The first Psychedelic song?

NYSPORTSFAN · 09-16-2012, 09:10 AM

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Originally Posted by Metanoia

I have searched all over the internet trying to find out what the first "real" psychedelic song ever recorded was. I have also been trying to discover what the roots of psychedelic music are and as to whether psychedelic music as we know it today existed sometime before the 1960's.

The earliest song I have come across that sounds psychedelic-ish is Syncopation by Tom Dissevelt which apparently was recorded sometime between 1957-1959. I don't know much about this song other than it sounds way ahead of its time, it has a very progressive/electronic feel to it which I did not know existed during the 1950's.

If anyone out there could give me more information about this subject then it would really make me happy! I am new to this forum and I look forward to seeing all of your answers.

-Metanoia

Syncopation by Tom Dissevelt sounds ahead of it's time and never heard it before but it's not psychedelic music.

As for psychedelic rock the early ones like "Eight Miles High" and "Shapes of Things" had strong raga influences but they weren't trying to put into record what the the psychedelic experience was. The first song I know of intentionally that does it is the Beatles "Tomorrow Never Knows" based on Psychedelic Experience: A Manual Based on the Tibetan Book of the Dead. They basically put on record musically what the psychedelic experience was. If "Tomorrow Never Knows" isn't the first intentional psychedelic rock song it certainly put that kind of music in the publie eye.