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recommend me some psychedelic rock!

 
    • kimoni a dit :...
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    • 12 jui. 2006, 16h46m

    recommend me some psychedelic rock!

    I'm hugely into psychedelic electronica. psytrance, idm etc.

    I never know where to start with psychedelic rock though... can anyone recommend me some? And I mean albums, e.g. i know pink floyd are psychedelic but which albums? I've heard some of their albums and didnt think they were that psychedelic

    any suggestions?

  • Dredg.

    Album: Leitmotif or El Cielo.

    It's not psychedelic in the same sense as electronica, but there is a definite edge to it that psy fans will recognize and enjoy.

    Check them out.

  • the first floyd record is pure genious, and psychedelic as fuck. (really something to listen with your headphones on!) I don't bother the other floyd records too much 'cause I think they are dull, it's not that they're bad or anything, it just hasn't got the same charm.

  • After Syd left they left the entire psychedelic sound behind and were like a completely different band, but I love every album by them...up the The Wall at least.

    Anyway, you should try early Floyd (first two albums, and early singles), Syd Barrett, Jefferson Airplane, Jimi Hendrix, The Zombies, The Byrds, 13th Floor Elevators, Strawberry Alarm Clock, The Chocolate Watchband, Vanilla Fudge, Cream, Gong, The Doors, Can, Bubble Puppy, Elephant's Memory, The Velvet Underground, that's good to start with I think...

    • Fuzzytoe a dit :...
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    • 25 jui. 2006, 1h57m
    a good modern one is Primitive Radio Gods, the Sound of Animals Fighting, and Of Montreal

    • asana a dit :...
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    • 26 jui. 2006, 6h37m
    Shoot, kids, I tripped with the early Grateful Dead. They took acid themselves and got into jamming all night long. Check out the 1969 [album]Aoxomoxoa[/album] which is pure psychedlic sounds. Try it with some pot to start with.

    Of course, their range can best be heard in their 1967 debut album [album]Grateful Dead[/album] as a great example of what the Dead sounded like in the early years, with tight, crisp, versions of every song, from [track]The Golden Road[/track] to [track]Viola Lee Blues[/track], this album shows what the Dead where like as a jam band in the mid '60s. Pretty trippy is [track]Viola Lee Blues[/track], an old prison song reworked into a Jam in a way that only the Dead could have done.
    I have never experienced a group that were totally tuned into each other. There are many groups that play without egos and work together to make their sound, but the Dead played all different riffs and notes, and somehow and by psychedelic magic they fit together perfectly.
    That early album, now remastered, also contains [track]Morning Dew[/track] which they played in untold versions for the next 30 years in concerts with a following of several micro generation and with permission to record. What a strange trip its' been. There must be hundreds of bootleg Dead albums. I have stopped collecting.

    Sorry [album]album name[/album] and [track]track name [/track] don't work.

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    • Jose_420 a dit :...
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    • 28 jui. 2006, 19h56m
    Jimi Hendrix is probably the best example of the genre. His Electric Ladyland album in particular. Although I must agree, that the Greatful Dead are up there with him.

    • Xccess1 a dit :...
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    • 5 août 2006, 12h55m
    Sun Project is very interesting.

    Its a mix between rock and trance

    They are not playing anymore (I think)
    but the albums are out there,

    They started out as a rockband but fell in love with psy-/trance, so they brought in their instruments and created something which was very unique.

  • The Door's first album. The Beatles Revolver or Sgt. Pepper's...

  • psychedelic albums

    Pink Floyd's Piper at the Gates of Dawn, Ummagumma, Meddle, and More, esp. the song Echoes on the album Meddle. A good one if you hunt it down is Hapshash and the Coloured Coat featuring the Heavy Metal Kids. I agree with the others re Hendrix and the Grateful Dead. The Grateful Dead's most psychedelic album in my estimation is Anthem of the Sun. As for Hendrix, you can't beat Voodoo Child on Electric Ladyland. The Doors are good to.
    I have an extensive collection of psychedelic music old and new. These are but a few of the best.

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    • Jose_420 a dit :...
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    • 10 août 2006, 1h46m
    The Dead were more of an experience. What you get on an album will never be able to capture the experience of a Dead show.

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    • 10 août 2006, 13h07m
    Amon Düül II is a great German psychedelic band. Try 'Phallus Dei' if you're feeling adventurous.

    • floydisgod a dit :...
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    • 13 août 2006, 2h50m
    I would start with the Ozric Tentacles because their music has both the electronic and the rock mixed together.

    If you like them try Porcupine Tree, but stick to their earlier more psychedelic stuff like The Sky Moves Sideways (my avatar) or Up The Downstair.

    Now that you are fully into psychedelic rock by this point, you can probably appreciate more of the 60s/70s psychedelic like Pink Floyd, Jimi Hendrix, The Doors, or perhaps more in the progressive territory with Gong, Steve Hillage, Amon Duul II, or Nektar.

    • favjake a dit :...
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    • 13 août 2006, 2h56m
    Fairly psychedelic:

    Porcupine Tree-The Sky Moves Sideways, Up the Downstair
    The Beatles-Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, Magical Mystery Tour
    Neil Young (sometimes, especially on Live Rust)
    Innaway-Innaway

    Moderately to very psychedelic:
    On Trial-New Day Rising
    The Byrds-5D (Fifth Dimension)
    Jimi Hendrix-Are You Experienced?
    King Black Acid-Loves a Long Song
    Moody Blues-Searching for the Lost Chord
    The Rolling Stones (mainly their 1966-1968 albums, especially Their Satanic Majesty's Request)
    Nektar-Remember the Future, Journey to the Centre of the Eye, ...Sounds Like This
    Phish
    Radiohead-All have a few psychedelic songs, especially after The Bends and OK Computer
    Santana-Abraxas (though I'll admit I haven't heard too much else)
    Seven Percent Solution (7% Solution)-Gabriel's Waltz
    Sianspheric-Somnium
    UNKLE-Never, Never Land and Psyence Fiction
    The Velvet Underground-Some from basically everything
    Big Brother and the Holding Company

    Extreme mind-blowing psychedelia for the afficianado:

    Axe-So obscure that I don't even know the album I have
    Morgen-Morgen
    Bevis Frond-Any Gas Faster, Inner Marshland
    The Doors-The Doors, Strange Days
    Dungen-Ta Det Lugnt
    Ozric Tentacles-Jurassic Shift, The Hidden Step, etc (though all are very similarly incredible)
    Ha Za Ma-The Doors?
    Jefferson Airplane-After Bathing At Baxter's, Surrealistic Pillow
    Pink Floyd (more spacey that typically psychedelic, but still just as mindblowing)-Wish You Were Here, Dark Side of the Moon, and many others
    Grateful Dead-Anthem of the Sun and too many others
    White Heaven-Out, Strange Bedfellow
    Quicksilver Messenger Service-Happy Trails
    Can-Tago Mago
    Enigma-Many, but especially Le Roi est Mort, Vive Le Roi
    The Green Ray- dunno the album... very obscure

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    • favjake a dit :...
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    • 13 août 2006, 3h15m
    as an addition... dredg is by no means psychedelic in any way shape or form. they're a great band, but in no way psychedelic. I would say that by no means is Hendrix the best example of psychedelic music, though a lot of his stuff is incredibly psychedelic. It's hard to put him into the category with some bands that are truly and totally psychedelic in nature, but they're prolly the best mainstream example of psychedelia with the Doors very similar in breadth (I would say probably more psychedelic overall, but that's very debatable).

    Furthermore, the first few Floyd albums are for sure the most typically psychedelic albums in their collection, but their 70-75 releases were at least equally (I'd suggest far more) mindblowing in their approach, though with a more spacey, progressive nature. I also agree with Joethebear in that i think that Anthem of the Sun by the Grateful Dead is their most psychedelic album (and so far as i've heard of studio albums, is also my favorite).

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    • floydisgod a dit :...
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    • 13 août 2006, 3h20m
    How is The Sky Moves Sideways only fairly psychedelic? It's more so than the Grateful Dead etc.

    • favjake a dit :...
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    • 13 août 2006, 6h27m
    because it's hardly even psychedelic at all if you really look at it in terms of musical expression, rather than against headiness. Of course it's spacey as all hell and pretty trippy sometimes, it doesn't really have a very psychedelic element. It's hard to explain because I'm not a music analyst and I guess I shouldn't pretend to be, but compared to a lot of the other music that I listen to that is very clearly defined as psychedelic rather than spacey/proggy/heady, it's not really strongly psychedelic. i guess if you're just using the trippiness/headiness/spaceyness that seems to bring you to an altered state-ish, then sure it's extremely psychedelic, as is space rock, a lot of prog rock, a lot of shoegaze, and some of all music. Because of these other classifications of music, I am led to believe that TSMS is hardly psychedelic in the "true" sense (as I believe it to be). Of course I'm welcome to suggestions otherwise. With regard to Grateful Dead, albums like Grateful Dead, Anthem of the Sun, Aoxomoxoa and a couple others in that time period were very psychedelic in this sense, but not in the sense that TSMS is at all.

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    as the lawyers lie down to the sound of a broken man clinging
    to the legs of a butterfly.
    We live to see our children die,
    turn to the bright to describe what we never will find.
    I'M A MONSTER singin through the side of a left eye.
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    • floydisgod a dit :...
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    • 13 août 2006, 14h10m
    Right from the group page:

    Description:
    psy·che·del·ic

    adj.
    Of, characterized by, or generating hallucinations, distortions of perception, altered states of awareness, and occasionally states resembling psychosis.

    Going by that definition, TSMS is really the most psychedelic in my collection. While the roots of psychedelic (Jefferson Airplane, Grateful Dead, etc.) sounded much different which seems to be what you are getting at, TSMS is the psychedelic of the 90's, which takes full advantage of the overall progression of music with added electronics and spaceyness. That's just my take on it.

    • favjake a dit :...
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    • 13 août 2006, 16h09m
    Before I begin, I want to say that i'm not arguing with you and I don't think you're wrong, i'm just saying my opinion. It seems to me that the definition of psychedelic can hardly be used to describe music as a genre or a classification. If it's being used singly to describe the way the music makes a particular person or a group of people feel, then sure, almost any music is psychedelic because that's basically the whole point of music: to bring you to a different state. All I'm saying is that as a genre, music like TSMS are hardly ever considered very psychedelic.

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    I'M A MONSTER singin through the side of a left eye.
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    • Jose_420 a dit :...
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    • 14 août 2006, 6h03m
    psychedelic as a genre, to me, means music that was influenced by the use of psychedelic drugs. Modern psychedelic is rave music... at least thats the way I think of it.

    • favjake a dit :...
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    • 14 août 2006, 8h32m
    Rave music is more bodily focused while trance is generally considered more psychedelic along with psych-trance and psychno in general, but there's also a lot of "indie" music nowadays that's really stoned out and pretty psychedelic.

    But that is a pretty good definition of psychedelic music.

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    as the lawyers lie down to the sound of a broken man clinging
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    We live to see our children die,
    turn to the bright to describe what we never will find.
    I'M A MONSTER singin through the side of a left eye.
    ^Ours: I'm a Monster
    • Xccess1 a dit :...
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    • 14 août 2006, 14h53m
    Cant resist to join this discussion..

    Im gonna use trance music as an example, since that is what I am best at.

    To define psychedelic trance we have to pretend person A has dropped a stamp.

    We then let A listen to 2 different tracks/artists.

    One plays uplifting positive trance - I would guess person A(unless he tripped to far off to even notice)
    would start to feel very energetic, uplifted etc etc.

    The other plays deep deep twisted trance - Well probably this is where A would start to get hallucinations.

    In short - music that in combination with f.e acid has the abilility to create far out moods.

    just my 2 coppers.
    (If this was already said earlier in the thread with other words, then im sorry I missed that)

    • favjake a dit :...
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    • 14 août 2006, 18h09m
    haha anything in the world in combination with acid has the potential to create far out moods because acid is so interactive with everything else going on (even if it's many years, months, or weeks earlier).

    All the lies and fantasies I picked to deny what is right
    as the lawyers lie down to the sound of a broken man clinging
    to the legs of a butterfly.
    We live to see our children die,
    turn to the bright to describe what we never will find.
    I'M A MONSTER singin through the side of a left eye.
    ^Ours: I'm a Monster
    • kimoni a dit :...
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    • 16 août 2006, 17h56m
    wow thanks for all the suggestions guys... Ive got plenty of ideas to keep me busy now
    cheers! =)

    • Jose_420 a dit :...
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    • 17 août 2006, 15h55m
    Yeah, acid makes looking at carpet a mood altering experience.

    I think its when it is used in the creation process, it qualifies as being in the psychedelic genre.

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