Psychedelic/Hippie music?

Question

I'm seeing this guy that totally belongs in the late 60s.

He knows about so many bands and all these kinds of stories, and I feel some what lower, because I don't have much knowledge about it.

I'd like to know some psychedelic bands to look up and listen to, and the best songs.

Or folk/rock.

And even anti-folk!

No mean answers :)

Thanks

I already know who jefferson airplane, the beatles, pink floyd, and the who are.. i can't think of anything else right now, from the answeres, but I know alot of what has been said already!

I'D LIKE SOME GOOD SONGS TOO!!

Answer 1

Strawberry Alarm Clock
Jefferson Airplane
The Doors
Moby Grape
Cream
The Yardbirds
Steppenwolf
The Amboy Dukes
Procol Harum
The Moody Blues

Answer 2

100 greatest psychedelic songs and bands that u might wanna check out:

1. The American Metaphysical Circus - The United States of America
2. Tomorrow Never Knows - The Beatles
3. Grace - Country Joe & The Fish
4. Interstellar Overdrive - Pink Floyd
5. Are You Experienced - Jimi Hendrix Experience
6. At The Mountains of Madness - H.P. Lovecraft
7. Other Side of The Sky - Gong
8. Dark Star - Grateful Dead
9. Bass Strings - Country Joe & The Fish
10. Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds - The Beatles
11. Spare Chaynge - Jefferson Airplane
12. Strange Days - The Doors
13. I Am The Walrus - The Beatles
14. My White Bicycle - Tomorrow
15. Translucent Carriages - Pearls Before Swine
16. Bracelets of Fingers - The Pretty Things
17. Beacon From Mars - Kaleidoscope
18. China Cat Sunflower - Grateful Dead
19. Venus In Furs - The Velvet Underground
20. Magoo - Country Joe & The Fish
21. White Rabbit - Jefferson Airplane
22. Oxo - Bruce Palmer
23. In The Arena - West Coast Pop Art Experiemental Band
24. The Parable of Arable Land - The Red Crayola
25. Comin' Back To Me - Jefferson Airplane
26. The Gift - The Velvet Underground
27. Horse Latitudes - The Doors
28. Maiden of The Cancer Moon - Quicksilver Messenger Service
29. The Red Telephone - Love
30. Electrollen - H.P. Lovecraft
31. Castle In The Clouds - Gong
32. Zig Zag Wanderer - Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band
33. The Child Bride - Earth Opera
34. Section 43 - Country Joe & The Fish
35. Eight Miles High - The Byrds
36. I've Got Levitation - 13th Floor Elevators
37. Hallucinations - Tim Buckley
38. You're Gonna Miss Me - 13th Floor Elevators
39. Nightfall - The Incredible String Band
40. Dear Mr Fantasy - Traffic
41. 1906 - West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band
42. The Ballad of Freddie & Harry - Clear Light
43. Itchycoo Park - Small Faces
44. Hurdy Gurdy Glissando - Steve Hillage
45. Keep Your Mind Open - Kaleidoscope
46. Strawberry Fields Forever - The Beatles
47. Cloud Song - The United States of America
48. A Child's Smile - Clear Light
49. Mind Garden's - The Byrds
50. Interlude - Bruce Palmer
51. Mechanical World - Spirit
52. Dancing Madly Backwards - Captain Beyond
53. Set The Controls For The Heart of The Sun - Pink Floyd
54. Heaven Is In Your Mind - Traffic
55. And The Gods Made Love - Jimi Hendrix Experience
56. She Comes In Colors - Love
57. Ether Ships - Steve Hillage
58. Leiyla - West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band
59. Creation - The Incredible String Band
60. Rack My Mind - The Yardbirds
61. Mona - Quicksilver Messenger Service
62. In My First Mind - Steve Miller Band
63. Splash, Now I'm Home - 13th Floor Elevators
64. Astronomy Domine - Pink Floyd
65. See Emily Play - Pink Floyd
66. Sky Pilot - Eric Burdon & The Animals
67. And I Wish I Were Stoned - Caravan
68. The Beauty of Time Is That It's Snowing - Steve Miller Band
69. Yoo Doo Right - Can
70. Now Your Time Has Come - Tomorrow
71. Joy of a Toy - Soft Machine
72. Images of April - Pearls Before Swine
73. Paper Sun - Traffic
74. Rosemary - Grateful Dead
75. A Very Cellular Song - The Incredible String Band
76. Ritual #1 - West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band
77. Just The Thought - Eric Burdon & The Animals
78. Paranoia #2 - Hawkwind
79. Flashback - Moving Sidewalks
80. Death By Fire - Earth Opera
81. Magic Man - Caravan
82. Pat's Song - Country Joe & The Fish
83. Lather - Jefferson Airplane
84. If I'm Good - Alexander 'Skip' Spence
85. Walking Thru My Dreams - The Pretty Things
86. Medication - The Chocolate Watch Band
87. Roller Coaster - 13th Floor Elevators
88. Why Can't I Be Free - Spirit
89. White Bird - It's a Beautiful Day
90. Green of My Pants - The Red Crayola
91. Chusingra - Jefferson Airplane
92. Abba Zabba - Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band
93. Orange & Red Beams - Eric Burdon & The Animals
94. These Things Too - Pearls Before Swine
95. Alice In Blunderland - Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band
96. Piece For Piano & Electric Bass Guitar - The Red Crayola
97. 10,000 Words In a Cardboard Box - Aquarian Age
98. Upside Down - Hawkwind
99. Madman Running Through The Fields - Dantalian's Chariot
100. Barbie Doll's Hysterectomy - Hoodoo Meat Bucket


here's a music video by the doors:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xocvGX0S6s

Answer 3

Pink Floyd(early)
Jefferson Airplane
The Doors
Cream
The beatles (1967)
Country Joe & The Fish
Grateful Dead
United States of America
Jimi Hendrix Experience
Velvet Underground
The Moody Blues
Syd Barrett

Answer 4

Im Fixin To Die Rag...Country Joe & The Fish
For What Its Worth...Buffalo Springfield
We Aint Got Nothin Yet...Blues Magoos
Incense & Peppermints...Strawberry Alarm Clock
Whit Room...Cream
Pushin Too Hard....The Seeds
I Had Too Much To Dream ...Electric prunes
Light My Fire, Riders On The Storm, L.A.Woman.....The Doors
Purple Haze, All Along The Watchtower...Jimi Hendrix
Piece Of My Heart, Me& Bobby McGee, Down On Me....Janis Joplin
White Rabbit, Somebody To Love....Jefferson Airplane
Turn,Turn,Turn....The Byrds
Mr Tambourine Man....The Byrds
You Were On My Mind....We Five
Journey To The Center Of The Mind...Amboy Dukes
I Love You...The People
Time Has Come Today....Chambers Brothers
Like A Rolling Stone....Bob Dylan
Will that start you out? Go to amazon.com, music and type in 60's rock, or psychedelic 60's and read the songs off the cds they have. These are just some in my collection. I'm in my 50's, so I have lots of music from that era!

Answer 5

JEFFERSON AIRPLANE!!!! You said you already know them, but one must-hear song by them is Spare Chaynge, which most people have no heard of.

Grateful Dead - Throwing Stones, Sugar Magnolia, Attics of my Life, Fire On The Mountain, Hell in a Bucket, Playing in The Band, The Music Never Stopped, Touch of Grey, Scarlet Begonias, Stella Blue

Jimi Hendrix: Bold As Love (for me this is the ULTIMATE psychedelic song. You know how people talk about seeing colors in music? This is what they mean) Castles Made of Sand, Killing Floor, Gypsy Eyes

Flaming Lips: Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robot Pt. 1, Fight Test, All We Have Is Now, Ego Tripping at the Gates of Hell

Bob Dylan: Tangled Up in Blue, My Back Pages, Don't Think Twice, It's Alright, Masters of War, Simple Twist Of Fate, Girl from the North Country, Lay Lady Lay

Sufjan Stevens: Concerning the UFO Sighting Near Highland, Illinois, The Seer's Tower, Chicago, The Man Of Metropolis Steals Our Hearts, For the Windows in Paradise

also look into Iron & Wine, Simon & Garfunkel, and Neil Young for folk.

Answer 6

Iron Butterfly
Steppenwolf
Sly and the Family Stone
Janis Joplin
Black Sabbath
Blood Sweat and Tears
The Who
Creedence Clearwater Revival
Yes
Traffic
Pink Floyd
Eric Burdon and the Animals

Answer 7

it sure takes me back -- most of possibilities have been mentioned; re the one with "100 Best" -- debateable or not, nothing much else to add; only to say, if I may, re all of the examples given: many were 'one-hit-wonders' [Strawberry Alarmclock as a prime example];
Jefferson Airplane 'borderline psychedelic' -- Whaaat? -- quintessential example of Haight-Ashbury psychedelia;
Arlo G. "greatest folk singer of 60's": Whaaat? -- silly & stupid stuff, & nothing compared to Bob Dylan, & what about Crosby Stills & Co. [Pop/Folk/Rock?]?;
some, like Stairway to Heaven -- (one of greatest Rock anthems of all time, still:) -- maybe a bit after-the-fact, wouldn't put it in Hippie category [in terms of the Year, at least] per se;
& Phish -- correction, answerer probably got this mixed up with Country Joe & the Fish.
Classics: Iron Butterfly -- a complete natural trip-and-a-half -- can be called Symphony for drums & Orchestra!; (grab your anti-freak-out pills;)
Cream -- one of the best, bar none;
what about Eric Burdon & the Animals: San Franciscan Nights (slow ballad, very nice. "Fly Trans-Love Airways ~ "), & Monterrey;
& Chamber Bros. -- whether strictly in this genre or not -- as far as I know, coined the term (something like) Let's get Psychedelicized(!).
King Crimson; Ravi Shankar [in different collaborations]; in a way: Mark Bolan & T-Rex, Doobie Bros. [the latter 2: I saw in concert, Montreal 1970];
some of these guys are still with us; some, not knowing the recommended dosages of new products, or thru other misadventures, went up to 'The Spirit in the Sky' [a great song in itself] --
more or less (quoting In My Life by the Beatles),
"Some have gone and some remain
All these places had their moments
... I still can recall
Some are dead and some are living
In my life I've loved them all".
& the list goes on,
the beat goes on. (Thanx Sonny said the Old Man)

Answer 8

My husband is into all of the 60s and 70s music, and I'm a child of the 80s. When he began introducing me to some of the music that he liked, I really got into it. I bought some cds, listened to the classic rock stations, and dug through his bootleg tapes and cd collection.
Some of the best times that we have had in our ten years of marriage, have been listening to music, attending concerts, and talking about who he has seen and where he has been (at least the shows that he remembers).
You can get lists and lists of artists and albums from folks, but it's so much more enjoyable to learn from the person that you want to share those things with.

Answer 9

Vanilla Fudge is probably one of the more prominent. You keep me hanging on is there big hit.

Donovan was a solo artist, Arlo Guthrie for folk/stick it up the establishment.

Many were borderline pschedelic ie Jefferson Airplane, Blues Magoos, Cowsills etc

Answer 10

Jefferson Airplane and almost anything from "Surrealistic Pillow", Iron Butterfly and "Inna Godda-Da-Vida", Cream "Wheels of Fire" early Pink Floyd, Country Joe and the Filsh "Electic Music for the Body and Soul", early Grateful Dead and early MC5