The history of slowed-down, stretched-out psychedelic cover versions

I'm thinking of covers that really seem to expand time, or even express some kind of stasis, by stretching out a well known song.

Tim Rose - Hey Joe (1966) the originator of this trend?
Blue Cheer - Summertime Blues (67)
Vanilla Fudge - You Keep Me Hangin On (67)
Moving Sidewalks - I Want to Hold Your Hand (68)
Joe Cocker - A Little Help... (69)

What are some others? I feel like there's an obvious precedent in jazz that I'm missing. And the logical conclusion of the idea I guess would be the 639 year long version of the Cage piece.

Isaac Hayes - "Walk On By"

something like coltrane's "my favorite things" might be a jazz example of this -- taking a well known pop hit kinda thing and making it into a cosmic experience. not exactly slowed down tho.

gonna save scott the trouble of posting this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZ4jeRWjQ0Y

Yeah, My Favorite Things doesn't work, but Miles must have done this somewhere right? I can't remember.

not psych, but i was just listening to this the other day. dig all the detroit material a bunch.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7iWRXH1crw

even better but its only 8 minutes and not 10.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZReJBEYZ_G8

Doesn't have to be psych, just that I think the idea of stretching out time is kind of fundamentally psychedelic. Also, wasn't fair to say MFT "doesn't work" because obviously that expands and stretches out the original, so it basically fits.

this is only 6 minutes but if you will indulge me its my favorite stones cover ever and one of my fave rock songs ever of any vintage.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCRG3GR6bkE

TBH, I only said psychedelic in hopes that you would show up and post a bunch of cool shit instead of people posting dumb ironic ballads or something. So consider yourself indulged!

it doesn't get much better than that terry manning track. man, i just love that thing so much.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Er64v5sxDgA

Savoy Truffle was great, but holy shit this Jumpin Jack Flash! I could listen to just that intro all day.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOVp4VtLF_0

Various versions of Summertime kind of got slower and slower over the years didn't they?

The Byrds did this in 1966 (some months before the Tim Rose thing) with their cover of Pete Seeger's "I Come and Stand at Every Door", a change in direction from the jaunty, sped-up folk covers that had made them famous. but even though this song and Rose's "Hey Joe" sound weird and stretched and droney, they both clock in at only 3 minutes or so.

Patty Waters, otoh, had this trick down in 1965 w/ her 13-minute version of "Black is the Color...":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1sGHTV__Nk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_oFkX27638

that manfred mann chapter three stuff rules so fucking hard! both albums. all three incarnations of MM are great, but that stuff is just...mmm...love it.

It's not really slowed down, but the added space between the lines makes this feel much more stretched out than the leadbelly version

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFFtPS4orXI

Yeah, that Patty Waters is amazing. What's the fast version of I Come And Stand At Every Door?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_2wH3q26EM

Alex Chilton - Sugar Sugar

Does the Nazareth cover of "Ballad of Hollis Brown" count?
I have to thank an ILM doom youtube thread for that one, fucking kills.

What's the fast version of I Come And Stand At Every Door?

Pete Seeger set the words to music and recorded it 1961. even his ~2.5 minute version is pretty slow and mournful (you can hear a bit of it here) but not in a druggy way like the others.

The Tea Company's Hangin On

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BWJzd6jWR5M

I love Chilton's Sugar Sugar - "I can not believe THE HEAVINESS of lovin' you!"

What about CCR's Grapvine? Too obvious? I always skip it now, but I remember digging all 11 mins when it was new to me

^Hell yeah. I love CCR's Grapevine.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtszi0q6kJg

Wow, some of the effects on that Tea Company track are pretty crazy. The arrangement is totally ripped from Vanilla Fudge though.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbOIOaWsveM&feature=related

this is only 6 minutes but if you will indulge me its my favorite stones cover ever and one of my fave rock songs ever of any vintage.

Scott OTM about the Boyce and Hart - Picked up sealed original LP of this for next to nothing on eBay - also has this great cover of "standing in the shadows of love" - nowhere near as long as it could be but it's good enough for me...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2sX429_mDtE

xxp both are 1967 so I've always wondered if it was rip or coincidence but yeah, it's like they're covering the Fudge. whole album has great production

how about more recent covers that ape these conventions, like The Cure's original cover of "Hello I Love You" for Elektra's Rubaiyat compilation:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YE1FG1dclo

http://imageshack.us/m/21/95/americam.jpg

about half of this album (1971) fits the description.

a lot of old-time/folk singers recorded slowed-down, stretched-out, a cappella renditions of traditional songs once it became possible for records to hold more than a few minutes of audio per side. this (Roscoe Holcomb - "A Village Churchyard) isn't psychedelic, but it has the same time-stretching quality as some of the more out-there stuff on this thread:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPys5sc72rM

I like Henry Kaiser's cover of "Ode to Billy Joe" but can't find one on youtube.

Also I'm sure there are many Greatful Dead tracks that qualify.

Love this recent cover of 'Wicked Game' by How I Quit Crack.. l love stuff that slows you right down, great headphone music for wandering around crowded towns.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LwcBE0g_xc

Not really that much slower, but somehow more lethargic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0KGgOFFQxnY

And I can't find Annette Peacock's version of Love Me Tender on youtube.

"You Showed Me", written and recorded around 1964 by the Byrds and first issued a few years later on Preflyte, was slowed to nearly half speed on the Turtles' last big hit.

I didn't realize that was a Byrds song. So the Turtles version must have been the first parody of the slow cover idea!

Maybe this?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6sdkqKLEM0

Xpost. You know, Mick Ronson's "Love Me Tender" is a (really good) cover of the Peacock cover, but it's not on youtube either. Damn!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=luuE_k8EbIk

Tim Rose - Hey Joe (1966) the originator of this trend?

This one, from 1967 by the Band of Joy (yes, that's Robert S Plant Esquire on vocals and John Theodore Bonham on drums) really takes that and runs with it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-Bt4MPp-bo

This is great too. Slow pace appropriate, considering the subject.

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgEm-jJ6jIs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6qKGXEn4k2o&feature=related

Not at all psychedelic, and probly not that much slower, but I feel like Keith Richards version of Elvis' "Don't" belongs here somewhere.....

wtf @ no mention of 'i'm not your stepping stone' by the flies

http://i296.photobucket.com/albums/mm200/robitusson1/643.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrkCgwtNtE4

wtf @ no mention of 'i'm not your stepping stone' by the flies

This version actually predates the Monkees' hit ('66 vs.'67). Haven't heard the Paul Revere original.

Spacemen 3 covering the 13th Floor Elevators' "Roller Coaster" - 17 minute extended version

also, as far as this is concerned:

something like coltrane's "my favorite things" might be a jazz example of this -- taking a well known pop hit kinda thing and making it into a cosmic experience. not exactly slowed down tho.

how about Archie Shepp's version of "The Girl from Ipanema"?

South African band Suck's incredibly damaged cover of Donovan's "Season of the Witch"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M81LItngUUU

8 minute psych-funk Stevie Wonder cover, sick break drops at 0:58

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkcucy4jdNY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t40INnb6DnY

That's kind of a cool trick because they actually sped the tempo up but switched it from 6/8 to 4/4 so that the vocal phrasing is more stretched out. It kind of feels simultaneously slower and faster.

Trad, Gras och Stenar did this a few times. "All Along the Watchtower" for instance.

Anyone know how to stop youtube from using the slightly-shortened youtu.be links for videos?

this is so fucking awesome. one of my fave bands of all time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIuAUJ2VyP4&feature=player_embedded#at=47

Wow, I've never seen that, and never would have thought Terry Hall could pull off the Doors. He's kind of giving off a Spacemen 3 vibe in that video. I also would have never made a connection between The Doors and Ghost Town, but it makes sense to me now.

Trad, Gras och Stenar did this a few times. "All Along the Watchtower" for instance.

― the morals of a tomcat and the manners of a wolf (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ)

I posted a youtube of "All Along The Watchtower" upthread. It was the first thing that I thought of when I saw this thread.

Dammit! Sorry. So many tubes!

Here are a couple of good ones

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1YKfu5sD24

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byjPd28KegM

Funny that this song seems to lend itself so well to this kind of interpretation.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwxMVV_EdTM&feature=player_embedded

Nice. Has anyone ever done a full on doom version of it?