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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 DMT, LSD, mescaline, and psilocybin mushrooms, to experience synesthesia and altered states of consciousness.
This is a list of compilation albums featuring recordings entirely or mostly in the garage rock style of music, including variations of the genre ranging from basic garage rock and frat rock to folk rock-influenced and psychedelic garage rock. Most of the recordings compiled on these albums was originally recorded in the period between 1963 ...
Five Years Ahead of My Time: Garage Rock from the 1950s to the Present. London: Reaktion Books. ISBN 9781789140941. Clayson, Alan (2002). The Yardbirds: The Band that Launched Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, Jimmy Page. San Francisco: Backbeat Books. ISBN 9780879307240. DeRogatis, Jim (2003). Turn on Your Mind: Four Decades of Great Psychedelic Rock.
Nuggets is a series of compilation albums, started by Elektra Records in 1972 [1] and continued by Rhino Records thereafter. [2] The series focuses primarily on relatively obscure garage and psychedelic rock songs from the 1960s, but with some hits and pop-oriented songs also included.
It was voted number 479 in the third edition of Colin Larkin's All Time Top 1000 Albums (2000). [7] In 2003, the album was ranked number 196 on Rolling Stone's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time, [8] maintaining the rating in a 2012 revised list. [9] It was later ranked down at 405 on the 2020 edition. [10]
"Light My Fire" has been widely considered as the Doors' signature song, [41] [42] and a quintessential work of the psychedelic rock genre. [2] In 2004 and 2010, the song was ranked at number 35 on Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time, [43] then it was re-ranked at number 310 on the 2021 list. [44]
Take a trip down memory lane as you try to identify these iconic '60s songs based on snippets of their lyrics. From rock legends like Jimi Hendrix and The Beatles to folk icons like Bob Dylan ...
The Psychedelic era was the time of social, musical and artistic change influenced by psychedelic drugs, occurring from the mid-1960s [1] to the mid-1970s. [2] The era was defined by the proliferation of LSD and its following influence in the development of psychedelic music and psychedelic film in the Western world .