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Tag: Psychedelic Rock
The Beatles – Abbey Road: #9 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Because the world is round, it turns me on because the world is round.
The Doors – Strange Days: #12 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Cancel my subscription to the resurrection.
The Beatles – Revolver: #14 of best 1,000 albums ever!
All the lonely people – where do they all come from?
The Beatles – Rubber Soul: #28 of best 1,000 albums ever!
What goes on in your heart? What goes on in your mind?
The Beatles – The Beatles (White Album): #33 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Everybody’s got something to hide, except me and the monkey.
The Doors – L.A. Woman: #36 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Are you a lucky little lady in the city of light? Or just another lost angel, city of night.
The Beatles – A Hard Day’s Night: #40 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Someday when we’re dreaming – deep in love, not a lot to say – then we will remember things we said today.
The Beatles – Help! #50 of best 1,000 albums ever!
I believe in yesterday.
The Doors – In Concert: #51 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Not to touch the earth, not to see the sun, nothing left to do but run, run, run.
The Velvet Underground – The Velvet Underground & Nico: #68 of best 1,000 albums ever!
‘Cause everybody knows she’s a femme fatale.
The Velvet Underground – 1969 Velvet Underground Live With Lou Reed: #72 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Well, I’m beginning to see the light.
The Beatles – Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band: #81 of best 1,000 albums ever!
It was twenty years ago today when Sgt. Pepper taught the band to play.
Jimi Hendrix – Are You Experienced: #88 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Purple haze all in my brain.
The Beatles – Magical Mystery Tour: #97 of best 1,000 albums ever!
All you need is love, love. Love is all you need.
The Doors – Waiting for the Sun: #99 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Hello, I love you, won’t you tell me your name?
The Velvet Underground – Loaded: #124 of best 1,000 albums ever!
She started shakin’ to that fine fine music, you know her life was saved by rock ‘n roll.
The Doors – Morrison Hotel: #129 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Let it roll, all night long.
The Doors – The Soft Parade: #147 of best 1,000 albums ever!
The soft parade has now begun – listen to the engines hum.
Jimi Hendrix – Electric Ladyland: #152 of best 1,000 albums ever!
You’re just like crosstown traffic – so hard to get through to you.
Jesus Christ Superstar – The Original Studio Cast: #159 of best 1,000 albums ever!
But every word you say today gets twisted ’round some other way, and they’ll hurt you if they think you’ve lied.
The Beatles – Anthology 2: #183 of best 1,000 albums ever!
After a while you start to smile, now you feel cool. Then you decide to take a walk by the old school.
The Velvet Underground – The Velvet Underground: #192 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Linger on your pale blue eyes.
The Kinks – The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society: #199 of best 1,000 albums ever!
We are the Sherlock Holmes English speaking vernacular. Help save Fu Manchu, Moriarty, and Dracula.
Grateful Dead – The Grateful Dead: #205 of best 1,000 albums ever!
So take off your shoes, child, and take off your hat. Try on your wings and find out where it’s at.
The Beach Boys – Pet Sounds: #229 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Wouldn’t it be nice?
The Guess Who – American Woman: #246 of best 1,000 albums ever!
No sugar tonight in my coffee, no sugar tonight in my tea.
Jimi Hendrix – Axis: Bold As Love: #275 of best 1,000 albums ever!
If a six turned out to be nine, I don’t mind, I don’t mind.
The Beatles – Yellow Submarine: #292 of best 1,000 albums ever!
In the town where I was born, lived a man who sailed to sea.
Jimi Hendrix – Radio One: #309 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Just turn that dial, make your music worthwhile.
Pink Floyd – The Dark Side of the Moon: #354 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Breathe, breathe in the air, don’t be afraid to care.
Deep Purple – Shades of Deep Purple: #384 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Hush, hush, I thought I heard her calling my name now.
The Beach Boys – Wild Honey: #394 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Sweet sweet wild honey bee, eat up eat up eat up honey.
Jefferson Airplane – Surrealistic Pillow: #403 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Don’t you want somebody to love? Don’t you need somebody to love?
The Guess Who – Wheatfield Soul: #456 of best 1,000 albums ever!
These eyes cry every night for you.
Various Artists – Rushmore (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack): #467 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Wherein we examine the most important question of our time: what is the most Wes Anderson movie song ever?
The Creation – Our Music Is Red – With Purple Flashes: #517 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Why do we have to carry on? Always singing the same old song.
The Doors – An American Prayer: #527 of best 1,000 albums ever!
The music was new, black polished chrome, and came over the summer like liquid night.
Cream – Disraeli Gears: #619 of best 1,000 albums ever!
I’ve been waiting so long to be where I’m going, in the sunshine of your love.
Love – Forever Changes: #707 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Eclectic psychedelic rock released at the pinnacle of the Flower Power era.
Cream – Wheels of Fire: #741 of best 1,000 albums ever!
There are some powerful powerful, favorite favorite, classic classics going on here.
Funkadelic – Maggot Brain: #813 of best 1,000 albums ever!
A work of psychedelicized funk/soul/rock bizarro-genius that you may choose to hit and/or quit.
Unit 4+2 – Greatest Hits: #825 of best 1,000 albums ever!
It’s fun and rock and pop and a little quirky and very British Invasion.
The Doors – Other Voices: #833 of best 1,000 albums ever!
“Ray, Robbie, and John did Doors stuff post-Jim?” Yep, and this one’s really good!
Strawberry Alarm Clock – Incense and Peppermints: #873 of best 1,000 albums ever!
A kaleidoscopic spectacle of psychedelic hippie rock.
The Chocolate Watchband – Inner Mystique: #924 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Any band with a name that has a food word in front of a time telling device-related word has a huge shot of making this list.
Screaming Trees – Sweet Oblivion: #938 of best 1,000 albums ever!
It’s delicate (grunge?), but it all clicks.
The Brian Jonestown Massacre – Revelation: #945 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Melancholy yet upbeat, accessible yet deeply indie.
Moon Duo – Mazes: #954 of best 1,000 albums ever!
An unusual musical locale that’s hard to nail down, but well worth the journey.
Various Artists – Ultra-Lounge: On the Rocks (Part One): #955 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Irony and kitsch beget musical admiration beget deep nostalgia.