Psychedelic Music through the Decades
 

Same as Jackhammer's thread, just specialized for the Psychedlia and related styles like Sunshine Pop, and Acid Rock.

So what can you post?

It could be:

• the Psychedelic Rock song you are listening to as you log onto MB
• Psychedelic Rock album you just listen to
• current interests like
  • a new band/song you found that you want to share
  • or an old band you put aside, but have recently gone back to

The Babe Rainbow - Secret Enchanted Broccoli Forest

It was an oversight. I checked the advance search and missed it in the returns. I narrow this thread to Psychedelic music, but I feel a "What are you listening to?" for Psychedelia isn't a strong enough topic, and if there isn't any participation, I'll ask a mod to delete the whole thread as a mistake thread.

Really, neither is Prog. A few people posted but they were usually the same ones. I think this only works for general, metal and maybe pop. Nobody's interested otherwise. Philistines.

I agree

^ Trollheart's thread also escaped my attention.
My suggestion now would be to ask a mod to merge the two threads, and with TH's permission, change the title of his thread to Prog and Psych. That way you might catch more potential contributors, and would also be echoing the title of the sub-forum, which'd make things simpler for anyone who is genre-challenged.

I even promise to post something myself, though I see that mainly I'll be putting "x2" onto Psy-Fi's posts. :(

^ This makes a great start to the thread, Neapolitan! It's a very neat pastiche, I presume. Do you have a date for it by any chance?

I was thinking about asking a mod to delete. Since ~*~dreamer~*~ posted here, I decide on plan B which was to ask a mod to change the title. I guess I'll re-write the opening too. Asking to merge the two thread imo would be too much like stepping on Trollheart's toes.

It appears on an limited edition EP that was released on Sep 4, 2015, however the video was posted on YouTube on May 25, 2014.

^ It's your call of course, Neapolitan, but I don't imagine that Trollheart would mind - after all, he has so many threads going on MB that I don't suppose he's particularly territorial about one that's all but dried up. Would u like me to PM him about it ?
Thanks for such a detailed answer. :)

I'm exploring early Gong at the moment. If, like me, you find Daevid Allen's whimsy tedious, you have to choose pretty carefully. This track, at least, has some decent music to excuse his lapses into twee humour:-

It's so 1969 I thought you wouldn't believe me otherwise.

Gong sounds more Prog, there's some Experimental side of Psychedelia e.g. United States of America. Seeing that it came out '73 makes sense. It seems to go in the direction of Jazz fusion which more bands were doing in the mid 70s. Think of Relayer which Yes released in '74. The last bit of the song is a bit interesting ~ 11:21 you hear Post-Punk-like/Devo-like chords.

I wish I could analyse music with precision, like that Nea, but it's beyond me.

Right now I'm really excited by these guys, with their solid rhythms and fuzzed-up guitar. Is there even a touch of Jim Morrison in their singer? I'm not sure.

Spotify recommended this, and I'm loving it so far. It's Japanese psychedelic pop.

EDIT: OK, I'm now on a 24-minute track of spoken word. It's kinda creepy.

There is a little Morrison there. It reminds me more of how the vocals are drenched in reverb which is often done with indie, Minimal Wave and Death Rock vocals. The guitar riff reminds me of another song, buit can't think of it at the moment.

The falsetto in that Harumi song reminds me of:
Brenton Wood - The Oogum Boogum Song 1967


I guess my favorite Japanese Psychedelic band would be The Mops. They can hit high note too especially in the intro.
THE MOPS - 永久運動(Perpetual Motion)

^ I must admit that when I saw the date and country of origin, I didn't expect much of your Harumi track, but I was pleasantly surprised. Thanks for introducing me to someone new. But spoken word for 24 minutes! :yikes: That's pushing the envelope, but not in a good way.

Neapolitan's Oogum Boogum track was an interesting curiosity; great voice, and a nice line about "her brother's sloppy shirt", because it illustrates something many of us have noticed; that a beautiful woman can make the most unpromising clothes sexy.

Another famously good voice is Stevie Winwood's. This atmospheric track is from Traffic's self-titled 1968 album. Overall, the psychedelic lyrics on this album are nicely counterbalanced by natural, live-in-the-studio musicianship.
( TBH, though, I'm only listening to this so that I have something to add to the thread - but that still counts, doesn't it? )

Listening to Camembert Electrique , Gong's masterpiece. David Allen was Aussie (like me) and then moved to the UK. I felt a great loss when he passed recently��

That Harumi set was never released in Japan.

He got the big push from an appearance on the late 60's TV popshow, American Bandstand.

Unlike say John Peel, Dick Clark was certainly not known for introducing musical change in direction. But Harumi's single sparked this and he was a big sensation with flowery robes and lightshow like not seen at that time on tv.

Verve gambled big and did an unprecidented thing - put out Harumi "same" as a double set. This at a time when only handful of KNOWN artists - like Dylan - had made it to double lp sets.

And one of the 2 lp set being long track spoken word mingled with atmospheric music - totally unlike the popmusic on the first disc.


Big risk for the record label - and likely they lost money on it.

This has been my favorite psych album recently - Brazilian band Os Mutantes' self titled from 1968.



They appear to have a lot of other albums I've yet to explore - has anyone here done a deep dive into their discography?

I know two/three lps.

Don't care for them in the least.