60s-70s Psychedelia

I'm an old soul. Something about the music of the past speaks to me in ways that Taylor Swift just can't even.

I recently discovered this album and it was a game changer for me: "Astro Sounds From Beyond The Year 2000." Apparently there were a lot of novelty records that you could just play as background noise at parties. It's like early Pink Floyd if Pink Floyd weren't so depressed!



So I've been searching the deep cuts, the obscure, the strange, dark, and mysterious, the challenging music of the 1960's.

I'm seeking out the avant garde, the records you didn't play in polite company.

What psychedelic gems can you share with me? Please help me on my journey!

Right now my jams are Aqualung and April. Oh yeah and the soundtrack to Fantastic Planet! What else you got?

a reply to: AlroyFarms

Hey! Here's a couple:

"The Crazy World of Arthur Brown"

AND OF COURSE....

"Mother's of Invention" Frank Zappa

Graduated a Hippie '67.
😎✌️

originally posted by: mysterioustranger
a reply to: AlroyFarms

"The Crazy World of Arthur Brown"

Oh man this is wild!

Thank. You.

a reply to: AlroyFarms

Here's a band that I used to trip out to when I was a kid -

Expoding White Mice, a late era psychedelic band for you tripping pleasure:
youtu.be...

Also can't go wrong with the Velvet Underground. Great 60's band, Lou Reed was part of it.

I think this is a classic in anybody's book, Frijid Pink:

a reply to: AlroyFarms

Far out music man!

Here's my contribution........maybe not exactly the same theme as what you've got going on here but......Karen in space is definitely a sound to behold....

The Sons of Champlin came out of Marin County directly north of the Golden Gate Bridge of San Francisco in the late 1960s.
They filled bills with all the great psychedelic and acid rock band at the Filmore, Avalon, Winterland and other venues across the city in the days of Haight Ashbury . They often toured with more famous bands bringing that SF psychedelic sound across the country.

It's members fluxed into and out of many other groups of that time, a list of which is to long to do any justice to their wide spread influences.

I used to enjoy listening to a good kenwood stereo system with a high quality turntable back in the seventies. I used to just sit back and chill out. Come to think about it, maybe it wasn't the music....could have been the Jamaican, columbian, mexican, or home grown that made it sound so great.

Oh wait, are we allowed to talk about that stuff here even though it is legal in Michigan now it wasn't back then.

It is legal now and it took all the fun out of it because it is not naughty anymore. Haven't tok...I mean listened to the seventies music in almost twenty years now. I liked Pink floyde, ELO, Zappa, and many others like Top Petty and Melanie. Partied with Tom and some of the heartbreakers a couple of times up in the copper country at a few outdoor parties.

Boy, they used to have some great social functions and parties back in the seventies and early eighties, seems like the young nowadays are missing so much...It cost a couple of bucks to drink from a halfbarrel at a party back then for the whole evening. As long as the party was out of town, the cops would just ride by and didn't bother the kids, they said at least they were not in town causing trouble when they were out at a party in the woods or out at a remote lakeshore park.

I had a friend who was drunk and stoned go into the police station in the mid seventies and light up a joint to protest the pot laws. I went there the next morning and talked to the cops to see if he was still there. They said they just took his pot and threw him in Jail for being stupid and let him out around eight in the morning. No charges filed, he just did not get his pot back when he left....That evidence just went up in smoke.

See Emily Play.

originally posted by: Shoshanna
a reply to: AlroyFarms

Far out music man!

Here's my contribution........maybe not exactly the same theme as what you've got going on here but......Karen in space is definitely a sound to behold....

Oh wow I didn't The Carpenters did a cover of that! I was listening to the Klaatu version a lot lately trying to find proof it IS The Beatles secretly united. Some vocals are theirs, some not, some modulated. But the lyrics and song structure right along with the piano jaunt is SO The Beatles.



I love this song!

a reply to: Shoshanna

From Carpenter to Bardot - space was were it was at baby!

a reply to: AlroyFarms

records that you could just play as background noise at parties

I was at an all night party in Kansas City in 71 and the guy whose house it was had the entire house hooked up with a sound system connected to every room. The music was only one piece and played the entire night creating background reality for the entire group of people

It was this, Rainbow in Curved Air, written and performed by Terry Reilly who was the music director at Mills College in Oakland California and one of the early experimental composers in minimalist computer musics but way way better than the old Moog stuff that had a brief flash in those days.

a reply to: BingoMcGoof

Badass!

a reply to: AlroyFarms

Just listening to a bit of it now it was a bit difficult to draw out of. I was used to music with a certain beat and or a discernible melody and harmonies. Zappa of course was off the chart unintelligible stuff and great for frantic kinds of gatherings but this one has always stuck with me as a very early cerebral effect. Mesmerizing.

There's some good ones in this thread

The singer seemed to be quite alert. This one always amused me with the creative nature and the very obvious buzz the dude has. To the gills.