair statement to make about me as a fan of music. i do not like Paul McCartney (Beatles, solo, personality, etc.), and i think that George and John could have done fine without him--and i know i am in the extreme minority on that, but i always find myself hating McCartney songs, and at worst, i can always bear to listen to a Lennon or Harrison song, including solo material. because McCartney is basically half of every album, it is difficult for me to give the other members their proper credit, that is my opinion of them, because i have to consider his songs as well when considering their albums.
though it can seem that i am only interested in weird sounding music, i disagree with that premise, not that you said that explicitly. i actually like the singer/songwriter genre most, or i go to it most often when i am looking for something to listen to without any particular artist in mind.
my criteria for psych albums are not songwriting whatsoever, it is the ability of the album to cause me to "trip" (WITHOUT DRUGS).
Progressive Rock is a rock subgenre hence it's more influenced by rock music. We can argue this but IMO progressive rock was highly influenced by the psychedelic rock music of British Rock Artists more so than avant-garde musicians. You can't lump one band as the origin of progressive rock but the Beatles were an antecedent for progressive rock. Hence why many call the Beatles as well the Doors as proto-prog. The Beatles were a key early influence on most of the early progressive rock bands even on Robert Fripp.
I am well aware of The Seventh Sons "Raga" but it does not use Indian instruments not to take away from what their doing. "Love You To" is full blown fusion of classical Indian and pop/rock music. I think you know the difference.
Zappa was not behind the times or nor the Beatles in terms of what was going on in their genre. Frank Zappa "Who Are The Brain Police? and the Beatles "Tomorrow Never Knows" are not behind the times. They were using the technology and used it in innovative ways. The Beatles they were blurring the lines of rock and pop music. The backward guitar lines on "I'm Only Sleeping" or adding tamboura on "Tomorrow Never Knows". The loops of "Tomorrow Never Knows" were only in common use by the likes of avant-garde composers like John Cage, Karlheinz Stockhausen and a few others before Revolver, but afterwards, the tape loop became one of the common sounds heard when bands wanted to create spacy, psychedelic weird sounds… and they did the same thing with the mellotron.
Sgt Pepper intergrates pop music with psychedelia, classical Indian, avant garde, and classical music sometimes in the course of one song. The Beatles were basically a pop fusion band. Beefheart's Trout Mask Replica comes what two years after Sgt Pepper and three years after Revolver and Freak Out. So that in aspect was Beefheart was behind the times? No one artist invented anything, music constantly evolves and builds on past influences.
I prefer the Beatles kind of psych/pop style than say Pink Floyd Piper or the Doors. I'm not saying it's better but I like it more a song like "Only a Northern Song" is a very psychedelic without nary a guitar is one of many examples.
We are NOT starting this argument again mmk! We've done this! SOOOOOO many times. They always end the same, we agree to disagree. OK. It's done. Leave it for the love of god, BOTH of you.
no no, sorry.
fair enough.
"No one artist invented anything, music constantly evolves and builds on past influences." --YES!
i like "Only a Northern Song" too, and always wondered why it never made it onto Pepper or MMT. have you read/heard anywhere why it was cut from those sessions?
This was supposed to be on Pepper but I think George Martin said it wasn't a great song. I'm still wondering why it wasn't on Sgt Pepper. This is by far the most psychedelic song the Beatles did as a cohesive unit. George has got that organ and vocal, Paul with his groovy bass line and that crazy trumpet, Ringo on his kit and John's the one doing all those weird piano and glockenspiel like sounds in the background.
it is either the most psychedelic or tied with the most psychedelic of all the songs the Beatles ever produced, and is the reason why i rate their albums so low in terms of psychedelia.
I expect you'll probably include at least Dream Theory In Malaya once you get around to relistening to Hassell's albums. Also gonna mention Portishead - Third. The album as a whole I dunno, probably doesn't qualify but if you haven't heard it you may want to. The most psychedelic tracks are the best - We Carry On, Threads and Machine Gun. Here is a vid for We Carry On.
Absolutely Live by The Doors qualify despite being a live album? I only mention it really because it contains Celebration Of The Lizard which I would guess you find rather psychedelic. I find the Not To Touch The Earth and A Little Game parts particularly so. I think the lyrics "Just close your eyes...forget your name...forget the world...forget the people" spoken by Morrison may be the most psychedelic in rock music.
the album would qualify, but i doubt it will make it, if i remember correctly, because the recording is more of a rock album than strictly a psychedelic adventure for the mind. but i do agree with "Celebration of the Lizard". it is a shame it did not make it onto Waiting for the Sun. it will probably surface on a list of most psych tracks, if i ever get around to making one. i am removing myself from listology and the internet more and more, and this summer i may only pop in once a week, or less. regardless you are right on with that track with "Wake Up!" and the little game called go insane, Wait, there's been a slaughter here...Not To Touch The Earth.............
Only one beatles? No John lennon etc.
Lennon, really? which ones? etc?
i understand this question. the only albums i would consider are Revolver, Pepper, & MMT. other than MMT, the other 2 have psychedelic moments, but they also have other moments that break the groove of "psychedelia", which make them weaker psychedelic experiences--again, this has nothing to do with the quality of the album, ex: The Outsiders: CQ is not a great album but it digs deep into my consciousness when i have listened to it. the only other Beatles albums that could be considered are The Beatles and Abbey Road: s/t is all over the place (maybe their best though), and though Abbey Road has a nice groove for the listening experience, it is not really psychedelic--it is as psychedelic as Blonde on Blonde.
Pepper is close though, and the only other one i would consider, and i listened to it the other day, and still feel it should be off the list.
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