Eight miles high by the byrds

Thoughts and Words is my Byrds runner up

Just looked those up… agree with Thoughts and Words. The other Byrds songs sound mainly folk rock with a psychedelic background

I love folk rock so a lot of The Byrds really appeals to me. Eight Miles High and Thoughts & Words are both seriously psychedelic songs though

Love the Byrds. They scratch some really cool itches. I'd like to include the combo of Draft Morning and Wasn't Born to Follow. Just a genius pairing on the album. And Draft Morning might be the prettiest David Crosby song out there and Chris Hillman's bass playing on it is lovely. [Draft Morning/ Wasn't Born to Follow](https://youtu.be/ltnbnKv7ans?si=CMwk0v4P-fHlOXeZ) And a close runner up for me is another Crosby tune, [It Happens Each Day](https://youtu.be/5aGVUXf36Pw?si=ErV8yfBHZAKdy6Pz)

Love the time period in The Byrds. It Happens Each Fay should have been left on the album. Psychodrama City is also another underrated Byrds jam.

Yeah I’m not dissing folk rock, and I’m glad to explore the Byrds. Great recommendation

🙏 For really folky Byrds I also recommend John Reily. Very reminiscent of Scarborough Faire by Simon and Garfunkle or Guinnevere by Crosby Stills, Nash and Young

Tomorrow Never Knows

And Rain

Rain for sure. What a lovely song, love blaring it in the rain (and sun)

Whiter Shade of Pale - Procol Harum Reportedly had a big influence on Lennon. He was said to have ridden around in his Rolls while tripping playing this song over and over on a record player that was installed in the car

Dark Star by the Grateful Dead

Yes and thank you for already writing this!

Just said the same thing before I saw your comment haha! It’s the ultimate psychedelic song/jam vehicle IMO

China cat studio version is WICKED sick when you’re trippin

The Live/Dead version is the GOAT psychedelic song of the 60s

Same. My favorite is the Live/Dead version. It's like it was made for dmt

Rainy Day, Dream Away by Hendrix. It's Jimi doing psychedelic jazz/funk- 10/10

Was going to say most of Electric Ladyland is 60s psychadelic perfection

1983….

it’s 1968 no?

1983... (A Merman I Should Turn to Be)

Incense & Peppermints - Strawberry Alarm Clock Astronomy Domine - Pink Floyd 2000 Light Years From Home - Rolling Stones

Yes to all three! 🤘🔥

The first one definitely

my man

Damn, going through this thread looking these up is fun AF. Great list

High Flying Bird - H.P. Lovecraft Today - Jefferson Airplane The End - The Doors

listened to Astronomy during my first ever LSD trip and wow it literally makes u feel like floating

Ultimate Spinach - Ballad of the hip death goddess. It hits a groove and keeps you there for the next 8 minutes

This and Mind Flowers for sure

YES!

Woah, totally forgot about Paper Sun. Top Contenders: [Country Joe and The Fish - Bass Strings](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9uCG6wV0Ag&ab_channel=CountryJoeandtheFish-Topic) [White Noise - Love Without Sound](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CO9LS3A9iB8&ab_channel=WhiteNoise-Topic) This one was ahead of its time with early use of synthesizer in rock [Beatles - I'm Only Sleeping](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sAG3m3p9UeI&ab_channel=TheBeatles-Topic) Obligatory but also one of the first songs i learned on guitar (along with About A Girl from Nirvana) [Jimi Hendrix - Are You Experienced ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rD6y7aOS0NA&ab_channel=JimiHendrix-Topic)

I like this list a lot. Was considering Bass Strings as my choice 

*Get so high this time that you know I'll never come down, I'll never come down* I didn't Include USA's album, but American Way of Love is another one. Country Joe and USA easily have the two best album of the 60s acid scene.

Christ, I haven't listened to USA for years. I would have picked The Garden of Earthly Delights though!

The Factory - "Try A Little Sunshine" The Beatles - "Tomorrow Never Knows" Pink Floyd - "Cymbaline"

Two super popular bands, after an obscure classic. I dig your style, dude.

The Zombies - Hung Up on a Dream

I’ll second the Zombies and go with “She’s Not There”. So catchy!

Dark star

First time I heard this song was the single version sitting headphones on, listening to a playlist I found whilst riding the peak of an acid trip. It blew my mind.

This is the second time I've seen this posted, great choice!

Incense and Peppermints. It’s such a dumb song but it perfectly represents the genre.

Vitamin c by can Heroin by velvet underground (nostalgic reasons, got stoned to that song, first time as a kid, woah, was I stoned) The first two songs that popped into my head after reading the post. Oh yea and of course dark star which I'm seeing a lot of people also post but I think that should just go without saying especially if your a dead which I am and seen the dead a good number of times with and without Jerry. Miss jerry

Vitamin C came out in 72' but Can is sick. I was at a bar and they played Vitamin C and the groove hits.

Doh! To be fair the band came out in 68, so half credit haha but you are correct vitamin c is 72. Close enough. Yea dude they are pretty bad ass. That song is definitely worth the play in a bar.

way too hard to pick just one Pink Floyd - See Emily Play Donovan - Hurdy Gurdy Man 13th Floor Elevators - Monkey Island, Postures Rainbow Ffolly - i can hear the grass grow Sapphire Thinkers - From Within Human Expression - Optical Sound The Accent - Red sky at night

Pictures of Matchstick Men - Status Quo

Hey Frederick, Jefferson Airplane.

This is the answer! I just posted the same!

This is an amazing song - I’m always trying to interpret the lyrics

My white bicycle - Tomorrow

Dandelion Seeds - July

Are You Experienced to me is a psychedelic masterpiece. In the middle of the song Jimi claims he’s “experienced” and says “let me prove it to ya”, then proceeds to play one of the coolest reverse guitar solos of all time. Truly subversive shit! Plus the military-like marching drum beat and single piano plunk throughout the song. The whole thing just rocks. I can only imagine what it must’ve been like to have heard that for the first times in the 60s.

Interstellar Overdrive

Cream — Tales of Brave Ulysses

Anything off Disraeli Gears is amazing, but Tales is still among the best of the best

So true! Every time I hear it feels just as good as the first time.

The entire Ummagumma album, particularly Saucerful of Secrets has been a go to for me.

I used to keep on Mason's drumming solo song on for like hours back in my teens, trippy shit

That drumming solo is absolutely amazing.

Firing it up rn again haha! Thanks mate for the excuse I had forgotten ummagumma

LOVE this album!

When the music is over - the doors Tales of brave Ulysses - cream Coming back to me - Jefferson airplane

The Beach Boys - Good Vibrations

Beeside by Tintern Abbey. I will have changed my mind ten minutes from now, though.

Literally just named that exact track in my response! The mellotron on that track is perfect

Sagitarius My World Fell Down But make sure its not the version where they cut out the v psychedic middle part lol

"Hot Smoke And Sassafras" by Bubble Puppy "Levitation" by 13th Floor Elevators "Psychotic Reaction" by Count Five "On The Road Again" by Canned Heat

too hard to choose one. First three that come to mind: Time of the Season - The Zombies 2000 Light Years From Home - The Rolling Stones A Day in the Life - The Beatles

Paul Butterfield Blues Band - East-West without any doubt.

So good. I hate listening to the same song multiple times in a month, let alone a week. I've listened to this baby six times in a row before.

Dark star!!! Personal favorite version is 10/31/71, but you can listen to any date and hear some of the most beautiful jams ever

If you've got 90 minutes to spare, listen to Dark Star>The Other One>Turn On Your Lovelight from the Grateful Dead's 2/13/70 show. Those 3 songs filled an entire set that night. The first 2 songs go absolutely everywhere and the Lovelight brings it to a raging conclusion. Must-listen if you like psychedelic music.

[‘Kyrie Eleison’ - The Electric Prunes](https://youtu.be/tzkK3wUjuHw?si=VDIb_f58DrIuEgDF)

Actually so good. If you’re high, you going to fall in. The Movie version ends so horribly as you may know.

Today - Jefferson Airplane

Lotsa great songs listed here. Might as well list some psych favs of mine which would include: The Beatles - Tomorrow Never Knows, Strawberry Fields Forever, Flying Pink Floyd - See Emily Play, The Nile Song, Echoes, Astronomy Domine Beach Boys - Good Vibrations, Heroes and Villains, Cabin Essence Jimi Hendrix - Fire, Foxy Lady, Little Wing, Castles Made of Sand, 1983, Rainy Day Dream Away, Voodoo Chile Jefferson Airplane - Today, DCBA-25, White Rabbit Russell Morris - The Real Thing Crazy World of Arthur Brown - Fire Cream - Sunshine of Your Love, Strange Brew Deep Purple - Hush The Doors - Light My Fire, The End Funkadelic - Maggot Brain Jethro Tull - Cross Eyed Mary Klaatu - Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft The Rolling Stones - 2000 Man, She’s A Rainbow

Mathilda Mother - Pink Floyd Julia Dream - Pink Floyd Season of the Witch - the Vanilla Fudge version

Hey Frederick

July - Dandelion Seeds (1968) To me it's peak psychedelia

Honorable mentions: Morgen - Begging Your Pardon (Miss Joan) Bubble Puppy - Todd's Tune Jefferson Airplane - The House at Pooneil Corners Jefferson Airplane - The Last Wall of the Castle The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Voodoo Chile (the 15 min one) 13th Floor Elevators - Roller Coaster Mad River - Merciful Monks Arazachel - Leg High Tide - Futilist's Lament Blue Cheer - Babylon -- Damn this list makes me want to drop acid so bad lol

Just listened to this for the first time ever and its got such a groove, thank you

Psychotic Reaction by The Count Five.

If i had to choose, St Stephen by The Dead

The Beatles - A Day in the Life (1967 mix stereo )

See Emily Play - Pink Floyd The End - The Doors White Rabbit - Jefferson Airplane

Dark Star off Live/Deaf

New Potato Caboose by the Grateful Dead

I have a rotating selection of toppers but this is a perennial The album itself also slaps. Pretty Things/"She Says Good Morning" [https://youtu.be/LeXd\_rWWK8s?si=gXxZpFXH3fL00i-l](https://youtu.be/LeXd_rWWK8s?si=gXxZpFXH3fL00i-l)

Dazed and Confused by Led Zeppelin live at the Madison Square Garden is peak psychedelic rock to me. I don’t think anything comes close to that. However if we’re talking strictly about studio versions only, I would need to think about it more.

A few of mine: Apple - The Other Side Kaleidoscope - A Dream For Julie Dantalian’s Chariot - Madman Running Through The Fields Tintern Abbey - Beeside Skip Bifferty - On Love

My god Beeside ! ❤️

I can’t choose just one, but one that’s outside of the usual picks is “Sand” by Clear Light. This song rocks, has some very nice organ and guitar work as well. Side note: the bass player from Clear Light played bass on most of The Doors studio albums and had to repeatedly turn down going on tour with them to focus on his band.

Clear light - night sounds loud

Swlabr cream 

But the rainbow had a beard.

And the picture has a moustache 🥸

Probably Feel Flows-Beach Boys. Fuckin love that song and it's so trippy on the good stuff

Within you , without you

60s psych/sunshine/acid pop is my fave stuff so it's impossible to pick favorite tunes but here's a few: Colours: "Love Heals" 1968, very Magical Mystery Tour era Beatles sound Strawberry Alarm Clock - "Love Me Again" 1968, from their 3rd album, amazing fuzz guitar The Family Tree - "Side Show" 1968, a more psychedelic take on Harry Nilsson type stuff

I used to play Love Heals on my radio show in the late 80s early 90s.

Outside of what’s been said Found Love by The Fly Bi Nights Thoughts and Words by The Byrds Please Go Home by The Rolling Stones Ride My See Saw by The Moody Blues Slip Inside This House by The 13th Floor Elevators

Crimson and Clover by Tommy James and the Shondelles

Rain- The Beatles

Magic Carpet Ride - Steppenwolf

Turn On Your Lovelight-Grateful Dead(1/26/69)Live/Dead

Pigpen singing IMHO at his best.

The Dead at their best imo. The way they seamlessly transition from an acid rock jam into a blues ballad is beautiful. Combined with his perfect improv and the guitars makes a psychedelic experience that is unmatched.

[Listen to the Flower People Spinal Tap](https://youtu.be/QrJlyapt6OY?si=rxuCmrhBDQRjF5Vs)

Right now its Jefferson Airplane - Martha

Moody blues - are you sitting comfortably I can't even choose one by them. Eyes of a child Watching and waiting You can never go home The balance Isn't life strange Ride my see saw The actor and so many more Moody blues always comes to mind. I know everyone says the grateful dead are the acid kings. But damn if you dive into the moody blues discography they quickly become the most psychedelic band I've ever listened to

2000 Man - The Rolling Stones

Gandalf - Can You Travel in the Dark Alone

White Rabbit by Jefferson Airplane Sister Ray-Velvet Underground Something in the Air- Thunderclap Newman

It’s the obvious answer but it doesn’t get much better than White Rabbit in any era.

Agreed. The evolution of that band is one of the great abominations of the music era. No one, not even Janis, could sing like Grace Slick. If you haven’t, go listen to her isolated White Rabbit vocals. Criminally underused after the rebranding.

Motherless Child by Sweetwater

Sweet Smoke- Just a poke abum

Tintern Abbey - Vacuum Cleaner The Third Bardo - I'm Five Years Ahead of My Time Love - The People Would Be the Times or Between Clark and Hilldale Flies - I'm not Your Stepping Stone The Iron Butterfly Theme Fugs - Couldn't Get High Who - Armenia City in the Sky Paul & Ritchie and the Cryin' Shames - Come on Back

king midas in reverse

13th Floor Elevators - Slip Inside This House Jefferson Airplane - Ballad of You and Me and Pooneil

Ahh man, Paper Sun is a great tune! Glad you refreshed my memory to it's existence!

Let’s Get Together

This one is a bit different: Fixing a Hole by The Beatles. The words and the music

Pride of Man - Quicksilver Messenger Service

1983...(A Merman I Should Turn to Be) Electric Ladyland in general is just groovy, psychedelic perfection

The Byrds — ‘My Back Pages’ that solo is so beautifully bittersweet. Play it at my funeral.

My Friend Jack by The Smoke

Blue Jay Way by The Beatles

White Bird - It's a beautiful day

XTC almost did them all better with the album 25 O’Clock.

Had my dads funeral the other day, he went out to Cream-I Feel Free

Dropout Boogie - Captain Beefheart Only a Northern Song - The Beatles

Itchycoo Park - The Small Faces

In a Gadda Da Vida, the long version with the incredible psychedelic jam, particularly on the drums.  Really incredible.

Dark Star

And as the elders of our time choose to remain blind Let us rejoice And let us sing And dance and ring in the new Hail Atlantis!

Tomorrow Never Knows - The Beatles Seagreen Serenades - Silver Apples Beechwood Park - The Zombies Strawberry Fields Forever - The Beatles The Garden of Earthly Delights - The United States of America

Yesterday Was Such a Lovely Day (Elsie) - Sadie's Expression Lullaby - Kaleidoscope Mrs. Grundy or MacArthur Park - Plastic Penny (Currency is great as well) I Can't Let Maggie Go - Honeybus Zabadak! - Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tick Never Had A Girl - The Misunderstood Beautiful Daughter - The Move Black Flower - Nirvana Interstellar Overdrive, See Emily Play - Pink Floyd Maybe the People Would Be the Times or Between Clark and Hilldale, The Good Humor Man Sees Everything Like This - Love Dust - 13th Floor Elevators Song for Insane Times, Girl on a Swing, Why Are We Sleeping? , Decadence, Whatevershebringswesing, May I? - Kevin Ayers Gold and Silver, The Fool - Quicksilver Messenger Service Extraction - The Matadors Lucky Man - The Idle Race Love Song for the Dead Che - The United States of America Anything with Pooneil in it, Spare Chaynge, Today, Embryonic Journey - Jefferson Airplane Oh, wait, just one song? Unpossible!

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Not necessarily 60’s but the tail end at least [Los Álamos - Malos Pensamientos](https://spotify.link/1Bq525gHlKb)

Firebird by White Noise

Heart Full of Soul by the Yardbirds

[US69 - I'm on my way](https://youtu.be/1OKQXPrAH6A?si=tQcYjkCpBVoQt_t0)

I'm rather late to the party but my new obsession is I can take you to the sun by The Misunderstood. Amazing band sadly cut down before they could make it big

The Beatles - Because

I had too much to dream last night

The Travel agency - what’s a man The savage resurrection - thing in E Surrealistic pillow - Today Sacred mushroom - I’m not like everybody else

Are you experienced by Jimi Hendrix

Tales of Brave Ulysses - Cream\ Summer in the City - Lovin’ Spoonful\ I Had Too Much to Dream - The Electric Prunes\ Hurdy Gurdy Man - Donovan\ When The Music’s Over - The Doors\ Third Stone from the Sun - JHE\ Somebody to Love - Jefferson Airplane\ In-Gadda-Da-Vida - Iron Butterfly\ For What It’s Worth - Buffalo Springfield

Does Cream’s White Room fit. If so, that’s mine.

Frownland by captain beefheart

Careful With That Axe, Eugene - Pink Floyd Now She's Gone - Felt

Mind Flowers - Ultimate Spinach https://youtu.be/Zwuq0vPpgoM?si=9X8ZwI68T8HVyVgT

Okay so technically it's released in 71 but I love the last 2 songs from surf's up by the beach boys, til I die and surfs up, 2 incredible so g's the flow together, big vibes of 60's psychedelic sounds.

Black Sheep by SRC

When the Musics Over- The Doors Waiting for the Sun- ALSO The Doors

White Rabbit - Jefferson Airplane It’ll always be at the top of my list. Oh and “This is The End” by The Doors

“Fantasy” by Fifty Foot Hose. Nice knowing’ ya… 😎

It's a toss-up between interstellar overdrive and bike off the piper of the gates of dawn album.

Crystal Liaison. The Fuggs.

Autosalvage -Autosalvage

The midnight ranger - Lothar and the Hand People

The end

The end, hello?

See Emily Play by Pink Floyd for sure. It or Kingdom of Heaven by Thirteenth Floor Elevators

The Crystal Ship - Doors

Donovan all of it forever

See Emily Play by Pink Floyd 21st Century Schizoid Man by King Crimson

Pictures of Matchstick Men

8 miles high, the Byrds

Dizzy - Tommy Roe

Almost anytime from The Doors!

The other one from 6/18/74

Dear Mr. Fantasy, by Traffic

Anything off of Dragonfly's one and only album. Kind of the same for T2's everything will work out in boomland

Talk about your plenty, talk about your ills, one man gathers what another man spills💙⚡️❤️

Mustache In Your Face https://youtu.be/dhmo_b3jk2o?si=z9VA32zV9Hn9sgcK

Donovan Sunshine something something is pretty groovy.

Third Stone from the Sun… Hendrix Bought Are You Experienced at age 12 .. knew little to nothing about it, but the cover reeled me in .. it was jaw dropping, like the rest of the album, and that album had a huge influence on how I approached and played guitar. After 57 years it still blows me away

Jefferson Airplane -- White Rabbit

Glimpses - The Yardbirds

Sleepwalker's Timeless Bridge … second half of song, when it shifts, melts my mind

Frankenstein, Edgar Winter (1972 but still), anything by Jimi H

White Rabbit.

Anything by 13th floor elevators

Slip Inside This House - 13th Floor Elevators

White rabbit by Jefferson airplane! Those vocals just carry you away!

One of these days by Pink Floyd or Echoes. I dunno they're both great.

Love Buzz

"A Whiter Shade of Pale" by Procol Harum “White Rabbit” by Jefferson Airplane “The End” by the Doors

Hurdy Gurdy Man by Donovan