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 picturing itself in a boat on a river from 75 to 51...
75. The Pretty Things- "S.F. Sorrow Is Born" (1968), in which S.F. Sorrow is born.
74. Love Sculpture- "In the Land of the Few" (1968), in which Dave Edmunds makes one of the all-time most ferocious psych records before deciding that playing pub rock is good enough.
73. Jefferson Airplane- "The Ballad of You & Me & Pooneil" (1967), in which Jefferson Airplane do things with Winnie the Pooh and "Everybody Needs Somebody to Love" that send A.A. Milne and Solomon Burke fleeing from the room in terror.
72. Tommy James and the Shondells- "Crimson and Clover" (1969), in which the words are no more profound than "Mony Mony" but the music will turn your brain into a fluorescent river of goo.
71. The Who- "Jaguar" (1967), in which The Who leave one of their best recordings off The Who Sell Out, and it's still the best Who album!
70. The Monkees- "Tapioca Tundra" (1968), in which Mike Nesmith leaps off a cliff and dies.
69. The Move- "Blackberry Way" (1968), in which The Move tell The Beatles, "Stick yer Penny Lane up yer arse!"
68. Jefferson Airplane- "Martha" (1967), in which Paul Kantner pervs over a teenage girl and composes a song for her that probably gave her months of nightmares.
67. The Left Banke- "Dark Is the Bark" (1968), in which The Left Banke can't even look at a nice tree without seeing gloom and nothing but gloom.
66. The Who- "Whiskey Man" (1966), in which John Entwistle shows that you don't need to do hallucinogens to hallucinate.
65. Small Faces- "Itchycoo Park" (1967), in which Small Faces somehow sing things like "it's all too beautiful" and "I feel inclined to blow my mind" without ever losing their down-to-Earth, Cockney coolness.
64. The Rolling Stones- "We Love You" (1967), in which The Rolling Stones get together with two of The Beatles and create rock history and one hell of a scary psychedelic nightmare about loving one's jail wardens with all due sarcasm.
63. Pink Floyd- "Astronomy Domine" (1967), in which why does it all got to be so terribly loud?
62. Procol Harum- "Shine On Brightly" (1968), in which you know you're listening to a psychedelic record when everything in the right channel switches places with everything in the left channel halfway through the song.
61. The Rolling Stones- "She's a Rainbow" (1967), in which the Bad Boys of Rock and Roll's chipmunk alter-egos sing "ooh-la-la, ooh-la-la-la-laaaaa!"
60. The Supremes- "Reflections" (1967), in which The Supremes record the apex of Motown psych.
59. The Monkees- "Pleasant Valley Sunday" (1967), in which The Monkees finally tell it like it is about the suburbs. Take that, PTA!
58. Small Faces- "Lazy Sunday" (1968), in which Steve Marriott's neighbors have no room for ravers.
57. The Beatles- "I'm Only Sleeping" (1966), in which why don't we keep that lazy theme going!
56. Pink Floyd- "Lucifer Sam" (1967), in which Syd Barrett gives his cat acid, which should probably be illegal.
55. Cream- "I Feel Free" (1966), in which Jack Bruce expresses more with a hum than most singers do with a binder full of lyrics.
54. The Cyrkle- "Turn Down Day" (1966), in which the other band that used a sitar that Brian Epstein managed create a perfectly psychedelic summer day.
53. The Kinks- "Wicked Annabella" (1968), in which it's Halloween every day!
52. Pink Floyd- "Point Me at the Sky" (1969), in which Pink Floyd do their best song and most people never even hear it!
51. Love- "Alone Again Or" (1967), in which Arthur Lee clearly feels slighted because Bryan Maclean gets credit for writing Love's best song.
Trip on to #50-26... (COMING SOON)
