@RVI this one has a super rigid timeline for psychs progression kinda hilarious the way they disregard things by The Yardbirds, Kinks etc because the intent for expanded consciousness via lsd wasnt implied lol ""accidental psych"

i was already thinking the phrase "accidental psych" before i clicked the images

theres also kind of another layer to it where something can be intentionally trippy or abstract, like the creativity of Beck's guitar and surreal lyrics in Shapes of Things, while not intentionally going for the d***-induced aspect. and then with the few Kinks psych songs I think it's almost purely accidental/stumbled-upon psychedelia be cause I don't think Ray was going for any trippiness at all. a few of those pre-Satanic Stones songs as well, like Have You Seen Your Mother.... I don't think they were intending for it to be trippy but the end result was slightly trippy. a few of those 66-67 VU and Mothers of Invention songs I think have some accidental psych as well too due to the sheer mind expanding creativity of it

i mostly agree with the author but I'd say intentional trippiness without d*** inspiration is still bonafide psych

also another rarer flipside to this in that you could have directly LSD inspired music but the end result wasnt even psychedelic. like the Grateful Dead were tripping balls at the acid tests while playing and it affected their process but they weren't even psychedelic yet until 1967 and maybe a few select cuts in 1966

kinda funny how they are one of the key psych bands and were super early on the scene itself, but at the same time weren't actually psychedelic until things were already in full swing

i see andwella's dream and traffic sound on the cover 2 that i was considering DLing in the past few days in preparation for psych binge

yeah Andwellas Dream has at least one ultra banger in Shades Of Grey but i havent heard Traffic Sound yet

for '66 the only albums they gave essays to were Blonde, Roger, that s*** Pat Kilroy acid folk album and these two i dont think ive heard in their entirety

mm i would say by Have You Seen Your Mother and Im Not Like Everybody Else at least a few members of the bands were actively tripping and trying to sound trippy but i can see it for See My Friends and Paint It Black. Lou would be spinning in his grave but Venus is definitely psychedelic kinky dark psych lords read a Sterling Morrison interview the other day where he said he thinks the Velvets achieved everything they set out to on Venus In Furs and basically could've wrapped it up after that

yeah also acid folk like f***ing Incredible String Band really makes me want to punch my own face hearing them try to approximate psychedelic music on acoustic guitars. would absolutely kill my buzz if i was trippin.

Small Faces and The Who kinda like that too, still cranking out hard power pop with hardly a trace of psych till later '67 at which point they became momentary psych lords

Motowns zenith? probably

HDH, Jamerson and Stubbs all flying

"Dozier said that they were strongly influenced by Bob Dylan at the time, commenting: "We wanted Levi Stubbs to shout-sing the lyrics... as a shout-out to Dylan"
news to me

both mid tbh

yeah Venus in Furs and All Tomorrow's Parties are pretty psych and their noisy improvisational ones def have some elements too

Dark heroin voodoo its own strain of psych kinda

Any proto Gris Gris? all I'm seeing is that Dr John was in The Wrecking crew around 66

Yeah I thought I had vague memories of checking them out and then deleting them eventually cause mid

Here's one for you broski... Not psychedelic, just... primitive :datass: @Koala

i havent heard any

iggy drumming?

Can definitely tell that's him singing as well to me

@twinkletoez @Aruji need you guys to hear how brazen the structure of this is low-key on the same level as Good Vibrations

my boys got sidelined hard in '66 when the label forced them to put out a whole covers album but they had a couple gem singles still... one of which gets to claim first Tolkien lyric in rock afaik @rvi @HeyFella

the greatest American band make their lukewarm debut

a live highlight, their set lists were pretty much just short cover sogns with like 1-2 longer ones where you can hear the psychedelia

@Elric from one of their rare Canadian shows, in Vancouver as well they only played in Canada 23 times out of 2,314 shows, in large part due to them not wanting to go through the nightmare of crossing the border with all those d**** in their entourage

elvis played one of his only two shows outside of the states in Vancouver and the Beatles came through in '64 as well so they're in good company and Deadheads were lucky to get that many

nice jam

damn i didnt know elvis never played outside of north america. kinda crazy

I mentioned in the 50s how they didn't find out till years later that Colonel Tom was an illegal alien from Europe and he was afraid that he would never be allowed back in the States if he ever left so he successfully convinced Elvis to never tour internationally among other detrimental things he convinced Elvis to do

damn, i barely know anything about that dude tbh