A great list of discs there. My pick from '68 would be SF Sorrow by The Pretty Things a truly fabulous psych album that gets overlooked. It's up there with the Zombies, Odyssey & Oracle which you featured.
In music we all have our own personal favorite albums. It is and always will be a ( personal taste in music ) for each & everyone of us. OK... I am into Psychedelic & Progressive music also. I own over 12 thousand lps from the golden age of rock ,blues and jazz. 1955 - 1978. Not to mention 15 thousand cds. So much more to get into other than what we already know!!!
I don't believe "Another Time / Another Place" is the first Fever Tree. I believe it is their second. I love both 1st and 2nd (and there is one more decent LP that has the song "The God Game"). On their first is the song "(Return of the Native)" AKA "San Francisco Girls" (not to be confused with Eric Burden's "San Francisco Nights") and on side two, they do a compendium of "Day Tripper/We Can Work It Out" and Buffalo Springfield's "Nowadays, Clancy Can't Even Sing". I have been so disappointed that Jagger and Richards are bashing TSMR. I agree with you - a wonderful spin.
Good picks. I'd pick We're Only In It For The Money for Zappa. Thanks for showing love for Happy/Sad and reminding me that I don't listen to HP Lovecraft and that Country Joe record enough. P.S. I thought that was the second Fever Tree album
I think I would pair Freak Out with Absolutely Free, because in a way, Absolutely Free is a part 2 to Freak Out. Great list by the way. Loved the video.
Hi Jonathan. That is a stellar list. Can't believe those albums were left off the other list/video. That Country Joe and the Fish album is THE psych album. Great list. And nice to see Zappa on your list. Thanks for sharing.
Great list man! Wow you saw Jimi Hendrix live?! That must have been quite an experience to say the least. That first Country Joe album is one of my favorite psych albums as well, always thought they were underrated too. If you don’t already know some, there’s great obscure UK bands that did great psychedelia. A few of my favorites are: Andromeda (1969), Arzachel (Steve Hillage’s first band, 1969), It’ll All Work Out in Boomland - T2 (1970), and This is Gracious!! - Gracious (1970).
I found out about Andromeda a month ago and bought the album before I even listened to it, just cause the cover told me all I needed to know. I got it in the mail after one month, and spun that bad boy. Holy shit, those boys made a GREAT record. Lovely hidden gem that not to many people ever mention when talking about music!
He kissed my wife's hand going into the empire liverpool 1968 also on the bill headlong was the Walker bros Dave dee d m+t Spencer davis crispin st peter.all for 15 shillings 75p in new money
I saw Jimi only twice - 1968 in Lewiston Maine (a few months after my first Grateful Dead concert in Boston 1967) and 1970 in New York. Country Joe & The Fish was my first concert - late summer 1967. Saw Zappa a number of times as well.
A very good "popular" 60s psych list. These are the albums that beginning psych listeners should investigate. Fever Tree's debut LP is their best. "Another Time Another Place" is less Psych and more Bluesy.
The Hogs Ear Report - I was going to replace that with Love Da Capo or Spirit’s first album. Any of them would have worked. Thanks for your comments. Stay safe and healthy
@@cheapcheerfulrecordcollect8071 Those were the days, my friend, we thought they'd never end ... I was 15 when I first heard the Beatles, November 1963, on a KOMA "Hit or Miss?" call-in. I was almost 800 miles away, in western Colorado, at the time. I saw the Fab Four in Denver, 9 months later, spent the Summer of Love in Europe, Paris, London, Stuttgart, saw Jimi at a tiny club in north Germany, What a ride!
@@TheAnarchitek I graduated high school in 67. Off to College that Sept. Saw so many bands hard to remember, but saw Jimi twice, Janis three times and yes I was at Woodstock. Stayed till Monday so we could see Jimi.
Hi Jonathan, nice to see a list, and compare. nice job. I am not a deep psyche listener, but like the Country Joe and Fever Tree mention. nice work. steve
Hey, good video. The first two you list, you convinced me to try and get them. Hard to find any copies in NM though, that's the problem. Plenty if you only need VG.
Love all those bands. But never considered Big Brothers psych, or Quicksilver. Airplane definitely had some psych and Captain Beefheart was in a category all to himself. Thanks for watching !
Good selections for more affordable and common psych albums. The main problem I have with psych in general is that it has an enticing way of seducing you to dig deeper and spend a lot of money for those rare treasures . LOL ! Thanks for posting this enjoyable video.
oddboxTopper - It was supposed to be a skim off the top. Once you start digging into Psych there doesn’t seem to be an end to it. Thanks for watching and stay safe and healthy
Donovan? :-) Agreed, the first Country Joe album a classic. The next HP Lovecraft and Fever Tree are better. Saw Hendrix and Country Joe. Forever Changes missed again!
Sunshine Superman, at the time it came out, was wild. So many different sounds on that album, many courtesy of the American troubadour Shawn Phillips, who played exotic instruments like sitar and such.
Definitely a great album. I was lucky enough to see him at the 1968 Newport Folk Festival. Unfortunately another great musician taken too soon by drugs.
Ever get into any “newer” stuff? I listened to a lot of these pretty young but have become a huge Animal Collective fan since then, if you haven’t you should check them out.
Great batch of records. However you showed Fever Tree’s second album not their first. Maybe I misunderstood your comments, but anyway thought I’d mention that.
Hi Jonathan. Very nice list, I have about half of them. I have always want3d Sunshine Superman but it is always pretty beat up. I have some psych I bought years ago cheap that I put on and basically thought it really sucked lol. I need to dig some of it out again like HP Lovecraft. It just wasn’t my thing but our listening tastes change. I have a lot to revisit.
Hi Jonathan, Stephen here again...just wanted to add that I regard Country Joe & The Fish as the epitome of psychedelia, especially Electric Music For The Mind And Body...My top 3 psychedelic album picks would be 1) Jimi Hendrix, Are You Experienced 2) Pink Floyd's Piper At The Gates Of Dawn & 3) Electric. Music for the Mind and Body...those are the holy trinity of psychedelia for me...
Yeah, Country Joe gets overlooked in discussions of psych. Got to see them twice. Once in Central Park, NYC and of course at Woodstock. Those were the days
Hi, new subscriber...I like and have most of the records you show here...but, and except a few that I wouldn't put on the list of psychedelics...1)The Mothers Of Invention are a favorite band of mine but I never considered any of their albums psychedelic, Frank Zappa & company are in a league all their own. As a matter of fact Zappa takes a jab at psychedelia on Were Only In It For The Money, "psychedelic dungeons popping up on every street"...2) The Beatles Revolver is a masterpiece but I wouldn't call it psychedelic, the only song on it that is psych is Tomorrow Never Knows...I'd say Magical Mystery Tour is the Beatles Psychedelic album with I Am The Walrus and Strawberry Fields Forever are super psych! 3) Tim Buckley, one of my favorite vocalists, I don't consider psychedelic...I consider his music folk rock, a bit jazz influenced with a touch of experimentalism in Star Sailor. All The rest of you choices work for me...by the way, I just started my own channel about 3 weeks ago and I've already posted 3 videos of psychedelic records in my collection, and 1 I posted yesterday on Psychedelic blues bands. I invite you to check them out and let me know what you think. I love comments, I enjoy the interaction, I live for this! Stephen Verb
Thanks for watching and subbing. I’ll definitely check your channel out. Though I grew up in that psych age, I was always more a blues/folkie fan. What I like about the VC is everyone has different tastes and different takes on music. Looking forward to your videos.
Back in the 60's I was also a big folk music and blues fan...Mark Spoelstra , Fred Neil , P F Sloan, Nick Drake, Koerner Ray & Glover, Paul Butterfield Blues Band, Johnny Winter, just to name a few of my favs. Have you ever heard John Koerner' solo album called Spider Blues...highly recommended for his unique picking style. @@cheapcheerfulrecordcollect8071
I've had an abiding interest in psychedelia for over 40 years. I've watched at least 15-20 of these 'greatest psych albums' & rarely is the Dead's 'Anthem of the Sun' mentioned. What's worse is that not one of these viddys has ever (that I'm aware of) mentioned Kaleidoscope's first album 'Side Trips', which puts the fail to a 'greatest psych records' video. & how about the first & greatest of this particular genre, the 13th Floor Elevators? Even Paul Kantner said they were the best. Perhaps they are shown here, but I don't want to spend 10+ minutes to find out. How about a list? So go ahead, drop some good, clean acid & listen to both of the above suggestions.
If I had them in my collection I would have shown them. Since this video was put up I picked up that Dead album. Would love to get an original if Kaleidoscope’s first album. Maybe sometime soon. PS- If you have others you like better, why not make your own video ?
Hey man. So glad we found each other through Steve Carlson. I couldn’t agree more on country joe. What an amazing album. It’s so much more than a “hippy Woodstock” album. The Hendrix album is fantastic as well. I babe the mono reissue. I love mono albums. The album art was supposed to be homage to native Americans but the record company thought he meant south Asian “ inidian”. Crazy. Looking forward to checking out more. R u on Instagram or Facebook?
Some of the albums that you've added to the list that I also saw are very good choices. However, some of those artists started to move more towards pop than true psychedelia and/or blues like electric ladyland, wheels of fire and others.
I hear you. The line’s were definitely blurry between genres. Just my list. I’m sure you and and everyone else will have a different one. Thanks for watching the
I agree. I just don’t have any in my collection. And aren’t they more prog than psych ? I am old enough and lucky enough to have seen them open for Jimi Hendrix back when I was in college. Thanks for watching
Great retro stuff.... but not at all what I was exposed to as psychedelic rock/music. My exposure was to more European bands. Hawkwind, Amon Duul, Lucifer's Friend, Tangerine Dream, etc, stuff like that, which I guess would be considered "hard core" psychedelic music. Not radio friendly unless it was college radio. LoL
@@cheapcheerfulrecordcollect8071 ya, I was a bit off the popular band track back then . a little bit of it was musical snobbery. All my friends were listening to bands we call "classic" today. Kinda like jazz, I liked having different music at home. Led Zeppelin and The eagles were playing everywhere. I got bored with mainstream music early in life
I MIGHT'VE picked 2 of those, the rest either aren't very psych or aren't psych at all. Without going very deeply into any kind of research on this and just puling stuff off the top of my head, my list would've includes: The White Noise / An Electric storm Fifty Foot House / Cauldron the 2nd albums by The Electric Prunes and Ultimate Spinach Vibrasonic The Pretty Things / S. F. Sorrow Tomorrow US 69 / Yesterday's Folks The Beatles / Sgt. Pepper's; MMT and Yellow Submarine H. P. Lovecraft / II both albums by The Dukes Of Stratosphear the 1st Soft Machine album Blossom Toes / We Are Ever So Clean Gandalf (I forget the title) the first 5 albums by Pilllbugs The first 3 Klaatu albums The 2nd & 3rd Moody Blues albums The first 3 Pink Floyd albums Probably at least one album by Kaleidoscope (British) Jimi / Axis and Ladyland JA / After Bathing At Baxter's Spanky & Our Gang / Without Rhyme Or Reason b/w Anything You Want To The Monkees 4th, 5th & 6th albums I know there's others I'm forgetting but, I wanted to be in bed an hour ago so.... Any typos, blame it on this shit keyboard that doesn't type what I wanna type!!
@@cheapcheerfulrecordcollect8071 I've been collecting psych since the `80's (actually, since the `60's but, I wasn't really that active in it, back then. I was only 10 when it was in its peak and the only psych I knew of was what the radio told me was out there. These days, even though the peak of psych was only about 2 years, I'm discovering there's TONS of great psych out there from that era!! (I just found a few from the pre-Alice Cooper and pre-Z. Z. Top eras last week!) that radio and most people have never heard of before!) and, from what I've been seeing since at least the `80's is that, American's call just about ANYTHING from the `60's, "psychedelic"!! And, in most cases, as far as Americans are concerned, all you need to make a psych record is a fuzzy guitar sound and odd lyrics!
(I had to continue this offline because the lightening was threatening to kill my power, AGAIN!!) One thing that alerted me to this was when I bought a copy of the British version of the first Traffic album (should've been on my list but, I forgot about it before I got around to adding it). The British version is not only practically a completely different album, it's got WAY better and WAY more psychedelic tracks on it than the American version!! Another was how American's think the Jefferson Airplane, Janis Joplin and The Doors are so very psychedelic!! (Later, I added Love to that list! I've got all 4 Love albums and only found ONE psych track on the bunch of them!!) And then they started claiming the Velvet Underground and the Grateful Dead were psych!! I can't see how! The Velvet Underwear are depressing as fuck and are ONLY psych if you've got a couple gallons of heroine rushing through your veins and a strong urge to slit your wrists and The Dreadful Great are just a country rock band!! Oh, sure, if you take a lot of acid they're psychedelic but that's the ACID talking, NOT the music!! If you take enough acid, even Lawrence Welk's orchestra becomes a great psych band!! Most of what The Jefferson Hairpie put out is NOT psych, same with most of what The Boors released!! "Strange Days" and "Waiting For The Sun" were their only good psych albums. What I'm looking for in psych is the stuff that makes you see things BEFORE you take the drugs!! Let the MUSIC take you on the trip!! Oh, sure, there's a number of songs in the list I've compiled that aren't exactly psych but, they're there because they not only have the right feel; the right sound but, they could be a nice bridge/link between songs without losing the feel that goes from one to the other but, I couldn't get from song 1 to song 3 without using song 2 to get there. So far, and I kinda hope it's not gonna get much longer), the list of songs I'm using to build The Enpsychlopedia is JUST over 118 pages long (on Word). Granted, 1 or 2 pages worth is only there because it MIGHT be good to use but, most of the list (about 98%) is great psych!! I have a book here that I just bought 2 years ago by Richard Morton Jack called, "Psychedelia". It lists and discusses 101 psych albums from 1966 to `70 and, I agree with about 75% of his picks!
Not Frankie the Zapped!! The man disliked consciousness changing entheogens but he was addicted to the killing drug tobacco. He also supported Abrahamism, the religion was laid onto Europe resulting in 1,000 years of slavery and misery.
The McCartney songs are my issue with Revolver. There are just too many goof ball songs that ruin the flow of a great Psych album. On side one I’m not a fan of Here There and Everywhere. For No One ruins the flow of side two. Though both are good songs having Got To Get You Into My Life and Good Day Sunshine on side two is a little too much for me. It ruins the Psych flow of the Lennon and Harrison songs on the side. I’m not a big Country Joe fan but their first is the best. Axis Bold is love is still my favorite. Their Satanic Majesties Request is full of home runs. The closing track on both sides prevents it from being a perfect album. If they would have included the single at the time. Dandelion/We Love You this May have been the best Psych album ever.
Vinyl Richie - Well we’ll agree to disagree about Revolver. Saw Country Joe a couple of times and their attitude and sensibility spoke to me then. I almost put in Love and Spirit instead of Fever Tree & Chad & Jeremy. But I always second guess myself.
I never considered Frank Zappa and The Mothers Of Invention psychedelic...I hear them as an avant garde mix of many different genres of rock & roll with some Jazz infused progressive music.
Zappa would lose his sh** if he saw any of his albums on a psych list. The man hated the genre, disparaged most any and everyone involved in it. Satanic Majestie's Request is pretty silly w/ some real weak tracks, imo. Some of their '66-'67 singles were better psych. Great call on some classic psych, but Tim Buckley's stuff just seemed more like him trying to create his own genre of overly poetic jazz singer-songwriter stuff. Lots of 'mommaaaaa...oh momma...' stuff.
I loved the second Fever Tree album. The Man Who Paints The Pictures, great song.
A great list of discs there. My pick from '68 would be SF Sorrow by The Pretty Things a truly fabulous psych album that gets overlooked. It's up there with the Zombies, Odyssey & Oracle which you featured.
My Hendrix pick is Electric Lady Land
So cool that you were at an HP lovecraft show!
Anthem Of The Sun should be here for sure
In music we all have our own personal favorite albums. It is and always will be a ( personal taste in music ) for each & everyone of us.
OK... I am into Psychedelic & Progressive music also. I own over 12 thousand lps from the golden age of rock ,blues and jazz. 1955 - 1978. Not to mention 15 thousand cds.
So much more to get into other than what we already know!!!
The purple piper plays his tune
The choir softly sing
Three lullabies in an ancient tongue
For the court of the crimson king
...I still talk to the wind...but let it be is sound advice.
Good, but Disraeli gears it’s a must in such a list! Best
If I had done my top 20 it would have been included. Thanks for watching
I don't believe "Another Time / Another Place" is the first Fever Tree. I believe it is their second. I love both 1st and 2nd (and there is one more decent LP that has the song "The God Game"). On their first is the song "(Return of the Native)" AKA "San Francisco Girls" (not to be confused with Eric Burden's "San Francisco Nights") and on side two, they do a compendium of "Day Tripper/We Can Work It Out" and Buffalo Springfield's "Nowadays, Clancy Can't Even Sing". I have been so disappointed that Jagger and Richards are bashing TSMR. I agree with you - a wonderful spin.
I believe you are correct. My bad
Man you have an awesome record collection! Thanks for turning us on to these great albums brother.
Glad you enjoyed it. Thanks for watching
Fabulous looking vinyl collection! Big thumbs up from me!!
Glad you liked the video. Thanks for watching
Thank you ...reminded me of my first show, Donovan at MSG 1970.
Finally, someone features HP Lovecraft! Their 2 studio albums are classic psych.
Absolutely. So glad I got to see them. Thanks for watching
I've 7 of these albums. And I love that you've listed TSMR. I only bought it in 1969 and still enjoying it.
Thanks for sharing all the great music! I can't wait to listen to the albums you talked about.
Can’t go wrong with Jimi. There’s a lot of great psych out there to discover. Thanks for watching
"Easter Everywhere" is THE psychedelic album. A very compulsive sound.
If I had it I would have added it
Listened to Country Joe & the Fish Electric Music and Fixin' this afternoon. Great albums.
Thanks for the recommendations. Have a few but will check some of those others out.
That’s what I love about the VC, discovering new music. Thanks for watching
Good picks. I'd pick We're Only In It For The Money for Zappa. Thanks for showing love for Happy/Sad and reminding me that I don't listen to HP Lovecraft and that Country Joe record enough.
P.S. I thought that was the second Fever Tree album
I think I would pair Freak Out with Absolutely Free, because in a way, Absolutely Free is a part 2 to Freak Out. Great list by the way. Loved the video.
Problem is, I don’t have a copy of Freak Out. It’s definitely a hole in my collection.
I’d put The Incredible String Band’s second album The 5000 Spirits or Layers of the Onion on there from 67
Daniel Long - I could pick another ten easily
Hi Jonathan. That is a stellar list. Can't believe those albums were left off the other list/video. That Country Joe and the Fish album is THE psych album. Great list. And nice to see Zappa on your list. Thanks for sharing.
Jamie Cottle - That’s why I made my own video/list. Thanks for watching
Buckley's "Gypsy Woman" is one of my favorite freakouts. Like the Stones' "Goin' Home" from Aftermath or "The End" from the Doors first album.
Liked.and.subbed man cheers from Liverpool England👽
Lovely stuff! Thanks for the inspiration.
You forgot Pink Floyd’s “Piper At The Gates Of Dawn” 😐
If I had a copy I would have included it.
Rare Earth,King Krimson, Moody Blues, Quicksilver Messenger Service and of course Grateful Dead!
Different strokes for different folks. You should make a video with your own choices
I love your taste Jonathan! Damn! Your wall of sound is amazing too.
Great channel. On it now babe!
The Vinyl Guru - Great thanks for watching
Great list man! Wow you saw Jimi Hendrix live?! That must have been quite an experience to say the least. That first Country Joe album is one of my favorite psych albums as well, always thought they were underrated too. If you don’t already know some, there’s great obscure UK bands that did great psychedelia. A few of my favorites are: Andromeda (1969), Arzachel (Steve Hillage’s first band, 1969), It’ll All Work Out in Boomland - T2 (1970), and This is Gracious!! - Gracious (1970).
Thanks for the tips about those other bands and thanks for watching
I found out about Andromeda a month ago and bought the album before I even listened to it, just cause the cover told me all I needed to know. I got it in the mail after one month, and spun that bad boy. Holy shit, those boys made a GREAT record. Lovely hidden gem that not to many people ever mention when talking about music!
He kissed my wife's hand going into the empire liverpool 1968 also on the bill headlong was the Walker bros
Dave dee d m+t
Spencer davis crispin st peter.all for 15 shillings 75p in new money
I saw Jimi only twice - 1968 in Lewiston Maine (a few months after my first Grateful Dead concert in Boston 1967) and 1970 in New York. Country Joe & The Fish was my first concert - late summer 1967. Saw Zappa a number of times as well.
@samblethen - It was a good time to be young
A very good "popular" 60s psych list. These are the albums that beginning psych listeners should investigate. Fever Tree's debut LP is their best. "Another Time Another Place" is less Psych and more Bluesy.
The Hogs Ear Report - I was going to replace that with Love Da Capo or Spirit’s first album. Any of them would have worked. Thanks for your comments. Stay safe and healthy
I like for instance Man 's back into the future
That is a generous live music and phenomenal periods
A brief, shining moment, psychedelic-rock came and affected everything after, rock, movies, entertainment, the pace of the world, and songs that spoke to the moment, the songs that reverberate still with the impact of their times. The influence never went away, continues to this day to impact music, movies, TV, and the concert scene. The albums on the list below mastered the techniques, often inventing and improving many of them, They remain highly listenable today, some fifty years later.
The Best Psychedelic Albums:
01 R E V O L V E R (1966)
the Beatles
02 F O R E V E R C H A N G E S ( 1967)
Love
03 S U R R E A L I S T I C P I L L O W ( 1967)
Jefferson Airplane
04 C H E A P T H R I L L S ( 1967)
Big Brother & the Holding Co
05 T R A F F I C I I ( 1968)
Traffic
06 I N S E A R C H O F T H E L O S T C H O R D (1967)
the Moody Blues
07 A X I S : B O L D A S L O V E (1968)
Jimi Hendrix Experience
08 T W E L V E D R E A M S O F D R S A R D O N I C U S (1970)
Spirit
09 A L O N E T O G E T H E R (1968)
Dave Mason
10 S U N S H I N E S U P E R M A N (1967)
Donovan
11 E L E C T R I C L A D Y L A N D (1968)
Jimi Hendrix Experience
12 S T A N D ( 1969)
Sly & the Family Stone
13 R O C K ' N ' R O L L I S B I O D E G R A D A B L E ( 1971)
Stoneground
14 T H E I R S A T A N I C M A J E S T I E S R E Q U E S T (1968)
the Rolling Stones
15 E L E C T R I C M U S I C F O R T H E M I N D A N D B O D Y ( 1967)
Country Joe and the Fish
16 V A N I L L A F U D G E (1967)
Vanilla Fudge
17 R O T A R Y C O N N E C T I O N (1967)
Rotary Connection
18 S A I L O R ( 1968)
Steve Miller Band
19 I T ' S A B E A U T I F U L D A Y ( 1969)
It's A Beautiful Day
20 T H E R E A R E B U T F O U R S M A L L F A C E S (1968)
the Small Faces
21 M O B Y G R A P E ( 1967)
Moby Grape
22 A F T E R B A T H I N G A T B A X T E R S (1967)
Jefferson Airplane
23 N O T O R I O U S B Y R D B R O T H E R S (1968)
the Byrds
24 E A S T E R E V E R Y W H E R E (1967)
the 13th Floor Elevators
25 H A P P Y T R A I L S ( 1969)
Quicksilver Messenger Service
Honorable Mentions:
L I V E A T W I N T E R L A N D ' 6 8 (1968)
Big Brother & the Holding Co
R O C K O N ( 1971)
Humble Pie
S T E P P E N W O L F ( 1968)
Steppenwolf
P S Y C H E D E L I C S O U N D S O F
T H E 1 3 T H F L O O R E L E V A T O R S (1966)
the 13th Floor Elevators
P S Y C H E D E L I C L O L L I P O P (1966)
the Blues Magoos
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Great time to be young. That’s a nice list there. Thanks for watching and sharing
@@cheapcheerfulrecordcollect8071 Those were the days, my friend, we thought they'd never end ...
I was 15 when I first heard the Beatles, November 1963, on a KOMA "Hit or Miss?" call-in. I was almost 800 miles away, in western Colorado, at the time. I saw the Fab Four in Denver, 9 months later, spent the Summer of Love in Europe, Paris, London, Stuttgart, saw Jimi at a tiny club in north Germany, What a ride!
@@TheAnarchitek I graduated high school in 67. Off to College that Sept. Saw so many bands hard to remember, but saw Jimi twice, Janis three times and yes I was at Woodstock. Stayed till Monday so we could see Jimi.
Hi Jonathan, nice to see a list, and compare. nice job. I am not a deep psyche listener, but like the Country Joe and Fever Tree mention. nice work. steve
FlipSideCT - Well I graduated high school in 67 so psych has a special place for me. Thanks for watching and stay safe and healthy
Jonathan, very nice selection of psych albums. Good choices. Thanks, Chris
Absolutely Free is my favorite LP of all time
Excellent list and great channel.
Thanks for watching. New video coming soon.
Top shelf choices.
Good video love that you showed a Fever Tree album
Hey, good video. The first two you list, you convinced me to try and get them. Hard to find any copies in NM though, that's the problem. Plenty if you only need VG.
Just keep your eye out for them. Eventually they’ll pop up. Thanks for watching
The 3-d effect on the Stone's album cover is called a Lenticular Process. How do you like me now? :)
I knew that, sure I did. Thanks
Nice list! I still need to get some HP Lovecraft in my collection
Great bunch of wax, some of it I haven't spent time with yet. This is my playlist tonight!
Also Quicksilver, Big Brother, Jefferson Airplane, and Captain Beefheart.
Love all those bands. But never considered Big Brothers psych, or Quicksilver. Airplane definitely had some psych and Captain Beefheart was in a category all to himself. Thanks for watching !
Good selections for more affordable and common psych albums. The main problem I have with psych in general is that it has an enticing way of seducing you to dig deeper and spend a lot of money for those rare treasures . LOL ! Thanks for posting this enjoyable video.
oddboxTopper - It was supposed to be a skim off the top. Once you start digging into Psych there doesn’t seem to be an end to it. Thanks for watching and stay safe and healthy
Glad to see Their Satanic Majesties Request getting some love ❤
Donovan? :-) Agreed, the first Country Joe album a classic. The next HP Lovecraft and Fever Tree are better. Saw Hendrix and Country Joe. Forever Changes missed again!
When I made this, I didn’t have Forever Changes in my collection. If I made this today, there would probably be some changes. Thanks for watching
Sunshine Superman, at the time it came out, was wild. So many different sounds on that album, many courtesy of the American troubadour Shawn Phillips, who played exotic instruments like sitar and such.
@bobburroughs6241 While I love Forever Changes, I consider Da Capo, Side 1, their best.
Tim Buckley's Blue Afternoon is also incredible
Definitely a great album. I was lucky enough to see him at the 1968 Newport Folk Festival. Unfortunately another great musician taken too soon by drugs.
Cool collection!
Thanks for watching
Ever get into any “newer” stuff? I listened to a lot of these pretty young but have become a huge Animal Collective fan since then, if you haven’t you should check them out.
Great Selection
@@Rigs275 Thanks for watching
Glad to see Odessey and Oracle on here, it's a desert island record for sure.
A really great gem. Thanks for watching
Great batch of records. However you showed Fever Tree’s second album not their first. Maybe I misunderstood your comments, but anyway thought I’d mention that.
Ooops
Hi Jonathan. Very nice list, I have about half of them. I have always want3d Sunshine Superman but it is always pretty beat up. I have some psych I bought years ago cheap that I put on and basically thought it really sucked lol. I need to dig some of it out again like HP Lovecraft. It just wasn’t my thing but our listening tastes change. I have a lot to revisit.
Vinyl Community- Steve Carlson - HP Lovecraft has some great folky vocals, especially their first album. Give it another try.
I knew a few of these but learned of several new ones. Thanks for the suggestions.
Great picks. Classics, all of them!
Great work to you Sir 👍☺️
Thanks for watching
I would recommend "Sell out" by The Who.
A great album for sure
Hello Sir! I was wnadering if you have the possibility to put the records' names in the descripiton of the video. Thanks
Hi Jonathan, Stephen here again...just wanted to add that I regard Country Joe & The Fish as the epitome of psychedelia, especially Electric Music For The Mind And Body...My top 3 psychedelic album picks would be 1) Jimi Hendrix, Are You Experienced 2) Pink Floyd's Piper At The Gates Of Dawn & 3) Electric. Music for the Mind and Body...those are the holy trinity of psychedelia for me...
Yeah, Country Joe gets overlooked in discussions of psych. Got to see them twice. Once in Central Park, NYC and of course at Woodstock. Those were the days
I have just a quick question, do you know a more heavy and acid rock album that is easy to get into?
Hi, new subscriber...I like and have most of the records you show here...but, and except a few that I wouldn't put on the list of psychedelics...1)The Mothers Of Invention are a favorite band of mine but I never considered any of their albums psychedelic, Frank Zappa & company are in a league all their own. As a matter of fact Zappa takes a jab at psychedelia on Were Only In It For The Money, "psychedelic dungeons popping up on every street"...2) The Beatles Revolver is a masterpiece but I wouldn't call it psychedelic, the only song on it that is psych is Tomorrow Never Knows...I'd say Magical Mystery Tour is the Beatles Psychedelic album with I Am The Walrus and Strawberry Fields Forever are super psych! 3) Tim Buckley, one of my favorite vocalists, I don't consider psychedelic...I consider his music folk rock, a bit jazz influenced with a touch of experimentalism in Star Sailor. All The rest of you choices work for me...by the way, I just started my own channel about 3 weeks ago and I've already posted 3 videos of psychedelic records in my collection, and 1 I posted yesterday on Psychedelic blues bands. I invite you to check them out and let me know what you think. I love comments, I enjoy the interaction, I live for this!
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Thanks for watching and subbing. I’ll definitely check your channel out. Though I grew up in that psych age, I was always more a blues/folkie fan. What I like about the VC is everyone has different tastes and different takes on music. Looking forward to your videos.
Back in the 60's I was also a big folk music and blues fan...Mark Spoelstra , Fred Neil , P F Sloan, Nick Drake, Koerner Ray & Glover, Paul Butterfield Blues Band, Johnny Winter, just to name a few of my favs. Have you ever heard John Koerner' solo album called Spider Blues...highly recommended for his unique picking style. @@cheapcheerfulrecordcollect8071
@@grooverealizations I just did a video on him and all the Blues, Rags & Hollers albums and different variations. Check it out when you get a chance
You're not kidding about that Fish album. That one is their best.
I've had an abiding interest in psychedelia for over 40 years. I've watched at least 15-20 of these 'greatest psych albums' & rarely is the Dead's 'Anthem of the Sun' mentioned. What's worse is that not one of these viddys has ever (that I'm aware of) mentioned Kaleidoscope's first album 'Side Trips', which puts the fail to a 'greatest psych records' video. & how about the first & greatest of this particular genre, the 13th Floor Elevators? Even Paul Kantner said they were the best. Perhaps they are shown here, but I don't want to spend 10+ minutes to find out. How about a list? So go ahead, drop some good, clean acid & listen to both of the above suggestions.
If I had them in my collection I would have shown them. Since this video was put up I picked up that Dead album. Would love to get an original if Kaleidoscope’s first album. Maybe sometime soon. PS- If you have others you like better, why not make your own video ?
Hey man. So glad we found each other through Steve Carlson. I couldn’t agree more on country joe. What an amazing album. It’s so much more than a “hippy Woodstock” album. The Hendrix album is fantastic as well. I babe the mono reissue. I love mono albums. The album art was supposed to be homage to native Americans but the record company thought he meant south Asian “ inidian”. Crazy. Looking forward to checking out more. R u on Instagram or Facebook?
Jam on Vinyl - both
Cheap & Cheerful Record Collector nice. What are you under? My Instagram is jam on vinyl
Some of the albums that you've added to the list that I also saw are very good choices. However, some of those artists started to move more towards pop than true psychedelia and/or blues like electric ladyland, wheels of fire and others.
I hear you. The line’s were definitely blurry between genres. Just my list. I’m sure you and and everyone else will have a different one. Thanks for watching the
What is it that people don't like about "Yellow Submarine" being on Revolver? ... just trying to understand the critique, thanks
I find it sophomoric and an excuse to give Ringo a song to sing. To me it breaks the mood of the album.
great list but they all miss soft machine
I agree. I just don’t have any in my collection. And aren’t they more prog than psych ? I am old enough and lucky enough to have seen them open for Jimi Hendrix back when I was in college. Thanks for watching
fantastic list, man. didn't know HP Lovecraft and Fever Tree yet
That’s what I like about the VC. Finding new (to you) bands. Both bands worth looking into. Thanks for watching
Enjoyed the video my friend
happyhippy the vinyl guy - Thanks, I grew up with that stuff, so it holds a special place for me. Take care and stay safe and healthy
Great retro stuff.... but not at all what I was exposed to as psychedelic rock/music. My exposure was to more European bands. Hawkwind, Amon Duul, Lucifer's Friend, Tangerine Dream, etc, stuff like that, which I guess would be considered "hard core" psychedelic music. Not radio friendly unless it was college radio. LoL
Good stuff, but more 2nd generation psych
@@cheapcheerfulrecordcollect8071 ya, I was a bit off the popular band track back then . a little bit of it was musical snobbery. All my friends were listening to bands we call "classic" today. Kinda like jazz, I liked having different music at home. Led Zeppelin and The eagles were playing everywhere. I got bored with mainstream music early in life
@@kindredsoul4356 - Just wondering how you came upon this video. It’s over 3 years old and I’ve been getting a bunch of views this past month.
@@cheapcheerfulrecordcollect8071 just browsing is all
Doors the best album.
The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn.
If I had it I would have shown it for sure. Thanks for watching
Nice selections!
Jan and Lorrean was my favorite
Have you heard of Gong? Their Floating Anarchy lp/cd is pure acid!
No, new to me.I’ll have to look them up. Thanks for the tip. As far as I can see their early LPs we’re never released in the US.
Great stuff
Thanks it was a fun exercise
Again no Blue Cheer
uh 13th floor elevators obviously?
SF Sorrow is missing
If I had it I would have shown it for sure ! Thanks for watching
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I MIGHT'VE picked 2 of those, the rest either aren't very psych or aren't psych at all.
Without going very deeply into any kind of research on this and just puling stuff off the top of my head, my list would've includes:
The White Noise / An Electric storm
Fifty Foot House / Cauldron
the 2nd albums by The Electric Prunes and Ultimate Spinach
Vibrasonic
The Pretty Things / S. F. Sorrow
Tomorrow
US 69 / Yesterday's Folks
The Beatles / Sgt. Pepper's; MMT and Yellow Submarine
H. P. Lovecraft / II
both albums by The Dukes Of Stratosphear
the 1st Soft Machine album
Blossom Toes / We Are Ever So Clean
Gandalf (I forget the title)
the first 5 albums by Pilllbugs
The first 3 Klaatu albums
The 2nd & 3rd Moody Blues albums
The first 3 Pink Floyd albums
Probably at least one album by Kaleidoscope (British)
Jimi / Axis and Ladyland
JA / After Bathing At Baxter's
Spanky & Our Gang / Without Rhyme Or Reason b/w Anything You Want To
The Monkees 4th, 5th & 6th albums
I know there's others I'm forgetting but, I wanted to be in bed an hour ago so....
Any typos, blame it on this shit keyboard that doesn't type what I wanna type!!
Seriously The Monkees, Spanky and Our Gang ? Guess we have a different view of what psych is.
@@cheapcheerfulrecordcollect8071 Did you ever listen to them?
@@RedVynil Of course. Some decent pop music.
@@cheapcheerfulrecordcollect8071 I've been collecting psych since the `80's (actually, since the `60's but, I wasn't really that active in it, back then. I was only 10 when it was in its peak and the only psych I knew of was what the radio told me was out there. These days, even though the peak of psych was only about 2 years, I'm discovering there's TONS of great psych out there from that era!! (I just found a few from the pre-Alice Cooper and pre-Z. Z. Top eras last week!) that radio and most people have never heard of before!) and, from what I've been seeing since at least the `80's is that, American's call just about ANYTHING from the `60's, "psychedelic"!! And, in most cases, as far as Americans are concerned, all you need to make a psych record is a fuzzy guitar sound and odd lyrics!
(I had to continue this offline because the lightening was threatening to kill my power, AGAIN!!) One thing that alerted me to this was when I bought a copy of the British version of the first Traffic album (should've been on my list but, I forgot about it before I got around to adding it). The British version is not only practically a completely different album, it's got WAY better and WAY more psychedelic tracks on it than the American version!! Another was how American's think the Jefferson Airplane, Janis Joplin and The Doors are so very psychedelic!! (Later, I added Love to that list! I've got all 4 Love albums and only found ONE psych track on the bunch of them!!) And then they started claiming the Velvet Underground and the Grateful Dead were psych!! I can't see how! The Velvet Underwear are depressing as fuck and are ONLY psych if you've got a couple gallons of heroine rushing through your veins and a strong urge to slit your wrists and The Dreadful Great are just a country rock band!! Oh, sure, if you take a lot of acid they're psychedelic but that's the ACID talking, NOT the music!! If you take enough acid, even Lawrence Welk's orchestra becomes a great psych band!! Most of what The Jefferson Hairpie put out is NOT psych, same with most of what The Boors released!! "Strange Days" and "Waiting For The Sun" were their only good psych albums.
What I'm looking for in psych is the stuff that makes you see things BEFORE you take the drugs!! Let the MUSIC take you on the trip!! Oh, sure, there's a number of songs in the list I've compiled that aren't exactly psych but, they're there because they not only have the right feel; the right sound but, they could be a nice bridge/link between songs without losing the feel that goes from one to the other but, I couldn't get from song 1 to song 3 without using song 2 to get there. So far, and I kinda hope it's not gonna get much longer), the list of songs I'm using to build The Enpsychlopedia is JUST over 118 pages long (on Word). Granted, 1 or 2 pages worth is only there because it MIGHT be good to use but, most of the list (about 98%) is great psych!!
I have a book here that I just bought 2 years ago by Richard Morton Jack called, "Psychedelia". It lists and discusses 101 psych albums from 1966 to `70 and, I agree with about 75% of his picks!
Not Frankie the Zapped!! The man disliked consciousness changing entheogens but he was addicted to the killing drug tobacco. He also supported Abrahamism, the religion was laid onto Europe resulting in 1,000 years of slavery and misery.
What about let's live for today or some of the other early grassroots LP
If I had then I probably would have added it
I have 7 of them, my Stone album is a German import. Someone stole my American copy. Jim
Sorry to hear that
Love For Sail
The McCartney songs are my issue with Revolver. There are just too many goof ball songs that ruin the flow of a great Psych album. On side one I’m not a fan of Here There and Everywhere. For No One ruins the flow of side two. Though both are good songs having Got To Get You Into My Life and Good Day Sunshine on side two is a little too much for me. It ruins the Psych flow of the Lennon and Harrison songs on the side. I’m not a big Country Joe fan but their first is the best. Axis Bold is love is still my favorite. Their Satanic Majesties Request is full of home runs. The closing track on both sides prevents it from being a perfect album. If they would have included the single at the time. Dandelion/We Love You this May have been the best Psych album ever.
Vinyl Richie - Well we’ll agree to disagree about Revolver. Saw Country Joe a couple of times and their attitude and sensibility spoke to me then. I almost put in Love and Spirit instead of Fever Tree & Chad & Jeremy. But I always second guess myself.
@@cheapcheerfulrecordcollect8071 A top 10 is always near impossible to do.
@@vinylrichie007 well its albums you must have so i think its pretty spot on. you just gotta have them. he he.
You say these are cheap, not in England there not!!!!
Well I made this video 3 years ago. So they were definitely more reasonable then.
wow NO "Love - forever changes" or "Pink Floyd - Piper at the gates of dawn" - oh well...........
I just recently got a nice copy of Love Forever Changes. If I had it at the time I would have included it for sure.
@@cheapcheerfulrecordcollect8071 Well done !
@mrfabchild4188 Forever Changes is brilliant, but Da Capo, Side 1, is even better.
No Pink Floyd...ridiculous
Was Zappa psych? He didn't even drink.
He liked messing with people and being ridiculously bizarre. And that is what animates the first album. Poor Suzy Creamcheese.
I never considered Frank Zappa and The Mothers Of Invention psychedelic...I hear them as an avant garde mix of many different genres of rock & roll with some Jazz infused progressive music.
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Zappa would lose his sh** if he saw any of his albums on a psych list. The man hated the genre, disparaged most any and everyone involved in it. Satanic Majestie's Request is pretty silly w/ some real weak tracks, imo. Some of their '66-'67 singles were better psych. Great call on some classic psych, but Tim Buckley's stuff just seemed more like him trying to create his own genre of overly poetic jazz singer-songwriter stuff. Lots of 'mommaaaaa...oh momma...' stuff.
Each to their own
Great list. So glad Jefferson Airplane is omitted. Although influential, I find their musicianship suspect and Grace’s singing tiresome.
Her singing is definitely not "Bland."