Favorite Psychedelic Songs
 

Name 15 of your favorite psychedelic songs, but no more than 5 songs per band. (Otherwise, I'd have a list of nothing but Beatles and Monster Magnet.) I put my list in alphabetical order.

1.Baby Gotterdammerung - Monster Magnet
2. Boris - Melvins; I'd call it psychedelic, just slow and sludgy. Or maybe I'm just trying to justify sneaking the Melvins in somewhere.
3. Come Together - Beatles
4. Dopes To Infinity - Monster Magnet
5. Fairies Wear Boots - Black Sabbath
6. I Am The Walrus - Beatles; Perhaps my favorite psychedelic song.
7. Joan Crawford - Blue Oyster Cult; The lyrics are insane.
8. L.A. Woman - Doors
9. Magic Carpet Ride - Steppenwolf
10. Man on the Silver Mountain - Rainbow
11. Octopus's Garden - Beatles
12. Subhuman - Blue Oyster Cult
13. Tales of Brave Ulysses - Cream
14. Waitin' for the Bus/Jesus Just Left Chicago - ZZ Top
15. Werewolves of London - Warren Zevon

I didn't include bands like Electric Wizard or Sleep. They're great stoner bands, but not exactly what I mean by 'psychedelic'.

Pink Floyd's Time is one of my best and your list songs are also my favourite.

Move to appropriate forum?

Sorry about that. It slipped my mind that there is a subforum for prog and psychedelic. :o:

Ooh, good thread. Here's one for now. Quite the predictable one, but I'm calling on Echoes.

Edit: Sorry, I just realized you said 15. I'll update after work.

Pink Floyd:
1. Astronomy Domine
2. Interstellar Overdrive
3. Saucerful of Secrets
4. Echoes
5. On The Run

Grateful Dead:
6. That's It for The Other One (off Anthem of the Sun)
7. Rosemary
8. Mountains of the Moon
9. Dark Star (off Live Dead)

Hendrix:
10. 3rd Stone from the Sun
11. And the Gods made Love -> Have You Ever Been to Electric Ladyland
12. Rainy Day Dream Away + Still Raining Still Dreaming
13. Voodoo Chile + Slight Return

Beatles:
14. Tomorrow Never Knows

Shakti with John McLaughlin:
15. La Danse Du Bonheur

My contribution, I don't listen to a lot of psychedelia

Not in a particular order

01- White Rabbit - Jefferson Airplane
02- The End - The Doors
03- Crystal ship - The Doors
04- Lucy in the sky with diamonds - The Beatles
05- I am the walrus - The Beatles
06- Blue Jay Way - The Beatles
07- Strawberry Fields Forever - The Beatles
08- A Day in the life - The Beatles
09- Interstellar Overdrive - Pink Floyd
10- Kashmir - Led Zeppelin
11- Echoes - Pink Floyd
12- Flaming - Pink Floyd
13- Paint it black - The Rolling Stones
14- Let there be more light - Pink Floyd
15- When the music's over - The Doors

Personally the old 70s stuff, besides Pink Floyd and Hendrix, wasn't at all Psychedelic compared to the stuff that is created these days. With that said, here are my top five most psychedelic songs (meaning they aren't necessarily psychedelic rock songs, but instead invoke a psychedelic atmosphere):

5. Dark Stars in a Dazzling Sky - Acid Mothers Temple
4. 50 Million Year Trip - Kyuss
3. Time - Pink Floyd
2. Drip Drip by Comus
1. Dopesmoker - Sleep

Iron Butterfly- The one, the only- In Da Gada Da Vida.

The Doors- Riders On The Storm

[QUOTE=Inuzuka Skysword;710929]Personally the old 70s stuff, besides Pink Floyd and Hendrix, wasn't at all Psychedelic compared to the stuff that is created these days. With that said, here are my top five most psychedelic songs (meaning they aren't necessarily psychedelic rock songs, but instead invoke a psychedelic atmosphere):

I was making a distinction between the stoner/desert genres and the older psychedelic stuff. I'd call a song 'psychedelic' if it relies upon nonsensical or cryptic lyrics. I'd call Stairway to Heaven psychedelic, for example. It's this type of psychedelia I was asking about.

A lot of modern stoner bands (e.g. Kyuss) seem to rely more on the music instead of the lyrics to create atmosphere. Or at least that's how it sounds. I love both types, though.

Thanks for the comment. I am familiar with Kyuss and Sleep. Will have to check out Acid Mothers Temple and Comus.

Would anyone like to name uh... any number ... of their favorite psychedelic songs?

I've only heard a few of those and of the ones i've heard there's only IATW that i'd call psychedelic. Come together isn't. or LA woman

Beatles-Tomorrow never knows
Beatles-Strawberry fields forever
Beatles-Lucy in the sky with diamonds
Beatles-I am the walrus
Beatles-Magical mystery tour
Pink Floyd-See Emily play
Pink Floyd-Interstella overdrive
Pink Floyd-See saw
Pink Floyd-Bike
Pink Floyd-Careful with that axe Eugene
Jefferson airplane-White rabbit
Jimi Hendrix Experience-Purple haze
Jimi Hendrix Experience-Are you experienced
Oasis-Supersonic
Love-You set the scene

I suppose I could be wrong about the definition of psychedelic. I always thought of Come Together as the quintessential psychedelic song.

I admit that a couple of choices are borderline (Melvins; ZZ Top). I always thought something was psychedelic if it employed cryptic or bizarre lyrics. Trippy use of the instruments is helpful (as are drug references), but I don't know if it's necessary to have that to qualify as psychedelic.

Come together was not pyschedelic bro. I was there.

L.A. Woman, The Doors

Why's that psychedelic?

Nice one.

Well I've finally had a go, I couldnt manage to fit under 15, so here's my top 23 for the moment instead....

New Colony Six - I Confess
Chicago band with a swirling beauty
YouTube - New Colony Six - I Confess - 45 rpm

The Nazz - Open My Eyes
The guitar on this is excellent
YouTube - Nazz 1969 - Open My Eyes

The Californians - Cooks and Cake and Kindness
The Midlands of England as a scene in the 1960's was so underrated
YouTube - californians, cooks of cakes and kindness

The Timebox - Gone is The Sad Man
Southport has a pier 34 miles long or something….the place has also got The Timebox
YouTube - Timebox - Gone Is The Sad Man

The Move - Night of Fear
Yet another band from England's Midlands
YouTube - Night Of Fear by The Move

The Attack - Created By Clive
More Freakbeat than Psychedelia but still….
YouTube - The Attack , Created By Clive

The Doors - Not to Touch The Earth
Part of The Lizard King Epic, proper dark and sinister
YouTube - The Doors - Not to touch The Earth

The Idle Race - The Skeleton and The Roundabout
Jeff Lynn's launching pad
YouTube - Idle race the skeleton and the roundabout

Nirvana - Rainbow Chaser
No not that Nirvana, the good one….
YouTube - Nirvana - Rainbow Chaser (1968)

Jefferson Airplane - White Rabbit
In all honesty, what can you say
YouTube - Jefferson Airplane -White Rabbit-

The End - Shades of Orange
Produced by Bill Wyman no less
YouTube - Shades of Orange

The Electric Prunes - Aint It Hard
The more I listen to this band, the more I love
YouTube - The Electric Prunes-Ain`t it Hard

Pink Floyd - See Emily Play
Dave Gilmour blah blah blah (just kidding Boo Boo!)
YouTube - See Emily Play

Rodriguez - Sugar Man
It’s a folk song turned on its head and brilliantly so
YouTube - Rodriguez - Sugar Man

Silver Apples - Ruby
Like nothing heard before or since
YouTube - Silver Apples - Ruby (1968)

Sharon Tandy with Les Fleur De Lys - Hold On
A very under appreciated song
YouTube - Sharon Tandy ~with Les Fleur De Lys~ / Hold On

Mark Wirtz - He Our Dear Old Weatherman
One of the finest Producers of the 1960's, here singing for The Teenage Opera
YouTube - Weatherman - Mark Wirtz

Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band - Quiet Talks and Summer Walks
A song which demonstrates there was more to Bonzo Dog than meets the eye
YouTube - Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band: Exploding Sausage Re-Cut Pt. 1

Os Mutantes - Panis et Circenses
If this song was sung in English, it would have its own wing at The British Museum by now
YouTube - Panis et Circenses-Os Mutantes

The Kaleidoscope (UK) - Dear Nellie Goodrich
Seriously……marvellous!
YouTube - Kaleidoscope - Dear Nellie Goodrich (High Quality)

The Poets - In Your Tower
Haunting song from the best band ever to come from Scotland
YouTube - The Poets - In your tower

The Pretty Things - Talkin' About The Good Times
This song is short on paper but is truly epic when listening
YouTube - The Pretty Things-Talkin` About The Good Times

Turquoise - Woodstock
Oh this is just tremendous
YouTube - Turquoise - Woodstock

Oh, yes. Some beauties you have there in your list but this is probably one of my favorites also. My friends think I'm crazy when I listen to this. But I can't help it, I just love the wild madness that this song entails. Come on baby run with me LETS RUN!

SLIP INSIDE THIS HOUSE by the 13th Floor Elevators

Strat HD- About "I Had to Much To Dream Last Night" ----thank you for introducing me to this bazaar wonder of a song. It is now in my top five favorite songs of all time

Aw, man. If you love that song, you definitely gotta check out the rest of their stuff. It's definitely your style.

Never really knew how to classify this band, but I felt this song was appropriate here.

I surely will then

nice song btw ^

Anything by Gong!


Radio Gnome Invisible (Live)



I Never Glid Before

Damn this page just offered some weird ass music ive never heard. I liked most of it.

I love the shout-out to this group(!). I found this group as a teenager in Greenwich Village in a record shop on 8th street, and mistook them for the American Kaleidoscope on the Zabriskie Point soundtrack and picked up an LP on vinyl. Then picked up the other shortly after (they only put out two as Kaleidoscope). Both amazing!

They finally reissued on CD a little while back and it's a nice issue combining the two LP's, but it's not the same as the original Kaleidoscope vinyl issues. I'm not one of those vinyl guys either, but in a few cases I guess I am.

(A separate Fairfield Parlour CD reissue containing that Kaleidoscope offshoot group's two LP's is also nice. I wasn't familiar with that output until much later when I found the Kaleidoscope CD reissue.)

Anyway I agree on the band and the track....

"Little Wing" - Jimi
"God" - John Frusciante
"Have a Cigar" - Pink Floyd
"The Afternoon Turns Pink" - Black Moth Super Rainbow
"Beetles" - Warpaint

In no particular order:

1.Sunshine Superman-Donovan

2.White Rabbit, High Flyin' Bird and Somebody To Love-Jefferson Airplane

3. Peace Frog-The Doors

4. The End-The Doors

5. When The Music's Over-The Doors

6. Not To Touch The Earth-The Doors

7. Ghost Song-The Doors

8. In-a-Gadda-da-Vida-Iron Butterfly

9. Crimson and Clover-Tommy James and the Shondells

10. Incense And Peppermints-Strawberry Alarm Clock

11. Mr. Tambourine Man-The Byrds

12. Magic Carpet Ride-Steppenwolf

13. Paint It Black-Rolling Stones

14. For What It's Worth-Buffalo Springfield

15. Get Together-The Youngbloods

The Iron Butterly song is an absolute classic and a song that I always love to play now and again, as is Jefferson Starship`s White Rabbit and High Flyin`Bird.

The 12 notes that constitute the unforgettable sustain-guitar run for what some consider the most psychedelic track ever....were nicked from Coltrane's "India".

>Jimi Hendrix's first four albums ("Machine Gun" being somewhere on top)
>"Today" by Jefferson Airplane (it's tear-jerker)
>"Reverberation" and "You're Gonna Miss Me" by 13th Floor Elevators
> "The End," "Horse Latitudes," and "Spanish Caravan" (just because it is heavily influenced by "Asturias") by The Doors
> "Radar Eyes" and "Crusade" by Godz
> "Arnold Layne" and "Astronomy Domine" by Pink Floyd
> "The Red Telephone" by Love
> "Why Are We Sleeping" by Soft Machine
> "Fresh Garbage" by Spirit
> "Terrapin" and "Octopus" by Syd Barret
> "Sunday Morning" (sort of dream/psychedelic pop), "I'll Be Your Mirror," and "What Goes On" by The Velvet Underground

All friends and kingdom come - monster Magnet
Three days - Jane´s Addiction
Beacuse of this - Mark Lanegan
Sugarland - Papa Mali
Fresh Tendrils - Soungarden
Into the void - Hugo Race

Jan and Lorriane - Number 33 is my most recent favourite. Check it out!

Damn, now THAT'S a memory. A long time back in my childhood, that record was in my collection, bought from a garage sale.

My favorite song from the album. More Folk/Psych, but it works for me, and it's a way to keep the conversation going on a hardly-known album.