I listened to Planet Caravan on my first smoke. Heaven.

Couldn't possibly pick a favourite at this stage, psychedelia is one of my favourites, and I often find myself gravitating towards bands - from a wide range of genres - that exhibit a psychedelic sound

I'm just going to post a song I believe is one of the trippiest things I've ever heard.

THIS is how you do a cover when you're trying to make something new out of it


Roky Erickson, I salute you sir.


Another great cover, from Billy Gibbons' first band, the Moving Sidewalks

Planet Caravan is a beautiful song, the Pantera cover isn't bad either.

Sabbath-Planet Caravan is awesome..also..

Ina Gadda Da Vida-Iron Butterfly
Master of the Universe-Hawkwind
Silver Machine-Hawkwind
Sunshine of your Love-Cream
White Room-Cream
White Rabbit-Jefferson Airplane
The End-The Doors

a lot of Pink Floyd,Hendrix,Acid Mothers Temple and Captain Beefheart.

and a few more i can't think of at the moment..

Cream - Pressed Rat and Warthog

Doors - Moonlight Drive
 

I like the slightly off-beat rhythm and, more significantly, Robbie Krieger's 'Bottle-neck' guitar which creates an eerie sound.

Like everyone else said - Planet Caravan and also Maggot Brain. It's fricking bliss.

Crystal Ship - The Doors
Tomorrow Never Knows - The Beatles
White Rabbit - Jefferson Airplane
In a Gadda da Vida - Iron Butterfly
Odgen's Nut Gone Flake - The Small Faces

Don't know if anyone mentioned them or not, but Sunshine Superman and Hurdy Gurdy Man by Donovan are really up there on my list.

Not terribly psychedelic but you couldn't get much more hippy than Vashti Bunyan.

Same here. Also: one of my favorite Donovan hippy-psych-jazzy songs is "Sunny Goodge Street" on his earlier Fairytale album.

Donovan wrote about this song in his autobiography: "The pure line that opens the first track of Miles’s [Davis’s] Seven Steps To Heaven was a call to me in 1963 in St. Ives, a herald announcing a new consciousness in music. We all heard it. Now, a year or so later, at eighteen years of age, I wanted to project a new meaning into music – 'Love and Compassion.' I began a song in the jazz feel that spring of 1965, called 'Sunny Goodge Street.'”




On the firefly platform on sunny Goodge Street
A violent hash smoker shook a chocolate machine,
Involved in an eating scene.

Smashing into neon streets in their stonedness,
Smearing their eyes on the crazy coloured goddess,
Listenin' to sounds of Mingus mellow fantastic.
"My, my", they sigh,
"My, my", they sigh.

In doll house rooms with coloured lights swingin'
Strange music boxes sadly tinklin'
Drink in the sun shining all around you.
"My, my", they sigh,
"My, my", they sigh.

"My, my", they sigh,
"My, my", they sigh.

The magician, he sparkles in satin and velvet.
You gaze at his splendour with eyes you've not used yet.
I tell you his name is Love, Love, Love.
"My, my", they sigh,
"My, my", they sigh.

^
Hadn't heard that one before. Nice. Thanks!

You're very welcome, glad you enjoyed it! :wave:
I'm a big Donovan fan -- so much love in his heart.

This song embraces all hippy culture.

I'm a big Sabbath fan -- so much bloodlust in their hearts. :laughing:

(P.S.: God is not dead. Stop killing my buzz! ;))

/thread

Does this count?



Another premier hippie song IMO.

That was beautiful. Had never heard of her before.

Yes! Especially "Hurdy Gurdy Man". I've also always thought the song was incredibly effectively used in this preview, which forever made me perceive the song as sort of disturbing:

^
Wow, that works great. Yeah, the song has a dark edge to it, but I never thought of it as that dark. ;)

On a much lighter side, Jefferson Airplane has a load of hippie/psychedelic stuff, but here is one of my favorites (and one of the few songs they did not composed by themselves). It's not psychedelic but has a great feel-good hippie vibe.

Might as well throw in the latest and greatest psychedelic band.





EDIT: Both videos are best appreciated in full-screen mode. ;)

i'm not really into the ''hippie'' thing, but this song is really cool

Country Joe and the fish - I feel like i'm fixin' to die

i'll just give the youtube url for the live version since i prefer it to the studio version(I can't give the full link because i didn't post enough stuff apparently)

My top ten songs from the summer of love (I was alive and kicking then, although I was not a hippy).

1) California Dreaming
2) White Rabbit
3) White Room
4) Tales of Brave Ulysses
5) Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds
6) Remember a Day
7) Strawberry Fields
8) Only a Northern Song
9) Here Comes the Sun
10) Sgt. Pepper´s Lonely Hearts Club Band (reprise)

here kids smoke these

Remember a Day (by Pink Floyd, of course) is probably an underappreciated psychedelic song. It is also my favorite Pink Floyd song.

Hey Bulldog is pretty cool too.

Maggot Brain - Funkadelic. Psychedelic enough for me. :)

In the Eighties I did a psychedelic rock show on WMBR (M.I.T. college station) in Boston MA. This is a list of some of my favorites from that show. I only allowed one song per artist or the list would have gone on forever.

Lather- Jefferson Airplane
You Can't Ever Come Down- Joe Byrd & the Field Hippies
Happenings Ten Years Time Ago- Yardbirds
You Set the Scene- Love
Strawberry Fields Forever- The Beatles
Eight Miles High- The Byrds
Saint Stephen- The Grateful Dead
East-West- The Paul Butterfield Blues Band
Mr. Farmer- The Seeds
The End- The Doors
Tales of Brave Ulysses- Cream
Up From the Skies- Jimi Hendrix Experience
Paint It Black- The Rolling Stones
Get Me To the World on Time- The Electric Prunes
Time Has Come Today- The Chambers Brothers
To Cry You A Song- Jethro Tull
Who Are the Brain Police?- Frank Zappa/The Mothers of Invention
Sky Pilot- Eric Burdon & the Animals
Main Vein- Aorta
Bluebird- Buffalo Springfield
Suzy Q. - Creedence Clearwater Revival
Autumn's Child- Captain Beefheart
Buddha- The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band
Not So Sweet Martha Lorraine- Country Joe & the Fish
Season of the Witch- Donovan
Maya- The Incredible String Band
In A Gadda Da Vida- Iron Butterfly
Shapes of Things- The Jeff Beck Group
The Wheel- Jerry Garcia
Lemon Princess- The Leaves
Ramble On- Led Zeppelin
I Unseen- The Misunderstood
The Best Way To Travel- The Moody Blues
Theme From an Imaginary Western- Mountain
Open My Eyes- The Nazz
Cinnamon Girl- Neil Young
Ballad To An Amber Lady- Pearls Before Swine
See Emily Play- Pink Floyd
Whiter Shade of Pale- Procol Harum
Who Do You Love (long version)- Quicksilver Messenger Service
Omaha- Moby Grape
Don't Look Back- The Remains
My World Fell Down- Sagittarius
My White Bicycle- Tomorrow
Paper Sun- Traffic
I Can See For Miles- The Who
Who Loves the Sun- The Velvet Underground
Time of the Season- The Zombies

If you own all the above songs, you'll have a pretty good start on a decent collection of psychedelic music.

More modern hippie-ness from Tame Impala. :)





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Do you prefer that to the original by United States of America? I like the way Joe Byrd and the Field Hippies' version ends, but as a whole I think that USA's is better. Very nice selection on that list though. My favourite psychedelic group these days is Fifty Foot Hose, they're ****ing awesome.



Some incredible **** for 68.

Some 60’s hippie-ness from Aussie band The Master’s Apprentice.

It’s Because I Love You

Strawberry Fields Forever. it helped to prop open my mind to new and increasingly strange music - which has been pouring in ever since.

Gavin B's list is great - but I would not really see Led Zeppelin as psychedelic. The latter days of The Yardbirds, with Beck and then Page, do just about cut it.

Kansas - The Pinnacle

I refuse to name anything best, but here's an underappreciated one:

I definitely agree on how underappreciated that one is. I think people get thrown off by the weirdness of Alan's Breakfast and the title track to remember that track.

Oh man, but the title track is wonderful too. Especially when they break into the guitar and organ playing some funky licks around 10 mins in. I understand though, it can be a long 10 minutes sometimes.

Maybe not the best but "Theme From A Dream" by Agnes Strange (1972) is well worth a listen.
Wah wah overload!!