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 seeing sounds and smelling colors from 250 to 226...
250. Jefferson Airplane- "She Has Funny Cars" (1967), in which Jefferson Airplane express the belief that owning several cars with pop-up chassis is really what makes a lady attractive.
249. The Pretty Things- "The Journey" (1968), in which S.F. Sorrow trips his nuts off.
248. Pink Floyd- "Scream Thy Last Scream" (1968), in which Syd Barrett is like,"Fine, Nick, you can sing this one, but I have to back you up...chipmunk style!"
247. The Rolling Stones- "On with the Show" (1967), in which The Rolling Stones start coming down from their LP-long acid trip and decide to take in a strip-tease while sipping bourbon and soda.
246. The Zombies- "Brief Candles" (1968), in which the only way The Zombies can get any classier is to start paraphrasing Shakespeare.
245. The Smoke- "My Friend Jack" (1967), in which The Smoke don't even try to hide that they're singing about some guy who eats lumps of sugar dowsed with acid, and so you can't be too surprised when radio stations ban it en masse,
244. The End- "Shades of Orange" (1969), in which confusion regarding Bill Wyman's role as producer cause a song by The End to end up on a bunch of Stones bootlegs even though it doesn't sound anything like the Stones.
243. The Zombies- "Beechwood Park" (1968), in which Paul Atkinson makes it rain.
242. The Poets- "In Your Tower" (1967), in which you get gut-punched by the lowest-blow guitar note ever.
241. Marmalade- "I See the Rain" (1967), in which orgy-loving pop hit makers score a psych classic that Hendrix apparently loved, possibly because the rhythm guitarist is doing a Hendrix impersonation.
240. The Smoke- "High in a Room" (1967), in which The Smoke once again refuse to play it cool with the drug references.
239. Procol Harum- "The Dead Man's Dream" (1970), in which Procol Harum seemingly invent British Goth Rock even though they'd already done that three years earlier.
238. The Nightcrawlers- "The Little Black Egg" (1965), in which a band no one's ever heard of releases a song no one has ever understood.
237. The Seeds- "Pushin' Too Hard" (1966), in which The Seeds seemingly invent punk and psych simultaneously even though they do neither.
236. The Pretty Things- "Mr. Evasion" (1967), in which The Pretty Things gets so irked about some guy that won't return their calls that they write an entire song about him.
235. Love- "She Comes in Colours" (1966), in which Love does for the Stones what the Stones did for Love when they wrote "What a Shame".
234. Pink Floyd- "Matilda Mother" (1967), in which Syd Barrett demands his mother read him another story and that she do it now!
233. The Kinks- "Lavender Hill" (1967), in which Ray Davies makes fun of hippies and inadvertently creates one of the finest hippie songs ever recorded.
232. Os Mutantes- "Panis Et Circensis" (1968), in which Os Mutantes go absolutely bananas and are just as cute as little imps while they do it.
231. Family- "Winter" (1968), in which Family take a swipe at my second-favorite season, but I can't help but love it.
230. The Monkees- "Daily Nightly" (1967), in which Mike documents the Sunset Strip demonstrations so obscurely that no one could possibly know it, and Micky refuses to learn to play the Moog synthesizer properly.
229. Pink Floyd- "Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun" (1968), in which Pink Floyd stake their claim as the only space-rock band that matters.
228. Donovan- "Season of the Witch" (1966), in which Donovan does lazy Hollywood music supervisors a big favor.
227. Family- "Mellowing Grey" (1968), in which it's unclear whether Family is playing the Mellotron or the Mellotron is playing them.
226. Traffic- "Heaven Is in Your Mind" (1967), in which Traffic reveal how conveniently located heaven happens to be.
Trip on to #225-201... (COMING SOON)
