Psychedelic music

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Psychedelic music (sometimes called psychedelia^[1]) is a wide range of popular music styles and genres influenced by 1960s psychedelia, a subculture of people who used psychedelic drugs such as LSD, psilocybin mushrooms, mescaline and DMT to experience visual and auditory hallucinations, synesthesia and altered states of consciousness. Psychedelic music may also aim to enhance the experience of using these drugs.

Psychedelic music emerged during the 1960s among folk and rock bands in the United States and the United Kingdom, creating the subgenres of psychedelic folk, psychedelic rock, acid rock, and psychedelic pop before declining in the early 1970s. Numerous spiritual successors followed in the ensuing decades, including progressive rock, krautrock, and heavy metal. Since the 1970s, revivals have included psychedelic funk, neo-psychedelia, stoner rock and psychedelic hip hop, as well as psychedelic electronic music genres such as acid house, trance music, and new rave.

Psychedelic rock, also referred to as psychedelia, is a diverse style of rock music inspired, influenced, or representative of psychedelic culture, which is centred on perception-altering hallucinogenic drugs. The music is intended to replicate and enhance the mind-altering experiences of psychedelic drugs, most notably LSD. Many psychedelic groups differ in style, and the label is often applied spuriously.^[2]

Originating in the mid-1960s among British and American musicians, the sound of psychedelic rock invokes three core effects of LSD: depersonalization, dechronicization, and dynamization, all of which detach the user from reality.^[2] Musically, the effects may be represented via novelty studio tricks, electronic or non-Western instrumentation, disjunctive song structures, and extended instrumental segments.^[3] Some of the earlier 1960s psychedelic rock musicians were based in folk, jazz, and the blues, while others showcased an explicit Indian classical influence called "raga rock." In the 1960s, there existed two main variants of the genre: the whimsical British pop-psychedelia and the harder American West Coast acid rock. While "acid rock" is sometimes deployed interchangeably with the term "psychedelic rock," it also refers more specifically to the heavier and more extreme ends of the genre.

The peak years of psychedelic rock were between 1967 and 1969, with milestone events including the 1967 Summer of Love and the 1969 Woodstock Rock Festival, becoming an international musical movement associated with a widespread counterculture before beginning a decline as changing attitudes, the loss of some key individuals, and a back-to-basics movement led surviving performers to move into new musical areas. The genre bridged the transition from early blues and folk-based rock to progressive rock and hard rock, and as a result contributed to the development of sub-genres such as heavy metal. Since the late 1970s it has been revived in various forms of neo-psychedelia.

1962

August

The Tornadoes/Joe Meek  "Telstar"

1965

June

The Yardbirds  "Heart Full of Soul"

July

The Kinks  "See My Friends"

November

The Yardbirds  Having a Rave Up

December

The Beatles  Rubber Soul

1966

February

The Yardbirds  "Shapes of Things"

March

The Byrds "Eight Miles High"

May

Beach Boys  Pet Sounds


July

Donovan "Sunshine Superman"

The Yardbirds  Roger The Engineer

August

The Beatles  Revolver

Oct

Beach Boys   "Good Vibrations"

Nov

Love  De Capo


1967

February

Jefferson Airplane  Surrealistic Pillow


March

Pink Floyd   "Arnold Layne"

June

The Hollies   Evolution

Pink Floyd  "See Emily Play"

August

The Small Faces  "Itchycoo Park"

1968

April

The Zombies  Odessey & Oracle

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