It's Psychedelic Pop Week!

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Originally Posted by Wikipedia

Psychedelic pop is a psychedelic musical style inspired by the sounds of psychedelic folk and psychedelic rock, but applied to a pop music setting. It reached its peak in the last years of the 1960s, declining rapidly in the early 1970s.

Origins and characteristics

The origins of psychedelic music were in folk and rock music of the mid-1960s, particularly the work of The Beatles, The Byrds and bands like The Yardbirds and The Grateful Dead.[1] As psychedelia emerged as a mainstream and commercial force it began to influence pop music, which incorporated hippie fashions, drug references, as well as the sounds of sitars, fuzz guitars, and tape effects, but often using the close harmonies of the California sound and applying these elements to concise and catchy pop songs.[2]

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RYM's top Psych Pop releases!

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Originally Posted by Bam You Have AIDS

I am going to get on well in this thread.

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Some modern examples of psych pop that expound on the genre in various ways.

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A handful of modern favourites.

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And now that I've broken all of your computers as well as my own; a smattering of my favourite psychedelic pop band.






I've been waiting to get this out of my system for a long time.

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Got to have your Prunes of the Electric kind!

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While I'm on that kick for songs from 1967-released albums, which my Electric Prunes pick was actually from (Underground, a MIGHTY FINE album), here's one from the good Blues Magoos album Electric Comic Book. With a touch of G-Punk Power, there's a touch of killer pop hooks and snarls all wrapped up in one Psych pop classic.

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The 'Nez wrote this classic nugget that wound up on the excellent Pieces, Aquarius, Capricorn, and Jones, Ltd. album. The Moog bits top it off nicely.

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Possibly among the sparks of the Neo-Psychedlia, here's the finale to Deface the Music.