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History

Psychedelic Era

Psychedelic rock began as a underground music genre, but it eventually became popular enough to move into the mainstream, through albums like Revolver by The Beatles and Their Satanic Majesties Request by the Rolling Stones. For the album by The Haunted, see rEVOLVEr. ... This page may meet Wikipedias criteria for speedy deletion. ... Their Satanic Majesties Request is a psychedelic rock album by The Rolling Stones recorded and released in 1967. ... The Rolling Stones are an English rock music group that rose to prominence in the early 1960s during the British Invasion. ...

Although most Psychedelic pop groups were otherwise conventional rock/pop bands (i.e. Strawberry Alarm Clock) that merely ornamented their songs with a host of stereotypical psychedelic dressings (sitars, tape music, fuzz bass, backward tape etc.), many bands and artists did incorporate the style in a more organic fashion, using the conventions to accomplish the "trascendental" ends to which psychedelia originally committed itself. These included such artists as Sagittarius, Donovan, and Love. Strawberry Alarm Clock was a psychedelic rock band from Los Angeles, best known for their 1967 hit Incense and Peppermints and their appearance in the film Beyond The Valley Of The Dolls. ... Premla Shahane playing a sitar, 1927 The sitar is probably the best-known South Asian instrument in the West. ... Tape music is a form of music which began soon after tape recording was invented, as people could now create sounds that were for the first time identical with each performance. ... Sagittarius was a late-60s studio group devised by producer and songwriter Gary Usher. ... Donovan Philips Leitch (usually known simply as Donovan) (born May 10, 1946, in Maryhill, Glasgow) is a Scottish musician. ... Love was an American rock group of the late 1960s and early 1970s. ...

While the psychedelic era in the 60s, the conventions as utitlized in psychedelic pop remained in music into the 70s, and might be said to have become a permanent part of the musical scene, as a listener can still hear certain "psychedelic" aspects in many artists, such as Beck. In addition, there are many "new psychedelic bands" exploring the same landscape via various routes. These brave souls - skirting mass popularity - include such bands as Bardo Pond, Floorian, Bevis Frond, and Mazinga Phaser. And there are occasional groups which reacvh "loftier heights" of public recognition, such as Mercury Rev and - perhaps the best example - the Flaming Lips. The Psychedelic era refers to a musical and artistic style in the years between 1965 and 1975. ... For other uses, see Beck (disambiguation). ... Bardo Pond are an American psychedelic rock band formed in 1991. ... The Bevis Frond is a musical group whose range covers hard edge to melancholy vintage indie rock to poetic, classic-rock songcraft with a thick Walthamstow accent. ... Mercury Rev are an American rock music group, formed in the late 1980s in Buffalo, New York. ... The Flaming Lips (formed in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma in 1983) are an idiosyncratic and acclaimed American alternative rock band. ...

The fact seems to be that "psychedlic" is not really a distinct musical genre, as much as it is a set of musical/studio conventions, and a tendency to push sonic and "trascendent" envelopes. As such, psychedlia can be seen as a permanent pathway for all genres which seek to stretch the bounsaries of their own modes of expression, just as the blues was used by Jimi Hendrix to explore more "cosmic" avenues, and mainstream pop was pushed to its limits by The Beatles and The Beach Boys.

Revival

As artists like Prince and Lenny Kravitz were making modern Psychedelic soul and bands like Echo & the Bunnymen and Spacemen 3 were making modern mixtures of post-punk and psychedelia, a revived psych pop music scene was revitalizing itself for an alternative rock era. Because of technical limitations, some web browsers may not display some special characters in this article. ... Leonard Albert Kravitz (born May 26, 1964) is an American rock/hard rock singer, songwriter, producer, and guitarist whose retro-style amalgam of rock, pop, funk, and even techno is inspired by such music icons as Jimi Hendrix and John Lennon. ... Psychedelic soul is a subgenre of soul music that thrived during the late 1960s and early 1970s. ... Echo & the Bunnymen is a British rock group formed in Liverpool in 1978. ... Spacemen 3 were an English space rock band who formed in 1982 and whose career spanned from the post-punk to Acid House eras. ... Post punk generally refers to the particularly fertile and creative period following the initial punk rock explosion. During the first wave of punk, roughly spanning 1976-1983, bands such as The Sex Pistols, The Clash, The Ramones and The Damned began to challenge the current styles and conventions of rock...

Bands like XTC released albums under the name The Dukes of the Stratosphere under sixties-esque aliases such as Sir John Johns and The Red Curtain. XTC even released a straight-ahead psychedelic pop album under their own name, as Oranges & Lemons. XTC are an influential new wave band from Swindon, England. ... Oranges & Lemons is a Japanese band formed by a duo of music composers and performers, Masumi Itō (伊藤真澄 Itoh Masumi) and Yoko Ueno (上野洋子 Ueno Yoko). ...

Dream pop was also a style influenced by it's glacial settings and heavy use of mellotron's. It was a style of sort of cold gothic infused psychedelic pop. Dream pop is a type of alternative rock that originated in the early 1980s when bands like the Cocteau Twins began twisting New Wave melodies into sonic, echoing textures and mumbled vocals. ... Mellotron MK II The Mellotron is an electromechanical polyphonic keyboard musical instrument originally developed and built in Birmingham, England in the early 1960s. ...

Elephant Six Sound

The psychedelic pop album revival came fully with the Elephant 6 collective. A label that released Neo-psychedelia albums based heavily on the pscyh pop sounds. Bands like The Apples in Stereo, Chocolate USA, Neutral Milk Hotel and The Olivia Tremor Control released albums to much critical praise. Although Elephant 6 ended fairly soon after it started, its influence was felt and modern psychedelic pop continued with a cult audience well into the 2000s. The Elephant Six Recording Company was a musical collective founded in Athens, Georgia, USA, by Bill Doss, Will Cullen Hart (both, now formerly, of Olivia Tremor Control), Jeff Mangum (of Neutral Milk Hotel), and Robert Schneider (of the Apples in Stereo), the four of whom grew up making music in... Genre of free melodic music associated with indie rock that uses electronic, distorted and unusual (experimental) sounds ; including artists from completely divergeant musical horizons and genres (like new wave, alternative rock, shoegaze, space rock, and ambient) most are influenced by 60s psychedelia. ... The Apples in Stereo is an indie rock band associated with the innovative Elephant Six Collective, a group of bands also including Neutral Milk Hotel, Secret Square and Olivia Tremor Control. ... Cover of Chocolate USAs debut album All Jets Are Gonna Fall Today. ... Neutral Milk Hotel was a 90s American indie rock band. ... The Olivia Tremor Control was an Athens, Georgia indie rock band in the mid- to late 1990s and, along with The Apples in Stereo and Neutral Milk Hotel, was one of the three original Elephant Six projects. ...

Welsh Bands

Some Britpop groups from Whales experimented fairly widely while still retaingint a Britpop sense which gave them a psych-pop edge. Some groups who followed this trend included Gorky's Zygotic Mynci and the Super Furry Animals. Britpop was a British alternative rock and cultural movement which gained popularity in Great Britain in the mid 1990s, characterised by the prominence of bands influenced by British guitar pop music of the 1960s and 1970s. ... Gorkys Zygotic Mynci are a Welsh popular music band. ... Super Furry Animals (also known as SFA, the Furries and the Super Furries) are a Welsh rock band, with leanings towards psychedelic rock and electronic experimentation. ...

Examples of Artists and Albums

Psychedelic Era

• Beach Boys - Smiley Smile
• Bee Gees - Odessa
• Donovan - A Gift from a Flower to a Garden
• The Move - Shazam
• The Neon Philharmonic - The Moth Confesses
• Syd Barrett - The Madcap Laughs
• The Zombies - Odessey and Oracle

The Beach Boys 1976 album 15 big ones The Beach Boys are a pop music group formed in Hawthorne, California in 1961, whose popularity has lasted into the twenty-first century. ... Smiley Smile is an album by The Beach Boys, issued in 1967. ... The Bee Gees were a Manx-born Anglo-Australian singing trio that became one of the most successful musical acts of all time. ... Odessa is a Bee Gees album that was released in 1969. ... Donovan Philips Leitch (usually known simply as Donovan) (born May 10, 1946, in Maryhill, Glasgow) is a Scottish musician. ... A Gift from a Flower to a Garden is the fifth album from Scottish singer-songwriter Donovan, and marks the first double album of his career and one of the first box sets in rock music. ... The Move ca. ... Second album by progressive rock pioneers The Move, released in 1970. ... The Neon Philharmonic (formed 1967) was a psychedelic pop band led by songwriter and keyboardist Tupper Saussy and singer Don Gant. ... The Moth Confesses is the 1969 debut album by The Neon Philharmonic. ... Roger Keith Syd Barrett (January 6, 1946 – July 7, 2006) was an English singer, songwriter, guitarist, and artist. ... The Madcap Laughs was Syd Barretts first solo album after being replaced by David Gilmour in Pink Floyd for his erratic behaviour. ... The Zombies (formed in 1961 in St. ... Odessey and Oracle is a pop music album by the Zombies released in 1968. ...

Revival Era

• Apples in Stereo
• The Dukes of Stratosphear
• Elf Power
• The Essex Green
• Gorky's Zygotic Mynci
• Of Montreal
• The Shins
• The Sunshine Fix

Apples in Stereo is an indie rock band associated with the innovative Elephant 6 Recording Company, a group of bands also including Neutral Milk Hotel, Secret Square and Olivia Tremor Control. ... For the drug, see Ecstasy. ... Elf Power Elf Power is an indie rock band whose style often resembles psychedelic rock. ... The Essex Green, as pictured on the cover of their album The Long Goodbye. ... Gorkys Zygotic Mynci are a Welsh popular music band. ... of Montreal - l-r, Jason Nesmith, Nina Barnes, Kevin Barnes, Dottie Alexander, Bryan Poole, Jamey Huggins. ... The Shins is a musical group on Sub Pop records comprising singer and guitarist James Russell Mercer, keyboardist/guitarist/bassist Martin Crandall, bassist/guitarist Dave Hernandez, and drummer Jesse Sandoval. ... The Sunshine Fix is the solo project of The Olivia Tremor Controls Bill Doss. ...

See Also

• Psychedelic Rock
• Psychedelic Soul
• Neo-Psychedelia

Psychedelic rock is a musical style inspired by or attempting to replicate the mind-altering experience of drugs such as cannabis, psilocybin, mescaline, salvia divinorum, and especially LSD. There are also other forms of psychedelic music that started from the same roots and diverged from the prevalent rock style into... Psychedelic soul is a subgenre of soul music that thrived during the late 1960s and early 1970s. ... Genre of free melodic music associated with indie rock that uses electronic, distorted and unusual (experimental) sounds ; including artists from completely divergeant musical horizons and genres (like new wave, alternative rock, shoegaze, space rock, and ambient) most are influenced by 60s psychedelia. ...

Sources

• Psychedelic Pop description at All Music Guide
• Neo-Psychedelia description at All Music Guide
• Elephant 6