Psychedelic Rock Essentials

What are the essential Psychedelic Rock albums/artists? I know of some, but I really want to expand my Psych collection. What albums and/or artists do you like?

Here are a few essentials I already know:

The 13th Floor Elevators - The Psychedelic Sounds of The 13th Floor Elevators
The 13th Floor Elevators - Easter Everywhere
The Beatles - Revolver
The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
The Beatles - Magical Mystery Tour
Big Brother & The Holding Company - Cheap Thrills
Arthur Brown - The Crazy World of Arthur Brown
Cream - Fresh Cream
Cream - Disraeli Gears
The Doors - The Doors
Iron Butterfly - In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida
The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Are You Experienced?
The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Axis: Bold as Love
The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Electric Ladyland
Jefferson Airplane - Surrealistic Pillow
Love - Forever Changes
Pink Floyd - The Piper at the Gates of Dawn
Pink Floyd - A Saucerful of Secrets
The Rolling Stones - Their Satanic Majesties Request
Steppenwolf - The Second
Vanilla Fudge - Vanilla Fudge
The Who - The Who Sell Out
The Yardbirds - Roger the Engineer
The Zombies - Odessey & Oracle

What else can you think of? Perhaps we can come up with a list to help everyone who likes Psychedelic Rock...

 

IM going to add some more recent psychedelic albums:

Yoshimi vs the Pink Robots -- The Flaming Lips
Soft Bulletin -- The flaming Lips
Daydream Nation -- Sonic Youth

 

some more classic psychedelic albums:

In the Land of the Grey and Pink -- Caravan
Camembert Electrique -- Gong

 

Off the top of my head...

Flaming Lips EP - Ego Tripping at the Gates of Hell (very trippy electronica)
Doors - Strange Days
Pink Floyd - Atom Heart Mother (some of it)
The Byrds - Eight Miles High
Beach Boys - Pet Sounds

 

I don't listen to much psych anymore, but I think most of the essential ones have already been covered.

Some people seem a bit confused as to what true psychedelia is, though.

 

Iron Butterfly ~ Heavy
Bubble Puppy ~ A Gathering of Promises
Peacepipe ~ Peacepipe
Fate ~ Sgt. Death
Shiva's Headband ~ Any of them
Golden Dawn ~ Power Plant
Red Krayola ~ Red Krayola
Moving Sidewalks ~ Any of them
Stara Zagora ~ Stara Zagora
Outhouse Moan ~ Live by the Riverside
Outhouse Moan ~ Practice Sessions

 

Bubble Puppy.... lol.

 

Here's a (kinda lame) animated video from the band called Bubble Puppy. The song kicks ass, it's called: "Hot Smoke and Sasafrass"

http://www.paperrad.org/animations/bubble.html

and I don't know why bubbles come out of the puppy's butt.

 

Define true if you would.

 

Yes, I know what you mean. Some of the albums I listed aren't really true psychedelia but more along the lines of psych infused pop. I simply listed them (Roger the Engineer for example) because they have some psychedelic elements and are great albums overall. But, yes, I would like to check out some different albums that achieve this "true" psychedelic sound; albums like The Piper at the Gates of Dawn and The Crazy World of Arthur Brown. I haven't had much luck finding things that equal the psychedelicness (don't think that's a word) of those recordings.

 

oh my too many to think of right now but the two that spring to mind not mentioned yet are

Jefferson Airplane - After Bathing At Baxter's
Country Joe and The Fish - Electric Music For the Mind and Body

these are two I think no psychedelic rock collection should be without

back with more later no doubt also with some personal favourites

 

What about Freak Out by the Mothers of Invention? It must have been the most psychedelic album that most people had heard in 1966.

I know that Frank Zappa didn't do drugs, though.

 

Personal favourites would be

Ultimate Spinach - S/T
Sun Dial - Other Way Out
Golden Dawn - Power Plant
Cold Sun - Dark Shadows

 

the blues magoos - psychedelic lollipop (1966)
the chocolate watchband - no way out (1967)
gandalf - gandalf (1968)
group 1850 - agemo's trip to mother earth (1968)
july - july (1968)
tomorrow - tomorrow (1968)
the red crayola - the parable of arable land (1967)
the electric prunes - underground (1967)
the deep - psychedelic moods (1966)
mystic tide - solid ground (1966, album released in 1994)
moving sidewalks - flash (1968)
kaleidoscope - tangerine dream (1967)
the human expression - love at psychedelic velocity (1966-67, album released in 1994)

Here's a great site about (early) 60's psychedelica: http://www.lysergia.com/LamaWorkshop/lamaEarlyPsychedelia.htm

 

i forgot some albums...

the byrds - fifth dimension
the soft machine - vol.1
the silver apples - silver apples
the silver apples - contact
moby grape - moby grape
various artists - nuggets: original artyfacts from the first psychedelic era 1965-1968
various artists - nuggets II: original artyfacts from the british empire and beyond 1964-1969
various artists - pebbles vol.3: the acid gallery (really odd psychedelica!)

 

another few favourites would be

Music Emporium - S/T

Arzachel - S/T

Misunderstood - Before The Dream Faded

 

Anyone who has known me for a long time will know I was obsessed with psychedelic music for a long time.



My favorite albums (one per artist/band):

The Beatles-Magical Mysterey Tour
Jimi Hendrix Experience-Are You Experienced?
Alexander Spence-Oar
Pink Floyd-Piper At the Gates Of Dawn
United States Of America-United States Of America
Soft Machine-Volumes 1 & 2
13th Floor Elevators-Easter Everywhere
Cream-Disreali Gears
Crazy World Of Aruther Brown-Crazy World Of Aruther Brown
Grateful Dead-Anthem Of The Sun
Gong-Camembert Electrique
Doors-Strange Days
Tomorrow-Tomorrow
Pretty Things-SF Sorrow
CAN-Monster Movie
Jefferson Airplane-Surrealistic Pillow
Olivia Tremor Control-Dusk AT Cubist Castle

 

Hawkwind-Space Ritual

 

'Tomorrow' by 'Tomorrow' is great. Unfortunately they only did one album

 

Yeah, I've noticed you don't seem to care for psychedelic music that much anymore... like you still love it, but you hardly listen to it. I've always loved psychedelic music (and I know what real psychedelia is), but I never really like the toooo weird stuff, then it's not really music anymore, like no more melody, just sound collages. It's okay if it's a little bit in a psychedelic song, but not the whole song... I still listen to psychedelia a lot.

My favorite psychedelic albums are (it's not gonna that much different from wiuf's list, we share our music collection! ) (in no special order):

- The Psychedelic Sounds Of The 13th Floor Elevators
- Easter Everywhere - 13th Floor Elevators
- Tomorrow - Tomorrow
- Cheap Thrills - Big Brother & The Holding Co
- Revolver - The Beatles
- Sgt Pepper - The Beatles
- Magical Mystery Tour - The Beatles
- Crazy World Of Arthur Brown
- Disraeli Gears - Cream
- The Doors
- Strange Days - The Doors
- Anthem Of The Sun - Grateful Dead
- Live Dead - Grateful Dead
- Surrealistic Pillow
- After Bathing At Baxter's
- Are You Experienced? - Jimi Hendrix
- Axis: Bold As Love - Jimi Hendrix
- Electric Ladyland - Jimi Hendrix
- The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn - Pink Floyd
- A Saucerful Of Secrets - Pink Floyd
- S.F Sorrow - Pretty Things
- Their Satanic Majesties Request - The Rolling Stones
- Ogden's Nut Gone Flake - Small Faces
- The Madcap Laughs - Syd Barret
- Oar - Skip Spence
- Odessey And Oracle - Zombies