Awesome psychedelic songs by (generally) non-psych bands

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Gish was written & recorded under the influence of vast amounts of LSD, so surely it literally qualifies as psychedelic music

Another possibly contentious suggestion:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qXRjEQ7eEo

Brainless Addlepated Timid Muddleheaded Awful No-Account (Pheeel), Monday, 6 January 2020 21:58 (four years ago) link

I like both "Rhinoceros" and that SY song a lot, but neither seem either "psychedelic" or "Psych" to me (tho I'm no arbiter of psych, self-proclaimed or otherwise)

BeerAdvocate in the streets, Wookiepedia in the sheets (morrisp), Monday, 6 January 2020 22:00 (four years ago) link

gish was psychedelic that's right but the smashing weren't later on. so they belong in this thread, no?

walking towards the sun since 2007 (alex in mainhattan), Monday, 6 January 2020 22:02 (four years ago) link

What makes Gish psychedelic? The guitar pedals? It's a pretty straight-up hard rock record.

BeerAdvocate in the streets, Wookiepedia in the sheets (morrisp), Monday, 6 January 2020 22:07 (four years ago) link

if this isn't psychedelic - just look at the cacti - i don't know what is. later on howe mainly travelled the american desert rock roads.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3YwOYjrqbQ

walking towards the sun since 2007 (alex in mainhattan), Monday, 6 January 2020 22:12 (four years ago) link

under the influence of vast amounts of LSD, so surely it literally qualifies as psychedelic music

oh cool, didn't know "Wu-Tang Forever" was a psych record too!

Οὖτις, Monday, 6 January 2020 22:16 (four years ago) link

What makes Gish psychedelic? The guitar pedals? It's a pretty straight-up hard rock record

no way. just the fact that it is my fave album of 1991 proves that it is no straight-up hard rock album. as i don't care about hard-rock at all. it is the sound effects, lots of stereo effects between the two channels. besides the silent loud dynamics and the general fucked-upness or weirdness of the sound the first time you listen to it.

walking towards the sun since 2007 (alex in mainhattan), Monday, 6 January 2020 22:17 (four years ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-JdFM41RUg

Οὖτις, Monday, 6 January 2020 22:22 (four years ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtiMdE23L2o

Οὖτις, Monday, 6 January 2020 22:23 (four years ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xfi7MTaI9d4

Οὖτις, Monday, 6 January 2020 22:24 (four years ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51PP8TwXrxE

Οὖτις, Monday, 6 January 2020 22:26 (four years ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VvKjpGP6P5Y

Οὖτις, Monday, 6 January 2020 22:27 (four years ago) link

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

Οὖτις, Monday, 6 January 2020 22:28 (four years ago) link

it is the sound effects, lots of stereo effects between the two channels. besides the silent loud dynamics and the general fucked-upness or weirdness of the sound the first time you listen to it.

Do you consider, say, Nothing's Shocking to be psychedelic?

BeerAdvocate in the streets, Wookiepedia in the sheets (morrisp), Monday, 6 January 2020 22:29 (four years ago) link

xp. concerning the pogues:

so his teeth were sore from the beginning on...

quite standard rock.

the psychedelic share is below 10% i'd say.

walking towards the sun since 2007 (alex in mainhattan), Monday, 6 January 2020 22:30 (four years ago) link

Like the 60s, this thread began with a lot of good music but ended in disillusion and confusion

warn me about a lurking rake (One Eye Open), Monday, 6 January 2020 22:32 (four years ago) link

the psychedelic share is below 10% i'd say.

but Shane was taking a lot of acid at the time so it must be psychedelic music QED plus they used funny 60s visual effects in the video

Οὖτις, Monday, 6 January 2020 22:37 (four years ago) link

Do you consider, say, Nothing's Shocking to be psychedelic?

i don't know it, so no. just listened to the 1st track and i would say there might be an overlap. but i wouldn't consider it standard hard-rock neither. there is a cosmic quality to it. in french they say "planant".

walking towards the sun since 2007 (alex in mainhattan), Monday, 6 January 2020 22:38 (four years ago) link

Possibly less contentious suggestion:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NiloWOFuY08

Brainless Addlepated Timid Muddleheaded Awful No-Account (Pheeel), Monday, 6 January 2020 22:39 (four years ago) link

later on the jane addiction album delves more into the boring heart of hard rock, it seems.

walking towards the sun since 2007 (alex in mainhattan), Monday, 6 January 2020 22:40 (four years ago) link

Phil Ochs - The Crucifixion

Death to (NickB), Monday, 6 January 2020 22:43 (four years ago) link

xp It has all that stuff you mention... if anything, I think it's more "psychedelic" than Gish!

BeerAdvocate in the streets, Wookiepedia in the sheets (morrisp), Monday, 6 January 2020 22:44 (four years ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQEvq2WDh9Y

Οὖτις, Monday, 6 January 2020 22:44 (four years ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mnx8jnsYfc

Οὖτις, Monday, 6 January 2020 22:45 (four years ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4pNOBIAaLI

Οὖτις, Monday, 6 January 2020 22:46 (four years ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlJ27Dcv4fc

Οὖτις, Monday, 6 January 2020 22:48 (four years ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kK-1axSGkXc

Οὖτις, Monday, 6 January 2020 22:48 (four years ago) link

Phew, some people were almost having fun talking about music there for a minute, good thing you stepped in, wouldn’t want this thread to get out of hand

warn me about a lurking rake (One Eye Open), Monday, 6 January 2020 22:50 (four years ago) link

everything I posted was psychedelic according to at least one metric posted on this thread so far

Οὖτις, Monday, 6 January 2020 22:52 (four years ago) link

a) about psychedelics
b) made by someone on psychedelics
c) sounds "psychedelic" according to random person who has taken psychedelics
d) features "weird" sounds like stereo panning or has "dynamics" or similar

Οὖτις, Monday, 6 January 2020 22:54 (four years ago) link

xp

but Shane was taking a lot of acid at the time

making music on acid does not necessarily result in psychedelic music. i missed the ;-) in your post.

i would consider om as free jazz not as psychedelic but what do i know.

walking towards the sun since 2007 (alex in mainhattan), Monday, 6 January 2020 22:56 (four years ago) link

Shakey is having a bad trip

warn me about a lurking rake (One Eye Open), Monday, 6 January 2020 23:01 (four years ago) link

I'd argue a lot of Dan Deacon's stuff is pretty psychedelic, at least in the sense that say Animal Collection is

frogbs, Monday, 6 January 2020 23:02 (four years ago) link

I have achieved the higher stages of enlightenment, realizing that everything is psychedelic maaaaaaaaaan

Οὖτις, Monday, 6 January 2020 23:05 (four years ago) link

I'm so sorry my mild generalisation about psych music offended you to your very soul dude, I shall remedy this by trying to avoid engaging tedious genre pedants in discussion in the future.

Brainless Addlepated Timid Muddleheaded Awful No-Account (Pheeel), Monday, 6 January 2020 23:15 (four years ago) link

I don’t really get what this has to do with anything tbh. There have psych bands all over the world for like the last 50 years. And lots of them would even say that they were influenced by Can

― Death to (NickB), Monday, January 6, 2020 9:53 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

yeah would agree with you there. THought it bizarre that that band were supposed to be not worthy of the epithet or however whoever wants to put it. Would think that any influence picked up from them would translate to sounding pretty psychedelic.
Would also think that most people who listen to music would have some shared idea of what did denote the term.
Certainly been a big part of what I've listened to for the last few decades. Music from the time the term was first being used through to other things influenced by that and other related influences since then.
Love the melange of influences playing off each other.

Stevolende, Monday, 6 January 2020 23:19 (four years ago) link

it's not you Pheeel it's this whole thread

Οὖτις, Monday, 6 January 2020 23:26 (four years ago) link

it's not you Pheeel it's this whole thread

― Οὖτις

yes, it's Literally Everybody Except Shakey

revenge of the jawn (rushomancy), Monday, 6 January 2020 23:34 (four years ago) link

it's the thread where people list all kind of random shit for no reason but clutch their pearls if I suggest the Kinks had a psych period.

Οὖτις, Monday, 6 January 2020 23:44 (four years ago) link

Did think that odd. Would have thought there were a couple lps there at least sound pretty much of the period. So would've included.

Stevolende, Monday, 6 January 2020 23:55 (four years ago) link

d) features "weird" sounds like stereo panning or has "dynamics" or similar

Interesting thing about Can is that they didn't use echo/delay and 'psychedelic' effects like stereo panning and phasing - apart from on "Tago Mago", which is why parts of that album sound kind of dated? In my opinion!

Frozen Mug (Tom D.), Tuesday, 7 January 2020 00:09 (four years ago) link

Slightly bemused in general by the idea of Can being some sort of avatar of psychedelia when so much of their music is based on minimalism and avoidance of excess - yes, granted they've got the improvisational jamming aspect too. So "Mother Sky" has the wild acid rock guitar but listen to the bass and drums, where does that fit into 'psychedelia'?

Frozen Mug (Tom D.), Tuesday, 7 January 2020 00:16 (four years ago) link

^ this is basically my point about that Smashing Pumpkins song

BeerAdvocate in the streets, Wookiepedia in the sheets (morrisp), Tuesday, 7 January 2020 00:19 (four years ago) link

Do you consider, say, Nothing's Shocking to be psychedelic?
― BeerAdvocate in the streets, Wookiepedia in the sheets (morrisp), Monday, January 6, 2020 5:29 PM (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ki5KsuP3mzM

I once played with a pine cone for a good forty minutes while listening to this album

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Suggest Banshee (Hadrian VIII), Tuesday, 7 January 2020 01:03 (four years ago) link

Slightly bemused in general by the idea of Can being some sort of avatar of psychedelia when so much of their music is based on minimalism and avoidance of excess - yes, granted they've got the improvisational jamming aspect too. So "Mother Sky" has the wild acid rock guitar but listen to the bass and drums, where does that fit into 'psychedelia'?

― Frozen Mug (Tom D.)

file next to "pink floyd", i believe

revenge of the jawn (rushomancy), Tuesday, 7 January 2020 04:27 (four years ago) link

Obviously there is a divide in this thread about whether psychedelic is a feeling or a carved-in-stone genre signifier, but I just wanted to vouch on behalf of Smashing Pumpkins that the bassline in the second chorus of Rhinoceros does feel very "60s psych". It's got that walking "Hey Joe" quality.

☮️ (peace, man), Tuesday, 7 January 2020 13:02 (four years ago) link

Cellophane Symphony by Tommy James and the Shondells

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qNQXb18l8g

jonbenetsbody (sneaker_bomba), Tuesday, 7 January 2020 18:28 (four years ago) link

classic example, love that record

budo jeru, Wednesday, 8 January 2020 02:34 (four years ago) link


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