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Easy Listening Acid Trip: An elevator ride through Sixties
psychedelic pop
Author : tintinnabula
Score : 105 points
Date : 2021-07-07 18:59 UTC (2 days ago)
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| WesleyHale wrote:
| Spotify link from the article:
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| https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3AolfVOnGnLxl7hfgn3Owa?si=...
| squarefoot wrote:
| Ozric Tentacles
|
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IeTxhbPgLQI
| yboris wrote:
| Side note: modern electronic music sounds absolutely phenomenal
| when under the influence of LSD (or Mushrooms, or weed for that
| matter).
|
| Consider: https://youtu.be/SD6GDiyHmbE?t=918
| goldenkey wrote:
| I'd say that psychedelic dub is a bit more fitting.
|
| CONNECT.OHM:
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=flKFPdxZjc4&list=PLRpXl5QdzS...
|
| Carbon Based Lifeforms:
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQE29az48gM
|
| I can provide a playlist if anyone wants more of this type of
| music. Blood Music label contracts and supports a lot of these
| artists.
| futureproofd wrote:
| Would be much appreciated! I don't know if you've heard it
| before, but Biosphere - Substrata is a fantastic album
| (possibly for a psychedelic trip as well!)
| goldenkey wrote:
| Listening to the album now, thanks for the recommendation.
|
| Here's a few great psydub artists:
|
| Ott: https://ottsonic.bandcamp.com/
|
| Shpongle: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S99IKbu8eyE
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| Emancipator: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCSN4DLG6Ng&li
| st=PL7669BCCE5...
|
| AES Dana: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJnWNxSWjIs&list=
| PLRpXl5QdzS...
|
| And not really exactly psydub, but credit to what started
| it all:
|
| Aphex Twin: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xw5AiRVqfqk
|
| The Psychedelic Muse YT channel has a better curated
| selection than I could provide:
|
| https://www.youtube.com/c/ThePsychedelicMuse/playlists
|
| Also, checkout the Ultimae Records YT channel:
|
| https://www.youtube.com/c/ultimaerecordsofficial/playlists
|
| Cheers.
| heavenlyblue wrote:
| Also Ultimae Records
| goldenkey wrote:
| Indeed, AES Dana bringing it hard!
| progmetaldev wrote:
| Shpongle is an amazing group to listen to
| pier25 wrote:
| Chemical Brothers on acid is quite a trip
| creaghpatr wrote:
| Not sure if we can call them modern anymore, listening to
| Exit Planet Dust gets more nostalgic every passing year...
| 52-6F-62 wrote:
| Isn't that true of _all_ good music, my friend?
| Alex3917 wrote:
| What are the earliest examples of psychedelic video? For music
| everyone seems to agree that the first psychedelic song was 8
| miles high, but I can't find an answer for film. The movies from
| 1966 and 1967 seem to just portray people tripping by projecting
| multicolored lights onto their mostly naked bodies. But then by
| 1969(?), you have this:
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxzFUX5a3xg
|
| Which is basically the same as Altered States, and everything
| after up until the era of computer graphics. But is there
| anything in between, before that spirit in the sky video?
|
| See also the relevant Altered States scene:
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40FiMy-ak0k
| weef wrote:
| The entire 1968 Yellow Submarine movie from The Beatles is a
| good example, particularly the Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds
| scene.
| DonaldFisk wrote:
| Thanks for the Norman Greenbaum link. I'm familiar with the
| song, but the video's new to me.
|
| First psychedelic song I can think of (and I'm a big fan of the
| genre) is See My Friends by the Kinks (1965):
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Ugr0pgUo1c (the video is just
| of the Kinks performing the song, though).
|
| There are plenty of videos used for psychedelic songs, but it's
| usually hard to tell whether the video was made specifically
| for the song, and most are either recent or montages of videos
| from the late 1960s.
|
| Some contemporary videos (all from 1967) for psychedelic songs
| which are more than the just the group performing:
|
| Strawberry Fields Forever:
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HtUH9z_Oey8
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| A Day in the Life: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usNsCeOV4GM
|
| Arnold Layne: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3DGpINHX5Q
|
| See Emily Play: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7c0EDM-Yu9o
|
| Paper Sun: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cp_3NEWTzU
| Alex3917 wrote:
| That Paper Sun example is really good. I like how they're
| shaking the camera to make the masks look like they're
| breathing.
|
| And the Strawberry Fields Forever example is also super
| interesting because the parts with the piano are more
| surrealist, but the closeup shots of their faces are more
| early psychedelia.
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| scarecrowbob wrote:
| IMO, the Psych rock scene starts a little earlier than the
| Byrds.
|
| I used to play with the rhythm section of the 13th floor
| elevators, and a couple of folks claim that they were one of
| the first bands that was doing a lot of psychedelic drugs as
| part of the shows.
|
| That may be an exaggeration, but it was certainly interesting
| to hear their stories from when they were kiddos.
|
| However, it's hard to find video representations of that
| scene... like, you've got a bunch of teenagers tripping at
| concerts, but that's not even something that registers enough
| for the larger culture so instead you get normal teeny-bopper
| representations of them:
|
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_c6gDKsPQDM
|
| If you go back to, say, Dali or Luis Bunuel then you'll find
| plenty of psychadelia in early film, though inflected a bit
| differently.
| Joeboy wrote:
| I think the "official" history is that the Elevators and
| Jefferson Airplane independently and simultaneously invented
| psychedelic rock. I'm impressed you played with (a couple of)
| the Elevators.
| smhenderson wrote:
| So where do the Grateful Dead fit in? There's audio from
| their Acid Tests with Ken Kesey in 1966 [0] - a lot of the
| music they are playing is more blues/country based but with
| a definite "psychedelic feel" to it. My understanding is
| that the Dead and JA worked pretty closely together at this
| time, along with other lesser known, or now forgotten
| bands, like Quicksilver Messenger Service (John Cippolina)
| and Big Brother and the Holding Company (Janis Joplin).
|
| I can honestly say I never heard of the Elevators though so
| I wasn't sure how far back in the 60's you and the parent
| are talking with regards to them.
|
| [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6H7maZ1das
| eplanit wrote:
| In 2001:A Space Odyssey, the "star gate" sequence is quite
| psychedelic; and this was 1967.
|
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DNbkKBW0K8
| babyshake wrote:
| I like to imagine lots of people tripping and going to this
| movie because of the light show they heard about, but the
| part that really blows their mind being the whole sequence
| with HAL 9000.
| eplanit wrote:
| I was 8 years old when I saw it -- no movie has influenced
| me like that one. At that age, the star gate scene was kind
| of scary; but, yes, the HAL 9000 had a _huge_ impact on me.
| One of the best films, ever.
| magicalhippo wrote:
| Having only seen in on TV (multiple times) I saw the 70mm
| version at a local cinema recently. Amazing experience,
| and it holds up remarkably well IMHO.
| ffhhj wrote:
| https://archive.org/details/TheBlackHoleMovie
| weef wrote:
| Great example! It was 1968 actually, I saw it at the theater
| when I was 7 years old.
| okareaman wrote:
| The short film The Beatles made for Strawberry Fields in 1966
| was an early "music video" with psychedelic overtones
|
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HtUH9z_Oey8
| parenthesis wrote:
| The final sequence in the 1943 (yes, 1943!) movie musical _The
| Gang 's All Here_ ("let's throw a party to encourage people to
| buy war bonds!") is seriously psychedelic:
|
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJHfApfdWW0
|
| It's Busby Berkeley, of course, but unlike most of his work, in
| Technicolor.
| helsinkiandrew wrote:
| Unfortunately the 'video' didn't really exist in the form that
| we know it today and often it was just the band playing with a
| light show:
|
| Pink Floyd on the BBC in 67:
|
| https://youtu.be/uTfDUyUkVYE
| twic wrote:
| My dad remembers having seen Pink Floyd live while at
| university, which i think would be 1963 - 1967. He said they
| had a similar light show live, based on a sort of lava lamp
| projector device, like this modern one:
|
| https://www.mathmos.com/mathmos-space-projector-light-
| with-l...
| Joeboy wrote:
| For some of that period, they were living in Mike Leonard's
| house. Leonard was a lecturer at Hornsey Art College,
| specializing in light shows. To some extent, Pink Floyd's
| early career was an offshoot of his need for a musical
| component to his multimedia shows. Here's a (sadly
| monochrome) indication of the sort of thing they got up to:
|
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUjrxxYBsi4&t=278s
| tallies wrote:
| Psychedelic music evolved out of the Space Age Pop easy
| listening genre from the 40s-60s (e.g. Joe Meek's I Hear A New
| World) and minimalist classical music (e.g. La Monte Young).
| Psychedelic sequences in film evolved from non-narrative
| abstract experimental films from the same era (e.g. Stan
| Brakhage)
| JKCalhoun wrote:
| The "tripping" scene from "Easy Rider" comes to mind -- same
| era though (NSFW, isn't Tony Basil in this scene?
| https://youtu.be/W2x20CV0EbI).
|
| Also, this clip (NSFW) from "Altered States" is just as trippy:
| https://youtu.be/E1ZGEvJPQ6A
|
| The complete Roger Corman film "The Trip" (1967) referenced in
| the article is on YT in the U.S.: https://youtu.be/FmZCwcGu_2I
| thomasfl wrote:
| James Last's version of Aquarius has a bassline that puts you in
| a trance. Enjoy.
|
| https://youtu.be/tv1bDDdyvEk
| twic wrote:
| The Hollyridge Strings version of 'Strawberry Fields Forever'
| (1967), as mentioned in the article:
|
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDleZB8Zas0
|
| Soon put me in mind of King Tubby's 'String Dub In Rema' (1976),
| from a very different but also very psychedelic genre:
|
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zhee7fkkG6w
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