These songs should give you a good idea of the psychedelic feel.
- The Doors: "Light My Fire"
Always brings me back to that summer of 1967 when everything had a little sparkle.
- Jefferson Airplane: "Somebody to Love" and "White Rabbit"
Imagine you're on the corner of Haight-Ashbury.
- Big Brother and the Holding Company: "Down On Me" and Summer Time
Sing it Janis!
- Mothers of Invention: "Duke of Prunes"
You have to develop a taste for Frank Zappa, but it is quite rewarding.
- The Byrds: "8 Miles High" and "Why"
When they went electric, everybody knew something was up.
- Small Faces: "Itchycoo Park"
Skipping school, why bother to learn the words of fools? It's all too beautiful!
- Electric Prunes: "Kyrie Eleison"
Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper trippin' through Mardi Gras in Easy Rider.
- Richard Harris: "MacArthur Park"
Many will say WTF?, but when I saw all the sweet green icing flowing down, I knew.
- Cream: "Dance the Night Away"
Let Eric Clapton's guitar riffs take you up into the castles in the sky.
- Kenny Rogers and the First Edition: "Just Dropped In"
Reacting to the commercial overload of the hippie movement.
- Fever Tree: "San Francisco Girls"
Never was within 3000 miles of San Francisco, but it in my mind it was great.
- Jimi Hendrix: "If Six was Nine" and "Foxy Lady"
Jimi was a unique brand of psychedelia within himself.
- Vanilla Fudge: "You Keep Me Hanging On"
Upon viewing this on TV, my entire family was convinced they were all on dope.
- Credence Clearwater Revival: "Suzie Q"
That Suzie Q must have been one heck of a girl!
- The Zombies: "Time of the Season"
Yeah Baby! London fashion models prancing in miniskirts adorned with false eyelashes. It wasn't all tie-dyes and faded jeans.
- The Turtles: "You Showed Me"
I'm a sucker for a sappy love song blended into a colorful background.
- Extra bonus picks by the Doors
- When the Music's Over Love Street Blue Sunday Indian Summer Peace Frog Lost Little Girl