Psychedelic music – Poetry of the sub conscious
Psychedelic music or psychedelia covers a range of popular music styles and genres influenced by psychedelic culture that attempted to replicate or enhance the psychedelic. It emerged during the mid-1960s among folk rock and blues rock bands in the United States and Britain.
Listed is the Best psychedelic (rock) Songs of all time
- Shine on you crazy diamond live – Pink Floyd
“Well you wore out your welcome with random precision, rode on the steel breeze.
Come on you raver, you seer of visions, come on you painter, you piper, you prisoner, and shine!”
- Purple haze – Jimi Hendrix
“Purple haze all in my brain
Lately things don’t seem the same
Acting funny but I don’t know why
‘Scuse me while I kiss the sky”
- Echoes - Pink Floyd
“Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air
And deep beneath the rolling waves in labyrinths of coral caves
The echo of a distant tide
Comes willowing across the sand
And everything is green and submarine”
- Atonement - Opeth
“Rising moon and my skin is peeling
Past undone
Suddenly, I can’t justify
What I had become”
- Arriving somewhere but not here - Porcupine tree
“Never stop the car on a drive in the dark
Never look for the truth in your mother’s eyes
Never trust the sound of rain upon a river
Rushing through your ears”
- No Quarters – Led zeppelin (The song remains the same)
“Close the door, put out the light.
You know they won’t be home tonight.
The snow falls hard and don’t you know?
The winds of Thor are blowing cold. “
- Electric funeral – Black Sabbath
“Robot minds of robot slaves lead them to atomic rage
plastic flowers, melting sun, fading moon falls upon
dying world of radiation, victims of mad frustration
Burning globe of oxy’n fire, like electric funeral pyre”
- Disposition - Tool
Mention something, mention anything
- Careful With That Axe, Eugene – Pink Floyd
- Third eye – Tool
