Elric

5y

oh were doing this right now

top psychedelic masterpieces of the year?

rvi

5y

ill make a list tomorrow

but Ride On Baby a psych song?

also apparently was recorded december '65 and ofc released 67

Galaxy

6y

I'll participate when we hit '65

925Andrew

5y

You made it brother how does it feel?

Elric

5y

after waiting a year for me to get from '55 to '65 he refused to post anything because apparently hes to strictly an album guy to pick a single highlight or some s***

Elric

5y

after waiting a year for me to get from '55 to '65 he refused to post anything because apparently hes to strictly an album guy to pick a single highlight or some s***

rvi

5y

ill make a list tomorrow

but Ride On Baby a psych song?

also apparently was recorded december '65 and ofc released 67

Elric

5y

Paul Samwell Smith was low-key the genius in the Yardbirds from the jump who engineered the rave-up structure, charted the gregorian chants and came up with all sorts of goofy experimentation in the studio before anyone else was doing that and then he left in late '66 to focus on studio work like some Brian Wilson but just ended up producing some trash prog then all those Cat Stevens hits years later good songs but dang

rvi

5y

damn, big yikes at the albumist mentality

rvi

5y

interesting trajectory

Elric

5y

they definitely should've stayed together wouldve had an amazing '67-'68 if he stayed to harness the fury of the Beck/Page era

might not have even been a Zeppelin for you to have to put up with might've turned into the Stones toughest competition for double guitar hero band through to the 70s

rvi

5y

im not a zeppelin hater just because i think theyre not goats

Elric

5y

youre turning into a bowie and zeppelin contrarian i get it but still

kidding anyway

rvi

5y

has it grown on you any more recently?

rvi

5y

out of those ones only Paint It Black, Have You Seen..., Mother's Little Helper struck me as psych stones 1966 singles run is godly ofc but aftermath album not quite masterful to me compared with the year's masterpieces

and like at least half of Revolver is psych to me so I'm still taking beatles in that realm. especially I'm Only Sleeping, Love You To, She Said She Said, And Your Bird Can Sing, Tomorrow Never Knows, and Rain. Tomorrow Never Knows might be my psych song of the year actually, i think its edging out Yardbirds, Love, Stones, Byrds

Elric

5y

I don't know how And Your Bird Can Sing and She Said She Said seem like psych to you when so much else doesn't they aren't really to me tbh

I might as well fess up now and admit I think Revolver is obscenely overrated and no Greatest Album Of All Time contender of mine would have a f***ing Good Day Sunshine or Got To Get You Into My Life on it Doctor Robert either

George snapped on his songs and I usually won't skip Yellow Submarine tbh but For No One and Here There Everywhere don't hit like they used to

I would take the Elevators debut over this half-mid

Elric

5y

I don't know how And Your Bird Can Sing and She Said She Said seem like psych to you when so much else doesn't they aren't really to me tbh

I might as well fess up now and admit I think Revolver is obscenely overrated and no Greatest Album Of All Time contender of mine would have a f***ing Good Day Sunshine or Got To Get You Into My Life on it Doctor Robert either

George snapped on his songs and I usually won't skip Yellow Submarine tbh but For No One and Here There Everywhere don't hit like they used to

I would take the Elevators debut over this half-mid

rvi

5y

She Said She Said has directly LSD inspired lyrics, the super bright colorful guitar sound, the way it changes the speed/meter (idk the music theory) at the "when i was a boy part", especially the ending with multiple Lennons singing and the drums speed up as it fades. i mean it is literally universally considered one of their first psychedelic songs in any piece of beatles literature you could find so i think im right

And Your Bird Can Sing less psych but has the similar guitar sound and sounds similar to she said she said. both these also seem more trippy when you compare them to the rockers of 1965 or the surrounding McCartney tracks on Revolver

seriously, google list of beatles psychedelic songs and She Said She Said is on basically everything that comes up

rvi

5y

cant wait to argue again for 66.67,68 about the Kinks not being psychedelic with only a handful of exceptions

rvi

5y

i feel you on the inconsistency, Revolver is one of those masterpieces with a few tracks below the rest for me too. still pretty much tied with Revolver for #2

Got to Get You Into My Life is amazing though and i thought you liked doctor robert. For No One is great but never a masterpieces for me, but Here There and Everywhere still always hits. i actually used to despise Yellow Submarine and thought it was a huge blemish but I don't mind it now, i like basically all of it except the chorus

Eleanor Rigby the real overrated one on there

Elric

5y

No I'm fully aware this is the general consensus and know what you mean but I've never really subscribed to it I'm Only Sleeping and Tomorrow Never Knows absolutely but the other ones are pretty thin for me

We have slightly different definitions of psychedelia which is why things like Too Much On My Mind and Dead End Street and I'm Not Like Everybody Else are more psych to me than those Revolver jams. Something about the nostalgia and longing for things past is a heavy psych element to me which I think Lennon recognized in the Kinks when he wrote Strawberry Fields. The Beatles were kind of futuristic forward-looking psych with the flashiest production on earth whereas is The Kinks were kind of nostalgic backward looking with their quaint production which perfectly managed to conjure an unparalleled near mystical atmosphere of ye olde England. Equally trippy.

Elric

5y

I FEEL GOOD IN A SPECIAL WAY

I'M IN LOVE AND IT'S A SUNNY DAY

Lennon must have been in the corner like

rvi

5y

already said this before but man those examples and that kinks nostalgia is literally the perfect counterpoint to the psych at the time to me, firmly grounded in reality with feet on the ground. Dead End Street absolutely unpsychedelic to me but i could see more of an argument for Big Black Smoke tbh even though its also dark, its trippier to me. Too Much on My Mind slightly so as well. I'm Not Like Everybody Else I can't hear any psych either though