Your favourite 15 Psychedelic Rock albums?
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Topic: Your favourite 15 Psychedelic Rock albums?
Posted By: David_D
Subject: Your favourite 15 Psychedelic Rock albums?
Date Posted: November 26 2021 at 02:21
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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) 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 Love (USA) - Forever Changes (1967) Morgen (USA) - Morgen (1969) Pink Floyd (UK) - The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn (1967) 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! ------------- quality over quantity, and all kind of PopcoRn almost beyond |
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Posted By: David_D
Date Posted: November 26 2021 at 06:34
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Then, I can tell, I'm curious who will be the first one here to join me? ------------- quality over quantity, and all kind of PopcoRn almost beyond |
Posted By: Snicolette
Date Posted: November 26 2021 at 08:26
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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) ------------- "Into every rain, a little life must fall." ~Tom Rapp |
Posted By: David_D
Date Posted: November 26 2021 at 08:36
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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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Posted By: Snicolette
Date Posted: November 26 2021 at 08:49
Thank you for the kind welcome!  ------------- "Into every rain, a little life must fall." ~Tom Rapp |
Posted By: David_D
Date Posted: November 26 2021 at 09:07
My pleasure!
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Snicolette wrote:Posted By: yogev
Date Posted: November 26 2021 at 10:21
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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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Posted By: moshkito
Date Posted: November 26 2021 at 11:01
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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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Posted By: The Dark Elf
Date Posted: November 26 2021 at 11:14
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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 ------------- ...a vigorous circular motion hitherto unknown to the people of this area, but destined to take the place of the mud shark in your mythology... |
Posted By: Snicolette
Date Posted: November 26 2021 at 11:26
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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! ------------- "Into every rain, a little life must fall." ~Tom Rapp |
Posted By: David_D
Date Posted: November 27 2021 at 12:47
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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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Posted By: dr wu23
Date Posted: November 29 2021 at 09:47
There are many good obscure ones but for the sake of brevity here are 15..plus or minus a few... '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)  ------------- One does nothing yet nothing is left undone. Haquin |
Posted By: David_D
Date Posted: November 29 2021 at 09:52
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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.  Edit: And I'll check Sun Dial - Other Way Out, as I don't know this album.
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Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: November 29 2021 at 10:02
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.
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Posted By: David_D
Date Posted: November 29 2021 at 10:11
Now, don't spoil the exitement.  ------------- quality over quantity, and all kind of PopcoRn almost beyond |
Posted By: David_D
Date Posted: November 29 2021 at 10:33
And what do you say, Snicolette , do you think as well, it'll be exiting to see Paul's list?  ------------- quality over quantity, and all kind of PopcoRn almost beyond |
Posted By: moshkito
Date Posted: November 29 2021 at 10:39
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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Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: November 29 2021 at 10:49
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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) |
Posted By: dr wu23
Date Posted: November 29 2021 at 11:07
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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/ ------------- One does nothing yet nothing is left undone. Haquin |
Posted By: enigmatic
Date Posted: November 29 2021 at 11:31
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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) |
Posted By: dr wu23
Date Posted: November 29 2021 at 11:39
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Time - Before There Was...Time (1968) Thanks for mentioning them...they never released that until 2004....I just listened to part of it on you tube...interesting. It amazes me that I still run into these obscure things I have not heard of ...and I look for them btw.  ------------- One does nothing yet nothing is left undone. Haquin |
Posted By: David_D
Date Posted: November 29 2021 at 11:45
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Aallriight, Paul, I guess that was sooner than I magined, thank you very much. And very impressive with your alphabetically chosen list - it might become some kind of not big but nevertherless, a historical moment in PA history - who knows. Anyway, I'm quite a glad man, now, and guess, rather well oriented about your Psychedelic preferences. ------------- quality over quantity, and all kind of PopcoRn almost beyond |
Posted By: David_D
Date Posted: November 29 2021 at 11:58
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Glad to see you here in this thread, as well, Enigmatic, not to mention Katharsis - even I'm maybe even more fond of the cover of Niemen Aerolit. It might be so that there are not so many Psychedelic aficionados on PA, and if that's the case, it's even more good to see you here.
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Posted By: enigmatic
Date Posted: November 29 2021 at 12:34
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I forgot about the "Zombies- "Odessey and Oracle", definitely on my Top 10 of favorite psychedelic albums. Couple additional obscurities from that period, maybe not on the same level as the albums already mentioned on page 1 of this thread, but worth trying: Clear Light - S/T (1967)
The Fallen Angels - It's a Long Way Down (1968) The Smoke - S/T (1968, baroque pop band from Los Angeles, similar in sound to Strawberry Alarm Clock from their debut album "Incense and Peppermints". Keep in mind. their is another band with the same name from London that released one album titled "It's Smoke Time" in 1967) |
Posted By: Snicolette
Date Posted: November 29 2021 at 12:36
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Did I miss, or did anyone include It's A Beautiful Day's S/T 1969 record? ------------- "Into every rain, a little life must fall." ~Tom Rapp |
Posted By: David_D
Date Posted: November 29 2021 at 12:53
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Now, I just heard the self-titled album (1973) with Electric Sandwich (D), and the first song on it, China, hearing it pretty loud, thaat was a psychedelic experience. I don't know how many we end to be joining this thread, but if not so many, then, we'll be however a close circle of Psychedelic friends. ------------- quality over quantity, and all kind of PopcoRn almost beyond |
Posted By: David_D
Date Posted: November 29 2021 at 12:56
No, you're the first one, Snicolette . ------------- quality over quantity, and all kind of PopcoRn almost beyond |
Posted By: Snicolette
Date Posted: November 29 2021 at 13:23
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Guess I needed a few days' cups of coffee, lol ------------- "Into every rain, a little life must fall." ~Tom Rapp |
Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: November 29 2021 at 13:24
That would've been my second A-Z choice for the letter "I" after Iron Butterfly.
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Posted By: David_D
Date Posted: December 01 2021 at 14:11
And what would be the third? ------------- quality over quantity, and all kind of PopcoRn almost beyond |
Posted By: Grumpyprogfan
Date Posted: December 01 2021 at 14:49
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Don't listen to much psych anymore and without repeating what others have posted, I have only one masterpiece to add. Gong - You
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Posted By: David_D
Date Posted: December 06 2021 at 07:34
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So, anyone else who would like to join this psychedelic and maybe even freaking party? ------------- quality over quantity, and all kind of PopcoRn almost beyond |
Posted By: moshkito
Date Posted: December 06 2021 at 09:50
Hi, I wish there was a good/reasonable biography of Kevin, but according to his daughter on the twit thing, I'm not sure he was about drugs as much as drink. And even shows us once in an album ... throwing up, right? ------------- Music is not just for listening ... it is for LIVING ... you got to feel it to know what's it about! Not being told! www.pedrosena.com |
Posted By: Saperlipopette!
Date Posted: December 06 2021 at 10:18
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So I guess I've got my own definition too. Btw: I'm not really interested whether the artists themselves (or Moshkito) consider they're albums as psych or not. I trust my own hearing. And I'm sticking to the 1960's stuff. No order: Pink Floyd - A Saucerful Of Secrets Love - Forever Changes The United States of America - S/T C.A. Quintet - Trip Thru Hell Incredible String Band - The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter Silver Apples - St East of Eden - Mercator Projected Strawberry Alarm Clock - Wake Up..It's Tomorrow Morgen - Morgen Kaleidoscope - Tangerine Dream Moody Blues - On The Threshold Of A Dream The Music Emporium - St White Noise - An Electric Storm The Can - Monster Movie The Rolling Stones - Their Satanic Majesties Request |
Posted By: David_D
Date Posted: December 07 2021 at 01:39
Right! Let the music speak for itself! ------------- quality over quantity, and all kind of PopcoRn almost beyond |
Posted By: David_D
Date Posted: December 25 2021 at 06:57
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Would anybody else like to tell about their favourite Psychedelic albums? ------------- quality over quantity, and all kind of PopcoRn almost beyond |
Posted By: Easy Money
Date Posted: December 25 2021 at 07:35
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Here are some cool psychedelic jazz fusion albums: "Big Fun" - Miles Davis "Agharta" - Miles Davis "Crossings" - Herbie Hancock "Stone Flute" - Herbie Mann "Love Love" - Julian Priester "Invintation to Openess" - Les McCann "Devotion" - John McLaughlin I'll try to add some more later. On the rock side of things, there is: The first Funkadelic album (self-titled) and "Free Your Mind and Your Ass will Follow" - Funkadelic |
Posted By: David_D
Date Posted: December 25 2021 at 14:14
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Well, personally, I find it okay to mention some Jazz Fusion albums here if it's important for you, Easy Money, but otherwise, this thread is supposed to be about Psych (Rock), and I know that for instance dr wu23 is very strickt about this "sacred area".
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Posted By: Easy Money
Date Posted: December 25 2021 at 14:40
| ^ The albums I mention are the kind most psyche rock fans would enjoy. I'm sure there are a lot people in this thread who already like a lot of these albums. |
Posted By: dr wu23
Date Posted: December 25 2021 at 14:43
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An old favorite obscure one.....very atmospheric. J K & Co- Suddenly One Summer '68/'69 Worth listening to the whole lp. ------------- One does nothing yet nothing is left undone. Haquin |
Posted By: David_D
Date Posted: December 25 2021 at 16:50
Maybe so, but it's not about like or not like these albums. ------------- quality over quantity, and all kind of PopcoRn almost beyond |
Posted By: Argentinfonico
Date Posted: December 26 2021 at 00:07
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Not in order: The Beatles - Sgt Peppers (1967) The Doors - The Doors (1967) Pink Floyd - Animals (1977) Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here (1975) Pescado Rabioso - Desatormentándonos (1972) Pescado Rabioso - Pescado 2 (1973) Nektar - Recycled (1976) Hawkwind - Hall Of The Mountain Grill (1974) The Moody Blues - In Search Of The Lost Chord (1968) Eloy - Ocean (1977) Aphrodite's Child - 666 (The Apocalypse of John, 13/18) (1972) Genesis - The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway (1974) Ave Rock - Ave Rock (1974) Area - Arbeit Macht Frei (1973) Le Orme - Uomo Di Pezza (1972) ------------- -Will I see you tonight? -I never make plans that far ahead. Casablanca (1942) |