Excellent list! I didn't know about six of these but there are some long-time favorites in here. I wouldn't qualify Buffalo and Sir Lord Baltimore as psych - the first is hard rock, the second is proto metal, but that's beside the point. Great jams all around!
Very good list ! I would have chosen Traffics first album Mr Fantasty, The Who Sell Out or Rolling Stones Their Satanic Majesties Request over Funkadelic, Os Mutantes or Dr. John !
Status Quo (Pictures of Matchstick Men), Spooky Tooth, Jimi Hendrix - (Electric Ladyland, Axis Bold As Love), Eric Burden and War - (Spill the Wine), Donovan - (First There is a Mountain, Hurdy Gurdy Man), Cream - (Disraeli Gears), Jefferson Airplance (Surrealistic Pillow).
Some extraordinary records on your list. As expansive and expanding as rock got. Such a rich genre though, and the records from the 60s that weren't heard (like C.A. Quintet's - Trip Thru Hell, Fifty Fose Hose - Cauldron, Mad River's eponymous debut from 1968, Creation of Sunlight eponymous album from 1968, and on and on it really does go) could easily be up there. An incredibly rich period for rock music that both major and independent record labels gambled big on.
Anima Sound : Sturmischer Himmel (1971) The Godz : Contact High (1966) Dom : Edge Of Time (1970) Spiral Joy Band : Elvehjem (2012) Brain Sound : An Attempt To Record Coincidence (1972?) Dharma Son Collective : Subliminal Messages From The Attic (2007) Holy Modal Rounders : The Moray Eels Eat The Holy Modal Rounders (1969) Sun Ra : Other Planes Of There (1966) Macula Kuru : s/t (2022) Anomalyensemble : Headcoasting (2010) ....sooooo many more
I have a few of these albums, but the vast majority are new to me. Oh, i have jeard of the names like Neu! and Amon Düül butost of the rest are completely unk own and certainly worth investigating. I personally thought Popol Vuh Aguirre should haveade the list.
Great songs with psychedelia: The beau brummels - laugh laugh New Colony Six - Rivers Edge (great rave up) The Small Faces - Itchycoo Park Quicksilver Messenger Service - Who do you love? The Dovers What am I going to do? Tremendous album with at last 4 good songs. Maybe it's just me but only a few albums have at least 4 good song imo. Spirit - first album. Fresh Garbage and Mechanical World are the standout tunes. Wish more albums employed psychedelia
Generally excellent list. I'm particularly glad to see the criminally underrated Pretty Things on the list, as SF Sorrow is truly one of the greatest albums of the 1960s. But any compilation of psychedelic albums MUST include the Jefferson Airplane, possibly the most psychedelic group of all time. I suppose the problem is that you could include ALL their albums between Surrealistic Pillow and Volunteers on such a list. Also, you forgot The Soft Machine, who were more important in the psychedelic phenomenon than a couple of the bands you include above. Moby Grape were another superb psychedelic band.
Thank you! This is the first prog rock assessment video I've seen which gives little snippets of music for those of us who are not familiar with all the bands.
There are some great albums ( even masterpieces) missing from this list: Kanguru ( Guru Guru ), Cluster '71, Wolf City ( ADII), Join Inn ( Ash Ra Tempel), Hoelderlin - Traum, Kraftwerk- Autobahn, 1st... Tangerine dream - Atem , Phaedra... Out of Focus, Gila, Dzyan- Electric Silence Brainticket - Psychonaut..
Goblin's "witch" from the suspiria album is probably the most terrifying song I've listened to. Speaking of Goblin there was another Italian progressive rock album called "Ys" by "Il Balletto Di Bronzo" that people consider very scary (I feel its more deranged than scary but I can see why it could be scary for some).
Gentle giant the greatest most most epic legendary unique innovative genius band ever This just prooves they are the most obscenely criminally underrated band ever.
What is this 1967 albun of Tangerine Dream (which is not considered Psychedelic, but Electronic or Kautorock) I thought TD’s first album was 1970 Electronic Meditations. Please explain.
It’s two different bands with the same name, the UK tangerine dream made two albums for Fontana and nothing to do with the German band of the same name.
You got most of the good ones, with some clunkers. Psychedelic Music only existed for a short while, although a few artists have brought the genre back, for an album. By 1970, the Psych tropes had all been used in Bubble Gum, Mainstream Adult, Pop and Rock genres, diluting the field too much to continue. The albums on this list are the Best of Psychedelic Rock: 01 T R A F F I C ( I I ) Traffic (1968) 02 T H E R E A R E B U T F O U R S M A L L F A C E S the Small Faces (1968) 03 T W E L V E D R E A M S O F D R S A R D O N I C U S Spirit (1970) 04 I N S E A R C H O F T H E L O S T C H O R D the Moody Blues (1968) 05 S H I N E O N B R I G H T L Y Procol Harum (1969) 06 E L E C T R I C M U S I C F O R T H E M I N D A N D B O D Y Country Joe and the Fish (1967) 07 R O T A R Y C O N N E C T I O N Rotary Connection (1967) 08 I T ' S A B E A U T I F U L D A Y It's A Beautiful Day (1969) 09 W O W Moby Grape (1968) 10 E A S T E R E V E R Y W H E R E the 13th Floor Elevators
Why do people like Spirit. I saw them give the worst performance I had ever seen at Fillmore West. Bill Graham actually kicked me out after I complained about them.