Favorite Psychedelic LP from the 1st era (1966-1975)...

are you hos still arguing over teh psychedelic again

 

Pat Kilroy ‎– Light Of Day

 

Psychsters! Come to my aid in this new thread, before it sinketh into oblivion...

Japanese Psych

 

I am checking that out...listening to the first song makes me think maybe Sonic Boom heard it before composing "Honey"...



Spacemen 3 - Honey

This connection, however--if it is one-- does not seem to have been remarked upon by the internet.

 

My choice as well!

Heck, I can’t believe you’re really asking this!

 

As was mentioned already, the vast majority of artifacts I consider definitive from this period existed as 45-rpm 7-inch singles or E.P.s rather than albums, though most of these once-obscure records have since been compiled digitally, often from a vinyl source and in a few instances, rescued from oblivion when transferred from one of very few or last remaining copies in existence.
For the albums that have their first release during the golden years, The Jimi Hendrix Experience has to win the prize and for me that trophy is Electric Ladyland. 1983 (A Merman I Should Turn To Be), Burning of The Midnight Lamp, House Burning Down, All Along The Watchtower; if those four songs alone were on a 10" E.P. together they'd still win the prize in my book, but, what do you know .. we have four 12" sides of ordained rapture ! On the one hand, asking what is a favourite psych lp .. they're all great! .. all different, all great! On the other hand, JHE makes the choice easy by virtue of being so far above and beyond everything else .. I only have to chose from 3 albums and I almost picked Axis Bold As Love.

 

Good counterculture rock band...but way too much mundane 'politics' to be truly psychedelic. Even Country Joe
was at his trippiest when he was singing about something other than political concerns (ie: 'Bass Strings' etc.)

 

Killer Bay Area group (with a Journey connection!?!?) 'Hearts To Cry' is S.F. "ballroom bliss".

 

Proggy counterculture jazz/rock with poppy vocals...not that there's anything wrong with that.
That album is great fun to listen to when you are 'enhanced'.

 

Here is a good one that hasn't been mentioned. The Troll's Animated Music from 1968. It was the group's only album after a handful of non-LP singles as The Trolls (plural).

It's got a couple of convincingly sad anti-war and anti-draft songs that make their point in original ways ("Fritz Und Sweeney" and "I've Only Myself To Blame").

On the other hand, there's the hilarious "Professor Pott's Pornographic Projector," a Sgt. Pepper-styled tune about a dirty old man annoying a small town with his pervy movies (inspired line: "Professor Pott's persuasive plots are packing the playhouse persuasively, where penny-pinching pleasure patrons pay...").

It probably goes without saying, but this is a great headphones album. I have a CD reissue of this and over the years have played it more than most classic psych albums.

 

Back in the day when I bought it, 1968, Spirit was very psychedelic, which to me is anything of the era with mind blowing music and lyrics. It's not klimited to moog and synth like stuff or Hendrix echo and reverb. 12 Dreams of Dr. Sardonicus was and still is very psychedelic.

 

You don't, by chance, run a record store in Baltimore on Falls Road do you?

 

No, not at all!

 

I thought that you might be the guy that I sold my collection of 'Satanic' Christian puppet albums to.
They were starting to really creep me out...

 

Same as him

 

My favorites have all been mentioned already but I did recently find a copy of Hard Meat's "Through a Window" and it's definitely an overlooked gem.

 

Did Small Faces ever have an album. The single Itchycoo park is excellent!

 

I love those albums!

 

https://rateyourmusic.com/artist/small_faces

 

Way too many favorites to pick just one. If I had a big suitcase to take to my desert island, these would come along with me. If I had to pick just 1, 3 or 5 then the stress of the decision might kill me before I ever took off for said island!

Beatles - Magical Mystery Tour
Art - Supernatural Fairytales
Blue Mountain Eagle - S/T
The Byrds - Younger Than Yesterday
The Byrds - Notorious Byrd Brothers
The Children - Rebirth
Country Joe and The Fish - Electric Music
Country Joe and The Fish - Fixin' To Die
The Doors - Strange Days
The Doors - Waiting for the Sun
The End - Introspection
The Fallen Angels - It's A Long Way Down
Hardwater - S/T
Jimi Hendrix Experience - Electric Ladyland
The Human Beinz - Evolutions
Jefferson Airplane - After Bathing at Baxter's
Jefferson Airplane - Crown of Creation
J.K. & Co - Suddenly One Summer
Kaleidoscope - Faintly Blowing
Love - Da Capo
Love - Forever Changes
Mighty Baby - S/T
Moody Blues - In Search of the Lost Chord
Music Emporium - S/T
Pink Floyd - Piper At the Gates of Dawn
Plastic Cloud - S/T
Rolling Stones - Her Satanic Majesties Request
Skip Bifferty - S/T
Spirit - The Family That Plays Together
Strawberry Alarm Clock - Wake Up It's Tomorrow
Tomorrow - S/T
Traffic - S/T
Trees - On the Shore
Ultimate Spinach - Behold and See
The Zombies - Odessey and Oracle

 

Journey to the center of the mind- The Amboy Dukes

 

The Jefferson Airplane, The Dead and Quicksilver are my top three. Plus, The band that played my High School dances is right up there -- Country Joe and the Fish.
However, the above three albums are excellent. Especially the Sons album. I am amazed that it was overlooked and never went anywhere. In SF, it was hot on KMPX radio.

 

Behold and See is a great album, particularly in its CD version. I had the pleasure 20 years ago of jamming with Ian Bruce-Douglas at his house.

 

Very, very cool sir.

 

A little taste of the Sons from back in the day.