The Kinks song from 1965, See My Friends was way ahead of the game in terms of style. Lovin Spoonful were too imo, Summer in the City is a classic from 1966
@@roygoad2870 I almost put the Spoonful on the list. I didn’t only because I’ve showcased them so many times. One of the all time greats. They cranked out so much quality in a short 2 years.
@@tomrobinson5776 They were the second and possibly the final act, only to Gary Lewis And The Playboys to hit the U.S. Top 10 with their first seven singles. The Monkees then came close hitting the U.S. Top 10 with their first six singles, all of which were U.S. Top 3, three of which were U.S. number ones, although I was no fan of theirs.
Harry Nilsson was an artist whose records were totally out of step with the psychedelic 60s. Albums like Pandemonium Shadow Show (1967) and Aerial Ballet (1968), filled with gentle melodies and gorgeous orchestrations, had more in common with vaudeville, Tin Pan Alley, show tunes, and classic pre-World War Two American popular songwriting than with contemporaneous rock and roll (although Harry did throw in some Beatles references, perhaps in tribute to the Fab Four). Songs like One, Together, and Without Her are brilliant little compositional masterpieces that sound like the antithesis of psychedelia.
Velvet Underground & Nico '67 The Stooges '69 King Crimson / In The Court of the Crimson King '69 MC5 /Kick Out The Jams '68/'69 SPIRIT / Clear '69 Pretty Things / S.F. Sorrow '67
What a neat topic! Your list included a couple of albums I had completely forgotten about, and a couple more I never heard of. Enjoyable and informative... Thanks!
Excellent! Glad to see Frank Zappa and the Mothers in there. Waterloo Sunset is a masterpiece along the lines of the best Lennon/McCartney compositions.
Great shout about Van Morrison's "Astral Weeks" and the International Submarine Band's "Safe at home"🎉 However I am surprised to find my favourite Captain Beefheart Album " Safe at home" In your list, as I always considered it a psychedelic album😅 Songs like "Zig Zag Wanderer" (British Rolling Paper for jays), "Drop out Boogie" and "Electricity" Speak for themselves😅 By the way, "Something Else" was released in 67 (Europe) Thanks for another interesting video😊
While not 'rock' in any strict sense, the four solo records that Scott Walker released in the late 60s were WAY out of the ordinary for the times. Totally with you on John Wesley Harding - ties with Blonde on Blonde as my favourite Dylan album...
That was a great list. I would add: Friends by The Beach Boys Wild Honey by The Beach Boys Beggar's Banquest by The Stones Village Green Preservation Society by The Kinks
OK, I got a couple of faves, if we're limiting it to "rock", and around the '67-'68 timeframe. First, The Flamin' Groovies -- Supersnazz, recorded in '68 and released in '69. Despite hailing from San Francisco, the Groovies seem to have ignored the whole psychedelic trend, favoring R'n'B and rockabilly (this first album contains four '50s cover songs). Great style -- after several personnel changes, they reinvented themselves as a British Invasion/powerpop band in the '70s. And second, Dan Hicks & His Hot Licks. -- Original Recordings, also released in 1969. This is straying a little further from rock, as the band was basically a country swing band with leanings toward jazz and novelty '40s-type tunes, but folk in the group were easily recognizable as hippies, and Dan Hicks had his start drumming for the LSD-gobbling Charlatans. A little later there would be Commander Cody & His Lost Planet Airmen, a bit rockier. And, of course, there was the ever-a-footnote It's A Beautiful Day, who never struck me as very psychedelic. Three great non-trendy bands from San Francisco.
You could have added the first two Cat Stevens albums Matthew & Son and New Masters, both of which were released in the States, although his first album appeared in the States with two tracks less than the UK release, plus both Small Faces' albums on the Immediate label, plus The Bee Gees' First, maybe the Creedence albums. What about the first Leonard Cohen album.
@@paulgoldstein2569 I always thought those Small Faces albums flirted with psych, like Green Circles, Itchycoo Park, Here Come The Nice, various selections on Ogden’s …
Amazing list of albums Basically describes everything i like So hopefully you will agree when i put forth Bobby Gentry Odd to Billie Joe ; 1967 Delta Sweete : 1969 Really different , really unique artist
Dylan's motorcycle accident is pretty much confirmed. He wrote about it in his 2004 autobiography, Chronicles: "I had been in a motorcycle accident and I'd been hurt, but I recovered".
Sometimes there is crossfading between psychedelic and non psychedelic music. There are definitely psych elements to Music From Big Pink, primarily because of the electronic keyboards and treatments to Robbie Robertson's guitar. On the other hand, Big Brother And the Holding Company's first album isn't psychedelic at all, with the possible exception of "All Is Loneliness". It's pretty much a folk rock album. This stuff is fun. Looks like we're never getting to the bottom of it.
Excellent Tom, But, in my opinion dressed like an undertaker with his accoustic guitar and ghost instruments behind, "Songs of Leonard Cohen"..... by Leonard Cohen is obviously the less psychedelic album of this era.
You're right ! When i was young (born in 1964...) i used to worship The Ramones and Leonard Cohen was, according to my french teachers, a real artist compared to long hairs and electric idols. I saw him live in 1985 in a festival in Brittany (West of France) but this poor man was stucked between Depeche Mode and The Clash.....
A suggestion: can you devote a video to instrumental groups like Booker T and The M.Gs? Or perhaps which were the most notable instrumental tracks released by groups better known for their vocal songs; like The Beatles' 'Flying' or The Rolling Stones' '2120 South Michigan Ave.'
This is a great list honouring the avant garde of Zappa and Beefheart for its own right. And maybe Laura Nyro, Van Morrison, the Kinks and the Band prove that the greatest music wasn't psychodelic at all, even in the late sixties.
I took a tour of England. A tour guide in London was telling us about where Mick Jagger and Paul McCartney has residences. I didn't care so much about that: I wanted to know where Ray Davies lived. The guide said, "Ooh, the Kinks: 'Waterloo Sunset.' " When I told her that people in America did not know 'Waterloo Sunset,' she was shocked. This reminds me of how NBC in America cut out the broadcast of Ray Davies performance of Waterloo Sunset at the closing ceremony of the Olympics in England.
Strange you say that Dylan's music had no psychedelia which is true. Yet Jimi Hendrix turned the Dylan song All Along The Watchtower into a psychedelic masterpiece.
Three Dog Night burst onto the scene in 68/69 doing their own thing. I can't really say I'm a huge fan, but I do really like a couple of their songs. They were pretty much going against the grain at the time, I thought.
Bob Dylan once said "What is garagerock" We all played in garages, so what is psychedelic rock,dont understand The Band, whats wrong with me? Greetings from Sweden...
Oh, you have to listen to Music from Big Pink, on Owsley's finest, to understand why it is one of the greatest psychedelic albums ever recorded! All the squonks, bloops, and phrewps make sense! Captain Beefheart, meh. I tried to like him, but except for Diddy Wah Diddy, I can easily do without him. Van's first (Warner's) LP was a welcome break for the methadrine-drenched period that had preceded it (maybe it was just too much meth in the acid). Ray Davies began to carve out a niche for himself, with Something Else. He made something I liked to call Thinking Man's Rock. Anyone who can rhyme "William Shakespeare" and "Rembrandt, Titian, Da Vinci and Gainsborough", is a Rock genius, in my book! John Wesley Harding returned Dylan to the Folkies' good graces, but it was a killer album, as well, with some of his best lyrics of the 'Sixties. "Noise Rock" is the best term for White Light. Child Is Father to the Man, though is a stone delight, from beginning to end. The band never reached the same consistency for me, and I soon ignored them. Chicago was a similar situation, incredible first LP, sequentially less-impressive follow-ups. Forever Changes, Love's final album by the original group, is as unpsychedelic an album as was recorded in 1967. No feedback, lotta wordplay, and very Pop-py songs. A stunning work that still stands today as a remarkable recording. I've listened to it as much as anything in my collection, and it still delivers the same pleasure in listening. I still turn up the volume, and sing along to the choruses.
@@TheAnarchitek You’re right about Forever Changes. There’s nothing overtly psychedelic about it. The mariachi vibe on Alone Again Or, gorgeous straightforward orchestration on various tracks. Incredible album.
@@if6was929 The words are trippy, without a doubt, but the music is pretty mainstream Pop/Rock. "I don't know if the third's the fourth or if the fifth's to fix Sometimes I deal with numbers And if you wanna count me Count me (out) (in)"
Hmmm... why do you keep on referring to Dylan's 1966 motorcycle accident as "supposed"? Have I missed any muckraking article that documents its improbability? Of course, why would the dude have faked such an event would need to be resolved too.
I'm currently reading *Behind the Shades* , generally regarded as the definitive Bob biography. I'm fascinated to see how the whole motorcycle incident is presented.
I thought it was because of his accident that he could not make it to the Monterey Pop Festival. But the truth of the accident remains dubious, as no ambulance was called, and he was never hospitalized.
@@jeffreyslotnikoff4003 The subject has always been shrouded in mystery. I’ve never read any articles that have delved deep into this incident. One of rock’s great mysteries.
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I remember hearing Waterloo Sunset on local AM radio during the late summer of 1967, growing up in Wisconsin. One of my fav Kinks tracks.
It got a couple of plays in the Rhode Island area, but that was it. Too bad, it's a great record.
@@kso808 That’s amazing and rare. The song never even dented the charts here in the U.S. Interesting you actually heard it. Very cool.
The Kinks song from 1965, See My Friends was way ahead of the game in terms of style. Lovin Spoonful were too imo, Summer in the City is a classic from 1966
Yeah, I'd put Lovin' Spoonful in this category, definitely.
@@roygoad2870 I almost put the Spoonful on the list. I didn’t only because I’ve showcased them so many times. One of the all time greats. They cranked out so much quality in a short 2 years.
@@tomrobinson5776 They were the second and possibly the final act, only to Gary Lewis And The Playboys to hit the U.S. Top 10 with their first seven singles. The Monkees then came close hitting the U.S. Top 10 with their first six singles, all of which were U.S. Top 3, three of which were U.S. number ones, although I was no fan of theirs.
Harry Nilsson was an artist whose records were totally out of step with the psychedelic 60s. Albums like Pandemonium Shadow Show (1967) and Aerial Ballet (1968), filled with gentle melodies and gorgeous orchestrations, had more in common with vaudeville, Tin Pan Alley, show tunes, and classic pre-World War Two American popular songwriting than with contemporaneous rock and roll (although Harry did throw in some Beatles references, perhaps in tribute to the Fab Four). Songs like One, Together, and Without Her are brilliant little compositional masterpieces that sound like the antithesis of psychedelia.
@@GreenManalishiUSA You are correct. 😉
Velvet Underground & Nico '67
The Stooges '69
King Crimson / In The Court of the Crimson King '69
MC5 /Kick Out The Jams '68/'69
SPIRIT / Clear '69
Pretty Things / S.F. Sorrow '67
@@dmk7700 Oh yes, fantastic examples. 😉
What a neat topic! Your list included a couple of albums I had completely forgotten about, and a couple more I never heard of. Enjoyable and informative... Thanks!
Excellent! Glad to see Frank Zappa and the Mothers in there.
Waterloo Sunset is a masterpiece along the lines of the best Lennon/McCartney compositions.
@@superhet7281 Indeed. Without question.
These albums were my saving grace…allowed me to grow a stylistic preference. Fabulous music from a new freedom of expression.
There's nothing out there like Safe Like Milk.
Great shout about Van Morrison's "Astral Weeks" and the International Submarine Band's "Safe at home"🎉
However I am surprised to find my favourite Captain Beefheart Album " Safe at home" In your list, as I always considered it a psychedelic album😅 Songs like "Zig Zag Wanderer" (British Rolling Paper for jays), "Drop out Boogie" and "Electricity" Speak for themselves😅
By the way, "Something Else" was released in 67 (Europe)
Thanks for another interesting video😊
I have the same objection to including Safe As Milk.
Little Known Factoid: there is a Hendrix cover of Drifter’s Escape which can be found on the posthumous release Loose Ends. 😊😊😊😊😊
@@kingofallmediums2123 I’ve heard it. So good!
great picks! thank you!
While not 'rock' in any strict sense, the four solo records that Scott Walker released in the late 60s were WAY out of the ordinary for the times. Totally with you on John Wesley Harding - ties with Blonde on Blonde as my favourite Dylan album...
That was a great list. I would add:
Friends by The Beach Boys
Wild Honey by The Beach Boys
Beggar's Banquest by The Stones
Village Green Preservation Society by The Kinks
@@pauldaniels2019 Yes indeed 😉
OK, I got a couple of faves, if we're limiting it to "rock", and around the '67-'68 timeframe.
First, The Flamin' Groovies -- Supersnazz, recorded in '68 and released in '69. Despite hailing from San Francisco, the Groovies seem to have ignored the whole psychedelic trend, favoring R'n'B and rockabilly (this first album contains four '50s cover songs). Great style -- after several personnel changes, they reinvented themselves as a British Invasion/powerpop band in the '70s.
And second, Dan Hicks & His Hot Licks. -- Original Recordings, also released in 1969. This is straying a little further from rock, as the band was basically a country swing band with leanings toward jazz and novelty '40s-type tunes, but folk in the group were easily recognizable as hippies, and Dan Hicks had his start drumming for the LSD-gobbling Charlatans. A little later there would be Commander Cody & His Lost Planet Airmen, a bit rockier.
And, of course, there was the ever-a-footnote It's A Beautiful Day, who never struck me as very psychedelic. Three great non-trendy bands from San Francisco.
@@simonagree4070 Nice picks. It’s A Beautiful Day is a really unique album from that era.
You could have added the first two Cat Stevens albums Matthew & Son and New Masters, both of which were released in the States, although his first album appeared in the States with two tracks less than the UK release, plus both Small Faces' albums on the Immediate label, plus The Bee Gees' First, maybe the Creedence albums. What about the first Leonard Cohen album.
@@paulgoldstein2569 I always thought those Small Faces albums flirted with psych, like Green Circles, Itchycoo Park, Here Come The Nice, various selections on Ogden’s …
@@tomrobinson5776 Maybe, but some tracks were different.
I think John Wesley Harding is my favorite Dylan album. I take it you don't necessarily believe there WAS a motorcycle accident?
Not necessarily, it’s just always been shrouded in mystery with little info or details.
@@tomrobinson5776 That is true.
Scott 4.
Amazing list of albums
Basically describes everything i like
So hopefully you will agree when i put forth Bobby Gentry
Odd to Billie Joe ; 1967
Delta Sweete : 1969
Really different , really unique artist
Dylan's motorcycle accident is pretty much confirmed. He wrote about it in his 2004 autobiography, Chronicles: "I had been in a motorcycle accident and I'd been hurt, but I recovered".
Sometimes there is crossfading between psychedelic and non psychedelic music. There are definitely psych elements to Music From Big Pink, primarily because of the electronic keyboards and treatments to Robbie Robertson's guitar.
On the other hand, Big Brother And the Holding Company's first album isn't psychedelic at all, with the possible exception of "All Is Loneliness". It's pretty much a folk rock album.
This stuff is fun. Looks like we're never getting to the bottom of it.
You missed the MC5. But still a great topic as usual.
Excellent Tom,
But, in my opinion dressed like an undertaker with his accoustic guitar and ghost instruments behind, "Songs of Leonard Cohen"..... by Leonard Cohen is obviously the less psychedelic album of this era.
Almost put that one on the list. A great example regarding this subject. A perfect album from start to finish.
You're right ! When i was young (born in 1964...) i used to worship The Ramones and Leonard Cohen was, according to my french teachers, a real artist compared to long hairs and electric idols.
I saw him live in 1985 in a festival in Brittany (West of France) but this poor man was stucked between Depeche Mode and The Clash.....
@@patriceleformal3047 Wow, that’s an odd pairing. I’m sure the crowd was perplexed.
Lovin' Spoonful
@@brianlehman710 Absolutely 😉
A suggestion: can you devote a video to instrumental groups like Booker T and The M.Gs? Or perhaps which were the most notable instrumental tracks released by groups better known for their vocal songs; like The Beatles' 'Flying' or The Rolling Stones' '2120 South Michigan Ave.'
@@jeffreyslotnikoff4003 I’ll add it to my list. 😉
There's always The Shadows (Cliff Richards' backing band) and all those surf bands. Plus plenty of good Small Faces instrumentals.
This is a great list honouring the avant garde of Zappa and Beefheart for its own right. And maybe Laura Nyro, Van Morrison, the Kinks and the Band prove that the greatest music wasn't psychodelic at all, even in the late sixties.
I took a tour of England. A tour guide in London was telling us about where Mick Jagger and Paul McCartney has residences. I didn't care so much about that: I wanted to know where Ray Davies lived. The guide said, "Ooh, the Kinks: 'Waterloo Sunset.' " When I told her that people in America did not know 'Waterloo Sunset,' she was shocked. This reminds me of how NBC in America cut out the broadcast of Ray Davies performance of Waterloo Sunset at the closing ceremony of the Olympics in England.
@@stevenkaminsky That is just wrong. 😉
Strange you say that Dylan's music had no psychedelia which is true. Yet Jimi Hendrix turned the Dylan song All Along The Watchtower into a psychedelic masterpiece.
@@thejoyofthemusicinmylife7897 Indeed 😉
The Who? Sell Out etc.
"Armenia City In The Sky" -- doesn't get much more psychedelic than that.
@@SH-ud8wd Armenia City In The Sky, Relax, Rael, I Can See For Miles…
Three Dog Night burst onto the scene in 68/69 doing their own thing. I can't really say I'm a huge fan, but I do really like a couple of their songs. They were pretty much going against the grain at the time, I thought.
@@keithkarlinsky6632 They had some cool singles.
Bob Dylan once said "What is garagerock" We all played in garages, so what is psychedelic rock,dont understand The Band, whats wrong with me?
Greetings from Sweden...
@@hasseelmerson Greetings!
Bobby D... James and the JB's. & Janis was not really psychedylic.
@@adamfindlay7091 You’re right. 😉
Creedence Clearwater Revival were probably THEE most un psychedelic band from the west coast California scene.
The short hits, maybe, but they got all jam-y on the album tracks.
Suzie Q got a lot of FM and college radio airplay, its a psychedelic classic!
Oh, you have to listen to Music from Big Pink, on Owsley's finest, to understand why it is one of the greatest psychedelic albums ever recorded! All the squonks, bloops, and phrewps make sense!
Captain Beefheart, meh. I tried to like him, but except for Diddy Wah Diddy, I can easily do without him. Van's first (Warner's) LP was a welcome break for the methadrine-drenched period that had preceded it (maybe it was just too much meth in the acid).
Ray Davies began to carve out a niche for himself, with Something Else. He made something I liked to call Thinking Man's Rock. Anyone who can rhyme "William Shakespeare" and "Rembrandt, Titian, Da Vinci and Gainsborough", is a Rock genius, in my book! John Wesley Harding returned Dylan to the Folkies' good graces, but it was a killer album, as well, with some of his best lyrics of the 'Sixties.
"Noise Rock" is the best term for White Light. Child Is Father to the Man, though is a stone delight, from beginning to end. The band never reached the same consistency for me, and I soon ignored them. Chicago was a similar situation, incredible first LP, sequentially less-impressive follow-ups.
Forever Changes, Love's final album by the original group, is as unpsychedelic an album as was recorded in 1967. No feedback, lotta wordplay, and very Pop-py songs. A stunning work that still stands today as a remarkable recording. I've listened to it as much as anything in my collection, and it still delivers the same pleasure in listening. I still turn up the volume, and sing along to the choruses.
@@TheAnarchitek You’re right about Forever Changes. There’s nothing overtly psychedelic about it. The mariachi vibe on Alone Again Or, gorgeous straightforward orchestration on various tracks. Incredible album.
@@tomrobinson5776 Still a favorite, after 57 years of listening to it.
It doesn't get more trippy than, The Red Telephone!
@@tomrobinson5776 The Red Telephone is overtly psychedelic.
@@if6was929 The words are trippy, without a doubt, but the music is pretty mainstream Pop/Rock.
"I don't know if the third's the fourth
or if the fifth's to fix
Sometimes I deal with numbers
And if you wanna count me
Count me (out) (in)"
Hmmm... why do you keep on referring to Dylan's 1966 motorcycle accident as "supposed"? Have I missed any muckraking article that documents its improbability? Of course, why would the dude have faked such an event would need to be resolved too.
I'm currently reading *Behind the Shades* , generally regarded as the definitive Bob biography. I'm fascinated to see how the whole motorcycle incident is presented.
I thought it was because of his accident that he could not make it to the Monterey Pop Festival. But the truth of the accident remains dubious, as no ambulance was called, and he was never hospitalized.
@@jeffreyslotnikoff4003 The subject has always been shrouded in mystery. I’ve never read any articles that have delved deep into this incident. One of rock’s great mysteries.
FWIW, Dylan confirmed it in his autobiography, Chronicles.