The Trippiest Album Trilogy?

Which of the following choices is the trippiest trilogy of albums?

This one?

 

Or this one?

 

Maybe this one?

 

The Residents

1. Mark Of The Mole
2. Tunes OF Two Cities
4. The Big Bubble

 

This one?

 

Or this one?

 

Or this?





Or another one?

 

Animal Collective had a pretty trippy run.

 

Anthem of the Sun


Aoxomoxoa


Live Dead

 

Dead or Jimi

 

Eno- very very trippy in places, always fun, very creative and musically interesting (except for the singing, which doesn't get in the way of the rest of the stuff)
Taking Tiger Mountain
Another Green World
Before and After Science

 

For me, probably a tie between Funkadelic and Amon Düül II. Ash Ra Tempel is pretty freaky as well.

But I choose Funkadelic. LSD all the way through. Jimi Hendrix Trippiness taken to its extreme.

 

Just to eliminate the obvious:

 

I've heard more scary and trippy stories from people who've heard
Magma after other even more intentional means of wonderment.
Like the other options listed, repeated listening will also reveal just
how brilliant this material really is.

 

I went with the Can trilogy, but I had to flip a few coins to eliminate Funkadelic and Amon Duul II. Overplaying has probably weakened my ardor for the Hendrix ones just a hair or two. I love Gong too, but never as much as Can or the other two top names. I also like Ash Ra Tempel, but I never just went nuts over one of their albums, like I have with all the others. And Can has never stopped rewarding repeated listenings for me.

If "druggy" is an equivalent to "trippy", then I nominate Take It From the Man!, Their Satanic Majesties Second Request, and Thank God For Mental Illness by Brian Jonestown Massacre, all from 1996, for the "other" category. Also Sound of Confusion (1986), The Perfect Prescription (1987), and Playing With Fire (1989) by Spacemen 3 and Heaven's End (1987), Fade Out (1989) and A Gilded Eternity (1990) by Loop. Trippy music didn't end with the 60's...

 

David Bowie's Berlin Trilogy.

 

My exact same thoughts!

 

Zappa
Hot Rats
Waka/Jawaka
The Grand Wazoo

 

Jimi....

A newer stuff

 

Hard to beat Funkadelic for trippiness.
But here's a serious contender:

 

trilogy starting with Dark Side of the Moon

 

The Beach Boys - Pet Sounds/Smiley Smile/Wild Honey

We begin this trilogy with an album created after Brian Wilson had discovered cannabis and embarked on his first acid trip, moving on to amphetamines (during the ill-fated SMiLE sessions) that led to a raw sonic documentation of his almost inevitable meltdown then the stumbling recovery period, a once confident, growing young man forced back to a more simple way of life. While not as overtly "trippy" as other examples listed, I can take this adventure with its main creator and feel how someone once proclaimed as a genius literally fell apart before the world's eyes and ears. By the following next two group projects, he'd already declined further into the background, experimenting with cocaine and would continue on a decline that ensured he'd never achieve such musical heights again. For such a mainstream act, I'm surprised their label even allowed this material out, though what's more shocking is how much damage it would cause both personally and professionally. Yes, they'd still put out the occasional gem, but some coherence was lost and I still believe a major part of Brian never really came back out of the mid-to-late '60s, only tantalising fragments of what could have been surfacing now and then on more recent efforts.

 

Other:

 

Smiley Smile/Wild Honey/Friends?