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    Posted: November 26 2021 at 02:21

We've just had some threads about Metal albums, and I've thought, it now would be interesting to look at our favourite Psychedelic (not considered as Progressive) Rock albums. 

Beginning with my own list - which I think, by the way, can be said to represent quite well the early, most influential bands - one album per band, and unranked:


                       Big Brother & The Holding Company (USA) - Cheap Thrills  (1968)

                       Blind Faith  (UK)  -  Blind Faith  (1969)

                       Cream  (UK)  -  Disraeli Gears  (1967)

                       Country Joe & The Fish (USA) - Electric Music For the Mind and Body  (1967)
                       The Doors  (USA)  -  The Doors   (1967)

                       Grateful Dead  (USA) - Live / Dead   (1969)

                      Group 1850  (NL)  -  Paradise Now  (1969) 

                      Iron Butterfly  (USA) -  In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida  (1968)

                       Jefferson Airplane (USA)  -  Sweeping Up The Spotlight. Jefferson

                                                                                         Airplane Live At The Fillmore East 1969
                       The Jimi Hendrix Experience (USA)  -  Electric Ladyland  (1968)

                       Love  (USA)   -  Forever Changes  (1967)

                      Morgen  (USA)  -  Morgen  (1969)

                       Pink Floyd  (UK) - The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn  (1967)
                       The Pretty Things  (UK) - S.F. Sorrow  (1968)   
                       The Soft Machine  (UK) - The Soft Machine (1968)


                       Additional

                      The Beatles  (UK) - Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band  (1967) 

                       The Rolling Stones (UK) - Their Satanic Majesties Request  (1967)


For those who are not acquainted with this book, I can very much recommend

Kaleidoscope Eyes. Psychedelic Music from the 1960's to the 1990's (1996) by Jim Derogatis


And I hope you'll enjoy this thread!



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Then, I can tell, I'm curious who will be the first one here to join me?
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I have to say that I pretty much agree with your list (and that book is on my shelves, too).  I have a few to add (not in any particular order):

I'll see your 15 and raise you 10 (maybe more after I have some coffee)

The Kaleidoscope (USA) - A Beacon From Mars (1968)

Quicksilver Messenger Service (USA) - S/T (1968)

Fever Tree (USA) - S/T (1968)

Pearls Before Swine (USA) - These Things Too (1969)

The Incredible String Band (UK) - The 5000 Spirits Or The Layers of the Onion (1967)

Moby Grape (USA) - S/T (1967)

Ars Nova (USA) - S/T (1968)

H P Lovecraft (USA) - S/T  (1967)

Lothar and the Hand People (USA) - Presenting...Lothar and the Hand People (1968)

Spirit (USA) - S/T (1968)








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Welcome very much to you, Snicolette , as the first one to join me in this thread. I'm happy to hear your comment, as well, and should you add some more after your coffee, that'll surely be interesting to see, too.    

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Thank you for the kind welcome!  Smile  
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Originally posted by Snicolette Snicolette wrote:

Thank you for the kind welcome!  Smile  

My pleasure! Smile 


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 Just want to mention two very importent Psych Rock albums:

*Odessey and Orcale by The Zombies (UK | 1968)

*Vanilla Fudge's self titled (USA | 1967)


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Hi,

Hard choices, but a lot of the albums I do not consider "psychedelic", but I suppose that one of the most famous ones would be GONG's YOU album, although there are stories that the dope ended at that point. 

I'm not sure that The Incredible String Band fits as "psychedelic" since in many interviews (specially Guy Guden's), Robin Williamson expressly stated that it was about poetry, and in their version it was about making poetry come alive, which Robin went on to do in many albums, and some very funny (the rajah doing the rumba ... !). I suppose that folks consider that stoned immaculate stuff because it was so "hippy" oriented and they were (at the start) a sort of commune, it appears, although Robin and Mike don't even use that term or discuss it. For them, I think it was about the poetry and its interpretation, and the little film that was made with them, kinda shows this, even if it looks rather like a kid story ... which is not something we consider "psychedelic". Unless you are a "white rabbit" thing and still think that Grace was talking about drugs!


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The Moody Blues - In Search of the Lost Chord
Love - Forever Changes
Pink Floyd - Pipers at the Gates of Dawn
The Crazy World of Arthur Brown - S/T debut
The United States of America - S/T debut
Captain Beefheart - Safe as Milk
The Doors - Strange Days
The Pretty Things - SF Sorrow
Quicksilver Messenger Service - Happy Trails
The Beatles - Magical Mystery Tour
Jimi Hendrix - Axis: Bold as Love
Tim Buckley - Goodbye and Hello
Aphrodite's Child - 666
Jefferson Airplane - Surrealistic Pillow
H.P. Lovecraft - H.P. Lovecraft II
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Ah yes, I would also have added The Moodys, PF, and Tim Buckley that hadn't yet been mentioned.  Same LPs, too.  Great lists!
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It'll be very interesting to see here if Psychedelic Poul, who is now struggling with "could easily list a hundred favourite albums in that particular genre", can end with a number of favourites, he find to be okay to present here. - I hope he'll succeed as it'll be quite exiting to see what I think of as his "greatest Psychedelic favourites".

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There are many good obscure ones but for the sake of brevity here are 15..plus or minus a few...Wink
 'known ones' that I like....In no special order.....

Beatles- Sgt Pepper (and Magical Mystery Tour)
Stones- Satanic Majesties Request
Small Faces- Ogdens Nut Gone Flake
Pink Floyd- Piper...
Zombies- Odessey and Oracle
Cream-Disraeli Gears
Moody Blues- In Search of..
The Doors- Strange Days
The Grateful Dead- Aoxomoxoa
Spirit- 12 Dreams
Jefferson Airplane- Surrealistic Pillow
Hendrix- Are You Exp.?
Love- Forever Changes
Vanilla Fudge- ST
Iron Butterfly- In A Gadda Da Vida
Traffic- Haeven Is In YOur Mind
Sun Dial- Other Way Out (not a classic  but from 1990....imho should be in all psych rock collections...as well as the 2 psych albums by XTC as Dukes of Stratosphere)

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Thank you very much, dr wu23 .
Now, I guess we're at least two who waits with exitement on Paul's list. Handshake

Edit:
And I'll check  Sun Dial - Other Way Out,   as I don't know this album.


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Originally posted by David_D David_D wrote:

Thank you very much, dr wu23 .
Now, I guess we're at least two who waits with exitement on Paul's list. Handshake
I still haven't got around to putting my A-Z list together yet, but I can tell you that at least six of the albums on DrWu23's list will also be on my list. Smile


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Originally posted by Psychedelic Paul Psychedelic Paul wrote:

I still haven't got around to putting my A-Z list together yet, but I can tell you that at least six of the albums on DrWu23's list will also be on my list. Smile

Now, don't spoil the exitement. Big smile
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And what do you say, Snicolette , do you think as well, it'll be exiting to see Paul's list? Tongue
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Originally posted by dr wu23 dr wu23 wrote:

There are many good obscure ones but for the sake of brevity here are 15..plus or minus a few...Wink
 'known ones' that I like....In no special order.....

Beatles- Sgt Pepper (and Magical Mystery Tour)
Stones- Satanic Majesties Request
Small Faces- Ogdens Nut Gone Flake
Pink Floyd- Piper...
Spirit- 12 Dreams
Jefferson Airplane- Surrealistic Pillow
Hendrix- Are You Exp.?
Iron Butterfly- In A Gadda Da Vida
...
Hi,

I think I would add Tangerine Dream's first album ... though according to Edgar Froese there was not much dope around and they were more into their Dali'esque thing than otherwise, I imagine. It seems to fit DADA or SURREALISM, a lot more in its conceptualization and idea.

The rest are fine with me. Iron Butterfly is the odd one since the rest of the album does not really fit, and I (for one) would have wished another long piece, but I'm not sure they could repeat it again, since they didn't anymore.

Ogden's Nut Gone Flakes is a fabulous album, and a lot of fun to listen to, but perhaps a bit too "British" for many listeners, but the pop like music in it is a lot of fun to listen to. 

Were it not for JA's often confusing line up and constant amount of different material, at least a couple of albums could be put together and be very psychedelic, though I find the album by Kantner/Slick (the one with the stars song) much more psychedelic than JA's material. I suppose that it is easier to say, and Grace says it in her book, that White Rabbit is not about dope, but how we do not see the dual reality that the book gives us. We just think of the alternate as a dope reality, but I still wonder how much of it was just Lewis Carroll's predilection to child stories of which he was famous, and to turn them sideways, must have been a bit of fun for him, since the elementary stuff that is read to children, even these days, is just boring. I would think that his idea was that wild stories were better and helped one's imagination GLOW instead of any other idea about "life".


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Finally, after much deliberation, my A-Z list of favourite Psychedelic Rock albums:-

13th Floor Elevators - The Psychedelic Sounds of the 13th Floor Elevators (1966) 
Andromeda - Andromeda (1969)
Blackfeather - At the Mountains of Madness (1971)
Cosmos Factory - An Old Castle of Transylvania (1973)
The Doors - The Doors (1967)
The Electric Prunes - The Electric Prunes (1967)
Far Out - Nihonjin (1973)
Gandalf - Gandalf (1967)
Jimi Hendrix Experience - Are You Experienced? (1967)
Iron Butterfly - In-a-Gadda-da-Vida (1968)
Jefferson Airplane - Surrealistic Pillow (1967)
Kak - Kak (1969)
Love - Forever Changes (1967)
The Music Emporium - The Music Emporium (1969)
Nirvana - All of Us (1968)
The Open Mind - The Open Mind (1969)
The Pretty Things - The Sweet Pretty Things (2015)
Quicksilver Messenger Service - Quicksilver (1971)
Ramases - Space Hymns (1971)
Spirit - Twelve Dreams of Dr. Sardonicus (1970)
Trevor McNamara - Yeah Captain (1969)
Ultimate Spinach - Ultimate Spinach (1968)
Vanilla Fudge - Vanilla Fudge (1967)
Writing on the Wall - The Power of the Picts (1969)
Xhol Caravan - Electrip (1969)
Yellow Balloon - The Yellow Balloon (1967)
The Zombies - Odessey and Oracle (1968)
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An all time favorite for me this album is quintessentially British and pyschy and just evokes a remarkable feel.
It's one of those albums I can play over and over and over....should have gone on my list.



btw...this is an interesting list that has well known as well as some obscure things.
Had trouble live linking so.... https://psychedelicscene.com/2021/05/05/the-100-best-psychedelic-rock-albums-of-the-golden-age/




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I will play too...

Pink Floyd - Pipers at the Gates of Dawn
Soft Machine - S/T
The Moody Blues - In Search of the Lost Chord
Cream - Disraeli Gears
Jimi Hendrix Experience - Are You Experienced?
Love - Forever Changes
The Crazy World of Arthur Brown - S/T
The United States of America - S/T
The Doors - Strange Days
The Pretty Things - SF Sorrow
The Beatles - Magical Mystery Tour
Strawberry Alarm Clock - Wake Up..It's Tomorrow
Rolling Stones - Their Satanic Majesties Request
Traffic - Mr. Fantasy 
Pussy - Pussy Plays

and one additional, obscure but really good: Time - Before There Was...Time (1968)
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