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- A distrust of technology. Tomorrow's World: Home Computer Terminal 20 September 1967 - BBC. 3rd party content may contain ads - see our FAQs for more info.
- A rejection of America. The staple of British beat music before 1965 was American blues. The psychedelic bands looked to British culture for inspiration, including The Beatles.
- Classical music. In the film, Jim McCarty from The Yardbirds says: "We used to listen to classical music - Stravinsky, all sorts of stuff - and then when we got in the studio we were experimenting with it."
- Jazz. Jazz was also a huge influence, especially on groups like Cream (above) who had a jazz drummer in Ginger Baker and smashed the conventions of the three-minute pop song by going on extended, spontaneous jams, like bebop artists had before them.
Fortunately, most of the groups associated with the scene managed to leave their mark with at least a single or two. This list aims to document the 50 best non-album British psychedelic songs.
In Britain psychedelic pioneers created music that was steeped in whimsy and surrealism, less aggressive and minimalist than their American counterparts. It merged improvisation and sonic experimentation to create longer songs, incorporated the influence of Beat poetry and modern jazz, and utilized Eastern instruments such as the sitar.
Jun 20, 2024 · From The Beatles and The Stones to Hendrix and the Floyd and beyond... Radio X tunes in, turns on and presses "play" on some of the finest examples of psychedelic music in history.
Find British Psychedelia Albums, Artists and Songs, and Hand-Picked Top British Psychedelia Music on AllMusic.
This discography attempts to catalog every UK psychedelic release, both singles and album releases, between the years 1966-1969. If an album is not fully psychedelic, then relevant psychedelic tracks will be noted in the description (if it is, then "entire album" is noted).
