Best Psychedelic album?

if i had to choose if would be dark side of the moon

 

For me, one of the trippiest albums of all time is Incredible String Band's 5000 Spirits of The Layers of the Onion. Can music get more hippy, I wonder! Then there's Jefferson Airplane's Surrealistic Pillow and David Crosby's If I Could Only Remember My Name, some awesome stuff.

 

Relayer

 

Relayer

 

Piper at the gates of dawn
Saurceful of secrets
Velvet Underground & Nico

 

The whole Saucerful Of Secrets album and Several Species Of Small Furry Animals Gathered Together track by pink floyd.

 

of course i see a lot of pink floyd here, lots of doors. that's all good!

but the soundtrack to the best (couple of) trip(s) i every had had to be

Doe Maar - Doe De Dub

Although it's a dutch band, this disc hold seven lovely intrumental Dub tracks.
so no words to scare you off, just cool grooves, as your attorney i would recommand this to everyone! very nice and trippy

 

the underground 60's band should be checked out for there first album
The Psychedelic Sounds of the 13th Floor elevators excellent album were considered one of the first bands to coin the term Psychedelic

 

Buddy guy was psycadelic before people actually knew what psychedic was...

and maybe so was mozart

 

Listen to Jefferson Starship: Blows Against the Empire. This album was released right after the break up of jefferson airplane, but before the formation of starship. "Jefferson Starship: Blows Against the Empire" was actually the full name of the album and was released as (I think) marty balin's solo album. anyway, it came right before starship formed and started making pop songs, and it is seriously the trippiest album i've ever heard. it has a bunch of guests including jerry garcia who is fucking incredible on it. it has a very mystical/spiritual feel, very adventurous and exciting. a lot of it is acoustic guitar and tribal rythms with grace slick just howling away and a big upright bass being played with a bow. and then of course jerry swings in with a killer lead. check it out you won't be disappointed.


My favorite line from one of the songs: "Seven thousand gypsies running together... an offering made to the sun in the name of the whether!"

 

This last song seems to be interesting! more hippie than this it's impossible...

Moody blues "In search of the lost chord" is very hippie too...normal it was recorded in 1968 but the difference with usual classic hippie album is that this Moody album is just half good (as nearly all Moody Blues 60's 70's album)...

Songs like :
-"Ride My See-Saw" (the guitar in the middle is quite acid)...
-"Om" ...well the tittle no needs more explanation ...it close the album.
-"Visions of Paradise"... one of my fave track to travel and discover other human condition... the lyrics are often simple but the music is like in a dream...

but well to be serious this album is far to be in the "best of" of hippie albums (well it means that the psychedelic 65-75 movement was rich rich rich ...in a musical way naturally)

Surrealistic Pillow as said Tumbldown just before ...it's one of my fave...
but i'm runnin' after "Blows Against the Empire" for a while ... it was in my list to buy seens 2 years ago... but it's difficult to find it in Switzerland...

The Quicksilver Messenger Service album with Nicky Hopkins are quite cool and very hippie ... sure reggaemen will love this band... but once agains the quicksilver are good...but probably not the best of all...

oh damn i can't find which album is the best... there's just too many great records...
Oh yes maybe one of the 3 byrds album ...often forgotten when we speak of Hippie... but 5th Dimension (66) was probably one of the first real psychedelic album of rock hystory !!
And his two followed up (Younger than yesterday & Notorious Byrd Brother) are maybe even better 'cause the B-side of 5th dimension is a little less interesting...

well brothers and sisters the question still open...

 

i dont really have an album i jsut have a play list of my favorite songs to be high to but stuff on revolver is some god psychedelic music, country joe and the fish, piper at the gates, sgt.peppers, saucerful of secretes, and the man who sold the world is amazing early bowie was very acid rock i advise everyone to listen to it, i am a beatle freak myself so id have to say revolver, anything thats in psychedelia works with me i love it!

 

i agree man the byrds are amazing

 

also anthem of the sun is a great psychedlic album

 

Crown of creation by Jefferson Airplane (although I do prefer my personnal compilation of JA...)
Tomorrow by Tomorrow (man I just looooooove the song Revolution!)
Weird scenes from inside the gold mine by The Doors is a pretty trippy compilation I must say
Are you experienced by Hendrix
Mutantes by Os Mutantes
The Velvet Underground and Nico
Piper at the gates of dawn by Pink Floyd
Twelve dreams of Dr Sardonicus by Spirit
Freak Out by Zappa and the mothers of Invention
Camembert Électrique by Gong
Magical Mystery Tour by The Beatles
Robert Charlebois (first rocker in Quebec) did some pretty awesome psyche stuff in his early days
And I have to add Surrealistic Pillow and After Bathing at Baxter's by Jefferson Airplane also...

 

Pink Floyd "Relics"

 

Velvet Underground - White Heat/White Light

 

jefferson airplane- after bathing at baxters

 

Hey man, LOVE's 1967 release "Forever Changes" has got to be my pick you know. Arthur Lee and company were said to have been too swacked man and were so heavy into the drugs man that they were going to have to hire session musicians to play on the record but amazingly these guys pulled themselves together you know and made one of the best psyche records of all-time. Forever Changes is the greatest fusion of folk-rock and psychedelia which features beautiful melodies, haunting orchestral arrangements, and inscrutable but poetic lyrics that is just far out man. If there was every a swingin record that could breath is was Love's "Forever Changes."

 

hey man, the byrds are boss and one of the greatest american bands of all-time you know. Fifth Dimension was a far out record, especially on the originals, where they devised some of the first and best psychedelic rock. "I See You" has groovy 12-string psychedelic guitar solos man.
but Younger Than Yesterday was a better record and was practically the first record to blend folk-rock, psychedelia, and early country-rock you know