Awesome psychedelic songs by (generally) non-psych bands

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Pavement - The Hexx

The World According To.... (Michael B), Friday, 3 January 2020 17:23 (four years ago) link

Gene Vincent take on Summertime if I remember rightly. Reminded me of Can when I listened to it a lot a couple of decades ago.

In the Garden by Eurythmics psych/ Britfolk featuring half of both Can And Blonde as sidemen.

Stevolende, Friday, 3 January 2020 17:34 (four years ago) link

Can are psychedelic?

brimstead, Friday, 3 January 2020 19:23 (four years ago) link

that’s like saying the velvets are psychedelic

brimstead, Friday, 3 January 2020 19:23 (four years ago) link

All music is naturally psychedelic when you really think about it, amirite?

pomenitul, Friday, 3 January 2020 19:25 (four years ago) link

especially if you smoke enough weed

american bradass (BradNelson), Friday, 3 January 2020 19:27 (four years ago) link

i listened to flow motion by can on acid at new year and it was p psychedelic

bidenfan69420 (jim in vancouver), Friday, 3 January 2020 19:28 (four years ago) link

(specifically the title track)

bidenfan69420 (jim in vancouver), Friday, 3 January 2020 19:29 (four years ago) link

I think the confusion/tension here is between psychedelic as a descriptor of the music's effect on the listener and psychedelic as a *genre* akin to bebop or dub reggae or NWOBHM.

Οὖτις, Friday, 3 January 2020 19:34 (four years ago) link

In defense of my Moby Grape suggestion, "It's a Beautiful Day Today" comes from post-Spence Grape and there is little psychedelic about the "'69" album other than the Spence leftover "Seeing." Even "Beautiful Day" isn't particularly psychedelic except that hearing it makes me feel like something is kicking in.

Leftee, Friday, 3 January 2020 19:39 (four years ago) link

Soundtracks is probably the most psychedelic early Can record. Or the Inner Space tunes.

timellison, Friday, 3 January 2020 20:48 (four years ago) link

Kinks discussion reminds me that early versions of The Who Sell Out came with "FREE PSYCHEDELIC POSTER INSIDE."

timellison, Friday, 3 January 2020 20:51 (four years ago) link

Pretty Things were probably on the path with Emotions and still in the ballpark after with SF Sorrow, plus there's that first Electric Banana record that I've still never heard...

timellison, Friday, 3 January 2020 21:01 (four years ago) link

pretty much:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0bdLdTJdKI

breastcrawl, Friday, 3 January 2020 21:04 (four years ago) link

never seen that Sellout poster before, v nice!

xps

Οὖτις, Friday, 3 January 2020 21:04 (four years ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79bLbv-JCwY

Maresn3st, Friday, 3 January 2020 22:58 (four years ago) link

Kinks discussion reminds me that early versions of The Who Sell Out came with "FREE PSYCHEDELIC POSTER INSIDE."

Now this (the 1968 album by Intersystems) really was something else entirely.

https://img.discogs.com/7aptAh1VHDXvmi-zwO1gCf6SMe8=/fit-in/600x600/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-8809427-1470205717-4963.jpeg.jpg

Frozen Mug (Tom D.), Saturday, 4 January 2020 00:23 (four years ago) link

I know I did post this on another thread the other day and I know they were on the fringes of psych sometimes, but this song is certainly the most straightforward psychedelia they ever did and I love it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8eFk9bAXzkI

mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Saturday, 4 January 2020 00:26 (four years ago) link

lots of good suggestions in this thread BUT i wish scott was still posting random cool tunes :(

dynamicinterface, Saturday, 4 January 2020 00:40 (four years ago) link

speaking of the bonzos "cyborg signal" by big grunt is pretty psychedelic imo

"i'll search the sky" by the nitty gritty dirt band

i also like psychedelic covers of not necessarily psychedelic songs, like the bluebeards' version of "come on-a my house" or curt boettcher's take on "tumbling tumbleweeds".

revenge of the jawn (rushomancy), Saturday, 4 January 2020 02:53 (four years ago) link

Finding it odd that somebody would find the music of Can non psychedelic. I think it is a descriptive that is used quite a bit for it.
I have been listening to psychedelic music since my early teens. So am wondering if you have ears if you are coming out with something like that

Stevolende, Saturday, 4 January 2020 05:35 (four years ago) link

I have been listening to psychedelic music since my early teens. So am wondering if you have ears if you are coming out with something like that


????????

brimstead, Saturday, 4 January 2020 05:54 (four years ago) link

it is of course freaky “out there” free rock I just don’t consider all freaky “psychedelic” but I’ve only been listening to psychedelic music since my early teens, also I suck

brimstead, Saturday, 4 January 2020 05:58 (four years ago) link

Yardbirds kind of owned this idea at one time:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4DdAs0PddQ

Sassy Boutonnière (ledriver), Saturday, 4 January 2020 06:03 (four years ago) link

I thought the Yardbirds had a consciously psychedelic era before being returned to something more poppy at least in the studio by management. Thought they remained pretty psychedelic live.
Also yhought they were pretty influential on psych elsewhere.

Thought the Hollies did 2 consciously psychedelic lps too. At the time that psych was the current thing.
Thing about the Hollies that intrigues me is hearing somewhere that they had been a harder rocking band early on that was forced into something poppier by management. & not having heard what they sounded like beforehand.

Stevolende, Saturday, 4 January 2020 09:15 (four years ago) link

I think sometimes people use psychedelic to mean something like ‘interested in variation’.

Bidh boladh a' mhairbh de 'n láimh fhalaimh (dowd), Saturday, 4 January 2020 09:48 (four years ago) link

Finding it odd that somebody would find the music of Can non psychedelic.

That had to be some kind of joke.

☮️ (peace, man), Saturday, 4 January 2020 12:17 (four years ago) link

https://youtu.be/SnZWxIXE6E0

Paul Nicholas - Run Shaker Life

(Really good psych-folk, way better than his later abominations)

NickB, Saturday, 4 January 2020 12:22 (four years ago) link

Chubby Checker - "Goodbye Victoria"

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Fsh-0D53bps

It's from a completely weird one-off LP the Chubster recorded while living in Holland in the early seventies and subsequently disowned. Probably the best work he's ever done tbh.

Brainless Addlepated Timid Muddleheaded Awful No-Account (Pheeel), Saturday, 4 January 2020 12:31 (four years ago) link

Pre-psychedelic era, but this is as psychedelic as it gets:

Les Paul & Mary Ford "Smoke Rings"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bK3APtfqp5Q

An Oral History of Deez Nutz (PBKR), Saturday, 4 January 2020 14:42 (four years ago) link

Chubby Checker - "Goodbye Victoria"

hell yes, this is the stuff

budo jeru, Saturday, 4 January 2020 14:58 (four years ago) link

you may be interested in jimmy reed's 1973 quasi-psych LP "i ain't from chicago"

this is typical:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=897RhUOgBF8

see also: electric mud, "concerto in be goode" (mentioned above), junior parker's "taxman"

budo jeru, Saturday, 4 January 2020 15:05 (four years ago) link

buffy sainte-marie's LP "illuminations" has a handful of tracks that qualify, but this one fucking RIPS

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WrgM3OpkTTw
"adam"

budo jeru, Saturday, 4 January 2020 15:54 (four years ago) link

goodbye victoria - stuff identified!

Sassy Boutonnière (ledriver), Saturday, 4 January 2020 15:54 (four years ago) link

personally i think "Fumeux fume par fumee" by Solage should count... it's a song all about smoking... from before 1492... so what was he smoking?

revenge of the jawn (rushomancy), Saturday, 4 January 2020 16:31 (four years ago) link

_Finding it odd that somebody would find the music of Can non psychedelic. _


That had to be some kind of joke.


Psychedelic just means weird and experimental ok I’m done

brimstead, Saturday, 4 January 2020 18:24 (four years ago) link

Psychedelic just means weird and experimental ok I’m done

― brimstead

i mean, according to the people who compile the "rough guide" cds, definitely

revenge of the jawn (rushomancy), Saturday, 4 January 2020 18:50 (four years ago) link

I probably associate some of their softer, melodic, early stuff like "Tango Whiskyman" with psych more than, say, "You Doo Right."

timellison, Saturday, 4 January 2020 18:53 (four years ago) link

On the whole, I'd say early Can was almost as peripheral to psych as the Velvet Underground, though.

timellison, Saturday, 4 January 2020 18:54 (four years ago) link

I'm finding this bizarre. I can't think of Can as not being psychedelic sounding just because the first person I've ever heard say that they're not allowed to be thought of as psychedelic says so.
I find them profoundly psychedelic much like I find early 70s electric Miles psychedelic and certain eras of Sun ra and Pharoah Sandsers and other spiritual/space jazz to be psychedelic.
I've been listening to the band for the last 35 years, possibly a bit longer.
& today I found out that there are genuinely people in this planet who are aware of Monster MOvie and think it isn't allowed to be thought of as psychedelic sounding. I find that profoundly weird.

& that somebody is trying to reduce the idea of other people who listen to that music and find it psychedelic must be confused because they must just be thinking any music that is weird and experimental must be psychedelic is just creepily arrogant.

Stevolende, Saturday, 4 January 2020 23:06 (four years ago) link

psychedelic, psychedelic
psychedelic, psychedelic
psychedelic, psychedelic
oh oh oh, psychedelic

papa stank (Neanderthal), Saturday, 4 January 2020 23:13 (four years ago) link

I don't think of "Monster Movie" as being very psychedlic either fwiw.

Frozen Mug (Tom D.), Saturday, 4 January 2020 23:23 (four years ago) link

Hey steveolende, fuck you

brimstead, Saturday, 4 January 2020 23:58 (four years ago) link

Exactly what I should have said to you in the first place.

Stevolende, Sunday, 5 January 2020 00:04 (four years ago) link

heavy vibes itt

warn me about a lurking rake (One Eye Open), Sunday, 5 January 2020 00:26 (four years ago) link

weird thread

the most psychedlic music I've everheard is without exception music I've heard while on psychedelics

that included Dean Martin one time

Suggest Banshee (Hadrian VIII), Sunday, 5 January 2020 00:31 (four years ago) link

This turned out well

Οὖτις, Sunday, 5 January 2020 01:14 (four years ago) link

“Mother Sky” is psychedelic as fuck, and Tago Mago & Ege Bamyasi are psych canon

💠 (crüt), Sunday, 5 January 2020 01:18 (four years ago) link

But psychedelic means different things to different people

💠 (crüt), Sunday, 5 January 2020 01:19 (four years ago) link


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