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The following is a list of artists considered to be general purveyors of the psychedelic rock genre ... [59] [60] [61] The Great Society [14] [23] Hawkwind [62] [63 ...
As pop music began incorporating psychedelic sounds, the genre emerged as a mainstream and commercial force. [33] Psychedelic rock reached its peak in the last years of the decade. [7] From 1967 to 1968, it was the prevailing sound of rock music, either in the whimsical British variant, or the harder American West Coast acid rock. [34]
The Hollies psychedelic B-side "All the World Is Love" (February 1967) was released as the flipside to the hit single "On a Carousel". [ 140 ] Pink Floyd's " Arnold Layne " (March 1967) and " See Emily Play " (June 1967), both written by Syd Barrett , helped set the pattern for pop-psychedelia in the UK. [ 141 ]
Classic Garage Rock - includes profiles and lyrics of 60s garage rock bands and songs—have inventory of records rented to film studios; Cosmic Mind at Play - discusses garage and psychedelic records of the 60s along with band histories; Down The Line – news, information, and reviews of 1960s bands
The 13th Floor Elevators debut single "You're Gonna Miss Me", a national Billboard No. 55 hit in 1966, was featured on the 1972 compilation Nuggets: Original Artyfacts from the First Psychedelic Era, 1965-1968. Seminal punk rock band Television played the Elevator's song "Fire Engine" live in the mid-1970s.
The song's instrumentation contains the titular tambourine as well as an electric sitar, [10] a frequent signature of the so-called "psychedelic sound". Another hook is the heavy, psychedelic tape echo applied to the word "play" in each chorus and at the end, fading into a drumroll ("Listen while I play play play play play play play my green ...
The Seeds' first single, "Can't Seem to Make You Mine", was a regional hit in Southern California in 1965. The song was also played regularly on AM rock stations in northern California (and probably elsewhere), where it was well received by listeners, and eventually went on to become, and is considered today, a '60s cult classic song.
The song is one of the many songs quoted and parodied on the 1976 album The Third Reich 'n Roll by the avantgarde group The Residents. "Psychotic Reaction" was also covered during the 1970s by The Radiators from Space (B-side to "Enemies", 1977) and by Television , who included the song in their early sets which emphasized the "rave-up" section.