Twenty-five 1967 and 1968 tracks

Axelrod, David - "Holy Thursday" (1968) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8j8pSu3U7WM
Country Joe & The Fish - "Section 43" (1967) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2yhiE03G0H4
Crazy World of Arthur Brown, The - "Time/Confusion" (1968) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cf7xA51kMes
Cream - "Those Were the Days" (1968) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6NSB-wKYL4w
Doors, The - "The End" (1967) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSUIQgEVDM4
Electric Prunes, The - "Children of Rain (1967) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJiDLit1Dcc
Family - "Voyage" (1968) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tG2Kc6dHbo
Fifty Foot Hose - "Fantasy" (1967) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cg4clssmIJA
Gun - "The Sad Saga of the Boy and the Bee" (1968) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2an6dXX-KWk
Jimi Hendrix Experience, The - "3rd Stone from the Sun" (1967) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-Rg5FGs-9w
Incredible String Band, The - "Very Cellular Song" (1968) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvvblmN1hEw
International Harvester - "Skördetider" (1968) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rveLxdiaLCk
Jefferson Airplane - "White Rabbit" (1967) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XR8LFNUr3vw
Kaleidoscope - "The Sky Children" (1967) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEXwUTuRwAU
Love - "The Red Telephone" (1967) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EtYS3EYjVyk
Pink Floyd - "Astronomy Domine" (1967) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qoHNnK3z_8
Quicksilver Messenger Service - "The Fool" (1968) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1WnBy4z5Jc
Red Krayola with The Familiar Ugly, The - "Pink Stainless Tail" (1967) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSFd73QtTgU
Serpent Power, The - "Endless Tunnel" (1967) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ax8FEtVXgBc
Silver Apples - "Oscillations" (1968) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QY-sHFgAbWo
Soft Machine, The - "Why Are We Sleeping?" (1968) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwc_gosvQ_A
13th Floor Elevators - "Slip Inside This House" (1967) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwSA0Tckwbk
United States of America, The - "The American Metaphysical Circus" (1968) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sb8Q4EHozjU
Velvet Underground, The & Nico - "Venus in Furs" (1967) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLQzaLr1enE
West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band, The - "Shifting Sands" (1967) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HU9imhQl98Q

Edited by Logan - September 21 2018 at 14:27

Getting the ball rolling is part of the game. Yes, they are rather on the orthodox side, although The Hendrix one may not be terribly well-known even to many classic rock fans. I started out thinking of the Pink Floyd song, so this poll led from there, and of course I had a lesser-known Jefferson Airplane track in my last poll of which this is a semi-sequel (I do love "White Rabbit" and those others you mentioned have a significance to me from my teenage years). I think it's rather fun to combine some very well-known tracks with fairly obscure ones (that potentially brings in people who might not post and look into the others otherwise).

Originally, I was just going to do a few (six or seven again), this time of an "Astronomy Domine" ilk, although I was faring worse trying to think of ones of the period like "Astronomy Domine" than with "Interstellar Overdrive", so I dropped that idea and just went for a variety of psych infused songs without worrying much if they were close in sound.

Some mighty fine tracks on that list...very hard to choose just one but.....I'm going for The Red Telephone by Love....Forever Changes is a brilliant album that gets overlooked by many. Play it now if you have a copy.....perfect music for the end of summer.

Went with PF, Jimi, Doors, Soft Machine, Cream, Airplane...If I was adding some of my own random '67/'68 favorites, I'd put:

Edited by The.Crimson.King - September 21 2018 at 16:55

The.Crimson.King wrote: Went with PF, Jimi, Doors, Soft Machine, Cream, Airplane...If I was adding some of my own random '67/'68 favorites, I'd put: Animals: San Franciscan Nights, Sky Pilot Association: Never My Love Leonard Cohen: Suzanne Easybeats: Friday on My Mind Lovin Spoonful: Darling Be Home Soon Nazz: Not Wrong Long Mama's and the Papa's: Creeque Alley Zappa: Status Back Baby Byrds: Wasn't Born to Follow Chambers Brothers: Time Has Come Today Family: 3x Time Giles Giles & Fripp: How do they Know? Richard Harris: Macarthur Park Simon & Garfunkel: Punky's Dilemma Small Faces: Itchycoo Park Steppenwolf: Magic Carpet Ride Soft Machine: Why am I so Short? And way too many Beatles/Stones/Procol/Floyd songs to possibly single out

I actually had Suzanne (1967) in my list, one of my all-time favourite songs, and I had the Byrds Eight Miles High from 1966 (another all-time fave of mine) before scaling it down and limiting it to 1967 and 1968 (those were two of the first I thought of when making the psychedelic list). Considered some of the others too. For another, I was sad not to include Donovan's "Hurdy Gurdy Man".    

Edited by Logan - September 21 2018 at 17:03

Love - Red Telephone

feel bad for picking it.. but jesus louise... one can hear it a thousand times..  and it never fails to sound absolutely groundbreaking and fresh.. amazing.. amazing amazing...

Kudos to Logan for some exceptionally classy choices.  (My only kvetch is that White Rabbit is the last JA track that I would have picked, given that After Bathing at Baxter's came out the same year, and even most of the tracks on the more commercial Surrealistic Pillow were better.)  Of course, that made voting all the more difficult.  There are literally only 3 out of the 25 that I don't know and love.  After considerable thought, I finally narrowed it down to the Quicksilver and the Serpent Power and went with the latter because such a great, but obscure, track needed some love.  I hope it gets more than just me.

You couldn't throw in one stand-out number of the Fabs? Los Beatles got slighted here.

^ Your post came in as I was composing this. I've heard a few great covers of Hurdy Gurdy Man, don't think I've heard Hillage's. Actually, if I were to do a Donovan, it would be Atlantis. I did a poll years ago with Atlantis and Cohen's Suzanne.

Rednight wrote: You couldn't throw in one stand-out number of the Fabs? Los Beatles got slighted here.

I'd be interested to see your own 25 option psychedelia poll of the period. I promise to vote for at least one of your choices and maybe recommend another based on your poll choices as well (hopefully it would be something new to you that you would enjoy).

I often think what an epic waste of time creating polls as it always seems to leave someone one disgruntled or unappreciative of the effort. I would suggest that if you can't find anything to comment on that is in the list, then you should probably just make your own poll. I'm always happy to hear of other choices that fit well with the others in the list, but I do wish that people would comment on my actual choices too. Which of these would you recommend not worthy of recognition in the poll and so should be replaced with the Beatles and which song by the Beatles? Not that I will change it now.

I did have The Beatles on a longer list ("A Day in the Life"), but they get plenty of attention and I was thinking about doing a second poll (I've often done these as series). Perhaps I should have avoided all the big names in retrospect. I am hoping that someone will discover something new to them that they enjoy when I make such polls.

As for the inclusion of White Rabbit, I do think that Socrates has a point. I was planning to include one off After Bathing at Baxter's, but hadn't decided which one, and so went for a well-known one. I tend to second-guess myself, partially because I've had many comments over the years with people claiming that I choose obscurities for the sake of being obscure, and this time I wanted to include some big names with many ones that I feel worthy of more recognition. Had I left off all big names, then perhaps someone like Rednight would have happily chosen a more obscure one (assuming that he either knows it or takes the time to listen to the youtube vids that I linked to).

Edited by Logan - September 24 2018 at 14:22