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
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.
― 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, psychedelicpsychedelic, psychedelicpsychedelic, psychedelicoh 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
it was literally a toss-up between bumping the Loud Family thread and starting this
glad I made the right decision tho lol
― imago, Sunday, 5 January 2020 01:39 (four years ago) link
(xp) Indeed.
― Frozen Mug (Tom D.), Sunday, 5 January 2020 02:03 (four years ago) link
You either accept a historical definition or a wholly subjective one. But you can’t have both.
― Οὖτις, Sunday, 5 January 2020 02:13 (four years ago) link
The Reasonable Person Psychedelic Orchestra rules
― and i approve this message (Hunt3r), Sunday, 5 January 2020 02:22 (four years ago) link
may i kindly suggest we post more songs
and don't be afraid to post songs by more recent acts either
― imago, Sunday, 5 January 2020 02:23 (four years ago) link
Sleater-Kinney: "What's Mine Is Yours"
― a bevy of supermodels, musicians and Lena Dunham (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 5 January 2020 03:02 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GcpNvYFMGE
― Into the Bro-known: One Dude’s ‘Frozen’ Podcast (morrisp), Sunday, 5 January 2020 03:09 (four years ago) link
the dragonfly/purple dancer single is a path fleetwood mac should have followed a bit more, kirwan and spencer duets had potentialhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7RicSJtQVmI
― buzza, Sunday, 5 January 2020 05:22 (four years ago) link
just listened to that chubby checker album, holy shit. one of the songs climaxes with him yelling "lets get together and make a SPACE BABY!" A+++++++, would psych again.
― warn me about a lurking rake (One Eye Open), Monday, 6 January 2020 20:12 (four years ago) link
I assumed that the thread was supposed to be about lps or tracks like that and things like Muddy Waters Electric Mud and the Howlin Wolf equivalent rather than attempting to dismiss bands that are pretty widely recognised for sounding psychedelic.
― Stevolende, Monday, 6 January 2020 20:29 (four years ago) link
"sounding psychedelic"
this is a meaningless phrase
― Οὖτις, Monday, 6 January 2020 20:30 (four years ago) link
also there is already this thread: Black Acid Rock - S/D
― Οὖτις, Monday, 6 January 2020 20:31 (four years ago) link
this is classic ilm
― bidenfan69420 (jim in vancouver), Monday, 6 January 2020 20:31 (four years ago) link
ok I'll play the little game that I should have just ignored. How do you define psychedelic in a way that somehow excludes Can.
Or what were the credentials and the correct phrase for amounting to psychedelic.
I would think the crucial point was that the sense of hearing experienced the sound as being psychedelic hence sounding psychedelic.
― Stevolende, Monday, 6 January 2020 21:00 (four years ago) link
the latter is a wholly subjective category that no one will agree on, rendering the usage of the term pointless. Using the term that way doesn't tell you anything about how the music sounds, who made it when/where, how it was performed/composed/produced. All it tells anyone is that you, as a listener, associate this particular piece of music with taking psychedelic drugs. And how is that useful for anyone.
― Οὖτις, Monday, 6 January 2020 21:12 (four years ago) link
like let's say both the Bee Gees "Red Chair Fadeaway" and Can's "Mother Sky" are considered "psychedelic". These two pieces of music have nothing in common. They don't sound similar, they weren't composed or produced in a similar style, they don't share lyrical associations, they don't share instrumentation, they were made in different times in different countries by very different sets of people - one is an abstract fairytale pop song with a mellotron and harmony vocals and the other is a ten minute long mostly instrumental chugging metallic groove with polyrhythms and a stinging electric guitar lead - why on earth would you want to group these songs together or imply that they share any musical DNA?
― Οὖτις, Monday, 6 January 2020 21:19 (four years ago) link
and yet, somehow, the term is used and ppl generally understand what is meant... expand yr mind & see the connections, man
― warn me about a lurking rake (One Eye Open), Monday, 6 January 2020 21:28 (four years ago) link
ppl generally understand what is meant
they obviously don't, as this clusterfuck of a thread proved within the first 10 posts.
― Οὖτις, Monday, 6 January 2020 21:29 (four years ago) link