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Originally posted by dr wu23 dr wu23 wrote:

Hmm....that's a tough one...I like many obscure 1 hit wonders from UK but I see many have listed mostly US bands..... have to ponder this for some time.
Also,,,,, classic ones or neo psych...?
I was mainly thinking of the classic late-60's bands, and you don't necessarily have to name ten British bands. You can list your ten favourite psychedelic US bands if you prefer, just as I did. The Beatles may have originally inspired the birth of Psychedelic Rock, but American west coast bands improved upon it by taking the psychedelic ball and running with it to score a slam dunk in the end zone. Wink
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Hmm....that's a tough one...I like many obscure 1 hit wonders from UK but I see many have listed mostly US bands..... have to ponder this for some time.
Also,,,,, classic ones or neo psych...?


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Crazy Arthur Brown is best-remembered as a one-hit-wonder, but with a fifty year career and 18 mind-blowing albums to his credit, he is the eternal god of hellfire and he brings you.....

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Originally posted by moshkito moshkito wrote:

Originally posted by Psychedelic Paul Psychedelic Paul wrote:

Who are your Top 10 favourite Psychedelic Rock bands? 
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Arthur Brown (17); The Beatles; Cream; Dark; Edgar Broughton Band; The Flowerpot Men 
Ginger Baker; Hapshash & the Coloured Coat; The Idle Race; Jody Grind; Kaleidoscope
Les Fleur de Lys; Mighty Baby; Nirvana; Octopus; The Pretty Things; Quintessence
Ramases; Simon Dupree & the Big Sound; Them; Unicorn; Velvett Fogg; The Who
The Yardbirds; The Zombies


I have never thought of any of these bands as "psychedelic"...

Not psychedelic? In that case, check out the Edgar Broughton Band in the heavy, acid guitar freak out below. Wink
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Originally posted by Psychedelic Paul Psychedelic Paul wrote:

Who are your Top 10 favourite Psychedelic Rock bands? 
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Arthur Brown (17); The Beatles; Cream; Dark; Edgar Broughton Band; The Flowerpot Men 
Ginger Baker; Hapshash & the Coloured Coat; The Idle Race; Jody Grind; Kaleidoscope
Les Fleur de Lys; Mighty Baby; Nirvana; Octopus; The Pretty Things; Quintessence
Ramases; Simon Dupree & the Big Sound; Them; Unicorn; Velvett Fogg; The Who
The Yardbirds; The Zombies

Hi,

I have never thought of any of these bands as "psychedelic" despite the appearances and folks thinking that it was cool to look weird and play strange. 

A lot of the music, was in fact, a lot more intelligent (since it had to make some sense other than things like Winchester Cathedral), than the average music, and it made its point on the new "radio", both in England (the ships out on the sea that the BBC tried hard to sink!), and then right after, the FM radio stations in America that did super well and brought all this out and eventually made history with the newer music up until the Corporate Buyout of the stations around 1980. We still signal that year as the end of a lot of "new music", but no one is strong enough to stand up and curse a record company or two!

The Beatles, Edgar Broughton Band, Ramases, Them, The Who, The Yardbirds, The Doors, Spirit and the Zombies, were not stoned out idiots just making hay on the farm. Many of those folks were highly literate in both music and the arts and played like it. Ramases (for example) is more about the 10CC folks meeting a sort of "guru" like person in London ... and their musicianship was already on the way with "Hotlegs" and their famous single.

Into the 1970's this is when I fell out of a lot of the main stream bands, because it was all about being stoned and ripped and stupid, appreciating something that was not exactly very good, but had an emotional outlook that made it look better. I don't think (for example) that LZ was psychedelic ... they were too good a bunch of musicians that figured out what they could do in music that few were doing ... they knew Janis, Jimi and later Jim were not just about rock'n'roll ... it was REAL ... and a lot of their music and concerts were REAL ... and exciting at that.

BTW, is common knowledge and it is written in many books that the whole "psychedelia" thing around London was more of an upper class show off of their use of the money they had, than it was anything serious ... many writers state that and it is specially visible in the book about Anita Pallenberg!

By 1972 and then 1973, I was already getting away from the dope. And in 1974 I went off it completely and took on the European contingent of music that was less about the dope and more about the intelligence of the music, which is what I consider "progressive" ... the dope itself, mostly, makes for very regressive feelings and the music is not that great.

I'm a veteran. I quit it long before I became immune to its effects, which are very visible these days!


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Psych Britannia: A-Z Album Links
 
4 stars 1968: The Crazy World of Arthur Brown - The Crazy World of Arthur Brown - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_lq8I1K4yguvLC9XQ7XlTq7TBg8D-SZRXI
2 stars 1969/1988: The Crazy World of Arthur Brown - Strangelands - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7BA1jU0Reo
2 stars 1970/1995: Arthur Brown's Kingdom Come - Jam 
3 stars 1971: Arthur Brown's Kingdom Come - Galactic Zoo Dossier - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_nh3JwSvP4nicOP0PO6JIO13CLivqO_D3c
3 stars 1972: Arthur Brown's Kingdom Come - Kingdom Come - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_no_d8taCERTNg7AEXSDgHuvnVGYyq3b9A
3 stars 1974: Arthur Brown - Dance - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjpvkKZXgVk
4 stars 1980: Arthur Brown & Vincent Crane - Faster Than the Speed of Light - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_ljeeUwYc4nl6_RhuPaVzofL-NdLdsSw8E
2 stars 1984: Arthur Brown & Craig Leon - Speak No Tech (The Complete Tapes of Atoya) - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_l4hGfJeflRSe5_WtN_-zAT2mxUSaGolPo
3 stars 1988: Arthur Brown & Jimmy Carl Black - Brown, Black & Blue -  http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_l7JMqSwG3E5wrn04RQ6GfwDJINeJfVW0Q
3 stars 2000: The Crazy World of Arthur Brown - Tantric Lover - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_meN8lu1hYHUrNsBooIIRLFWTVAAq3HAGU
3 stars 2003: The Crazy World of Arthur Brown - Vampire Suite - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_9uB7YE_Jw
3 stars 2007: The Amazing World of Arthur Brown - The Voice of Love - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_mwLnEDUHobck4qzi8Byq-NOhHSPWsmbHM
4 stars 2011: The Crazy World of Arthur Brown - Live at High Voltage - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_ms_Dx59FbDFfzit20c7tYGVBzdGai5bIc
3 stars 2014: The Crazy World of Arthur Brown - Zim Zam Zim - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_m2KcmI90o8xwZhn8t4KfNlxNikWLdCz1Q
3 stars 2019: The Crazy World of Arthur Brown - Gypsy Voodoo - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_nzu1tsHMNI5ppw_GMJe0t0imlaUpRoKvU
4 stars 2022: The Crazy World of Arthur Brown - Long Long Road - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_l5MjlJlLg4xuySa-C_LGKL1CDp7-V2T9E

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^ Strangely, there are no British bands in my Psychedelic Rock Top 10 Shocked

13th Floor Elevators
The Doors
Iron Butterfly
Jefferson Airplane
Jimi Hendrix Experience
Peanut Butter Conspiracy
Quicksilver Messenger Service
Spirit
Ultimate Spinach
Vanilla Fudge

I'd Love to have included Love too. Smile


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Don't listen to a lot of psych anymore...

1. Jimi Hendrix Experience
2. Grateful Dead
3. Pink Floyd
4. The Doors
5. Gong
6. Cream
7. Spirit
8. The Byrds
9. The Mothers of Invention
10. The Beatles
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Who are your Top 10 favourite Psychedelic Rock bands? ..... Do you prefer the uplifting music of the 13th Floor Elevators or would you rather Take Off with Jefferson Airplane and fly up to Eight Miles High with The Byrds. Then again, you could open The Doors of perception and Experience some Strange Daze and Purple Haze with Jim Morrison and  Jimi Hendrix. Or alternatively, maybe you have a taste for the sweet sound of Vanilla Fudge or the heavy Heavy sound of Iron Butterfly. The choice is yours, and while we're on the subject, where did Psychedelic Rock first originate? Was it With The Beatles in merry old England or on the sunny west coast of California, where It's a Beautiful Day every day. Smile
 
 
A-Z playlists of classic British Psychedelic Pop/Rock with completed albums in brackets:-
 
Arthur Brown (17); The Beatles (14); Cream (8); Dark (2); Edgar Broughton Band (13)
The Flower Pot Men (3); Ginger Baker (25); Hapshash & the Coloured Coat (2); The Idle Race (4)
Jody Grind (2); Kaleidoscope (4); Love Sculpture (2); The Move (6); Nirvana (10); Octopus (1)
Pretty Things (19); Quintessence (9); The Rolling Stones (60); Simon Dupree & the Big Sound (3);
Them (11); Unicorn (1); Velvett Fogg (1); The Who (36); The Yardbirds (11); The Zombies (16)


Edited by Psychedelic Paul - December 20 2023 at 16:18
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