An Intro to Psychedelic Vinyl, Psych Rock 101  

Very Good Description Of Psychedelic Music My Friend!!!!! Good Selections As Well!! So Much Good Psych Stuff Out There!! I've Been Collection And Researching For Years And Still Finding Gems!!!!

This is a great intro to psychedelia vid! Some absolutely amazing albums! So wild that your Pops got to see the Floyd in their early stages of experimentation! Wow what an experience that must have been! Mind blowing! I first discovered Jimi when I was in high school I bought my first car a Chevy Nova and the previous owner left a few of his 8-track tapes in the glove box including a couple Jimi albums! I was hooked and started my record collection with Are You Experienced? Wish I could thank that guy for leaving those tapes as it kind of shaped my early listening journey! That Love Forever Changes is a must for psych rock fans! Red Telephone is my fave! I picked up a copy of that Doors album at a flea market for a fiver a few years ago Man I was so stoked! Love the Doors! And I share some of the same thoughts as you about the band and the musicianship! Great vid! These are some killer albums to get any psych collection cooking! ✨✌️👽✨

The Grateful Dead debut is a must own.

I know it’s not in the top teir but one of my favorites is come have some tea by the tea company, I still have yet to find a copy unfortunately

Anyone who starts out with Forever Changes is OK in my book! I don't know that I would classify it "psychedelic", thought. Arthur Lee does play with words, a lot, on this disc, and there are some interesting changes, but no feedback, muted guitars, and excellent songwriting. The album has a general sense of place and time that set it in the period when psychedelia was rampant, but lacks the over-the-top zaniness of Bonzo, Quicksilver, Big Brother, the Airplane, et al, who were the leading proponents of the style. The Dead were not psychedelic in 1967, when FC came out. They were still sorta folk-blues with a weird twist that no one could figure out. Sometimes, they came out and noodled around, making song-tapestries, maybe, but not really connecting with the music, and other times, they were barn-burners, cranking the volume and the tempo, into "speed metal on reds", in ways that tweaked one's mind as effectively as Jorma Kaukonen, John Cippolina, Jim Gurley, or Leigh Stephens. I know a lot of people classify Odyssey and Oracle as "psych", but it's really "pop", at best, and not very good, after Time of the Season. I left off Are You Experienced, because it's an obvious choice, and was on your list. I also left off Pink Floyd, for similar reasons, but also, the Floyd albums before Dark Side of the Moon are a mixed bag, with some real clunkers on every one. I don't think The Piper at the Gates of Dawn works as a psych album, but several songs do. I don't care if I never hear Bike, Flaming, Chapter 24, Scarecrow, or The Gnome, ever again. The album is a pastiche of English Music Hall, power pop and proto-metal, more than psychedelia, despite the fact that Syd, if not the others (by their own admissions), was popping acid routinely. I almost put Dark Side on the list, but it, too, had a lot of fathers, psych being the most obvious, but Floyd's movie music is in there, too, done much, much better. Wish You Were Here was closer, but the scene had shifted so far that mainstream artists were including "psych" sounds (think Kenny Rogers), "psychedelic" had been debased to meaningless, by then. Also, the Kinks' Word of Mouth owes a great debt to psychedelia, their first foray into the genre. There have been hundreds. if not thousands, of songs that have borrowed from psych, Norman Greenbaum, for instance, great single, terrible album. Even Country artists have borrowed feedback and wonky guitar sounds, over the last 40 years, since Waylon and Willie kicked in the doors to Music City, in the '70s. Gary Stewart had a couple singles that sounded like they'd been recorded in San Fran, 1968! Here's my list of 25 of my favorites: 01 T R A F F I C ( I I ) (1968) Traffic 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 (1968) the Small Faces 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 (1970) Spirit 04 R O T A R Y C O N N E C T I O N (1968) Rotary Connection 05 E A S T E R E V E R Y W H E R E (1967) the 13th Floor Elevators 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 (1967) Country Joe and the Fish 07 S H I N E O N B R I G H T L Y (1969) Procol Harum 08 I N S E A R C H O F T H E L O S T C H O R D (1968) the Moody Blues 09 A X I S : B O L D A S L O V E (1968) Jimi Hendrix Experience 10 II N S E A R C H O F T H E L O S T C H O R D (1967) the Moody Blues 11 R O C K ' N ' R O L L I S B I O D E G R A D A B L E (1971) Stoneground 12 S T A N D (1969) Sly & the Family Stone 13 S A I L O R (1968) Steve Miller Band 14 H A P P Y T R A I L S (1969) Quicksilver Messenger Service 15 C H E A P T H R I L L S (1967) Big Brother & the Holding Co 16 I T ' S A B E A U T I F U L D A Y (1969) It's A Beautiful Day 17 W O W (1968) Moby Grape 18 T H E I R S A T A N I C M A J E S T I E S R E Q U E S T (1968) the Rolling Stones 19 V A N I L L A F U D G E (1967) Vanilla Fudge 20 A F T E R B A T H I N G A T B A X T E R S (1967) Jefferson Airplane Honorable Mentions: 21 L I V E A T W I N T E R L A N D ' 6 8 (1968) Big Brother & the Holding Co 22 R O C K O N (1971) Humble Pie 23 S T E P P E N W O L F (1968) Steppenwolf 24 P S Y C H E D E L I C S O U N D S O F T H E 1 3 T H F L O O R E L E V A T O R S (1966) the 13th Floor Elevators 25 P S Y C H E D E L I C L O L L I P O P (1966) the Blues Magoos ©BW2023 anarchitek™