let us now talk about psychedelia

Has anyone mentioned Blossom Toes yet? Their first album (whose name escapes me now) is great pop-sike and should be reissued. All the early Rubbles LPs are fine too, that Mojo boxed set looks interesting, if I didn't have most of it already.

British psych is far better than US psych in my opinion - in the US it was too serious and part of a generational movement of protest against 'Nam and dropping out and a whole counter-culture of rebellion, whereas in the UK it was just mod bands dropping acid and making slightly stranger records than normal, utilising all the advances in recording technology as they went along. There's an inbuilt sense of whimsy, but also melancholy, in a lot of the best UK psych and that rarely gets a mention.

I also find myself really liking The Smoke - even though they can be a little less psychedelic at times, they nevertheless make up for this with brilliant Kinks/Who-esque English pop. Plus one of the people in the band looks so much like Beck it's scary....

Curt - I've got 90% of the stuff on the Mojo box on other albums, although I reckon it's a good selection. Best tracks ? Hell I don't know - The End's Shade's Of Orange is genius, also The Koobas, The Attack ..... I love this stuff.

That album by The End sounds like one to look for. I'd like to check out more Tintern Abbey, Attack, Kaleidoscope (UK), etc., too. Sorry to ramble on, except I think this stuff would be right up Electric Sound of Jim's alley, too.

I still haven't got Nuggets yet.. must get onto that ASAP.

First two records were outstanding, with "Up All Night" from Milestones probably my favorite cut of theirs. Traveller's Tale kind of sucked unfortunately as Quackenbush had left. There was some good stuff on that Lost Masters cd that One Way put out in the 90's. Not blasted like the 60's stuff at all, but pretty nice post-hippie rock moves, and Quackenbush back in the fold.

Who or what is "Graham" Parsons? Did someone actually recommed The Hollies? "'Destroy' the Love, Peace and Poetry comps?"

yall must be oucho friggin' minds.

My favorite psych comps are the U.S. Love, Peace, and Poetry volume, Pebbles Volume 3, Erik Lindgren's Beyond the Calico Wall comp, and Chocolate Soup for Diabetics Volume 2.

I also think that there's a tendency for people to overrate obscure psych albums that are not actually that great all the way through. So, in this sense, I really love the Love, Peace, and Poetry series anthologizing the really good cuts from a lot of obscure albums.

And me, well, I've got some unfinished business to attend to:

And me, well, I've got some unfinished business to attend to:

1001 Interstellar Psychedelic Recordings Of The 1960's

I like comps ok, but, Scott, think about your favorite psych records. Could you reduce Ill Wind, The Index, Aguaturbia, Emtidi or Lazy Smoke to one song to sum it all up? No way. Comps are cliff's notes. They allow people to namedrop bands they hardly know anything about.

Then again, maybe I'm just a big nerd.

Thinking of that volume, will I ever buy the Darius album? The Hunger album? The Patron Saints album? Would I be disappointed if I did? (I WOULD, however, immediately buy a new reissue of the Michaelangelo album--the Void Michaelangelo album of tracks from the same period is EXCELLENT--probably the Zerfas album and quite possibly the Victoria album.)

Same thing with the British volume. How many of those albums are really excellent on the whole? (Actually, I do have the Bobak, Jons and Malone album and it is pretty good.)

Kak
Moving Gelatine Plates
High Tide (Sea Shanties!!!!!!!!)
Cold Sun (just get Dark Shadows! wow!)
Plastic People of the Universe
Rain Parade ('80s sike gem)
Plan 9 (especially 'Dealing w/ the Dead')
Plasticland
Yatha Sidra
Dreamies
Alan Watts-This Is It!
Christine 23 Onna
Flower Travellin' Band
Euphoria
Freeborne
Intersystems (WAY out)
Kalacakra
Lula Cotres & ze Ramalho (Brazil)
Music Machine
The Speakers

Hell - there's tons!

Have fun digging!!!!!! :-)

1001 Interstellar Psychedelic Recordings Of The 1960's

Cuz we are too stoned to finish it right now, so we need help.

Inspirational verse ("Wishful Thinking" from Ham and Sam Jammin' LP, 1989):

I had this whole other life
I planned it out I pulled it off
Nothing every went wrong
No one I knew ever died
I used rolling wheat fields for money
All the state prisons were closed
People named Larry were not bad guys

I'll have YOU know, that I can't live without my Starstruck soundtrack!

some v cool stuff on there but i would have preferred they leave off the previously (and in some cases quite heavily) comped stuff and make it a disc shorter

has anyone into this stuff not heard magic potion by now?

nice to see complex on there, images blue in my top 10 tracks of the 70s

Aw Ned, I set that self-promotion up for you! Well done.

I'm on the fence about these sorts of things. I dig Nuggets II and Mojo's Acid Drops box sets but I'm not sure I need another. Having said that, any compiler smart enough to include Bill Nelson has my attention.