Roller Coaster - 13th Floor Elevators

The Essential Albums: “THE PSYCHEDELIC SOUND of The 13Th Floor Elevators”

“… the music of the 13th Floor Elevators is that of a boiling volcano. The disorienting and circular sound produced by Tommy Hall's jug is a simulator of lava boiling, a premonitory nightmare of John Cale's perverse lines of Viola…”

More than the word (the album comes out simultaneously with Psychedelic Lollipop, to put it that way), I think it’s really the sound... what it should express as psychedelic. An overused word in the most careless way possible. I can’t define it, let alone… for me it’s not a genre but an aura that assimilates with other sounds giving particular “effects” both to the sound and to the listener.

This is the ALBUM… like very few others.
Garage-Beat-R&B and Psychedelia… Psychedelia and Melody perfectly blended. Not just some guitar effect or a computer lazily thrown in for 5 minutes… that’s crap, not Psychedelia.

The Rev - IlConte (65)