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Apr 24, 2024 · 4:00 pm. The 100 Best Psychedelic Rock Albums of The Golden Age. When compiling a list of the greatest psychedelic rock albums of the Golden era, there are a couple of things to take into consideration. First, one must determine the parameters of the era: when did it begin and when did it end?
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- The Beatles, 'Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band' (1967) The Beatles' Summer of Love masterpiece is a lot of things: pop-music landmark, art-rock milestone ...
- The Jimi Hendrix Experience, 'Are You Experienced' (1967) No album defines psychedelic rock as much as the Jimi Hendrix Experience's debut. There are traces of other music throughout – mostly blues but there's pop and jazz undertones in there, too – but 'Are You Experienced' plants itself firmly in the burgeoning genre, and by the end of the senses-rattling title track it pretty much set up a template on which an entire music movement was based.
- The Jimi Hendrix Experience, 'Electric Ladyland' (1968) The Jimi Hendrix Experience were already playing around within genres on their first two albums, but on their final LP they transcended several with a few broad strokes.
- The Doors, 'The Doors' (1967) The Doors threw a lifetime of influences into their debut album: Jazz, classical, blues, pop, R&B, rock and even cabaret are sprinkled throughout the LP's 11 tracks.
- Grateful Dead - Anthem Of The Sun (1968) Described by drummer Mickey Hart as “our springboard into weirdness”, the Dead’s second album is a mutable collage of rock, psychedelia and wayward blues.
- The Zombies - Odessey And Oracle (1968) Such was their disillusionment with the music business that The Zombies split up before their second album was even released.
- Aphrodite’s Child - 666 (1972) European psychedelia never went further out than this weighty concept album about The Book Of Revelation, delivered by a mercurial band that included Vangelis and a pre-superstar Demis Roussos.
- The Flaming Lips - The Soft Bulletin (1999) Firmly placing the Oklahoma City trio at the forefront of postmodern psychedelia, The Soft Bulletin joined the dots between the day-glo ‘60s and the knowing ‘90s with some aplomb.
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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.
Author: pauldrach. These are the 200 greatest psychedelic rock albums of the late '60s/early '70s, based on popularity, as well as influence/impact on psychedelic music and rock music in general.
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