Recommend me some soft-edged psychadelic pop

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isn't cutting it for me. i want the softer, more pop side of things. I really like Love, some West Coast pop Art, a bit of Donovan, so things in that sort of vein.

obv not necessarily from the 60's, although i do like that sound. thank yoU!

― AaronK (AaronK), Friday, 18 November 2005 01:19 (twenty years ago)

what I'm listening to this second: "Crimson & Clover"

― oops (Oops), Friday, 18 November 2005 01:33 (twenty years ago)

This might get a little too soft for you, but there's a lot of good stuff here:

Sunshine Psych/Sunshine Pop

― Sang Freud (jeff_s), Friday, 18 November 2005 01:36 (twenty years ago)

that thread looks good, but yeah, perhaps a little too soft? I aint looking for flower power ballads, but I guess the more introspective side of things instead of say, Soft machine or Butthole surfers.

― AaronK (AaronK), Friday, 18 November 2005 01:44 (twenty years ago)

Kaleidoscope (British one)
Bonniwell Music Machine (songs like "The Trap," "Astrologically Incompatible," "Discrepancy," etc.)
The Seeds - Future
Strawberry Alarm Clock
The Doors (lots of stuff on 1st 4 albums)

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Friday, 18 November 2005 01:47 (twenty years ago)

thanks time, minus the doors :)

― AaronK (AaronK), Friday, 18 November 2005 01:48 (twenty years ago)

minus the e.

― AaronK (AaronK), Friday, 18 November 2005 01:49 (twenty years ago)

the free design

― jmeister (jmeister), Friday, 18 November 2005 02:10 (twenty years ago)

'fragile' by friends

― jim p. irrelevant (electricsound), Friday, 18 November 2005 02:12 (twenty years ago)

Pink Floyd - More
Van Dyke Parks
Bee Gees - First
Tim Buckley
Byrds
Brigitte Fontaine
Zombies
Hollies
Idle Race
Hair soundtrack (broadway)
Box Tops
Left Banke
Sagittarius - My World Fell Down
Spanky & Our Gang
Tommy James
the Nazz
Small Faces - Itchycoo Park
Spirit
all Tropicalia
Amon Duul II - Paradieseswarts Duul
Chocolate Watchband
Gong
Monkees

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Friday, 18 November 2005 02:43 (twenty years ago)

I forgot SF:
Moby Grape
Jefferson Airplane
Country Joe & the Fish
etc... not very hard-edged.

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Friday, 18 November 2005 02:49 (twenty years ago)

Kate Bush: Aerial

― Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Friday, 18 November 2005 02:51 (twenty years ago)

Oops, that should be Amon Duul (no II) on the above list.

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Friday, 18 November 2005 02:53 (twenty years ago)

Kevin Ayers
Gorkys Zygotic Munki
Circulatory System
United States of America

― zappi (joni), Friday, 18 November 2005 02:58 (twenty years ago)

Espers

― rizzx (Rizz), Friday, 18 November 2005 11:51 (twenty years ago)

the Merry-Go-Round - more soft-edged than psychedelic

― youn, Friday, 18 November 2005 12:08 (twenty years ago)

Wonderful

― BARMS, Friday, 18 November 2005 12:39 (twenty years ago)

Something a bit more recent. The Earlies "These Were The Earlies".

― s m webb, Friday, 18 November 2005 13:16 (twenty years ago)

wonderful, this is plenty to go on.

meanwhile, I'll add some more of what I'm currently listening to so as to give a better idea of sort of what I'm fishing for:

Zombies, buffalo springfield, village green Kinks, Lovin Spoonful, Leonard Cohen, Nick Drake...

― AaronK (AaronK), Friday, 18 November 2005 13:51 (twenty years ago)

Simian's Chemistry Is What We Are

― HALLUCIN 8 (noodle vague), Friday, 18 November 2005 13:57 (twenty years ago)

http://i8.ebayimg.com/03/i/05/07/1e/01_1.JPG

― Oh No, It's Dadaismus (and His Endless Stupid Jokes) (Dada), Friday, 18 November 2005 13:58 (twenty years ago)

Second the motion on Strawberry Alarm Clock. If you've only ever heard "Incense and Peppermints," check out "Sit With The Guru" and "Rainy Day Mushroom Pillow."

Also, Dukes of Stratosphear.

― Daniel Peterson (polkaholic), Friday, 18 November 2005 15:22 (twenty years ago)

If you want to dig a little deeper, I'd recommend the "Jeff Moore and Friends" LP. Rare Canadian folk that's really sweet and mellow.

http://www.forcedexposure.com/artists/moore.and.friends.jeff.html

Also, a real delight is the Mick Stevens stuff. The tracks with a band get a little more psych/rockin' but the acoustic ones are laid back melodious bliss.

http://www.forcedexposure.com/artists/stevens.mick.html

― Pharmaceutical Executive, Friday, 18 November 2005 15:38 (twenty years ago)

the millennium!
the pretty things, "parachute"
the tages, the era collected on "fantasy island" (swedish, totally great)
we all together, "2" (peruvian, also awesome)

― naturemorte, Friday, 18 November 2005 18:29 (twenty years ago)

Despite its relatively unpsychedelic cover, the Clientele's latest does an excellent job of channeling the lighter side of late 60's pop-psych:
http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000BB18EK.01._SCMZZZZZZZ_.jpg

Personal faves of mine, the Green Pajamas have been making excellent, mostly under-the-radar neo-psychedelic mini-masterpieces for over 20 years now.

Hoboken's the Special Pillow are to neo-psych what Dump is top indie rock. If that doesn't scare you, you should definitely check 'em out.

Also, lots of the Elephant 6 bands (I'm thinking, especially, of Beulah, the Essex Green & Of Montreal) would probably fit your bill.

― Wub-Fur Internet Radio (wubfur), Saturday, 19 November 2005 03:52 (twenty years ago)

gorky's 'barafundle' for sure.

― keyth (keyth), Saturday, 19 November 2005 04:00 (twenty years ago)

Digging the Skygreen Leopards ATM.

― Dan Floss (Dan Floss), Saturday, 19 November 2005 07:15 (twenty years ago)

You can get the entire Wonderful album here.

― Who the hell do you THINK I am? I'm the goddamn Batman! (Barima), Saturday, 19 November 2005 11:11 (twenty years ago)

Wub-Fur Internet Radio, the Clientele are probably my favorite band right about now, i probably couldnt listen to more of them than i do right now! thanks though :) these Green Pajamas sound nice from the demo trax i'm hearing.

― AaronK (AaronK), Sunday, 20 November 2005 04:17 (twenty years ago)

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