GET IN LOSER, WE'RE GOING PSYCHEDELIC! Vol. 1

GET IN LOSER, WE'RE GOING PSYCHEDELIC! Vol. 1

As a child of the sixties, I have a huge soft spot for psychedelic music.  Fellow fans of the genre may have snapped up my PSYCHEDELIC SIDE OF TOM PETTY comp from a while back, and Tom’s so adept at it that he appears here, as well.

I feel like I achieved a good balance of songs by bands who were at the forefront of the psychedelic movement like The Beatles, The Stones, The Animals, The Zombies, Donovan, The Byrds, & The Fugs & the acts who were following the leaders like Paul Revere & The Raiders, The Pretty Things, The Lovin’ Spoonful, Kenny Rogers, & Tommy James.

Kenny’s group The First Edition was a country/pop group who knew a good song when they heard it, and Tommy James may have started out recording songs by Brill Building writers like Ellie Greenwich & Jeff Barry (Hanky Panky) & moved on to coming up with his own Merseybeat-styled numbers--but he quickly proved himself a master of psychedelia with songs like Crimson & Clover, and the track included here Sweet Cherry Wine.

On sabbatical from The Damned, frontman Dave Vanian recorded the side-project Naz Nomad & The Nightmares.  As did XTC when they adopted the nom de plume; Dukes Of Stratosphere.

Bob Seger came by his taste for it honestly, whereas a few others, like my beloved Everly Brothers, seem like bandwagon jumpers despite the high quality of their entry.

Dwarves did a whole psychedelic album, from which I plucked Average Dick, and Webb Wilder pretty much kept his involvement to a few tracks which include the psych classic; I had Too Much To Dream Last Night.  The Jam dabbled a little more than that, and even Southern Rock stalwart Duane Allman jumped on the lysergic carousel for a number.

While I could have easily come up with Volume 1 without it—I found another discussion string that offered up some deep cuts that will pop up on the SEVEN Volumes (132 songs) that I currently have compiled.  So please don’t rain on my parade by making a ton of suggestions for future editions… May I suggest we keep it to one per customer and try for something outside the box with Gwyneth Paltrow’s severed head in it?

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