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The first day of spring this year is on Thursday, March 20, 2025.
Psychedelic Spring Sixty-Five
To kick off the first day of spring, here is my 60th anniversary celebration of the greatest psychedelic songs of the 1960s that began in the spring of 1965.
A Psychedelic Rock timeline
Spring, 1965 A band called the Psychedelic Rangers including future Doors drummer John Densmore is formed in Los Angeles. This is the first known instance of a rock'n'roll band referring to themselves as "psychedelic".
June 29, 1965 The Charlatans make their debut performance at the Red Dog Saloon in Virginia City, Nevada. This is the first known instance of a band playing rock music under the influence of LSD (many in the audience were tripping too). This event is also commonly seen as the birth of the psychedelic concert poster.
July, 1965 From various clues it seems that Kim Fowley released his debut 45 single "The Trip" as early as the Summer '65. There was a cover version of it a few months later (see below), and Kim was selling remaining copies via an LA Free Press ad in November '65. This would make it the very first obviously LSD-inspired record. The UK release happened in June-1966.
July 27, 1965 First recording day for the Yardbirds' "Still I'm Sad". Second day of recording is August 26. The song has many elements similar to what later would be called psychedelia. The band had not yet tried psychedelic drugs at this point.
July 30, 1965 The Kinks' "See My Friends" is released. The song, recorded in April, has a sound similar to what later would be called psychedelia. The band had not yet tried psychedelic drugs at this point.
August, 1965 The Fugs record their debut album where the song "I Couldn't Get High" explicitly mentions LSD. This is the first known instance of the drug appearing in a rock lyric.
September 2, 1965 The newly-formed Doors record an acetate in Los Angeles that contains songs such as "Moonlight Drive", "End of the Night" and "Go Insane". Three of the band members had taken LSD at this point.
September, 1965 LA disc jockey Godfrey releases his cover version of Kim Fowley's "The Trip".
October, 1965 The Beatles record "Norwegian Wood", which contains elements close to psychedelia. At least two of the band members had taken LSD at this point. The track appears on "Rubber Soul", released in December.
November, 1965 The first Acid Test is arranged in La Honda by Ken Kesley and the Merry Pranksters. Local band the Warlocks, soon to be renamed the Grateful Dead perform at the event.
November 5, 1965 Kim Fowley places an ad in the LA Free Press, offering remaining copies of his "The Trip" 45. The 45 is referred to as having a "psychedelic sound", one of the earliest instances of connecting rock music with the term.
November, 1965 Hugh Romney (aka Wavy Gravy) and Del Close put on a "Lysergic A-Go-Go" show in Los Angeles, as reported in the LA Free Press. A rock band called Summer's Children appeared at the event.
November (late), 1965 13th Floor Elevators members drop LSD & form the band with the explicit intent of making LSD-inspired music.
December, 1965 Psychedelic tunes "Roller Coaster", "Fire Engine" written by the 13th Floor Elevators.
December 4, 1965 "Free Advice" and "Someone to Love" recorded by Great Society. The 45 is released in early 1966.
December 22, 1965 The Byrds record "Eight Miles High", first version.
December 19, 1965 Donovan records "Sunshine Superman", which is not released until July 1966.
Psychedelic rock is a rock music genre that is inspired, influenced, or representative of psychedelic culture, which is centered on perception-altering hallucinogenic drugs. The music incorporated new electronic sound effects and recording techniques, extended instrumental solos, and improvisation. Many psychedelic groups differ in style, and the label is often applied spuriously.
Originating in the mid-1960s among British and American musicians, the sound of psychedelic rock invokes three core effects of LSD: depersonalization, dechronicization (the bending of time), and dynamization (when fixed, ordinary objects dissolve into moving, dancing structures), all of which detach the user from everyday reality. Musically, the effects may be represented via novelty studio tricks, electronic or non-Western instrumentation, disjunctive song structures, and extended instrumental segments.
Some of the earlier 1960s psychedelic rock musicians were based in folk, jazz, and the blues, while others showcased an explicit Indian classical influence called "raga rock". In the 1960s, there existed two main variants of the genre: the more whimsical, surrealist British psychedelia and the harder American West Coast "acid rock". While "acid rock" is sometimes deployed interchangeably with the term "psychedelic rock", it also refers more specifically to the heavier, harder, and more extreme ends of the genre.
The peak years of psychedelic rock were between 1967 and 1969, with milestone events including the 1967 Summer of Love and the 1969 Woodstock Festival, becoming an international musical movement associated with a widespread counterculture before declining as changing attitudes, the loss of some key individuals, and a back-to-basics movement led surviving performers to move into new musical areas. The genre bridged the transition from early blues and folk-based rock to progressive rock and hard rock, and as a result contributed to the development of sub-genres such as heavy metal. Since the late 1970s it has been revived in various forms of neo-psychedelia.
Original psychedelic era
1960-65: Precursors and influences
Music critic Richie Unterberger says that attempts to "pin down" the first psychedelic record are "nearly as elusive as trying to name the first rock & roll record". Some of the "far-fetched claims" include the instrumental "Telstar" (produced by Joe Meek for the Tornados in 1962) and the Dave Clark Five's "massively reverb-laden" "Any Way You Want It" (1964). The first mention of LSD on a rock record was the Gamblers' 1960 surf instrumental "LSD 25". A 1962 single by the Ventures, "The 2000 Pound Bee", issued forth the buzz of a distorted, "fuzztone" guitar, and the quest into "the possibilities of heavy, transistorised distortion" and other effects, like improved reverb and echo, began in earnest on London's fertile rock 'n' roll scene. By 1964 fuzztone could be heard on singles by P.J. Proby, and the Beatles had employed feedback in "I Feel Fine", their sixth consecutive number 1 hit in the UK.
According to AllMusic, the emergence of psychedelic rock in the mid-1960s resulted from British groups who made up the British Invasion of the US market and folk rock bands seeking to broaden "the sonic possibilities of their music". Writing in his 1969 book The Rock Revolution, Arnold Shaw said the genre in its American form represented generational escapism, which he identified as a development of youth culture's "protest against the sexual taboos, racism, violence, hypocrisy and materialism of adult life".
American folk singer Bob Dylan's influence was central to the creation of the folk rock movement in 1965, and his lyrics remained a touchstone for the psychedelic songwriters of the late 1960s.
Virtuoso sitarist Ravi Shankar had begun in 1956 a mission to bring Indian classical music to the West, inspiring jazz, classical and folk musicians. By the mid-1960s, his influence extended to a generation of young rock musicians who soon made raga rock part of the psychedelic rock aesthetic and one of the many intersecting cultural motifs of the era. In the British folk scene, blues, drugs, jazz and Eastern influences blended in the early 1960s work of Davy Graham, who adopted modal guitar tunings to transpose Indian ragas and Celtic reels. Graham was highly influential on Scottish folk virtuoso Bert Jansch and other pioneering guitarists across a spectrum of styles and genres in the mid-1960s. Jazz saxophonist and composer John Coltrane had a similar impact, as the exotic sounds on his albums My Favorite Things (1960) and A Love Supreme (1965), the latter influenced by the ragas of Shankar, were source material for guitar players and others looking to improvise or "jam".
One of the first musical uses of the term "psychedelic" in the folk scene was by the New York-based folk group The Holy Modal Rounders on their version of Lead Belly's 'Hesitation Blues' in 1964. Folk/avant-garde guitarist John Fahey recorded several songs in the early 1960s experimented with unusual recording techniques, including backwards tapes, and novel instrumental accompaniment including flute and sitar. His nineteen-minute "The Great San Bernardino Birthday Party" "anticipated elements of psychedelia with its nervy improvisations and odd guitar tunings".
Similarly, folk guitarist Sandy Bull's early work "incorporated elements of folk, jazz, and Indian and Arabic-influenced dronish modes". His 1963 album Fantasias for Guitar and Banjo explores various styles and "could also be accurately described as one of the very first psychedelic records".
1965: Formative psychedelic scenes and sounds
Barry Miles, a leading figure in the 1960s UK underground, says that "Hippies didn't just pop up overnight" and that "1965 was the first year in which a discernible youth movement began to emerge [in the US]. Many of the key 'psychedelic' rock bands formed this year." On the US West Coast, underground chemist Augustus Owsley Stanley III and Ken Kesey (along with his followers known as the Merry Pranksters) helped thousands of people take uncontrolled trips at Kesey's Acid Tests and in the new psychedelic dance halls. In Britain, Michael Hollingshead opened the World Psychedelic Centre and Beat Generation poets Allen Ginsberg, Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Gregory Corso read at the Royal Albert Hall. Miles adds: "The readings acted as a catalyst for underground activity in London, as people suddenly realized just how many like-minded people there were around. This was also the year that London began to blossom into colour with the opening of the Granny Takes a Trip and Hung On You clothes shops." Thanks to media coverage, use of LSD became widespread.
According to music critic Jim DeRogatis, writing in his book on psychedelic rock, Turn on Your Mind, the Beatles are seen as the "Acid Apostles of the New Age". Producer George Martin, who was initially known as a specialist in comedy and novelty records, responded to the Beatles' requests by providing a range of studio tricks that ensured the group played a leading role in the development of psychedelic effects.
Anticipating their overtly psychedelic work, "Ticket to Ride" (April 1965) introduced a subtle, drug-inspired drone suggestive of India, played on rhythm guitar.
Musicologist William Echard writes that the Beatles employed several techniques in the years up to 1965 that soon became elements of psychedelic music, an approach he describes as "cognate" and reflective of how they, like the Yardbirds, were early pioneers in psychedelia. As important aspects the group brought to the genre, Echard cites the Beatles' rhythmic originality and unpredictability; "true" tonal ambiguity; leadership in incorporating elements from Indian music and studio techniques such as vari-speed, tape loops and reverse tape sounds; and their embrace of the avant-garde. The track's heavy sound may have been influenced by Lennon and George Harrison's first encounter with LSD, the precise date for which varies among Beatles biographers.
In Unterberger's opinion, the Byrds, emerging from the Los Angeles folk rock scene, and the Yardbirds, from England's blues scene, were more responsible than the Beatles for "sounding the psychedelic siren". Drug use and attempts at psychedelic music moved out of acoustic folk-based music towards rock soon after the Byrds, inspired by the Beatles' 1964 film A Hard Day's Night, adopted electric instruments to produce a chart-topping version of Dylan's "Mr. Tambourine Man" in the summer of 1965. On the Yardbirds, Unterberger identifies lead guitarist Jeff Beck as having "laid the blueprint for psychedelic guitar", and says that their "ominous minor key melodies, hyperactive instrumental breaks (called rave-ups), unpredictable tempo changes, and use of Gregorian chants" helped to define the "manic eclecticism" typical of early psychedelic rock. The band's "Heart Full of Soul" (June 1965), which includes a distorted guitar riff that replicates the sound of a sitar, peaked at number 2 in the UK and number 9 in the US. In Echard's description, the song "carried the energy of a new scene" as the guitar-hero phenomenon emerged in rock, and it heralded the arrival of new Eastern sounds. The Kinks provided the first example of sustained Indian-style drone in rock when they used open-tuned guitars to mimic the tambura on "See My Friends" (July 1965), which became a top 10 hit in the UK.
The Beatles' "Norwegian Wood" from the December 1965 album Rubber Soul marked the first released recording on which a member of a Western rock group played the sitar. The song sparked a craze for the sitar and other Indian instrumentation - a trend that fueled the growth of raga rock as the India exotic became part of the essence of psychedelic rock.
Music historian George Case recognises Rubber Soul as the first of two Beatles albums that "marked the authentic beginning of the psychedelic era", while music critic Robert Christgau similarly wrote that "Psychedelia starts here".
San Francisco historian Charles Perry recalled the album being "the soundtrack of the Haight-Ashbury, Berkeley and the whole circuit", as pre-hippie youths suspected that the songs were inspired by drugs.
Although psychedelia was introduced in Los Angeles through the Byrds, according to Shaw, San Francisco emerged as the movement's capital on the West Coast.
Several California-based folk acts followed the Byrds into folk rock, bringing their psychedelic influences with them, to produce the "San Francisco Sound".
Music historian Simon Philo writes that although some commentators would state that the centre of influence had moved from London to California by 1967, it was British acts like the Beatles and the Rolling Stones that helped inspire and "nourish" the new American music in the mid-1960s, especially in the formative San Francisco scene.
The music scene there developed in the city's Haight-Ashbury neighborhood in 1965 at basement shows organised by Chet Helms of the Family Dog; and as Jefferson Airplane founder Marty Balin and investors opened The Matrix nightclub that summer and began booking his and other local bands such as the Grateful Dead, the Steve Miller Band and Country Joe & the Fish. Helms and San Francisco Mime Troupe manager Bill Graham in the fall of 1965 organised larger scale multi-media community events/benefits featuring the Airplane, the Diggers and Allen Ginsberg. By early 1966 Graham had secured booking at The Fillmore, and Helms at the Avalon Ballroom, where in-house psychedelic-themed light shows replicated the visual effects of the psychedelic experience.
Graham became a major figure in the growth of psychedelic rock, attracting most of the major psychedelic rock bands of the day to The Fillmore.
According to author Kevin McEneaney, the Grateful Dead "invented" acid rock in front of a crowd of concertgoers in San Jose, California on 4 December 1965, the date of the second Acid Test held by novelist Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters. Their stage performance involved the use of strobe lightsto reproduce LSD's "surrealistic fragmenting" or "vivid isolating of caught moments". The Acid Test experiments subsequently launched the entire psychedelic subculture.
1966: Growth and early popularity
Echard writes that in 1966, "the psychedelic implications" advanced by recent rock experiments "became fully explicit and much more widely distributed", and by the end of the year, "most of the key elements of psychedelic topicality had been at least broached." DeRogatis says the start of psychedelic (or acid) rock is "best listed at 1966".
Music journalists Pete Prown and Harvey P. Newquist locate the "peak years" of psychedelic rock between 1966 and 1969. In 1966, media coverage of rock music changed considerably as the music became reevaluated as a new form of art in tandem with the growing psychedelic community.
In February and March, two singles were released that later achieved recognition as the first psychedelic hits: the Yardbirds' "Shapes of Things" and the Byrds' "Eight Miles High". The former reached number 3 in the UK and number 11 in the US, and continued the Yardbirds' exploration of guitar effects, Eastern-sounding scales, and shifting rhythms. By overdubbing guitar parts, Beck layered multiple takes for his solo, which included extensive use of fuzz tone and harmonic feedback. The song's lyrics, which Unterberger describes as "stream-of-consciousness", have been interpreted as pro-environmental or anti-war. The Yardbirds became the first British band to have the term "psychedelic" applied to one of its songs.
On "Eight Miles High", Roger McGuinn's 12-string Rickenbacker guitar provided a psychedelic interpretation of free jazz and Indian raga, channelling Coltrane and Shankar, respectively.
The song's lyrics were widely taken to refer to drug use, although the Byrds denied it at the time. "Eight Miles High" peaked at number 14 in the US and reached the top 30 in the UK.
Contributing to psychedelia's emergence into the pop mainstream was the release of the Beach Boys' Pet Sounds (May 1966) and the Beatles' Revolver (August 1966).
Often considered one of the earliest albums in the canon of psychedelic rock, Pet Sounds contained many elements that would be incorporated into psychedelia, with its artful experiments, psychedelic lyrics based on emotional longings and self-doubts, elaborate sound effects and new sounds on both conventional and unconventional instruments. The album track "I Just Wasn't Made for These Times" contained the first use of theremin sounds on a rock record.
Scholar Philip Auslander says that even though psychedelic music is not normally associated with the Beach Boys, the "odd directions" and experiments in Pet Sounds "put it all on the map. ... basically, that sort of opened the door - not for groups to be formed or to start to make music, but certainly to become as visible as say Jefferson Airplane or somebody like that."
DeRogatis views Revolver as another of "the first psychedelic rock masterpieces", along with Pet Sounds. The Beatles' May 1966 B-side "Rain", recorded during the Revolver sessions, was the first pop recording to contain reversed sounds.
Together with further studio tricks such as varispeed, the song includes a droning melody that reflected the band's growing interest in non-Western musical form and lyrics conveying the division between an enlightened psychedelic outlook and conformism.
Philo cites "Rain" as "the birth of British psychedelic rock" and describes Revolver as "the most sustained deployment of Indian instruments, musical form and even religious philosophy" heard in popular music up to that time. Author Steve Turner recognises the Beatles' success in conveying an LSD-inspired worldview on Revolver, particularly with "Tomorrow Never Knows", as having "opened the doors to psychedelic rock (or acid rock)".
In author Shawn Levy's description, it was "the first true drug album, not [just] a pop record with some druggy insinuations", while musicologists Russell Reising and Jim LeBlanc credit the Beatles with "set[ting] the stage for an important subgenre of psychedelic music, that of the messianic pronouncement".
Echard highlights early records by the 13th Floor Elevators and Love among the key psychedelic releases of 1966, along with "Shapes of Things", "Eight Miles High", "Rain" and Revolver.
Originating from Austin, Texas, the first of these new bands came to the genre via the garage scene before releasing their debut album, The Psychedelic Sounds of the 13th Floor Elevators in October that year. It was one of the first rock albums to include the adjective in its title, although the LP was released on an independent label and was little noticed at the time. Two other bands also used the word in titles of LPs released in November 1966: The Blues Magoos' Psychedelic Lollipop, and the Deep's Psychedelic Moods. Having formed in late 1965 with the aim of spreading LSD consciousness, the Elevators commissioned business cards containing an image of the third eye and the caption "Psychedelic rock". Rolling Stone highlights the 13th Floor Elevators as arguably "the most important early progenitors of psychedelic garage rock".
Donovan's July 1966 single "Sunshine Superman" became one of the first psychedelic pop/rock singles to top the Billboard charts in the US. Influenced by Aldous Huxley’s The Doors of Perception, and with lyrics referencing LSD, it contributed to bringing psychedelia to the mainstream.
The Beach Boys' October 1966 single "Good Vibrations" was another early pop song to incorporate psychedelic lyrics and sounds.
The single's success prompted an unexpected revival in theremins and increased the awareness of analog synthesizers. As psychedelia gained prominence, Beach Boys-style harmonies would be ingrained into the newer psychedelic pop.
1967-69: Continued development
The Mantra-Rock poster showing an Indian swami sitting cross-legged in the top half with circular patterns around and with information about the concert in the bottom half Poster for the Mantra-Rock Dance event held at San Francisco's Avalon Ballroom in January 1967. The headline acts included the Grateful Dead, Big Brother and the Holding Company and Moby Grape.
In 1967, psychedelic rock received widespread media attention and a larger audience beyond local psychedelic communities. From 1967 to 1968, it was the prevailing sound of rock music, either in the more whimsical British variant, or the harder American West Coast acid rock. Music historian David Simonelli says the genre's commercial peak lasted "a brief year", with San Francisco and London recognised as the two key cultural centres.
Compared with the American form, British psychedelic music was often more arty in its experimentation, and it tended to stick within pop song structures.
Music journalist Mark Prendergast writes that it was only in US garage-band psychedelia that the often whimsical traits of UK psychedelic music were found.
He says that aside from the work of the Byrds, Love and the Doors, there were three categories of US psychedelia: the "acid jams" of the San Francisco bands, who favoured albums over singles; pop psychedelia typified by groups such as the Beach Boys and Buffalo Springfield; and the "wigged-out" music of bands following in the example of the Beatles and the Yardbirds, such as the Electric Prunes, the Nazz, the Chocolate Watchband and the Seeds.
The Doors' self-titled debut album (January 1967) is notable for possessing a darker sound and subject matter than many contemporary psychedelic albums, which would become very influential to the later Gothic rock movement. Aided by the No. 1 single, "Light My Fire", the album became very successful, reaching number 2 on the Billboard chart.
In February 1967, the Beatles released the double A-side single "Strawberry Fields Forever" / "Penny Lane", which Ian MacDonald says launched both the "English pop-pastoral mood" typified by bands such as Pink Floyd, Family, Traffic and Fairport Convention, and English psychedelia's LSD-inspired preoccupation with "nostalgia for the innocent vision of a child". The Mellotron parts on "Strawberry Fields Forever" remain the most celebrated example of the instrument on a pop or rock recording. According to Simonelli, the two songs heralded the Beatles' brand of Romanticism as a central tenet of psychedelic rock.
Jefferson Airplane's Surrealistic Pillow (February 1967) was one of the first albums to come out of San Francisco that sold well enough to bring national attention to the city's music scene. The LP tracks "White Rabbit" and "Somebody to Love" subsequently became top 10 hits in the US.
The Hollies psychedelic B-side "All the World Is Love" (February 1967) was released as the flipside to the hit single "On a Carousel".
Evolution was a transitional album between The Hollies' conventional pop sound and what the Oxford 'Encyclopedia of Popular Music' described as the "full-blown psychedelic glory of Butterfly."
"King Midas in Reverse" and "Dear Eloise" are two excellent 1967 singles from The Hollies released in their psychedelic heyday.
Pink Floyd's "Arnold Layne" (March 1967) and "See Emily Play" (June 1967), both written by Syd Barrett, helped set the pattern for pop-psychedelia in the UK. There, "underground" venues like the UFO Club, Middle Earth Club, The Roundhouse, the Country Club and the Art Lab drew capacity audiences with psychedelic rock and ground-breaking liquid light shows. A major figure in the development of British psychedelia was the American promoter and record producer Joe Boyd, who moved to London in 1966. He co-founded venues including the UFO Club, produced Pink Floyd's "Arnold Layne", and went on to manage folk and folk rock acts including Nick Drake, the Incredible String Band and Fairport Convention.
Psychedelic rock's popularity accelerated following the release of the Beatles' album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (May 1967) and the staging of the Monterey Pop Festival in June.
Sgt. Pepper was the first commercially successful work that critics recognised as a landmark aspect of psychedelia, and the Beatles' mass appeal meant that the record was played virtually everywhere.
The album was highly influential on bands in the US psychedelic rock scene and its elevation of the LP format benefited the San Francisco bands.
Among many changes brought about by its success, artists sought to imitate its psychedelic effects and devoted more time to creating their albums; the counterculture was scrutinised by musicians; and acts adopted its non-conformist sentiments.
The 1967 Summer of Love saw a huge number of young people from across America and the world travel to Haight-Ashbury, boosting the area's population from 15,000 to around 100,000. It was prefaced by the Human Be-In event in January and reached its peak at the Monterey Pop Festival in June, the latter helping to make major American stars of Janis Joplin, lead singer of Big Brother and the Holding Company, Jimi Hendrix, and the Who. Several established British acts joined the psychedelic revolution, including Eric Burdon (previously of the Animals) and the Who, whose The Who Sell Out (December 1967) included the psychedelic-influenced "I Can See for Miles" and "Armenia City in the Sky". Other major British Invasion acts who absorbed psychedelia in 1967 include the Hollies with the album Butterfly, and The Rolling Stones album Their Satanic Majesties Request. The Incredible String Band's The 5000 Spirits or the Layers of the Onion (July 1967) developed their folk music into a pastoral form of psychedelia.
Many famous established recording artists from the early rock era also fell under psychedelia and recorded psychedelic-inspired tracks, including Del Shannon's "Color Flashing Hair", Bobby Vee's "I May Be Gone", The Four Seasons' "Watch the Flowers Grow", Roy Orbison's "Southbound Jericho Parkway" and The Everly Brothers' "Mary Jane".
According to author Edward Macan, there ultimately existed three distinct branches of British psychedelic music. The first, dominated by Cream, the Yardbirds and Hendrix, was founded on a heavy, electric adaptation of the blues played by the Rolling Stones, adding elements such as the Who's power chord style and feedback.
The second, considerably more complex form drew strongly from jazz sources and was typified by Traffic, Colosseum, If, and Canterbury scene bands such as Soft Machine and Caravan.
The third branch, represented by the Moody Blues, Pink Floyd, Procol Harum and the Nice, was influenced by the later music of the Beatles.
Several of the post-Sgt. Pepper English psychedelic groups developed the Beatles' classical influences further than either the Beatles or contemporaneous West Coast psychedelic bands.
Among such groups, the Pretty Things abandoned their R&B roots to create S.F. Sorrow (December 1968), the first example of a psychedelic rock opera.
International variants
The US and UK were the major centres of psychedelic music, but in the late 1960s scenes developed across the world, including continental Europe, Australasia, Asia and south and Central America.
In the later 1960s psychedelic scenes developed in a large number of countries in continental Europe, including the Netherlands with bands like The Outsiders,
Denmark, where it was pioneered by Steppeulvene, Yugoslavia, with bands like Kameleoni, Dogovor, Pop Mašina and Igra Staklenih Perli, and Germany, where musicians fused music of psychedelia and the electronic avant-garde. 1968 saw the first major German rock festival, the Internationale Essener Songtage [de] in Essen,and the foundation of the Zodiak Free Arts Lab in Berlin by Hans-Joachim Roedelius, and Conrad Schnitzler, which helped bands like Tangerine Dream and Amon Düül achieve cult status.
A thriving psychedelic music scene in Cambodia, influenced by psychedelic rock and soul broadcast by US forces radio in Vietnam, was pioneered by artists such as Sinn Sisamouth and Ros Serey Sothea.
In South Korea, Shin Jung-Hyeon, often considered the godfather of Korean rock, played psychedelic-influenced music for the American soldiers stationed in the country. Following Shin Jung-Hyeon, the band San Ul Lim (Mountain Echo) often combined psychedelic rock with a more folk sound.
In Turkey, Anatolian rock artist Erkin Koray blended classic Turkish music and Middle Eastern themes into his psychedelic-driven rock, helping to found the Turkish rock scene with artists such as Cem Karaca, Mogollar, Barış Manço and Erkin Koray. In Brazil, the Tropicalia movement merged Brazilian and African rhythms with psychedelic rock. Musicians who were part of the movement include Caetano Veloso, Gilberto Gil, Os Mutantes, Gal Costa, Tom Zé, and the poet/lyricist Torquato Neto, all of whom participated in the 1968 album Tropicália: ou Panis et Circencis, which served as a musical manifesto.
1969-71: Decline
By the end of the 1960s, psychedelic rock was in retreat. Psychedelic trends climaxed in the 1969 Woodstock Festival, which saw performances by most of the major psychedelic acts, including Jimi Hendrix, Jefferson Airplane and the Grateful Dead. LSD had been made illegal in the United Kingdom in September 1966 and in California in October; by 1967, it was outlawed throughout the United States. In 1969, the murders of Sharon Tate and Leno and Rosemary LaBianca by Charles Manson and his cult of followers, claiming to have been inspired by The Beatles' songs such as "Helter Skelter", has been seen as contributing to an anti-hippie backlash. At the end of the same year, the Altamont Free Concert in California, headlined by the Rolling Stones, became notorious for the fatal stabbing of black teenager Meredith Hunter by Hells Angels security guards.
George Clinton's ensembles Funkadelic and Parliament and their various spin-offs took psychedelia and funk to create their own unique style, producing over forty singles, including three in the US top ten, and three platinum albums. Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys, Brian Jones of the Rolling Stones, Peter Green and Danny Kirwan of Fleetwood Mac and Syd Barrett of Pink Floyd were early "acid casualties", helping to shift the focus of the respective bands of which they had been leading figures. Some groups, such as the Beatles, the Jimi Hendrix Experience and Cream, broke up. Hendrix died in London in September 1970, shortly after recording Band of Gypsys (1970), Janis Joplin died of a heroin overdose in October 1970 and they were closely followed by Jim Morrison of the Doors, who died in Paris in July 1971. By this point, many surviving acts had moved away from psychedelia into either more back-to-basics "roots rock", traditional-based, pastoral or whimsical folk, the wider experimentation of progressive rock, or riff-based heavy rock.
Notable works (1966-1969)
1966
Pet Sounds by the Beach Boys - The album came as an indirect result of bandleader Brian Wilson's experimentation with psychedelic drugs. Music journalist Mike McPadden credits it with sparking a psychedelic pop revolution.
He says that while psychedelic rock had existed before Pet Sounds, mainly among garage bands like the 13th Floor Elevators, Pet Sounds inspired mainstream pop acts to take part in the psychedelic culture.
Revolver by the Beatles - According to AllMusic, the album ensured that psychedelia emerged from its underground roots and presented in the mainstream as psychedelic pop. Biographer Ian MacDonald wrote that the album "had initiated a second pop revolution – one which, while galvanising their existing rivals and inspiring many new ones, left all of them far behind".
"Good Vibrations" by the Beach Boys - proclaimed by journalist Barney Hoskyns as the "ultimate psychedelic pop record" from Los Angeles in its time. Popmatters added: "Its influence on the ensuing psychedelic and progressive rock movements can’t be overstated ... it changed the way a pop record could be made, the way a pop record could sound, and the lyrics a pop record could have."
1967
"Penny Lane" and "Strawberry Fields Forever" by the Beatles - the double A-sided single is described by AllMusic as a prototype for psychedelic pop.
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band is the eighth studio album by the English rock band the Beatles. Released on 26 May 1967, Sgt. Pepper is regarded by musicologists as an early concept album that advanced the roles of sound composition, extended form, psychedelic imagery, record sleeves, and the producer in popular music. The album had an immediate cross-generational impact and was associated with numerous touchstones of the era's youth culture, such as fashion, drugs, mysticism, and a sense of optimism and empowerment. Critics lauded the album for its innovations in songwriting, production and graphic design, for bridging a cultural divide between popular music and high art, and for reflecting the interests of contemporary youth and the counterculture.
At the end of August 1966, the Beatles had permanently retired from touring and pursued individual interests for the next three months. During a return flight to London in November, Paul McCartney had an idea for a song involving an Edwardian military band that formed the impetus of the Sgt. Pepper concept. For this project, they continued the technological experimentation marked by their previous album, Revolver, this time without an absolute deadline for completion. Sessions began on 24 November at EMI Studios with compositions inspired by the Beatles' youth, but after pressure from EMI, the songs "Strawberry Fields Forever" and "Penny Lane" were released as a double A-side single in February 1967 and left off the LP. The album was then loosely conceptualised as a performance by the fictional Sgt. Pepper band, an idea that was conceived after recording the title track.
A key work of British psychedelia, Sgt. Pepper is considered one of the first art rock LPs and a progenitor to progressive rock. It incorporates a range of stylistic influences, including vaudeville, circus, music hall, avant-garde, and Western and Indian classical music. With assistance from producer George Martin and engineer Geoff Emerick, much of the recordings were coloured with sound effects and tape manipulation, as exemplified on "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds", "Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite!" and "A Day in the Life". Recording was completed on 21 April. The cover, which depicts the Beatles posing in front of a tableau of celebrities and historical figures, was designed by the pop artists Peter Blake and Jann Haworth.
Sgt. Pepper's release was a defining moment in pop culture, heralding the album era and the 1967 Summer of Love, while its reception achieved full cultural legitimation for pop music and recognition for the medium as a genuine art form. The first Beatles album to be released with the same track listing in both the UK and the US, it spent 27 weeks at number one on the Record Retailer chart in the United Kingdom and 15 weeks at number one on the Billboard Top LPs chart in the United States. In 1968, it won four Grammy Awards, including Album of the Year, the first rock LP to receive this honour; in 2003, it was inducted into the National Recording Registry by the Library of Congress. It has topped several critics' and listeners' polls for the best album of all time, including those published by Rolling Stone magazine and in the book All Time Top 1000 Albums, and the UK's "Music of the Millennium" poll. More than 32 million copies had been sold worldwide as of 2011. It remains one of the best-selling albums of all time and was still, in 2018, the UK's best-selling studio album.
"All You Need Is Love" was released as a non-album single in July 1967. It was written by John Lennon and credited to the Lennon-McCartney partnership. The song was Britain's contribution to Our World, the first live global television link, for which the band were filmed performing it at EMI Studios in London on 25 June. The programme was broadcast via satellite and seen by an audience of over 400 million in 25 countries. Lennon's lyrics were deliberately simplistic, to allow for the show's international audience, and captured the utopian ideals associated with the Summer of Love. The single topped sales charts in Britain, the United States and many other countries, and became an anthem for the counterculture's embrace of flower power philosophy.
"Arnold Layne" and "See Emily Play" by Pink Floyd:
two singles written by Syd Barrett that helped set the pattern for pop-psychedelia in Britain.
1968
Odessey and Oracle by the Zombies - AllMusic's Bruce Eder characterizes the album as "some of the most powerful psychedelic pop/rock ever heard out of England". According to Record Bin's Joshua Packard, the album was a "psychedelic pop spectacle".
"Care of Cell 44", its opening track, "presents the band as bearers of a new kind of psychedelia, one that relied less on psychotropics and more on the natural abilities of the band. ... [the album] has gained a well-deserved reputation for being one of the greatest pop records of the '60s."
1969
"Crimson and Clover" was released in late 1968 as a rough mix after a radio station leaked it. It spent 16 weeks on the U.S. charts, reaching number one in the United States (in February 1969) and four other countries. The single has sold 5 million copies, making it Tommy James and the Shondells' best-selling song. It has been covered by many artists including Joan Jett and Prince.
"White Room" is a song by British rock band Cream, composed by bassist Jack Bruce with lyrics by poet Pete Brown. They recorded it for the studio half of the 1968 double album Wheels of Fire. In September, a shorter US single edit (without the third verse) was released for AM radio stations, although album-oriented FM radio stations played the full album version. The subsequent UK single release in January 1969 used the full-length album version of the track. Rolling Stone magazine ranked "White Room" at number 376 on its list of the "500 Greatest Songs of All Time".
A list of the Top 25 psychedelic rock albums:
https://ultimateclassicrock.com/psychedelic-rock-albums/
10 Great Psychedelic Album Covers from the late '60s:
We look at the colorful and trippy cover art of influential rock albums from the decade of social and cultural revolution:
https://www.domestika.org/en/blog/3654-10-great-psychedelic-album-covers-from-the-late-60s
So, after exhaustive and extensive online research, plus my own recollections and memories, here is my personal compilation of what I consider to be the 900 best and most important tracks from the original 1960s psychedelic era.
This fully packed 36CD set contains many rare and extremely hard to find tracks, with a number featured in their original mono form. Only the original 1960s studio mixes are included. No later remixes, 'stereo enhanced' or live versions here!
Compiled as always using the very latest and highest quality digital remasters, with a considerable number of tracks sourced from the original master tapes for superior sound quality and enjoyment.
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Track lists
CD01
1 The Beatles - All You Need Is Love 3:48
2 The Jimi Hendrix Experience - All Along the Watchtower 3:58
3 The Who - Armenia City in the Sky (Original 1968 7" Mono Single Version) 3:46
4 Love - Alone Again Or (Original 1968 7" Mono Single Edit) 2:51
5 The Litter - Action Woman 2:34
6 The Game - The Addicted Man 2:23
7 Jethro Toe - Aeroplane 2:25
8 The Symbols - Again 1:58
9 The Balloon Busters - Alcock and Brown 2:38
10 The Thoughts - All Night Stand 2:06
11 Nirvana - All of Us (The Touchables) 2:58
12 The Sweet Feeling - All So Long Ago 3:13
13 West Coast Consortium - All the Love in the World 2:50
14 The Hollies - All the World Is Love (Original 1967 7" Mono Single Version) 2:16
15 The Lovin' - All You've Got 2:29
16 Mick Softley - Am I the Red One 2:31
17 Made in Sheffield - Amelia Jane 2:31
18 The United States of America - The American Metaphysical Circus 4:57
19 The Orange Bicycle - Amy Peate 2:08
20 Kippington Lodge - And She Cried 2:47
21 The Uglys - And the Squire Blew His Horn 3:36
22 The 23rd Turnoff - Another Vincent Van Gogh (Alternative Version) 2:57
23 The Electric Prunes - Antique Doll 3:13
24 The Attack - Any More Than I Do 2:04
25 The Pink Floyd - Apples and Oranges 3:07
CD02
26 The Barbarians - Are You a Boy or Are You a Girl 2:16
27 The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Are You Experienced? 4:13
28 The Chocolate Watchband - Are You Gonna Be There (At the Love-In) 2:25
29 Cape Kennedy Construction Company - Armageddon 4:31
30 The Pink Floyd - Arnold Layne (Original 1967 7" Mono Single Edit) 2:54
31 Andy Ellison - Arthur Green 3:41
32 The Bonniwell Music Machine - Astrologically Incomplete 2:23
33 The Pink Floyd - Astronomy Domine (Original 1967 Mono Mix) 4:15
34 H.P. Lovecraft - At the Mountains of Madness 4:58
35 The New Colony Six - At the River's Edge 2:39
36 The Hammers - Baby and Me 2:21
37 The Curiosity Shoppe - Baby I Need You 3:31
38 The Amboy Dukes - Baby, Please Don't Go 5:39
39 Caleb - Baby, Your Phrasing Is Bad 3:18
40 The Shadows of Knight - Bad Little Woman 2:39
41 Ultimate Spinach - (Ballad of the) Hip Death Goddess (Mono Version) 8:15
42 Country Joe and the Fish - Bass Strings 5:06
43 Os Mutantes - Bat Macumba 3:11
44 Kaleidoscope - Beacon from Mars 12:31
45 Peter Cook and Dudley Moore - Bedazzled 2:27
46 The Zombies - Beechwood Park (Original 1967 7" Mono Single Version) 2:43
47 Luke and the Apostles - Been Burnt 1:50
48 Tintern Abbey - Beeside (Acetate Mix) 3:17
49 The Rare Breed - Beg, Borrow and Steal (Original 1966 7" Mono Single Version) 2:30
50 Timebox - Beggin' 2:49
CD03
51 The Beatles - Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite! 2:37
52 Billy Nicholls - Being Happy 2:31
53 Paper Bubble - Being Human Being (Alternative Version) 4:32
54 Tyrannosaurus Rex - Beyond the Rising Sun 2:16
55 The Kinks - Big Sky (Mono Version) 2:49
56 Woody Kern - Biography 4:21
57 The Idle Race - The Birthday 2:54
58 Peter and the Wolves - Birthday 3:10
59 Timon - The Bitter Thoughts of Little Jane 2:20
60 Jason Crest - Black Mass 4:46
61 The North Atlantic Invasion Force - Black on White 2:49
62 Australian Playboys - Black Sheep R.I.P. 2:44
63 The Move - Blackberry Way (Original 1968 7" Mono Single Version) 3:36
64 Gonn - Blackout of Gretely 4:36
65 The Beatles - Blue Jay Way 3:55
66 The Crystal Ship - The Blue Man Runs Away 2:47
67 The Wimple Winch - Bluebell Wood 3:32
68 Buffalo Springfield - Bluebird 4:29
69 Davie Allan and the Arrows - Blues Theme 2:10
70 Steppenwolf - Born to Be Wild 3:30
71 Paper Blitz Tissue - Boy Meets Girl 2:55
72 Friday's Chyld - Boys and Girls Together 2:23
73 The Pretty Things - Bracelets of Fingers 3:41
74 The Action - Brain 3:03
75 The Next Exit - Break Away 2:46
CD04
76 The Doors - Break On Through (To the Other Side) 2:29
77 St Valentine's Day Massacre - Brother Can You Spare a Dime? 2:58
78 Barclay James Harvest - Brother Thrush 3:04
79 The Apple - Buffalo Billycan (Original 1968 7" Mono Single Version) 3:07
80 The End - Building Up a Dream 2:44
81 Bobak, Jons, Malone - Burning the Weed 3:23
82 The Truth - Busker Bill 2:59
83 The Boots - But You Never Do It, Babe 2:32
84 The Hollies - Butterfly 2:42
85 Elois - By My Side 2:15
86 A Woman of Distinction - Caleb 2:33
87 The Seeds - Can't Seem to Make You Mine 2:33
88 Gentle Influence - Captain Reale 3:00
89 The Zombies - Care of Cell 44 (Original 1967 7" Mono Single Version) 3:54
90 Simon Dupree and the Big Sound - Castle in the Sky 2:44
91 Denny Laine - Catherine's Wheel 3:15
92 The Twilights - Cathy, Come Home 2:01
93 The Bystanders - Cave of Clear Light 3:42
94 Donovan - Celeste (Mono Version) 4:12
95 Focal Point - 'Cept Me 2:53
96 Colin Griffin - Changes in Our Time 3:19
97 Los Chiujas - Changing the Colors of Life 3:00
98 Jason Crest - Charge of the Light Brigade 3:04
99 The Sweet Feeling - Charles Brown 2:21
100 Felius Andromeda - Cheadle Health Delusions 2:46
CD05
101 Earth Opera - The Child Bride 4:39
102 Writing on the Wall - Child on a Crossing 3:34
103 The Misunderstood - Children of the Sun 2:52
104 The Mike Stuart Span - Children of Tomorrow 3:17
105 The Fleur de Lys - Circles 3:03
106 The United States of America - Cloud Song 3:21
107 The Charlatans - Codine 2:25
108 The Attack - Colour of My Mind 2:30
109 West Coast Consortium - Colour Sergeant Lillywhite 3:08
110 Traffic - Coloured Rain 2:42
111 The Atlantics - Come On 2:57
112 Motivation - Come On Down 3:23
113 Canto - Come Over Stranger 3:06
114 The Monks - Complication 2:24
115 Andy Ellison - Cornflake Zoo 2:02
116 The Summer Set - 'Cos It's Over 2:45
117 Third Ear Band - Cosmic Trip 3:46
118 Taxi - Counting Time My Way 2:57
119 Blonde on Blonde - Country Life 3:36
120 The Perfumed Garden - Cover Girl 4:11
121 The Syndicats - Crawdaddy Simone 3:17
122 The Searchers - Crazy Dreams 2:37
123 Link Cromwell - Crazy Like a Fox 2:20
124 Dave Davies - Creeping Jean 3:17
125 Tommy James and the Shondells - Crimson and Clover (Original 1968 7" Mono Single Version) 3:28
CD06
126 The Freedom - Cry Baby Cry 3:43
127 Q'65 - Cry in the Night 2:17
128 The Doors - The Crystal Ship 2:35
129 Golden Earrings - Daddy Buy Me a Girl 2:43
130 Acid Gallery - Dance Round the Maypole 2:41
131 Floyd Dakil Combo - Dance, Franny, Dance 2:07
132 The Rolling Stones - Dandelion 3:34
133 July - Dandelion Seeds (Original 1968 7" Mono Single Version) 3:21
134 Grateful Dead - Dark Star (Original 1968 7" Single Version) 2:42
135 The Barrier - Dawn Breaks Through 2:20
136 The Human Instinct - A Day in My Mind's Mind 2:14
137 Andromeda - Day of the Change 5:04
138 Consortium - The Day the Train Never Came 2:46
139 David McWilliams - Days of Pearly Spencer 2:31
140 The Idle Race - Days of the Broken Arrows 3:50
141 Billy Nicholls - Daytime Girl (Original 1968 7" Mono Single Version) 2:43
142 Grapefruit - Dear Delilah 2:35
143 The Hollies - Dear Eloise (Original 1967 7" Mono Single Version) 3:05
144 Traffic - Dear Mr. Fantasy 5:39
145 The Beatles - Dear Prudence (Original 1969 7" Stereo Single Edit) 3:51
146 The Deviants - Death of a Dream Machine 2:49
147 The Human Instinct - Death of the Seaside 2:33
148 Grapefruit - Deep Water 2:12
149 The Pretty Things - Defecting Grey (Extended Version) 5:12
150 John's Children - Desdemona 2:24
CD07
151 Icarus - The Devil Rides Out 2:33
152 The Web - Did You Die Four Years Ago Tonight? 2:14
153 Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band - Diddy Wah Diddy 2:29
154 The Standells - Dirty Water 2:48
155 Kaleidoscope - Dive Into Yesterday 4:46
156 The Lovin' Spoonful - Do You Believe in Magic 2:06
157 Circus - Do You Dream? 3:06
158 The Sorrows - Dogs and Cats 3:15
159 Geranium Pond - Dogs in Baskets 2:05
160 The Shame - Don't Go 'Way Little Girl 3:06
161 The Remains - Don't Look Back 2:43
162 Simon Dupree and the Big Sound - Don't Make It So Hard On Me Baby 3:02
163 Little Anthony and the Imperials - Don't Tie Me Down 2:54
164 The Sound Magics - Don't You Remember? 2:13
165 The Swingin' Medallions - Double Shot (of My Baby's Love) 2:17
166 One in a Million - Double Sight 2:35
167 The Music Machine - Double Yellow Line 2:13
168 Tuesday's Children - Doubtful Nellie 3:07
169 The Orange Machine - Dr. Crippen's Waiting Room 3:04
170 Kaleidoscope - A Dream for Julie 2:45
171 Rupert's People - Dream in My Mind 3:22
172 Elmer Gantry's Velvet Opera - Dream Starts 3:01
173 Pearls Before Swine - Drop Out! 4:10
174 Scots of St. James - Eiderdown Clown 2:15
175 The Byrds - Eight Miles High 3:34
CD08
176 Grapefruit - Elevator (Original 1968 7" Mono Single Version) 2:07
177 The Picadilly Line - Emily Small (The Huge World Thereof) 2:31
178 Bee Gees - Every Christian Lion Hearted Man Will Show You (Original 1967 7" Mono Single Version) 3:38
179 The Motions - Everything (That's Mine) 2:03
180 Guy Darrell - Evil Woman 2:25
181 Keith West - Excerpt from 'A Teenage Opera' 4:41
182 Ronnie Burns - Exit Stage Right 2:29
183 Pure Gold - Fairground 2:36
184 The Palace Guard - Falling Sugar 2:10
185 Late - Family Tree 3:04
186 Legay - The Fantastic Story of the Steam Driven Banana 2:57
187 The Premiers - Farmer John 2:27
188 The Fresh Windows - Fashion Conscious 2:21
189 The Fire - Father's Name Is Dad 2:30
190 The Soft Machine - Feelin' Reelin' Squeelin' 2:50
191 Writing on the Wall - Felicity Jane 3:17
192 Joker - Festival of the Harvest Moon 3:22
193 The Golliwogs - Fight Fire 2:34
194 Hat & Tie - Finding It Rough 2:49
195 The Move - Fire Brigade (Original 1968 7" Mono Single Version) 2:24
196 The 13th Floor Elevators - Fire Engine (Original 1966 7" Mono Single Mix) 2:37
197 The Crazy World of Arthur Brown - Fire! 2:54
198 The Koobas - The First Cut Is the Deepest 3:06
199 The Byrds - 5D (Fifth Dimension) 2:36
200 Elmer Gantry's Velvet Opera - Flames 3:14
CD09
201 The Pink Floyd - Flaming (Original 1967 Stereo Mix) 2:46
202 Marc Brierley - Flaxen Hair 2:58
203 Kaleidoscope - Flight from Ashiya 2:40
204 Vamp - Floatin' 2:34
205 The Nice - Flower King of Flies 3:17
206 Big Jim Sullivan - Flower Power 3:26
207 The Syn - Flowerman 2:38
208 The Move - Flowers in the Rain (Original 1967 7" Mono Single Version) 2:26
209 John Williams - Flowers in Your Hair 2:42
210 The Moody Blues - Fly Me High (Original 1967 7" Mono Single Version) 2:55
211 Turquoise - Flying Machine 3:07
212 Lyme & Cybelle - Follow Me 2:30
213 The Motions - For Another Man 1:49
214 Buffalo Springfield - For What It's Worth (Original 1966 7" Mono Single Version) 2:40
215 The Syn - 14 Hour Technicolour Dream 2:52
216 The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Foxy Lady 3:18
217 One in a Million - Fredereek Hernando 3:20
218 The Glass Menagerie - Frederick Jordan 3:17
219 The Great Society - Free Advice 2:06
220 The Myddle Class - Free as the Wind 2:58
221 The Attack - Freedom for You 2:37
222 The Easybeats - Friday on My Mind 2:43
223 Five's Company - Friends and Mirrors 2:10
224 The Herd - From the Underworld 3:11
225 The Mystic Tide - Frustration 2:44
CD10
226 Manfred Mann - Funniest Gig 2:26
227 Dave Davies - Funny Face 2:17
228 The Boots - Gaby 2:34
229 The United States of America - The Garden of Earthly Delights 2:39
230 The Mickey Finn - Garden of My Mind 2:32
231 The Matadors - Get Down from the Tree 3:28
232 The Electric Prunes - Get Me to the World on Time 2:32
233 The Fairies - Get Yourself Home 2:28
234 Svensk - Getting Old 2:07
235 T.J. Assembly - Ginger 2:31
236 Christopher Colt - Girl in the Mirror 2:53
237 Honeybus - Girl of Independent Means 2:46
238 The Crazy World of Arthur Brown - Give Him a Flower 3:01
239 The Downliners Sect - Glendora 2:46
240 Katch 22 - Go and Say Goodbye 2:22
241 John's Children - Go-Go Girl 2:08
242 Wayne Cochran - Goin' Back to Miami 2:56
243 The Squires - Going All the Way 2:22
244 Los Bravos - Going Nowhere 2:19
245 Timebox - Gone Is the Sad Man 3:45
246 The Fleur de Lys - Gong with the Luminous Nose 2:36
247 Jason Crest - Good Life 2:46
248 Second Hand - Good Old '59 (We Are Slowly Gettin' Older) 2:19
249 Eric Burdon and the Animals - Good Times 3:03
250 The Beach Boys - Good Vibrations (Original 1966 7" Mono Single Version) 3:37
CD11
251 Country Joe and the Fish - Grace 7:03
252 The Purple Gang - Granny Takes a Trip 2:36
253 Jade Hexagram - Great Shadowy Strange 4:04
254 The Lion and the Fish - Green 3:00
255 Small Faces - Green Circles 2:33
256 Angel Pavement - Green Mello Hill 2:36
257 The Lemon Pipers - Green Tambourine 2:26
258 The Universals - Green Veined Orchid 2:54
259 The Fairytale - Guess I Was Dreaming 3:03
260 The Koobas - Gypsy Fred 3:05
261 The Virgin Sleep - Halliford House 2:42
262 Baker Knight and the Knightmares - Hallucinations 2:54
263 Tim Buckley - Hallucinations 4:53
264 The Yardbirds - Happenings Ten Years Time Ago 2:57
265 The Turtles - Happy Together 2:54
266 Peter Thorogood - Haunted 3:13
267 The Smoke - Have Some More Tea 2:15
268 Anan - Haze Woman 2:47
269 The Movement - Head for the Sun 2:56
270 The Yardbirds - Heart Full of Soul 2:28
271 Traffic - Heaven Is in Your Mind 4:17
272 Brass Buttons - Hell Will Take Care of Her 2:58
273 The Mirage - Hello Enid 2:12
274 The Beatles - Hello, Goodbye 3:28
275 The Doors - Hello, I Love You 2:15
CD12
276 The Outer Limits - Help Me Please 2:28
277 Adrian Pride - Her Name Is Melody 3:02
278 Small Faces - Here Come the Nice 2:58
279 The Idle Race - Here We Go 'Round the Lemon Tree (Original 1967 7" Mono Single Version) 2:42
280 J.P. Sunshine - Hey Girl 2:25
281 The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Hey Joe 3:29
282 The Good Rats - The Hobo 2:38
283 The Rumors - Hold Me Now 2:29
284 Jason Crest - Hold On 3:32
285 One in a Million - Hold On 2:59
286 Traffic - Hole in My Shoe (Original 1967 7" Stereo Single Edit) 2:49
287 Procol Harum - Homburg 3:56
288 Alex Harvey - Horizons 2:40
289 Bubble Puppy - Hot Smoke and Sasafrass 2:41
290 The Glass Family - House of Glass 3:13
291 The Moody Blues - How Can We Hang On to a Dream 2:22
292 The Good Ship Lollipop - How Does It Feel 2:46
293 The Creation - How Does It Feel (1968 U.S. Single Version) 3:07
294 The La De Da's - How Is the Air Up There? 2:35
295 Led Zeppelin - How Many More Times 8:29
296 The Tokens - How Nice 2:58
297 The Mockingbirds - How to Find a Lover 1:57
298 The Zombies - Hung Up on a Dream 3:03
299 Donovan - Hurdy Gurdy Man 3:16
300 Deep Purple - Hush! (Original Parlophone 1968 7" Stereo Single Mix) 4:21
CD13
301 The Orange Bicycle - Hyacinth Threads 2:54
302 The Brogues - I Ain't No Miracle Worker 2:49
303 The Beatles - I Am the Walrus 4:35
304 John Bryant - I Bring the Sun 3:03
305 The Herd - I Can Fly 3:10
306 The Motives - I Can Hear Colours 2:56
307 The Move - I Can Hear the Grass Grow (Original 1967 7" Mono Single Version) 3:05
308 Van Morrison - I Can Only Give You Everything 2:43
309 The Who - I Can See for Miles (Original Track Record 1967 UK 7" Mono Single Mix) 4:03
310 Episode Six - I Can See Through You 3:25
311 Rupert's People - I Can Show You 3:01
312 The Misunderstood - I Can Take You to the Sun 3:38
313 New Downliners Sect - I Can't Get Away from You 2:49
314 The Quik - I Can't Sleep 2:18
315 The Cherry Slush - I Cannot Stop You 2:38
316 The Fugs - I Couldn't Get High 2:07
317 The Herd - I Don't Want Our Loving to Die 2:57
318 Cream - I Feel Free 2:51
319 Real McCoy - I Get So Excited 2:34
320 Spirit - I Got a Line on You 2:41
321 The Electric Prunes - I Had Too Much to Dream (Last Night) (Original 1966 7" Mono Single Version) 2:59
322 The Myddle Class - I Happen to Love You 2:51
323 The Fingers - I Hear the Sun 2:01
324 The Picadilly Line - I Know, She Believes 3:06
325 The Lemon Drops - I Live in the Springtime 2:54
CD14
326 The Craig - I Must Be Mad 2:47
327 The Rationals - I Need You 2:16
328 Tages - I Read You Like an Open Book 2:38
329 The Five Americans - I See the Light 2:09
330 The Marmalade - I See the Rain 3:48
331 The Secrets - I Think I Need the Cash 2:18
332 Harbinger Complex - I Think I'm Down 2:29
333 Art - I Think I'm Going Weird 3:21
334 The Strangeloves - I Want Candy 2:33
335 Circle Plantagenet - I Will Not Be Moved 4:01
336 Scrugg - I Wish I Was Five 3:18
337 Neo Maya - I Won't Hurt You 2:30
338 The Gants - I Wonder 2:15
339 The Third Bardo - I'm Five Years Ahead of My Time 2:13
340 The Shadows of Knight - I'm Gonna Make You Mine 2:33
341 Great Uncle Fred - I'm in Love with an Ex Beauty Queen 2:48
342 The Mops - I'm Just a Mops 2:58
343 The Flies - I'm Not Your Stepping Stone 2:38
344 The Beatles - I'm Only Sleeping 3:00
345 The Eyes - I'm Rowed Out 2:55
346 The Soft Machine - I'm So Low (aka Jet-Propelled Photograph) 2:32
347 The Magic Mixture - (I'm So) Sad 4:14
348 Chants R&B - I'm Your Witchdoctor 2:03
349 The 13th Floor Elevators - I've Got Levitation (Original 1967 7" Mono Single Version) 2:36
350 The Action - Icarus 2:55
CD15
351 The Status Quo - Ice in the Sun 2:12
352 Ice - Ice Man 2:53
353 The Motives - Ice Woman 2:49
354 Fifty Foot Hose - If Not This Time 3:38
355 Genesis - Image Blown Out 2:14
356 The Idle Race - Imposters of Life's Magazine 2:20
357 The Rolling Stones - In Another Land 3:15
358 Steve Miller Band - In My First Mind 7:31
359 The Artwoods - In the Deep End 3:07
360 Love Sculpture - In the Land of the Few 3:57
361 The Cortinas - In the Park 3:19
362 Procol Harum - In the Wee Small Hours of Sixpence 2:59
363 The Poets - In Your Tower 2:33
364 Iron Butterfly - In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida (Original 1968 7" Single Edit) 2:53
365 Strawberry Alarm Clock - Incense and Peppermints (Original 1967 Uni Records 7" Mono Single Version) 2:48
366 Tomorrow - The Incredible Journey of Timothy Chase 3:19
367 The Pink Floyd - Interstellar Overdrive (Original 1967 Mono Mix) 9:40
368 The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band - The Intro and the Outro 3:03
369 The Magicians - An Invitation to Cry 2:57
370 Iron Butterfly - Iron Butterfly Theme 4:36
371 The Mirage - Is Anybody Home? 2:43
372 Billy Nicholls - It Brings Me Down 4:39
373 The Smoke - It Could Be Wonderful 2:18
374 Nirvana - It Happened Two Sundays Ago 3:10
375 The Peanut Butter Conspiracy - It's a Happening Thing 2:25
CD16
376 We All Together - It's a Sin to Go Away 3:52
377 The Beatles - It's All Too Much 6:26
378 The Choir - It's Cold Outside 2:51
379 The Misty Wizards - It's Love 2:09
380 The Rattles - It's My Fault 2:09
381 The Guess Who - It's My Pride 2:47
382 The Magic Mushrooms - It's-A-Happening 2:47
383 Small Faces - Itchycoo Park (Original 1967 7" Mono Single Version) 2:46
384 Boeing Duveen and the Beautiful Soup - Jabberwock 2:29
385 The Daily Flash - Jack of Diamonds 2:38
386 The Deviants - Jamie's Song 3:32
387 Mabel Green's Toyshop - Jeanetta 3:09
388 The Mystery Trend - Johnny Was a Good Boy 2:38
389 The Amboy Dukes - Journey to the Center of the Mind 3:34
390 Kenny and the Kasuals - Journey to Tyme 2:36
391 The Soft Machine - Joy of a Toy (Original 1968 7" Mono Single Version) 2:46
392 The Pink Floyd - Julia Dream 2:34
393 The Beau Brummels - Just a Little 2:21
394 Kaleidoscope - Just a Taste 2:14
395 Kenny Rogers and the First Edition - Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Condition Was In) 3:21
396 Paul Revere and the Raiders - Just Like Me 2:24
397 The Spectrum - Just What I Was Looking for Today 2:57
398 Procol Harum - Kaleidoscope (Extended Stereo Mix) 3:08
399 Paul & Barry Ryan - Keep It Out of Sight 2:48
400 Kaleidoscope - Keep Your Mind Open 2:16
CD17
401 The Zipps - Kicks and Chicks 3:14
402 The Hollies - King Midas in Reverse (Original 1967 7" Mono Single Version) 3:09
403 Simon Dupree and the Big Sound - Kites 3:44
404 The Humane Society - Knock, Knock 2:58
405 The Idle Race - Knocking Nails Into My House 2:24
406 Peter Cook and Dudley Moore - The L.S. Bumble Bee 2:45
407 The End - Lady Under the Lamp 2:35
408 The World Column - Lantern Gospel 3:29
409 The Orange Bicycle - Last Cloud Home 3:07
410 The Nashville Teens - Last Minute 1:58
411 The Del-Vetts - Last Time Around 2:43
412 The Beau Brummels - Laugh, Laugh 2:52
413 John Carter and Russ Alquist - The Laughing Man 3:25
414 The Marmalade - Laughing Man 3:24
415 The Mirage - Lazy Man (Alternative Version) 2:57
416 The Kinks - Lazy Old Sun (Original 1968 7" Mono Single Version) 2:49
417 The Rationals - Leaving Here 3:10
418 The Moody Blues - Legend of a Mind (Original 1968 7" Mono Single Version) 6:40
419 The Hombres - Let It Out (Let It All Hang Out) 2:10
420 The Flower Pot Men - Let's Go to San Francisco (Parts 1 & 2) (Original 1967 7" Mono Single Version) 6:17
421 The Grass Roots - Let's Live for Today 2:47
422 The Chocolate Watchband - Let's Talk About Girls 2:41
423 The Spencer Davis Group - Letters from Edith 3:30
424 The Fleur de Lys - Liar 3:19
425 The Castaways - Liar, Liar 1:54
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426 Tinsel Arcade - Life Does Not Seem What It Seems 2:56
427 Q'65 - The Life I Live 3:19
428 The Creation - Life Is Just Beginning 3:00
429 Billy Nicholls - Life Is Short 3:09
430 The Moody Blues - Life's Not Life 2:35
431 The Bliss - Lifetime 2:47
432 The Doors - Light My Fire 7:10
433 Simon Dupree and the Big Sound - Like the Sun, Like the Fire 2:29
434 Sands - Listen to the Sky 3:45
435 Eyes of Blue - Little Bird 2:35
436 The Music Explosion - Little Bit O' Soul 2:21
437 Our Plastic Dream - A Little Bit of Shangrila 3:39
438 The Nightcrawlers - The Little Black Egg 2:45
439 The Beatstalkers - Little Boy 3:11
440 Syndicate of Sound - Little Girl 2:29
441 Peter and the Wolves - Little Girl Lost and Found 2:29
442 The Merry-Go-Round - Live 2:37
443 Fairport Convention - The Lobster 4:44
444 The Poets - Locked in a Room 3:02
445 Billy Nicholls - London Social Degree 2:22
446 Blossom Toes - Look at Me, I'm You 3:56
447 Louise - Look at the Sun 3:30
448 The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band - Look Out There's a Monster Coming 2:56
449 The Collectors - Looking at a Baby 2:17
450 Davey Payne and the Medium Wave - Looking Towards the Sky 2:08
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451 The Virgin Sleep - Love 2:26
452 Jon Ledingham - Love Is a Toy 2:45
453 The Troggs - Love Is All Around 2:59
454 The Soft Machine - Love Makes Sweet Music (Original 1967 7" Mono Single Version) 2:31
455 The Doors - Love Me Two Times 3:15
456 Episode Six - Love-Hate-Revenge (Original 1967 UK 7" Mono Single Version) 2:54
457 The Underdogs - Love's Gone Bad 2:29
458 The 23rd Turnoff - Lovely Elisa Cope Is Dead 2:34
459 Contact feat. Jim Capaldi - Lovers from the Sky 2:38
460 Big Jim Sullivan - LTTS 4:00
461 The Salt - Lucifer 3:03
462 The Pink Floyd - Lucifer Sam (Original 1967 Mono Mix) 3:09
463 Episode Six - Lucky Sunday 3:42
464 The Beatles - Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds 3:29
465 Grapefruit - Lullaby (Alternate Version) 3:07
466 The Incredible String Band - The Mad Hatter's Song 5:40
467 Dantalion's Chariot - The Madman Running Through the Fields 4:11
468 The Who - Magic Bus (Original 1968 7" Mono Single Edit) 3:20
469 Edwards Hand - Magic Car 3:18
470 Steppenwolf - Magic Carpet Ride (Original 1968 7" Mono Single Version) 2:54
471 The Attack - Magic in the Air 3:38
472 The Open Mind - Magic Potion 3:31
473 Mouse and the Traps - Maid of Sugar - Maid of Spice 2:39
474 Quicksilver Messenger Service - Maiden of the Cancer Moon 2:54
475 The Hollies - Maker 2:49
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476 John Wonderling - Man of Straw 2:49
477 Fortes Mentum - Marrakesh 2:30
478 Brass Tacks - Maxwell Ferguson 2:46
479 Spirit - Mechanical World 5:15
480 The Chocolate Watchband - Medication 2:07
481 Felius Andromeda - Meditations 4:09
482 Donovan - Mellow Yellow (Original 1966 7" Mono Single Version) 3:43
483 The 23rd Turnoff - Michael Angelo 2:25
484 The Klubs - Midnight Love Cycle 2:45
485 The Pretty Things - Midnight to Six Man 2:17
486 John's Children - Midsummer Night's Scene 2:34
487 Lothar and the Hand People - Milkweed Love 2:56
488 The Byrds - Mind Gardens 3:49
489 Ramases & Selket - Mind's Eye 2:42
490 Ewan Stephens - Mindless Child of Motherhood 3:35
491 Fenwyck - Mindrocker 3:00
492 We the People - Mirror of Your Mind 2:45
493 The Penny Peeps - Model Village 2:53
494 Tales of Justine - Monday Morning 3:23
495 The Spencer Davis Group - Morning Sun (Original Version) 3:23
496 Trader Horne - Morning Way 4:29
497 Mother's Pride - Mother's Magazine 3:16
498 The Barbarians - Moulty 2:35
499 Grateful Dead - Mountains of the Moon 4:02
500 The Freshmen - Mr. Beverly's Heavy Days 2:10
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501 The Pretty Things - Mr. Evasion 3:27
502 Junior's Eyes - Mr. Golden Trumpet Player 2:25
503 The Marmalade - Mr. Lion 3:01
504 Fortes Mentum - Mr. Partridge Passed Away Today 2:45
505 The Other Half - Mr. Pharmacist 2:34
506 The Attack - Mr. Pinnodmy's Dilemma 4:26
507 Homer's Knods - Mr. Rainbow 2:19
508 Kaleidoscope - Mr. Small the Watch Repairer Man 2:43
509 Tony Rivers and the Castaways - Mr. Sun 2:17
510 Barclay James Harvest - Mr. Sunshine (Film Version) 2:58
511 The Mirage - Mrs. Busby 2:30
512 Sands - Mrs. Gillespie's Refrigerator 2:05
513 Plastic Penny - Mrs. Grundy 5:15
514 The Fleur de Lys - Mud in Your Eye 3:04
515 The Spectrum - Music Soothes the Savage Breast 3:02
516 July - My Clown (Original 1968 7" Mono Single Version) 3:17
517 Sweetwater - My Crystal Spider 3:56
518 The Smoke - My Friend Jack (Original 1967 7" Single Version) 3:05
519 Good Thing Brigade - My House Is Burning 3:22
520 Thor's Hammer - My Life 2:21
521 M.C.2 - My Mind Goes High 2:38
522 Small Faces - My Mind's Eye (Original 1966 7" Mono Single Version) 2:01
523 The Mindbenders - My New Day and Age 3:12
524 Tintern Abbey - My Prayer 5:24
525 The Onyx - My Son John 2:31
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526 John Williams - My Ways Are Set 2:32
527 Tomorrow - My White Bicycle (Original 1967 7" Mono Single Version) 3:17
528 Sagittarius - My World Fell Down (Original 1967 7" Single Version) 2:53
529 Eyes of Blue - Never Care 3:22
530 Focal Point - Never Never (Baker Street Version) 3:00
531 Crocheted Doughnut Ring - Nice 3:05
532 The Troggs - Night of the Long Grass 3:04
533 The Strangeloves - Night Time 3:07
534 The Incredible String Band - Nightfall 2:30
535 The Gass Company - Nightmare 2:55
536 The Creation - Nightmares 3:11
537 The Moody Blues - Nights in White Satin (Original 1967 7" Mono Single Version) 4:29
538 Elton John - Nina 3:52
539 The Dinks - Nina-Kocka-Nina 1:56
540 The Moving Sidewalks - 99th Floor (Original 1967 Tantara 7" Mono Single Version) 2:17
541 ? and the Mysterians - 96 Tears 2:57
542 Warm Sounds - Nite Is a Comin' 3:00
543 The Sparkles - No Friend of Mine 2:26
544 The Birds - No Good Without You Baby 2:39
545 The Smoke (NZ) - No More Now 2:11
546 Pandamonium - No Presents for Me 2:52
547 Shere Khan - No Reason 2:54
548 The Blues Project - No Time Like the Right Time 2:47
549 The Picadilly Line - No-One Else Can See 2:42
550 The Human Beinz - Nobody But Me 2:19
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551 The Beatles - Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown) 2:04
552 The Doors - Not to Touch the Earth 3:54
553 The Ugly Ducklings - Nothin' 2:28
554 The U (Don't) No Who - Now and Again Rebecca 3:08
555 Tomorrow - Now Your Time Has Come 3:02
556 Syd Barrett - Octopus 3:47
557 The Hi-Fi's - Odd Man Out 2:21
558 The Shadows of Knight - Oh Yeah 2:49
559 Moby Grape - Omaha 2:22
560 The Move - Omnibus (Extended Version) 4:08
561 The Hollies - On a Carousel (Original 1967 7" Mono Single Version) 3:10
562 Canned Heat - On the Road Again (Original 1968 7" Stereo Single Edit) 3:25
563 The Haunted - 1-2-5 2:31
564 The Majority - One Third 3:31
565 The Beatles - Only a Northern Song 3:24
566 Scrugg - Only George 2:51
567 Nazz - Open My Eyes (Original 1968 7" Mono Single Version) 2:44
568 Richard and the Young Lions - Open Up Your Door 2:45
569 The Human Expression - Optical Sound 2:37
570 Eric Burdon and the Animals - Orange and Red Beams 3:46
571 Silver Apples - Oscillations 2:47
572 The Wailers - Out of Our Tree 3:32
573 The Turtles - Outside Chance 2:04
574 The Yardbirds - Over Under Sideways Down 2:23
575 The Rolling Stones - Paint It Black 3:24
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576 The Creation - Painter Man 2:52
577 The Incredible String Band - Painting Box 4:01
578 Mandrake Paddle Steamer - Pandemonium Shadow Show 4:20
579 The Association - Pandora's Golden Heebie Jeebie's 2:52
580 Tony Rivers and the Castaways - Pantomime 3:48
581 Traffic - Paper Sun (Original 1967 United Artists US 7" Mono Single Version) 3:23
582 The Factory - Path Through the Forest 3:58
583 Small Faces - Patterns 2:04
584 The Alan Bown! - Penny for Your Thoughts 3:37
585 The Beatles - Penny Lane 3:01
586 The Doors - People Are Strange 2:12
587 Fat Mattress - Petrol Pump Assistant 3:04
588 Jade Hexagram - Phantom Eye 5:05
589 The Orange Seaweed - Pictures in the Sky 3:02
590 The Status Quo - Pictures of Matchstick Men (Original 1968 7" Mono Single Version) 3:10
591 Big Brother and the Holding Company feat. Janis Joplin - Piece of My Heart 4:13
592 The Sorrows - Pink, Purple, Yellow, Red 2:49
593 Caravan - Place of My Own 4:03
594 Medium Rare - Plastic Aeroplane 3:05
595 Atlanta Roots - Plastic Daffodils 3:18
596 Jefferson Airplane - Plastic Fantastic Lover 2:33
597 Rust - Please Return 2:35
598 The New Generation - Police Is Here 2:55
599 The Monkees - Porpoise Song 4:03
600 The Status Quo - The Price of Love 3:42
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601 The Groupies - Primitive 3:51
602 The Fleur de Lys - Prodigal Son 1:59
603 The Count Five - Psychotic Reaction 3:07
604 Mouse - A Public Execution 2:49
605 The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Purple Haze 2:51
606 The Seeds - Pushin' Too Hard 2:36
607 The 'E' Types - Put the Clock Back on the Wall 2:25
608 Billy Nicholls - Question Mark 2:29
609 The Balloon Farm - A Question of Temperature 2:41
610 The Yardbirds - Rack My Mind 3:14
611 The Beatles - Rain (Original 1966 7" Mono Single Version) 2:59
612 Nirvana - Rainbow Chaser (Original 1968 7" Stereo Single Version) 2:34
613 Rhubarb Rhubarb - Rainmaker 2:41
614 Strawberry Alarm Clock - Rainy Day Mushroom Pillow 3:08
615 Timon - Rambling Boy 2:38
616 Winston's Fumbs - Real Crazy Apartment 2:52
617 Circle Plantagenet - Rebecca (100 Days) 2:07
618 The Accent - Red Sky at Night 3:13
619 Love - The Red Telephone (Original 1967 7" Mono Single Version) 4:45
620 Fifty Foot Hose - Red the Sign Post (Original 1968 Stereo Mix) 2:57
621 Rupert's People - Reflection of Charles Brown 4:19
622 Shy Limbs - Reputation 3:34
623 The 13th Floor Elevators - Reverberation (Doubt) (Original 1966 7" Mono Single Version) 2:47
624 Tomorrow - Revolution (Original 1967 7" Mono Single Version) 3:50
625 The Rats - The Rise and Fall of Bernie Gripplestone 4:08
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626 The Gants - Road Runner 2:17
627 The 13th Floor Elevators - Roller Coaster (Original 1966 Mono Mix) 5:01
628 Michael and the Messengers - Romeo & Juliet 2:00
629 The Pretty Things - Rosalyn 2:20
630 The Tickle - Rose Coloured Glasses 3:14
631 Grateful Dead - Rosemary (Original 1969 Mix) 2:04
632 Sleepy - Rosie Can't Fly 4:10
633 Skip Bifferty - Round and Round 3:45
634 The Montanas - Roundabout 2:46
635 The Bystanders - Royal Blue Summer Sunshine Day 3:12
636 The Wimple Winch - Rumble on Mersey Square South 4:33
637 The Deviants - Run 2:42
638 The Fairytale - Run and Hide 2:30
639 The Gestures - Run, Run, Run 2:18
640 The Third Rail - Run, Run, Run 1:55
641 Fresh Air - Running Wild 3:51
642 Australian Playboys - Sad 2:57
643 Procol Harum - Salad Days (Are Here Again) 3:38
644 Procol Harum - A Salty Dog 4:39
645 Eric Burdon and the Animals - San Franciscan Nights 3:21
646 Scott McKenzie - San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Flowers in Your Hair) 2:58
647 The Spencer Davis Group - Sanity Inspector (Original 1967 7" Mono Single Version) 3:01
648 John's Children - Sara, Crazy Child 2:28
649 Scott Henderson - Saturday Night People 2:07
650 The Humblebums - Saturday Roundabout Sunday 3:10
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651 The Wimple Winch - Save My Soul 3:07
652 The Birds - Say Those Magic Words 3:14
653 Denny Laine - Say You Don't Mind 3:10
654 One Step Beyond - Scene of the Lemon Queen 5:53
655 Family - Scene Through the Eye of a Lens 2:53
656 Skip Bifferty - Schizoid Revolution 3:29
657 Five's Company - The School Boy 2:42
658 Donovan - Season of the Witch 4:58
659 Country Joe and the Fish - Section 43 7:27
660 The Pink Floyd - See Emily Play (Original 1967 7" Mono Single Version) 2:54
661 The Kinks - See My Friends (Original 1965 7" Mono Single Version) 2:47
662 Lomax Alliance - See the People 2:14
663 Family - See Through Windows 3:46
664 The Mooche - Seen Through a Light 4:38
665 The Pink Floyd - Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun 5:28
666 Love - 7 and 7 Is (Original 1966 7" Mono Single Version) 2:25
667 The Charlatans - The Shadow Knows (Original 1966 7" Mono Single Version) 2:07
668 The Action - Shadows and Reflections 2:48
669 Max Frost & the Troopers - Shape of Things to Come 1:54
670 The Yardbirds - Shapes of Things 2:25
671 Tuesday's Children - She 2:49
672 Love - She Comes in Colors (Original 1966 7" Mono Single Version) 2:45
673 Genesis - She Is Beautiful 3:48
674 The Beatles - She Said She Said 2:36
675 The Pretty Things - She Says Good Morning 3:23
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676 Murray Head - She Was Perfection 2:48
677 The Turtles - She'd Rather Be with Me (Original 1967 7" Mono Single Version) 2:10
678 The Rolling Stones - She's a Rainbow 4:13
679 The Mojo Men - She's My Baby 3:02
680 The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band - Shifting Sands 3:54
681 Jason Paul - Shine a Little Light Into My Room 2:47
682 Procol Harum - Shine on Brightly 3:32
683 Kippington Lodge - Shy Boy 2:38
684 The Who - Silas Stingy 2:59
685 David Bowie - Silly Boy Blue 3:52
686 Lisa & Francesca - Silver Man (Original Version) 2:40
687 Slender Plenty - Silver Tree Top School for Boys 2:22
688 Cliff Wade - Sister 2:32
689 The Mojo Men - Sit Down, I Think I Love You 2:23
690 The Idle Race - Sitting in My Tree 1:52
691 Tales of Justine - Sitting on a Blunestone 2:39
692 Eric Burdon and the Animals - Sky Pilot 7:35
693 The Slaves - Slaves Time 2:20
694 The 13th Floor Elevators - Slip Inside This House (Original 1967 7" Mono Single Version) 4:06
695 The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band - Smell of Incense (Original 1968 7" Mono Single Version) 2:25
696 Champagne - Smile at the Sad Sun 3:47
697 The Doves - Smokeytime Springtime 3:03
698 Tintern Abbey - Snowman 4:02
699 Ice - So Many Times 2:06
700 The Lyrics - So What 2:50
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701 Sun Dragon - So You Want to Be a Rock 'n' Roll Star 2:00
702 Bluestars - Social End Product 2:33
703 The Orange Bicycle - Soft Winds 2:49
704 West Coast Consortium - Some Other Someday 2:59
705 Jefferson Airplane - Somebody to Love 2:58
706 Our Plastic Dream - Someone Turned the Light Out 2:37
707 The Tickle - Something Out of Place 3:27
708 Circus - Something to Write About 3:27
709 The Standells - Sometimes Good Guys Don't Wear White 2:38
710 Sagittarius - Song to the Magic Frog (Will You Ever Know) 2:48
711 The Easybeats - Sorry 2:35
712 Bunch - Spare a Shilling 2:32
713 The Elastik Band - Spazz 2:46
714 Bee Gees - Spicks and Specks 2:51
715 The Downliners Sect - Spider 2:58
716 The Monocles - The Spider and the Fly 2:05
717 The 13th Floor Elevators - Splash 1 (Now I'm Home) (Original 1966 7" Mono Single Version) 3:50
718 The Crazy World of Arthur Brown - Spontaneous Apple Creation 2:56
719 The New Formula - Stay Indoors 4:15
720 Paul Revere and the Raiders - Steppin' Out 2:13
721 The Yardbirds - Still I'm Sad 3:04
722 The Pan Pipers - Stop 2:31
723 Clefs of Lavender Hill - Stop! Get a Ticket 2:28
724 Granny's Intentions - The Story of David 2:56
725 Unrelated Segments - Story of My Life 2:44
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726 Jeff Thomas - Straight Aero 3:13
727 Cream - Strange Brew 2:48
728 The Doors - Strange Days 3:09
729 The Mandrake Paddle Steamer - Strange Walking Man 3:14
730 Kim Fowley - Strangers from the Sky 2:58
731 The Beatles - Strawberry Fields Forever 4:08
732 The Tickle - Subway (Smokey Pokey World) 2:41
733 The Tremeloes - Suddenly Winter 2:23
734 The Fresh Windows - Summer Sun Shines 2:27
735 Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich - The Sun Goes Down 2:54
736 Rainbow Ffolly - Sun Sing 4:00
737 Turquoise - Sunday Best 2:42
738 Guy and David - Sunday Morning 4:37
739 The Status Quo - Sunny Cellophane Skies 2:48
740 Cream - Sunshine of Your Love 4:12
741 Normie Rowe - Sunshine Secret 2:57
742 Donovan - Sunshine Superman (Original 1966 7" Mono Single Version) 3:16
743 Dave Davies - Susannah's Still Alive (Original 1967 7" Mono Single Version) 2:21
744 The Chocolate Watchband - Sweet Young Thing 2:59
745 Focal Point - Sycamore Sid 2:40
746 The Smoke - Sydney Gill 3:32
747 The Spencer Davis Group - Taking Out Time (Alternative Version) 2:12
748 The Zany Woodruff Operation - Tales of Brave Ulysses 2:56
749 Elmer Gantry's Velvet Opera - Talk of the Devil 3:01
750 The Music Machine - Talk Talk 1:59
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751 The Pretty Things - Talkin' About the Good Times 3:46
752 The Onyx - Tamaris Khan 2:52
753 Tintern Abbey - Tanya 2:56
754 The Status Quo - Technicolor Dreams 2:52
755 The Alan Bown! - Technicolour Dream 2:53
756 Strawbs - Tell Me What You See in Me (Alternative Version) 5:02
757 Aquarian Age - 10,000 Words in a Cardboard Box 3:26
758 Focus Three - 10,000 Years Behind My Mind 2:19
759 The Rainy Daze - That Acapulco Gold 2:27
760 Small Faces - That Man 2:16
761 Grateful Dead - That's It for the Other One 7:56
762 The Poets - That's The Way It's Got to Be 2:37
763 Manfred Mann - (Theme from) Up the Junction (Original 1968 7" Mono Single Edit) 3:39
764 The Marmalade - There Ain't No Use in Hangin' On 2:02
765 Donovan - There Is a Mountain 2:36
766 Strawberry Jam - This Is to a Girl 2:54
767 The Lost Souls - This Life of Mine 2:42
768 1984 - This Little Boy 2:43
769 The Move - This Time Tomorrow 3:43
770 Julie Driscoll, Brian Auger and the Trinity - This Wheel's on Fire 3:30
771 The Nice - The Thoughts of Emerlist Davjack (Original 1967 7" Mono Single Version) 2:49
772 The Creation - Through My Eyes 3:06
773 Shyster - Tick Tock 2:46
774 The Beatles - Ticket to Ride 3:10
775 The Chambers Brothers - Time Has Come Today 4:50
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776 The Zombies - Time of the Season (Original 1968 7" Mono Single Version) 3:30
777 The Spencer Davis Group - Time Seller (Original 1967 7" Mono Single Version) 2:50
778 The Mickey Finn - Time to Start Loving You 2:40
779 The Outsiders - Time Won't Let Me 2:50
780 Brym-Stonz Ltd. - Times Gone By 2:34
781 Small Faces - Tin Soldier (Original 1967 7" Mono Single Version) 3:21
782 Nirvana - Tiny Goddess (Original 1967 7" Mono Single Version) 3:34
783 The Blues Magoos - Tobacco Road 4:42
784 Strawberry Alarm Clock - Tomorrow 2:13
785 The Beatles - Tomorrow Never Knows 2:59
786 The Leaves - Too Many People 2:46
787 The Outsiders - Touch 3:13
788 Riot Squad feat. David Bowie - Toy Soldier 3:10
789 The Alan Bown! - Toyland (Original 1967 7" Mono Single Version) 2:56
790 Louise - Toymaker's Shop 1:56
791 The Voice - The Train to Disaster 2:49
792 Pearls Before Swine - Translucent Carriages 4:00
793 The Red Crayola - Transparent Radiation (Original 1967 Mono Mix) 2:31
794 Kim Fowley - The Trip 2:03
795 Sagittarius - The Truth Is Not Real (Original 1968 7" Mono Single Version) 3:02
796 The Freedom - The Truth Is Plain to See 3:55
797 The Factory - Try a Little Sunshine 3:43
798 Those Fadin' Colours - Try Me on for Size 2:39
799 The Freedom - Trying to Get a Glimpse of You 3:02
800 Tony Rivers and the Castaways - Turn of the Century 2:40
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801 Lisa & Francesca - Turn Your Face Away 4:51
802 Trot - Turnstyle 3:53
803 Jason Crest - Turquoise Tandem Cycle 3:40
804 Crocheted Doughnut Ring - Two Little Ladies 3:02
805 The Rolling Stones - 2000 Light Years from Home 4:44
806 Strawbs feat. Sandy Denny - Two Weeks Last Summer 2:05
807 Neo Maya - UFO 2:47
808 Living Daylights - Up So High 2:16
809 Graham Gouldman - Upstairs Downstairs 2:17
810 One in a Million - Use Your Imagination 2:19
811 Traffic - Utterly Simple 3:20
812 Tintern Abbey - Vacuum Cleaner 3:04
813 The Velvet Underground - Venus in Furs (Original 1967 Mono Mix) 5:13
814 Gary Walker and the Rain - The View 2:51
815 The Brood - Village Green 2:24
816 Cats Pyjamas - Virginia Water 2:56
817 Wild Silk - (Vision in a) Plaster Sky 2:29
818 The Bees - Voices Green and Purple 1:35
819 The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Voodoo Child (Slight Return) 5:12
820 The Move - Vote for Me 2:49
821 Plastic Penny - Wake Me Up 3:08
822 The Left Banke - Walk Away Renée 2:44
823 The Flower Pot Men - A Walk in the Sky 3:53
824 The Move - Walk Upon the Water (Original 1968 7" Mono Single Version) 3:21
825 The Pretty Things - Walking Through My Dreams 3:36
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826 Peter Howell & John Ferdinando - The Walrus and the Carpenter 3:21
827 Masters Apprentices - War or Hands of Time 2:49
828 The Kinks - Waterloo Sunset (Original 1967 7" True Stereo Single Version) 3:18
829 The Move - Wave the Flag and Stop the Train (Original 1967 7" Mono Single Version) 3:00
830 July - The Way (Original 1968 7" Mono Single Version) 4:13
831 The Blues Magoos - (We Ain't Got) Nothin' Yet 2:17
832 The Moles - We Are the Moles (Part 1) 4:30
833 Pussy - We Built the Sun 4:59
834 Nirvana - We Can Help You 1:59
835 The Rolling Stones - We Love You 4:25
836 Bill Fay - We Want You to Stay (Demo Version) 3:40
837 Donovan - Wear Your Love Like Heaven 2:25
838 Mark Wirtz - (He's Our Dear Old) Weatherman 4:02
839 Harmony Grass - What a Groovy Day 3:33
840 The Dovers - What Am I Going to Do 2:41
841 Blossom Toes - What on Earth (Original 1967 7" Single Version) 2:56
842 The Artwoods - What Shall I Do 2:52
843 The Crazy World of Arthur Brown - What's Happening? 3:19
844 Paradox - What's the Rush, Dillbury? 3:10
845 The Evil - Whatcha Gonna Do About It 2:22
846 Eric Burdon and the Animals - When I Was Young 3:03
847 The Status Quo - When My Mind Is Not Live 3:02
848 Blossom Toes - When the Alarm Clock Rings 2:17
849 The Eyes - When the Night Falls 2:32
850 Boeing Duveen and the Beautiful Soup - Which Dreamed It 2:30
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851 The Sorrows - Which Way 2:39
852 It's a Beautiful Day - White Bird 6:11
853 Ellen Margulies - The White Pony 2:23
854 Jefferson Airplane - White Rabbit 2:33
855 Cream - White Room (Original 1969 Polydor UK Full-Length 7" Single Version) 4:59
856 Procol Harum - A Whiter Shade of Pale (Original 1967 7" Mono Single Version) 4:08
857 Jury - Who Dat? 2:16
858 The Woolies - Who Do You Love 2:04
859 Tapestry - Who Wants Happiness 2:29
860 Tomorrow - Why 3:59
861 The Remains - Why Do I Cry 2:50
862 The Downliners Sect - Why Don't You Smile Now 2:08
863 The Standells - Why Pick on Me 2:46
864 The Holy Mackerel - Wildflowers 3:59
865 East of Eden - Winterways (Demo Version) 6:41
866 The Beatles - Within You Without You 5:04
867 Coconut Mushroom - Without You 2:43
868 The Explosive - (Who Planted Thorns in) Miss Alice's Garden 2:41
869 The Poets - Wooden Spoon 2:28
870 Mike Stuart Span - World in My Head 4:30
871 Dantalian's Chariot - World War III 4:10
872 The Brigands - (Would I Still Be) Her Big Man 2:21
873 Billy Nicholls - Would You Believe? (Original 1968 7" Mono Single Version) 2:42
874 The Yellow Balloon - Yellow Balloon 2:12
875 The Mindbenders - Yellow Brick Road 3:07
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876 The Picadilly Line - Yellow Rainbow 2:19
877 Circus - Yes Is a Pleasant Country 4:07
878 Sadie's Expression - Yesterday Was Such a Lovely Day (Elsie) 2:57
879 The Uniques - You Ain't Tuff 2:21
880 We the People - You Burn Me Up and Down 2:22
881 The Red Squares - You Can Be My Baby 2:18
882 The Flower Pot Men - You Can Never Be Wrong 2:36
883 Vanilla Fudge - You Keep Me Hangin' On (Original 1967 7" Stereo Single Version) 2:59
884 The Pretty Things - You Might Even Say 4:02
885 The Lollipop Shoppe - You Must Be a Witch 2:49
886 The Primitives - You Said 2:20
887 The Turtles - You Showed Me (Original 1968 7" Mono Single Version) 3:06
888 The Mockingbirds - You Stole My Love 2:41
889 Rust - You Thought You Had It Made 3:43
890 The Rugbys - You, I 2:56
891 The Missing Links - You're Driving Me Insane 2:59
892 The 13th Floor Elevators - You're Gonna Miss Me (Original 1966 7" Mono Single Version) 2:28
893 The Hi-Fi's - You're Haunting Me 2:22
894 Davy Jones - You've Got a Habit of Leaving 2:31
895 The Graham Bond Organisation - You've Gotta Have Love Babe 2:34
896 Cuby and the Blizzards - Your Body Not Your Soul 2:18
897 The Coronados - Your Love Belongs to Everyone 2:33
898 Peep Show - Your Servant, Stephen 3:01
899 The Doors - The End 11:50
900 The Beatles - A Day in the Life 5:07
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Wow, you leave me speechless once again, K. I somehow missed the original version of this package back in 2022, so I'm *really* excited to see this update - and it's a HUGE one. And while the music is obviously ace I imagine that you put in quite a bit of time on the write-up for this post. Thank you for all of your work, you & BB are electronic angels!
ReplyDeleteMany thanks for all your praise and kind words Big Bad Buddha.
DeleteYes, it took several months to pull this together with hundreds of hours of research.
I know some of the sleeves are of music not featured, but I just thought they were fantastic covers to include and to showcase the overall amazing psychedelic art of the 1960s.
I’m glad you’re enjoying reading the write up on this post. The timeline of 1965 in particular is definitely an interesting and insightful overview of how the original scene took shape.
I hope you find many hours of enjoyment in the music presented here.
K
K
ReplyDelete"Speechless" sums it up! This is truly awesome. You have created something that will go down in music history. It will take me weeks to absorb this. Many many thanks. (I love that it starts and ends with the Beatles)
Hi BB
Thanks for your kind words lemonflag.
DeleteIt was without question that I would end this compilation with ‘A Day in the Life’ as for me this has to be the greatest ending to any album in history and has been discussed and praised at length for decades.
Hope you enjoy the tunes!
K
Very trippy stuff here. Epic cornucopia of some very heady stuff. You guys keeping raising the bar.
ReplyDelete....'scuse me while I kiss the sky
Whoa - the mother lode thanks so much K for all your research & dedication - it's very much appreciated.
ReplyDeleteWow! Mammoth! I don't know how I will eve rget through this package, but thank you very much for all the time and effort put into the preparation. I never did get through the entire K-Nuggets set, but I did listen to a bunch of tracks.
ReplyDeleteCheers,
Mike M
I have only two words (and a couple of exclamation marks):
ReplyDelete'nine hundred!!'
Thanks K and BB
Cheers
Giulio
Bom dia,
ReplyDeleteCada dia que passa mais me surpreendo pela capacidade de trabalho e conhecimento de musica.
Muita desta musica que não conheço, não seria possível se não a vontade de partilhar os seus conhecimentos.
Um grande abraço
Ohhh!!! Dios mío!!! Yo también tengo un montón de exclamaciones!!! Increíble!! Una reseña espectacular. Una cantidad de música tremenda. Un trabajo grandioso. Una cantidad de tiempo y energía superlativos. Y sobre todo amor por lo que hacen.
ReplyDeleteDar las gracias es poco, las palabras no alcanzan.
Pero así y todo: GRACIAS !!!!
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The term “speechless” is almost an understatement. I feel the same way as the previous speakers, and am both overwhelmed and grateful for your new masterpiece, K. May your enthusiasm for inspiring us never die! Best, TC
ReplyDeleteP.S: And also a very special praise for the wonderfully comprehensive, knowledgeable and excellently illustrated introduction - also a labor of love!
Every time you climb a mountain of music with Butterboy/K, you're sure to end up with a Himalayan next. It's monstrous. What delights me every time, besides the quality of the tracks given, is the effort you make to present the whole thing, with a real history, full of details. That's the purpose of your blog, and your blog is currently one of the very best I know in terms of musical knowledge. Hats off.
ReplyDeleteThanks K for all the hard work, this is simply stunning!!
ReplyDeleteThis is too good to be true! Love to see those sleeves again! Many thanks, Paul
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