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To understand what makes music stylistically "psychedelic," one should consider three fundamental effects of LSD: dechronicization, depersonalization, and dynamization. Dechronicization permits the drug user to move outside of conventional perceptions of time. Depersonalization allows the user to lose the self and gain an "awareness of undifferentiated unity." Dynamization, as [Timothy] Leary wrote, makes everything from floors to lamps seem to bends, as "familiar forms dissolve into moving, dancing structures"... Music that is truly "psychedelic" mimics these three effects.
As I mentioned previously, I’m old.
A card carrying member of Generation X.
This means I grew up in the 70's and came of age in the 80's.
And, despite what you may have heard, or the nostalgia hype-machine may have advertised, (& with the obvious exception of the punk scene) music in the 1980s
largely sucked.
A card carrying member of Generation X.
This means I grew up in the 70's and came of age in the 80's.
And, despite what you may have heard, or the nostalgia hype-machine may have advertised, (& with the obvious exception of the punk scene) music in the 1980s
largely sucked.
This is why a great number of Gen Xers turned to the music of our parents.
The music at my high school parties was largely dominated by bands like the Doors, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Jimi Hendrix, etc.
In short, we were into psychedelic music.
And drugs.
A lot of psychedelic drugs.
The music at my high school parties was largely dominated by bands like the Doors, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Jimi Hendrix, etc.
In short, we were into psychedelic music.
And drugs.
A lot of psychedelic drugs.
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I think it’s why so many of my fellow Gen Xers are deadheads.
But, notwithstanding what they may say, psychedelic music didn’t begin and end with the Grateful Dead!
There are a metric fuck ton of really good psychedelic bands currently active.
Here are some of my current favorites:
(don’t know why “black” is in so many band’s names but it’s not a prerequisite to be in the psychedelic club . . .)
Trippy,
man.
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cadavre:
Some re rally great choices there. I'm a fan of a number of those
stcyr:
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