Greatest Hippy/Psychedelic song ever?
 

yup another "Psychedelic" thread from moi but hey...

to anyone who likes/knows any "Hippy" (naming it loosely) or psychedelic tunes whats your favourite? mine has to be "Rainbow Chaser" by nirvana (not Kurt etc). reply if interested- if not... just go back to your stressful lives.

Donovan - Wear Your Love Like Heaven

Trippy.

Turn Turn Turn- the Byrds
All You Need is Love, Strawberry Fields, ha lots of Beatles songs
I can see for miles and other stuff by the Who
Goin to California -Led Zeppelin
Purple Haze- Jimi Hendrix
People are Strange -the Doors
Tales of Brave Ulysses, Sunshine of your love- Cream
Good Vibrations -the Beach Boys
Imagine -John Lennon
Casey Jones- Grateful Dead
Do you believe in magic- the Lovin Spoonful
White Rabbit -Jefferson Airplane -this song is about Alice in Wonderland, one of the most well known completely psychedelic movies

Sorry, I know you said one. I'm not sure if The Sound of Silence is psychedelia or not but if it is I add it.

nah its fine, theres a couple i dont know there so i'll check 'em out

"mr. tamborine man"- the byrds

'lucy in the sky with diamonds' 'a day in the life' - beatles

"Just dropped in" (to see what condition my condition was in) - Kenny Rodgers

"Psychotic Reaction"- Autofocus
"She's Not There"- Vanilla Fudge
"Shapes of Things"- The Yardbirds and Steve Vai

People Are Strange- The Doors
Angels And Sailors- The Doors
Turn Turn Turn- The Byrds
Comfortably Numb- Pink Floyd
Wish You Were Here- Pink Floyd
The Great Gig In The Sky- Pink Floyd

Light my Fire - The Doors
Burning of the Midlight lamp - Hendrix
White Rabbit- Jefferson Airplane
Time - P. Floyd

and many more

I think I had Too Much To Dream - The Electric Prunes

John Lennon - Imagine

imagine....psychedelic?
and sorry, i cant resist- your signature...why the need?

'glass onion' - beatles. would john lennon's 'cold turkey' be considered psychedelic?

"Mercedes Benz" - Janis Joplin

any colour you like - pink floyd

Cool, another 5 year bump. It feels like time travel when that happens.

didn't even realize. apparently the prog forum isn't too active as this was about midway down the first page.

INAGADADAVIDA baby!

My favourite psychedelic song :D Enjoy!

Window Paine.

I'll take Hawkwind "D-Rider" on this one. I've loved that song so much for so many years.

Tomorrow Never Knows, duuh.

"Hair" by the Cowsills

I like this style :tramp:

Best . Album . Ever!

There's really only one song/man that this can go to:



Hendrix was the man. It's vary rare for me to say it for a figure as mainstream as him, but he was.

^ What he sesd.

How about Sweetwater-Motherless Child?

Mr. Tambourine man - Bob Dylan

I know there's nothing psychedelic about the instrumentals (just a few chords) but the lyrics and the feeling are pretty trippy. Bob was the original hippy.

I'm not gonna lie: this video is as trippy as ****:



Kula Shaker might just be my favourite ever psychedelic band.

Pink Floyd - "Pow R Toc H"
The Pretty Things - "Private Sorrow"
13th Floor Elevators - "Reverberation"
Jimi Hendrix Experience - "Are You Experienced?" (song)
The Hollies - "King Midas in Reverse"
Chocolate Watch Band - the entire "The Inner Mystique" album

This one is all progressive, but it kinda fits the venue.

I think Tool has some really good songs that have a psychedelic feel to them.

Tomorrow Never Knows is killer, one of the few Beatles products i would actually call great. Also, that Bella Lugosi's Dead by Bauhaus is pretty psychedelic. Oh, and of course, Crimson and Clover by Tommy James and the Shondells. It's a masterpiece!

That's funny, I just heard this song for the first time last night, but i was asleep for the first half of it and was woken up because my girlfriend got creeped out by it while she was working on jewelry. It is really good and extra trippy, i could tell it was them straight off though.

I think you're the first person I've ever heard describe Bauhaus as psychedelic, but I when I think about it that song is sort of trippy so I guess I can see why you'd say that.

Anyway, this thread needs some Zombies:

I've only heard that song by them, so i'm probably a liiittle misled.

Not a serious candidate for "the greatest ever", but this song has some surprisingly psychedelic lyrics, given that the music and presentation are hardly in a hippy style :-



This one, on the other hand, is surely one of the great musical evocations of "altered awareness" :-

Who would have thought that the mighty Sabbath could also give us one of my all time trippy faves?

Not a Zep fan but this is so good:

I could listen to this everyday:


and finally the most hypnotic track I have ever heard and probably ever will, the magnificent Shot With A Diamond by Loop: