"Greatest" pre-1970 psychedelic songs

[TyBo]

One more Beatles number. Always loved this playful nonsense from John.

 

[MCF]

"Greatest" as in "favorite"; no edicts here, just opinions!
And only pre-1970. My thread, my parameters! So, no... There will be no "Dark Side of the Moon" mentions. Ok???
My top choices:
"Are You Experienced?" (song) (Hendrix)
"Tomorrow Never Knows" (Beatles)
"White Rabbit" (Jefferson Airplane)
"Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" (Beatles)
"Dark Star" (Grateful Dead)
"Strawberry Fields Forever" (Beatles)
"Armenia City in the Sky" (Who)
"Journey to the Center of the Mind" (Amboy Dukes)
"Happenings Ten Years Time Ago" (Yardbirds)

Not going to argue with those. All great songs. How about 2000 Light Years from home by the Stones and In A Gadda-Da-Vida by Iron Butterfly.

Time Has Come Today - Chambers Brothers

 

[MCF]

Legend of a Mind—Moody Blues
Rain—Beatles
Lucy in the Sky
Voodoo Chile
In a Gadda da Vida
Lather—Airplane
Embryonic Journey
Morning Dew
I Had Too Much to Dream
Pushing too Hard
Talk Talk
Psychotic Reaction
See Emily Play
Fresh Air—Quicksilver
Time Has Come Today
The Pusher
Something in the Air

Nice.

 

[MCF]

All I can say is you all have great taste. So many great songs from an era we’ll never hear again.

 

[lowplaces]

This count ?



I have a hunch Gilmour was inspired by Green.

 

[TyBo]

AI does some pretty fair psychedelic visuals for "Lucy in the Sky". Just wish it was longer ...

 

[Thebiggestjerk]

 

[TN WOODMAN]

Great thread all. As someone posted earlier great set lists / play lists lurk within. One of my favorite eras of recordings.

 

[DJ Bebop]

All I can say is you all have great taste. So many great songs from an era we’ll never hear again.

Oh I don't know...

 

[Rip Van Dan]

You know the flip side of that 45 single is just the song played backwards, which is why you never heard the flip side played on the radio.

 

[MCF]

Oh I don't know...

When I head north next summer for the Thunderbird Club GTG we’re tentatively planning for Seattle, I need to stop and have a beer with you. Heck. Come to the GTG and play Thunderbirds with us.

 

[TimB1226]

A few Beatles cuts have been mentioned, but not the most psychedelic of all — “Tomorrow Never Knows”.

 

[Rip Van Dan]

Incense and Peppermints

Here you go. My high school band, The St. James Infirmary, played that back in 1968.

 

[Rip Van Dan]

How about Heart Full of Soul by the Yardbirds from 1965 with a very young, psychedelically dressed Jimmy Page on guitar.

 

[bassobrutto]

Groovy thread! A couple of slightly-off-the-beaten-track examples. From the Merry-Go-Round, written by the mythical Emitt Rhodes, a song that would later be covered by a pre-folk Fairport Convention, while they were still trying to be UK's Jefferson Airplane:


From Song Cycle (1967) by Van Dyke Parks, charming music that's hard to categorise, but certainly a bit trippy:

 

[rylie]

screaming' jay anyone?
he fits/doesn't fit in any reality

 

[DJ Bebop]

When I head north next summer for the Thunderbird Club GTG we’re tentatively planning for Seattle, I need to stop and have a beer with you. Heck. Come to the GTG and play Thunderbirds with us.

I would love to do that!

Penciling it in now.

 

[DJ Bebop]

A few Beatles cuts have been mentioned, but not the most psychedelic of all — “Tomorrow Never Knows”.

It was, in a list. First post...
"Greatest" pre-1970 psychedelic songs

I would have posted it, if it wasn't.

 

[MCF]

It was, in a list.
I would have posted it, if it wasn't.

Actually, it was in OP’s opening post. And it’s a very trippy song.

 

[DJ Bebop]

Actually, it was in OP’s opening post. And it’s a very trippy song.

Yup...