the United States of America-the garden of earthly delights

[TheWoodlandGlade]

Totally and outrageously wonderful.

[klongyaw7]

Still have the vinyl.Love this album.

[martincake40]

snakefinger does a great cover of this song on his album "manual of errors" from 1982...but i'm also to see the original version here!

[mrjose175]

lsd, that is all

[sharpsponge]

the freshermaker!

[AkanMeister1]

yeah this is hella awesome, but it's not like there isn't any good music nowday, you just have to lurk for it more deeper and that way it's more fun

[DEC0RAX0]

This vid is trippy as hell, love it

[ceejcoins]

The hippies wanted a bad rap.

[bradominus1]

FYI, one critic has noted this was the first progressive rock band... I know it's kind of a tough argument; people can make arguments for the Moody Blues (Days of Future Passed); Sgt. Pepper's, etc.

[gabriel9130]

Does the title of the song garden of earthly delights any link between the popular surrealist formidable paint also name the garden of earthly delights? anyone knows?

[vogelmandrie]

Let's get Timothy here and organize a Be-In , get me to the Sixties on Time

[sirius212ify]

BADASS!

[Linick]

Only 48,000 views LOL. People don't know what they're missing.

[iheartgirtrude]

Fuck Tim Leary... He's the reason the hippies got a bad rap...

[koala2093]

Timothy Leary

[dreyxxyz]

Great Video-Thanks jeffo0771

[DropDeadCouture]

@EarthlyCitizen amen/awomen

[TheEbird67]

This is the stuff where Stereolab, Tortoise, Broadcast got the mustard LOL

[RabaizationPeace]

thank god acid is still around

[JohnnyJTav]

Dorothy Moskowitz's vocals are incredible just like Nancy Blossom. This debut 1968 LP is light years ahead of it's time. What Madonna did on Ray of Light, Joe Byrd & crew kinda did in 68', even with the electronic limitations they had. No sampling! A psych masterpiece!

[Saatip]

fuckin fantastic!!!

[DrLearyUSA]

The USA, a truly underrated band...

[iateotw]

Love it !

[TIMOTHYSAARINEN]

Every era has it's "Alternative" music. Truly cool people would have been into this.

[1951nightwish]

@TIMOTHYSAARINEN I used to own the single, i think "Love song for the dead che" was on the b'side, so i guess i'm cool

[as400techman]

@1951nightwish You're right. I gave the single to a girlfriend when I bought the album. I still play it. I'm just waiting for someone on the X-Factor to be given this song to cover.

[1951nightwish]

@as400techman Ha Ha, can't really see that happening.

[alicestillwonders]

THANKS!

[jawinota]

This track is so amazing, sounds like the kind of track Jefferson Airplane would've killed to have written, and the electronica flourishes were so ahead of their time - I wouldn't be surprised if this band were a major influence on many of the Krautrock groups.

[aeonsbeyond]

Completely freakin amazing, sing and video...thanks!!!

[MaceMn]

This is the shit your Grandma tripped on..... Granny rocks!

[THCSOUNDS1]

genial psicodelico

jaja suena macnifico que estilo el de estos chicos!!

[thesyd1975]

THANX for this, i have a tape of british radio from 95 about psychedelia in usa and a small bit of this track was played,it has pissed me of as to who it was till now,i thought it was the ultimate spinach,anyway i love it and the whole album.THANX

[Jetlag666]

The best song ever.

[splendidcurves]

Forget IMAX 3D...this is the REAL TRIP, Pandora's Children...

[InternalPeace93]

This song is fuckin amazing!!!!!

[tonkehar]

An awesome song with a pair of good headphone........lol

[delta9779]

I will never forget seeing this band for the 1st time at the Boston Tea Party at Landsdowne street in Boston, Ma. in 1968or 69 I was instantly mesmerized I stood at the front of the stage stoned and just watching Dorothy sing what a trip. This song and coming down were their best. I still have this album wow what memories where has life gone. Thanks Jeffo for posting this song it has withstood the years their sound was great then and now. 'You will find them in her eyes in her eyes in her eyes".

[autodelete66]

@delta9779

Saw some great performances when I Worked door at the Old Tea Party on Berkley St.

Specially Sun Ra

[shredordie69]

were can you get songs by this band

[robodoll]

@shredordie69 this is available on CD at Amazon....enjoy :)

[Lunatic4Bizcas]

This is from 1968!? Really? Wow, the bands of the 60's surely were influential on the music that followed later on. Love the astro-psychadellic urgency of this tune. Amazing in every way. The so-called pop/rock music of today truly is garbage

[cjwynes]

No, this band was just much better than average. They managed to combine the idea of what a 60's psych band was expected to be with some anticipation of what they wanted music to be in the future. Their send-up of the Mamas and Papas' California sound was pretty funny btw.

[autodelete66]

@Lunatic4Bizcas Bought it in 68, and was sorry it was their only work.

[lyndloo]

very interesting...very clever !! sounds like something from Woodstock .. reminds me of a Jefferson Airplane song .. thanx AristaCourt my freind for sharing .. and thanx to jeffoO771 for posting ... Lyndloo...

[KannonMAK]

i found this album the other day. been looking for it for years.

[kentishbloke]

ACID !!

[anitashelby]

Wow, What a Very Coool Song & Tripply Vid!!! 5*s Thankyou.....Anita..

[slightreturn104]

Holy hell! a pink striped flower just dripped down from my ceiling.

[darkmarkrammstein]

betyta than bposch.....

[echoplus2020]

Awesome ! I am looking at the Bosch painting at the same time, what a perfect match.

[lemonita]

Take THAT you silly Broadcast!!!  ;-)

[pdmus]

As I have put here before, I was in a bluesband playing at the Ashgrove, 1968 opposite the USA. This song is Killer! Totally changed my life. All the sounds, synths, ring modulators - totally new stuff. Just amazing to hear live, night after night. What a great band. After that gig, I just changed my life, stopped with 12 bars - and moved on to all kinds of music! Thanks Joseph Byrd and all the USA.

[breakdancerQ]

this song is high... -.-

[ChuckDeFuque]

i wore this record out playing it all the time. they were way ahead of their time

[kelloggcerealxoxo]

hippy...

[1hundert8]

I `ve loved you all time long

[Aleeratajemna]

their best song

[ATLiensStyleOnYoAss]

wow trippy...

[YakovNurok]

This band was phenomenal and nearly overpowering live. Recordings don't do them justice. Caught them at the Filmore East.

[cookielova]

you are lucky!

[ChuckDeFuque]

I got to see many great shows at the F E, unfortunatley, this wasn't one of them

[nibs2lou]

I bought USA's first LP when it came out in UK. It had some innovative and powerful trippy stuff on it - but it suffered badly from competition by the Doors, Velvets, Love, Byrds, etc, etc. The album's biggest turn-off was its hopeless cover: it made the band look like studio engineers. A psychedelic freak-out sleeve was so needed. Great to see postings of the tracks though.

[alebarjr]

Yes, but check out where those nerdy-looking folks are today... They were all serious music students when JB gathered them together, and all except the bassist have gone on to continue their careers quite respectably. Google them!

[RigManJim]

love the bass line

[Howgooditcanbe]

This song drives me freaking insane, I love it <3<3<3

[spongekill]

ive listened to this song dozens of times in a row.. could play it for a week

[MissLisaJane]

One of my favourites from the album. Nice visuals you added there. I hope my my mate John digs it!

Hi John.......

[kryakrya99]

Maybe you kno where i can find some similar videos? Its really hard to find thing...

[colibri1]

Haven't heard this in ages! During the psychedelic revival of the early 80s, the Paisley Underground era and all that, we used to covet great 60s recordings like this. Wore my copy out. Thanks for posting.

[cottageorgan]

This great. Why were the jefferson airplane so big when this is sooo much better in the same vein. It's a bit like Hawkwind meet Pentangle..

[kickflipace]

because jefferson airplane were one of the 1st bands to play this type of music

[cottageorgan]

Ohh...I thought it was because they had their sights firmly set on the future and becoming Starship so that they could unleash such 80's horrors as "We built this city on Rock n Roll"..the grand irony of course being that particular tune was about as Rock n Roll as...let's say Rick Astley.

[kickflipace]

true they didn't carry on making good songs :/

[cottageorgan]

First two albums in my mind were their best. I never got After Bathing at Baxters..try hard weirdness, cool cover though. Still have a soft spot for Volunteers, but after that it was all down hill. I do however really like their appearance in "Gimme Shelter". Grace had some balls...That cover of the Fred Neal song they do is cooking, until the angels ruin it, and "Go ask Alice" is still one of the weirdest , tripyest singles ever released. Still sounds great every time I hear it.

[kickflipace]

haha go ask alice is awesome :)

[cottageorgan]

How embarrassing...I just realised it's called "White Rabbit". I think I must've had it on a mixtape as a youngster and whoever made it for me got the title wrong and I've called it that ever since...life's rich tapestry.

[Howgooditcanbe]

I LOVE THAT BOOK :D

[jaynez31]

OK, the vid reminds me while ago in Tokyo, driving the Toyota Celica. While driving around the Yoyogi park, Shibuya ward, Azabu district. all scenery just like the vid. Ohh well, Puna, Hawaii, and SF, Marin county, and Humboldt County in Cal are bit different kind of travel thugh(:>

[xcetia37]

very trippy

[alby711]

this band is so bad ass. sometimes i think i was born in the wrong generation lol. Peace and Love

[cookielova]

agreed.

[cottageorgan]

Totally with you there brother. I should've been born in 1950 not 1970!!! Stupid time space continuum. Peace.

[creamovsumyungguy]

i first heard this at my friends, who was with a foster family at the time, the guy ov the couple was an old hippy,and had a garage full of strawbs,jefferson airplane beefheart etc.he put a few on cassette 4 me and i was converted on the spot!15 at the time,and grateful to him 4 it ever since,thank you for posting,have tried to get this for years...

[silv3rfuck]

that video is psychedelic as fuck.

love this band. check out joe byrd and the field hippiessssss and fifty foot hose. quality bands

[plan9area51]

Sorry, I meant Garden of Earthly Delights.

[plan9area51]

Thank you for adding "Garden of Early Delights".  Turn on, tune in, drop out.

[ivycompton]

Love love love this song and the album. Fantastic lead singer, virtuoso music! Go Dorothy Moskowitz! (and Joe Byrd and the gang!) Thanks much for posting this.

[KrissKross44444]

This is so fucking wicked. I love it.

[jaynez31]

My brain gets warped without the stuff recently.

[hambuns]

Nice one jeffo. . . one jock in the UK had the foresight to play this on Radio 1 almost 40 years ago . . . but would ground breaking music as this get aired on satellite/cable today? Even George W could guess the answer (well perhaps if we told him).

[plasticcanon]

It's so damn good, I have no words for it.

[funkberto]

Very High-Trippy song and video.

Timothy Leary in the middle..great

[HyaPowa]

Nice job man. And nice to be seeing more Joe Byrd on YT. 'Bout time!

[ToadLicker10]

hang in there bjorsak ..... the american metaphysical circus is my favorite tho

[bjorsak]

I just took some pills and am very scared. Irregular heartbeat. I don't know where I am. I need to talk to someone. 713-624-0921

[cottageorgan]

ever heard of re-search? Just taking some pills? You can identify everykind of drug and it's effects on guess where? That's right...the internet! Ride it out, you'll be fine. Maybe next time you'll stop and think. Experimenting with random drugs is a serious business.

[maid22]

wonderful album..i still remember the night a friend told me about it...

[ToadLicker10]

i love this band

[ottowes]

Trippy!

[econoroller]

Trippy psyche...never heard this before.

Thanx for posting this, I enjoyed it! ;)

[robertaxel]

I LOVE this album.. as good as Psychedelia gets..

[Lamvesp]

Glad i found this. Excellent.

[eeayt]

beautiful. sounds like it was a nice very interesting band. listening to this i really dont think there was anything as advanced as this in the USA. in the UK of course there was the beatles and pink floyd. in brazil there was os mutantes.

[Ardbug]

A highly treasured LP :)

[YWD67]

I was given this album by my uncle when he went off to college in 69, and I still have it in my collection as well as the CD that I got a few years back.

To bad it was there first and only album.

Moskowitz has one hell of a voice.

[digoxin]

One of the best songs on the Psychedelic Dream compilation. This, and Terry Reid's Superlungs version. Thanks!

[cottageorgan]

I much prefer Donovan's original version of Superlungs.

[bassandguitarguy]

well I never got stoned in the 60's so this will be my trip.... Have had this LP since it came out in 68. Dorothy Moskowitz rocks! the cd with 10 bonus tracks is great!

[thepowderedclouds]

Tuuuuune!

[TuneInTurnOnDropOut]

Great psych!