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- Jimi Hendrix Experience – Axis: Bold as Love (1967) Axis was the second Hendrix album of 1967. No psychedelic slouch Jimi followed his debut with a record which went one louder.
- The Incredible String Band – The Hangman’s Beautiful Daughter (1968) The ISB had already taken folk psychedelic with their 1967 album The 5000 Spirits or the layers of an onion, but now moved even further out, with wildly allusive lyrics which draw from Greek Mythology, Indian Vedic poetry, Bahamian popular folk song and the folk traditions of every nation of the UK.
- The Beatles – Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (1967) The beginning of the end for The Beatles was a landmark recording in so many ways it obscured the music until recently.
- Soft Machine – The Soft Machine (1968) Possibly the most free form and psychedelic album ever made during the first flush of psychedelia. Being electric organ led their sound was characterized by the hectic overloaded throb of fuzz.
- White Rabbit. Psychedelia’s spiritual home is San Francisco, where Ken Kesey and his Merry Pranksters conducted many of their famous mid-60s Acid Tests - mind-expanding bacchanals where the Kool-Aid was laced with LSD.
- Pink Floyd. Over in London, a small psychedelic scene was coalescing around the UFO Club, whose house bands were Soft Machine and Pink Floyd. Led by the mercurial Syd Barrett, the Floyd played spaced-out deconstructions of rhythm 'n' blues, with whimsical lyrics about dandelions and gingerbread men.
- Yellow Submarine. Thanks to the vivid cartoon style of artist Heinz Edelmann and a team of cutting-edge animators, The Beatles’ 1968 film Yellow Submarine provided a joyous visual representation of psychedelia.
- Purple Haze. Sixties psychedelia wasn’t all teacups and sunflowers. There was a harder edge to the genre, exemplified by the likes of The Jimi Hendrix Experience, Cream and Blue Cheer.
Although they shared some similar aesthetics and production techniques, British Psychedelia was quite different than its American counterpart. In general, British psychedelia was either more whimsical or artily experimental than its American counterpart, plus it tended to work within the pop song structure. This is not a hard-and-fast rule ...
Mar 11, 2012 · The 20 compilations – the Rubble series – had suitably psychedelic names like Staircase To Nowhere, The Psychedelic Snarl and The 49 Minute Technicolour Dream. They were made up of songs by ...
Nov 5, 2023 · Harvey’s “Maybe Some Day” appears on the terrific double LP When the Alarm Clock Rings - A Compendium of British Psychedelia 1966-1969. Also here are popsters The Merseys, Plastic Penny and The Spencer Davis Group, examples of those who, like Harvey, could be seen as amongst Melody Maker’s “bandwagon-jumping…opportunists” – though the word “untalented” doesn’t apply.
Sep 20, 2022 · And the root cause was psychedelia: music inspired by art, poetry, jazz, India, classical music – and drugs, lots of drugs. Psychedelia was progressive rock’s birth mother: it gestated and nurtured this strange new music. Progressive rock’s first stirrings were detectable in July 1965 and Bob Dylan’s Like A Rolling Stone.
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The History of Psychedelia. The programme will be available to hear for seven days after transmission. Pop critic Jon Savage makes the case that whereas American psychedelia was informed by ...
