because Roger's murmured vocals only add atmosphere and don't distract from the music, which is spaced oh-you-tee. Rick Wright's organ solo is also about as psychedelic as it gets. "Interstellar Overdrive" is too much of a rocker though the middle section is pretty far out there, and IAGDV is just too hokey.

Gadda-da-vita is kind of silly

and, hey, ArnoldLayne - DON"T DO IT AGAIN!

"Chain-Gang" even though it happened in 1967. I have a hard time when the Moon Shines and I'm around Washing Lines even to this day..lol.

May I suggest Candy and a Currant Bun?

In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida. The other ones don't ring a bell. I remember In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida playing on the new FM radio stations. They played the long version compared to AM that played short. I also like Crimson King, by King Crimson.

Set the Controls is from SAUCERFUL OF SECRETS

and Interstellar Overdrive is from THE PIPER AT THE GATES OF DAWN


both highly recommended... although, only the PIPER has Syd Barrett in appropriate doses.

And that's just one of a number of Jimi's that blow them all away.

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Better, the truly astonishing cover by 801, on 801 Live, recorded in 1976. Heard on Magnepans, via a Linn Sondek with a Grace 707 tonearm and Grace F9E cartridge, hifiguy, it is something you will never forget.

There was a lot to like about the 70s, especially the hi-fi components.

So was Diamond Head. Manzanera/801's Listen Now may be the best of Phil's career.

Dalai lama llama puss puss
Stella maris missa nobis
Miss a dinner Miss Shapiro
Shampoos pot pot pixies pampered
Movement hampered like at Christmas
Ha ha isn't life a circus
<forgot line>
Always stiff or always starchy

Well it's happening and it's fattening
And it's all that we could get into the show . . .

There's an Island pressing of that album too. Over twenty years ago, I saw it at a used record store. It was not cheap, so I didn't buy it. As soon as I got home, I kicked myself for not getting it. By the time I got back, it was gone.

There's a CD of another 801 concert, at Manchester University, or something like that. If I ever run into it, I ought to buy it.

Thanks for writing.

Still have it!

I've got the 801 Live on Island, mint....

But I sold about 20 Eno LP's at a record show around 10 years ago. The other dealers snapped them up like candy....

I guess I should have included that in my list of favorite Trippy songs. I know I loved the Jefferson Airplane version..alot. Beside some Pink Floyd songs this is the only other one that gives me chills when I hear it!!

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but I loved that album.

Floyd produced the greatest portfolio of psychedelic tunes and concept albums, but Iron Butterfly, King Crimson, Yes, ELP, Brian Eno, Focus, Gentle Giant, Mahavishnu Orchestra were all mind expanding experiences.

Rock Epic like Karn Evil 9 (which I loved in 74-75 and still do), Suppers Ready, Close to the Edge and In The Court Of the Crimson King.

May it serve you well, brother.

Like your monicker.

This, since it was very specifically about tripping.

Country Joe and the Fish

I was just listening to that a couple days ago.

First heard 13th Floor Elevators on Psychomemtic Radio", a totally spaced radio program in the seventies on WBAI in NYC. It was loosely a talk show/music program. The host was interviewing Garcia and Weir (the bunch of them were getting high and just hanging together on the air). This was an early am slot (2 am), right before my political all-time fav political show, Bud Struggle (who used to make these wonderful tape spliced political montages that mixed speeches and music in crazy amazing ways).

But my all time fav trippy fav: the entirety if the Dead's Anthem of the Sun album. Could be a matter of "imprinting" when under the influence of certain wonderful drugs. :-P

They used to play at the University of Houston when I was going there back in the '60s. I've got the CDs for this one and Easter Everywhere, but they're just not the same as the old records and the live performances. Roky was electric.

Best of the big names:

Electric Prunes - I Had Too Much To Dream Last Night
S.A.C - Rainy Day Mushroom Pillow
Ultimate Spinach - Mind Flowers

Lesser known good psych:

Tyde - Psychedelic Pill
West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band - Smell Of Incense
Influenza - Astral Plane

.. but the one I believe is that 25 is take more acid and 6 to 4 is go to work.

from the early 60's...

The beautiful and langourous dream world of the Hendrixian stupor.

revolution 9 backwards

I would say "set the controls for the heart of the sun." The drum beat with the organ is just trippy. It is.

I love interstellar overdrive but as someone said before it has a rock edge to it from the guitar. That doesn't make it not trippy but it doesn't have the groove that set the controls for the heart of the sun has.

I can't put it in to words very well, but to me, it is set the controls for the heart of the sun.

ETA -
what an amazing time we live in when someone you don't know can put a song in your head and you can go and instantly pull up a performance of it and enjoy then come back and say here's what I was just watching thanks to you putting it in my head-

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Sophomore in High School in 1973.

It was a trip, even without brom lycergic acid diethylamide tartrate-25.

Here's one more: Timothy Leary's Dead. No-no-na-no, he's outside looking in . . . enjoy.

..was a pretty good one.

Interstellar Overdrive is more noise-making and fun with knobs than psychedelic, and In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida is not Floyd and thus disqualified on grounds of being in contention with Floyd but not being Floyd or the Beatles.

from the Moody Blues Legend of a Mind album was pretty trippy.

Backwards" and at the end "Feed Your Head, Feed Your Head" what a classic.

So, here are my three choices for trippiestest

Ozric Tentacles - Jurassic Shift
Emergency Broadcast Network - Psychoactive Drugs
Rev. Horton Heat - Psychobilly Freakout

Non-music, but that depends on how much you've....

Cheech & Chong's Big Bambu


But I do remember a lot of folks nodded out to In-a-Gadda-Da-Vida


Hendrix

Joplin/Country Joe & the Fish

Grateful Dead

My personal favorite "My Back Pages". Byrds

Finally something remembered...thanks

No substitute.

going for a while. We need something in these bad times where The Left and Right are so polarized. To just make us enjoy an era in from the late 60's and 70's when music was groundbreaking and mind expanding. Keep posting Psychedelic and Progressive Rock music from Youtube.com to just mellow out too in these stressful times.

although Echos was right up there and the first time I ever lisened to Floyd with headphones on with a dose of lsd

coursing through my mind.

had the album/song mixed up.

Yeah, I know it's got a whole list of song titles, but it all runs together into a monster trip with a major transcendental peak about half way thru.

Well... turn it up, man!!!

Waters was still playing that song on tour a few years ago. It holds up well.

See if that one doesn't do something to change your way of thinking.

from 1967....

Very weird stuff. Fifteen years later NY duo Suicide were in a similar vein.

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also like "knights in white satin," which was used to good effect
in the "dark shadows" movie. alice cooper was terrific in it, too,
in spite of being the "ugliest woman i've ever seen."

And Arthur Lee was a true genius -- his mind was a force that chafed at being cast in any specific mode or genre. Lee and Love were light years ahead of the pack!

The Statement of Purpose for the General Discussion Forum:

from Meddle (it's the first 6 minutes of the video below).

I remember hearing this over the PA before a Dead show at Alpine Valley - I swear the real wind picked up and slowed down along with the wind sounds in the song.

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maaaan.

It was loud especially the GONG

the 1983 Rain Parade LP "Emergency Third Rail Power Trip." There's a Rain Parade song I've been trying to track down for years. I don't have a turntable set up, so I checked it out some songs on YouTube. The second one I played was the one I've been looking for all this time.

... although early Floyd (pre DSOTM) was never a favorite. I loved King Crimson, Yes, Tull - all the standards

As for trippy psychedelia, here is a more modern version from my favorite "current" recording artists. I say "current" even though they haven't released anything in a long time, there are rumors of new stuff.


Most likely a celebration of Bicycle Day.