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v. t. e. Psychedelic pop (or acid pop) [3] is pop music that contains musical characteristics associated with psychedelic music. [1] Developing in the mid-to-late 1960s, elements included "trippy" features such as fuzz guitars, tape manipulation, backwards recording, sitars, and Beach Boys -style harmonies, wedded to melodic songs with tight ...
Psychedelia. Psychedelic music (sometimes called psychedelia) [1] is a wide range of popular music styles and genres influenced by 1960s psychedelia, a subculture of people who used psychedelic drugs such as DMT, LSD, mescaline, and psilocybin mushrooms, to experience synesthesia and altered states of consciousness.
Turn On Your Mind: Four Decades of Great Psychedelic Rock. Hal Leonard Corporation. ISBN 0-634-05548-8. DeRogatis, Jim (2006). Staring at Sound: The True Story of Oklahoma's Fabulous Flaming Lips. Broadway Books. ISBN 978-0-7679-2140-4. Mojo (2007). Irvin, Jim (ed.). The Mojo Collection: The Ultimate Music Companion (4th ed.). Canongate Books.
Mar 4, 2021 · Of course, ‘Psychedelic’ is such a nebulous term that it invited an endless amount of hyphens. With a dash of fuzz, sitar, or even just one of those cosmic doorman jackets from Sgt. Pepper, just about anyone could be psychedelicised, and soon there was not only psych-rock to contend with, there was psychpop, psych-soul, psych-metal, psych-pepperoni and extra cheese, psych-everything.
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- White Rabbit. Psychedelia’s spiritual home is San Francisco, where Ken Kesey and his Merry Pranksters conducted many of their famous mid-60s Acid Tests - mind-expanding bacchanals where the Kool-Aid was laced with LSD.
- Pink Floyd. Over in London, a small psychedelic scene was coalescing around the UFO Club, whose house bands were Soft Machine and Pink Floyd. Led by the mercurial Syd Barrett, the Floyd played spaced-out deconstructions of rhythm 'n' blues, with whimsical lyrics about dandelions and gingerbread men.
- Yellow Submarine. Thanks to the vivid cartoon style of artist Heinz Edelmann and a team of cutting-edge animators, The Beatles’ 1968 film Yellow Submarine provided a joyous visual representation of psychedelia.
- Purple Haze. Sixties psychedelia wasn’t all teacups and sunflowers. There was a harder edge to the genre, exemplified by the likes of The Jimi Hendrix Experience, Cream and Blue Cheer.
Sep 20, 2022 · Amphetamines and cannabis had greased the wheels of the music industry since before the Second World War. But the impact of the hallucinogenic Lysergic Acid Diethylamide (aka LSD or ‘acid’) turned pop music upside down and inside out. Even groups who never touched the stuff started making music that sounded like they did.
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Jun 7, 2021 · The psychedelic rock genre formed out of the hippie culture of San Francisco in the late 1960s and quickly spread across the globe, giving rise to some of the greatest rock bands of all time.
