Favorite psychedelic albums?

What are your favorite psychedelic albums? Here are a few of my favorites:

The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Axis: Bold as Love

Love - Forever Changes

Captain Beefheart & his Magic Band - Safe as Milk

The Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots

Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion

Spiritualized - Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space

BQ: What do you love, about psychedelic music?
BQ2: What is your favorite sub-genre of psychedelic music?
BQ3: Psychedelia has crossed over with post-punk, shoegaze, dream pop, progressive rock & Krautrock. What is your take on this?
BQ4: Old-school psychedelia vs. neo-psychedelia?

HarveyB2020-06-08T15:02:30Z

I have so many. I'll limit it to 10....

Pink Floyd - The Piper at the Gates of Dawn
Red Krayola - The Parable of Arable Land 
Quicksilver Messenger Service - self-titled
Spirit - Twelve Dreams of Dr. Sardonicus
Ultimate Spinach - Behold and See
Blue Cheer - Vincibus Eruptum
Aphrodite's Child - 666 (The Apocalypse of John 13/18)
H.P. Lovecraft - self-titled
The Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
The Incredible String Band - The 5,000 Spirits or the Layers of the Onion

?2020-06-08T08:59:31Z

Hi Brandon!

MA. King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard- Flying Micro tonal Banana; Elephant Stone- Elephant Stone

BQ. When a Sitar is used or has some eastern influence
BQ2. Stoner Rock/ Desert Rock
BQ3. Some of the best songs are the ones that take the listener places in their minds
BQ4. Personally I have grown out of the old-school. In that sense, your last three suggestions really do connect personally.

?2020-06-08T08:47:58Z

eh, I don't listen to psychedelic music to have psychedelic sensations. Perhaps the closest thing to generally understood psychedelia is Carbon Based Lifeforms (try a random album, "Hydroponic Garden", "Derelicts", "World of Sleepers", "Interloper").

Q1: the floating sensation
Q2: psybient
BQ3: psychedelia is everywhere
BQ4: I'd like to approach it well, so starting from the old school, things you're mentioning here, Can, Tangerine Dream, Gong, etc. (and I think the 'kraut section' is the one I might prefer, maybe).

Anonymous2020-06-08T07:49:32Z

"What are your favorite psychedelic albums? Here are a few of my favorites:"
Jimi Hendrix - Axis: Bold As Love

Hawkwind - Hawkwind

Captain Beefheart - Safe As Milk

King Crimson - In The Court Of The Crimson King

Can - Future Days

Shape Of Despair - Illusions Play

Soft Machine - Third

BQ: Its not really something I seek out specifically. I do listen to lots of music though that has elements of Psychedelica. 

BQ2: Cant say. I dont really listen to it specifically as a genre. 

BQ3: It also crossed over with soul. The Temptations on their later albums from the late 60s and early 70s would sometimes sing about drugs and have trippy sounding instrumentation. 
I could see it crossing over into those other genres you mentioned, but in all honesty I hear more elements of it in Drum & Bass and Techno than I do in Rock. This observation excludes bands like My Bloody Valentine, Spacemen 3, and The Stone Roses. I cant speak for anything else because I dont like much Shoegaze, Space Rock, or Britpop outside of those 3 bands respectively. 

BQ4: Neither as I dont really hunt down musice specifically because it is Psychedelica. Rather, I go for music that I am going to like sometimes it may have traits of Psychedelica. 

Mon Amie La Rose2020-06-08T02:06:59Z

Pink Floyd - Piper At The Gates Of Dawn
The Grateful Dead - Anthem Of The Sun
Jefferson Airplane - After Bathing At Baxters
Traffic - Mr Fantasy
Cream - Disraeli Gears

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