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Try and categorise stuff to make it interesting, unless you can think of an ultimate psych top ten, personally we would have to break it down (cos we cannot decide on 10 tracks!!!! and also we get to compile several charts instead of one!!!).

Assorted Favourites Psych Chart
1. Love - The Red Telephone
2. The Crazy People - Head Games and Other Assorted Crap
3. Spiritualized - Angel Sigh/Sway/200 Bars
4. Golden Dawn - The Way Please
5. The Flaming Lips - One Million Billionth of a Millisecond on a Sunday Morning
6. Led Zeppelin - Dazed and Confused
7. The Music Emporium - Gentle Thursday
8. Aorta - Strange
9. Tommy James and the Shondells - I Am a Tangerine
10. United States of America - Cloud Song
11. The Dukes of Stratosphear - Bike Ride to the Moon
12. Arthur Brown - Time/Confusion
13. The Red Crayola - Pink Stainless Tail
14. The Incredible String Band - The Mad Hatter's Song
15. Jimi Hendrix - Are You Experienced
16. Spacemen 3 - Suicide
17. The Index - Eight Miles High
18. White Noise - Love Without Sound
19. The Church - Is This Where You Live
20. The Fuzztones - Ward 81
21. The Rolling Stones - 2000 Lightyears From Home
22. The Velvet Underground - Heroin
23. Pink Floyd - Jugband Blues
24. The 13th Floor Elevators - May The Circle Remain Unbroken
25. Dantalian's Chariot - Madman Running Through the Fields
26. My Bloody Valentine - Only Shallow
27. Captain Beefheart - Moonlight on Vermont
28. Traffic - Paper Sun
29. The Pretty Things - Defecting Grey
30. The Silver Apples - You and I
31. Opal - Soul Giver
32. Kaleidoscope - Taxim
33. The Outsiders - Zsarrah
34. Hawkwind - Born to Go

Submitted by Not Telling - September 2002


Today's top 10 obscure psychedelic albums you can get cheap!

Sick of paying 50, 100 or more dollars for highly-touted psychedelic rarities only to be disappointed when they don't live up to the hype?
Here's ten totally fantasticalbums that you can get cheap--for 30 dollars or less, and in some cases for less than ten bucks.

1. Zephyr - SUNSET RIDE. Tommy Bolin left the band and then everybody ignored them. They also ignored the fact that they went on to make an album that's not only a zillion times better than the ones with Bolin, but best album in that huge genre of psychy blues-rock albums with female singers.

2. Chrysalis - DEFINITION. The most beautiful folk-psych album of them all. Stunning songwriting and performances. Amazingly, it's never been reissued.

3. Kensington Market - AARDVARK. Along with Plastic Cloud (which WILL cost you thousands), the cream of Canadian psych. Brilliant album with amazingly diverse and creative songs.

4. Daughters of Albion - DAUGHTERS OF ALBION. Completely ignored and forgotten album that twists sunshiny pop into every bizarre form imaginable.
Kathy Yesse's gorgeous voice and a dozen singalong melodie are given even more substance by weird production tricks, odd song structures, inpenetrable lyrics ("alms and balms and kumquats, Charlie") and an unbelieveable 7-minute summation of the year 1968 that sounds like it was written in 1958.

5. Colours - COLOURS. You can tell from the spelling of their name that these guys wish they were British. Fantastic songs here, including one of the best orchestrated pop songs ever ("Bad Day At Black Rock, Baby") and a pretty fair summation (parody?) of the free-loving 60s ("Brother Lou's Love
Colony.")
6. Grapefruit - AROUND. An even better Beatles imitation. Merges 1965 with 1968 quite nicely.

7. Damnation of Adam Blessing - SECOND DAMNATION. Not psychedelic, I suppose, but pretty much the best hard rock album of the early 70s. Why this hasn't achieved classic status is a total mystery to me.

8. Mortimer - MORTIMER. Another beautiful psych/pop album that no one remembers, except Richard Davies, who actually covered one of these songs on the self-titled album by Cardinal.

9. Thorinshield: S/T. As good a RUBBER SOUL wannabe album as you'll hear.

10. Karen Beth - THE JOYS OF LIFE. Yeah, she's got a weird-ass voice, and maybe that's why nobody bought or remembers this, but other than the opening horn-dominated song, this is probably the best acid-folk album by a female singer-songwriter.

Submitted by Aaron Milenski - September 2002

Top 10 Albums
1. Love & Poetry - Andwella's Dream
2 Music in a Doll's House - Family
3. Birthday - Association
4. Salies Fforth - Rainbow Ffolly
5. Odessey & Oracle - Zombies
6. Past, Present & Future - Al Stewart
7. Butterfly - Hollies
8. Trout Steel - Mike Cooper
9. Kaleidoscope - Tangerine Dream
10. Kestrel - Kestrel

Submitted by Jonas - October 2002

Top 20 Tracks/Singles
1. Remember a Day - Pink Floyd
2. Peace of Mind - Family
3. Sorry She's Mine - Small Faces
4. Feel a Whole Lot Better - Byrds
5. Shades of Grey - Andwella's Dream
6. Needle of Death - Bert Jansch
7. Still I'm Sad - Yardbirds
8. Old Admirals - Al Stewart
9. See Emily Play - Pink Floyd
10. Try and Stop Me - Creation
11 The Day Grew Longer for Love - Andwella's Dream
12. No Regrets - Tom Rush
13. Summer. the First Time - Bobby Goldsboro
14. Diary - Bread
15. See Thru Windows - Family
16. My Time in Eden - 10000 Maniacs
17. Chimera - Peru
18. Maypole - Dark
19. King Midas in Reverse - Hollies
20. Until My Baby Comes Home - Mojos

30 excellent albums from the 60's and 70's

1. Pretty Things - S.F. Sorrow
2. Country Joe And The Fish - Electric Music For The Mind And Body
3. Doors - s/t
4. Funkadelic - Maggot Brain
5. 13th Floor Elevators - Psychedelic Sounds Of...
6. Blue Cheer - Vincebus Eruptum
7. Red Krayola - God Bless The Red Krayola And All Who Sail With It
8. Traffic - Heaven Is In Your Mind
9. Jefferson Airplane - After Bathing At Baxter's
10. Electric Prunes - Underground
11. Cream - Disraeli Gears
12. Pink Floyd - A Saucerful Of Secrets
13. Rolling Stones - Their Satanic Majesties Request
14. Yardbirds - Roger The Engineer
15. Doors - L.A. Woman
16. Syd Barrett - Barrett
17. White Noise - An Electric Storm
18. Iron Butterfly - In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida
19. Incredible String Band - Hangman's Beautiful Daughter
20. Jimi Hendrix - Axis. Bold As Love
21. Love - Da Capo
22. Grateful Dead - Aoxomoxoa
23. Beatles - Magical Mystery Tour
24. Soft Machine - Volume One
25. Santana - Abraxas
26. Quicksilver Messenger Service - Happy Trails
27. Pink Floyd - Atom Heart Mother
28. Caravan - In The Land Of Grey And Pink
29. Moby Grape - s/t
30. Parliament - Osmium

Submitted by - It's a Secret - July 2002

I've imagined  a psychedelic journey around the World...Have a nice psychedelic trip! !

1. Taxim - Kaleidoscope
2. Wind Chimes -Mad River
3. Trip Thru Hell (part1.-C.A. Quintet
4. Spare Chaynge -Jefferson Airplane
5. Revelation - Love
6. Interstellar Overdrive- Pink Floyd
7. Section 43- Country Joe and the Fish
8. Dark star -Grateful Dead
9. Golden Glass - Misunderstood
10. Endless Tunnel - The Serpent Power
11. A saucerful of Secrets- Pink Floyd
12. Try me on for size-The Electric Prunes (Live 67.
13. Open Hour- The Dream Syndicate
14. Meshkalina- Traffic Sound (Per롲> 15. Calvary - Quicksilver Messenger Service
16. Guitar Voodoo- The Darkside
17. Dead man-Josefus
18. Once upon a time was a world-Kaleidoscope (Mex.
19. Trying To Make the Best N°2-Hunger!
20. I Can't Believe - Night Shadow
21. The Homecoming- Freedom's Children (South Africa.
22. When the sun refuses to shine- Circus 2000 (Italy.
23. Deviation Street -Deviants
24. Un altro viaggio Allucinogeno- Gli Astrali (Italy.
25. Baby Please Don't Go - Beacon Street Union
26. She's Not There - The  Litter

Compiled by Peter D. http://web.tiscali.it/psychedelic - July 2002

25 psych albums of epic proportions from the 60's and 70's

1. Jimi Hendrix - Electric Ladyland
2. Brian Eno - Talking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy)
3. Sopwith Camel - The Miraculous Hump Returns From The Moon
4. Pink Floyd - Piper At The Gates Of Dawn
5. United States Of America - s/t
6. Todd Rundgren - A Wizard, A True Star
7. Outsiders - C.Q.
8. Red Krayola - Parable Of Arable Land
9. Frank Zappa - Freak Out!
10. Syd Barret - The Madcap Laughs
11. Captain Beefheart - Trout Mask Replica
12. Beatles - Revolver
13. Jefferson Airplane - Surrealistic Pillow
14. 13th Floor Elevators - Easter Everywhere
15. Skip Spence - Oar
16. Pearls Before Swine - Balaklava
17. Byrds - Notorious Byrd Brothers
18. Nektar - Journey To The Center Of The Eye
19. Van Der Graaf Generator - Pawn Hearts
20. Moody Blues - In Search Of The Lost Chord
21. Big Brother And The Holding Company - Cheap Thrills
22. C.A. Quintet - Trip Thru Hell
23. Amboy Dukes - Journey To The Center Of The Mind
24. SRC - s/t
25. Ultimate Spinach - Behold And See

Submitted by Not Tellin - July 2002

20 Psych / Spaced Out Masterpieces

1. Faust - Clear Album
2. Pink Floyd - Piper at the Gates of Dawn
3. Ash Ra Tempel - Ash Ra Tempel
4. Gong - Camembert Electrique
5. Amon D 2 - Yeti
6. Can - Tago Mago
7. Fille qui Mousse - Trixie Stapelton 291: Se Taire Pour une Femme Trop Belle
8. Jefferson Airplane - Live at The Fillmore East
9. The United States of America - The United States of America
10. White Noise - An Electric Storm
11. Silver Apples - Silver Apples/Contact
12. Quicksilver Messenger Service - Happy Trails
13. The Spacious Mind - The Mind of a Brother
14. Brainticket - Celestial Ocean
15. Frolic Froth - Ouroboros
16. Agitation Free - Malesch
17. Cosmic Jokers - Galactic Supermarket
18. Os Mutantes - Os Mutantes
19. Nyl - Nyl
20. The Red Crayola - The Parable of Arable Land

Submitted by Alfredo Silva - July 2002

Top 15 Psych Anthems

1. Doors - Light My Fire
2. Beatles - Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds
3. Byrds - Eight Miles High
4. Strawberry Alarm Clock - Incense and Peppermints
5. Country Joe and the Fish - Flying High
6. 13th Floor Elevators - Slip Inside This House
7. Iron Butterfly - In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida
8. Jimi Hendrix - Purple Haze
9. Grateful Dead - China Cat Sunflower
10. Amboy Dukes - Journey To The Center of the Mind
11. Donovan - Hurdy Gurdy Man
12. Syd Barrett - Dark Globe
13. Jefferson Airplane - White Rabbit
14. Status Quo - Pictures of Matchstick Men
15. Pink Floyd - Astronomy Domine

Submitted by Kevin Conley - June 2002

Top 15 Psych Folk/Folk Rock albums

1. Incredible String Band - Hangman's Beautiful Daughter
2. Pearls Before Swine - Balaklava
3. Donovan - Gift From a Flower to a Garden
4. Love - Forever Changes
5. Grateful Dead - Anthem of the Sun
6. Van Morrison - Astral Weeks
7. Bob Dylan - Blonde on Blonde
8. Byrds - Notorious Byrd Brothers
9. Dr. Strangely Strange - Heavy Petting
10. David Bowie: Space Oddity
11. Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited
12. Incredible String Band - 5000 Spirits or the Layers of the Onion
13. Beau Brummels - Triangle
14. Jefferson Airplane - Takes Off
15. Buffalo Springfield - Again

Submitted by Kevin Conley - June 2002

Top 15 Psych Pop Albums

1. Bee Gees - Odessa
2. Tommy James and the Shondells - Crimson and Clover
3. Beach Boys - Smiley Smile
4. Neon Philharmonic - The Moth Confesses
5. Sagittarius - Present Tense
6. Lemon Pipers - Jungle Marmalade
7. Donovan - Sunshine Superman
8. Strawberry Alarm Clock - Incense and Peppermints
9. The Move - Shazam
10. Millennium - Begin
11. It's a Beautiful Day - It's a Beautiful Day
12. Beach Boys - Wild Honey
13. Monkees - Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn & Jones Ltd.
14. The Clique - Clique
15. Donovan - Mellow Yellow

Submitted by Kevin Conley - June 2002

The Top 100 (too few) albums that changed my life

1. Thirteenth Floor Elevators -- Easter Everywhere
2. The United States of America -- s/t
3. Nobody's Children 45 -- Good Times (a-side)
4. Hawkwind -- Space Ritual
5. Butthole Surfers -- Hairway to Steven
6. Bob Dylan -- Blonde on Blonde
7. Big Boy Pete -- World War 4: A Symphonic Poem
8. Gong -- Teapot Trilogy (ok, so that is 3, sue me)
9. Chrome -- Half Machine Lip Moves
10. Velvet Underground -- w/Nico
11. Grateful Dead -- Anthem of the Sun
12. Faust -- So Far
13. Euphoria -- Songs from Euphoria
14. Bubble Puppy -- A Gathering of Promises
15. Amon Duul 2 -- Phallus Dei
16. Amon Duul -- Para Deis Warts Du
17. FSOL -- Lifeforms
18. Captain Beefheart -- Trout Mask Replica (most of his lps)
19. Atomic Rooster -- Well, I have a collection...not a single LP
20. Soft Machine -- 1&2 (Should be thought of as together I think)
21. Twink -- Think Pink
22. The Deviants -- Ptoof
23. The Electric Toilet -- In The Hands of Karma
24. Nektar -- Journey to the Center of the Eye
25. Kevin Ayers -- Joy of a Toy
26. White Noise -- An Electric Storm
27. The Incredible String Band -- Layers of the Onion
28. The Byrds -- The Notorious Byrd Brothers
29. The Crazy World of Arthur Brown -- s/t
30. Temple -- s/t
31. Van Der Graaf Generator -- Aerosol Grey Machine
32. Thirteenth Floor Elevators -- Bull of the Woods
33. Pink Floyd -- Piper at the Gates of Dawn
34. The Monks -- Black Monk Time
35. Neu! -- Neu!
36. Group 1850 -- Agemo's Trip to Mother Earth
37. The Outsiders -- CQ
38. Family -- Music in a Doll's House
39. Gandalf -- Gandalf
40. Millennium -- Begin
41. The Residents -- 3rd Reich and Roll
42. The Flaming Lips -- Oh My Gawd
43. Goose Creek Symphony -- Words of Earnest
44. Beaver and Krause -- In a Wild Sanctuary
45. The Family Jams (M.F.) -- Complete Recordings
46. The Freeborne -- Peak Impressions
47. July -- s/t
48. Black Widow -- Sacrifice
49. Motorhead -- Motorhead
50. Renaldo and the Loaf -- Arabic Yodeling
51. Os Mutantes -- s/t
52. Traffic Sound -- Tibet's Suzettes
53. Tractor -- s/t (2nd LP)
54. Edgar Broughton Band -- Wasa Wasa
55. The Fool -- s/t
56. Bob Dylan -- Highway 61 Revisited
57. Ghost -- Ghost
58. Miles Davis -- Bitches Brew
59. John Coltrane -- OM
60. Eugene Chadbourne -- Country Music in the World of Islam
61. Fugs -- The Village Fugs
62. The Holy Modal Rounders -- Indian War Whoop
63. My Bloody Valentine -- Loveless
64. Roky Erickson -- The Evil One
65. Ash Ra Tempel -- s/t
66. Caravan -- s/t
67. Slapp Happy -- Casablanca Moon
68. Aphrodite's Child -- 666
69. The Crazy People -- Bedlam
70. Stereolab -- Peng
71. Spacemen 3 -- The Perfect Prescription
72. C.A. Quintet -- A Trip Thru Hell
73. Amon Duul 2 -- Yeti
74. Wishbone Ash -- Argus
75. Gal Costa -- s/t (68)
76. U.S. Maple -- The History of Long Hair
77. Fifty Foot Hose -- Cauldron
78. Uriah Heep -- Look at Yourself (everything the eighties metal wanted to be)
79. The Godz -- Contact High
80. Thirteenth Floor Elevators -- Psychedelic sounds of...
81. Butthole Surfers -- Locust Abortion Technician
82. The Pink Fairies -- Never Never Land
83. The Devil's Anvil -- Hard Rock from the Middle East
84. Pete Brown and his Piblokto -- Art school Dance goes on Forever
85. The Who -- Sell Out
86. Kim Fowley -- Outrageous
87. Gong -- Camembert Electrique
88. M. Frog -- s/t
89. Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 -- Mother of all Saints
90. Sun City Girls -- Kaliflower
91. Mercury Rev -- Yerself is Steam
92. Silver Apples -- s/t
93. Forest -- s/t
94. Renaissance -- s/t
95. Yardbirds -- (I have the Rhino Ultimate Collection)
96. Lothar and the Hand People -- Introducing (Complete)
97. Robert Calvert -- Capt. Lockheed and the Starfighters
98. Bonzo Dog Band -- Gorilla
99. Chrome -- Alien Soundtracks
100. Robert Wyatt -- End of an Ear

Compiled by Rev. Radio Bob - June 2002

Here Is A Chart Of 60s Ballads. 

1. Aloneagain Or - Love,
2. And More Again – Love
3. Celeste – Donovan
4. Legend Of A Girl Child Linda – Donovan
5. Watching And Waiting - The Moody Blues
6. Expecting To Fly - Buffalo Springfield
7. Coming Back To Me - Jefferson Airplane (Classic Version At Monterey)
8. Fotheringay - Fairport Convention
9. Play With Fire - Rolling Stones
10. Pretty Ballerina - The Left Banke.

Compiled by Stephen Legg – April 2002

Top 26 Psychedelic Albums

1. Easter Everywhere - 13th Floor Elevators
2. Present Tense - Sagittarius
3. Electric Music For The Mind And Body - Country Joe And The Fish
4. No Way Out - Chocolate Watch Band
5. After Bathing At Baxters - Jefferson Airplane
6. Are You Experienced - The Jimi Hendrix Experience
7. Sliding Gliding Worlds - Ozric Tentacles
8. Wolf City - Amon Duul II
9. The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn - Pink Floyd
10. Mass In F Minor - The Electric Prunes
11. Tomorrow - Tomorrow
12. SRC - SRC
13. Ummagumma - Pink Floyd
14. Blows Against The Empire - Paul Kantner And Jefferson Starship
15. The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter - The Incredible String Band
16. Roger The Engineer - Yardbirds
17. The Sky Moves Sideways - Porcupine Tree
18. A Wizard, A True Star - Todd Rundgren
19. Space Ritual - Hawkwind
20. Living The Blues - Canned Heat
21. Their Satanic Majesties Request - The Rolling Stones
22. 666 - Aphrodites Child
23. Chips From The Chocolate Fireball - The Dukes Of Stratosphear
24. II - HP Lovecraft
25. The Orb's Adventures Beyond Ultraworld - The Orb
    
And one more for good measure...
26. Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band - The Beatles

Compiled by Crowley Fralick Jr. - February 2002

Top 10 Psych Anthems

1. It's All Too Much - The Beatles
2. Are You Experienced? - The Jimi Hendrix Experience
3. Madman Running Through The Fields - Dantalian's Chariot
4. See Emily Play - Pink Floyd
5. Armenia City In The Sky - The Who
6. Hurricane Fighter Plane - The Red Crayola
7. White Rabbit - Jefferson Airplane
8. Colours - Treatment
9. Fire Engine - 13th Floor Elevators
10. Journey To The Center Of The Mind - The Amboy Dukes

Compiled by Freewheeling Frankie – February 2002

10 Classic Krautrock Albums

1. Ash Ra Tempel - Schwingungen (Ohr)
2. Ash Ra Tempel - Seven Up (Die Kosmischen Kuriere)
3. Cosmic Jokers - Cosmic Jokers (Kosmische Musik)
4. Neu – Neu! (Brain)
5. Cluster – Sowiesoso (Sky)
6. Popul Vuh - In The Gardens Of Pharao (Celestial Harmonies)
7. Klaus Shultz – Timewind (Brain)
8. Klaus Shultz – X (Brain)
9. Amon Duul – Yeti (Liberty)
10. Tangerine Dream – Atem (Ohr)

Compiled by Stephen Legg – February 2002

Top Ten Something...

1. Magic Carpet - Same - When I first started hearing about all the rare UK psychedelic folk with sitars and female vocals I was usually disappointed because it was this record I was hearing in my imagination. When I first heard this I felt like I'd come home.

2. Bob Dylan - Bringing It All Back Home - I remember hearing "Subterranean Homesick Blues" on the a.m. car radio in 1965 and saying "Pull over! Pull over!" and jumping out of the car to see if the aliens were landing. There was nothing like this until there was this (and I'm
not sure that's true of anything else).

3. The Beatles - I Am The Walrus - Racing across a 6-lane highway on foot to buy the 45 of "Hello Goodbye" the day it was released, my friends and I listened and then flipped it over and everything was, I don't know... different from that point on. I believe the fact that it took B-side status to the very sub-par A-side became the core of John's animosity toward Paul from that point on.

4. The Rolling Stones - Gomper - The MONO version from "Their Satanic Majesties..." For psychedelia, one might assume that stereo would always be superior to mono sound. Listening to this I conclude that one would be very wrong. A thin and boring LP in stereo, the mono version is a revelation and this is the most psychedelic these boys EVER got.

5. The Chambers Brothers - Time Has Come Today - Live in Philadelphia at The Electric Factory, circa 1968. The back wall was lined with coffins placed at just the right angle so you could lie down while standing up. I was 15 years old, this was my first concert, this song lasted about 9 hours and by the end I knew one day I would take drugs and that that day
would be very soon.

6. Biff Rose - Uncle Jesus Auntie Christ - Both the 1972 A&M LP, which is brilliant, and the Christmas eve 1973 evening at The Main Point, a tiny club just outside of Philadelphia, on 900 mics of the legendary Philadelphia blotter acid sitting in the dark exploding redness while
this combination of Mose Allison and Bill Evans on LSD whipped the small room into a slow intense fury that ended with a small blue light hitting his face as his eyes just happened to be staring straight into mine as he sang "He's only a shell of a man, but if you hold him to your ear you can hear the ocean ROAR!" Thank you.

7. Van Morrison - Moondance - Yeah, all the psych guys pick "Astral Weeks" which is brilliant BUT the image I have always had of Van is of a wrestling ring in which James Brown and Jackie Wilson are in one corner, and William Butler Yeats and John Donne are in the other. On every album one of these teams pins the other, except this one; here they meet in the middle of the ring, smoke a joint and go off to a pub arm in arm.

8. Miles Davis - Agharta - Just before his death, Jimi Hendrix had booked time for his first sessions with Miles. These never happened and there is no record of their ever having recorded together. Pete Cosey's playing on this double live LP is the close we will ever come and it's almost close enough.

9. Forever Amber - The Love Cycle - 99 copies pressed in 1969 and the thing is... if this had been a major label band it would be remembered as one of the finest moments of the period. The fact that it was a bunch of teenagers from the north of England who did this and disappeared forever makes it an accomplishment of incredible proportions. More memorable hooks per inch than any record ever made, Zombies meets Beach Boys harmonies to does for. Better than "Odyssey & Oracle" and "Pet Sounds" and I'll stand on Brian Wilson's coffee table in my bare feet and shout it.

10. George Harrison - Within You Without You - OK so it's The Beatles and yes it's a sentimental favorite because he recently died and maybe "Love To You" made a bigger initial impression but there's no better first song side two within a thousand miles of this and the impression it made when you flipped that impossibly shiny record over for the very first time is impossible to describe.

Compiled by Stan Denski, Many Bright Things/Aether Records - February 2002
 www.aether-or.com

Subliminal Sonic Laxatives (15 mind-numbing guitar/instrumental acid freakouts!)

1. Section 43 (Country Joe & The Fish) (pure bliss!)
2. Eastern Jam (Country Joe & The Fish) (some of the most wigged out guitar playing ever recorded from a Bay Area band!)
3. East > West (Butterfield Blues Band) (Their finest moment?!)
4. Acapulco Gold & Silver (Quicksilver MS) (The definition of the San Francisco Sound!)
5. April 15th (The Human Beinz) (Raw, fuzzed-out pandemonium!)
6. Ganges (Bardo Pond) (Thick, Heavy, Swirling, All Consuming, Simply put...Awesome!)
7. Spare Chaynge (Jefferson Airplane) (A superb psych jam, by a band not as comfortable with improvised jamming as some of their contemporaries)
8. Interstellar Overdrive (Pink Floyd) (Raw, Primitive, Mind-Expandingly good!)
9. Dark Star (Grateful Dead) (Sure, there are lyrics here, but hey, most of its 20+ minutes is Jerry and the boys noodling away!)
10. Maggot Brain (Funkadelic) (Dare I be controversial?  Eddie Hazel's guitar work on this track rivals Hendrix!  There, I said it!)
11. Sunflower Power (Canned Heat) (Henry Vestine creates sonic space on this all too short of a track from their best album "Livin The Blues")
12. Chocolate Angel (Neighb'rhood Child'rn) (Very Psyched out!)
13. Magnolia Caboose Babyfinger (Blue Cheer) (Psychedelic Heavy Metal before the term was coined!)
14. Baroque No. 1 (Ultimate Spinach) (Sounding like CJ & The Fish, The Spinach create great swirling melodies on this blissed out track from their 1st LP-clearly before the bad trip of "Behold & See" set in!),
15. My Father, My King (Mogwai) (20+ minutes of melodic guitar work which climaxes into sheer white noise. One of the best new guitar bands around! Absolutely stunning as a live act too!!)
 
Happy New Year!
 
Compiled by M K Fell - January 2002

Chocolate Haze and Marshmallow Swirls - 25 intoxicating albums of absolute mammoth proportions from the 1960's to Today!

1. Electric Music for the Mind and Body - Country Joe & The Fish
2. SF Sorrow - The Pretty Things
3. Power Plant - Golden Dawn
4. Entrance High Rise - Orange Can