Best artist Psychedelia of all time secondo DeBaser.

❝ I will have no other Floyds besides Syd!

❝ Goodbye Cruel World (of Business).

❝ The Dark Side Of The Moon is not only the compositional and musical climax of the post-Barrett group's experience

❝ The Grateful Dead's live performances are the real trademark of the band.

❝ Finally, the most requested show in Grateful Dead history.

❝ the pinnacle of their production is the amazing double Live/Dead, a cornerstone of the genre and music as a whole, which contains, among other things, Dark Star, THE symbol of psychedelia, one of those tracks capable of wiping out entire discographies.

❝ “The Madcap Laughs... And what laughs! Cheerful, hysterical, desperate.”

❝ “Off-key Music for Off-key People.”

❝ “this album is an enormous piece of crap.”

❝ The wah-wah of Kaukonen in "Good Shepherd" pushes you to movement, to action, towards where? Forward, towards the future, start moving.

❝ This monument or testament, if you prefer, consecrates the Jefferson Airplane into the Olympus of all rock.

❝ In short, an absolutely must-have album, which paved the way for other masterpieces by the American band, like "After Bathing At Baxter's" and their probable career pinnacle, "Volunteers".

❝ If only one name from the entire history of rock remains in a hundred years, it will inevitably be Jimi Hendrix, said Pete Townshend.

❝ Here. In about two minutes, Jimi Hendrix one day decided to show us his soul and we all realized that his soul was so, so beautiful.

❝ Hendrix and the completely still and mesmerized audience in front of this being who came from who knows where to express everything he had inside with the howls he managed to produce from his guitar..

❝ Thus "Third" is born, a superb monument of experimental music and the entire art of the Twentieth century, a swan herald of a sudden dawn, a rainbow framing an autumn sunset, a blazing comet in boundless skies.

❝ "Playing now is lovely here in the BBC"

❝ Hang your ears on the handles of your umbrellas, you will be hit by a rain of electric and reckless sounds!!

❝ Well. Pack your bags, then. We are departing on a journey lasting five minutes...three hours...six years.

❝ it is such a mesmeric work that rather than a review, everything should be articulated through a psycho-pneumatic analysis, such as to lay bare one's neuroses und frustrazionen in public, but the internet is not the public,

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"This Is The End" had already been announced years earlier by James Douglas Morrison.

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"This is the end, beautiful friend. This is the end my only friend..."

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"Break On Through (To The Other Side)"

❝ The Italian revelation album of the year was released in 1996.

❝ A wonderful recklessness.

❝ Gianluca Grignani represents the most controversial Italian artist of the last 20 years.

❝ The man, this imperfect librarian, can be the work of chance or malevolent demiurges; the universe, with its elegant provision of shelves, enigmatic volumes, tireless ladders for the traveler, and latrines for the seated librarian, can only be the work of a god

❝ Before finding this letter, I had wondered how a book could be infinite. I could only think of a cyclic, circular volume: a volume whose last page was identical to the first, with the possibility of continuing indefinitely.

❝ This book cannot be understood, still less reviewed.

❝ “A legendary voice, which has indelibly marked rock music. His records are the object of a cult, also due to his tragic ending at only 28 years old, on June 29, 1975.”

❝ “No one has ever managed to create the void around the voice like Tim Buckley did”

❝ “Starsailor is the unattainable, and the way to get there, Starsailor is not a difficult or easy album, it is not rock, it is not jazz, it is not even music.”

❝ Hawkwind's songs are perpetual motion sonic magma.

❝ In a word: House brought "order" where there was chaos before.

❝ What a CD you missed, what a fool you are.

❝ a surprising, phenomenal record, capable of captivating indelibly on the first listen, where the influence of the Velvet Underground is unmistakably felt.

❝ "The Parable of Arable Land" is one of the most shocking albums ever.

❝ Mayo Thompson made history with experimental rock.

❝ Their second album, with a vaguely mystical title, "God Bless the Red Krayola & All Who Sail With It," is, in my opinion, the highest point reached by the group; it is a genuine gem of experimental rock, psychedelic blues, and crooked acid-folk ballads, worthy of the best Syd Barrett.

❝ "eh, but they haven't changed at all, they're just like twenty years ago."

❝ "What you hear on \"Loveless\" really exists. And it's not a wall of sound, it's a vortex, something in front, behind, above, and below you, something you feel in your belly, under your tongue, something that suffuses you."

❝ In the stomach of a pantagruelian space-rock, tingling gastric juices corrode Time, and the psychedelic cyclicity of hyper-noise radiations horribly disfigures the line of the horizon.

❝ Their debut album is a hefty seventy-two-minute colossus and is a masterpiece, no doubt about it.

❝ “Limerick” is a nocturnal storm, a perpetuation of gigantic waves, a continuous swirl inside the ocean, wind and water and night, one of the most intense tracks you can listen to in that fanfare to the futile form that after 1991 went under the name of “post-rock.”

❝ And so begins our tale.

❝ “Delay” is the great lost album of Can.

❝ “Packaged at the Inner Space facilities in Cologne (Germany) in 1972.”

❝ The perfect album.

❝ this record is a perfect device.

❝ Comets On Fire are a hard psychedelic band devoted to wild improvisation and sonic chaos

❝ Blue Tomb, perhaps the true masterpiece of the album: 10 minutes of pure "psychedelic noise-rock,"

❝ But this remains a loony and ramshackle record that seeks to establish a complicity more than a simple listening: a lone man and a few instruments to wallpaper our hearts with yellowed leaves.

❝ I think it's time to stop associating him with a minor-key Barrett. Our Robyn is greater than a Barrett.

❝ This is not the Soft Boys and not the quirky minstrel of Eye, this is the mature Hitchcock.

❝ "Squeeze" is the apocryphal album of the Velvet Underground.

❝ This album is stunning, chiaroscuro and sadistic like few others.

❝ This double live album, recorded between Dallas and San Francisco, is a confession.

❝ "Oh poet with no return, your spirit has flown into the air as you never did in life, the journey begins"

❝ Divine because it is the sum of the highest literary arts, because it is the most discussed, lauded, intriguing, dramatic, outrageous, superb text ever written.

❝ “Scenes From the South Island” was the first album (instrumental) of his solo career and it is a true tribute and declaration of love to the southern islands of his homeland: New Zealand.

❝ …and then, suddenly, she arrives. Death.

❝ A masterpiece of psychedelia

❝ So, don’t expect anything particular from this CD. In truth, it doesn’t aim to take you anywhere, but it is the journey that should be enjoyed as it is, without expectations of arrival and letting oneself be carried away by the delirious and audacious genius of the mad Tentaclefolks. Recommended for those who want to get high without the use of any kind of drug.

❝ Space-rock, progressive, fusion, psychedelia, world-music, new age... ...or more simply... trip-rock!

❝ A world apart, that’s all.

❝ The news that hasn’t yet reached the Olympus where I hope never to enter is that the Beatles knew how to play, and how.

❝ In short, the general impression here is that you are not just watching a documentary about the Beatles: you are actually reliving those years with them.

❝ Who would have ever thought that the Legend, perhaps the greatest in the History of Music, would have begun with a very simple, very banal, very inexpensive: ONE, TWO, THREE, FAH!

❝ "LaNòvia" is a single forty-minute piece.

❝ To be precise, to define Acid Mothers Temple exactly as a 'band' would be a stretch.

❝ Oh yeah! Because the guys in question are quite knowledgeable about psychedelia, fuzz, and the most acid hard rock!

❝ It's hard to separate the name of Procol Harum from the song that made them popular worldwide back in 1967, namely "A Whiter Shade of Pale"...

❝ A refined and elegant work, standing among the very first albums of progressive, then still in the womb of the groups that were giving birth to it, including Procol Harum.

❝ It is an unjustly overlooked work, which I consider worthy of a well-visible place among the usual titles reviewed here at the pace of a mushroom cultivation.

❝ As their leader, Daevid Allen, said,
“a band that too few people love too much”.

❝ Suppose you are a brilliant personality, unconventional, an unabashed fan of more or less heavy drugs, but above all, suppose that you have contemplated a project that no one before had ever approached: summarizing EVERYTHING in three albums.

❝ Banana Nirvana Manana!

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And in the end it happened, it was to be expected, and it's beautiful and right like this…

❝ Amon Düul II. Eh, not easy to talk about. A huge, multicolored, shapeshifting, indefinable, free group. Virulently free.

❝ "Tanz Der Lemminge" (1971), the third and final part of an unrivaled "triptych" (with "Phallus Dei" and "Yeti"), is an inexhaustible source of ideas and innovations, contaminations, a milestone of rock overall.

❝ The Amon Düul II had the intuition to merge American psychedelia with Stockhausen, and the result is epic, dark, pagan, and completely insane yet, at the same time, original and musical, unlike the senseless sessions of their little brothers, Amon Düul.

❝ “There are so many, many ideas in that jumble of album tracks, but all those ideas can never be owned, that’s the rule of the game, you can only tune in temporarily, some can sniff them out in the breeze before others. Maybe you get a bit of credit, but in reality, you get nothing because when they become popular you’re already disinterested and have moved on to something else.”

❝ Eight total tracks, eight almost perfect hits. A rarity in these times.

❝ To paraphrase the album’s title, rather than a purifying fire we are faced with a calm ritual ablution.

❝ Simple, poor, rustic music, without the pretense of amazing the crowds, and perhaps precisely because of this, so original.

❝ A Must, superlative! If you want rock and roll done thoroughly and "original," you must come here.

❝ What more can be said, a masterpiece, a lost gem in the record ocean.

❝ Probably the most heartfelt concept of the Pretty Things, after the psychedelic binges of a couple of years earlier.

❝ Months later, I still have to figure out if it's an album or a joke.

❝ A live album by Earth, a seminal musical collective led by Dylan Carlson, the one who initiated Drone Doom in 1990, defining it as "post-Grunge minimalist."

❝ Since 1991, these gentlemen have specialized in going slow... but far, making slowness their trademark.

❝ “Smash my guitar against the wall so I can die peacefully”

❝ Yet, death is his true obsession.

❝ This is the gift of John Fahey’s music.

❝ This is how the lullabies for the puppies of the alien race that will wipe humanity off the face of the earth will sound.

❝ At their fifth attempt, those morbid bastards of Dead Meadow place the album that allows them to say: "Okay, we've already spilled all the jam, live we're whips (listen to the exorbitant Peel Sessions to believe) and now, only now, we start writing songs".

❝ "Feathers" marks an evolution in the band from Washington D.C.'s typical hypnotic-obsessive sound, thanks to a more varied approach to heavy psychedelic material, resulting in their music becoming more accessible.

❝ It is precisely the mantric and hypnotic repetition of rhythms that contributes to making Dead Meadow's music psychedelic.

❝ "Led Zeppelin? What's that?"

❝ "Best Band, Ever"

❝ Consisting of four tracks, each around 10 minutes long, "Raining Sun..." is progressive in the structure of its tracks, but maintains a heavy guitar appeal and expands everything with space rock effects in the style of Hawkwind and psychedelic rarefactions of the Teutonic school.

❝ Impossible not to affirm that what comes out is an absolute masterpiece.

❝ Year 1968, “Wheels Of Fire” by the British Cream. The pinnacle of their short but very dense career.

❝ Cream’s performances are intense and captivating, with extremely long solos and improvisations at the end, at high volume and energy.

❝ They are called "Mammatus": mammaries.

❝ The acid journey of the Mammatus cloud continues.

❝ "Suspended halfway between the inconceivable cosmic immensity of relativistic space-time and the elusive and indistinct flicker of quantum charges, we human beings, more akin to rainbows and mirages than to architraves and boulders, are unpredictable poems that write themselves - vague, metaphorical, ambiguous, and sometimes extraordinarily beautiful" (Douglas R. Hofstadter)

❝ Analogy is a fundamental and enigmatic intellectual process.

❝ “Forever Changes” by the Californians Love is one of the greatest albums in the History of music, one of the symbols of the entire psychedelic season, one of the most radiant and dramatic examples of sonic intimacy.

❝ The magic that made this album a masterpiece lies in the subtle work with which “Love” managed to weave flamenco adornments onto a rock sound tapestry, harmonizing beat and psychedelia, the sound of strings with wind instruments.

❝ All of this is the last great album labeled Love: before the tunnel of the 70s swallowed Arthur Lee.

❝ "Phosphene Dream" is a tormented and lysergic high, a psych'n'roll through desert hallucinations that traverse the well-trodden ground halfway between the psychedelia of compatriots 13th Floor Elevators and the paranoid and decadent style of Velvet Underground.

❝ What comes out of the speakers is more than an Easter, it is an epiphany. An epiphany of fascinating 60s acid residues.

❝ Directions To See A Ghost is a magnetic, carcinogenic, and "dangerous" album. A wicked thought that fades the rainbow, a wicked snake in the grass.

❝ From the hard rock of their eponymous debut, Eloy quickly moved towards a progressive space-rock with the lineup redesigned by the founder, guitarist Frank Bornemann.

❝ “Power and the Passion” is a dreamlike journey that unfolds between hypnotic bass lines and plentiful keyboards, with the Hammond always in great prominence.

❝ The German band also loved making each album a Concept, and this one tells the story and destruction of Atlantis.

❝ Ultimately, an album with innate cathartic abilities (at least for myself), absolutely timeless and detached from its time, standing like an unreachable peak in the mid-nineties pop landscape (and in the same discography of the band, both previous and subsequent).

❝ Welcome back Mercury Rev.

❝ It is indeed a flat, boring, and formulaic album.

❝ But here we are still in 1969, the acid sun of California has not yet completely set, and behold, the twenty-five minutes of Who Do You Love (a Bo Diddley cover), reveal an incredible machine of good vibrations.

❝ The group, active since 1966, arrived late to a major contract, but it was two years prior that they made a name for themselves in the San Francisco area as one of the most exceptional live acts around.

❝ Next comes "Fresh Air", a song that needs no introduction, listened to and re-listened to by generations, which belatedly taps into that chart-topping psychedelic rock, accessible to everyone.

❝ These are undoubtedly the most incredible 2 minutes and 24 seconds in the history of rock, it’s all so, so Hendrix for god's sake.

❝ Magic. Hendrix was magic, above all else.

❝ “If God exists, he is a hippie and plays the electric guitar”

❝ Is it possible to listen to “My Generation” without screaming and shaking?!

❝ Less than forty minutes, but an actual punch in the stomach, a pure distillation of that thing that someone called Rock and which instead I like to call Rock.

❝ LOVE REIGNS ON ME.

❝ Nektar stands out, an English group that originated in Hamburg.

❝ The influences of the Central European scene can be felt, even if not entirely prominent, thanks to elongated keyboards and guitars that paint cosmic and expansive landscapes but do not stifle the underlying rock.

❝ Well, they were (almost) all English. And you can tell.

❝ “Come and play folks, you are welcome here. Sure you can smoke!”

❝ “If it's not broken, don't replace it. Leave it alone.”

❝ “Third World Pyramid is just another record from our band: out of focus, out of time, and out of fashion.”

❝ "Stand quietly, doing nothing, spring comes, and the grass grows by itself" (ancient ZEN saying).

❝ "Satori" is not a masterpiece, it is a very good album.

❝ At least that damn record still sounded like it used to.

❝ Some say they do it better than anyone else, others say they’re now pathetic, and some, like me, claim that this is the true classical music of the late twentieth century, together of course with the best jazz.

❝ This album, despite being recorded under the most terrifying conditions and remixed an indeterminate number of times, remains one of the main cornerstones of the Rolling Stones' discography.

❝ and music with the much more recent Will-o-the Wisp, who, since 1997, have been crafting four excellent examples of mellow symphonic progressive embroidered with skillful psychedelic touches and nostalgic folk sounds.

❝ It doesn't make much sense to tell you about this music; I could tell you about my feelings, but it must be experienced on one's own skin, it must be tried rather than told.

❝ I would define the sound of the album "Psychonaut" as a kind of mantric garage (tracks averaging 8 minutes) with a taste of blood.

❝ Released last April, 'The Exalted King' is a work that clearly more than the subsequent works, maximizes the long acid trance sessions typical of this group and what are its most obsessive and experimental drives.

❝ "Sounds from a Future Past"

❝ "Rtz" is not music, it’s not entertainment, it’s an atmosphere.

❝ Pretentious, very pretentious. The most "I’ve got a big dick" record of Ben’s entire career, there’s little to say, there’s little to do, the evidence travels between anvil and hammer.

❝ The Ozric-influenced complex is so apparent that discussing it in such a manner seems unnecessary, but still, with such a vast sound of spatial-ethnic-jazz I must tell you that there's more to say, even if it means articulating in a similar cryptographic idiom.

❝ They started 'My white bicycle' in a way that had never been so powerful

❝ If you love Sergent Pepper by the Beatles but want more songs in the same style and atmosphere to satisfy your craving for psychedelia, if you have already listened to Odessey and Oracle by the Zombies and liked it, if you are a fan of the Kinks, then this is the album that will satisfy you.

❝ Unjustly forgotten, the Sir Lord Baltimore are a power-trio from New York who left a scorching mark on the music scene with their debut in 1970, with the album "Kingdom Come," to be considered as a true example of heavy metal ante litteram.

❝ Petri Walli, Jukka Jylli, Sami Kuoppamäki. There's not much to laugh about.

❝ Very little has been able to move me like Trilogy.

❝ the Dead Skeletons show us the dark and untamed side of the Island, made of geysers, volcanoes and glaciers, atmospheres that bring us back to primordial chaos, but also capable of mesmerizing and tripping.

❝ Furthermore, the singer creates paintings during the performance on stage.

❝ The same atmosphere that is often found in the albums of Nordic authors: droplets of mist, dark and tedious atmospheres, calmness, doom, spacey and psychedelic guitar solos with long and deliberately inconclusive notes, vocals that seem to come from distant and sleepy dimensions and, underlying it all, keyboards sick with protagonism forced, instead, to play a supporting role. Here we are.

❝ The compelling melody of "Pretty In Pink" is a small masterpiece of restless and oblique rock, alternating between moments of sunny melodic openings and others of dark paranoia.

❝ The substance is that here we are faced with ten pop gems, the kind most bands would commit mass murder to have all on the same album.

❝ And if this album is ultimately saved, we owe it to the frontman Richard Butler, one of the most remarkable voices of the '80s: a phlegmatic but expressive voice, rough without being raucous, which like many other vocalists of that generation finds its inspiration in David Bowie, succeeding in the best cases in emancipating from it.

❝ We always wondered who would get us out of the way, and it was the Led Zeppelin.

❝ Vanilla Fudge was the first of these realities, followed and envied certainly not for the repertoire, but for how they played it.

❝ "Some Velvet Morning" is the band's jewel, a gem of music in general and of the Sixties.

❝ "That That Is... Is (Not)" is an open-eyed dream, a journey imbued with melancholy.