Best Psychedelic album?

It's a flipp... your robotic short answer "Relayer"...... i always told that the "Yes" question was simple... they should recall their band "No" ...it's more honnest ...and it prepare people to not hope 2 much when they discover the band.
In fact their Name "Yes" is probably an important reason of their commercial succes... a simple , clear & possitive word.
With "No" their whole destiny will be probably darker...
And a Darker version of Yes can't be so bad but mysterious...

 

All of these mentioned are excellent choices...

but anybody who has actually gotten together to play all 4 CDs of Zaireeka know that it is quite possibly the quintessential psychedelic album.

 

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I say either Piper at the Gates of Dawn by Pink Floyd or After Bathing at Baxter's by Jefferson Airplane are the best psychedelic albums ever.

 

I want to tell you a story
About a little man
If I can.
A gnome named Grimble Grumble.

I agree, piper at the gates of dawn

I'd like to mention I am a HUGE beatles fan, I have every album(UK, Us, And UK/US), every concert, every music video, rare recordings, bootlegs, every album by each of the individual beatles and so on, every movie, blah, blah, the tv shows, blah blah, all on my computer, as well as owning alot of it on vinyl too, but I never quite thought of Sgt Peppers as much of a psychedelic album, the songs are great but the lyrics seem more on the serious side, whereas Piper at the Gates of dawn is a lot of psychadelic imagery

Sgt Pepper Type lyrics;
</a>When I get older losing my hair,
Many years from now.
Will you still be sending me a valentine
Birthday greetings bottle of wine.
If I'd been out till quarter to three
Would you lock the door,
Will you still need me, will you still feed me,
When I'm sixty-four.

Piper at the gates of dawn lyrics;
Alone in the clouds all blue
Lying on an eiderdown.
Yippee! you cant see me
But I can you.
Lazing in the foggy dew
Sitting on a unicorn.
No fair, you cant hear me
But I can you.
Watching buttercups cup the light
Sleeping on a dandelion.


So I think Piper at the gates of dawn has alot more fairy tale style imagery, and since it was a debut album they had more room to try new things, whereas the beatles, even though Sgt Pepper was very avant garde, had a certain level of respectability to live up to by that time.

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"White Light - White Heat" of Velvet Underground is the most drug, psychodelic and perverted album...

 

White Light/White Heat is great. Very experimental, but it's like the opposite of psychedelic. It's psycho, but not psychedelic.

 

Grateful Dead's Antham of the Sun is one of my favorites. Also, as everybody else has said Piper is an amazing album as well.

 

I'm gonna have to go ahead and say the Best of the Doors... but sometimes I change it up with a little American Beauty here and there...

 

Well have you? lol best psycedelic album

 

My most favorite "tripping" psychedelic album IS:
THEIR SANTANIC MAJESTIES REQUEST - THE ROLLING STONES
I call it: "The STONES on ACID album." The whole album is just totally flipped out, but composed well for psychedelic music. The cover is even very psychedelic!

In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida - THE IRON BUTTERFLY was a very popular heavy-acid-rock (very long) song played alot on the radio, in the late60's/early 70's.
behold & see - ULTIMATE SPINACH (of Boston, MASS) is also a very trippy album! As is their ULTIMATE SPINACH album.
The most creative, flipped-out music was during the new wave/punk/alternative era in the 80's! Music went in all creative directions! A group called FLIPPER had a long song, where it sounded like they were playing on acid, underwater!

PIPER AT THE GATES OF DAWN - PINK FLOYD is a pretty cool psychedelic album.
CONSPICUOUS ONLY IN ITS ABSENCE and HOW IT WAS - GRACE SLICK & THE GREAT SOCIETY. Before GRACE SLICK joined JEFFERSON AIRPLANE, she was in a psychedlic band called THE GREAT SOCIETY. The original WHITE RABBIT song was from THE GREAT SOCIETY, as was the original SOMEBODY TO LOVE song. It was more psychedelic-sounding and had a long song intro, than the later JEFFERSON AIRPLANE version did! It's available on a single CD.

Peace, love and understanding - WAVY GRAVY (At: HippieFest 2006/DTE Energy Music Theater/Clarkston, MI)

 

Of course I'd take Pink Floyd with me on any good trip - Ummagumma, Wish You Were Here, or Meddle for the mere inclusion of Echoes (and well... every other song on there).

But, otherwise Ágætis Byrjun by Sigur Rós is WAY up there. I don't know if they're technically considered psychedelic, but that album is definitely psychedelic. Also At War with the Mystics by the Flaming Lips is a good one... Hard to pick a favourite!

 

It's gotta be The Best Of Jefferson Airplane, i mean... that kind of music is so intense and it gels with everything so elegantly, and the two live tracks near the end are orgasmic!

I can't believe the original line-up are still alive since the mid-sixties,

peace out,

X

 

Dig Jethro Tull, Thick as a Brick.

 

I'm going to say "S.F. Sorrow" by The Pretty Things. Recorded in 1967 at Abbey Road (now there's a pedigree!), it's the concept album that came before "Tommy" by The Who and is now generally acknowledged to have influenced Pete Townshend to some degree during the period that he was writing the latter. It was engineered by Norman Smith who engineered all of The Beatles records through "Rubber Soul" and produced Pink Floyd's first two albums. The musicianship is excellent!!! To my ears, it sounds like a perfect blending of "Pepper" and "Piper". Quite mesmerizing actually. Lyrically, there's lots of psychedelic imagery, expressed in songs like "Bracelets Of Fingers":


Fly to the moon and I'll get there quite soon.
If I wait awhile.
Cradled in branches that stretched out their arms
I must wait awhile.
Bending my mind as I pick up the flowers in May,
Hearing the laughter that turns into tears evr'y day
Fly to the Moon on the curve of a spoon
I turn upside-down.
Tumbling through leaves as I scatter the seeds
On an eiderdown.

This platter is an overlooked gem whose legend grows every year. The Pretty Things even reunited a few years back to perform the album in it's entirety at Abbey Road with a webcast. Seriously, check this out, preferably with headphones!

Track Listing (To Whet Your Appetite)

Side 1

1. "S.F. Sorrow Is Born" – 3:12
2. "Bracelets of Fingers" – 3:41
3. "She Says Good Morning" – 3:23
4. "Private Sorrow" – 3:51
5. "Balloon Burning" – 3:51
6. "Death" – 3:05

Side 2

1. "Baron Saturday" – 4:01 (This is my favorite track!)
2. "The Journey" – 2:46
3. "I See You" – 3:56
4. "Well of Destiny" – 1:46
5. "Trust" – 2:49
6. "Old Man Song" – 3:09
7. "Loneliest Person" – 1:29

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PEACE!

 

may sound overrated...but i like to trip out to Pink Floyd's Dark Side Of The Moon,
i also like to throw out songs from different artists like some Hendrix (Wind Cries Mary, or Red House), The Doors(The End or 20th centruy Fox)etc...

 

and most guys here talk about hippie stuff and not psychedelic music.
get the albums by:
1. the deep - psychedelic moods
2. the west coast pop art experimental band - part 1
3. kaleidascope - same (uk)

 

Grateful Dead - Live dead, or any other live material from around that period (1968/69).

Also the album Noontide by the band Fanisk, which is national socialist black metal but still extremely psychedelic and totally wonderful.

 

Anything by Sigur Ros. Absolutely amazing. So peaceful and beautiful.