Summer of love, liberation, 1967, escape, rebellion, LSD, freedom, experimentation, Haight Asbury, acid trips. It’s all groovy. It’s all psychedelic! Here are 15 essential psychedelic tunes celebrating an era of spiritual expansiveness and mind blowing good music!

1965

The Byrds – Eight Mile High

1966
Love – 7 and 7 is / N° Fourteen

The Count Five – Psychotic Reaction

1967
13th floor elevators – Slip Inside This House
Available on Easter Everywhere

Rolling Stones – 2000 Light Years From Home
Available on Their Satanic Majesties Request

Strawberry Alarm Clock – Incense And Peppermints

The Pretty Things – Defecting Grey
Available on S.F. Sorrow

The Seeds – Pushin’ Too Hard

The Electric Prunes – I Had To Much To Dream Yesterday
Available on Electric Prunes

1968
Tommy James And The Shondells – Crimson And Clover

Iron Butterfly – In A Gadda Da Vida

Status Quo – Pictures Of Matchstick Men

1969

White Noise – Love Without Sound
Available on An Electric Storm

The Youngbloods -  Darkness, Darkness
Available on Elephant Mountain

Donovan – Barabajagal

Tags: Psychedelia, Vinyl

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