Seerix, your choices are great (well, the two that I've actually heard, "Echoes" and "Astral Traveller"), but I would call these prog rather than psych. Of course, that's not that big a deal, since the two sub-genres have always been closely related.

I don't know much about psychedelic music, but I like these songs:

- Jimi Hendrix : All Along The Watchtower

- Pink Floyd : Shine On Your Crazy Diamond [1-7]

- King Crimson : Moonchild

Cream - White room
Pink Floyd - Comfortably Numb
Jefferson Airplane - White rabbit

Some obvious choices, I know. I didnt choose King Crimson, it seemed to much like Prog. Rock, but I guess Pink Floyd is also Progressive. Did Led Zeppelin do anything Psychedelic? Like, perhaps, Dazed and confused?

They definitely had elements of psychedelia in several songs (like the middle section of Whole Lotta Love) and the main guitar in Dazed and Confused and even later on in albums like Houses of The Holy, but they never have really been considered part of the psychedelic movement...

As a side note, Jimmy Page's very cool psychedelic lead guitar in Donovan's Hurdy Gurdy Man has always been among my favorites...

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Jimmy Page definitely contributed to the psychedelic era, through his work with the Yardbirds and as a session guitarist. However, when he formed Zeppelin, he pretty much was inventing a new genre...though I'm not sure what it should be called...

I love KC but I just can't bring myself to like that song. The first few minutes are great, but the 9 minutes of dissonant jamming sounds too much like filler to me.


Hmm top 3 psychedelic songs? Well I make no claim that these are the best, but they are my personal favorites:

1. Street Song - 13th Floor Elevators
2. White Rabbit - Jefferson Airplane
3. My White Bicycle - Tomorrow

Does anyone know what the Mama & Papa's song "California Dreaming" would constitute as? I wanted to put that instead of "White Rabbit", but I really don't know if that's psychedelic... probably isn't anyway.

Oh hells I forgot about that one. Great choice D'yer. Did you ever notice how many great psychedelic songs have the word 'white' in the title?


PS. can someone tell me how to quote someone where it says "originally posted by ...."? Cause as I'm quoting now I'm just cut and pasting their text using the Quote button.

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I love My White Bicycle.. I like their song Revolution even better..

I wouldn't classify California Dreaming as psychedelic, but the Mamas and Papas had the hippie look...


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If you quote the whole message, like I did just now, it automatically adds ''Originally posted by ...'' between the i's in brackets.
And on the colours, I don't know. Maybe the music is just really colourful.

call me cliche if you want but i always loved the doors. thats my all time favorite psychadelic band, followed by floyd but i guess i always liked their proggy stuff more.