let us now talk about psychedelia

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!

actually speaking of psychedelia, what are the Fading Yellow compilations like? anyone?

MICHAELANGELO - ST Mega rare psych monster
originally released on the tiny Guinn label in
1977, this lp has fetched 4 figures in the
collectors circuit. The Void reissue will be
exact to the original, color glossy cover, lyrics
and back of jacket, 600 pressing from Michael's
masters, 100 on marble green 500 black. Insert
will be included also. This is the release that
everyone has been asking for.Musically dreamy
psychedelic folk , the stuff of legend by now.

sez you.

a lot of it has to do with availability. the internet + cheap (and bountiful!) reissues, tons of info (the internet again, but also mags like mojo, etc) that was previously hard to come by. years ago, people acted like they were doing you a favor by selling you 30 dollar psych bootlegs that sounded like shit. now there is SO MUCH high quality (as well as plenty of dodgy shit of course) product to consume. and whenever there is that much arcane shit to be sampled, musicnerdz will flock cuz they iz curious motherfuckers.

I've been idly wondering - is there anything in the UK that is commonly cited as the "first" (or maybe first significant) psychedelic single...? In the US the Elevators I know the Elevators usually get the credit for first using the term, but I'm curious where people sort of mark the beginning of the UK's psych period in pop. Revolver?

Shapes of Things? Although earlier Yardbirds songs were already pretty psychedelic too.

Arnold Layne?

Paint It Black predates Revolver too.

nah, "Strawberry Fields Forever" gets commonly cited, but mainly thru Beatles-centricity i guess

in terms of huge significant single rather than first experiment with the style

While this thread is bumped, another plug for Psychedelicized Radio, which rose from the ashes of Technicolor Web of Sound. They've upgraded to a 128kbs stream and have put a lot of work into expanding the playlist beyond the standard psych canon -- but deeper into more obscure artists, not expanding into watered down not-really-psych. Any station that plays "The Big Bright Green Pleasure Machine" by The Joyride is alright by me.

http://psychedelicized.com/