C90: "Psychedelic" 1950's

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I was saying to someone a few days ago, the 50s were way more psychedelic than a lot of the 60s.
Sandman by the Shirelles for example. Joe Meek, Jean Jacques Perry (or was he 60s?), Link Wray, Carl Perkins, "her love rubbed off".
Genuinely deranged sounding stuff and other stuff that so corny and idealistic that it's surreal and absurd. Any other examples?

Old Boy In Network (Michael B), Tuesday, 8 October 2013 19:57 (eleven years ago)

this thread had lots of cool stuff Thread for 50s and early 60s weirdo surf, exotica instro youtubes

wk, Tuesday, 8 October 2013 19:59 (eleven years ago)

Aw, that was my instro thread, thanks! In the novelty vein, just in time for Halloween, "Hairy Lumpty Bump." This record is so great I just can't even begin...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KIB7KjPklAs

Low down bad refrigerator (Dan Peterson), Tuesday, 8 October 2013 20:10 (eleven years ago)

I mean, I started it - but it had MANY fine contributions.

Jack Donovan and the Nightcaps - "Time Machine"

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

Low down bad refrigerator (Dan Peterson), Tuesday, 8 October 2013 20:14 (eleven years ago)

proto-hippie Eden Ahbez

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

saki, Tuesday, 8 October 2013 20:15 (eleven years ago)

This is the first song to use phasing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IlE6eHEENg4

wk, Tuesday, 8 October 2013 20:21 (eleven years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gJg7_FgVTI

A Made Man In The Mellow Mafia (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 8 October 2013 20:27 (eleven years ago)

Wow!

In a similar vein:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IEfz9VfFOKQ

hopping and bopping to the krokodil rot (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Tuesday, 8 October 2013 20:36 (eleven years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b3JVpVqiIBQ

gotta lol geir (NickB), Tuesday, 8 October 2013 20:37 (eleven years ago)

Dean Elliott! SFX! Tape edits!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwQ6A7eWvpU

Low down bad refrigerator (Dan Peterson), Tuesday, 8 October 2013 20:38 (eleven years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qj6lUC6K4VQ

gotta lol geir (NickB), Tuesday, 8 October 2013 20:42 (eleven years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-C7jZfAQ34

gotta lol geir (NickB), Tuesday, 8 October 2013 20:46 (eleven years ago)

Tom Dissevelt in 1959 (youtube says 1962 because that's the date of a re-release):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hwFSJJwT8_o

fresh (crüt), Tuesday, 8 October 2013 20:53 (eleven years ago)

^^^ Okay, that's a beauty!

Low down bad refrigerator (Dan Peterson), Tuesday, 8 October 2013 20:57 (eleven years ago)

Martin Denny at his trippiest

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OtGAoEg5WvA

whole album is swankadelic

saki, Tuesday, 8 October 2013 20:58 (eleven years ago)

What about the psychedelic 1940s?

(I dig the pedal steel break at 0:45...)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yeH3VDrnQ6w

Josefa, Tuesday, 8 October 2013 22:08 (eleven years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2zBbfyBn-s

pervilege as a meme (contenderizer), Tuesday, 8 October 2013 23:22 (eleven years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMF0Wc_hm4A#t=19

pervilege as a meme (contenderizer), Tuesday, 8 October 2013 23:30 (eleven years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwps6_QB3Is

JacobSanders, Tuesday, 8 October 2013 23:48 (eleven years ago)

"I Only Have Eyes For You"

The Reverend, Tuesday, 8 October 2013 23:57 (eleven years ago)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RQNkGUZQWc

JacobSanders, Wednesday, 9 October 2013 00:02 (eleven years ago)

Elsa Popping and her Pixieland Band - Java (1959)

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

( X '____' )/ (zappi), Wednesday, 9 October 2013 00:16 (eleven years ago)

lots of 50s classical types were messing around with tape recorders and sounding pretty out there
e.g. Vladimir Ussachevsky - Piece for tape recorder (1956)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E47Zk8riCO4

( X '____' )/ (zappi), Wednesday, 9 October 2013 00:29 (eleven years ago)

Maybe a stretch to call it psychedelic, but this has an almost Velvet Underground thing going on
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6l0c9wFoT1I

brio, Wednesday, 9 October 2013 01:19 (eleven years ago)


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