Welcome back to Psychobabble's Psychedelic 500, in which I count my personal fave psych songs from 500 all the way down to #1! Today, let's see what's sampling the brown acid from 275 to 251...
275. The Byrds- "5D (Fifth Dimension)" (1966), in which The Byrds trip so hard that they pass right through the fourth dimension, which is vectors, and into the fifth one, which has freedom, which, honestly, is a much easier concept to grasp than vectors.
274. Small Faces- "Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow" (1967), in which Small Faces have all the day-types covered.
273. The Left Banke- "There's Gonna Be a Storm" (1968), in which The Left Banke brace for some clouds and rain.
272. Paul and Linda McCartney- "Long Haired Lady" (1971), in which 1970s Paul McCartney is all like, "Oh, yeah! Psychedelia! I remember when I used to do that!"
271. The Move- "Night of Fear" (1966), in which The Move rip-off the "1812 Overture" and end up with a song not nearly as annoying as Tchaikovsky's cannon-laden claptrap.
270. The Beatles- "Only a Northern Song" (1968), in which George's song isn't good enough for Sgt. Pepper's but it's good enough for that cartoon movie, ehh?!?
269. The Beach Boys- "Can't Wait Too Long" (1967), in which The Beach Boys turn their impatience into a magnificent mantra.
268. The Action- "Come Around" (1967), in which The Action graciously invite you to their big mod love-in.
267. Love- "¡Que Vida!" (1966), in which Love send every rock writer scrambling to figure out how to make that upside down Spanish exclamation mark on their keyboard.
266. The Beach Boys- "Do You Like Worms" (1966), in which Brian Wilson creates a psychedelic collage of pseudo-Hawaiian sounds that could never be mistaken for "Boogie Woody".
265. The Rolling Stones- "The Lantern" (1967), in which Mick Jagger gently rows you to the Isle of the Dead and Keith Richards says, "Wrrrrrrrk...gruggleBLUES RIFFgagggg."
264. The Beach Boys- "Wonderful" (1966), in which Brian Wilson thinks that believing in gods that don't exist is some sort of virtue, but he does it so beautifully you can't help but love him to pieces.
263. The Kinks- "Australia" (1969), in which The Kinks turn a down-to-earth tale of emigration into a jammed-out trip-fest full of spaced harmonies, Dave Davies's acidic soloing, and the sound of someone waving one of those pieces of sheet metal or whatever that makes a song sound Australian.
262. John Fred and His Playboy Band- "Judy In Disguise (With Glasses)" (1968), in which a misinterpretation of a Beatles psych masterpiece inspires a bubblegum psych masterpiece that proves Robert Plant did not invent the psychedelic orgasm.
261. The Turtles- "The Last Thing I Remember" (1969), in which The Turtles immensely improve upon a song from The Turtles Present the Battle of the Bands by not treating it goofily.
260. The Hollies- "Dear Eloise" (1967), in which The Hollies write you a leh-tuh to make you feel beh-tuh.
259. The Beach Boys- "Feel Flows" (1971), in which a group perhaps best known for their lightweight surf hits and dopey candy-striped shirts keep the spirit of psychedelia alive well into the seventies.
258. The Four Tops- "7-Rooms of Gloom" (1967), in which The Four Tops go house hunting and find one that they definitely will not be making an offer on.
257. Simon & Garfunkel- "A Hazy Shade of Winter" (1966), in which Paul Simon loads you up on hopelessness, ya damn hippie!
256. The Pretty Things- "I See You" (1968), in which The Pretty Things do harmonies so massive and powerful they pin you against the wall...and you like it!
255. Pink Floyd- "Bike" (1967), in which Syd Barrett very generously allows you to borrow his bicycle and introduces you to a mouse with an inexplicable name.
254. The Pretty Things- "Grass" (1970), in which The Pretty Things tell the squares they're just singing about lawns but the with-it groovesters know exactly what they're really singing about.
253. Creedence Clearwater Revival- "Walk on the Water" (1968), in which CCR apparently encounter Jesus and the experience leaves them deeply disturbed.
252. Led Zeppelin- "Dazed and Confused" (1969), in which Led Zeppelin write record the soundtrack for all acid trips to come in the 1970s.
251. Jeff Beck- "Beck's Bolero" (1966), in which Jeff Beck puts together what may be the first super group and takes all the credit for what may be the greatest rock instrumental of them all.
Trip on to #250-226... (COMING SOON)
...Flashback to #300-276
