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    Posted: August 13 2010 at 17:57
I think your problem will not be what to play but deciding what you have to leave out!
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No one said Iron Butterfly?
It's a fantastic psych. band, you should most definitely check it out.
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SmileAshra or Ash-Ra-Tempel are cool. What about Hawkwind´s In Search Of Space, not too heavy but very psychedelic.
When´s the party?
 
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Pink Floyd - Piper at the Gates of Dawn and MGMT - Congratulations (while it's recent pop music, it still is fairly psychedelic and good for parties)
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Originally posted by Mr Greeen Genes Mr Greeen Genes wrote:

what's a psychedelic party without Halleluwah from Can?


i don't want anyone having a freak out and sh*tting all over my new house
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what's a psychedelic party without Halleluwah from Can?
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Originally posted by Mosis Mosis wrote:

i would like Can, but i don't think my friends could handle it (maybe Future Days, actually)

which Neu! album should i start with?

So wait...you don't think your friends could handle Can, but you do think they could handle Brainticket?  That's usually the other way around. Tongue

As far as Neu!, start with their debut IMO.
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The Velvet Underground & Nico, Freak Out!, The Doors, The Crazy World of Arthur Brown, In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida, Ummagumma (Disc 1!), If I Could Do It All Over Again I Would Do It All Over You, Vol. 1 & 2(Soft Machine), Wolf City, Big Fun.
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You're getting a whole lotta late sixties material, which is the time period I always associate with psychedelic rock. In the 70's it moved toward progressive rock, with weirdos like Pink Floyd and Robin Trower still putting out acid rock. Whatever you do, use a lot of chocolate brown, avocado green, harvester gold, and orange. Anyway, I suggest "Bridge of Sighs' from Trower and "Echoes" from Floyd. 
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I don't see Yes as being psychedelic but, just for a laugh, try The Dukes of Stratosfear (which in case you don't know is XTC in another guise).
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Supersister - Presents from Nancy
Gong - Radio Gnome Invisible
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"Freak'n Roll" by Ash Ra Tempel. Great to dance to.


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^ hardly necessary.
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Heres the post on Psychedelic Prog that might look at home here!
 

1966-1967

a history of psychedelic music

 

Psychedelic music was in force. Genesis were signed to a contract with Decca records. They were intrigued by the psych rock coming out at the time.

The Psychedelic scene was primarily a plethora of hippies playing music to augment their LSD and hallucinatory experiences. The music they listened to was designed to enhance the mind altering experiences of Psychedelic drugs. The bands that made the music happen were seriously Psychedelic with colourful eyeball searing acid soaked album covers and trippy light shows with a whimsical surreal lyrical nature.

 
 

The music had to have certain aspects to be good enough for the new psych generation of listeners: As a musical style Psychedelic rock often contains some of the following features:

The electric guitars were distorted with feedback, wah wah and fuzz boxes.

 

The mixing in the studio was not just about putting down vocals and music, but very complex and elaborate effects were added such as backward tapes and long delay loops, panning and phasing sounds, extreme reverb on the guitars and the vocals, even vocals that were backmasked or fed through effects machines. The music had to sound otherworldly and off the planet.

The use of exotic instrumentation was a key factor particularly the sitar and tabla and other Eastern, or Indian musical instruments.

There was an emphasis on the keyboard that dominated the music at times, especially mellotron, electric organs and harpsichord.

 

To enhance the experience of tripping out the music too was replete with lengthy instrumental and jamming and improvisation with lead and keyboard soloing and extended musical passages with varying time signatures, like a multi movement suite of songs merged together into one long track.

The complex song structures depended on changes in key, modal melodies, drones and time signatures.

The lyrics were surreal or dreamlike, esoterically- inspired and based on fantasy or non-sensical, and at times whimsical and humorous.

WHITE RABBIT - JEFFERSON AIRPLANE (excerpt)
 
One pill makes you larger
And one pill makes you small
And the ones that mother gives you
Don't do anything at all
Go ask Alice
When she's ten feet tall

.....
When logic and proportion
Have fallen sloppy dead
And the White Knight is talking backwards
And the Red Queen's "off with her head!"
Remember what the dormouse said:
"Feed your head
Feed your head
Feed your head"
 
Album covers featured trippy multi coloured images with Psychedelic references.
 
 
The concert performances were a light show to augment the music and liquid light shows replicated acid trips.
 
 
 
The image of the band transformed, no longer wearing suits like The Beatles, Kinks, Animals or the other British Invasion bands,
 
 
 
 
but now wearing multi coloured mesmirising silk shirts and very long hair became the norm.
 
Pink Floyd with Syd Barret the master of psych.

The Height of Psychedelia reached its peak in 1967 with the Beatles "Strawberry Fields Forever" and "Penny Lane", making way for a British "pastoral" or "nostalgic" Psychedelia. Then the album to follow knocked the Psychedelic wave out of the park with "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band".

 
The album featured psych gems such as "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds", “Fixing A Hole” and “A Day In The Life” that typified the new sensation of Psychedelia. The album had a hold on the music history and every band wanted to take up the baton and run with it.
 
"A Whiter Shade of Pale" by Procol Harum reached number one in the UK.
 
 
The Rolling Stones released an album "Their Satanic Majesties Request".
 
Pink Floyd released a Psychedelic treasure, "The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn".
 

In America the Summer of Love of 1967 was in force when thousands of young people made the pilgrimage to Haight-Ashbury district of San Francisco, and the population grew from 15,000 to 100,000.

 
 
 
 
A huge music scene grew peaking at at the Monterey Pop Festival in June with Jimi Hendrix and The Who headlining.
 
 
 
 
 
Hendrix sacrifices his guitar as a burnt offering at Monterey.
 
Key recordings were produced at this time with Jefferson Airplane's "Surrealistic Pillow", featuring a Psychedelic nugget "White Rabbit" and "Somebody to Love".
 
 
The Doors' had their first hit single with "Light My Fire".
 

It was into this environment that Genesis released their first hit single.

 
Genesis are discovered
 
 
 
File:Genesis 1967 lineup.jpg
 
 

The original Genesis line-up in 1967, with Anthony Phillips, Mike Rutherford, Tony Banks, Peter Gabriel and Chris Stewart.

Genesis's original line-up consisted of Peter Gabriel, vocals, Anthony Phillips, guitar, Tony Banks, keyboards, Mike Rutherford, bass & guitar, and Chris Stewart, drums. Genesis began as a songwriting partnership and wanted only to write songs rather than perform as some members were stage shy. However, nobody wanted to record their music so they hit the studios to record one of their first singles. Jonathan King had discovered them at a concert at Charterhouse in 1968, the school the band attended and after the concert he was given a tape by a student that the band had recorded and thus a contract was formed.

 
King was also a songwriter and record producer with one hit single of his own "Everyone's Gone to the Moon". The band under the new name of Genesis, though it had been suggested they call themselves Gabriel's Angels, began to record for King. The name according to King was "a good name... it suggested the beginning of a new sound and a new feeling."
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great recommendations, AtomicCrimsonRush , thanks

also, you've jogged my memory -how could i have forgotten about Eloy's Ocean?
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Psych albums
 
Disraeli Gears - Cream
Are you experieiced - Jimi Hendrix
Axis Bold as LOve - Jimi Hendrix <3
Space Ritual - Hawkwind
Future Days - Can
Neu! - Neu
Sgt Peppers LHCB - Beatles
 
 
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Some psych-folk might not be out of place

Incredible String Band, Comus, Jan Dukes de Grey and Pentangle come to mind
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Also for a psychedelic history lesson check out post number 3 or 4 on my blog here
AN ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF GENESIS
 
Cool party!
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Gong and Hawkwind, of course.Also some early Guru Guru, perhaps from "Hinten" or "Känguru"


Edited by BaldFriede - August 08 2010 at 04:01


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Great Idea!
 
This is the album I would use - a box set too!
 
 
Various Artists (Concept albums &amp; Themed compilations) Nuggets From Nuggets album cover
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Boxset/Compilation, released in 1998

Songs / Tracks Listing

Disc 1
1. I Had Too Much To Dream (Last Night) (2:59) - The Electric Prunes
2. Dirty Water (2:48) - The Standells
3. Night Time (2:32) - The Strangeloves
4. Lies (2:44) - The Knickerbockers
5. Respect (2:15) - The Vagrants
6. A Public Execution (2:49) - Mouse
7. No Time Like The Right Time (2:47) - The Blues Project
8. Oh Yeah (2:49) - The Shadows Of Knight
9. Pushin' Too Hard (2:37) - The Seeds
10. Moulty (2:34) - The Barbarians
11. Don't Look Back (2:43) - The Remains
12. An Invitation To Cry (2:57) - The Magicians
13. Liar, Liar (1:54) - The Castaways
14. You're Gonna Miss Me (2:29) - The Thirteenth Floor Elevators
15. Psychotic Reaction (3:07) - Count Five
16. Hey Joe (2:51) - The Leaves
17. Romeo & Juliet (2:00) - Michael & The Messengers
18. Sugar And Spice (2:30) - The Cryan' Shames
19. Baby Please Don't Go (5:39) - The Amboy Dukes
20. Tobacco Road (4:42) - Blues Magoos
21. Let's Talk About Girls (2:43) - Chocolate Watch Band
22. Sit Down, I Think I Love You (2:23) - The Mojo Men
23. Run, Run, Run (1:55) - The Third Rail
24. My World Fell Down (3:50) - Sagittarius
25. Open My Eyes (2:45) - Nazz
26. Farmer John (2:27) - The Premiers
27. It's-A-Happening (2:47) - The Magic Mushrooms

Disc 2
1. Talk Talk (1:59) - The Music Machine
2. Last Time Around (2:42) - The Del-Vetts
3. Nobody But Me (2:19) - The Human Beinz
4. Journey to Tyme (2:36) - Kenny & The Kasuals
5. No Friend Of Mine (2:26) - The Sparkles
6. Outside Chance (2:04) - The Turtles
7. Action Woman (2:33) - The Litter
8. Spazz (2:46) - The Elastik Band
9. Sweet Young Thing (2:59) - The Chocolate Watch Band
10. Incense And Peppermints (2:50) - Strawberry Alarm Clock
11. I Ain't No Miricle Worker (2:49) - The Brogues
12. 7 And 7 Is (2:25) - Love
13. Time Won't let Me (2:50) - The Outsiders
14. Going All The Way (2:22) - The Squires
15. I'm Gonna Make you mine (2:33) - The Shadows Of Knight
16. The Trip (2:03) - Kim Fowley
17. Can't Seem to Make You Mine (2:36) - The Seeds
18. Why Do I Cry (2:50) - The Remains
19. Laugh Laugh (2:54) - The Beau Brummels
20. The Little Black Egg (2:45) - The NightCrawlers
21. I Wonder (2:15) - The Gants
22. I See The Light (2:09) - The Five Americans
23. Who Do You Love (2:04) - The Woolies
24. Double Shot (Of My Baby's Love) (2:17) - Swingin' Medallions
25. Live (2:37) - The Merry-Go-Round
26. Steppin' Out (2:13) - Paul Revere & The Raiders
27. Diddy Wah Diddy (2:29) - Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band
28. Strychnine (2:12) - The Sonics
29. Little Girl (2:29) - Syndicate Of Sound
30. (We Ain't Got) Nothin' Yet (2:18) - Blues Magoos
31. Shape Of Things To Come (1:54) - Max Frost, The Troopers

Disc 3
1. Let It Out (Let It All Hang Out) (2:10) - The Hombres
2. Fight Free (2:34) - The Golliwogs
3. At The River's Edge (2:39) - New Colony Six
4. Jack Of Diamonds (2:38) - The Daily Flash
5. Follow Me (2:30) - Lyme & Cybelle
6. It's Cold Outside (2:51) - The Choir
7. Beg, Borrow And Steal (2:32) - The Rare Breed
8. She's About A Mover (2:25) - Sir Douglas Quintet
9. Little Bit O'Soul (2:22) - The Music Explosion
10. Out The Clock Back On The Wall (2:24) - The "E" Types
11. Falling Sugar (2:10) - The Palace Guard
12. Run, Run, Run (2:18) - The Gestures
13. I Need You (2:16) - The Rationals
14. Knock, Knock (2:58) - The Humane Society
15. Primitive (3:51) - The Groupies
16. Psycho (2:17) - The Sonics
17. So What!! (2:50) - The Lyrics
18. You Must Be A Witch (2:49) - The Lollipop Shoppe
19. A Question Of Temperature (2:40) - The Balloon Farm
20. Maid Of Sugar - Maid Of Spice (2:39) - Mouse & The Taps
21. You Ain't Tuff (2:21) - The Uniques
22. Sometimes Good Guys Don't Wear White (2:38) - The Standells
23. She's My Baby (3:02) - The Mojo Men
24. Story Of My Life (2:44) - Unrelated Segments
25. I'm Five Years Ahead Of My Time (2:16) - The Third Bardo
26. Mirror Of Your Mind (2:45) - We The People
27. Bad Little Woman (2:39) - The Shadows Of Knight
28. Double Yellow Line (2:13) - The Music Machine
29. Optical Sound (2:37) - The Human Expression
30. Jouney To The Centre Of The Mind (3:34) - The Amboy Dukes

Disc 4
1. Are You Gonna Be There (At The Love-In) (2:27) - Chocolate Watchband, The
2. Too Many People (2:46) - The Leaves
3. (Would I Still Be) Her Big Man (2:21) - The Brigands
4. Are You A Boy Or Are You A Girl (2:16) - The Barbarians
5. Wooly Bully (2:21) - Sam The Sham & The Pharaohs
6. I Want Candy (2:37) - The Strangeloves
7. Louie Louie (2:45) - The Kingsmen
8. One Track Mind (2:20) - The Knickerbockers
9. Out Of Our Tree (2:20) - Wailers
10. I Think I'm Down (3:32) - The Harbinger Complex
11. What Am I Going To Do (2:28) - The Dovers
12. Codine (2:41) - The Charlatans
13. Johnny Was A Good Boy (2:38) - The Mystery Trend
14. Stop-Get A Ticket (2:28) - Clefs Of Levender Hill
15. Complication (2:24) - The Monks
16. The Witch (2:40) - The Monks
17. Get Me To The World On Time (2:33) - The Electric Prunes
18. Mr. Pharmacist (2:34) - The Other Half
19. Open Up Your Door (2:45) - Richard & The Young Lions
20. Just Like Me (2:24) - Paul Revere & The Raiders
21. You Burn Me Up And Down (2:22) - We The People
22. I Live In The Springtime (2:54) - The Lemon Drops
23. Mindrocker (3:00) - Fenwyck
24. Hold Me Now (2:29) - The Rumors
25. Love's Gone Bad (2:29) - The Underdogs
26. Why Pick On Me (2:46) - The Standells
27. Bad Girl (2:10) - The Zakary Taks
28. Blackout Of Gretely (4:36) - Gonn
29. Voices Green And Purple (1:35) - The Bees
30. Blues' Theme (2:09) - Davie Allan & The Arrows

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