My Best Psychedelic Songs so far…
By: Brain Productions Booking
Tags: Music, Psychedelics, Noise, Psychedelic Rock, Rock

It’s not easy to pick my top 5 or 10 Best Psychedelic songs ever, but I’ll give it a shot. I chose not to contemplate many classics, giving time to more timeless songs and some obscure artists. The links take you directly to new information, music, videos. Try it! All our text and our tips posted below are linked. Good trip!

10. Sally Free and Easy / Magic Hour

One of the most-underrated cover songs of all time, Sally Free and Easy is originally from the band The Trees, this track is present on the album No Excess is Absurd (1994, Ché Records, Twisted Village).

Magic Hour was an American psychedelic rock band from greater Boston, Massachusetts, USA and was made up of former Crystalized Movements member Wayne Rogers and Kate Biggar and former Galaxie 500 members Damon Krukowski and Naomi Yang. In 1993 Damon and Naomi were contacted by Wayne and Kate asking them if they’d like to replace the recently departed Crystalized Movements rhythm section, after the first rehearsal it was decided they should form a new band rather than carrying on as Crystalized Movements.

They went on to record three albums and toured Europe and the US before splitting up in 1996, Damon & Naomi returned to working as a duo, while Wayne and Kate formed Major Stars. The four members were persuaded to reform for a one-off performance at the first Terrastock festival in 1997. They also reformed for the fourth Terrastock festival where they performed as Children of the Rainbow a tribute to the band MU.(source: Wikipédia).

Extra: "Permanent Green Light" — > +15 minutos de extrema psicodelia!!!

“Permanent Light” — 1994. Featured on the “After Tomorrow” 10

9. Pompeii Am Gotterdammerung / The Flaming Lips

Mike’s bass line on this song is absurd, and maybe the greatest trump card of this highly-trippy song that appears on the album “At War With The Mystics.” All Music said about the music: "…while “Pompeii Am Götterdämmerung” also taps into Floyd’s elaborate, epic power. These trippy moments make At War with the Mystics the most psychedelic and least immediate album the Flaming Lips have done in a long, long time(…)".

The Flaming Lips “Pompeii Am Götterdämmerung” Live Video

8. Waves wash over me / Spectrum

Now, we’ll start the domination of Spacemen 3 in almost all of the next tracks that we will talk about. SPECTRUM is a kind of continuation of Spacemen 3 after they split in 1991, and one of my favorite SONIC BOOM side-bands.

7. Call The Doctor / Spacemen 3

One of my favorite songs from Spacemen 3, I lost count of how many times I’ve heard it, how many times I was crazy in my life and asked to call the doctor. Spacemen 3 was one of the main bands of my musical formation, and I liked them from 1990 until today. I listen every day, uninterruptedly.

I love this Adult Swim version… so funny!

6. Prozac vs Heroin / The Brian Jonestown Massacre

This classic song is from the album …And This Is Our Music, that is the ninth studio album by The Brian Jonestown Massacre, released on October 7, 2003 on Tee Pee Records. It was re-released on A Records, packaged alongside the “If Love Is the Drug, Then I Want to O.D” single, and was distributed in the UK through Cargo Records.

5. Victory Garden / The Red Krayola

Perhaps one of the greatest classics of The Red Krayola, an experimental rock group that was born in Houston, TX in the year 1966 and persists to this day, releasing wonderful and always inventive albums. “Victory Garden” was re-recorded by the Galaxie 500 on the album “On Fire”. I really like the version that was remastered by Sonic Boom, from Spacemen 3 (unconditional fan of Red Krayola), who re-recorded Transparent Radiation (another psychedelic classic that deserves to be heard).

Victory Garden, original version by The Red Krayola

Victory Garden, Galaxie 500 version

4. To Here Knows When / My Bloody Valentine

My Bloody Valentine is probably one of my top #3 bands ever. I really love them, all of their albuns. They have a lot of songs that I Love, It's top difficult for me to extract just one, but I'd like to use this one: "To Here Knows When", from the classic album Loveless.

3. A Pox On You / Silver Apples

Originally released in 1969, “A Pox On You” is one of the most classic and smoky songs of the American avant-garde experimental duo Silver Apples. It’s a total dopant effect track, samplers of this song were already used by Deee-Lite in the song “Deep Ending”. Here we have one of the best examples of a perfect alchemy between Simeon’s lyrical vocals and Oscillators and Danny Taylor’s percussive and hypnotic drums. The cover of this album had a lot of controversies and generated a monstrous court case by PAN AM against the band; the legal expenses ended the group.

2. Golden Surf II / Pere Ubu

Pere Ubu is here not just because his music is psychedelic but essentially because Pere Ubu is a kind of genius of all kinds of weird music. Ubu is a prolific musician and composer that deliver great music since the mid-’70s, his music is considered a type of avant-garage. One of my favorite musicians ever, Ubu is a guru and you can see him talking about Pere Ubu’s early years.

Pere Ubu History by David Thomas.

Golden Surf II was recorded during Pere Ubu's last tour in 2017.

"What I Heard On The Pop Radio" is from Pere Ubu’s new album, ‘The Long Goodbye’, released July 12th on Cherry Red Records.

1. Ode To Street Hassle / Spacemen 3

Sonic Boom (below) and Jason Spacemen (above). The heads on Spacemen 3 world.

Lou Reed and the Velvet Underground were one of the major influences of Spacemen 3, and helped shape the spatial and droned music of these “psychedelic spacemen.” My option was to show just one new perspective of the music from Spacemen 3, but as the band has been gone for a long time, I’ll try to use these two videos from Sonic Boom, to present just a little of their crazy kaleidoscopic, touching of the whole music from Spacemen 3. This band was responsible for building all my psychedelic taste over the years.

Spectrum foi um projeto de Sonic Boom, que começou depois que o Spacemen 3 se separou.

Sonic Boom canta a clássica canção do Spacemen 3 num show da trunê do SPECTRUM em 2001.

Ode To Street Hassle / Spacemen 3

Well I’ve been to some far out places

I’ve read the writing on the wall

But today I walked with Jesus and together

Together we walk tall

And as we sat there talking

Jesus turned to say to me

“You’d better learn and love this life ‘cos there’s things

There’s things that are hard to see”

And as I sat there thinkin’

Once again he turned to me

He said “I’ve given you temptation but these things

These things have got to be”

So I just sat and listened

To what Jesus said to me

‘Cos sometimes you gotta listen, if there’s things,

If there’s things you just can’t see

And while we were out walking

Once again he turned to me

And as I looked into his eyes his thoughts

His thoughts just came to me.

Well some people never listen

You know some people just won’t see

But I can see and hear these things

These things have got to be.

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Well, this is my list and I hope that you guys like it. Enjoy the psychedelic feelings and vibrations! See Y'all soon…

Collaboration by David McLoughlin (thanks to Master D.)