450. The Byrds- "Old John Robinson" (1968). in which The Byrds take a sort of old-fashioned folk tune and bring it up to date with a baroque string interlude and mega-phasing.
449. The Moody Blues- "Voices in the Sky" (1968), in which The Moody Blues get dreamy, because that's pretty much all they did.
447. Tyrannosaurus Rex- "Dove" (1970), in which Tyrannosaurus Rex take their last gasp as an enchanting folk-rock duo before morphing into a glam-rock duo called T. Rex.
446. The Pretty Things- "Baron Saturday" (1968), in which S.F. Sorrow encounters one of those upper-crust barons who load you up with hallucinogens.
445. The Byrds- "I See You" (1966), in which Roger McGuinn noodles his Rickenbacker into submission.
444. The Beatles- "The Fool on the Hill" (1967), in which Paul McCartney writes off his trip to France as a business expense.
443. The Yardbirds- "Turn Into Earth" (1966), in which a band that boasted Jeff Beck amongst their ranks could still do extremely restrained minimalism.
442. Murray Head- "She Was Perfection" (1967), in which the brother of Giles from Buffy the Vampire Slayer proves there's more to him than Jesus Christ Superstar and "One Night in Bangkok".
441. Family- "Peace of Mind" (1968), in which Family very generously hand The Damned a melody to rip off for their own "Disco Man".
440. The Pretty Things- "My Time" (1967), in which you really can't complain about all the brass embellishments pop producer Steve Rowland slathered all over The Pretty Things' poppy psych toe-tapper.
439. Small Faces- "Long Agos and Worlds Apart" (1968), in which a quartet of jolly London blokes get really tripped-out.
438. Screaming Lord Sutch- "The Cheat" (1966), in which England's answer to Screamin' Jay Hawkins acts like he's England's answer to Imhotep.
437. The Temptations- "Psychedelic Shack" (1970), in which The Temptations remind us that they were singing about shacks long before The B-52's acquired their first wigs.
436. The Jimi Hendrix Experience- "If 6 Was 9" (1967), in which all the things that made Hendrix awesome mitigate his silly lyric and annoying recorder tooting.
435. The Doors- "Moonlight Drive" (1967), in which Kyle MacLachlan puts on a bad wig and wire-framed specs and earnestly mumbles, "Those are great fucking lyrics, man."
434. The Incredible String Band- "Job's Tears" (1968), in which The Incredible String Band stage some sort of folk-horror musical in which no one gets burned to death by a pagan cult.
433. Spirit- "Girl in Your Eye" (1968), in which Spirit sit cross-legged on a Persian rug and gaze off knowingly into space.
432. Donovan- "Guinnevere" (1966), in which the name "Guinnevere" makes its second appearance on this list, confirming that medieval shit was really hot during the psychedelic era.
431. Pink Floyd- "It Would be So Nice" (1968), in which Rick Wright proves he could have been a very good successor to Syd Barrett if Pink Floyd had been more interested in making good tunes than spacey blips and bloops.
430. The Velvet Underground- "Ocean" (1970), in which The Velvet Underground rerecord an excellent outtake from 1969, make it even more amazing, and still can't bring themselves to include it on a proper album for some reason.
429. The Cedars- "For Your Information" (1967), in which a Lebanese pop quartet lay down some monster raga-pop.
428. The Doors- "Spanish Caravan" (1968), in which Robby Krieger stomps the shit out of his fuzz pedal.
427. The Beatles- "Because" (1969), in which The Beatles' harmonies are heavenly enough to make you believe in God, even though God is totally made up.
426. The Velvet Underground- "Venus in Furs" (1967), in which the seemingly opposing worlds of psychedelic splendor and sadomasochism collide.
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