What is your favorite Psychedelic Song?

[BuckNekkid]

I would submit that this skirts the idea of "psychedelic" music, but at the time, it was in the first wave of "new" music in the 1960s. Max Frost and the Troopers was a fictional group (long before Spinal Tap). They were a creation from a movie that was so bad it's become a cult classic: Wild In The Streets (1968, starring Christopher Jones, Shelley Winters, Hal Holbrook and a young Richard Pryor). The song "The Shape of Things to Come" was written by Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil, and the song was actually recorded by a band called the 13th Power. It rose to #22 on the American charts.

 

[StratUp]

"What Condition " would be my pick too ! Probably wasn't Kenny Roger's favorite work !

But it was his best work! He was a good rock 'n' roller. I wish he'd stuck with it.

 

[BuckNekkid]

One of the great San Francisco bands of the era, self destroyed too soon by drugs and madness.

What you can't do on CD: I have the Moby Grape Wow album (the cover alone, reminiscent of a painting by Salvador Dalí, is certainly psychedelic!) and the last track on the first side (at least on my copy), "Just Like Gene Autry: A Foxtrot," is playable only at 78rpm. For years, I had to stop the turntable, or listen to a crawling gibberish, because the 78rpm speed was deemed antiquated. I actually found a cheap USB turntable that supports all three (33, 45 and 78) turntable speeds, and I can hear it again. It's really a mash-up of Moby Grape with Arthur Godfrey / Lou Waxman & His Orchestra.

 

[Strums]

Fat Angel - Jefferson Airplane (written by Donovan)

 

[PonyB]

I'm a big Leaf Hound fan.

 

[marcostrumm]

I like rock with my psychedelics, and surprised no one mentioned this yet, I mean it is called flying after all:

Such a definitive lead guitar tone of those times, somehow I tended to lean towards the Hendrix sound of those days. Good pick, haven't listened to any UFO in 40 years or so, thanks cheers

 

[Dick Blackmore]

Folks don’t seem to know it but Deep Purples first three albums are psychedelic as hell culminating in my 2 nd favorite psychedelic album of all Deep Purple III (Saucerful of Secrets by Pink Floyd is the best). Deep Purple III also has a great cover of Lalena by Donovan.

 

[dbb541]

 

[BuckNekkid]

The Jeff Beck tribute issue of Guitar Player makes an argument for the Yardbirds being the first "psychedelic" band, with their Beck-inspired "Happenings Ten Years Time Ago" and their submission for the first-ever psychedelic song, "Shapes of Things."

 

[Dick Blackmore]

The Jeff Beck tribute issue of Guitar Player makes an argument for the Yardbirds being the first "psychedelic" band, with their Beck-inspired "Happenings Ten Years Time Ago" and their submission for the first-ever psychedelic song, "Shapes of Things."

Thats pretty interesting really. I wonder if this came out before ‘96 Tears’ by Question Mark and the Mysterians because that is where I would have pointed. I think that was also 1966. Also the ‘Red Rubber Ball’ by Cyrkle came out in 66’. In any case 1966 seems to be THE year.

 

[ThreeChordWonder]

In that vein Donovan also had Sunshine Superman and Mellow Yellow:

There are a lot of them out there. I'll throw this one in:

Small Faces:

Steve Marriot RIP - vocals and guitar - later founder of Humble Pie
Ronnie Lane RIP - bass - went on to form The Faces with with McLagan, Jones, Ronnie Wood and Rod Stewart
Kenney Jones - drums - replaced Keith Moon in The Who
Jimmy Winston RIP - keyboards