Awesome psychedelic songs by (generally) non-psych bands

that’s like saying the velvets are psychedelic

All music is naturally psychedelic when you really think about it, amirite?

especially if you smoke enough weed

i listened to flow motion by can on acid at new year and it was p psychedelic

(specifically the title track)

I think the confusion/tension here is between psychedelic as a descriptor of the music's effect on the listener and psychedelic as a *genre* akin to bebop or dub reggae or NWOBHM.

In defense of my Moby Grape suggestion, "It's a Beautiful Day Today" comes from post-Spence Grape and there is little psychedelic about the "'69" album other than the Spence leftover "Seeing." Even "Beautiful Day" isn't particularly psychedelic except that hearing it makes me feel like something is kicking in.

Soundtracks is probably the most psychedelic early Can record. Or the Inner Space tunes.

Kinks discussion reminds me that early versions of The Who Sell Out came with "FREE PSYCHEDELIC POSTER INSIDE."

https://images.eil.com/large_image/THE_WHO_SELL%2BOUT%2B%2B%2BPOSTER-531494b.jpg

Pretty Things were probably on the path with Emotions and still in the ballpark after with SF Sorrow, plus there's that first Electric Banana record that I've still never heard...

pretty much:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0bdLdTJdKI

never seen that Sellout poster before, v nice!

xps

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79bLbv-JCwY

Kinks discussion reminds me that early versions of The Who Sell Out came with "FREE PSYCHEDELIC POSTER INSIDE."

Now this (the 1968 album by Intersystems) really was something else entirely.

https://img.discogs.com/7aptAh1VHDXvmi-zwO1gCf6SMe8=/fit-in/600x600/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-8809427-1470205717-4963.jpeg.jpg

I know I did post this on another thread the other day and I know they were on the fringes of psych sometimes, but this song is certainly the most straightforward psychedelia they ever did and I love it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8eFk9bAXzkI

lots of good suggestions in this thread BUT i wish scott was still posting random cool tunes :(

speaking of the bonzos "cyborg signal" by big grunt is pretty psychedelic imo

"i'll search the sky" by the nitty gritty dirt band

i also like psychedelic covers of not necessarily psychedelic songs, like the bluebeards' version of "come on-a my house" or curt boettcher's take on "tumbling tumbleweeds".

Finding it odd that somebody would find the music of Can non psychedelic. I think it is a descriptive that is used quite a bit for it.
I have been listening to psychedelic music since my early teens. So am wondering if you have ears if you are coming out with something like that

I have been listening to psychedelic music since my early teens. So am wondering if you have ears if you are coming out with something like that

it is of course freaky “out there” free rock I just don’t consider all freaky “psychedelic” but I’ve only been listening to psychedelic music since my early teens, also I suck

Yardbirds kind of owned this idea at one time:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4DdAs0PddQ

I thought the Yardbirds had a consciously psychedelic era before being returned to something more poppy at least in the studio by management. Thought they remained pretty psychedelic live.
Also yhought they were pretty influential on psych elsewhere.

Thought the Hollies did 2 consciously psychedelic lps too. At the time that psych was the current thing.
Thing about the Hollies that intrigues me is hearing somewhere that they had been a harder rocking band early on that was forced into something poppier by management. & not having heard what they sounded like beforehand.

I think sometimes people use psychedelic to mean something like ‘interested in variation’.

Finding it odd that somebody would find the music of Can non psychedelic.

That had to be some kind of joke.

https://youtu.be/SnZWxIXE6E0

Paul Nicholas - Run Shaker Life

(Really good psych-folk, way better than his later abominations)

Chubby Checker - "Goodbye Victoria"

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Fsh-0D53bps

It's from a completely weird one-off LP the Chubster recorded while living in Holland in the early seventies and subsequently disowned. Probably the best work he's ever done tbh.

Pre-psychedelic era, but this is as psychedelic as it gets:

Les Paul & Mary Ford "Smoke Rings"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bK3APtfqp5Q

Chubby Checker - "Goodbye Victoria"

hell yes, this is the stuff

you may be interested in jimmy reed's 1973 quasi-psych LP "i ain't from chicago"

this is typical:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=897RhUOgBF8

see also: electric mud, "concerto in be goode" (mentioned above), junior parker's "taxman"

buffy sainte-marie's LP "illuminations" has a handful of tracks that qualify, but this one fucking RIPS

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WrgM3OpkTTw
"adam"

goodbye victoria - stuff identified!

personally i think "Fumeux fume par fumee" by Solage should count... it's a song all about smoking... from before 1492... so what was he smoking?

_Finding it odd that somebody would find the music of Can non psychedelic. _


That had to be some kind of joke.

Psychedelic just means weird and experimental ok I’m done

― brimstead

i mean, according to the people who compile the "rough guide" cds, definitely

I probably associate some of their softer, melodic, early stuff like "Tango Whiskyman" with psych more than, say, "You Doo Right."

On the whole, I'd say early Can was almost as peripheral to psych as the Velvet Underground, though.

I'm finding this bizarre. I can't think of Can as not being psychedelic sounding just because the first person I've ever heard say that they're not allowed to be thought of as psychedelic says so.
I find them profoundly psychedelic much like I find early 70s electric Miles psychedelic and certain eras of Sun ra and Pharoah Sandsers and other spiritual/space jazz to be psychedelic.
I've been listening to the band for the last 35 years, possibly a bit longer.
& today I found out that there are genuinely people in this planet who are aware of Monster MOvie and think it isn't allowed to be thought of as psychedelic sounding. I find that profoundly weird.

& that somebody is trying to reduce the idea of other people who listen to that music and find it psychedelic must be confused because they must just be thinking any music that is weird and experimental must be psychedelic is just creepily arrogant.

psychedelic, psychedelic
psychedelic, psychedelic
psychedelic, psychedelic
oh oh oh, psychedelic

I don't think of "Monster Movie" as being very psychedlic either fwiw.

Hey steveolende, fuck you

Exactly what I should have said to you in the first place.

heavy vibes itt

weird thread

the most psychedlic music I've everheard is without exception music I've heard while on psychedelics

that included Dean Martin one time

This turned out well

“Mother Sky” is psychedelic as fuck, and Tago Mago & Ege Bamyasi are psych canon

But psychedelic means different things to different people

it was literally a toss-up between bumping the Loud Family thread and starting this

glad I made the right decision tho lol

(xp) Indeed.

You either accept a historical definition or a wholly subjective one. But you can’t have both.