2nd criteria: it must have been successful at the time of the release. OK, there are some others as United States of America, Strawberry Alarm Clock, Kaleidoscope, I doubt 😂
You made some good picks. I would submit that "After Bathing at Baxters" is a better pick for Jefferson Airplane. Just my opinion. I'm glad you picked "S.F. Sorrow" in this bunch. Good stuff.
Clearly demonstrates that "psychedelic music" has never been defined. Just anything subjectively labeled so. Jefferson Airplane's next album 'After Bathing at Baxters' and The Doors second album Strange Days are actually much more psychedelic than their listed albums.
@@deangrant6482Are you saying Pepper was more psychedelic than Revolver? If so, while *Tomorrow Never Knows* and *She Said She Said* are explicitly psychedelic both lyrically and musically, I'm struggling to think of analogous tracks on Pepper. Granted, *Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds* is implicitly psychedelic, but Lennon always denied the association
I don't see how someone subjectively labelling albums as psychedelic demonstrates that there is no definition. It seems to me often what gets confused in genre classifications is albums that have elements of a genre vs albums that fully embody a genre.
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.
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 !
Every man to his taste, I think Os Mutantes is one of a kind and an extraordinary psychedelic album, plenty of great songs, widely influencial, sonically inventive and therefore its inclusion is absolutely justified.
Thanks for that list and to everyone else who commented on it and provided their own suggestions. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 I was too young in the '60s to be exposed to this music, but I've heard notes here and there that are still pleasantly haunting me to this day. 🤗 Still looking for this one song I heard a couple of times, but was never able to identify. With any luck I'll find it in one of those records. Thanks for the help, time to do my research, my quest awaits me! 😉
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.
@@kaleidoscopesdannybrigman2061 And the US Kaleidoscope, a favorite of many musicians including Jimmy Page, may not be psychedelic, but they were as eclectic as ANY band.
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.
Great list but a few are more progressive than psychedelic. If it doesn't break free and remind you of tripping it aint really psychedelic. Biggest omissions for me are The Golden Dawn, the Grateful Dead and the West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band. A lot of the best psych pioneers never got to cut an album so singles are often the way to go.
You miss so many and in many ways much better bands like: Big Brother, Blackfoot J.D., Blue Cheer, Behemian Vendetta, C.A. Quintet, Captain Beefheart, Chocolate Watchband, Clear Light, Dennis Coffey, Corporation, Freak Scene, Devil´s Anvil, Druids Of The Stonehenge, Electric Prunes, Fear Itself, Flat Earth Society, Fort Mudge Memorial Dump, Fraction, Freeborne, Gandalf, Golden Dawn, Hunger, I´ll Wind, Id, Ilmo Smokehouse, It´s A Beautiful Day, Kennelmus, Landslide, Lost And Found, Morgen, Music Emporium, Mystic Siva, Odyssey, Omnibus, Orient Express, Phantom´s Divine Comedy, Power Of Zeus, Seeds, Stooges, Savage Resurrection, Thirteenth Floor Elevators, Twentieth Century Zoo, Ultimate Spinach, Velvet Underground, Yellow Pages and many more from the US !! By the way you forgot one of the most important psychedelic bands from the UK called The Soft Machine !!
Every once in a while, I wonder if anyone else has a West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band Album. My friend in high school turned me on to them, but it was not the same one that you showed here.
@@charleschauffe5884 , I first heard it as a 13 year old boy , a school friend's older brother couldn't enjoy it , so , he gave it to me , it's now on a loop , in my head.
As weird and disjointed as that album was it fits the psychedelic genre perfectly. The whole album is some kind of weird trip that sticks in your head.
Αρκετά καλή η λίστα. Προσωπικά, θα άλλαζα κάποια από αυτά με περισσότερο επιδραστικές ψυχεδελικές μπάντες, όπως: Αντί για : Funkadelic > Sweet Smoke - Just A Poke Αντί για : Pretty Things > Hunger - Strictly From Hunger Αντί για : Spirit > Gandalf - S/T Αντί για : The Incredible String Band > Indian Summer - S/T Αντί για : Os Mutantes > Aphrodite's Child - 666 Αντί για : The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band > Arcadium - Breath A While
Well, that's the point, hear them and probably you'll thank their inclusion. That album and their two albums after are just great. I think one of the best things is finding new things on this kind of lists and not only what you're expecting to find.
I must admit this is a solid list. The inclusion of USA and ISB give it bona fides... One missing album would be Country Joe & The Fish: Electric Music for the Mind and Body... The number of times I tripped to this back in the late Sixties...
@ you may well be right. I’ve decided after looking over all of the comments that I don’t know what psychedelic music is. Or that at least it has as many definitions as it does listeners. I remember 100 years ago when my than 10-year-old son asked my wife what is psychedelic music? She had no definition, but said you know the traffic song John Barley corn must die? That’s psychedelic music. I made no comment.
And just as an aside, I had a mixed tape that I made called pompous rock back in the day. You included In The Court Of The Crimson King and in a God de Vida. Also, I’m sure some vanilla fudge.
@@deangrant6482 "Dear Mr. Fantasy" or "Hole in My Shoe" probably defines the genre more aptly but psychedelic music has no real definition. Pink Floyd's "See Emily Play" comes close as does Hendrix's "Electric Ladyland'. Just my opinion of course. JA's "After Bathing at Baxter's" is a great San Francisco example. I love it that "Baxter" was their code name for LSD.
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Many real great albums, but I hardly miss the 13th Floor Elevators and The Red Crayola, true innovators of Psychedelic Rock. And I can't understand the naming of "Maggot Brain", I think it is a fine Funk album, but Psychedelic?
Yes. There is nothing funk about the title track. Some other songs of the album can indeed have a funky side, but it's definitely inspired, energetic psychedelia, of a beautiful, unique kind.
In the summer of 1969 I was at the Marine 1st MAW DaNang Vietnam, in the early morning Armed Forces Radio would play a Musical Tune 'KaCing KaCing' and so on, I found it on UA-cam years ago, What do you think it is, cannot find it anymore...
There is no such thing as Psychedelic Rock! These are Acid Rock albums. Psychedelic Rock was a term someone made up 30 years after these albums were released. Acid Rock refers to LSD, the drug, which when taken and then listen to this music creates a extra sensual experience. Which can be referred to as ‘Psychedelic.’ During the time these albums were released no one ever referred to them as Psychedelic Rock. No DJ, no record producer, no musician. Psychedelic Rock is way a later generation tried to clean up the language to remove the fact that this music was created and listened to around illicit drug use. You can say the music is psychedelic to explain the experience, but was never ever identified as anything but Acid Rock! Live with it. .
Unbelievable! You left off 'Anthem of the Sun'. Little doubt, from beginning to end, THE greatest. Listen, watch the doc on VH1 classic albums then apolgize and rethink your list.
Psychedelic rock is nothing without Pink Floyd. Piper at the gates of dawn, saucerful of secrets, obscured by clouds, meddle, dark side of the moon, wish you were here, animals, momentary lapse and division bell.
The Twain Shall Meet was a spotty record, not overly listenable, Cream was Electric Blues, more than psychedelic, Funkadelic was Electric Funk, the Incredible String Band was weird Folk (an not overly listenable), SF Sorrow is the only listenable Pretty Things LP (not that great), I've never heard of Os Mutantes (at all), the Strawberry Alarm Clock had some interesting pieces, but it was drenched in AM Top 40, the United States of America was jazz, more than pop, West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band was forgettable, and the Zombies last LP was a critic's darling that has never lived up to its hype. I was there, a teenager coming of age, as it all rolled out. I identified with it, encouraged it, participated, and still, listen to a lot of it, some 57 years later. I own every one o fthe albums on my list, several in multiple formats, and more than a few as second, or even third, copies, having literally worn out the grooves. You missed quite a few good ones, like #3, Spirit's indisputable best, and the latest entry, at 1970. The band's sophomore album, The Family that Plays Together almost makes the cut, but I limited it to one per band. Also missed, #4, 5, 6, 7, 9, 10, and #11, probably the most psychedelic Lp of the era, Donovan's best, Sunshine Superman, a paean to "Orange Sunshine" LSD. "Everybody's hustlin' a-just to have a little scene When I say we'll be cool, I think that you know what I mean We stood on a beach at sunset, do you remember when? I know a beach where, baby, a-it never ends" Best of Psychedelic Albums 01 R E V O L V E R (1966) the Beatles 02 F O R E V E R C H A N G E S (1967) Love 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 T R A F F I C ( I I ) (1968) Traffic 05 S T R A N G E D A Y S (1967) the Doors 06 A X I S : B O L D A S L O V E (1968) Jimi Hendrix Experience 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 L O N E T O G E T H E R (1968) Dave Mason 10 N O T O R I O U S B Y R D B R O T H E R S (1968) the Byrds 11 S U N S H I N E S U P E R M A N (1967) Donovan 12 C H E A P T H R I L L S (1967) Big Brother & the Holding Co 13 S A I L O R (1968) Steve Miller Band 14 A L O N G T I M E C O M I N ' (1968) the Electric Flag 15 H A P P Y T R A I L S (1969) Quicksilver Messenger Service 16 I T ' S A B E A U T I F U L D A Y (1969) It's A Beautiful Day 17 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 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 21 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 22. R O T A R Y C O N N E C T I O N (1969) Rotary Connection 23 S T A N D (1969) Sly & the Family Stone 24 E A S T E R E V E R Y W H E R E (1967) the 13th Floor Elevators 25 W O W (1968) Moby Grape
Taste is an individual thing, and the original post did note that the list reflected his favorites. Not to say that your choices are any better or worse. Just your own. But without meaning to, I noticed several dating mistakes (and I did NOT check the dates after #11): Traffic came out in England in '67 - retitled with different cover and tracks as "Heaven Is in Your Mind" in '68 in the US, Shine On Brightly in '68 - Salty Dog was Procl's '69 release, Alone Together came out in'70 - note that Mason had toured with Delaney & Bonnie and used their band for backup, and Sunshine Superman came out in '66 - the Mellow Yellow single was also in '66.
@wyliesmith4244 You are thinking of the 1st Traffic LP, but on the list, I indicate I meant the 2nd album, superior in my opinion, to the first (I prefer the US version of the 1st album, personally). The 2nd record was released in Oct 1968. It is still one of my all-time favorite albums, but I couldn't buy it as a new release, because I spent all of 1968 in the Rotten Republik of VietNam. I always think of *Shine on Brightly* as a "1969 album", probably because I loved that record, but I didn't get a copy until January 1969 I liked *A Salty Dog*, but not as much, although I liked that one a lot more than Home. I was a Procol Harum fan from the first time I heard *A Whiter Shade of Pale*, in May 1967. I saw Jimi Hendrix the same month, in Herford. As for *Alone Together*, Dave Mason's underrated masterpiece, I did something dumb, when I was making the list, and overlooked a copied date I should have changed. I have an original multi-colored vinyl, with fold-out cover that makes a poster of Dave. I was a fan of Stevie Winwood, by early Summer, 1967. I bought the US version of the 1st Traffic album, in the month before I went to VietNam, along with *Strange Days*, and *Surrealistic Pillow*. *Heaven Is in Your Mind*was released after the New Year. I started collecting when I found a pristine copy of a Sun Records Elvis Presley single, *You're Right, I'm Left, She's Gone*, B/W*Baby, I Wanna Play House*.. I've seen almost everyone on the list, except 13th Floor Elevators, Rotary Connection, and Electric Flag, mostly because I was in Europe and southeast Asia during 1967-'68. Some, as I mention, I only got to hear, when I returned to "the World", as we called it. I resumed collecting, writing, and living rock 'n' roll.
@@TheAnarchitek My mistake, totally, on Traffic. Mr. Fantasy was pictured on another site, and I am afraid that it stuck in my head. As far as I am concerned, you can trash the Traffic albums that came after Winwood left Traffic for Blind Faith. I love the second album, particularly on CD as it adds the five studio cuts from Last Exit. And I, too, bought the Dave Mason album when it came out an. I still treasure it. As long as Trower was in the group, I loved Procol. I dropped acid to see them at my local college only to find that Procol had to cancel. Wilson Pickett went on instead, but my head just wasn't ready for him.
@@wyliesmith4244 Probably the best album of the year, capturing the times impeccably, Mason counterbalanced Winwood's tendency to ramble on. The album is still high on my Top 200 list. Eric Clapton did a better job of corralling that energy on their 2008 tour, than he did in the studio with Blind Faith.
I'm something of an obscurist when it comes to pop music, I guess. Some of my favorite 'psychedelic' albums include Gandalf's first, Nova Local, Del Shannon's "The Further Adventures of Charles Westover", and being from Minneapolis, I knew and loved The Paisleys and The Litter.
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.
Os mutantes !!! Foram parceiros de Gilberto Gil em Domingo no parque, a maos revolucionária música de todos os Festivais da finada TV Record. A sonoplastia de Rogério Duprat marcou época.
Two pretty surprises Moody blues they deserves more tecognition ,and family's dolls with Grech / King some zre close to folk ,blues,hard rock no relation with psy more US & UK psy zre yotally differents .
Incomplete without the Thirteenth Floor Elevators, the innovators of the genre.
yes! easter everywhere
How about Moby Grape, Electric Flag, Jeff Beck group
Easter Everywhere is the greatest psychedelic album ever. Slip Inside This House, the album opener, is the greatest psychedelic song ever.
Yeah
2nd criteria: it must have been successful at the time of the release. OK, there are some others as United States of America, Strawberry Alarm Clock, Kaleidoscope, I doubt 😂
You made some good picks. I would submit that "After Bathing at Baxters" is a better pick for Jefferson Airplane. Just my opinion. I'm glad you picked "S.F. Sorrow" in this bunch. Good stuff.
Clearly demonstrates that "psychedelic music" has never been defined. Just anything subjectively labeled so. Jefferson Airplane's next album 'After Bathing at Baxters' and The Doors second album Strange Days are actually much more psychedelic than their listed albums.
True. Ditto Sgt. Pepper.
@@deangrant6482Are you saying Pepper was more psychedelic than Revolver? If so, while *Tomorrow Never Knows* and *She Said She Said* are explicitly psychedelic both lyrically and musically, I'm struggling to think of analogous tracks on Pepper. Granted, *Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds* is implicitly psychedelic, but Lennon always denied the association
I don't see how someone subjectively labelling albums as psychedelic demonstrates that there is no definition.
It seems to me often what gets confused in genre classifications is albums that have elements of a genre vs albums that fully embody a genre.
Strange Days for sure as well as Baxter's
@@richardrose2606 here’s the real trick; define psychedelic music without naming any example.
And Sunshine superman, Donovan, august 1966??????
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.
Nice format. Got about half of them. Some others there that I didn't know about which I shall now check out. Good stuff.
It's a Beautiful Day should be on this list.
the Electric Prunes ? the 13th Floor Elevators ? Sean Bonniwell Music Machine ? the Chocolate Watch Band ? The Seeds ?
Iron Butterfly • In-A-Gadda-Da- Vida
The Chambers Brothers • The Time Has Come
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy • The Peanut Butter Conspiracy
Not Iron Butterfly. Can’t bear to listen to them plod through Inna-Gada-Da-Vida ever again.
Peanut butter conspiracy...I have their album.. Kinda lame. Just a bunch of kids with too much time and little talent
Thanks for adding us to your list much appreciated keep rockin cheers dan
Excellent list. Some well-known classics, some I’m slightly familiar with, and some completely unknown and in need of more research.
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 !
Every man to his taste, I think Os Mutantes is one of a kind and an extraordinary psychedelic album, plenty of great songs, widely influencial, sonically inventive and therefore its inclusion is absolutely justified.
Thanks for that list and to everyone else who commented on it and provided their own suggestions. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
I was too young in the '60s to be exposed to this music, but I've heard notes here and there that are still pleasantly haunting me to this day. 🤗
Still looking for this one song I heard a couple of times, but was never able to identify. With any luck I'll find it in one of those records. Thanks for the help, time to do my research, my quest awaits me! 😉
Loves Forever Changes a brilliant album, that gets better each time you listen to it.
The Greatest album
13th Floor missing. No Baxters?
Captain Beyond, debut album, 1972…
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.
The name of the band was Kaleidoscope, the album was called Tangerine Dream. It's just a coincidence ....not the same band.
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.
This album is by kaleidoscope called tangerine dream which I believe I where the German group got there name from take care keep rockin cheers
Kaleidoscope an English band the album was called tangerine dream@@RoofLight00
@@kaleidoscopesdannybrigman2061 And the US Kaleidoscope, a favorite of many musicians including Jimmy Page, may not be psychedelic, but they were as eclectic as ANY band.
OMG ‘66 - ‘67 - ‘68 - WE WERE AWASH IN INCREDIBLE MUSIC!
Hendrix - 1983...(A Merman I Should Turn To Be). A total freakout.
a psychedelic masterpiece
Best song on Electric Ladyland listen to it often.
Hardly see anyone talk about it. Such a shame. Imagine if he had lived just long enough to make his collab album with Coltrane 😢
Absolutely on my playlist all the time.
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.
The Doors - 'Strange Days' was more psychedelic than their first.
For me personally S.F.Sorrow from The Pretty Things is the greatest album of the 20th century! What a mindblowing masterpiece.
Absolutely agree and I'm glad to hear some one else mirrors my thoughts. It was a brilliant LP that gets little respect outside of people like us.
Interesting list. Think I'd pick Sgt Pepper over Revolver. I'm sure it was tough to only pick one from a number of artists.
Great list but a few are more progressive than psychedelic. If it doesn't break free and remind you of tripping it aint really psychedelic. Biggest omissions for me are The Golden Dawn, the Grateful Dead and the West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band. A lot of the best psych pioneers never got to cut an album so singles are often the way to go.
Psychedelic is a state of mind and all things emanate from the mind so really all music is Psychedelic.
You miss so many and in many ways much better bands like:
Big Brother, Blackfoot J.D., Blue Cheer, Behemian Vendetta, C.A. Quintet, Captain Beefheart, Chocolate Watchband, Clear Light, Dennis Coffey, Corporation, Freak Scene, Devil´s Anvil, Druids Of The Stonehenge, Electric Prunes, Fear Itself, Flat Earth Society, Fort Mudge Memorial Dump, Fraction, Freeborne, Gandalf, Golden Dawn, Hunger, I´ll Wind, Id, Ilmo Smokehouse, It´s A Beautiful Day, Kennelmus, Landslide, Lost And Found, Morgen, Music Emporium, Mystic Siva, Odyssey, Omnibus, Orient Express, Phantom´s Divine Comedy, Power Of Zeus, Seeds, Stooges, Savage Resurrection, Thirteenth Floor Elevators, Twentieth Century Zoo, Ultimate Spinach, Velvet Underground, Yellow Pages and many more from the US !!
By the way you forgot one of the most important psychedelic bands from the UK called The Soft Machine !!
You forgot fifty foot hose, great list of bands
Every once in a while, I wonder if anyone else has a West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band Album. My friend in high school turned me on to them, but it was not the same one that you showed here.
... what ?... no SOFT MACHINE ?
Volume 2 is my all-time favorite album👍
@@charleschauffe5884 , I first heard it as a 13 year old boy , a school friend's older brother couldn't enjoy it , so , he gave it to me , it's now on a loop , in my head.
Coloured waves of lysergic nostalgia from my childhood. But oh! how I miss Captain Beefheart's Strictly Personal.
The U.S. band "Pearls Before Swine", 2 marvelous records in 1967/68.
Interesting selection but would have liked a longer musical offering from each band
so where is "Satanic Majesty's Request" ?
One band that should be on the list is FEVER TREE. One of the best albums that I listen to.
An unfortunately often overlooked band. “Creation” is an exceptionally good album.
The Rolling Stones- Satanic Majesties Request
As weird and disjointed as that album was it fits the psychedelic genre perfectly. The whole album is some kind of weird trip that sticks in your head.
Interesting list, but about half of them are not psychedelic
Αρκετά καλή η λίστα. Προσωπικά, θα άλλαζα κάποια από αυτά με περισσότερο επιδραστικές ψυχεδελικές μπάντες, όπως:
Αντί για : Funkadelic > Sweet Smoke - Just A Poke
Αντί για : Pretty Things > Hunger - Strictly From Hunger
Αντί για : Spirit > Gandalf - S/T
Αντί για : The Incredible String Band > Indian Summer - S/T
Αντί για : Os Mutantes > Aphrodite's Child - 666
Αντί για : The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band > Arcadium - Breath A While
The Seeds and The 13th Floor Elevators are the innovators.
Not Bad, but could have added the Sir Douglas Quintet or early Steve Miller, or The Mothers of Invention. Even I have have never heard of Os Mutantes.
Well, that's the point, hear them and probably you'll thank their inclusion. That album and their two albums after are just great. I think one of the best things is finding new things on this kind of lists and not only what you're expecting to find.
I must admit this is a solid list. The inclusion of USA and ISB give it bona fides... One missing album would be Country Joe & The Fish: Electric Music for the Mind and Body... The number of times I tripped to this back in the late Sixties...
It’s the 4th album in the list.
I agree with this. Electric Music For the Mind and Body is, as Joe McDonald put it, in so many words, the quintessential psychedelic album.
The Low Spark Of High Heeled Boys
Maybe...but Traffic's first LP seems to be more psychedelic that LSHHB. Don't get me wrong I love LSHHB.
@ you may well be right. I’ve decided after looking over all of the comments that I don’t know what psychedelic music is. Or that at least it has as many definitions as it does listeners. I remember 100 years ago when my than 10-year-old son asked my wife what is psychedelic music? She had no definition, but said you know the traffic song John Barley corn must die? That’s psychedelic music. I made no comment.
And just as an aside, I had a mixed tape that I made called pompous rock back in the day. You included In The Court Of The Crimson King and in a God de Vida. Also, I’m sure some vanilla fudge.
Sorry about Siri transcription there
@@deangrant6482 "Dear Mr. Fantasy" or "Hole in My Shoe" probably defines the genre more aptly but psychedelic music has no real definition. Pink Floyd's "See Emily Play" comes close as does Hendrix's "Electric Ladyland'. Just my opinion of course. JA's "After Bathing at Baxter's" is a great San Francisco example. I love it that "Baxter" was their code name for LSD.
Robin trowers bridge of sighs best tripping album ever
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Listen to this
JOSÉ CID 10.000 Anos Depois Entre Vénus E Marte
Traffic - Dear Mr Fantasy
Velvet Underground
"Dance the Night Away" from "Disraeli Gears"
Just listened to it an hour ago👍
Listen to it pretty regularly.
@@deangrant6482 Likewise. Thanks.
No chance is revolver a psychedelic album one ore two tracks that's all
Many real great albums, but I hardly miss the 13th Floor Elevators and The Red Crayola, true innovators of Psychedelic Rock. And I can't understand the naming of "Maggot Brain", I think it is a fine Funk album, but Psychedelic?
Yes. There is nothing funk about the title track. Some other songs of the album can indeed have a funky side, but it's definitely inspired, energetic psychedelia, of a beautiful, unique kind.
Some other great psychedelic albums is "Once Upon a Dream"by The Rascals,;13 Floor Elevaters and H.P.Lovecraft.
In assoluto al 1 posto FAR OUT - Nihonjin 1973 from Japan... MASTERPIECE
In the summer of 1969 I was at the Marine 1st MAW DaNang Vietnam, in the early morning Armed Forces Radio would play a Musical Tune 'KaCing KaCing' and so on, I found it on UA-cam years ago, What do you think it is, cannot find it anymore...
well thought out list. thanks.
I would add Captain Beefheart’s Trout Mask Replica.
very good choice but missing the essential Janis Joplin
Cheap Thrills
There is no such thing as Psychedelic Rock! These are Acid Rock albums. Psychedelic Rock was a term someone made up 30 years after these albums were released. Acid Rock refers to LSD, the drug, which when taken and then listen to this music creates a extra sensual experience. Which can be referred to as ‘Psychedelic.’ During the time these albums were released no one ever referred to them as Psychedelic Rock. No DJ, no record producer, no musician. Psychedelic Rock is way a later generation tried to clean up the
language to remove the fact that this music was created and listened to around illicit drug use. You can say the music is psychedelic
to explain the experience, but was never ever identified as anything but Acid Rock! Live with it.
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Where is Novalis and Lucifers Friend
...als wenn das auch Psychedelic Bands wären! Nicht mal knapp daneben.
Donovan - Sunshine Superman
Catapilla?
some of the groups on the list, I have never heard of. Mostly good. Vanilla Fudge & Donovan were very good
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Excellent list but no Gong, Quintessence or Beefheart not to mention Miles Davi’s ‘Bitches Brew’
Unbelievable! You left off 'Anthem of the Sun'. Little doubt, from beginning to end, THE greatest. Listen, watch the doc on VH1 classic albums then apolgize and rethink your list.
Psychedelic rock is nothing without Pink Floyd. Piper at the gates of dawn, saucerful of secrets, obscured by clouds, meddle, dark side of the moon, wish you were here, animals, momentary lapse and division bell.
Forgot In a gadda da vida by Iron Butterfly
Some pretty harsh edits with those sound clips...
Spirit is the most underrated band of all time!!!
I saw them play live at Fillmore West, they were classic LA schlock. Most cliche ridden drum solo I ever heard from Ed Cassidy
Electric Prunes [God Awful Nane] rode a real Wimmer With debut disc!!
Underground is also a real winner.
Spooky Two by Spooky Tooth.
You've obviously never heard of Arthur Brown.
Something in the Air by Thunderclap Newman.
Magnum Opus : Sinestesia, Imagens, Trilogia, Ummo and Magnum Opus
There is no "Greatest Psychedelic Rock Albums" list without July and Blossom Toes!
The Twain Shall Meet was a spotty record, not overly listenable, Cream was Electric Blues, more than psychedelic, Funkadelic was Electric Funk, the Incredible String Band was weird Folk (an not overly listenable), SF Sorrow is the only listenable Pretty Things LP (not that great), I've never heard of Os Mutantes (at all), the Strawberry Alarm Clock had some interesting pieces, but it was drenched in AM Top 40, the United States of America was jazz, more than pop, West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band was forgettable, and the Zombies last LP was a critic's darling that has never lived up to its hype.
I was there, a teenager coming of age, as it all rolled out. I identified with it, encouraged it, participated, and still, listen to a lot of it, some 57 years later. I own every one o fthe albums on my list, several in multiple formats, and more than a few as second, or even third, copies, having literally worn out the grooves. You missed quite a few good ones, like #3, Spirit's indisputable best, and the latest entry, at 1970. The band's sophomore album, The Family that Plays Together almost makes the cut, but I limited it to one per band. Also missed, #4, 5, 6, 7, 9, 10, and #11, probably the most psychedelic Lp of the era, Donovan's best, Sunshine Superman, a paean to "Orange Sunshine" LSD.
"Everybody's hustlin' a-just to have a little scene
When I say we'll be cool, I think that you know what I mean
We stood on a beach at sunset, do you remember when?
I know a beach where, baby, a-it never ends"
Best of Psychedelic Albums
01 R E V O L V E R (1966)
the Beatles
02 F O R E V E R C H A N G E S (1967)
Love
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 T R A F F I C ( I I ) (1968)
Traffic
05 S T R A N G E D A Y S (1967)
the Doors
06 A X I S : B O L D A S L O V E (1968)
Jimi Hendrix Experience
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 L O N E T O G E T H E R (1968)
Dave Mason
10 N O T O R I O U S B Y R D B R O T H E R S (1968)
the Byrds
11 S U N S H I N E S U P E R M A N (1967)
Donovan
12 C H E A P T H R I L L S (1967)
Big Brother & the Holding Co
13 S A I L O R (1968)
Steve Miller Band
14 A L O N G T I M E C O M I N ' (1968)
the Electric Flag
15 H A P P Y T R A I L S (1969)
Quicksilver Messenger Service
16 I T ' S A B E A U T I F U L D A Y (1969)
It's A Beautiful Day
17 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
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
21 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
22. R O T A R Y C O N N E C T I O N (1969)
Rotary Connection
23 S T A N D (1969)
Sly & the Family Stone
24 E A S T E R E V E R Y W H E R E (1967)
the 13th Floor Elevators
25 W O W (1968)
Moby Grape
Taste is an individual thing, and the original post did note that the list reflected his favorites. Not to say that your choices are any better or worse. Just your own. But without meaning to, I noticed several dating mistakes (and I did NOT check the dates after #11): Traffic came out in England in '67 - retitled with different cover and tracks as "Heaven Is in Your Mind" in '68 in the US, Shine On Brightly in '68 - Salty Dog was Procl's '69 release, Alone Together came out in'70 - note that Mason had toured with Delaney & Bonnie and used their band for backup, and Sunshine Superman came out in '66 - the Mellow Yellow single was also in '66.
@wyliesmith4244 You are thinking of the 1st Traffic LP, but on the list, I indicate I meant the 2nd album, superior in my opinion, to the first (I prefer the US version of the 1st album, personally). The 2nd record was released in Oct 1968. It is still one of my all-time favorite albums, but I couldn't buy it as a new release, because I spent all of 1968 in the Rotten Republik of VietNam.
I always think of *Shine on Brightly* as a "1969 album", probably because I loved that record, but I didn't get a copy until January 1969 I liked *A Salty Dog*, but not as much, although I liked that one a lot more than Home. I was a Procol Harum fan from the first time I heard *A Whiter Shade of Pale*, in May 1967. I saw Jimi Hendrix the same month, in Herford.
As for *Alone Together*, Dave Mason's underrated masterpiece, I did something dumb, when I was making the list, and overlooked a copied date I should have changed. I have an original multi-colored vinyl, with fold-out cover that makes a poster of Dave. I was a fan of Stevie Winwood, by early Summer, 1967. I bought the US version of the 1st Traffic album, in the month before I went to VietNam, along with *Strange Days*, and *Surrealistic Pillow*. *Heaven Is in Your Mind*was released after the New Year.
I started collecting when I found a pristine copy of a Sun Records Elvis Presley single, *You're Right, I'm Left, She's Gone*, B/W*Baby, I Wanna Play House*.. I've seen almost everyone on the list, except 13th Floor Elevators, Rotary Connection, and Electric Flag, mostly because I was in Europe and southeast Asia during 1967-'68. Some, as I mention, I only got to hear, when I returned to "the World", as we called it. I resumed collecting, writing, and living rock 'n' roll.
@@TheAnarchitek My mistake, totally, on Traffic. Mr. Fantasy was pictured on another site, and I am afraid that it stuck in my head. As far as I am concerned, you can trash the Traffic albums that came after Winwood left Traffic for Blind Faith. I love the second album, particularly on CD as it adds the five studio cuts from Last Exit. And I, too, bought the Dave Mason album when it came out an. I still treasure it. As long as Trower was in the group, I loved Procol. I dropped acid to see them at my local college only to find that Procol had to cancel. Wilson Pickett went on instead, but my head just wasn't ready for him.
@@wyliesmith4244 Probably the best album of the year, capturing the times impeccably, Mason counterbalanced Winwood's tendency to ramble on. The album is still high on my Top 200 list. Eric Clapton did a better job of corralling that energy on their 2008 tour, than he did in the studio with Blind Faith.
Thank you for your deep knowledge and always remember not to despise something you don't know. A last suggestion: listen to Os Mutantes.
I'm something of an obscurist when it comes to pop music, I guess. Some of my favorite 'psychedelic' albums include Gandalf's first, Nova Local, Del Shannon's "The Further Adventures of Charles Westover", and being from Minneapolis, I knew and loved The Paisleys and The Litter.
The Doors? Really?
В СССР тоже были такие альбомы, и много исполнителей подобного стиля в те годы👍
WITHOUT THE 5-6 FIRST PINK FLOYD ALBUMS NO ONE GOES NOWHERE!!! (WITH PF GOES EVERYWHERE!!!)
Hawkwind
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.
Arthur Brown 🎉
Point 2 I disagree with because commercial success does not necessarily equal good or quality music.
Music in the doll house: una joya infravalorada
I bet you've never done psychedelics, a necessary ingredient!
Psychedelic era, yes. But most of this music is not.
Without 13th Floor Elevators and The Seeds it’s just not psychedelic.
Not complete 😢you missed so many
Not many really psychedelic albums here, four or five at best!
Os mutantes !!! Foram parceiros de Gilberto Gil em Domingo no parque, a maos revolucionária música de todos os Festivais da finada TV Record. A sonoplastia de Rogério Duprat marcou época.
Mutantes is a great psychedelic band. In fact all their albums are outstanding, except the one which is too progressive where the band imitates Yes.
Need l.s.d. or mushrooms
Il video sarebbe interessante ma è fatto malissimo con i brani tranciati. Peccato
Best album of this list (to me) is Revolver, but then again the Beatles are my favorite band lol, Pysch Rock is a great genre!
best album is Love "forever changes"
Might just be.
Two pretty surprises Moody blues they deserves more tecognition ,and family's dolls with Grech / King some zre close to folk ,blues,hard rock no relation with psy more US & UK psy zre yotally differents .
In The Court Of The Crimson King
Progg …
Emerson, Lake And Palmer
Eh
ah good list, i know them all
Open Mind, killing floor, fire, …
Aphrodite’s Child -666
Beatles psychedelic ?
Beach boys pet sounds