Stoner thread, essential albums of a Stoner/Psychedelic rock/metal collection.

its the same four words buddy, doesn't matter which order you put them in. Slayer, Paul McCartney & Kraftwerk aren't within a cooee of anything resembling "psychedelic stoner rock metal" (< re-arrange words to suit)

 

If McCartney's music isn't 'stoner' music, then I don't know what is.

 

My favorite stoner album is. . . Antonio Carlos Jobim's "Stone Flower." Doesn't fall into the OP's category, but it's truly a stoner classic.

 

When it came out J.M.Jarre's Oxygen may not have been rock but it had 'stoner' written all over it.

 

LoL what I know Slayer is not Stoner but anyway great album !

 

I didn't mean stoner music I'm specifically asking for Stoner Rock or Stoner Metal or Psychedelic rock or Psychedelic Metal

 

The albums I've got are:
Graveyard - Graveyard
Stoned Jesus - Seven Thunders Roar
Stoned Jesus - First Communion
Electric Moon - Inferno

Then albums I wished I have are:
Colour Haze - CO2
The Machine - Solar Corona
and some other

 

that list also goes for my entry for the
Best Beatlesque Baroque/Psychedelic Rock/Pop
thread.

 

I used to listen to Le Mystere des Voix Bulgares a lot while tripping

 

From your recommendations, I'd say you don't either though I'll cede you Bongrippper.

 

I don't know. Slayer is termed "thrash", right? To me it's Metal that sounds good while Stoned. Stoner Metal.

 

What about Sublime or Goldfinger?

 

No love for Arbouretum here?
And Hawkwind's Space Ritual is a classic of the genre

 

Kadaver's first album... great trio from Berlin.

 

Other than the classics like Trouble, Kyuss, Electric Wizard and Monster Magnet, I think anything with Wino on it--Saint Vitus, Obsessed, Spirit Caravan, and the countless other bands he's been in should be mentioned. The Obsessed's in particular, is one of my favorites. AS far as current acts, Church Of Misery, despite the serial killer schtick, is as consistent a band there is. The album Warhorse put out around 15 years ago is great, and the early Spiritual Beggars albums were all solid. I love Colour Haze, but I think their self-titled album was their best.

 

These stoner rock threads here are always a bit of a train wreck...

Oh well, here's a nomination for anything by The Heads - not the version formed from The Talking Heads, but the Bristol stoner/psych/jam band.

 

I dig the The Heads a lot. Under Sided (2002) is a good one from them. They're almost like a warped version of The Jesus & Mary Chain but far more heavy, psychedelic leanings to them. Great washes of layered guitars in what they do.

Agreed with the train wreck part and a lot of problem is that people tend to lump in sludge and doom metal into the psychedelic/"stoner" category. There isn't anything remotely psychedelic about Church of Misery, Corrupted, Crowbar, or early Trouble, but people include them, anyway. Now, if you're talking the Def American stuff from Trouble like the s/t or Manic Frustration, sure, but to cite The Skull as a psychedelic/"stoner" record seems off base to me.

But I guess if one smokes enough ganja/weed/mary jane anything can be "stoner" in the right environment.

 

Sleep - Sleep's Holy Mountain
Kyuss - Welcome to Sky Valley
Sheavy - The Electric Sleep
Acid King - Busse Woods
Lucifer's Friend - S/T
Terra Firma - S/T
Paul Chain - Alkahest
Monster Magnet - Dopes to Infinity
Natas - Delmar

This list is pretty predictable, and since everything on it is about 15 years old, I guess I'm dating myself. But these are the albums that really got me into the whole stoner genre, and in most cases they've really held up over time.

 

Yeah it's a shame that The Heads don't appear to be up to much at the moment, bar releasing random archival releases. Under Sided is the one I struggle the most with - it's really trebly and a bit over-produced (by their standards) and I don't think the band themselves were that happy with the sound. Under the Stress of a Headlong Dive or At Last are probably my favourites by them. They were great live too - monumentally heavy and with proper old school psychedelic oil projections.

I think the doom stuff gets lumped in because ultimately it all goes back to Sabbath. I remember when Stonerrock.com was a thriving community back in the day, and space rock, desert rock and doom pretty much all got lumped in together, though I was never that into the doom stuff. The nearest I got was with Goatsnake, who were basically just a slower version of Sabbath but pretty good.

 

I don't know, that 1971 set from Radio Bremen gets pretty close or are you going to say that isn't Kraftwerk?

 

Love those. Has the project ended ? Haven't heard anything new by them since Euphoria

 

Enjoying a load of stuff on Cardinal Fuzz but that's more psychedelic rock and not really much to do with metal. UNless electric guitar distortion automatically has you categorising things as that genre.

 

Vista Chino (i.e. Kyuss sanns Homme) "peace."

 

YES.