This Is Psychedelia: Over 3 Hours of Mind-Expanding Acid Rock
This Is Psychedelia: Over 3 Hours of Mind-Expanding Acid Rock
Customer Review: Anyone bother to ask if Lou Reed was ‘psychedelic’?
I don’t own this compilation, although I’m familiar with nearly all of the music. Whilst most tracks may reasonably be categorised as ‘psychedelic’, the elephant in the room is surely The Velvet Underground, whose presence here suggests that the compiler was using too much of the product which inspired everyone else on the album.
Calling the Velvets a psychedelic band is a bit like calling Frank Zappa a hippie, their music as distant from psychedelia as New York City is from California. The Velvets came from an altogether more sinister place than the West Coast bands, using heavier drugs to explore darker instincts than the sunnier, more optimistic climes of psychoactives. Tripping out to ‘White Rabbit’ always seemed to make sense; try it with ‘Venus in Furs’, however, and you could be storing up a mess of trouble.
Customer Review: ‘An Intelligently Compiled, Excellent Value, Box Set’
As somewhat of a newcomer myself to the delights of psychedelic music, I must say that this cd box set for ‘newbies’ like myself seems to be the perfect place to start. Whenever you are unfamiliar with a new genre of music, its always nice to come across the odd hit single here and there and this collection manages to strike the balance between the obviously familiar and the not so obvious. Tracks like Jefferson Airplane’s ‘White Rabbit’ and Status Quo’s ‘Pictures Of Matchstick Men’ of course I already knew but killer tracks like The Mooche’s ‘Hot Smoke And Sassafrass’ and It’s A Beautiful Day’s wonderful (best track on the whole set for me) ‘White Bird’ I’d never heard before. Each cd works well as a listen in its own right which is a distinct bonus and all 3 cd’s contain a very strong selection of tracks. What with this and the also excellent ‘Marmalade Skies’ compilation I think I am learning fast about great 60’s music and enjoying how to appreciate music from the era. If you’ll pardon the pun this set is a great trip (through time) so treat yourself.
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