RE: (TV) Psychedelia

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-----Original Message-----
From: J. GERMAINE [mailto:jpg@sirius.com]
Sent: Thursday, August 24, 2000 8:08 AM
To: tv@obbard.com
Subject: Re: (TV) Psychedelia


My favorite Stones period is with Brian Jones and it includes "Aftermath "
and
"Between the.."
This was a band that a very rough creative edge. Brian Jones was the
catalyst in
that band.
Love "Forever Changes" also needs to be mentioned.

SCOTT ALDRICH wrote:

> Hello all.
>
> I hope you all are having a lovely summer. Here's some of my favorite
> psychedelic offerings, none too obscure I'm afraid: Between the Buttons is
a
> psychedelic pop masterpiece I think, straight punk on My Obsession or All
> Sold Out, whimsical fairy-like twee on Ruby Tuesday or She Smiled Sweetly
> (one of my favorite all-time Stones songs, along with Sittin' On A Fence
and
> I Am Waiting, also from the same "High-Brian Jones" era, as I like to call
> it), Dylanesque folk, harbingers of Beggars Banquet on Who's Been Sleeping
> Here?, funky R&B on Let's Spend The Night Together, English demented
> music-hall on Something Happened To Me Yesterday (very much like On With
The
> Show from Satanic Majesties). And how about that twisted blurry blue cover
> with Brian at his most other-worldly? That must have gone over well in
> January 1967. The piano (is it Ian Stewart or Nicky Hopkins?) is so cool
on
> this record, as is Charlie Watts. I think it's some of the weirdest
drumming
> on a pop record. Yeah, I know the Stones with Mick Taylor are great, but
> Aftermath, Buttons and Flowers (and most of Satanic Majesties) do it for
me
> anyday.
> Next, in the English music-hall/twee vein, I love the Kinks "Village Green
> Preservation Society", with it's lovely harmonies, endlessly refreshing
and
> inventive guitar melodies, swirling mellotrons, images of cats sitting in
> trees, getting fat and pointing out maps. The same feeling of Victorian,
> English nostalgia that the Beatles exude on Magical Mystery Tour (my
> favorite Beatles album). All of the Kinks songs are so wonderful from this
> period, but for me their psychedelic peak was Village Green and the
> Wonderboy single, with it's sissy la-la-la chorus like riding an antique
> carousel. Or the piano flourish at the head of Berkeley Mews.
> Also twee, the Zombies "Odessey and Oracle" of course, and Billy Nicholls
> "Would You Believe" on Immediate Records with the Small Faces, just
reissued
> on CD. An English Smile.
> Pink Floyd's Piper, and all of the Syd Barrett-era singles like Arnold
Layne
> or Candy And A Currant Bun. The Move's first record and the Who Sell-Out,
of
> course.
> Fleetwood Mac's "Then Play On" or Albatross always makes for excellent
> psychedelic listening.
> Side one of Love "Da Capo", the droning guitars and vocals on the Byrds
"It
> Won't Be Wrong" and "The World Turns All Around Her" from Turn Turn Turn,
or
> "Why" or "Lady Friend". "We're Only In It For The Money" by the Mothers,
> "Ptooff!" by the Deviants, Cheap Thrills by Big Brother &the Holding
> Company, Moby Grape's first record. Traffic's first two records.
> I ramble, sorry.
> Scott
>
> > From: "J. GERMAINE" <jpg@sirius.com>
> > Reply-To: tv@obbard.com
> > Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2000 17:12:54 -0700
> > To: tv@obbard.com
> > Subject: Re: (TV) Psychedelia
> >
> > 1) Small Faces "Odgen Nut Gone Flake" lp.
> > 2) Pretty Things "S.F. Sorrow" lp
> >
> > christopher hollow wrote:
> >
> >> I'm with Raymond on "Tomorrow Never Knows" - the pinnacle of the
Beatles
> >> achievements & "2000 Light Years From Home"... also "We Love You" is
one of
> >> the best Stones tracks ...
> >> Some of my favourites are the Monkees' "Porpoise Song", Traffic Sound's
> >> "Meshkalina", the West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band's "I Won't Hurt
You"
> >> and the Kinks' "Lazy Old Sun"
> >>
> >> but one great overlooked psych song is the Jimi Hendrix Experience's
"1983"
> >> ..
> >> i've also got a home recording of this track which is also amazing ...
> >>
> >> chris
> >>
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