#60s psychedelic garage

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13th Floor Elevators, Austin (1967)

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You Can't Be Trusted by The Seeds - A fierce garage tune with attitude!

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SAFE AS MILK (TAKE 5) CAPTAIN BEEFHEART & HIS MAGIC BAND [SAFE AS MILK, 1967]

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*** The Stillroven ***

* Cast thy burden upon the stone *

1966 Spectacular Garage Beat Psych from Minnesota

their ventures into psychedelia, such as "Cast Thy Burden Upon the Stone," are filled with strange little touches -- the latter melds sitar flourishes and garage punk textures successfully into a compelling whole, with some influences of early Pink Floyd showing up in the second half, totally out of left field.

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eric burdon & the animals, the best of eric burdon & the animals

archive / discogs

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Pink Floyd backstage at 5th Dimension Club, 1967

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brotherhood, circa 1968 🌾

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Sky Saxon (The Seeds) - 1968.

Photo by Earl Leaf

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"Contrast" by Count Five is a lesser-known track from the American garage rock band, best known for their 1966 hit Psychotic Reaction.

It showcases the band's signature fuzzy guitar tones, dynamic rhythms and gripping energy that define the garage rock and proto-punk sound of the mid-1960s.

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The Electric Prunes- Underground (Psychedelic Rock, Garage Rock, Psychedelic Pop) Released: August 1967 [Reprise Records] Producer(s): David Hassinger

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Two children in a motel making love in our own grave

And we are not embarrassed, but we're filled with worms and dirt

It took me a long time to think of a reply to this, and this is what I came up with. Pls pls pls listen to this song, I picked it out just for you.

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Album Review #50 - En el maravilloso mundo de Ingeson by The Speakers

This album feels like an orphaned child in the vast landscape of music, completely forgotten in its own land. It represents an eclectic mix of beautiful amorphous Psychedelic Pop, sleek Garage Rock and pretty Baroque.

Rock never truly formed a movement in Colombia around that time (the examples of these era are limited to a handful of artists). Radio took longer to get here due to the country's challenging terrain—three Andean mountain ranges no less, and when it finally took off, all genres that preceded Rock, the Swing, Blues, etc, were long gone, leaving Rock to fight with no context as to its existence and therefore ending with a handful of enthusiasts. And this album? This album was one of those incredible exceptions. Even a lot of Rock artists in the 60s were influenced by Presley and others, they wanted the rebellion and were looking for imitation, it was only when these guys said, "hey, lets experiment and look for some wacky sounds!" That this album came to light. Do you think a label ever accepted to produce it? Never, absolutely no fucking way, not in a million years. It was independently produced in a limited run of 1,000 copies with money of the band members themselves who managed to sell around 850 copies door to door. The studio? It was lent by the owner once they added its name to the album title. It was the first of its kind back then and it was available, because a lot of people still preferred to keep recording the old fashioned way so the studio wasn't being used by many. This record came to be without the infrastructure to support its artistic statements and the fact it exists is just wild.

It sounds very influenced by The Piper at the Gates at Dawn but with a closer approach to Baroque Pop. Oda a la Gente Mediocre with it's polyrhythmic jam, the Medieval Ode of Por la Mañana, the quirky Historia de un Loto. Many songs here pull a kaleidoscope of beautiful soundscapes. Socio-political commentary like Si La Guerra es Un Negocio, and the beautiful solo section in Nosotros, Nuestra Arcadia. Everything here is vibrant and wonderfully intricate. It is music made by and for those who wished to explore. It has an air of stream of conciousness and surrealism with an air of playful fantasy and fairy tale that I really love.

This is the type of thing that you do, no one acknowledges for 40 years, and then, half a century later, someone stumbles upon it and someone comes to you and tells you, “Hey, this was pretty cool!” The album isn't even available here, the 2008 reissue? It was made in Spain. Most available copies? You get them from the United States. Most people never cared for it or even knew of its existence. But the truth is that this album is simply and always be incredibly beautiful. It will be, forever and always, one shining rare gem of its own kind.

7/10

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Today's compilation:

The Best of 60s Rock / Rockin' 60s 1986 / 1987 Garage Rock / Psychedelic Rock / Proto-punk / Blue-Eyed Soul / Pop-Rock / Hard Rock / Acid Rock

Well, if you thought that this would be a well-rounded and thoughtfully put together look back at 60s rock like Priority Records' Best of 50s Rock was, you'd be wrong, because rather than provide a collection of songs that were reflective of all the different strains of rock that had manifested throughout that decade, the label just leaned pretty hard on the adjacent branches of garage and psychedelic rock instead. And while those are two types of rock that are substantial and indispensably integral to those years, they're definitely not fully representative of the decade as a whole.

So with this album, you get a pretty terrific grip of songs, and each of them are a 'highlight,' but given how expansive the scope was for this series' 50s counterpart, this release's overall lack of variety ends up leaving a little bit to be desired.

And Humble Pie's "Hot & Nasty" may be a terrific piece of bluesy boogie rock too, in which Steve Marriott sports his higher-pitched and passionate Rod Stewart-inspired rasp, but it's also a song that actually happens to be from 1972! So, like, what is it even doing on here?! That's like putting The Beatles' "Love Me Do" on a 50s album, man! Do better, Priority!

Highlights:

The Lovin' Spoonful - "Summer in the City" Steppenwolf - "Magic Carpet Ride" Seeds - "Pushin' Too Hard" Count Five - "Psychotic Reaction" Standells - "Dirty Water" Box Tops - "The Letter" Joe Cocker - "Feelin' Alright" Humble Pie - "Hot & Nasty" Blues Magoos - "(We Ain't Got) Nothin' Yet" Shocking Blue - "Venus" Blue Cheer - "Summertime Blues" Outsiders - "Time Won't Let Me" Three Dog Night - "Eli's Coming" Monkees - "(I'm Not Your) Steppin' Stone"

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The Misunderstood

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Brian Jones passed this day in 1969.

1942-1969

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