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Psychedelic music (sometimes called psychedelia) 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.
🍭100 Greatest Psychedelic Rock Songs 🎸 · Playlist · 100 songs · 1.1K likes
Jun 7, 2014 · 4.7M views 9 years ago. Lets take a trip back to the mid 1960s. Psychedelic music is a style of rock that was inspired by psychedelic culture. Artists like The Beatles and The Byrds pioneered...
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- Love: Forever Changes (1967) This classic album from really stands apart from the best psychedelic albums. There are no studio effects, no freeform jams, and hardly even any electric guitars.
- The Beatles: Magical Mystery Tour (1967) Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band may have changed music, but if there was one moment that psychedelicised the world, it was the release of “Strawberry Fields Forever” (backed with “Penny Lane”) as a single in February 1967.
- Spirit: Twelve Dreams Of Dr Sardonicus (1970) Released in November 1970, this was the original psychedelic era’s final masterpiece. Lyrically, Twelve Dreams Of Dr Sardonicus wraps up everything that era was trying to say.
- The Jimi Hendrix Experience: Electric Ladyland (1968) Jimi Hendrix was psychedelic by his very existence, and the expansive double-album Electric Ladyland brought you further inside his head (and closer to other parts of his anatomy) than any other record.
Note from the underground: Psychedelic Sight revolves around two works in progress: A list of the 100 greatest psychedelic songs (this page) and one of the top 50 psychedelic albums. So where are the other songs? True to the spirit, the list will be filled in randomly — whenever the muse turns up.
Psychedelic rock is a rock music genre that is inspired, influenced, or representative of psychedelic culture, which is centered on perception-altering hallucinogenic drugs. The music incorporated new electronic sound effects and recording techniques, extended instrumental solos, and improvisation. [2]
Apr 1, 2024 · Learn about the origins, influences, and genre-defining artists of psychedelic rock, a style of rock music popular in the late 1960s that was inspired by hallucinogens and reflected drug-induced states. Explore the West Coast and East Coast scenes, the British bands, and the impact of psychedelia on other genres.
