Awesome psychedelic songs by (generally) non-psych bands

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.

The Reasonable Person Psychedelic Orchestra rules

may i kindly suggest we post more songs

and don't be afraid to post songs by more recent acts either

Sleater-Kinney: "What's Mine Is Yours"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GcpNvYFMGE

the dragonfly/purple dancer single is a path fleetwood mac should have followed a bit more, kirwan and spencer duets had potential
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7RicSJtQVmI

just listened to that chubby checker album, holy shit. one of the songs climaxes with him yelling "lets get together and make a SPACE BABY!" A+++++++, would psych again.

I assumed that the thread was supposed to be about lps or tracks like that and things like Muddy Waters Electric Mud and the Howlin Wolf equivalent rather than attempting to dismiss bands that are pretty widely recognised for sounding psychedelic.

"sounding psychedelic"

this is a meaningless phrase

also there is already this thread: Black Acid Rock - S/D

this is classic ilm

ok I'll play the little game that I should have just ignored. How do you define psychedelic in a way that somehow excludes Can.

Or what were the credentials and the correct phrase for amounting to psychedelic.

I would think the crucial point was that the sense of hearing experienced the sound as being psychedelic hence sounding psychedelic.

the latter is a wholly subjective category that no one will agree on, rendering the usage of the term pointless. Using the term that way doesn't tell you anything about how the music sounds, who made it when/where, how it was performed/composed/produced. All it tells anyone is that you, as a listener, associate this particular piece of music with taking psychedelic drugs. And how is that useful for anyone.

like let's say both the Bee Gees "Red Chair Fadeaway" and Can's "Mother Sky" are considered "psychedelic". These two pieces of music have nothing in common. They don't sound similar, they weren't composed or produced in a similar style, they don't share lyrical associations, they don't share instrumentation, they were made in different times in different countries by very different sets of people - one is an abstract fairytale pop song with a mellotron and harmony vocals and the other is a ten minute long mostly instrumental chugging metallic groove with polyrhythms and a stinging electric guitar lead - why on earth would you want to group these songs together or imply that they share any musical DNA?

and yet, somehow, the term is used and ppl generally understand what is meant... expand yr mind & see the connections, man

ppl generally understand what is meant

they obviously don't, as this clusterfuck of a thread proved within the first 10 posts.

just to say that the first track by the loud family is a phantastic jam i didn't know before. not quite sure if i'd call it psychedelic though. it is quite heavy though. what about this?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3r54Rrigr4

^nah

I thought Gish was pretty psychedelic when I heard it around the time. Couldn't really take the voice that much though.
THink I far preferred Mercury Rev around the time.

how about Schooly D "PSK", the sound of PCP