I had the JOY of meeting Timothy Leary and see him do a 2 hr talk ( ist meet in 93 , 2nd meeting 1995 when he was ill with cancer ) 1st time was insane but the second time was beautiful and we had tea and talked for hours , it was a real pleasure , just thought id say …great channel love it …peace
You should listen to the album Inside by Jazz flutist Paul Horn. It was recorded in 1967 inside the Taj Mahal. Paul Horn paid a security guard so that he could get inside the building after hours so that he could tape his flute music within that palace. Paul Horn played a golden flute, and the sounds of the flute music echoing within that palace is absolutely mystical to hear.The security guard also did some spiritual singing to add to Paul Horn's flute music. You can also hear fireworks blasting in the distance, and at one point you can hear the mosquitoes buzzing around the microphone. It's a truly mystical aural excursion to take while wearing headphones. The first time I heard this I was enhanced by acid, I was tripping with my hippie Uncle. Find the album and enjoy it....
I checked this out last night.....This is DEEP!!!! Some absolutely Phenomenal material!!! Can't believe I missed this!!! "Mosquitoes buzzing around the microphone" I got it....Definitely some mind expansion visuals going on there......Been there!!! Can't wait to check out some of his other material!!! Thanks Bro!!!
The Firesign Theatre produced some zany albums that are headphone worthy. The Eno/Byrne album is still a haunting listen. Thanks for choosing this topic. 🎧
"Don't Crush That Dwarf, Hand Me the Pliers" is a real trip. Soooo much going on. I understand they took the Beatles' studio experiments as inspiration for their own work.
I first heard the Firesign Theatre Radio Hour Hour on KPPC, "broadcasting from the basement of the Pasadena Presbyterian Church. I was listening to FM one night, after 2:00 am, when a "commercial began. I had lit up a doobie, and was riffing along with the "car commercial", when I realized it had been on for far too long! It turned out, I was hearing to Side One of How Can You Be in Two Places at Once? For me, Everything You Know is the best, but HCYBITPAO is pretty good, and Don't Crush that Dwarf. Great stuff!
@@jimalaimo8467Funny to find Firesign Theatre mentioned here, but they were a freaky listen in an alternate way. I was first exposed to them in 7th or 8th grade history class "Temporarily Humboldt County" from ‘Waiting for the Electrician’ the satire about the displacement of indigenous peoples by europeans, and then their albums spread like wildfire in our social circles. When the members of Firesign eventually did solo albums it was Phil Austin’s ‘Roller Maidens from Outer Space’ that was truly the “freakiest.” I know from a friend that worked with the Firesigns that Beatles George and John were fans.
The most intense headphones experience for me is Amused to Death, by Roger Waters. There is so much to take in. The soundtrack of war is sobering on this album, and the writing and musicianship is extraordinary. Nice video, Tom. Cheers 🍻
Bush of Ghosts & Loveless are landmark records, highly recommend the MBV EP Tremolo as well, released before Loveless, just as good, has a killer song called Honeypower on it.
Early stuff is best, from In Search Of Space through the seventies. Unfortunately, Dave Brock has drowned out those years on TH-cam with his relentless buck raking. Sort of like Ian Anderson with Jethro Tull.
I think one of the freakiest psychedelic-way-before-its-time listens, headphones or not, is Charles Ives's 4th Symphony and parts of his "Holidays" Symphony--along with "The Unanswered Question" and many other works. A dream mural right before your ears! Utter chaos, with pop & hymn tune quotes flying like shrapnel. As unique a musician as has ever been---but he made his living starting up a major insurance company! (This is in the first decades of the 20th century.)
Tom, your videos/picks keep surprising me. "Beneath the Planet of the Apes" soundtrack - what a great (and obscure) selection. And the soundtrack to the original PotA is also a pretty freaky headphone listen. John & Yoko's Unfinished Music #2 -- the album DJs play in h*ll to torture the damned for all eternity. My addition to the conversation is Diamanda Galas's "The Litanies of Satan" -- the only album to rival "Unfinished Music #2" in freakiness. She and Yoko must be related.
Sorry but I’m not going to make it past the first album… you got me so excited about “My Life in the Bush of Ghosts” that I’m going to grab my CD off the shelf, dust it off, and play it. Not kidding. No headphones though, I’m going to blast it. 💥 Keep up the good vibes. I’ll be back later to finish watching!
Well, I scoured the comments and didn't see Electric Ladyland mentioned. The swirling sounds, while fading in and out, going from speaker to speaker is really trippy, freaky.
Traffic / Heaven Is In Your Mind (continuous track play between cuts) - my favorite TRIP band Quicksilver Messenger Service / Happy Trails Brainticket / Cottonwoodhill Mothers Of Invention / Weasels Ripped My Flesh CAN / Monster Movie Faust / So Far Brainticket / Cottonwoodhill Pink Fairies / Nevernever Land Higher Intelligence Agency / S.H.A.D.O Lou Reed / Metal Machine Music
Great topic (again)! Terms like “avant garde” and “postmodern” are just too mild for some of these. Freaky is the word! It’s also freaky to follow up one of these albums by playing something “nice and safe”... albums our parents bought, like “Whipped Cream & Other Delights” by the Tijuana Brass, or anything by the Ray Conniff Singers... spanning the arc of the human psyche
I'm reminded of an evening at UC Santa Cruz of Brian Eno expounding on music that inspired him, not only to create My Life in the Bush of Ghosts... but more generally. Fascinating. He talked about hanging out with crazy genius Lee Perry, working on Fear of Music. Maybe best of all was when he played many obscure tracks from the 50s and on and what they meant to him. Also, my wife and I love Japancake's cover of the entire Loveless album using mostly acoustic instruments and pedal-steel guitar. Brilliant !
@@tomrobinson5776 Yes, cello, steel-guitar, etc. It's clearly aimed at those who already know Loveless well and by people who know it well, and it will grow on you.
I suggest Rotary Connection's first LP, with a tab of Owsley's finest (if you can find any, but windowpane works, too). Incredible. The Band's first, Big Pink, is a sonic wonderland, too, under Owsley's influence. Led Zeppelin's first sounds deranged, too. After Bathing at Baxter's takes on an other-worldly ambiance. Micro-dosing doesn't do it. Don't try this at home, kids!
that Timothy Leary record... I thought I was the only person in the world who had it, ha! I remember buying it around 87/88... and I was making like 5 bucks an hour and it cost $14.98 before tax. I had to work 3+ hours for it, man, I was disappointed. However, as time went on, I grew to appreciate it, strangeness and all. I'd say Alexander Spence - Oar would be a classic on headphones... in an altered state :)
One of my all-time top 10 albums is The Moody Blues' In Search of the Lost Chord, and it has some great headphone effects. As one example, check out the instrumental passage in "The Best Way to Travel." That mellotron cuts through your head from one side to the other and then circles it. And it's not even the best cut on the album!
Not a big fan of headphone listening, although there are times, living with other people, when it is a must. When I was a teen, I used to sit up late at night and look at the moon from my bedroom window, listening to Alan Watts lectures on the radio while the family slept. I heartily agree with those who recommend The Firesign Theatre for headphone listening, and sides 3 & 4 of The Mothers' Freak Out, too. Another artist that always made more sense via the ear cans was Terry Riley, especially after smoking a joint -- all that swirling, repetitive minimalist stuff sounds better when it's pointed directly at your aural perceptors. I would guess that the Koyannasqatsi soundtrack does, also.
Lou Reed’s Metal Machine Music, Ladies and Gentlemen we are Floating in Space by Spiritualized, Embryonic by Flaming Lips, Ogden’s Nut Gone Flake by Small Faces come to mind.
Napoleon 14 They're Coming .... + I live in a split level head. Tubular Bells. Legend of a Mind. Revolution 9. Season of the Witch - Donovan's version.
Hi Tom I mentioned Jezebel Spirit and Chrome Megaphone of Destiny on Spooky halloween post so I like to think I may have planted this in your subconscious Anyway Another album i mentioned was the soundtrack of Suspiria by Goblin Its great on headphones and absolutely my favorite horror movie soundtrack Penderecki Threnody to the Victims of Hiroshima Used by David Lynch in Twin Peaks the return : Episode 8
That Morrison LP sounds interesting. I've seen the Head film but it's been awhile. Might have to check it out again. That Lennon-Ono LP sounds interesting.
American Prayer is the the "Bomb" Great shit on that one like Cape mentioned......Check it out.... With Headphones........EVERYTHING with "Phones" The Golden rule!!!
Tom, are you not a fan of Pink Floyd? It seems that you never reference them. Several albums could have fit in this topic, especially Piper. Thanks for the vid. I have been wearing cans alot lately. Not a mind-blower, but the Neil/Crazy Horse Early Daze sounds great on headphones.
@@ediblehorse That Early Daze release is a delight. Never been a Floyd fan, but I love the Syd Barrett era. Fave tracks would be The Gnome, Bike, Lucifer Sam, See Emily Play. Incredible tracks.
I totally disagree with you about John and Yoko's Life With The Lions. Great album! I have noticed that you tend not to like anything challenging though. Another example would be the superb Grey/Afro by Skip Spence.
I can dig "My life in the bush of ghosts" and I absolutely love Jim Morrison's "American Prayer", but John & Yoko???? You must be joking or have a bizarre kind of humour 😂 " Two Virgins" and the B side of the great " Live Peace in Toronto" taught one thing: don't trust John musically (68-69) when Yoko is involved😮
@@dreammachine2013 I did say in the video that Life With The Lions was one of the worst albums ever made. 😉 - I put it in there as an endurance test headphone listen.
Marscape - Jack Lancaster (ex-Bloodwyn Pig) & Robin Lumley (Brand X) RSO 1976. Phil Collins on drums/percussion. Spacey listen. It is available to hear on TH-cam.
Don't Crush That Dwarf, Hand Me the Pliers was always a stoned favorite of mine - with or without headphones. But the room had to be darkened.
I had the JOY of meeting Timothy Leary and see him do a 2 hr talk ( ist meet in 93 , 2nd meeting 1995 when he was ill with cancer ) 1st time was insane but the second time was beautiful and we had tea and talked for hours , it was a real pleasure , just thought id say …great channel love it …peace
@@johnrula That is awesome! What a cool experience. 😊
You should listen to the album Inside by Jazz flutist Paul Horn. It was recorded in 1967 inside the Taj Mahal. Paul Horn paid a security guard so that he could get inside the building after hours so that he could tape his flute music within that palace. Paul Horn played a golden flute, and the sounds of the flute music echoing within that palace is absolutely mystical to hear.The security guard also did some spiritual singing to add to Paul Horn's flute music. You can also hear fireworks blasting in the distance, and at one point you can hear the mosquitoes buzzing around the microphone.
It's a truly mystical aural excursion to take while wearing headphones. The first time I heard this I was enhanced by acid, I was tripping with my hippie Uncle.
Find the album and enjoy it....
@@AlterMann57 I will put it on my list. Sounds incredible. Thanks for the suggestion. 😉
I checked this out last night.....This is DEEP!!!! Some absolutely Phenomenal material!!! Can't believe I
missed this!!! "Mosquitoes buzzing around the microphone" I got it....Definitely some mind expansion visuals
going on there......Been there!!! Can't wait to check out some of his other material!!! Thanks Bro!!!
I would recommend anything by Steve Tibbetts. An early masterpiece is Yr. Great on headphones.
The first song I heard on headphones was Hurdy Gurdy Man by Donovan. Blew me away how the music moved from right to left.
The Firesign Theatre produced some zany albums that are headphone worthy. The Eno/Byrne album is still a haunting listen. Thanks for choosing this topic. 🎧
"Don't Crush That Dwarf, Hand Me the Pliers" is a real trip. Soooo much going on. I understand they took the Beatles' studio experiments as inspiration for their own work.
I first heard the Firesign Theatre Radio Hour Hour on KPPC, "broadcasting from the basement of the Pasadena Presbyterian Church. I was listening to FM one night, after 2:00 am, when a "commercial began. I had lit up a doobie, and was riffing along with the "car commercial", when I realized it had been on for far too long! It turned out, I was hearing to Side One of How Can You Be in Two Places at Once? For me, Everything You Know is the best, but HCYBITPAO is pretty good, and Don't Crush that Dwarf. Great stuff!
@@jimalaimo8467Funny to find Firesign Theatre mentioned here, but they were a freaky listen in an alternate way. I was first exposed to them in 7th or 8th grade history class "Temporarily Humboldt County" from ‘Waiting for the Electrician’ the satire about the displacement of indigenous peoples by europeans, and then their albums spread like wildfire in our social circles. When the members of Firesign eventually did solo albums it was Phil Austin’s ‘Roller Maidens from Outer Space’ that was truly the “freakiest.” I know from a friend that worked with the Firesigns that Beatles George and John were fans.
The most intense headphones experience for me is Amused to Death, by Roger Waters. There is so much to take in. The soundtrack of war is sobering on this album, and the writing and musicianship is extraordinary. Nice video, Tom. Cheers 🍻
@@jimofoz653 Cheers 😉
Spirit. Twelve Dreams of Dr. Sardonicus
@@brianlehman710 Absolutely! One of my faves off that perfect album is Love Has Found A Way. Pure magic.
Hendrix was at the actual photo shoot for the Mother’s We’re Only in it for the Money cover. His image was not just pasted on.
Mea Culpa loved that song
Bush of Ghosts & Loveless are landmark records, highly recommend the MBV EP Tremolo as well, released before Loveless, just as good, has a killer song called Honeypower on it.
Tangerine Dream "Phaedra" has long been a personal fav for headphone trip-out music.
@@michaelalaimo3169 A good one indeed 😉
The first Hawkwind was a total trip when I first heard it through the cans. Hashish helped it along nicely!🤯
@@russellkroeker2822 I need to check out some Hawkwind.
Early stuff is best, from In Search Of Space through the seventies. Unfortunately, Dave Brock has drowned out those years on TH-cam with his relentless buck raking. Sort of like Ian Anderson with Jethro Tull.
I think one of the freakiest psychedelic-way-before-its-time listens, headphones or not, is Charles Ives's 4th Symphony and parts of his "Holidays" Symphony--along with "The Unanswered Question" and many other works. A dream mural right before your ears! Utter chaos, with pop & hymn tune quotes flying like shrapnel. As unique a musician as has ever been---but he made his living starting up a major insurance company! (This is in the first decades of the 20th century.)
@@EugeneNichols-b4f Sounds interesting..
Tom, your videos/picks keep surprising me. "Beneath the Planet of the Apes" soundtrack - what a great (and obscure) selection. And the soundtrack to the original PotA is also a pretty freaky headphone listen. John & Yoko's Unfinished Music #2 -- the album DJs play in h*ll to torture the damned for all eternity. My addition to the conversation is Diamanda Galas's "The Litanies of Satan" -- the only album to rival "Unfinished Music #2" in freakiness. She and Yoko must be related.
Sorry but I’m not going to make it past the first album… you got me so excited about “My Life in the Bush of Ghosts” that I’m going to grab my CD off the shelf, dust it off, and play it. Not kidding. No headphones though, I’m going to blast it. 💥 Keep up the good vibes. I’ll be back later to finish watching!
Well, I scoured the comments and didn't see Electric Ladyland mentioned. The swirling sounds, while fading in and out, going from speaker to speaker is really trippy, freaky.
@@keithkarlinsky6632 I agree. An album full of magic.
White Noise - Electric Storm 👍
Worth mentioning that Can's Saw Delight predated My Life... for Far Eastern samples.
@@marktrickett5081 Interesting…I’ll have to take a listen.
Traffic / Heaven Is In Your Mind (continuous track play between cuts) - my favorite TRIP band
Quicksilver Messenger Service / Happy Trails
Brainticket / Cottonwoodhill
Mothers Of Invention / Weasels Ripped My Flesh
CAN / Monster Movie
Faust / So Far
Brainticket / Cottonwoodhill
Pink Fairies / Nevernever Land
Higher Intelligence Agency / S.H.A.D.O
Lou Reed / Metal Machine Music
@@dmk7700 Great selections. Heaven Is In Your Mind is an incredible headphone listen. 😉
The J Airplane's After Bathing at Baxter's
Horse Latitudes by the Doors - goes into the category of Tom's songs that freak us out.
@@WayneScank Love how that tracks segues into Moonlight Drive. So good !
That "song" ruins the album for me.
Great topic!
People Are Strange + other songs on the album. When the music's over.
Great topic (again)! Terms like “avant garde” and “postmodern” are just too mild for some of these. Freaky is the word!
It’s also freaky to follow up one of these albums by playing something “nice and safe”... albums our parents bought, like “Whipped Cream & Other Delights” by the Tijuana Brass, or anything by the Ray Conniff Singers... spanning the arc of the human psyche
I'm reminded of an evening at UC Santa Cruz of Brian Eno expounding on music that inspired him, not only to create My Life in the Bush of Ghosts... but more generally. Fascinating. He talked about hanging out with crazy genius Lee Perry, working on Fear of Music. Maybe best of all was when he played many obscure tracks from the 50s and on and what they meant to him. Also, my wife and I love Japancake's cover of the entire Loveless album using mostly acoustic instruments and pedal-steel guitar. Brilliant !
@@syater Wow, I need to hear that!
@@tomrobinson5776 Yes, cello, steel-guitar, etc. It's clearly aimed at those who already know Loveless well and by people who know it well, and it will grow on you.
Freak Out's -Help I'm A Rock!
I suggest Rotary Connection's first LP, with a tab of Owsley's finest (if you can find any, but windowpane works, too). Incredible. The Band's first, Big Pink, is a sonic wonderland, too, under Owsley's influence. Led Zeppelin's first sounds deranged, too. After Bathing at Baxter's takes on an other-worldly ambiance. Micro-dosing doesn't do it. Don't try this at home, kids!
@@TheAnarchitek After Bathing At Baxter’s is a prime example. 😉
@@tomrobinson5776 Almost as if it was made specifically for it!
@ Totally👍
In 1969, ABAB was an essential part of a whole lot of "traveling". PE, up close and personal. ☮😁
Hey Tom. I’m with you on American Prayer. It gives another insight into the mind of Jim Morrison. My top pick is Zappa’s Civilisation Phase 3.
that Timothy Leary record... I thought I was the only person in the world who had it, ha! I remember buying it around 87/88... and I was making like 5 bucks an hour and it cost $14.98 before tax. I had to work 3+ hours for it, man, I was disappointed. However, as time went on, I grew to appreciate it, strangeness and all. I'd say Alexander Spence - Oar would be a classic on headphones... in an altered state :)
@@GeeAitch-r1r Without question. 😉
One of my all-time top 10 albums is The Moody Blues' In Search of the Lost Chord, and it has some great headphone effects. As one example, check out the instrumental passage in "The Best Way to Travel." That mellotron cuts through your head from one side to the other and then circles it. And it's not even the best cut on the album!
Not a big fan of headphone listening, although there are times, living with other people, when it is a must. When I was a teen, I used to sit up late at night and look at the moon from my bedroom window, listening to Alan Watts lectures on the radio while the family slept. I heartily agree with those who recommend The Firesign Theatre for headphone listening, and sides 3 & 4 of The Mothers' Freak Out, too. Another artist that always made more sense via the ear cans was Terry Riley, especially after smoking a joint -- all that swirling, repetitive minimalist stuff sounds better when it's pointed directly at your aural perceptors. I would guess that the Koyannasqatsi soundtrack does, also.
@@simonagree4070 Speaking of Alan Watts, ever read The Wisdom Of Insecurity? One of the greatest life changing books ever written.
Nope, but I have a bunch of his books on my shelves. He was one of the few people I would ever allow to talk to me about religion.
Lou Reed’s Metal Machine Music, Ladies and Gentlemen we are Floating in Space by Spiritualized, Embryonic by Flaming Lips, Ogden’s Nut Gone Flake by Small Faces come to mind.
@@casablanca2745 Yes, love that Small Faces album.
I like to listen to War Of The Worlds on headphones, by Jeff Wayne.
Napoleon 14 They're Coming .... + I live in a split level head. Tubular Bells. Legend of a Mind. Revolution 9. Season of the Witch - Donovan's version.
Hi Tom
I mentioned Jezebel Spirit and Chrome Megaphone of Destiny on Spooky halloween post so I like to think I may have planted this in your subconscious
Anyway
Another album i mentioned was the soundtrack of Suspiria by Goblin
Its great on headphones and absolutely my favorite horror movie soundtrack
Penderecki
Threnody to the Victims of Hiroshima
Used by David Lynch in Twin Peaks the return : Episode 8
National Lampoon - Radio Dinner
The extended version of The End
That Morrison LP sounds interesting. I've seen the Head film but it's been awhile. Might have to check it out again. That Lennon-Ono LP sounds interesting.
American Prayer is the the "Bomb" Great shit on that one like Cape mentioned......Check it out....
With Headphones........EVERYTHING with "Phones" The Golden rule!!!
@@newspapertaxis1 I agree 😉
@@tomrobinson5776 You got it Cape!
Nothing gets in..Nothing gets out...
Have a Great Thanksgiving Bud!!!
@@newspapertaxis1 You as well 😉
How about Edgar Froese Aqua
Tom, are you not a fan of Pink Floyd? It seems that you never reference them. Several albums could have fit in this topic, especially Piper. Thanks for the vid. I have been wearing cans alot lately. Not a mind-blower, but the Neil/Crazy Horse Early Daze sounds great on headphones.
@@ediblehorse That Early Daze release is a delight. Never been a Floyd fan, but I love the Syd Barrett era. Fave tracks would be The Gnome, Bike, Lucifer Sam, See Emily Play. Incredible tracks.
I totally disagree with you about John and Yoko's Life With The Lions. Great album! I have noticed that you tend not to like anything challenging though. Another example would be the superb Grey/Afro by Skip Spence.
@@jblack7159 You’re correct. 😉
I can dig "My life in the bush of ghosts" and I absolutely love Jim Morrison's "American Prayer", but John & Yoko???? You must be joking or have a bizarre kind of humour 😂 " Two Virgins" and the B side of the great " Live Peace in Toronto" taught one thing: don't trust John musically (68-69) when Yoko is involved😮
@@dreammachine2013 I did say in the video that Life With The Lions was one of the worst albums ever made. 😉 - I put it in there as an endurance test headphone listen.
I've listened to that john and yoko album all the way through its pretty bad the best song on it is "2 minutes of silence" 😂😂
@@JackTheMusicGuy Indeed 😉
The Beat Goes On by Vanilla Fudge is super weird and nigh on unlistenable.
Marscape - Jack Lancaster (ex-Bloodwyn Pig) & Robin Lumley (Brand X) RSO 1976. Phil Collins on drums/percussion. Spacey listen. It is available to hear on TH-cam.
@@thomasrobinson182 I’ll check it out. 😉
Chevk out Spinner. W/ Wobble/Eno. Its not music so much as meditation.