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! ✨✌️👽✨
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!!!!
Great catch! I had two lists, with some of the same titles on each. I couldn't whittle it down to only 10, so I expanded, and forgot to read for errors! I was a great psychedelic album, though!@@crazyprayingmantis5596
That's quite a list! Short of splitting hairs, it's all pretty subjective, but maybe that's the point. It's such a broad scope and a genre that is pretty tough to define clearly. But hey, at the end of the day it's still better than people saying this is "punk rock" and that is "not punk rock." It all changes over time, but this is my list that has held up pretty solidly for me over the years. I'm also a musician and songwriter, and to hear these albums and songs from that perspective takes it to an entire newly astonishingly level, just trying to figure out the technical elements. And again, my focus is here is to keep it kind of familiar and also mostly early releases in the psychedelic rock canon. I have many other favorites, but that's an entirely different video.
Mmmm, "subjective", except I bought all the albums on my list as "new releases", in vinyl, in the eras when they were released. I was a participant in the times, considered myself a pretty good judge of "lightshows", the added attractions to shows with "psychedelic" bands. Some were "mind-blowing", some not so much, but they were early casualties in the greed wars. I saw every band on the list, some several times. Jimi, I saw 6 times, in 1967, 3x in 1969, 2x in 1970. I saw the Moody Blues in in Vegas, in the '90s, a far cry from the free concert at Dodger Stadium they gave because their equipment had forced them to miss the concert with the Airplane at the Forum, two days before. When it comes to this genre, it seems to me someone who experienced them while sandalwood and patchouli wafted on the breeze knows more than someone listening to them for the first time. I guarantee, if you indulge in some prime Owsley-level, or windowpane lysergical stimulants, and listen to Rotary Connection, you'll "see God". Peace out. @@giantorangerecords
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! ✨✌️👽✨
Thanks brother! That’s a great story about the 8-tracks in the Chevy Nova! You have really good taste and I also really enjoy your videos.
The Grateful Dead debut is a must own.
Just got a copy of the Dead’s debut and immediately fell in love with it! It’s so different from their other albums.
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!!!!
Thank you! Yes, it is a gift that keeps on giving! It amazes me how much music was recorded in that short time.
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
I've not heard that, will have to seek it out! Thanks for the recommendation!
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
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Firstly, you should write a book on Psychedelic music.
Second, you've put It's a beautiful day in twice.
Great catch! I had two lists, with some of the same titles on each. I couldn't whittle it down to only 10, so I expanded, and forgot to read for errors! I was a great psychedelic album, though!@@crazyprayingmantis5596
I fixed it, I meant to include In Search of the Lost Chord, anyway.@@crazyprayingmantis5596
That's quite a list! Short of splitting hairs, it's all pretty subjective, but maybe that's the point. It's such a broad scope and a genre that is pretty tough to define clearly. But hey, at the end of the day it's still better than people saying this is "punk rock" and that is "not punk rock." It all changes over time, but this is my list that has held up pretty solidly for me over the years. I'm also a musician and songwriter, and to hear these albums and songs from that perspective takes it to an entire newly astonishingly level, just trying to figure out the technical elements. And again, my focus is here is to keep it kind of familiar and also mostly early releases in the psychedelic rock canon. I have many other favorites, but that's an entirely different video.
Mmmm, "subjective", except I bought all the albums on my list as "new releases", in vinyl, in the eras when they were released. I was a participant in the times, considered myself a pretty good judge of "lightshows", the added attractions to shows with "psychedelic" bands. Some were "mind-blowing", some not so much, but they were early casualties in the greed wars.
I saw every band on the list, some several times. Jimi, I saw 6 times, in 1967, 3x in 1969, 2x in 1970. I saw the Moody Blues in in Vegas, in the '90s, a far cry from the free concert at Dodger Stadium they gave because their equipment had forced them to miss the concert with the Airplane at the Forum, two days before.
When it comes to this genre, it seems to me someone who experienced them while sandalwood and patchouli wafted on the breeze knows more than someone listening to them for the first time. I guarantee, if you indulge in some prime Owsley-level, or windowpane lysergical stimulants, and listen to Rotary Connection, you'll "see God".
Peace out.
@@giantorangerecords