Roller Coaster - 13th Floor Elevators

[Hyperakusis1973]

The 13th Floor Elevators are awesome!

"Roller Coaster", great track, great album!

[TheDeepDubstep]

how did I come here?

I was listen to dubstep...

[Itrustknowone]

@TheDeepDubstep this is everything, lyrics to the fuckin lyrics man

[TheAlekhsandra]

@TheDeepDubstep the gods sent you to better music!

[MysticGizmos]

Well that cat's something I can't explain.

[MrSchmiggi]

I heard a nice and clean version, with newer instruments, which also included digital instruments.

I can't find this newer version anywhere.

I heard it on the radio and google'd "come on and let it happen to you", and found this original.

I can't find the other song anywhere. i don't even know if it's a re-recording made by The 13th Floor Elevators, or a different band's cover.

It was not Spacemen 3, because they covered this song twice, and the one I heard on the radio was not one of them.

[chrctrnm]

I'd like it better if it was an instrumental.

[BRStormysea]

Trip...



[fatherharringtonhext]

The Father approves. Really love this song.

[axl6934]

FUCK YOU .l.

[ScientistOfSound1]

Ride the spiral doooooooown!

[beobachter47]

You can't even imagine what it was like to be smoking grass back in the late 60's and listening to the Elevators. Inside I was "like a neon ray"!

[lilic1]

@beobachter47 man, I'm jealous.

[TheRockCrab]

very cool, something interesting to listen to when i get bored of folk and blues

[AveEvropa]

4 people does not ride the roller coaster.

[AaRaNcEe]

Anyone remember the MINDS EYE in San Antonio? Rachels Children and 13th Floor playing til the wee hours. Loved it. Miss all of you guys. So many are gone now but always remembered.

[0rangeSunshine]

Anyone else hear those notes in the intro around 10 seconds that seem to hint at Jefferson Airplane's "Today."?

[welcome2myhell]

@0rangeSunshine with you on that. In fact, you can hear a ton of Jorma Kaukonen or James Gurley in this stuff. The only thing I hated about the Elevators was the idiotic jug noise.

[MichaelHansenFUN]

@0rangeSunshine kinda, but also i read somewhere that Roky claimed in an interview that this song is where pink floyd got the idea for the riff for 'set the controls for the heart of the sun"

[EggsBenedictArnold]

Their songs aren't sophisticated, they just have a twitch of the death nerve if you know what I mean...

[welcome2myhell]

@EggsBenedictArnold ya sounds like The Cramps lol the Elevators were the shit

[jasonpfinch]

Massive influence on British art/indie/druggy rock c.85-92: Spacemen 3, Primal Scream, JAMC, My Bloody Valentine etc.

[rechinchex]

lol go listen to Babasonicos Seis Virgenes Descalzas Freakin same riff!!!

[marciombs]

It is the only band in the world with a acid owl !!!!

[trojanlol]

THIS is the basis of Psychedelic music, you have to keep this album in mind when you grab your guitar during an acid trip

[gleb202]

Very sophistic and smart music. I really love it. Thanks for uploading!

[Aguzzardo1]

All the good shit comes from texas

[surfhomie]

@Aguzzardo1 since when is bush good?

however this is rocks

[TMLorfing]

@surfhomie Bush, in my opinion, was mediocre. But everything else from texas is better

[tatunkha]

Classic Texas pschedelia innit thanks for thee upload.

[MichaelHansenFUN]

how do you play a jug?

[MSTFreak]

Roky stole the riff alright.... From James Bond!

[mobyboy]

I miss those times when music was Brave !!

[sheetal96]

sounds like....set the controls for the heart of the sun - pink floyd

xD

[TEMPmichaelhansen]

@sheetal96 roky claimed they stole the song

or the riff

[Badsastard]

Wow 'the drugs held them back rather than helped them'? No drugs, no Elevators mate. There was a good reason that 65-67 gave us probably the best and most creative music ever. I'll give you a clue, it wasn't abstinence ;)

[moretotheworld]

fuck you every neo psychedelic band except shpongle! the 13th floor elevators will always be my favorite psych band 8)

[Comus89]

@moretotheworld Kudos for mentioning Shpongle, but Spacemen 3 too! Their cover of this song is amazing (as is their own stuff)

[JustaRegularPatriot]

These guys defy description. I grew up listening to them in Texas during High School. Even then, everyone know they were seeing something very special and not to be missed. Like a flash they were gone in the space of about three or four years.. Stacy was a totally underrated guitar player too. They used to play on the beach in Galveston @ the Bamboo Hut. Benny Thurman, their original bass player, used to emit the most searing screams out of the blue. Try to find the tune, Egyptian Eye; be ready.

[Coyotesonico]

"Babasonicos" from argentina take this for your theme "Seis Virgenes Descalzas". Is wonderfull

[oeyesea]

My guess is the elevators had the eye~pyramid to symbolize elevating one's mind and perception above the physical world & the eye~pyramid inside an eye~pyramid suggests perception on infinite levels cosmic & microsmic.

[mattwillette]

@oeyesea

Or the record company execs decided to incorporate their illuminati symbolism

[jedichris8]

@oeyesea

Oh really, and why exactly would this same exact symbolism be on our money? Makes no fucking sense.

[oeyesea]

I suppose Tommy Hall wrote the lyrics to this. Personally, I think the drugs held them back more than helped them.

[SurrealisticEvening]

Perhaps the best psychedelic rock song ever!

[LuCkyBandiTo]

love the lyrics; really explains a good trip

[reptohunter]

Look at the eye. Masonic crap!

[Margiempar]

@reptohunter

Masons hasn´t a monopholy on symbols, your analisis its the crap

[henrimoon]

not very interesting musicly but hey man I dig it.

[jacklynkoda]

nam1962 it was a blast hereing this in concert

[Vitanova999]

This is not a song, these are doors of percetion

[giamburrasca]

Electric Juc forever!

[slingblade98]

lEARN TO PLAY THIS RIFF ITS REALLY FUCKING FUN AND EASY

[mobyboy]

fascinating trip trough sound

[KoenHead]

The early 90's cover tribute to Roky-"Where The Pyramid Meets The Eye" and Spacemen 3's mind-blowing 17-minute version of this song turned my onto the 13th Floor Elevators and this version is just so incredible. Roky is right up there with The MC5 and The Velvet Underground in terms of bands who influenced so many, yet were virtually ignored in their day by the masses. Now THIS is how Psychedelic music is SUPPOSED to sound!

[andrewt4042]

Agreed.

[Akifis]

You gotta open up your mind and let everything come through...

[TrekFan85]

Wow..I can't believe I haven't heard of these guys. They're like the Judas Priest of psychadelic rock: underrated and kick ass!

[HankLandMan]

They're not underrated.

[hottapper]

And still convinced,torture helps,i see it with my kids.

[hottapper]

They should send it to the boy who tought Nirvana was innovating.

[mobyboy]

so trippy

[Weatherbyrd]

Love that electric jug!

[MSTFreak]

Man, fuck anybody who hates it, I love it too. Just perfect...

[SwedeProof]

Oh, I'm having flashbacks, this is soooo goood.

[bozwan]

This is my favorite song ever - this group truly understood psychedelia and were able to take it somwhere ...this song captures it ...

[neilus]

quite possibly the best song ever...cmon....let it happen to you...elevators r the greatest band ever...

[mckdejong]

Psychedelic shit :) Love 13th..

[ganyi]

this song is one of the best album,to me

[DOXMAR73]

real acid-garage rock.i love it,i always trip out.

[zampadeorso24]

real psychedelic stuff.yeah!!!!!

[themitchies]

This band trips me out

[luchorocker]

esto es sicodelia pura....en su maxima expresion... viva los 13 th floor elevators,pioneros del rock sicodelico

[WierdDreamer]

this song is sick!!!

love it!!!!!!!

[malawri67]

groooooovy man!

cool stuff!

[vpdoll]

Thirteenth Floor Elevators set me on fire!

[mobyboy]

pure psychedelic pleasure !

[dnggitg]

can't get enough of this rollercoaster ride through the dark side of my mind!

[dnggitg]

this is brilliant. So dark and yet rainbow-colored. sexy. Intense. Authentic-sounding.

[foreveraien]

that pupil is so large...

[h4z4Rd3r]

hihi (:

[mogus55]

Clinic?

[AbbeyKarin]

Seriously, I think I'd love even more the 13th floor elevators if they hadn't use at every moment that PSYCHO JUG! I think maybe sometimes it's interesting but not every fucking minute of the record...

[dookie2kie]

Talkin of PSCHO JUGS, check Evil Bong for a shit stoner film!! random comment I know but why not!!!

The demon is up in the attic to the left!!!!

[rorymetz]

Disturbing but brilliant.

[acidspittingdemon]

i need more jug.... baby

[Azargled]

hypnotic!

[20FlashAnDSpank00]

13th Floor Elevators Rulez

[luchorocker]

que tal epoca carajo ...me hubiera encantado vivirla...que musica mas alucinogena....13 th floor elevators fueron de los primeros grupos en transferir el efecto de las drogas en sus composiciones musicales...y vaya que esta musica si que me  hace volar por el espacio infinito...sin necesidad de drogas ..... yo no consumo

[luchorocker]

¡¡¡QUE VIVA EL ROCK ¡¡¡ esta locaza  esta cancion..es pura sicodelia...que me transporta a otros mundos ...sin necesidad de estupefacientes

[KittyKat5583]

great lyrics

[JewManchu82]

Is this the original version of the song? There's a fantastic recording of it by Spacemen 3.

[cl0udtop]

wow, when I played this I was thimking "these guys really influenced Spacemen3"

I'd love to hear it!

[willyb9995]

Compare this song to "Unchain the Night" by Dokken...very similar beginning guitars.

[thestar13]

also you might want to do a comparison to pink floyds "Lucifer Sam" has a very similar mood

[Glendoras]

Haha you're right! Never thought about it. I wonder if it's somewhat intensional or inspiered the riff.

[mrbag60]

This trailblazing 60's band unfortunately paid a big price for being honest about who they were. 'Rollercoaster' is about as open as it gets advocating for the LSD experience, and probably as a result was a contributing factor in drawing heat from the notoriously conservative Texas authorities. Doesn't make this song any less profound or great, but kind of explains why they were never household names like some of their less overt peers.

[CherryBombSim]

mrbag, you can't possibly imagine how bizarre it was to be a hippie in South Texas back then unless you lived through it. It wasn't really that the authorities were conservative, they were clueless. (Danny Galindo was a friend of mine, btw)

[mrbag60]

CherryBomb no doubt their cluelessness was part of the problem, but i'd venture to say they unjustly considered hippies with their long hair, music, colorful clothes, reputation for illegal drug use, and non-conformist attitudes as threats to them. Just from reading articles on the 13thFE, it seemed law enforcement definitely had it in for them. Danny Galindo, i read passed on in 2001 at age 51 from Hep. C complications; must have been difficult for you as his friend to see him die so young.

[DickStainy]

You're welcome, Pink Floyd!

[saltywood67]

I seriously doubt Barret got a copy of this song, the album wasn't issued in the UK.

[ebaum1saik]

Now I love the 13th Floor Elevators, but Pink Floyd was performing extended pyschedelic jams before this album came out. And as saltywood said, this album wasn't big enough then for Pink Floyd to even get a copy.

[thefabb]

WTF does that mean? Pink Flold threw their original songwriter and leader singer under the Bus after he established, then they sold out to become Pink BullShit

[ElliotSpencerBassett]

LOL I liked PF better with Syd but I still don't mind the music they had made after he was gone.

[RICECAKEGOESWHEE]

stupid elitist, what do you know? were you there when pink floyd "sold out"? when did they sell out anyways? it sure as hell wasn't when meddle or dark side came out, nor with the release of wish you were here nor animals. not to mention syd barrett was becoming and impossible to work with and psychedelia was dead by that time. so, tell me, do you have any idea what you're talking about or are you being a typical smug asshole?

[sGrK2112]

Oh please, Syd Barret lost his mind to LSD and the only way they could continue was by kicking him out and replacing him full time with David Gilmour.

[billyshitcheese]

i'm not huge on floyd bar the barrett era and adore 13th FE, so i'm not biased, but both bands were formed in the same year along with a raft of other psychedelic bands, namely the grateful dead. it's hard to say who heard who first, if they all created great stuff in a current style (the style of this tune is hardly original) or riffed off each other. you must also remember people then didn't have the same access to music as we do. it's poss. floyd n'er heard a band as obscure as The 13th.

[DustTheFirst]

Absolutely... And music is all about influence...

Who cares what came first when both are worth listening to!

[KIDAmnesiacBends]

i think it was the LSD goin around that made everyone play this style of music, noone really copied eachother until '66 maybe

[Motown65]

Forget that west coast hippie nonesense. The 13th Floor Elevators=real psychedelic music!!!!!!!!!!

[almostXdaewon]

If you're referring to the West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band, you're wrong. They kick ass. This song, though, is lightyears beyond legit.

[TaterTed]

@Motown65 if you like 13th floor you'll love the butthole surfers... the next generation of Texas Tryppers

[MDProdTV]

@Motown65 .Yeah what would those stupid west coast hippies know?? The Thirteenth Floor Elevators rock!!

[chezystezy]

@Motown65 excuse me. these dudes are really good but dont ever hate on the west coast, cause hating on them hates on the grateful dead and thats not cool man

[faroutlindsey]

has someone have a copy of psychodlic sounds they will sell me cheap. PLEASE OH PLEASE OH PLEASE!

[wedieyoung89]

u wanna buy!!!!cmon man i can give u all i have free of cost....neways how long have u been taking???

[LionsInTheStreets]

you don't need it, if you don't really want to,you need to listen to the doors

[BohaVasho]

Thanks for the lyrics, been loking for them for a long time and could never find anything

[nicolwei]

ohhhh che bel sound psichedelico..

..lisergico...!

[supnet45]

13th floor elevator es increible el psicodelico del ritmo... son impresionantes y ericksson es o debe haber sido los mejores compositores junto con bobdylan y jim morryson

[MongkeKhan]

Finally someone has uploaded Rollercoaster. One of my fav tunes by one of my fav bands...Thanks!!!