Psychadelia me do

[Yvash]

I think at the moment the music I'm most into is probably Psychadelia.

With bands as soul wrenchingly beautiful as Grandaddy and Sparklehorse, as eyewideningly wonderful as Super Furry Animals and Flaming Lips, what more could you possibly need to make your day seem a little better?

If you can track the following down and listen to them, you'll be a better person. I promise :D

Flaming Lips : Fight Test (from Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots)
Grandaddy : Saddest Vacant Lot in all the World (from Sumday)
Super Furry Animals : Venus and Serena (from Phantom Power)
Sparklehorse : Little Fat Baby (from It's a Wonderful Life)


All from each band's most recent album, though the Sparklehorse one is getting on a bit, waiting for a new one from Mr Mark Linkous right now...

Also an honorable mention to The Polyphonic Spree, though they're in my bad-books for rereleasing their album with new stuff on it. Cool for those just discovering them, sucky for those who already got it...

[cadex]

what about Velvet Underground - Venus in Furs

I love listening to that song on mushrooms.



also, Jefferson Airplane - White Rabbit ?


tis a classic.

[PoofBird]

strange Yvash, I know those bands, and wouldn't class them as psychedelic, nor have i ever heard anyone else do such...

psychedelic music (psychadelia is total new word) is Pink Floyd in the days of "piper at the gates of dawn"
it's The Doors, Captain Beefheart, The Grateful Dead, Iron Butterfly,
also some songs by the byrds, beatles and jimi hendrix...

www.allmusic.com wrote:
Psychedelic Rock emerged in the mid-'60s, as British Invasion and folk-rock bands began expanding the sonic possibilities of their music. Instead of confining themselves to the brief, concise verse-chorus-verse patterns of rock & roll, they moved toward more free-form, fluid song structures. Just as important — if not more so — the groups began incorporating elements of Indian and Eastern music and free-form jazz to their sound, as well as experimenting with electronically altering instruments and voices within the recording studio. Initially, around 1965 and 1966, bands like the Yardbirds and the Byrds broke down the boundaries for psychedelia, creating swirling layers of fuzz-toned guitars, sitars, and chanted vocals. Soon, numerous groups followed their pattern, including the Beatles and the Rolling Stones, both of whom recorded psychedelia in 1966. In no time, groups on both sides of the Atlantic embraced the possibilities of the new genre, and the differences were notable. In Britain, psychedelia tended to be whimsical and surrealistic. Nevertheless, bands — most notably Pink Floyd and Traffic — played extended instrumentals that relied on improvisation as much as their American contemporaries the Grateful Dead, the Doors, Love, and Jefferson Airplane. In other corners of America, garage bands began playing psychedelic rock without abandoning their raw, amateurish foundation of three-chord rock — they just layered in layers of distortion, feedback, and effects. Eventually, psychedelic evolved into acid rock, heavy metal, and art rock, but there continued to be revivals of psychedelia in the decades that followed, most notably in the American underground of the mid-'80s.

if your interested in this style, you might want to look some of these bands up, and listen to their work. ;)

[Yvash]

Oh but is is psychadelia/psychadelic. Just because it wasn't made in the 60's doesn't make it not so. Perhaps it should be classed as 'nu-sykadeelya' or something equally as stupid, but nothing changes what it strictly is.

Sparklehorse and Grandaddy can also be reffered to as Alt Country, but their vision incorporates everything you quoted from www.allmusic.com
Flaming Lips embody all there is to the psychadelic movement (have you heard The Soft Bulletin?).

I have little qualms filing albums by SFA, Flaming Lips et al alongside my Jefferson Airplane, 13th Floor Elevators, Hendrix, Captain Beefheart etc.


And though 90% of Pink Floyd could be branded Psychadelia, 110% is prog ;)

Pink Floyd. Officially 200% music :D

[BFCA]

Mmmm all this sounds good. I'd never had thought to have put these bands into their own genre, but i do like em all, so i guess i like psychadelia (smith)

[Amazing Morris]

There is no brand on Pink Floyd music. They're just Pink Floyd. The greatest EVER.
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[Garrett]

Captain Beefheart...is great...so is Frank Zappa....Zappa seemed to have a little of everything in him.

[Martial Law]

Originally posted by Garrett
Captain Beefheart...is great...so is Frank Zappa....Zappa seemed to have a little of everything in him.

Ah, the Captain rules. Ain't really listened to Zappa, but I hear him and Beefy were good mates. Ooh and The Mars Volta is good recent psychadelia.

[Garrett]

Originally posted by Martial Law
Ah, the Captain rules. Ain't really listened to Zappa, but I hear him and Beefy were good mates. Ooh and The Mars Volta is good recent psychadelia.

Yeah, they were....They did "Muffin Man" together.