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...or private pressing folk / weirdo / 60s stuff.

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Sunday, 6 April 2003 20:23 (twenty-two years ago)

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― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 6 April 2003 20:27 (twenty-two years ago)

Too many to list but most played at the moment:
Orpheus-s/t
The Illusion-Together(as a way of life)

― SplendidMullet (iamamonkey), Sunday, 6 April 2003 20:57 (twenty-two years ago)

The Piper At the Gates of Dawn, though cliched, is still a big fave of mine, as is the somewhat charmingly botched Their Satanic Majesties Request.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Sunday, 6 April 2003 20:59 (twenty-two years ago)

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― brg30 (brg30), Sunday, 6 April 2003 21:08 (twenty-two years ago)

united states of america - s/t : has that twingy paranoid lsd quality
family - music in a doll's house : uk pastoral psych with manic edges

― phil turnbull (philT), Sunday, 6 April 2003 22:50 (twenty-two years ago)

These are some of my faves. Mostly 60's. Mostly straight psych. Some pop-psych. Some hard rock/psych. No deep privatepressrarepsychmonsteronly500pressed kinda things. For the most part. Does Splendid Mullet live with Girl Scout Heroin cuz Girl Scout Heroin just bought that Illusion record for a dollar.

Pretty Things-S.F.Sorrow & Parachute(everybody should own these.Well, any rock & roll fans should own these. Or people who smoke pot. Or fans of some of the greatest PRODUCTION that you will ever hear on a rock record.)
The Plastic Cloud(Probably Canada's finest acid-induced moment. Truly beautiful)
Blue Cheer-Outsideinside
Nirvana-All Of Us
Tyrannosaurus Rex-My People Wwere Fair and Had Sky In Their Hair...But Now They're Content To Wear Stars On Their Brows(all T.Rex of the Steve Took-era is wonderful of course, but this got the ball rolling)
Rotary Connection-Alladin(buy all their albums tomorrow)
The Electric Prunes-Underground
The Open Mind
The Steve Miller Band-Children of the Future(3 count them 3! distinct eras of musical brilliance. No, really. Is there a box set?
Gary Walker & The Rain-Album No.1( Scott went off to mope and Gary went off and fucking rocked! But only the Japanese cared.
Sean Bonniwell-The Bonniwell Music Machine(every song is great and this record as well SOUNDS amazing.)
Chrysalis-Definition(Mojo, if they haven't already, will send the price of this record ever upwards, but for now you can get it on ebay pretty cheap. No CD re-ish I don't think. Great folk/psych. Beautiful arrangements.
The Hook-Will Grab You(somebody on ILM said that their dad was in the Hook and if that's true than he's got the coolest dad)
Clear Light( actor Cliff DeYoung's band on Elektra. It's great and on cd. Better than chevy chase's pretty damn good pop-psych band Chameleon Church and way, way, way, better than Phil Collin's psych band Ark. Phil's an actor, right?
The 5 Day Week Straw People
C.A. Quintet-Trip Thru Hell(worth it just for the first track's amazing stereo tribal drum panning)
Friendsound-Joyride(former Raiders foam at the mouth and make one of the greatest krautrock records by one-time washington state frathouse favorites)
The Head Shop
Ultimate Spinach-S/T & Behold & See(people make fun of the name and the hippy inanities on display in the lyrics but I stand by my love for them. They are soooo groovy. 3rd album sucks cuz it's got that doobie brother who looks like a muppet on it)
July
West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band-Vol.2 & Part 1
Judy Henske & Jerry Yester-Farewell Aldebaran( I read an interview with Kathy Acker in some pomo journal and she said the scariest letter she ever got was from Andrew Vacchs(sic?)so I read his crime fiction figuring anybody who can scare Kathy Acker must be pretty cool and all his books feature his anti-hero Burke listening to Judy Henske in his car so I bought her albums and loved them and this is her psych one with then hubbie Asociation/Lovin' Spoonful dude Jerry Yester)
Beacon Street Union-The Eyes of the Beacon Street Union
Tommy Boyce & Bobby Hart-It's All Happening On The Inside(side one is an amazing pop-psych suite that just sounds completely fucked and it ends with an amazing version of Jumpin' Jack Flash.You can probably find it for a dollar cuz it ain't hip)
Love-Forever Changes & Out Here(Out Here don't get no respect even though it's the coolest and it's got a 5 minute version of Signed D.C. that is so tuff and the most beautiful Lee vocal ever in "Listen To My Song")
The Rainy Daze-That Acupulco Gold
The Seeds-Future
The Litter-Emerge
Neighb'orhood Childr'n
Phluph
Mandrake Memorial-S/T,Medium,Puzzle(Collectables puts out their old Poppy albums real cheap and they are all great. One of my favorite bands. Think trip-hop with harpsichords and acid-fuzz. Amazing!)
Hamilton Steetcar
The Damnation of Adam Blessing-S/T & The Second Damnation
Eire Apparent-Sun Rise
The Cryan' Shames-A Scratch In The Sky
Harvey Matusow's Jew's Harp Band-War Between Fats and Thins
THe Peanut Butter Conspiracy-The Great Conspiracy
Bubble Puppy-A Gathering of Promises
13th Floor Elevators-The Psychedelic Sounds Of & Easter Everywhere
Pink Floyd-Pipers at the Gates of Dawn & Saucerful of Secrets & Relics & that live B.B.C. thing that I don't have a copy of anymore where they do echoes and julia dream and all that stuff-I still have a tape. I gotta get another one of those.
Funkadelic-Maggot Brain
The Group Image-A Mouth In The Clouds
Valhalla( another great United Artist release.I LOOOOVe Valhalla. KInda like Adam Blessing in some ways. Really heavy and cool.
Joe Byrd & The Field Hippies-The American Metaphysical Circus( also worth it just for that first track-"waiting to die, waiting to die..."
Leigh Stephens-Red Weather
Bloomsbury People
Donovan-Sunshine Superman
Incredible String Band-5000 Spirits
Damon-Song Of A Gypsy
Those are some of the ones that I go back to a lot. There is so much more and so much out there. Some of it sucks. But a lot of it inspires me to no end.Well, along with everything else, of course. I was palying Crass and Subhumans for the baby this morning. It's the war, I guess. I want him to have the right values.

― Scott Seward, Sunday, 6 April 2003 23:05 (twenty-two years ago)

is the LP by Index any good? is it actually psych?

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Sunday, 6 April 2003 23:06 (twenty-two years ago)

the first index LP is psych - lots of covers, but it has a really nice, depressed kind of vibe. "rainy, starless night" was covered by vermonster.

i think i've already done the 'favorite psych albums' thing somewhere on ILM, here are some favorite folk/weird/private press things (mostly reissues because i'm not rich):

skip spence - oar
jake holmes - the above ground sound of jake holmes
surprieze - zeer oude klanken (whatever it's called)
simon finn - pass the distance
pi corp - lost in the cosmic void
parameter - galactic ramble
moths - heron's daughter
mij - yodeling astrologer (see also "basho sings" heh)
peter walker - rainy day raga
midwinter - waters of sweet sorrow
vashti bunyan - just another diamond day
frolk haven - at the apex of high
cia change LP that de stijl put out

in the modern realm, the jim collins "music performed by the high mass" and terry "rojvi" albums get high marks from me, both being downer/acid folk with rather distinct styles. they're supposedly related somehow.

― your null fame (yournullfame), Sunday, 6 April 2003 23:29 (twenty-two years ago)

Splendid mullet is GSHeroin! sorry I didn't want to cause any gender confusion so I changed names. And the Illusion was the best $1 I spent in ages

― SplendidMullet (iamamonkey), Monday, 7 April 2003 00:54 (twenty-two years ago)

Eire Apparent-Sun Rise that was another dollar record
Produced by Jimi!

― SplendidMullet (iamamonkey), Monday, 7 April 2003 00:55 (twenty-two years ago)

Pearls Before Swine, "Balaklava"
Olivia Tremor Control, "Black Foliage" (wrong period, but an awesome record nonetheless)

― Ian Johnson (orion), Monday, 7 April 2003 01:02 (twenty-two years ago)

olivia tremor control - dusk at cubist castle
olivia tremor control - black foliage: animation music, vol. 1
circulatory system - s/t
elf power - a dream in sound
of montreal - the gay parade
apples in stereo - (most of their catalog)

when i think of any non E6 bands, i will post them as well.

oh and Simian is sorta psych-pop. theyre great as well.

― JP Albin (John Paul Albin), Monday, 7 April 2003 01:13 (twenty-two years ago)

Scott: You listed almost the whole of the alleged "Boston Sound" but you forgot Earth Opera, though I can't remember the name of their one good album (the second one sucked, as I recall). Three-fifths of the band had apprenticed with Bill Monroe--they had chops!

― Methuselah (Methuselah), Monday, 7 April 2003 01:58 (twenty-two years ago)

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― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Monday, 7 April 2003 02:06 (twenty-two years ago)

any Simon Finn fans?

hey - Spelndid Mullet you should change yr name back to girl scout heroin, that's a great fucking name. No one would confuse your gender - you like good music. (oh shiiiiit)

anyone wanna burn / dub me a copy of Terry Rovji? I have stuff to trade...

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Monday, 7 April 2003 02:10 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah, I have two Earth opera records. Was that it? They aren't that great.Okay, though. Dave Grisman was on them, so they kind of alternated between rock and old-tymey music. Both on Elektra. Same with Methuselah! I enjoy their album Matthew,Mark,Luke and John on Elektra."High In The Tower Of Coombe" is a great Methuselah track.Beantown rocked. I live in Philly so I have to listen to lots of Mandrake Memorial, Thunder and Roses, Nazz, Elizabeth, Pearls Before Swine, Perry Leopold, Linda Cohen, Sun Ra(well,not originally), Bardo Pond, Strapping Fieldhands, and the high as a kite sounds of the Delfonics.( I have to. It's in my lease.) Plus, my pal Jack from Pelt lives here now, and he puts out solo John Fahey-esque records for us to nod off to.

― Scott Seward, Monday, 7 April 2003 02:13 (twenty-two years ago)

Not that I have anything against Bill Monroe or hootenany bluegrass yodeling brakeman music. I don't. I like Holy Modal Rounders and the like.I like the guy who played the jug in Rokey's band.I like Jerry Garcia.I like Kaleidescope with david lindley.I like skiffle and the bonzo dog band and the purple gang and supercamp albums of bonnie and clyde-inspired 23 skidoo music. I was gonna make a tape once of every song on every psych record I could find that has the megaphone/rudy valee/roaring twenties/stupid-ass rave-up number on them, but there are too many candidates. There must be a million of them. Some albums would have been perfect if not for that one true lapse in sanity.

― Scott Seward, Monday, 7 April 2003 02:21 (twenty-two years ago)

I love John MaLaughlin's album Devotion. Is that the greatest album or what? "Don't Let The Dragon Eat Your Mother". I think that says it all.

― Scott Seward, Monday, 7 April 2003 02:26 (twenty-two years ago)

Scott - I liked Pelt a lot. Are they no longer together?

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Monday, 7 April 2003 02:30 (twenty-two years ago)

Okay, so I haven't owned the Earth Opera since Pluto was a pup. I'd probably hate it now. Just recently I paid a bunch of bucks for a psych-era album I remembered fondly, only to find it almost completely unlistenable (but the remix I'd done in my head was grrrreat!) (it was Definition, by Chrysalis).

― Methuselah (Methuselah), Monday, 7 April 2003 02:31 (twenty-two years ago)

It's up for trade. Make me an offer!

― Methuselah (Methuselah), Monday, 7 April 2003 02:33 (twenty-two years ago)

Now THIS is the thread for me... Psychedelia is wonderful stuff, IMHO. Here are some of my favorites.

13TH FLOOR ELEVATORS - Psychedelic Sounds, Easter Everywhere
SEEDS - s/t, Web of Sound, Future
BLUE CHEER - Vincebus Eruptum
JIMI HENDRIX EXPERIENCE - everything
YAHOWHA 13 - Penetration: An Aquarian Symphony
BEVIS FROND - Miasma
RAIN PARADE - Emergency 3rd Rail Power Trip
DREAM SYNDICATE - Days of wine & Roses
FUZZTONES - Lysergic Emanations
OLIVIA TREMOR CONTROL - Dusk at Cubist Castle, Black Foliage
LOVE - s/t, FOrever Changes
BARDO POND - Set & Setting
ACID MOTHERS TEMPLE - s/t, Pataphysical Freakout Mu, Univers Zen ou de Zero a Zero
PLASTICLAND - Color Appreciation

There's tons more (High Tide and The Misunderstood come to mind), but I will close for now.......

― John Bullabaugh (John Bullabaugh), Monday, 7 April 2003 02:38 (twenty-two years ago)

OH NOOOOOOOOOOO! I love that Chrysalis album. I love the vibe. And the instrumentation. Geir would love it, actually.Very melodic. What was the problem, too twee? It is twee tis twue. I love her voice. Kinda like if Nico could sing. Oh well. I understand.
Roger, no, as far as I know, Pelt are together. The rest of the group just lives down south or whatever. Jack has lived her for, hmmm, going on 4 years now. Kinda like Tom living with my bro in Hudson,but the rest of the Mofos living god knows where. They just twist their underground superhero rings and their bands just appear magically in a cloud of doobage. You should e-mail my bro about that jackie-o thing. He could probably hook ya up.

― Scott Seward, Monday, 7 April 2003 02:38 (twenty-two years ago)

Trade for the Chrysalis? Um, this is where my geekdom gets scary. I own two copies. I even had a third mono copy(very rare, you see), but I traded it to my friend Dan for god knows what. Probably a Groundhogs record or some krautshit I never listen to.

― Scott Seward, Monday, 7 April 2003 02:41 (twenty-two years ago)

My buddy dan works at the Philadelphia Record Exchange so if you are ever there, tell him Scott sent you.

― Scott Seward, Monday, 7 April 2003 02:44 (twenty-two years ago)

It is beyond twee. It is twoo. It is twuu. Great melodies indeed--great songs, in fact--"Dr. Root's Garden"! "30 Poplar"! The problem is the way it's arranged, which I think is the Zappa factor (I believe there was some connection), as in "let's do these three bars as ragtime, then throw in harpsichord for four beats, then let's kill the momentum just as it gets going--how about an electric piano riff here?" I like self-consuming groovelessness in theory, maybe, but if I'm gonna get psychedelic I want pulse. I want "Slip Inside This House" by the 13th Fl. El.s or "Bear Melt" by Jeff. Airp. You just know the Chrysalis people had backgrounds in summer-stock musical comedy.

― Methuselah (Methuselah), Monday, 7 April 2003 02:54 (twenty-two years ago)

MY brother in law has that Yahowha box set that captain trips put out and I stare at it longingly whenever I see it. He turned me on to that Marble Sheep album on Captain Trips, old from new heads, and I am eternally grateful!! It's so massive.The last song "Cement Woman" is 20 minutes of bliss.High Rise or AMT fans MUST own that album.I did get that Igor Wakhevitch box set that everyone was raving about for cheap on ebay and there is some great stuff on that. Um, I love music.

― Scott Seward, Monday, 7 April 2003 02:55 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah, there is truth to what you say. I don't know why I like it so much. I don't find it jokey, though. They ARE all over the place, but I guess I just like the ideas they had. And no, it's not long,groove-oriented stuff. More poppy than that. I like the poppy family too.

― Scott Seward, Monday, 7 April 2003 02:59 (twenty-two years ago)

That's why I should just rent a studio and remix the sucker. Ah, in another lifetime, maybe.

― Methuselah (Methuselah), Monday, 7 April 2003 03:19 (twenty-two years ago)

If I could only keep ONE Psych record though, without hesitation I would choose Love-Forever Changes its just the greastest record ever

― SplendidMullet (iamamonkey), Monday, 7 April 2003 04:03 (twenty-two years ago)

any Simon Finn fans?

see my earlier answer. this is one of those 'super rare psych-folk masterpieces' that i actually listen to on a regular basis.

― your null fame (yournullfame), Monday, 7 April 2003 04:03 (twenty-two years ago)

fuck, can i pick the whole millennium back catalogue with associated solo albums????

― Sonny Tremaine (Sonny), Monday, 7 April 2003 04:40 (twenty-two years ago)

many faves already mentioned, so i'll pencil in a few unpardonable (IMHO) omissions, in haphazard fashion:

Arzachel - s/t
My Solid Ground - s/t
Tamam Shud - Evolution/The Goolutionites and the Real People
Brainticket - Cottonwoodhill
Semool - Essais
Flyte Reaction - Songs in a Circle
Octopus - s/t (the ESP guys; better than you've heard. great songs!)
Tomorrow - s/t
T2 - It'll All Work Out in Boomland
Gila - "Free Electric Sound
The Soft Boys - Underwater Moonlight
Churchill's - s/t
SRC - s/t
Kaleidoscope - Tangerine Dream
Tangle Edge - In Search of a New Dawn
insert inclusive nod for the Swedish glories of Arbete och Fritid, Fläsket Brinner, Algarnas Trädgard, Tømmrerclaus, and the rightly hallowed Pärson Sound/Träd, Gras och Stenar/Harvester axis here:

and DAMENBART! - Impressionen '71 - newly reissued on Psychedelic Pig, with extra session and live material, and sounding as fantastic as i remember. no, much better! the remastering blows the original LP edition away.

― summerslastsound (summerslastsound), Monday, 7 April 2003 04:54 (twenty-two years ago)

Has anyone heard of the Cherrystones compilation? I will list the tracks shortly. It is ace.

― Sonny Tremaine (Sonny), Monday, 7 April 2003 05:00 (twenty-two years ago)

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― Cub, Monday, 7 April 2003 05:14 (twenty-two years ago)

1. 13th Floor Elevators - Easter Everywhere
2. Pink Floyd - Piper At the Gates of Dawn
3. Kak - s/t
4. Quicksilver Messenger Service - s/t
5. Skip Spence - Oar
6. Mad River - s/t
7. Jefferson Airplane - After Bathing At Baxter's
8. Morgen - s/t
9. Country Joe - Electric Music for Mind and Body
10. Spirit - s/t

That's sorta how i'd rank it. Yeah, I like my psychedelia American. And from San Francisco.

― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Monday, 7 April 2003 06:03 (twenty-two years ago)

Spirit: ‘Clear Spirit’ and ‘the 12 Dreams of Dr Sardonicus’
Peanut Butter Conspiracy: ‘Is Spreading’ and ‘The Great Conspiracy’
United States of America: s/t
Love: ‘Da Capo’, ‘Changes’, ‘Four Sail’
West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band: ‘Part One’
Kaleidoscope: ‘A Beacon from Mars’
Moby Grape: s/t, ‘Wow’
Sagittarius: ‘Present Tense’
The Blues Magoos: ‘Psychedelic Lollipop’
The Chocolate Watchband: ‘The Inner Mystique’
Blue Cheer: ‘Vincebus Eruptum’
Bow Street Runners: s/t
Group 1850: ‘Agemo’s Trip To Mother Earth’
The Byrds: ‘The Notorious Byrd Brothers’
Fairport Convention: ‘Liege and Lief’

― Roger Fascist (Roger Fascist), Monday, 7 April 2003 08:27 (twenty-two years ago)

Semool - Essais

funny you mention this - i've been listening to this a bit lately and half the time i wonder if it's really just the 'guys screwing around in their basement with a reel-to-reel' thing some have suggested (i mean, note the pink floyd riffs) or if it's really genius. or both, i guess, because i seem to like it a lot. beats the crap out of those other futura reissues (mahogany brain and horde catalytique), i suppose. theatre du chene noir d'avignon excepted.

T2 - It'll All Work Out in Boomland

this is pretty cool - i know there must be dozens of these english heavy rock bands around that i haven't heard, but i don't know where to start (like bodkin, high tide, clear blue sky, dark, etc).

Kaleidoscope - Tangerine Dream

hell yeah. kaleidoscope UK are so deliciously, deliriously poppy and yet so odd by turns i keep expecting them to be namechecked endlessly by shitty modern psych bands. hasn't happened yet. ditto for july.

― your null fame (yournullfame), Monday, 7 April 2003 11:05 (twenty-two years ago)

try these babies

comus "first utterance" (esp. if you want to 'expose' david tibet)
(actually i love david tibet, long may he rule)
these trails lp
traffic "virgin"/"tibet's suzettes"
pax & laghonia & we all together (yay for south american psych)
that stone angel disc...

too much good stuff

is the kalacakra (sp?) record any good?

― jon dale, Tuesday, 8 April 2003 01:25 (twenty-two years ago)

is the kalacakra (sp?) record any good?

yeah, it's pretty good second-tier krautrock stuff - has some demented vocalizing and some good faux-eastern sounds; i would definitely recommend it if you're into krautrock past the more popular acts. it's very probably one of the best thing garden of delight reissued.

― your null fame (yournullfame), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 03:15 (twenty-two years ago)

two months pass...

I was a 60s psych aficionado until I heard an album released in 1988 called "Dancing to Restore an Eclipsed Moon" by the Red Temple Spirits. All of what I had heard previously absolutely paled in comparison to it. Talk about blowing the bell-curve ...

Anyway, the best of the older psychedelic stuff is probably:

The Doors (1967)
Pink Floyd: UmmaGumma (1969)
Pink Floyd: The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn (1967) & A Saucerful ..
a few songs from Twink: Think Pink (1970)
United States Of America (1968)
Red Crayola: Parable of Arable Land (1967)
Jimi Hendrix: Electric Ladyland (1968)
Outsiders: CQ (1968)
Parson Sound (1966-68)
half of Revolver
and
half of "Before the dream faded"

Pearls Before Swine's "Balaklava" is great too, but i consider that more of a surrealist folk album than psychedelia.

― Michael Dubsky, Sunday, 8 June 2003 09:29 (twenty-two years ago)

"Dancing to Restore an Eclipsed Moon" by the Red Temple Spirits

Great band, great album. Somebody needs to give 'em the reissue dealie.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 8 June 2003 13:38 (twenty-two years ago)

White Noise - An Electric Storm
Fushitsusha - Double Live (PSF 3/4)

― ss, Sunday, 8 June 2003 14:13 (twenty-two years ago)

(splend.mull, i liked "grLscThrN" more)

i like Jefferson Airplanes' stuff across all their '60s lps, and some of Love and 13th Floor, in that each of Capo and Bull of the Heather had one good side, and the superb Forever Changes and After Bathing at Baxters bend pop music norms and Bacharach strings

search Jefferson Airplane psychedelic Levis commercial vs. the Mothers' "Take Your Clothes Off When You Dance"

― george gosset (gegoss), Sunday, 8 June 2003 14:34 (twenty-two years ago)

Many immortal albums already have been cited
[kudos to those who mentioned Friendsound, Kaleidoscope
UK and Brainticket].
Here are some classics not yet acknowledged:

PIERROT LUNAIRE- GUDRUN
ET CETERA- S/T
TIM BUCKLEY- STARSAILOR
LARD FREE- III
BRAVE NEW WORLD- IMPRESSIONS ON READING ALDOUS HUXLEY
STEREOLAB/NURSE WITH WOUND- SIMPLE HEADPHONE MIND
KRAFTWERK- S/T
ORGANISATION- TONE FLOAT
BRAST BURN- DEBON
KARUNA KHYAL- ALOMONI 1985
HAWKWIND- S/T
DZYAN- ELECTRIC SILENCE
SPACECRAFT- PARADOX
SPOILS OF WAR- S/T
anything by TAJ-MAHAL TRAVELLERS,
ACID MOTHERS TEMPLE, VAS DEFERENS ORGANIZATION
CHROME- 3RD FROM THE SUN
SIMPLY SAUCER- CYBORGS REVISITED
SOUNDTRACK TO ALEJANDRO JODOROWSKY'S
THE HOLY MOUNTAIN

― Dave Segal (Da ve Segal), Sunday, 8 June 2003 16:18 (twenty-two years ago)

Adding to my previous answers:

Bardo Pond, "Dilate" (much more open sounding and less heavy than other BP albums I've heard)

Temple of Bon Matin, "Bullet Into Mesmer's Brain" (free-jazz meets psych meets Hawkwind-styled space rock meets noise; brutal and mind-numbing)

Sleep, "Jerusalem" (Stoner rock, but I don't care--this album is the most trance-enducing piece of music I think I've ever heard)

― Ian Johnson, Sunday, 8 June 2003 18:26 (twenty-two years ago)

BF Skinner--A Man and his Box

― oops (Oops), Sunday, 8 June 2003 18:30 (twenty-two years ago)

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― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 9 June 2003 16:00 (twenty-two years ago)

one year passes...

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― Ian John50n (orion), Monday, 21 February 2005 20:46 (twenty-one years ago)

well, yeah.

― el sabor de gene (yournullfame), Monday, 21 February 2005 22:50 (twenty-one years ago)

Favorite? Really? I mean, I like it OK, but I would think that I could come up with fifty psych albums I like more. 100? Quite possibly.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Monday, 21 February 2005 22:58 (twenty-one years ago)

As much as I love the Dead -- and I do LOVE them -- I have to admit "Cryptic Envelopement" / "That's It For the Other One" really isn't my favorite thing of theirs. But just about everything else on that album rules.

― Stormy Davis (diamond), Monday, 21 February 2005 23:06 (twenty-one years ago)

ten years pass...

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― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 9 February 2016 05:14 (ten years ago)

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― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 9 February 2016 05:18 (ten years ago)

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― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 9 February 2016 05:22 (ten years ago)

some unmentioned classix:

santana
abraxas
santana
the savage rose
the electronic hole
mighty baby
relatively clean rivers
shinki chen

― lute bro (brimstead), Tuesday, 9 February 2016 06:28 (ten years ago)

all are self-titled except abraxas, which is by santana

― lute bro (brimstead), Tuesday, 9 February 2016 06:28 (ten years ago)

Savage Republic Jamahiriya (very good for tripping too thanks to textures)
Fat Hit
Marble Sheep Tokyo 88
Last exit Iron path
Pharaoh Sanders Anthology disc1
Grateful Dead Something from August 68 also May 70, I think the 2 most strikingly out there live periods plus one stretch from '69 though not as sure when, could be February or April that year.
Quicksilver Messenger Service lost Gold and Silver with the notable exception of the lengthy one note drum solo in Acapulco Gold & Silver.
Incredible String Band hangman's beautiful daughter
comus First utterance or even the whole first disc of the Sanctuary Song TO Comus Anthology since it has non lp tracks.
Guru Guru UFO and Kanguru
Jefferson Airplane After Bathing at Baxters.
Tim Buckley return of the Starsailor
"" " " the Starsailor band gigs
Santana/Mclaughlin Love Devotion Surrender when it hits points of transcendence
Television various live sets when they hit similar points.
Annette Peacock I'm The One
Can 27/2/72
Toumani Diabate Boulevard de l'independence and a live set from Glastonbury from about 5 years ago
Cabaret Voltaire Living Legends
John Martyn Inside out
Steeleye Span The Lark In the morning, cos I can't remember what fits where on the 1st 3 lps individually. But that sound they had was a lovely dark psychedelia even if the material they were playing was 100% traditional.
GunClub Miami sounds like the country record the Doors never made
Dream Syndicate Day Before Wine and Roses live set recorded just before the release of the 1st lp. Has more drifting guitar stuff on it.
Associates Sulk & 4th Drawer Down. Sulk is like a neon psych thing 4DD is a bit more krautrocky.

― Stevolende, Tuesday, 9 February 2016 11:03 (ten years ago)

Eurythmics In the Garden an early anomaly which features a band consisting of half Can half Blondie and works on a psychedelic take on British Folk Rock. Pretty essential
Siouxsie and the banshees the John Mcgeoch lps, utterly sublime.
Creedence Clearwater Revival Bayou country probably their closest lp to the Ballroom sound, though the s/t may be a contender
SRC s/t some great tranced out sustain guitar
Amon Duul II Yeti the Teutonic Airplane.

Echo & The Bunnymen heaven Up Here put some Liverpool angst in yoer psych
mercury rev boces the first lp played by the band asa group as opposed to individual memebers obverdubbing over each other. I like the interplay.
Ant-Bee Pure Electric Honey lovely 80s revistting of a dreamy 60s sound.
Flipper Gone fishin acid drenched band's 2nd lp
Medicine Short Forth Self Living a far more woozy take on the shoegazing sound. Seems to saturate sound with a trippiness of its own.
Caspar Brotzmann Massaker Home one of my favourite lps ever like a more brutal take on some of Hednrix's work. A farewell to the original trio recorded live in the studio.
Larry Young Lawrence of Newark otherworldly balletic space jazz
Love Cry Want another group featuring Larry Young totally saturated and a[parently recorded opposite the whitehouse
Sun ra Strange Celestial road I think this was my main introduction to the Saturnian's work and it remains a favourite. Deep space funk
Simply Saucer Cyborgs revisited Hamilton Ontario mid 70s mavericks
New Kingdom Paradise don't Come Cheap blunted beyond oblivion NYC rap duo plus backing band. I think If they'd continued to progres in this direction they would have sounded like a black chrome.
Chrome 1/2 Machine Lip Moves Punk era sci fi space rock with a very abrasive edge
Seeds raw and Alive pseudo live set though actually live in the studio. But this hasthe band sounding most like my ideal for them.
Galactic Zoo Dossier pretty essential space rock lp. I think one of teh bnest lps of its era recorded in the UK.
Twink Think Pink
Judy Henske and Jerry Yester farewell Alderbaraan an lp seriously in need of a decent remaster but Radioactive/whatever it;'s called now keep scuppering that.

― Stevolende, Tuesday, 9 February 2016 12:50 (ten years ago)

https://www.discogs.com/Seeds-The-Wind-Blows-Your-Hair/master/556016

Also really been enjoying the second Strawberry Alarm Clock album, Wake Up, It's Tomorrow, lately. (Especially love "Pretty Song from Psych-Out.")

― timellison, Wednesday, 10 February 2016 00:22 (ten years ago)

through this place scott has turned me on to a lot of amazing music and zero surprise that CHRYSALIS record does not disappoint

― reggie (qualmsley), Thursday, 11 February 2016 16:05 (ten years ago)

I need to build a house & live in this thread

― signed, Stymied in Michigan (Drugs A. Money), Thursday, 11 February 2016 17:21 (ten years ago)

that "The End" record is p fun, altho the spoken interludes are like a crappier ripoff of Ogden's Nut Gone Flake

― Οὖτις, Thursday, 11 February 2016 18:26 (ten years ago)

Listening to Chrysalis for the first time now. Killing me, so good!

― Retro novelty punk (Dan Peterson), Thursday, 11 February 2016 20:06 (ten years ago)

I've known "Dandelion Seeds," but the album is pretty cool too - July - July (1968)

This piece by Sean Lennon actually reminded me of them - http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/sean-lennon-on-10-lost-psychedelic-classics-20140513

― Fastnbulbous, Thursday, 11 February 2016 20:10 (ten years ago)

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

― JacobSanders, Thursday, 11 February 2016 21:10 (ten years ago)

I've been checking out various Rockadelic reissues, this one is good.
https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1609/24846347262_209d2bfc37_z.jpg

― JacobSanders, Thursday, 11 February 2016 21:49 (ten years ago)

that "The End" record is p fun, altho the spoken interludes are like a crappier ripoff of Ogden's Nut Gone Flake

― Οὖτις, Thursday, February 11, 2016 1:26 PM (8 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

At this point I welcome spoken interludes in these things :) I found this record at a thrift store and bought it bc the cover screamed Lost Psych Classic. It's a lot of fun. I really like "Dont' Take Me":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6b1Cba1NpVw

― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 12 February 2016 03:06 (ten years ago)

Really like this texas 45
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zHoA-Z_2ahc

― JacobSanders, Friday, 12 February 2016 06:59 (ten years ago)

Another TX masterpiece
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxis9gAuxxk

― JacobSanders, Friday, 12 February 2016 07:42 (ten years ago)

You just know the Chrysalis people had backgrounds in summer-stock musical comedy.

^^^ Meant as a pejorative, but I have now listened to the Chrysalis album 5 times in 2 days. Fascinating record (and the CD has outtakes and bonus cuts.) They really color outside the lines of typical psych lyrics and instrumentation, more like Sgt. Pepper recorded in a garage.

"Dr. Root's Garden" totally seems like the template for "Willow Farm" by Genesis.

― Retro novelty punk (Dan Peterson), Friday, 12 February 2016 18:19 (ten years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpIJehnxBt0

― Retro novelty punk (Dan Peterson), Friday, 12 February 2016 18:20 (ten years ago)

I like the Chrysalis, but having more fun with July. It's been out a few years but I'm finally digging into this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7kXMDNOXjg

― Fastnbulbous, Sunday, 14 February 2016 21:15 (ten years ago)

First couple of lps at least by Jade Warrior are pretty interesting. They're the band that members of July went onto.

― Stevolende, Sunday, 14 February 2016 21:52 (ten years ago)

Digging this F.J. McMahon record I just heard, Spirit of the Golden Juice, on the folk end of the spectrum.

― Have I The Right Profile? (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 14 February 2016 22:20 (ten years ago)

That F.J. McMahon album is so great! Love that stripped-down sound.

― we salute you, our half-inflated dark lord (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Monday, 15 February 2016 04:19 (ten years ago)

Spirit of the Golden Juice is a heartbreaking record. Beautiful but it's a heavy one. Hoping to one day replace my reissue with an OG.

― JacobSanders, Monday, 15 February 2016 18:48 (ten years ago)

I'm not usually into covers of the Beatles , but this is one of the more haunting and gorgeous songs I've heard.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQQSvBlnhv0

― JacobSanders, Monday, 15 February 2016 19:07 (ten years ago)

I need to build a house & live in this thread

― signed, Stymied in Michigan (Drugs A. Money)

thanks for the revive, the last one was right before I found ILX so I don't think I've ever seen this thread before.

― the 'major tom guy' (sleeve), Monday, 15 February 2016 19:27 (ten years ago)

last track on that Electronic Hole album is truly amazing...

― the 'major tom guy' (sleeve), Monday, 15 February 2016 19:27 (ten years ago)

Spirit of the Golden Juice is a heartbreaking record. Beautiful but it's a heavy one. Hoping to one day replace my reissue with an OG.

It sort of splits the difference between Skip Spence and Jackson C. Frank.

― Have I The Right Profile? (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 15 February 2016 19:34 (ten years ago)

This is a great read on Rockadelic Records http://psychedelicbaby.blogspot.com/2011/11/rockadelic-records-interview-with-rich.html

― JacobSanders, Thursday, 25 February 2016 13:48 (ten years ago)

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