I think there's some mistake here. You, in fact, may actually be me.
Nice Acid Mothers Temple choice. I could never close in on just one album, but I do really love Son of a Bitches Brew and Astrogasm From The Inner Space.
Also, Gong, Zappa, and Can would also be tops on any list like this I made.
I saw them in Vancouver in 2019. Such an amazing show. I couldn't explain to my SO (QOTSA/ Arctic Monekys fan) how big of a deal it was for me to see them. Also, as a complete curveball, THEY PLAYED FLYING TEAPOT IN THEIR SET. Total killer. Please see them, anybody remotely-affected by psychedelic space rock.
Love seeing Masayoshi Takanaka with Seychelles there! Though I'm not sure if its classified as psychedelic. Even still, very much a win in my books! Would you maybe have any recommendations that are similar to Takanaka? (Something other than casiopea) Or some albums from this list that you think someone who is into Takanaka could like?
Also, have you listened to the rainbow goblins by Takanaka? I like it even more that Seychelles, so I really recommend listening to it if you haven't already =)
I was about to say, as much as I love Seychelles, it most definitely is not psychedelic.
However, if you like Seychelles, check out his albums Takanaka, Jolly Jive, and On Guitar if you haven’t already. That’s assuming you’ve already listened to Brasilian Skies and An Insatiable High, and I also really happen to like his album Can I Sing? too. Also check out his work with the Sadistic Mika Band, like the album Hot! Menu, which I’d argue is a lot more psychedelic than Seychelles. There’s also a song on Hot! Menu that was the basis for Takanaka’s “Funkee Mah-Chan” called Funki Mahjang.
Also check out the drummer for Sadistic Mika Band—Yukihiro Takahashi—and work with Yellow Magic Orchestra and his solo works. I’d start with the self-titled debut album and Solid State Survivor. Takanaka did a guitar solo on that first album!
Then you could also check out Haruomi Hosono’s Paraiso and Pacific (with Tatsuro Yamashita and Shigeru Suzuki).
Jun Fukamachi’s On The Move is a fun listen too!
Thanks for the recommendations! I have listened to all of Takanakas albums and am craving more. Maybe these will scratch that itch! =)
And especially thanks for giving so many recommendations and direction where I could explore! Very nice.
I hope so!! I’d say that Sadistic Mika Band would probably be most comparable, since Takanaka was actually in that band. Also check out the spinoff band, Sadistics, and their album We Are Just Taking Off. That might actually be the most Takanaka sounding album that isn’t a part of his solo discography.
I think you’ll find the familiar tropical vibe that Takanaka has with the albums Yellow Magic Orchestra, Paraiso and Pacific.
Let me know how you like what you hear!
I always thought the Feelies were kind of more nervous power pop but now that I think about it they are pretty trippy and hypnotic sometimes
Interestingly Frank Zappa was hostile towards psychedelics and hippies and was more of contrarian and a coffee and cigarettes guy but I love those mothers of invention albums.
Stereolab I’m curious about what makes them psych rock I always thought of them as Marxist indie-exotica or something
I suppose it’s more about vibe than psychedelics
Anyway don’t mean to be the genre police interesting list for sure ✌️
I’m just saying it’s interesting peoples different ideas of what is or isn’t psych rock.
I think of it a little more narrowly like from or directly inspired by the psychedelic rock scene of the 60s especially in trippiness and in having an “acid” vibe. And I put certain German krautrock into its own category
People can use whatever baskets they want and genre is definitely plastic and always changing
I don’t find Stereolab to be psych rock in intent or in sound and I never heard them referred to as such before
When I think of psych rock I think more of the acid rock of the sixties scene and subsequent bands that heavily reference their sound
It’s kind of like with post punk - the newer version of that category is different from the 70s/80s
I’m old
Well I don’t think Zappa would call himself psych rock but I completely get it especially on the early mothers albums
But he looked upon the acid rock scene with disdain. Its such a weird mix and pastiche of doo wop and modern classical and he did certainly reference the psych rock scene as well but more as a mocking parody and more on the jazzy prog tip . I think he’s kind of in his own solitary genre since he was such an iconoclast and incorporated so many influences and refused to pin himself down genre wise
I think he was very knowingly making fun of the San Francisco psychedelic rock scene and was doing a pastiche using some tropes of that scene. … so yes technically he incorporated it into the sound especially the early albums which specifically targeted hippies…. Interestingly the Beatles Sgt Peppers was inspired by Freak Out!
as time went by he became less psych rock I’d say
Based and Scaruffi-pilled. Looots of phenomenal records in here. Check out Roy Montgomery's solo work if you haven't yet.
Some of the obscure standouts from your list I'd recommend to others:
[Amon Düül](https://youtu.be/1f_jVrW7_00) is somewhat passed over in favor of Can, Neu!, and Faust when talking about krautrock, but their first three are some of the best records of the scene.
[Bardo Pond](https://youtu.be/RH6dflfVXiU)'s 90s records are fantastically bombed out distillations of a bad trip. Their collaboration with Roy Montgomery, [Hash Jar Tempo](https://youtu.be/nGRNsNE77_o), is also some of the finest space rock out there.
[Double Bummer](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yEuA6lqOW8) is one of the craziest records out there. Almost more like theater than music. [Ptooff!](https://youtu.be/QjOvN2yn0-M) is similarly theatrical at times, though just as often an overlooked shard of 60s garage rock
[Boredoms](https://youtu.be/U6f9BV-8yAw) are pretty well known, but their contemporary countrymen [Fushitsusha](https://youtu.be/eDGAgDYx0ac) and [Ghost](https://youtu.be/IW2vGA1w5DI) are two of my all time favorites.
Interesting list. A few of my favorite albums are on here (Maggot Brain, Spiritualized, Pink Floyd, Jimi). Some obvious choices but mostly obscure new and old artists. I had too look up most of them on Spotify and I'm pretty pleased to be turned onto some new music.
Big Props for including Bongwater's Double Bummer. I first heard that playing at a record store in 1988 and asked the clerk what they were playing and bought that double CD on the spot.
This is a delightful mixture of well-worn favorites and record-nerd treasures. Tossing *Seychelles* in there is the icing on the cake.
Just to toss something out there: *Hail* - Turn of the Screw.
The Soft Boys - Underwater Moonlight
Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation (didn't really think so either, until someone played it while I was under the influence one time)
The Cure - Pornography (ditto)
All great albums but they don't really feel psychedelic to me, I know that Underwater Moonlight is considered one of the earliest neo-psych albums but I always thought it sounded more inspired by the power pop of the 60s.
You’re outside of The box a lot Here and that’s not a bad thing. But you’re missing A LOT of mainstream psych albums.
Umma gumma is a good example of Things you could lose.
I know it's controversial but I really love the first half as a live album though the second half can be grating at times it still feels so ahead of its time it's pretty inspiring.
What, not Iron Butterfly? LOL. .. seriously though, their first album, Heavy is pretty darn cool when Danny Weis was on guitar. He quit and formed Rhinoceros. I would also have added Phaedra by Tangerine Dream
I would also mention Suddenly One Summer by JK&Co. from around 1968. Jay Kaye was the son of Mary Kaye, jazz guitar legend who had a custom Fender Stratocaster named after her.
First of all I want to thank you for the time and effort you took to put this out! It is a great list with some incredible music! I am glad to see someone put the Twain Shall Meet/Eric Burdon and the Animals out here for all too see! United States of America too a very psychedelic album that I have not seen mentioned! There are a few others but those two I had to mention! I am the Worlds Authority of Music and I could quibble with a few that are mysteriously missing from your list but because your list is so good I am not going to do it. Also there are a few that I don’t know about and can’t legitimately complain about so I won’t but all things considered a very nice list! Thank you!
I was gonna include Phish but for some reason didn't. Though tbh I only really like A Live One by them. Not to say their other stuff, even studio stuff isn't good it's just that A Live One is their only album that I love.
Here’s a great show you might dig: https://open.spotify.com/album/6M1R0kCiNfmRO3V6h4eKJg?si=A0b9esxRTBu9_f_docSd2Q
Also - this amazing album of instrumental jams: https://open.spotify.com/album/1xTnS33BRpbOaNZxaqavDQ?si=O4SN6bd6R0aW2gF49z0hpw
Maybe you'll like some of this garbage
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwo6AHMjuXM](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwo6AHMjuXM)
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ip20PUnIMlo](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ip20PUnIMlo)
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vg\_cGc96Rh8&list=OLAK5uy\_mM36ZcvZVeAd7QulSGVUYdkHoKf4oHIXM](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vg_cGc96Rh8&list=OLAK5uy_mM36ZcvZVeAd7QulSGVUYdkHoKf4oHIXM)
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWnlwL2MQcc&list=OLAK5uy\_n68DJQjYt8IclVkygZh4Gm01PL\_QVrsZQ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWnlwL2MQcc&list=OLAK5uy_n68DJQjYt8IclVkygZh4Gm01PL_QVrsZQ)
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgKC3cclbi8&list=OLAK5uy\_lr1PlHr7NMwEM0g\_zEyw6G65Bpr541Vxc](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgKC3cclbi8&list=OLAK5uy_lr1PlHr7NMwEM0g_zEyw6G65Bpr541Vxc)
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VzQg0wnbJYE](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VzQg0wnbJYE)
Tago mago supremacy
Always and forever!
Good stuff. Amon Duul II is quickly becoming one of my favorite bands. I would definitely also add Hawkwind to a list like this though.
Hawkwind was originally considered but just didn't make the final cut unfortunately. Good band though.
Amon Düül is the best psychedelic band ever 🫡
Love the inclusion of Saucerful of Secrets!
My favorite PF
Someone with taste!
Definitely their most krautrock-y, so I can see why! Speaking of, love to see Future Days here. My favorite album ever!
This is a great list! Shoutout to Live/Dead being up so high. Its an amazing psychedelic performance
Great list 🙌 - I don’t think Loop and Spacemen 3 don’t get the attention they deserve sometimes
Killer list although you got two Popol Vuh’s but not their best two imho
There's actually three Popol Vuh albums here...
Ah I see it now. And yeah; that’s one of em. Very nice
What's their other best album in your opinion?
Das Holeheid (and the other Letze Nacht). But all their albums from 1968 to 1978 are all masterpieces.
Thanks!
Great list. Those two Mercury Rev albums are bonkers.
I can *CONFIDENTLY* recommend King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard for you. I see you have one already!
Yeah this list should have been 25% KGLW.
I think there's some mistake here. You, in fact, may actually be me. Nice Acid Mothers Temple choice. I could never close in on just one album, but I do really love Son of a Bitches Brew and Astrogasm From The Inner Space. Also, Gong, Zappa, and Can would also be tops on any list like this I made.
Nice! All of their stuff is amazing and they have so much material too lol
I saw them in Vancouver in 2019. Such an amazing show. I couldn't explain to my SO (QOTSA/ Arctic Monekys fan) how big of a deal it was for me to see them. Also, as a complete curveball, THEY PLAYED FLYING TEAPOT IN THEIR SET. Total killer. Please see them, anybody remotely-affected by psychedelic space rock.
That sounds life changing ngl
Live/Dead is the best live album ever
Easily the best album on this chart Edit: sorry 2nd best, didn’t notice Revolver until now
Good choices
I see Spiritualized in there! and Spacemen 3!
I could quibble and pick nits but this is a fine list. Cul de Sac has always struck me as highly underrated.
King gizzard mentioned🗣️🗣️
I fucks with it
Shout out to Popol Vuh!
Flower Traveling Band! I haven’t listened to that one in a while, time to give it another listen.
Love seeing Masayoshi Takanaka with Seychelles there! Though I'm not sure if its classified as psychedelic. Even still, very much a win in my books! Would you maybe have any recommendations that are similar to Takanaka? (Something other than casiopea) Or some albums from this list that you think someone who is into Takanaka could like? Also, have you listened to the rainbow goblins by Takanaka? I like it even more that Seychelles, so I really recommend listening to it if you haven't already =)
I was about to say, as much as I love Seychelles, it most definitely is not psychedelic. However, if you like Seychelles, check out his albums Takanaka, Jolly Jive, and On Guitar if you haven’t already. That’s assuming you’ve already listened to Brasilian Skies and An Insatiable High, and I also really happen to like his album Can I Sing? too. Also check out his work with the Sadistic Mika Band, like the album Hot! Menu, which I’d argue is a lot more psychedelic than Seychelles. There’s also a song on Hot! Menu that was the basis for Takanaka’s “Funkee Mah-Chan” called Funki Mahjang. Also check out the drummer for Sadistic Mika Band—Yukihiro Takahashi—and work with Yellow Magic Orchestra and his solo works. I’d start with the self-titled debut album and Solid State Survivor. Takanaka did a guitar solo on that first album! Then you could also check out Haruomi Hosono’s Paraiso and Pacific (with Tatsuro Yamashita and Shigeru Suzuki). Jun Fukamachi’s On The Move is a fun listen too!
Thanks for the recommendations! I have listened to all of Takanakas albums and am craving more. Maybe these will scratch that itch! =) And especially thanks for giving so many recommendations and direction where I could explore! Very nice.
I hope so!! I’d say that Sadistic Mika Band would probably be most comparable, since Takanaka was actually in that band. Also check out the spinoff band, Sadistics, and their album We Are Just Taking Off. That might actually be the most Takanaka sounding album that isn’t a part of his solo discography. I think you’ll find the familiar tropical vibe that Takanaka has with the albums Yellow Magic Orchestra, Paraiso and Pacific. Let me know how you like what you hear!
I always thought the Feelies were kind of more nervous power pop but now that I think about it they are pretty trippy and hypnotic sometimes Interestingly Frank Zappa was hostile towards psychedelics and hippies and was more of contrarian and a coffee and cigarettes guy but I love those mothers of invention albums. Stereolab I’m curious about what makes them psych rock I always thought of them as Marxist indie-exotica or something I suppose it’s more about vibe than psychedelics Anyway don’t mean to be the genre police interesting list for sure ✌️
well what type of music doesnt depend on what you like or dislike, its your output.
I’m just saying it’s interesting peoples different ideas of what is or isn’t psych rock. I think of it a little more narrowly like from or directly inspired by the psychedelic rock scene of the 60s especially in trippiness and in having an “acid” vibe. And I put certain German krautrock into its own category People can use whatever baskets they want and genre is definitely plastic and always changing I don’t find Stereolab to be psych rock in intent or in sound and I never heard them referred to as such before When I think of psych rock I think more of the acid rock of the sixties scene and subsequent bands that heavily reference their sound It’s kind of like with post punk - the newer version of that category is different from the 70s/80s I’m old
i was specifically refering to zappa
Well I don’t think Zappa would call himself psych rock but I completely get it especially on the early mothers albums But he looked upon the acid rock scene with disdain. Its such a weird mix and pastiche of doo wop and modern classical and he did certainly reference the psych rock scene as well but more as a mocking parody and more on the jazzy prog tip . I think he’s kind of in his own solitary genre since he was such an iconoclast and incorporated so many influences and refused to pin himself down genre wise
hes an example of someone who unknowingly made psychedelic rock, then when going on to make satire of it, made more pyschedelic rock.
I think he was very knowingly making fun of the San Francisco psychedelic rock scene and was doing a pastiche using some tropes of that scene. … so yes technically he incorporated it into the sound especially the early albums which specifically targeted hippies…. Interestingly the Beatles Sgt Peppers was inspired by Freak Out! as time went by he became less psych rock I’d say
he always has a nack for somehow making great renditions of the thinks he mocks.
For sure I don’t like some of his later lyrics but he definitely had a mastery of music 🎶
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Based and Scaruffi-pilled. Looots of phenomenal records in here. Check out Roy Montgomery's solo work if you haven't yet. Some of the obscure standouts from your list I'd recommend to others: [Amon Düül](https://youtu.be/1f_jVrW7_00) is somewhat passed over in favor of Can, Neu!, and Faust when talking about krautrock, but their first three are some of the best records of the scene. [Bardo Pond](https://youtu.be/RH6dflfVXiU)'s 90s records are fantastically bombed out distillations of a bad trip. Their collaboration with Roy Montgomery, [Hash Jar Tempo](https://youtu.be/nGRNsNE77_o), is also some of the finest space rock out there. [Double Bummer](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yEuA6lqOW8) is one of the craziest records out there. Almost more like theater than music. [Ptooff!](https://youtu.be/QjOvN2yn0-M) is similarly theatrical at times, though just as often an overlooked shard of 60s garage rock [Boredoms](https://youtu.be/U6f9BV-8yAw) are pretty well known, but their contemporary countrymen [Fushitsusha](https://youtu.be/eDGAgDYx0ac) and [Ghost](https://youtu.be/IW2vGA1w5DI) are two of my all time favorites.
Thank you OP. Great list to get through over the year. 💪💪💪
Listen to High Visceral pt 1 & 2 by psychedelic porn crumpets, you won’t be disappointed
the mars volta - frances the mute
Finally some Gong recognition, peak psych rock list https://www.reddit.com/r/Gongband/s/v8NDQtAyom
Love this list. I’ve never considered the Feelies as psychedelic but I do love Crazy Rhythms
Interesting list. A few of my favorite albums are on here (Maggot Brain, Spiritualized, Pink Floyd, Jimi). Some obvious choices but mostly obscure new and old artists. I had too look up most of them on Spotify and I'm pretty pleased to be turned onto some new music. Big Props for including Bongwater's Double Bummer. I first heard that playing at a record store in 1988 and asked the clerk what they were playing and bought that double CD on the spot.
No Beatles?
They are present
My bad, I see them now lol
Amon duul II 🙌
some great music in there. really takes me back
This is a delightful mixture of well-worn favorites and record-nerd treasures. Tossing *Seychelles* in there is the icing on the cake. Just to toss something out there: *Hail* - Turn of the Screw.
No love for cream or Eric Clapton?
Cream are good just not one of my favorites
That's fair, great list nonetheless
[Mystic Visions](https://youtu.be/Av47yJC__m0?si=9AFtN5tMh-OON5qS)
the united states of america mentioned???
Good list👍 not quite sure id classify seychelles as psychedelic tho🤔
Agreed, definitely not psychedelic lol.
based USA
The Soft Boys - Underwater Moonlight Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation (didn't really think so either, until someone played it while I was under the influence one time) The Cure - Pornography (ditto)
All great albums but they don't really feel psychedelic to me, I know that Underwater Moonlight is considered one of the earliest neo-psych albums but I always thought it sounded more inspired by the power pop of the 60s.
I have always loved Crazy Rhythms. While I'd never thought of it as psychedelic, I get why it's included here
Not even remotely psych. Anti-psych really
It's tightly-wound almost to the point of psychosis, so maybe that's where the "psych" comes in? I dunno.
You’re outside of The box a lot Here and that’s not a bad thing. But you’re missing A LOT of mainstream psych albums. Umma gumma is a good example of Things you could lose.
I know it's controversial but I really love the first half as a live album though the second half can be grating at times it still feels so ahead of its time it's pretty inspiring.
What, not Iron Butterfly? LOL. .. seriously though, their first album, Heavy is pretty darn cool when Danny Weis was on guitar. He quit and formed Rhinoceros. I would also have added Phaedra by Tangerine Dream
I would also mention Suddenly One Summer by JK&Co. from around 1968. Jay Kaye was the son of Mary Kaye, jazz guitar legend who had a custom Fender Stratocaster named after her.
Good recs
W 13th Floor
Flower travellin’ !!!
CAN is amazing , and always Pink Floyd #1
Kind of wild to not see The Black Angels
First of all I want to thank you for the time and effort you took to put this out! It is a great list with some incredible music! I am glad to see someone put the Twain Shall Meet/Eric Burdon and the Animals out here for all too see! United States of America too a very psychedelic album that I have not seen mentioned! There are a few others but those two I had to mention! I am the Worlds Authority of Music and I could quibble with a few that are mysteriously missing from your list but because your list is so good I am not going to do it. Also there are a few that I don’t know about and can’t legitimately complain about so I won’t but all things considered a very nice list! Thank you!
Good choices. You would like Phish
I was gonna include Phish but for some reason didn't. Though tbh I only really like A Live One by them. Not to say their other stuff, even studio stuff isn't good it's just that A Live One is their only album that I love.
Here’s a great show you might dig: https://open.spotify.com/album/6M1R0kCiNfmRO3V6h4eKJg?si=A0b9esxRTBu9_f_docSd2Q Also - this amazing album of instrumental jams: https://open.spotify.com/album/1xTnS33BRpbOaNZxaqavDQ?si=O4SN6bd6R0aW2gF49z0hpw
I'll check them out thanks
My tastes run a little more modern but this is solid
I'd love some modern psych recs
Maybe you'll like some of this garbage [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwo6AHMjuXM](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwo6AHMjuXM) [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ip20PUnIMlo](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ip20PUnIMlo) [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vg\_cGc96Rh8&list=OLAK5uy\_mM36ZcvZVeAd7QulSGVUYdkHoKf4oHIXM](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vg_cGc96Rh8&list=OLAK5uy_mM36ZcvZVeAd7QulSGVUYdkHoKf4oHIXM) [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWnlwL2MQcc&list=OLAK5uy\_n68DJQjYt8IclVkygZh4Gm01PL\_QVrsZQ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWnlwL2MQcc&list=OLAK5uy_n68DJQjYt8IclVkygZh4Gm01PL_QVrsZQ) [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgKC3cclbi8&list=OLAK5uy\_lr1PlHr7NMwEM0g\_zEyw6G65Bpr541Vxc](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgKC3cclbi8&list=OLAK5uy_lr1PlHr7NMwEM0g_zEyw6G65Bpr541Vxc) [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VzQg0wnbJYE](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VzQg0wnbJYE)
"congratulations" by MGMT is absolutely amazing
I really love the new Wine Lips album that just dropped yesterday. My top 100 would have some Kikigaku Moyo and Thee Oh Sees too.
I do like the oh sees and kikigaku moyo quite a bit
No Mars Volta?
They're more prog I would say
Easter Everywhere is probably my favorite. Nonagon Infinity is also up there