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Janszoon 10-21-2013 08:27 PM

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Originally Posted by DriveYourCarDownToTheSea (Post 1373627)
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.

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:


DriveYourCarDownToTheSea 10-21-2013 08:46 PM

^
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.


DriveYourCarDownToTheSea 10-21-2013 09:07 PM

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





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

Jopatate 10-21-2013 09:19 PM

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)


galt54 12-14-2013 11:01 PM

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)

GOATPOP 12-14-2013 11:53 PM

here kids smoke these






galt54 12-22-2013 06:00 PM

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Originally Posted by galt54 (Post 1395428)
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)

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

Taxman 12-30-2013 07:31 AM

Hey Bulldog is pretty cool too.

Zenzic 01-02-2014 07:56 AM

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

Gavin B. 01-16-2014 03:44 PM

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.


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