Let me have it - your favorite psych bands of all time.

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PSYCH!!!

Boy did this get started on the wrong foot.

PM DAWN
REDNEX
Alan Parsons Project
ASIA
Aldo Nova

Piss on psychedlic anything!

Onyx
Aldo Nova
Stetsasonic
Psychelic Furs
Lennon Sisters

Everything is psychedelic to me, but for the hell of it:

Silver Apples
Seeds
Jean Jacques Perrey
Can
Deep Purple "Space Truckin'" side of Made In Japan

And one of my top psych lp's (for reals):
Car Wash soundtrack.

This is really good:

http://www.headheritage.co.uk/unsung/thebookofseth/1107

Thanks, Bazooka Joe (and everyone)!

bvalentine, stop being mean and give it up! I need new download ammo. Keep 'em coming!

I've been digging Francoise Hardy lately.

You should try and find that Ween Versus The Boredoms thing. It's totally gone.

And Acid Mothers Temple is really good too!

make sure you download Aldo Nova, what with both Eric and myself giving it props you know it will blow your mind

Strawberry Alarm Clock
Tangerine Dream
Outrageous Cherry
Electric Prunes
Ultimate Spinach

I'm way in to fruit & vegetable based rock.

Cherry Slush?
Orange 9MM?

Actually, I hear Tangerine Dream's earliest shit is as psychedelic as music gets...

Here's a fucking trippy lsd fueled space-station monster: "Sextant" by Herbie Hancock.

Reverb Motherfuckers Route 666
Butthole Surfers
Monster Magnet
Gasp
Possessed - 7 Churches
Alphane Moon
Hawkwind/Deviants
Lord Wind (careful -they're nazis)
Sundial
Stretchheads
High Rise (Chad, you've got all my High Rise lps)
Moolah
Mandrake Memorial
Black Light District (guys from Coil)
Brother JT/Vibrolux/Brother JT 3
Temple of Bon Matin
Chrome
Human Eye
Final Solutions
Bastard Kestrel
Rudimentary Peni
Witthuser and Westrup
Moebius/Beerbohm/Kluster/Harmonia 76

The Driving Stupid- "Horror Asparagus Stories"

Amazing!

I hope it's better than the Maestro SubGum and the Whole "Jiggle the Constable" lp.

Chris, I found disc 2-5 of the prog comp. I can't find disc 1. I'll burn them tonight.

You're a prog comp.

Electric Wizard - Dope Throne

Sun Ra
Spacemen 3
Hawkwind
Can
13th Floor Elevators

I don't know if you could really consider it "psych" or whatever, but I dug out Red Krayola's "The Arable of Parable Land" and have been playing it a lot lately.

Spaceman 3

Make that "Parable of Arable Land." I'm a dummy.

Fallen Angels (2 Lp's on Roulette)
The Smoke (The American one w/Kim Fowley, not UK)
Kaleidoscope UK
West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band
1st 2 Capt. Beefheart
The Golden Dawn
Pretty Things '67-'70
Crazy World of Arthur Brown
Creme Soda
The Neutral Spirits
Relatively Clean Rivers
Move-Shazam and 1st ELO LP
Idle Race
Kak

soooo many..

I don't know if you could really consider it "psych" or whatever, but I dug out Red Krayola's "The Arable of Parable Land" and have been playing it a lot lately.

Eric, do you have the 1st Mayo Thompson? I think it's from '70 or '71, and it's great. Drag City reissued it, I think. "Corky's Debt to His Father." is the title..

Crazy World of Arthur Brown

"Strange Lands" is one of my top late night (at home) spins.

jimi hendrix- axis bold as love
funkadelic- maggotbrain/free your mind...
norman whitfield era temptations
pharoah sanders- just about any impulse late 60's/early 70's
sonny sharrock - black woman
miles davis- a tribute to jack johnson
john coltrane- om
sun ra- any

these albums will seriously blow your mind!! it wasn't just long haired white kids getting psychedelic. i'm talking, like, the outer reaches of far out

as far as live and touring,
acid mothers temple was one of the best shows i've ever seen.
dmbq changed the way i think about psychedelic music and song structure.
nudity does the best hawkwind meets amon duul thing i've seen yet.

I'm sitting here trying to think of something, the only thing that comes to mind is the first 13th Floor Elevators record and some Nuggets shit.....I don't know my psych....

actually, here's one: Vanilla Fudge. The record where they cover "Keep Me Hangin' On". LSD freakout with your dad, brah!

norman whitfield era temptations

And he's also the man behind CAR WASH! TA-DOW!

yeah norman whitfield! you go with your bad self! also the man behind the undisputed truth!

Piper at The Gates Of Dawn.

I really want sone massive trippy shit, not necessarily rock.

I hear the Zombies "Odyssey and Oracle" is pretty trippy. True?

.....I don't know my psych....

http://midnightrecords.com/psych2.html

If yer interested (at all) we made this list when I worked at Midnight. I wouldn't call it all "essential." It was made with the thought that you like SF Sorrow, Pebbles, 13th Floor already and wanted to hear some more obscure shit.

Also, it's all reissued stuff, and a lot of the best has yet to be reissued.

You can find some of it first on the dreaded SoulSeek and see if ya like it enough to hunt it down.

Then again, saying you don't know your psych might be because you absolutely hate it and have successfully avoided it. Which might be good, because a lot of the good stuff is wayyy too expensive.

zombies-trippy and poppy.
also in that vein are -
beach boys pet sounds/ smile
love-forever changes/de capo
thin lizzy thin lizzy
pretty things sf sorrow
soft machine


if you want really trippy,
amon duul
pink floyd umma gumma
ash ra temple
flower travellin' band
trad gras och stenar
blues creation

THTX - psych prog from Matthew Smith of Outrageous Cherry

i listened to the Beach Boys SUNFLOWER the other day... three times in a row. It was freaking me out.

Psych top 5 for me (besides Aldo Nova & Billy Squier, who are both uber-psych or something)

13th floor elevators
Butthole Surfers
Boredoms
Sun Ra
Throbbing Gristle

and Oneida's WALK INTO THE LIGHT has to be mentioned. Also the 1st red krayola... WAR SUCKS! and Moondog and 1st 3 Funkadelic.

i got some record put out by the Kansas City (???) library in the early 70s called POETRY OUT LOUD and it's poetry read/sung over echoed bongos/chanting and it's GREAT.

that's what i thought psychedelic music was when i was a kid- nothing like the "regular" music i was hearing on the radio. turned out it was pretty much the same thing. bummer.

kinda like when i heard punk and it sounded like music to me, too!

i was BUMMED!

Gong
Funkadelic
Acting Trio
Archie Shepp
Art Ensemble of Chicago
The Bunny Brains
Boris - Absolutego
Earth 2
Miles Davis - In a Silent Way, Bitches Brew
Tortoise - TNT

Meat Puppets
Usaisamonster

kinda like when i heard punk and it sounded like music to me, too!

i was BUMMED!

I feel ya

I can remember seeing all those pictures of the wacky haircuts and clothes and knowing that the people who made this were making stuff that was even more unhinged than "Kinko the Clown" or "The Brainiacs versus the Maniacs" on the Dr Demento show. Then I heard it and well let's just say that Wendy O in a whipped cream top chainsawing a television was more interesting than the actual music to this pubescent boy.

It's like whenever I'm watching a music video or a band on television and have the sound off they really look like they're going for it, just busting a gut with the raw emotion and sweat pouring outta em and then I turn the sound up and it sounds like Perry Como's younger brother's Halydol sessions.

Funny you guys should say what you did about being bummed.

When Lydia Lunch and Exene Cervenka were doing their poetry - oh excuse me - their spoken word stuff, I was expecting something raw and outrageous that would really turn my head. Couldn't be more wrong or more disappointed. They were as crappy and jr. high school girlish in their poetry as Jewel... only Jewel had yet to emerge.... they were bland, boring and banal. I expected so much more. Don't know if I was expecting Patti Smith, but I certainly wasn't expecting drivel.

DUNGEN/any and all
ACID MOTHER TEMPLE/must be seen live
MOUSE ON MARS/Audiotacker+Vulvaland+Iaora Tahiti
APHEX TWIN/Selected Ambient Works Vol II+any and all
miles davis/On The Corner+Get Up With It
BARDO POND/Amanita
THE VERVE/BSides+Northern Soul

Let's skip the Kraut and '60s jams (so many essentials) and I'll mention some of the finest modern psych bands:

Oneida
Bardo Pond
Lightning Bolt
Acid Mothers Temple
Black Dice
Hovercraft
My Bloody Valentine
Dadamah
Crystalized Movements/Magic Hour
Comets on Fire/Six Organs of Admittance
High Rise/Mainliner/etc
Jessamine
Fly Pan Am
Davis Redford Triad

among others

super fury animals - mwng. it's all in welsh.
nektar - a tab in the ocean. it's all in prog.
grey daturas - dead in the woods. it's all in stramental.

Gal Costa s/t(both of them) 1969
Gilberto Gil s/t 1969
Achim Reichel and Machines "Echo"
Tractor s/t
Brainticket "cottonwood Hill"
Twink "Think Pink"

every type of music is Psychedelic, after you eat some LSD...
shit, the Maury Povich show was some of the most psychedelic shit I have ever seen a few years back! And that's not even music. day time televison freaked me out!

more contemporary stuff:
Charlambides/Ash Castles on the Ghost Coast
Grimble Grumble
Stonebreath
Major Stars
Bevis Frond
Headless Chickens
Strapping Fieldhands
Luxurious Bags
Borbetomagus
Thug
Tono Bungay
Caroliner/Dame Darcy
Centimeters

Word.

Centimeters played my house once. More "ragtime-adelic", but yeah.

Howzabout Stars of the Lid and Labradford as some quality space/sleep drone.

Duh, Sun City Girls, esp. 'Torch of the Mystics.'

ANIMAL COLLECTIVE/Sung Tongs
and oh god...GLOBAL GOON/Vatican Nitez+Family Glue but mostly Vatican Nitez(does anyone anywhere listen too and give two flips about Global Goon or have I imagined him?)

BUT MOSTLY...

WWWICKEDJUMPSHOT!

with the new lp BootScoot & DoubleDribble out on Epithaph.

quality space/sleep drone.
Labradford-MeMediaNaranja
Vladislav Delay-Anima
Oval-94 Diskont

anything by THE SEEDS

Centimeters played my house once. More "ragtime-adelic", but yeah.

They opened for Mangina once. I was the only person that appreciated it, (for that they called me) fag.

Maybe Bateman liked it too.

I also forgot about:
Wicked Finger
and
Sex Hunter

That Harmony of the Spheres box set has some good music to fall asleep to on it.

I hear the Zombies "Odyssey and Oracle" is pretty trippy. True?

Pretty true. Great album.

i hear alot of indie bands that borrow from zombies. belle and sebastion, the shins, alot of that soft type stuff.

I don't know how I managed to not hear Hawkwind until now. That shit rules. This thread rules.

Definitely, the Zombies are one band that is highly imitated and never gets the credit for it. They played a free show here a couple weeks ago and I missed it!

i could think about psychedelic music all day long...
i don't think the zombies are really that trippy. it's cool, but it's not like "heavy pysch".like i said earlier, pink floyd through the mid 70's were really out there. amon duul, trad gras och stenar,can, hawkwind, all those bands that tested the limits of song structure, to me that's really trippy stuff.

then when you add non-rock to your sounds, the most far out dudes of all time were jazz dudes. sun ra, pharoah sanders, miles davis, herbie hancock, john coltrane, sonny sharrock, eric dolphy- these were all super experimental dudes who could and would take it much farther out than any rock dudes (except hendrix, of course)

then if you want to look even another direction, religious music of other cultures was meant to bring on visions and cause trances. yeah, tribal african music is so insane, as is alot of indian music. those whirling dirveshes were pretty much as psychedelic as it gets. and, duh, that's where alot of those 'out there' rock bands got the concepts from.

as far as my personal taste, what really freaks me out is songs that include
1. electric guitar (wah and feedback )
2. congas (or tablas, tribal drums, etc)
3. sitars
4. extended jams

then if you want to look even another direction, religious music of other cultures was meant to bring on visions and cause trances.
Indigenous music is awesome like that, but for some, not so. Have you ever heard Inuit "Breath Music"? The concept is two chicks hyperventalate into each other's faces with almost a hum; this, in turn, causes a "sensation" (read: slight buzz) from higher concentration of carbon dioxide than oxygen. They do this for a while. Neat concept, but I wouldn't buy an album of it.
The better ones, I must say, are indigenous music from those who do have some kind of psychtropic drug assisting.

bands not yet mentioned-
byrds
blue cheer
tommy james and the shandells
yardbirds
blues magoos(cheesy, but still)
iron butterfly (again...)
amboy dukes
moby grape
santana (seriously)
sly and the family stone
muddy waters(electric mud)

The concept is two chicks hyperventalate into each other's faces with almost a hum; this, in turn, causes a "sensation" (read: slight buzz) from higher concentration of carbon dioxide than oxygen.
sounds sexy as hell, though.

You wouldn't think so to see it....

blues magoos(cheesy, but still)

But Tommy James and the "SHONDELLS" isn't?

ok, my spelling is unconventional, too. get over it. yeah tommy james is cheesy, but in the greatest way. like t rex or shocking blue (who have sitar)

I think Crimson and Clover is a perfcet song, but have you heard the rest of the album? It's pretty gross.

The most psychedelic stuff I've heard lately is all these Sublime Frequencies compilations that the Sun City Girls folks have been putting out. Most of them are total mindfucks and mix transcendental arabic tunes with whatever weird pop music they're listening to in Bali these days. Check out this site ...
http://www.sublimefrequencies.com

And another vote for Acid Mothers Temple, one of the best live shows I've seen in the past five years or so. They'll be back in the US next month.

I think Crimson and Clover is a perfcet song, but have you heard the rest of the album? It's pretty gross.

I've always imagined that the rest of the album would be horrific.

Hey Eric H, thamks for that link. Most of it looks great! Have you heard the "Molam" CD yet?

Yeah! The Molam one is good. Sometimes the singing sounds like two screeching cats going at it, but you get used to it.
My faves of the ones I've heard are the two volumes of Sumatran Folk & Pop music (amazing), Radio Morocco, and Princess Nicotine.

i'm so glad so many goners are down with acid mothers temple. they destroyed me when they played here. it was like what it must have been like to see sabbath in the late 60's.

dmbq was the furious rock insanity equivilent to acid mothers temple. no joke.

dmbq was the furious rock insanity equivilent to acid mothers temple. no joke.

oohhhh, don't wanna hear it. I'm still bruised from kicking myself for missing them at SXSW. in New York they played with Lightning Bolt. guhhhh

reeeeealy?

they're opening the show for KING KHAN & BBQ SHOW and 5678s in Memphis.

i do know they're loud. i will soon find out if they're loud AND good.

Acid Mothers Temple had bluesbos in new orleans drooooling about their shit. i love 'em, but i have no idea how they do what they do.


most psychedelic human right now: kawabata makoto

or yamatanka eye.

i dare them to have a psych-off.

new thread.

eric-
dmbq is going to slay you.
had to share this geekery-
http://p069.ezboard.com/fthepooterlandloungefrm16.showMessage?topicID= 351.topic

Elevators
Seeds
Tomorrow (apart from the 'grocer jack' song - kids! Argh!!!)
Cherry Smash
the Pebbles psych comp with the Driving Stupid

fave all-time psych record: 'Five Years Ahead Of My Time'

most psychedelic human right now: kawabata makoto

I've got some solo cdr of his from reckless that they were selling 5 or 6 yrs ago (limited to 100 copies or something). Atmospheric, not crazy or anything. Also, another cdr of some AMT soundtrack to a russian exploitation film that eventually got a real pressing. I'm pissed that I paid 20 bucks for cdrs. Dudes are total capitalists and I was a total chump.

Cream
Blue Cheer
Hendrix
Iron Butterfly
Cheater Slicks live

I have a great pic of my friend Jen, DMBQ and my baby... Jen was their tour manager for the N American tour (she was my drummer long ago) It was so funny to see them all playing with Violet (my kid)... someday I'll show her pictures of herself with a Japanese noise band (and probably a lot of other bands by the time we're through!)

That Boredoms album Super AE is the best thing they've done. Totally Boredoms jamming AMT style.

I'm pissed that I paid 20 bucks for cdrs. Dudes are total capitalists and I was a total chump.

Yeah, I bought a 10 dollar Musica Transonica cassette at a Mainliner show years ago. Probably about 15 minutes, repeats on other side. What the fuck?!? I mean, about 10 mintues was pretty killer, but shit. Those guys know how to make the green off the gaijin suckers.

Round eyes have deep pockets.

Yeah, my ex-gf bought me an AMT tape that was the same on both sides and sounded 3rd or 4th generation. Songs cut off and started in the middle at the begining and end of each side. JANKY!

I'll trade cdrs of that stuff if somebody wants to. Email off list.

The Monkey-Pockie-Boo album by Sonny Sharrock is pretty wild. Anyone else have this?

dmbq is going to slay you.
saw them open 4 litninbolt and the drummer(dmbq) crowd surfed standing up WITH his hi hat being passed around along side him while still playing it. very cool to see.

Iron Butterfly

Agreed, the "Iron Butterfly Theme" is amazing. Once again, old records that sit around my house from when my dad smoke dope in the 60's.

drummer's a her. at least on the last tour.

This is funny...last week I was doing some Google searchs on "Top 100 Psych Albums Of All Time" to see what people thought. A lot of Doors and Country Joe & the Fish at the top of most lists for some reason. But after looking at a few lists I realized Vinyl Ritchie's old band Mazinga Phaser was on a bunch of the lists. Mr. Ritchie's band was higher on the lists than Sgt. Pepper and S.F. Sorrow! My Bloody Valentine was on some lists and he laughed saying "That's what we wanted to sound like." Mazinga Phaser was also higher on the lists than them. This had me laughing for a while...small world.

been listening a lot to Flower Travelin' Band, United States of America, Dungen, Comets on Fire, Red Krayola, Simply Saucer and the Jarvis Street Revue lately when I want to get my psych on.

ohhhh, and lots of Spacemen 3

fuck, not to mention the AMAZING new Elevator album "August," probably my favorite record of the year so far.

"Sandoz" The Animals
"Sky Pilot" The Animals

Anybody else like the Animals' take on psi-k?

nope. pretty sure it was a dude. girl bassplayer.

they must go through line up changes. we played to shows with them and the drummer was a girl named china. the crazy thing is, china does all those insane drum antics as well!!

nope. pretty sure it was a dude. girl bassplayer.

You are definitely wrong. Saw them in the smallest club ever, the drummer is a chick, for sure. Plus I met them and hung out with them the next day. The guys were all upfront, they did have very long hair (longer than the drummer's) but they are all guys. Yes China is her nickname (don't remember the Japanese name) because they joke that she looks Chinese.

they must go through line up changes.

This is possible. But I never saw her play anything but the drums. Of course I only saw them once. They all left the stage and ended up standing behind the bar at some point. They were hilarious, and awesome live.

Iron Butterfly
Most everything that you want girl!

po pimpin'!

Though I am 'definitely wrong' the crowd surfer was an Asian Male.

For the record (since more than one person actually seems to care) I never saw the drummer on stage as I arrived mid-set and there were way too many people b/w me and the band to get near the stage. The only thing I saw was a dude rise above the crowd in standing position while being passed around along w. a hi-hat while playing it--hence I assumed that was the drummer.

And again for the annoying/nitpicking record there was a girl playing a bass/guitar throughout. (Or a totally cute/fay long-haired asian boy.)

Granted my perspective was impaired compliments of Ballantine and umm 'the "pizza" delivery guy.' Could there have been DUN DUN DUUUN..

a second drummer?!?!--gaaasp!

(psychedelic music fans everywhere cutting suspect glances across their periphery)

some of my fave psych records

13th Floor Elevators - Easter Everywhere
Alice Cooper - Prettys For You
Pink Floyd - Piper at the Gates of Dawn
Captain Beefheart - Safe As Milk, Mirror Man (also amazing is the CD of unreleased takes called I May Be Hungry But I Sure Ain't Weird)
Blue Cheer - Vincebus Eruptum


Some favorite psych tunes

Misunderstood - Children of The Sun
Can - Mother Sky
Beatles - Tomorrow Never Knows, It's All Too Much
Mystic Tide - Frustration
Velvet Underground - Sister Ray

post 60s psych

Rocket From The Tombs/Pere Ubu
Throbbing Gristle - 1st and 2nd Annual Report, Heathen Earth
Boredoms - Vision Creation Newsun
Fushitsusha
Sun City Girls - Live From Planet Boomerang, etc...
Melvins live

Also, gotta mention, I just saw this killer newer psych rock band the other night - NYC band via Ann Arbor - Awesome Color - "I'm a Freeeeeeeee Man..."
http://www.myspace.com/awesomecolor

High Rise (Chad, you've got all my High Rise lps)

I thought Fushitsusha live was much more psychedelic than High Rise...but both were pretty great live...High Rise gets boring to me on record...

Best Japanese psych experience I've had was Boredoms live @ CBs...first tune was at lest 45 minutes, 3 drummers...Vision Creation Newsun...insane

Two of the best shows I've ever seen were the Boredoms, 10 years apart. 1993 - 2003.

THe Boredoms are unreal.

Does anybody have that Ween vs. The Boredoms cd? I'd like a copy.

Is that a split or what? Ween isn't even close to being on the Boredoms' level.

It was them playing together and Ween is fucking shit up royaly. I only heard it once. It was way heavier than you would think.

Ya might wanna listen to Eugene Chadbourne- strange mix of country, free jazz, psychedelic, satiric freakiness! Eugene has collaborated with tons of cool players: Tiny Tim, Jimmy Carl Black, members of the Violent Femmes, Camper Van Beethoven, and too many others. If you've ever wanted to hear a rake amplified then Eugene is for you.

Chadbourne also did a record with Sun City Girls...never heard but always been curious...

Misunderstood - Children of The Sun

is this that one song about the space aliens coming down and taking us away to their glorious planet

if so it is almost as good as Billy Squier and Aldo Nova's best psych stuff

Ya might wanna listen to Eugene Chadbourne- strange mix of country, free jazz, psychedelic, satiric freakiness! Eugene has

post graduate or post doctorate hippie BUSKER who made me think too hard for a one man band. number of times he gets requested on college radio only exceeded by request for the But Hol Suffers

Best Japanese psych experience I've had was Boredoms live @ CBs...first tune was at lest 45 minutes, 3 drummers...Vision Creation Newsun...insane
they didn't say nuthin' in my book, looked like a bunch of midget wrestlers jumping around looking bored, thinking about eel sushi and then screaming. thinking of screaming ever see Screaming Seagull, Kiss Her Kiss Her (the group not the movie) distant and dramatic like their mentor YOKO.

The 13th Floor Elevators
The 13th Floor Elevators
The 13th Floor Elevators
The 13th Floor Elevators
The Golden Dawn

Michael Yonkers

... is a plonker!

they didn't say nuthin' in my book, looked like a bunch of midget wrestlers jumping around looking bored, thinking about eel sushi and then screaming. thinking of screaming ever see Screaming Seagull, Kiss Her Kiss Her (the group not the movie) distant and dramatic like their mentor YOKO.

did you see them in most recent years? say, early 2000s onward? cause they've changed their sound ALOT...used to be super-spazz free improv noise, stop-starts...and not groovy...

but their more recent stuff is long jam/long hair krautrock influenced stuff, think Amon Duul II, Ashra Temple, Neu, Can. Eye started the show I saw a few years back singing "Creation Newsun", etct and repeating over and over into a Vocoder with all this tripped out ambient stuff, then they locked in with 2 drummers and percussionist for a loooooooonnnnnnggggg jam...no screams....just hippy bliss....

did anyone see them this past tour, wondering if they're still tripped out...they are on VICE RECORDS now of all labels...

Michael Yonkers

I saw him at Kim's doing a solo set on electric guitar and he had a book of like 100s of songs to do...and I think he wanted to play ALL of them...haha...finally the staff was like, ok, thanks for coming, etc....really cool kinda tripped out like his 60s stuff, but folky with that WEIRD voice..

... didn't really mean he's a plonker, sorry ... :-/

WOODEN SHJIPS

SRC - SRC
Strange- (1st lp)
Seeds-Raw and Alive
Hawkwind-Space Ritual
Brigitte Fontaine W/ Art ensemble of Chicago- Comme a la Radio

HAPPY ANNIVERSARY!

Wooden Shjips indeed!

1.Les Rallizes denudes
2.PSF/High Rise
3.Jimi Hendrix Experience
4.Velvet Underground

5.Fentones, Pinocchio & his Puppets, Golden Cups, Michio Kadotani, Keiji Haino, Os Mutantes, Jacks, Pharoah Sanders, Sun Ra, Oneway Streets, Albert Ayler

Wooden Shjips are perfectly timed to the amount of minutes it takes too smoke a doobie by yourself.

"Psychedelic" music is rarely very psychedelic. Alot of the best and most exciting "psychedelic" music is just faux-psychedlic. Like, if you look at the posters on some chach douchebag college fratboys wall, they're not actually psychedelic. Woodgrain is psychedelic. Skin is pyschedelic. A blank wall is psychedelic.

Second Glance Through the Looking Glass Vol. 16 is a good comp....

Anal Magic
Nurse With Wound
Defense De'
cLOUDEAD
Psychic Paramount
Lungfish

I've been thinking about it, and the best bands to listen to while on psychedelics are:

John Coltrane
Skinny Puppy
Cocteau Twins (BBC Sessions)
Venetian Snares
Art of Noise

Holy Shit! (the band)

that Wooden Shjips 10" is perfect in almost every way imaginable. Three completely different sounding songs, all great. I wonder how they would sound live, though, there's a lot of studio trickery going on in how it sounds (left channel fading in and out, etc...)

If no-one's mentioned 'em, my fave 'modern' psych albums would be:

The Soundtrack of Our Lives - Welcome To The Infant Freebase AND Extended Revelation (For The Psychic Weaklings Of Western Civilisation)

Chrome - Alien Soundtracks

"African Rhythms and Instruments, Vol. 3" LP on Lyrichord, recorded at the Pan-African Cultural Festival in Algiers in '69. Bonkers.

Ooh, that sounds kool, izzit as good as the Joujouka LP?

Which Joujouka LP you mean, BKS? "B. Jones Presents..." or some other? Gotta admit I haven't listened to any of this stuff in a while --- it's just that the Lyrichord LP always comes to mind when I think of disorienting records.

I went to the Lyrichord website and it looks like they've reissued the first two volumes of recordings from the festival onto CD (haven't heard 'em), but not vol. 3 as yet. There's some brief soundclips of the vols. 1&2 if you want to get an idea:

http://www.lyrichord.com/index.asp?PageAction=VIEWPROD&ProdID=64

http://www.lyrichord.com/index.asp?PageAction=VIEWPROD&ProdID=65

This Heat is trippy in the Throbbing Gristle kind of way.

My brother in law told me about Wooden Shjips after he heard them on FMU about six months ago. He gave me an email address and told me that the dj announced that you could email them for a free record. So I sent an email and 2 copies of the 10" came in the mail a week later. Woah, cool guys to do that and a great fucking record.

Just got the WS shit in the mail today. I'll listen when I'm ready, goddamnit.

EPMD
Lollipop Shoppe
Jon Wayne
J Geils Band
Organized Konfusion

But after looking at a few lists I realized Vinyl Ritchie's old band Mazinga Phaser was on a bunch of the lists.

Were they on the "Only interesting on recordings, and only if you're really high" lists? I lived in their hometown and saw them in various incarnations a few times over the years, and I can honestly say they were one of the main things that drove me back to punk and got me into good-country music.

This is not meant to say they suck, but it's a common problem with experimental/psych. and some other types of bands. I have a really great attention span when need be but I can only take so much efffects-pedal wankery. As for their peers...M.K. Ultra (Denton, Tx.) now that was some band.

I guess I could mention that The 13th Floor Elevators, Butthole Surfers, Byrds, Gene Clark (No Other), and Tim Buckley(Starsailor) are some fave "psych" music. More I can't remember...

I do remember when I first heard Big Star's Kangaroo and it was psych to me at the time. Now I don't know what the hell it is, other than great!