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  • The beginning and middle are good, but it is missing The End.

  • Obviously this isn't to everyone's taste (and I don't want to spoil your fun) but it's pretty poor stuff, even for the late sixties. It's difficult to imagine why would anyone want to hear this again.

  • I gotta say this list is quite impressive.

    Some great bands I didn't know before.

  • There are two levels of psychedelic music. The first level are songs that have vocals in them that pertain to psychedelia i.e.Tales of Brave Ulysses, byCream, Journey to the Center of the Mind, the Amboy Dukes, Good Morning by Steve Miller. The second level is music that actually aids you in intense galactic tripping. This would be Astronomy Domine, The Narrow Way, Saucerful of Secrets, all, of course on Pink Floyds Umma Gumma. If you are tripping hard enough, you cant hear or understand words.

  • As a teen, I listened to The Doors, Beatles, Airplane, Hendrix, The Nuggets and Pebbles compilations etc, but once you've graduate from that stage and if you desire a real trip and you really want to hear mind-blowing Psyche, check out the early Mothers of Invention, The Spoils Of War and The Silver Apples. As far as Neo-Psychedelia, The Olivia Tremor Control and The Circulatory System Have A Peaceful Day All!

  • I think the poster was showcasing the obscurity of the tunes above, compared to the mainstream acts that always come to mind when people think about the 60's, particularly Psyche. The songs listed are Psych Pop and I have to agree with a few people, not my cup of tea but, it's a start for those truly interested in the genre beyond the mainstream shit. I agree with @Victorcorpsebride & @SteveAstronaut. It's about quality not rarity and dare to be different, be weird & ok with it.

  • my favorites of the 60s psychedelics are more of the pop stuff... but i guess thats where you start...

    I like, the doors, jimi hendrix, beatles, jefferson airplane, kinks, 13th floor elevators, early pink floyd, syd barrett...

  • i am an aspiring psychedelic rock musician watch?v=5QwtxYvYx7s&feature=re­lated

  • YES....

  • Very god list, i really enjoyed it... But! 13th Floor Elevators was missing :(

  • oh btw...the Doors were the first psychedelic band I've learned about...but they threw their "hippie" fans under the bus after the second album guys.

  • Don't worry guys...I can't prove opinion here but I can dig it and some of these picks of mine are based on your responses.

  • 1. I'm Only Sleeping - Beatles 2. My White Bicycle - Tomorrow 3. Eight Miles High - Byrds 4. Today - Jefferson Airplane 5. Dark Star - Grateful Dead 6. Are You Experienced - Jimi Hendrix Experience 7. Itchykoo Park - Small Faces 8. Bike - Pink Floyd 9. Country Joe and the Fish - Section 43 10. Madman Running Through the Fields - Dantalion's Chariot * Flowers in the Rain - The Move * Time - The Chambers Brothers * Nobody to Love - 13th Floor Elevators * Shapes of Things - Yardbirds * take ur pic
  • this list shoulf feauture Tomorrow never knows by the Fab Four From Liverpool

  • One should never leave out Country Joe and the Fish.

    I seen them all in the day and Country Joe truly went to Jupiter and back...........

  • Intresting i like it expecally the quick silver messenger service song im a hugh fan of them

  • play some real shit

  • @phoenixjdyoumg What is your definition of "real shit"? Lil Wayne?

  • whatever happened to the Mamas & the Pappas

  • The problem with using unknown 60s bands is that they didn't define psychedelic music. The "unknowns" sound great, but Jefferson Airplane WAS psychedelic and Country Joe and The Fish. The latter was one of the first bands to usher in psychedelic. Check out "Section 43"

  • This is not psychedelic!

  • Guess you've never heard of a band called Pink Floyd huh? Or Iron Butterfly? Cream?

  • good list, thnx for uploading made me discover alot great music (:

  • Charles Manson - Look at Your Game Girl. Even though he's a psychopath definitely should not be overlooked as far as music goes.

  • @iHaveEyedeas nice screen name, midwest stand up

  • @low72 thanks, midwest is the best forget the rest of the kids who test when we spit text.

  • Kinda missed the Electric Prunes "I Had Too Much to Dream (Last Night)" and Iron Butterfly "Inna Gadda da Vidda" in this little row.

    The last may be to famous and thus fall under the Doors/Beattles rule.

    Still, cool job. Nice to hear HP Lovecraft umongst them.

  • Kinda missed the Electric Prunes "I Had Too Much to Dream (Last Night)" and Iron Butterfly "Inna Gadda da Vidda" in this little row.

    The last may be to famous and thus fall under the Doors/Beattles rule.

  • Crimson King, or Aphrodite's Child?

  • @pssbdsm .....that song american metaphysical circus by the united states of america is trippy as fuck, especially with the animation by vince collins......true meaning of psychedelic!!!!!!

  • yeah? check out "waiting to die/ you can't ever come down...american metaphysical circus.... infowars.com

  • Velvet underground?

  • hendrix ?!

  • pink floyd?

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  • venus in furs should have been higher on the list. but overall I liked it

  • im tripping balls on shrooms and im hearing this shit 

  • I'm glad you didn't put up the obvious bands, great video. Oh and just because some of these bands did not have the fan base of The Beetles doesnt make them a bad band

  • @dyvelsten your list is very good check out the nuggets colection if you havent allready. ignore the ignorants.

  • damn funny comments here :D and thanks for the vid, u have a good taste.

  • this is awesome stuff! love this music and to 327409427 < weird name shut up dude he didnt put any major acts in there beacause if u knew the sixties you would already know them so by taking those out like hendrix:gypsy eyes, anybody from the 60's knows that tune im sure and because any phycadelicly smart person that knows they're stuff on this type of music already knows those songs maybe not these cause some of these i havent heard, Thanks for posting ,Thai

  • Don't forget these:

    Country Joe & The Fish: Electric Music for the mind, body, and soul

    The Doors: Waiting for the Sun

    JH Experience: Electric Ladyland

    Pink Floyd: Saucerful of Secrets

    Band of Gypsies: Band of Gypsies

  • I am guessing the person who uploaded this video does not understand the meaning of "psychedelic rock". With the exception of Quicksilver, this is all sissy music. Just my opinion, but after all, I did come of age in the late 60s.

  • Grate compilation thanks for posting :o)

    Yes yes, these discussions about the correct definition of styles.

    Only to approach music intellectual leads to a perfect organized world but good art means for everyone something different.

    Keep digging the music

  • Thank you so much for this, I've been scrounging for some more psychedelic music, and was starting to run dry. You can only listen to "My White Bicycle" so many times.

  • Come on...there's a gazillion videos up with hendrix etc

    This one got me to go out and buy an Illusion LP and had me running around looking for more QMS stuff

  • whys every one hating it was psycodelic or however u spell it at the time. dont like it just change the song!

  • @327409427 I know well by now that this list is not for everyone, but to call bands like Quicksilver Messenger Service, The Illusion and HP Lovecraft “pure junk” proves that you are a musically retarded clown.

  • I think you forget ""The piper at the gates of down" Pink Floyd's Album... songs like "Astronomy domine" and "Interstellar overdrive" should be here...

  • @esaddanny

    Most definately :)

  • @327409427 Hey man! Have another hit and MELLOW OUT, Man!!

  • @327409427 You're definetly a pure retarded fuck !

  • @327409427 YOU ARE GAY

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  • where is country joe and the fish??????

  • Where are The 13th Floor Elevators??

  • this isn't psyocodelic music songs like these are psyocdelic

    the beatles: "tomorrow never knows"

    the doors: "strange days"

    mgmt: "time to pretend"

    and much more

  • @beatlesfan07480 Your spelling is very "psyocdelic" my friend!

  • @dyvelsten lol nice comeback. Nice list too. I've only heard a couple songs on it so thanks for opening my musical eyelids.

  • @beatlesfan07480 you have no idea what youre on about if you think mgmt is psyche

  • @bdawgnigguhz but that song is to me and your opinon doesn't matter the beatles made a shit load of phsyocdelic music inculding songs by them like "within you without you, i'm only sleeping, only a nothern song, it's all too much. here are bands i think are psyocdelic ( and i fucking love these bands) the beatles the doors pink floyd the moody blues the rolling stones the mamas and the papas jimi hendrix queen
  • @beatlesfan07480 No dude. Atom Heart Mother - Pink Floyd is psychedelic.

  • @beatlesfan07480 mgmt, psychedelic? what are you fucking 15?

  • @beatlesfan07480 60's psychedelia is actually a little different from what is modern psychedelia. what would you describe these songs as then?

  • @beatlesfan07480 You're a fucking retard. I see you also discovered two new ways to spell psychedelic.

  • @BIGBOYPITBUL well mgmt are a newer psychedelic music it doesn't have to be in the 60s to be psychedelic

  • @beatlesfan07480 mgmt...psychedelic ?? omg to even mention an electronic act of today in a list of legends is soooooo wrong....btw I'm 21=)

  • @beatlesfan07480 I do hope this is the first and last time I ever see the name MGMT included within the same post as The Doors and The Beatles :-/

  • @beatlesfan07480 He clearly stated he is "ignoring all major acts" so why would they be in here??

  • crap

  • Just listen Turkısh psycodelic rock singer Erkin Koray.

  • and then comes 2010, with MGMT. they're bringing it back

  • To the people saying Green Day isn't bad, if you're listening to this kind of music, you probably aren't going to go directly to listening to Green Day. He's saying that people who listen to Green Day wouldn't technically like this variety of music.

  • OK. well maybe Green day aren't crap. Just not my cup of tea. Besides, if you want to hear the real stuff, go back to the Clash's first album. Tell me that you can't hear the Clash somewhere in there !

  • seems to be more bubble-gum than psychedelia... Beau Brommels=psychedelic???... get real. as much as i love QMS, i would hardly include them as psych... but, whatever floats your boat. to me the #1 psych band would be the 13th Floor Elevators

  • Why don't you knuckleheads read the title of the video before you start spouting off ? It clearly says Psychedelic USA. The English sound was so different from the American. They're both great, just different. Also, it sounds like a lot of the commentators are people who weren't around when all of this was happening and are judging it from a modern perspective, You can't make that call, especially when you're discovering it for the first time and you've been listening to crap like Green Day !

  • @slainteism I am a massive 60's fan dude, but Green Day aren't crap, kay?

  • Well besidesw the hate on this video...I LOVED this list. Great exploration. Fuck the regular bands. I enjoyed the different bands.

  • just shut up all of you if you dont like it go listen to something else no one is forcing you to be here >:(

  • @Bullettube I know you mean well but you don't know what you're talking about regarding UK psych. The Beatles recorded and released "Rain" and "Tommorrow Never Knows" in '66. We could go back even further to Miller's "Baby I've got news for you" . And Donovan? Always best to do homework before spouting off. Psych developed adjacently in both countries long before the San Fran sound came along.

  • Nice selection, and haters can piss-off!

  • Are these bands underground?

  • English psychedelic rock rules

  • Wonderful stuff but seems more a B list pop band record than anything Psychedelic.

    And to not have MC5 on this is just silly.

  • Wonderful stuff but seems more a B list pop band record than anything Psychedelic.

  • Another wannabe, trying to look cool.. Every songf on this list, i've heard before, and hate... its about QUALITY not RARITY....

  • @Victorcorpsebride Hey Loser! These groups are not that obscure! It seems to me that you don’t have any idea about 60s psychedelic rock!? Probably you were to busy wanking around searching for “Green Day” tracks, so you missed out some real quality acts like Quicksilver and H.P Lovecraft.

  • @Victorcorpsebride No, you don’t know! Its obvious that you don’t have an idea of 60s psychedelic rock, and looking through your favourite list make me wonder why you’re even in this discussion, now let me know your top 10 list or fuck off!

  • @Victorcorpsebride You should be ashamed of yourself!!! You are FULL of hate..it's a list of personal favourites, I think it's great that is not about the Doors, the Airplane, or the Grateful Dead. I'm happy that there are many (young) people who listen to 60s music and not today's shit. That's the main point..and what is H.P. Lovecrafts worst song is YOUR opinion...you think you are a "real fan"? I don't think so cause real fans are peaceful.Get a life,dude.

  • @Victorcorpsebride ...Where do you get off saying "i know more about music..." when you don't even have a fucking clue who the people are you are commenting about??? i don't know when you grew up, boy (it doesn't seem to me that you HAVE grown up) but i was there... and yes, we do call it "psychedelic rock". it saddens me to see these kids refer to The Doors and other mainstream FM rock groups as "psychedelic". obviously, they were not there.

  • @Victorcorpsebride Don't be so hostile. The stuff is nice, I like how they got the Beau Brummels thing in there. I just love Quicksilver, they were literally psychedelic to the core. It's all a matter of opinion, not this or that. If you were a psychedelic person, you wouldn't talk like that .....

  • @Victorcorpsebride you don't know shit you just pretend you do because you know everyone on hear is dumb enough to believe stupid piece of shit

  • @Victorcorpsebride - "Firstly, i know more about music, than any person commenting on this joke of a video" here in Australia we'd call you FigJam - Fuck I'm Good Just Ask Me. If you can't communicate without slagging off on people and you think you're so superior then why comment at all? Anyway thank you for taking the time to show us all what an arrogant opinionated tool you are. Have a nice day no go back to your mirror and admire yourself.

  • @dyvelsten Nothing wrong with Green Day, dude

  • @dyvelsten Whoo! H.P. Lovecraft!!!

  • @dyvelsten Hey man, I dig your list! and victor if you hate every one of these songs, your taste in music sucks, so who gives a shit what you think. post you own list, clown, and let idiots take pot shot at you.

  • @dyvelsten No Amboy Dukes? They were American, how can you not include them?

  • Interesantes bandas, jamas las había escuchado, buen aporte!

  • can ppl pls write the song title at the video description!!

  • Lord Love A Duck! Wish you could get that film on DVD on this side of the pond...

  • How dare you not include all the bands that we've heard a billion times before,don't you want to be like everybody else? Wierdo.

  • i saw this video to find some new tunes from my favourite age of music, and i got what i wanted :) thanks a lot :) subscribing and love your channel :) keep doing this great job :)

    

  • this list is incomplete because it doesn't have one of the greatest american musicians, along with bob dylan and elvis, mr. jimi hendrix

  • @dyvelsten I didnt mean elvis was psychadelic, i just meant that he along with dylan and hendrix, are the greates american musicians of all time.

  • Wow, great selections. A few, even I did not know. This video is very important for true historians-thank you.

  • great video dyvelsten, i hate how other idiots dont get the point of this video, youve introduced me to alot of great bands. thank you keep up the good work!

  • A much more appropriate title might have been '10 of the best generally unheard psych. songs of the late '60's."

  • very interesting..i'm 53 and never heard any of these...glad you didn't post the popular bands, as EVERYONE has heard those songs before..

  • What the younger people commenting here don't realize is how much influence the local bands in California had on the mainstream "big bands" of the 60s. The Brits were still doing 50's style rock when the San Francisco sound came along and they soon copied it.The psychedelic style was very anti-corporate, the music was written and developed by the bands, with no direction from corporate music directors and producers. Phil Spectors "wall of sound" style, used by the Beatles, was held in contempt!

  • omg how the FUCK could you miss Beatles?!! i'm may only be 18 but even i know that the Beatles deserved a spot in this vid!!

  • @PandaBoo92 Read what I posted above, the Beatles and other Brit groups, were famous for their version of American style Rock and Roll. In fact many of the earliest Beatle hits were covers of American classics: "Hey Mr Postman", and " Twist and Shout",for example. The Rolling Stones did "Tobacco Road" an American blues classic. The Animals did "House of the Rising Sun" which is an American folk song. It wasn't until the late 60's that the Brits broke away from their corporate masters!

  • so many dislikes - what a pitty ! this guy doesnt try to cover all the classics of hendrix and velevet underground, give him some credit

  • WHAT ABOUT SOFT MACHINE AND GONG?!?!?! Gong is the most psychedelic band of all time. (little green men flying around in teapots!!!)

  • @KarmicJuggernaut Soft Machine was mainly known as the Canterbury scene, some similarities to actual Psyche, but quite different. Both are not from USA anyway. Cheers.

  • keep it up !

  • like ur concept of leaving out the very popular ones...

  • awesome thank you for sharing

  • good selection i thought would be complicated to chose a special group cause the american spychedelic has the biggest production in this kind of music around the world , i didnt mean say another countries has not as well many great masterpieceof spychedelic music

  • Very nice!

    I like how people are acting up as if these ten were THE ten and ONLY ten songs that are the coolest/best in the 60s. People need to just relax and enjoy the music.

  • I don't think that you can compile a list of 10 songs that everybody can agree with, but I admire that you are willing to put together a fairly obscure list together, including a few bands I've never heard. Thanks.

  • Beau Brummels??????????? Laugh laugh

  • Interesting list. But shocked there is no mention of the 13th floor elevators. Kaleidoscope had a great folk psych thing going on but I'm fairly sure they're british.

  • QUICKSILVER NICE !!!!! love them!!!

  • You guys need to calm down...everyone was on acid anyway. It's fun just to see what came out of it all on the other end. That's what it's all about anyway right?

  • great vid bro dont let any homo tell u dif these are great bands although u did leeve out ten years after

  • whats the first one called

  • i love the nova and the garden

  • What is this? not close in fact a crock, I think you took to much acid.

  • ty for good music :)

  • hendrix is missing, doors are missing, pink floyd is missing, cream, beatles...

  • @plectrum94 How many times do I have to say this, Beatles, Pink Floyd and Cream are NOT from the USA, for Christ sake do your homework!

  • @dyvelsten yeah..but doors?

  • @dyvelsten

    But Dorrs are so.....

  • @dyvelsten but hendrix is, were's he?

  • @plectrum94 And Jefferson Airplane - White Rabbit ????!!!

  • @plectrum94 What would be the point of a list of PF, Cream and Beatles tracks that everyone has heard?? Thanks dyvelsten, heard some bands that I hadn't heard of to investigate. (that is the point)

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  • @plectrum94 beatles isnt psychadelic...

  • @AmbrillaMusic and who decides what is to be psychadelic?

  • actually certain songs of the beatles had the psychedelic feel, but in general, i wouldnt classify them as a psychedelic group. in any case, theyre british and this list is of american artistes.

  • HP Lovecraft is cool : White ship and so on..;very cool album!

  • no beatles??? wtf?

  • @cciemail

    Tomorrow Never Knows is by far...the best Psychedelic song ever!

  • definition of psychedelic = producing distorted sensory perceptions and feelings or altered states of awareness or sometimes states resembling psychosis; "psychedelic drugs, etc ... your music my friend is not psychedelic, but you tried

  • last 2 songs thats it

  • Now i know to what music i''ll save money for!

  • where the FUCK is the Grateful dead?!??!

  • @pandamangary they were rubbish

  • @eyewoodsay my ass, idk what you werent smoking but everyone loved them..

  • @pandamangary dont like em ...no sir not 4me....damn hippies

  • terrible.

  • terrible

  • you´re missing Donovans Hurdy Gurdy Man!! Allthough hes Scotish i think Jimmy Paige and John Bonham did a version of his song with him, in my opinion its one of the best psychodelic songs from the 60´s

  • From very good article on Wikipedia "Psychedelic Rock is a style of rock music that is inspired or influenced by psychedelic culture and attempts to replicate and enhance the mind-altering experiences of psychedelic drugs. It emerged during the mid 1960s among folk rock and blues-rock bands in United States and the United Kingdom......" and thats a good start point so no Who Animals Yardbirds but how about Electric Prunes and even some Beatles tracks.....

  • @tim60s321 - didn't it all start when Dylan went electric X USA blues, though ironically one of his most quintessential psychedelic renderings sounds highly acoutsic indeed. So does most of his other stuff actually. And I still get why he didn't want to do the Easy Rider soundtrack, if that was a true story.

    How Cocaine Abuse Ruined The 60s - When Crown Chakra Became Ego Mania.

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  • really interesting

  • well i like these songs :] good job :p

  • There's a reason why these songs are not popular

  • I like your clip, very interesting indeed. The lead guitar on No. 1 sounds like a human voice, at one point I thought it was backing vocals.

  • The Beau Brumels! I haven't heard that name in over 40 years! Thanks for bringing back the memory. I thought it was going to be forever lost in the ethereal time that was the 60s.

  • Where's all the Steppeunvele and Apryl Fool!? The title clearly says "USA," but that doesn't explain why there are no Danish or Japanese groups!

    I kid...But seriously, aside from Gentle Wanderin Ways (not my favorite) and Lord Love a Duck (I hate that song), I love this list. I've never heard of any of these bands and I appreciate the introduction.

  • good job!

  • Dude thanks for posting. I to like the classics but I love the obscure records.

  • You mean "In your opinion". I lived in LA through the entire decade and many of these songs I have never heard although I recognize Quicksilver in a 70's incarnation, not the original lineup with Cippolina. This is not definitive at all. Top psychedelic groups were Hendrix, Cream, Dead, Yardbirds, Zepp, Stooges, SF Groups (Airplane, QS, Big Brother), LA Groups (Doors, Iron Butterfly, Zappa, Captain Beefheart, Spirit) and London Groups (Beatles, Stones, Pink Floyd, Pretty Things) etc.

  • @clarkewi London group Beatles? Sure!? That takes the relevance in your comment to a new level.

  • @dyvelsten

    they were based in london . abbey rd studios