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I've been on a psychedelia kick recently, owing to the recent discussion of The Zombies' Oddesey And Oracle on this board. First, I dug out some albums I already had in my library:

Pink Floyd - The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn
Love - Da Capo and Forever Changes
The Byrds - Fifth Dimension, Younger Than Yesterday, Notorious Byrds Brothers
The Who - The Who Sell Out
Van Dyke Parks - Song Cycle
The Moody Blues - Days Of Future Past, In Search Of The Lost Chord, et al

Then I began purchasing some gems that I had previously overlooked:

The Zombies - Odessey And Oracle
The Kinks - The Kinks Are The Village Preservation Scoiety
The Pretty Things - S. F. Sorrow
Sagittarius - Present Tense
The Grateful Dead - Anthem Of The Sun
Jefferson Airplane - Surrealistic Pillow and After Bathing At BAxter's

Any recommendations of where you think I should go next?

The Hollies - Butterfly  (One of the most underrated albums of the 60's)
Mothers of Invention - We're Only In It For The Money (Original mix)
Moby Grape - Moby Grape
Country Joe & The Fish - Electric Music For The Mind & Body
The Small Faces - Ogden's Nut Gone Flake

Anything based on and including the Nuggets compilation of garage and proto-punk-pop artists from the mid-60's. Some of the fuzz guitar tones will melt your brain. "Incense And Peppermints" has one of the best Gibson FZ fuzz pedal guitar tones ever recorded, and the ending coda with the Farfisa Compact organ and "sha laa laa" vocals is heavy, man. Awesome record.

One reason why I love that music and those kind of compilations is that the bands were mostly younger musicians who were making music after being inspired by the Beatles and others to go ahead and do it, and they're not looking into any overreaching "concept albums" or long statements designed to replicate an acid trip - they were banging out good rock and roll on 45 singles for the most part, and some of the records sounded accidentally psychedelic, and that to me is awesome. Little touches like the fuzz guitars, the Farfisa and Vox organs, that trippy tape echo on Blues Magoos records, etc...the sounds made the records seem psychedelic even though the lyrics were far away from that scene.

I'd go with some Buffalo Springfield, the song Broken Arrow.
The first 2 Doors albums
Grateful Dead - Live/Dead
Zabriskie Point OST
The Monkees - Head OST (and film)
anything by Os Mutantes
Simon & Garfunkel - Bookends

GREAT call on Head - especially the film, one of my favorites visually and otherwise. Totally missed that somehow. Run to the local store to get the Head DVD, anyone who does not have it already. One of the highlights of the 60's scene for me. Just beautiful.

The Hollies - Butterfly
The Association - Birthday
The Four Seasons - Genuine Imitation of Life Gazzette
Jan & Dean - Carnival of Sound

None of these are perfect but they are all worth owning IMO.

The 13th Floor Elevators - The Psychedelic Sounds of The 13th Floor Elevators
The Red Crayola - The Parable of Arable Land

Both Texas bands!  The 13th Floor Elevators album is more song-based, while the Red Crayola album is much more CRAZY sounding with lots of instrumental music (called Free-Form Freak Outs in the track lists).

John Fahey - The Voice of The Turtle
NOT a psychedelic album proper - but pretty damn close in feel.  Of course John hated psychedelic music and swore that he had NEVER used LSD - but he did admit to smoking pot - so who knows?!

This stuff is all left-field I guess...maybe better suited to when and if you feel VERY adventurous.

Nice to see there's someone out there who actually agrees with me on this one. The only negative thing about it, is that it doesn't have "King Midas In Reverse" on it.

Days of Future PASSED, for one.

A few more selections, perhaps...

The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Are You Experienced?, Axis: Bold As Love, Electric Ladyland
The Mothers Of Invention - Freak Out!, Absolutely Free, We're Only In It For The Money
Os Mutantes - Os Mutantes, Mutantes, A Divina Comedia ou Ando Meio Desligado
Caetano Veloso - Caetano Veloso (1968), Caetano Veloso (1969)
Gilberto Gil - Gilberto Gil (1968), Gilberto Gil (1969)
Gal Costa - Gal Costa (1968), Gal Costa (1969)
Laghonia - Glue, Etcetera
Serge Gainsbourg - Initials BB, Jane Birkin-Serge Gainsbourg, Le Pacha, Cannabis
Bill Holt - Dreamies
The Temptations - Cloud Nine
Bruce Haack - The Way-Out Record For Children, Electronic Record For Children, The Electric Lucifer
Deep Purple - Shades of Deep Purple
The Royal Guardsmen - Snoopy And His Friends
Cromagnon - Orgasm
Kim Jung Mi - Wind, Now
Tsvety - Tsvety
The Fugs - The Fugs, Tenderness Junction
Vanilla Fudge - Vanilla Fudge, Near The Beginning
Pearls Before Swine - One Nation Underground, Balaklava
Cream - Disraeli Gears, Wheels of Fire
The Incredible String Band - The 5000 Spirits or the Layers of the Onion
The Bee Gees - Bee Gees 1st
Tommy James and the Shondells - Crimson and Clover
The Left Banke - Walk Away Renee/Pretty Ballerina
The Neon Philharmonic - The Moth Confesses, The Neon Philharmonic
Aphrodite's Child - End of the World, It's Five O'Clock
Moby Grape - Moby Grape, Wow/Grape Jam
Silver Apples - Silver Apples, Contact

Cannot believe no-one's yet mentioned one of the truly lost gems of the pych-pop era, and the first true concept album, Nirvana's The Story Of Simon Simopath.

I can't believe I made that spelling error. I'll blame Steve Hoffman; someone over on his board misspelled it and ever since I've had a mental block with it.

I'm loving all the suggestions, thanks everyone. When I get home from work I'll do some further research based on these recommendations, and I'll put together a short list.

And... dunno if it's strictly speaking psychedelic, but they sure as hell altered my mind - A Tramp Shining and And The Yard Went On Forever, by Richard Harris (and Jimmy Webb).

WOW!  ESP stuff - that's even weirder than The Red Crayola!  Thanks for taking the heat off me - Ha Ha.  :lol

I guess this stuff is more hard psych as opposed to psych-pop.

Honestly, the Fugs is pretty hard psych. Pearls Before Swine was more folkish. Cromagnon is damn near unclassifiable - like a mix of Bathory, Einsturzende Neubauten, and Merzbow long before those groups existed.

You could also throw in their previous effort "Evolution". Just as good.

The Fugs rule. And a second on those Nuggets compilations, the quality rarely dips throughout what, 12-16 cds worth of boxsets?

For internet radio psychedelia, try:

http://www.techwebsound.com/

ELECTRIC PRUNES

Steppenwolf-Magic Carpet Ride

Denny Laine Say You Don't Mind

Cream -Badge, Pressed rat and Warthog

The WHO Pictures of Lily, Who Sell Out

If neo-psychedelia counts...

I strongly recommend:

I OFTEN DREAM OF TRAINS and MOSS ELIXIR - Robyn Hitchcock (although almost anything by Hitchcock/Soft Boys is fine)
HEYDAY, PRIEST = AURA, AFTER EVERYTHING NOW THIS - The Church
SUPERNATURAL EQUINOX - Outrageous Cherry
EXTENDED REVELATION FOR THE PSYCHIC WEAKLINGS OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION and ORIGINS VOL. 1 - The Soundtrack of Our Lives

Thanks again for all your recommendations. I've taken two different directions based on all your feedback:

1. I've been intrigued by how a lot groups that staked their claim to fame via early-60s sugar pop smash hits made the sudden, jarring transition to psych. These are often the most interesting cases, because although the music has taken a decidedly left turn, you can still hear, skewed, the same elements that made that group's early music successful. Obviously Smiley Smile is a classic example of this; while the end result is undeniably "weird," you still get Brian Wilson's (albeit in a drier, swimming pool-sourced form) lush harmonies pitched against light-hearted, youthful vignettes, soaked in gentle locker-room humor. I had a conversation at a party last Saturday about this very situation, and some names that came up were the Association and the Hollies. So I decided to purchase Birthday and Butterfly respectively. After one and a half listens, I am DIGGING this. VERY tasty.

2. I also wanted to sample the truly leftfield stuff a bit, so I went with a little Pearls Before Swine. I've heard about ESP records for years and felt it was time to investigate. I haven't yet listened to this music but will reply once I do. Quick question: are there any seminal ESP compilations anyone can squarely recommend?

That's it for now, but in the coming days I will be furthering my investigation...

Oh yeah, I also wanted to ask....

Nobody mentioned the Beau Brummels. I guess this is a bit more country-rock oriented than most, but it's still psych, right? Any love for the Beau Brummels?

The Beau Brummels are an amazing group. Unfortunately, the Byrds got the credit for the sound that the Beau Brummels were experimenting with at least a year earlier. A shame, but still some excellent music.

I can't help you there...ESP Records was mostly known as a free-jazz/avant-garde jazz label (Albert Ayler, Sun Ra, etc.), but they did put out a goodly amount of rock/psyche/folk.  The only compilation I remember was mostly jazz stuff.  You might try Youtube to sample a few songs by some of the rock-type stuff.  The Fugs, Cromagnon and The Godz (can't believe I didn't mention The Godz - Contact High With the Godz!) all did great stuff.  Ed Askew was good too, but more folk, at least to my ears.

...for an ESP unrelated aside...

Skip Spence - Oar
A pretty good/great psyche record.  I never have dug Moby Gape (Skip was in that band), but I dig this record.

Here's a good ten:
The Millennium - Begin
Everly Brothers - Roots
Todd Rundgren - A Wizard, A True Star
Bruce Palmer - The Cycle Is Complete
Fun & Games - Elephant Candy
Traffic - Dear Mr Fantasy
Friar Tuck & His Psychedelic Guitar (HIGHLY recommended!)
Kaleidoscope - Side Trips
The Moon - Without Earth
Billy Nicholls - Would You Believe?

How about if you could create your own "Nuggets" style psych comp. What would you put on it? Mine -

1. S.F. Sorrow is Born - The Pretty Things
2. Rainbow Chaser - Nirvana
3. Mrs Statley's Garden - The Four Seasons
4. King Midas in Reverse - The Hollies
5. White Rabbit - Jefferson Aeroplane
6. Night of the Long Grass - The Troggs
7. Megan's Gypsy Eyes - Blood, Sweat and Tears
8. Blue Jay Way - The Beatles
9. Carnival of Sound - Jan & Dean
10. Palm Dessert - Van Dyke Parks
11. Wicked Annabella - The Kinks
12. Glass - Sagittarius
13. Tapicoa Tundra - The Monkees
14. Draft Morning - The Byrds
15. Remember a Day - Pink Floyd

Dare I mention that The Stone's "Their Satanic Majesties Request" is actually quite good?

Just Dropped In by The First Edition is great as was their debut LP with it.
roll plymouth rock could call on Billy Nichols

A psychedelic mix? Sure, why not? Just chucking a lot into the pot here, really, and some aren't classic 60's psych, but ssh.

1. Open My Eyes - The Nazz
2. Last Night, I Had a Dream (Psych version) -Randy Newman
3. Intro/Shine A Light/Electric Mainline - Spiritualized (from the Albert Hall album)
4. Fur Immer - NEU!
5. Roses & Rainbows - Danny Hutton
6. Sometimes - Spacemen 3
7. I Want To Take You Higher! - Sly And The Family Stone
8. Mind Rocker - Fenwyck
9. Sugar and Spice - The Cryan Shames
10. It Was a Pleasure Then - Nico
11. He's Got The Whole World In His Hands - Dion
12. Sister Ray - The Velvet Underground
13. May The Circle Be Unbroken - Spacemen 3

Oh, that hits the spot. It's on my ipod, i'm queuing it up now and taking a 3-min break from work.

The Spacemen 3 were/are THE 80's psych/space rock band!  I always dug Walking With Jesus, and their covers of Rollercoaster and Transparent Radiation are what turned me on to The 13th Floor Elevators and The Red Crayola!
I remember some clever fella edited some 70's porn with Spiritualized as the soundtrack and put it on the internet - it woulda worked better with Barbarella(I think).
Of course Sister Ray is a stone classic - influenced tons of the noise/indie/improv bands from the 70's and 80's (and beyond).  I remember hearing Smiley Smile for the first time - is it one of the great under-sung influences on all the low-fi/DIY/indie stuff from the same time (70's and 80's).?  Uh, maybe I'm the only one who thinks that.

Thanks to all your input, I've done a lot of research and listening, and my world has been duly broadened, my colors have been brightened, etc….

I've decided to put together a mix for my local music club (it's my turn to present a mix in four weeks) based on the theme of, for lack of a better, snappier title, "unlikely psych." In other words, I'm putting together a selection of artists who aren't generally known for psychedelic music, but who dipped the proverbial toe into the pool for an album or two. My playlist thus far follows (the exact sequence isn't yet ironed out, but it's close):

Armenia City In The Sky - The Who
See Emily Play - Pink Floyd
Natural Harmony - The Byrds
Sitting by the Riverside - The Kinks
Wind Chimes (Smiley Smile version) - The Beach Boys
All Golden - Van Dyke Parks
Red Chair, Fade Away - Bee Gees
Come On In - The Association
Mrs. Stately's Garden - The Four Seasons
She's A Rainbow - The Rolling Stones
Elevated Observations? - The Hollies
Girl, You're Blowing My Mind - Jan & Dean
You Don't Know Where Your Interest Lies - Simon & Garfunkel
Bonnie And Clyde (avec Brigitte Bardot) - Serge Gainsbourg
Maybe After He's Gone - Zombies
Heroes And Villains (Catbirdman version) - The Beach Boys
Porpoise Song - The Monkees

Any thoughts on the tracklist? Songs I should consider adding? Any selections you aren't keen on, or IYO are there better tracks for a given artist that I could have chosen? Some of those choices were tough. By the way, I wanted to limit it to one track per artist, but I couldn't resist putting two Beach Boys tracks on there. I'm sure you can empathize.

That's a very good list...but I would say that Pink Floyd is very likely psychedelic! I suppose it may be on your list because circa '73 on they would be called "progressive rock", but unlike the other bands you mentioned, the Floyd were initially known as a psychedelic band and I believe many fans would say what gives them an edge over other prog bands of the 70s is their willingness to experiment and maintain a psychedelic mind-set instead of just issuing art rock.

I'd say the Kinks' "Wicked Annabella" nearly tops the list of bands taking a dip in the psych pool, and "Porpoise Song" has to be on such a list, definitely. I think Smiley's Wind Chimes may be a bit too jarring and unusual for those who don't know it...Cabinessence is better, more mind-blowing, and it delivers the point in a stunning way, and has fuzztone to boot. Wind Chimes, to me, just kind of hangs there until the gorgeous coda...maybe you could loop the "whispering winds" coda and substitute that! :)

Zombies...great choice on that song. I actually have the chords of that one in front of me today.

I don't know if it's psych but it's mind-blowing just the same: "Buzzin Fly" by Tim Buckley. Very delicate psych, that one.

Definitely not psych, more like jazzy folk, Fred Neil etc..., but it is excellent. Tim Buckley's earlier records sound a lot like Love, baroque folk-rock, but they're shite.

Best TB song has to be the live version of I've Been Out Walkin'.

Not sure if modern day psych qualifies for a recommendation on this thread, but I`d say check out anything by the Flaming Lips or Mercury Rev...MGMT are also pretty good.

The two solo albums Syd Barrett put out should be required listening, as well as Velvet Underground. I'm surprised nobody has mentioned Electric Mud by Muddy Waters.

you have to check out ramases "space hymns" if you haven't yet! massive psych from 71 on vertigo (mexican summer just put out a nice vinyl re-issue this year), featuring 10cc in psych-folk mode. in that respect it would also fit in with the whole "unlikely psych" moniker as well. ramases was an interesting guy with quite a story.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDkHkRxdIRg&feature=related (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDkHkRxdIRg&feature=related)

todd rundgren's "number 1 lowest common denominator" is a pretty definitive psych cut imo.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4Gd_odSkwg (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4Gd_odSkwg)

i'll also add eno's baby's on fire because of that mind melting fripp solo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMt1Oy5uQ0w (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMt1Oy5uQ0w)

I know it's stretching the term but I labeled it psych from the mood it creates especially during the instrumental breaks - the sounds seem to float in the air, it's such a different groove with different sounds. I guess labeling something "psychedelic" is ultimately in the eye of the beholder, because some of my choices might not jive with others' definitions, and some names on the lists already given aren't what I'd consider psychedelic music...but that's what makes a list like this fun and informative!

"Porpoise Song" is hard to beat, but for Monkees tracks "Daily Nightly" would blow some minds because it was an obvious stab at psychedelia, it's about the Pandora's Box/Sunset Strip riots of 66, and it has the first Moog track ever released on a pop/rock record. A triple-threat!

And for another Monkees consideration, going for the country/Gram Parsons brand of cosmic American psych, Mike Nesmith's "Aunties Municipal Court" which is quite  the awesome sounding song (Birds, Bees, and The Monkees album).

I will state again that Spacemen 3/Spiritualized are hugely essential psych.


Spiritualized are also great Beach Boys-esque pop at points, but that's another thread  ;D

Bumped into this bunch recently, courtesy of the Mojo '60s mag:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0P1EgUzuJc (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0P1EgUzuJc)

Their best album.  That was one great thing about the psych trend: bands stepping out of character.  It often made for more interesting music.  I wish the Stones wouldn't disown this period.

How about the 1st 4 or 5 Procol Harum records ;) ;)

Some of my favorite Stones songs are on Satanic Majesties. Foda Beggars Banquet, Let It Bleed, Goats Head Soup, Exile, etc. Flowers, Between the Buttons, and TSMR are the Stones at their finest.

No Ogden's Nut Gone Flake here?


As for RS' Satanic, I always felt it was kind of weak...until I got a hold of the mono mix!

i discovered this gem by UK psychedelians The Curiosity Shoppe on YouTube a few years ago with these crazy Op Art visuals. Then it was pulled, to be replaced by a version with a wimpy Blow-Up-style vid.  Thankfully the original is back now. Enjoy! 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UMww5ybG_s (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UMww5ybG_s)

My favorite that pops to mind immediately is "Crimson and Clover", the long version with all the crazy guitar work.  I can't figure out what it's about.  My theory is that the Crimson represents his love or his women, and the clover represents his money.  So he's saying that he loves women and loves money and spends his money on women.  Over and Over. 

Wicked song. First time I heard it I automatically assumed it was about Tommy rolling around in the grass with a girl in a crimson dress.  ;D

It could be.  It's a mystery to me.

The best part, sans the guitar work, is when it drops dead for a beat, then he goes "YEAHHHHHHHH"  

lol.

Here's the long version in Stereo.  Good backing vocals too.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXrAUXbQ7Iw

Hell yeah!

"Hello Mrs, Jones; how's yer bird's lumbago?"....

Ahem... Bert, not bird. :=)

I should add that I love this album, from the stunning instrumental title track on side one to Stanley Unwin's gobbledygook all over side two. In my opinion, The Small Faces knock The Faces into a cocked hat.

Great topic.  The middle era Moody Blues (Threshhold, Childrens, Children, Search of the Lost Chord) are great lysergic listening.  And in support of bands labled as prog rock or something, I have to say Floyds Atom Heart Mother is VERY psychedelic ( electric breakfast is a favorite).  And some of Jethro Tull, especially , to me, the Benefit album, very mind bending stuff if one is, um,  facillitating the bending.

The moody blues are great, don't get why the hall of fame snubs them every year along with another favorite of mine, Johnny Rivers.

This thread is great, I've been getting more and more into psychedelia lately and there are some very good suggestions and information here, thanks guys!

By no means simply a "psychedelic" record, "The Twelve Dreams of Dr. Sardonicus" by Spirit is a classic and certainly contains psychedelic qualities, as does a lot of their work -- "Mechanical World" off their first album for instance.  Check 'em out.

It's nature's way of telling you something's wrong
It's nature's way of telling you in a song
It's nature's way of receiving you
It's nature's way of retrieving you
It's nature's way of telling you
Something's wrong

It's nature's way of telling you, summer breeze
It's nature's way of telling you, dying trees
It's nature's way of receiving you
It's nature's way of retrieving you
It's nature's way of telling you
Something's wrong
It's nature's way, it's nature's way
It's nature's way, it's nature's way

It's nature's way of telling you
Something's wrong
It's nature's way of telling you
In a song, oh-h

It's nature's way of receiving you
It's nature's way
It's nature's way of retrieving you
It's nature's way
It's nature's way of telling you
Something's wrong, something's wrong, something's wrong

Woah lot's of sweet stuff listed here!! 

My favorite 60's psychedelic albums right now have gotta be...

1. The Millennium - Begin
2. Love - Forever Changes
3. The Zombies - Odessey and Oracle
4. Jimi Hendrix - Any of his 3 studio albums
5. The Beatles - Revolver
6. The Who - The Who Sell Out
7. Moby Grape - Moby Grape (Though it's really not psychedelic, just awesome)

and of course

The Beach Boys - Smiley Smile
 
I just got Present Tense by Sagittarius and I'm pretty excited to listen to it, as I'm a big fan of the Millennium.

Great stuff. Based on this list here, I have to ask if you've heard The Bee Gees' 1st or Donovan's A Gift from a Flower to a Garden and Hurdy Gurdy Man? I think they would fit nicely on your list, particularly with the English component you've got here. Oh! And The Left Banke's Walk Away Renée/Pretty Ballerina. Trust me.

I've heard a little bit of The Bee Gee's 1st (Mainly the famous songs and Every Christian Lion-Hearted Man Will Show You)  I liked what I've heard so far from that.  Haven't really listen to much Donovan or Left Banke.  I'll have to go check them out!

The psychedelic era is my favorite period in all of popular music (or whatever it should be called).  I never tire of psychedelia, and I've done a lot of CD mixes over the years.  On the first one, I attempted to put together all of my very favorite tracks (all by different artists), and this is what I came up with:

Strawberry Fields Forever (The Beatles)
Wear Your Love Like Heaven (Donovan)
She's A Rainbow (The Rolling Stones)
Eight Miles High (The Byrds)
Daily Nightly (The Monkees)
Just Dropped In (The First Edition)
Incense And Peppermints (Strawberry Alarm Clock)
Open My Eyes (Nazz)
Itchycoo Park (Small Faces)
You Keep Me Hanging On (Vanilla Fudge)
Crimson And Clover (Tommy James and the Shondells)
I've Got A Line On You (Spirit)
I Can See For Miles (The Who)
Purple Haze (The Jimi Hendrix Experience)
Magic Carpet Ride (Steppenwolf)
Journey To The Center Of The Mind (The Amboy Dukes)
It's Wonderful (The Rascals)
Soul Experience (Iron Butterfly)
Pictures Of Matchstickmen (The Status Quo)
Green Tambourine (The Lemon Pipers)
Heaven Is In Your Mind (Three Dog Night)
Light My Fire (The Doors)

Gilberto Gil's album from 68 is amazing. Good choice Real.

- Blues Magoos - Basic Blues Magoos
- Steve Miller Band - Brave New World / Children of the Future
- For nice electric harpsichords: Canterbury Fair - S/T
- The Merchants Of Dream - Strange Night Voyage
- Part of Paul Revere & The Raiders - The Spirit Of '67
- The Smoke (U.S.) - The Smoke
- Sweetwater - Sweetwater

Somebody probably already mentioned Donovan - Sunshine Superman ? What about The End - Introspection? And Love - Da Capo?

And in terms of psychedelic era Grateful Dead, I think Aoxomoxoa is better than the previously mentioned GD albums.

Sweetwater yeah!  One of the first concerts I ever saw was Sweetwater, just after the lead singer's car accident.  I took music theory in college and the prof played their record.  Awesome stuff.

Cool Topic! :smokin

I would like to recommend some of my favourite Psychedelic records:

1. The way they played by The Twilights.
2. Take a Picture by Margo Guryan.
3. She flies like a bird (anthology) by Honeybus.
4. Axis: Bold as Love by Jimi Hendrix.
5. Piper at the gates of dawn by Pink Floyd.
6. A gift from a flower to a garden by Donovan.
7. Os mutantes and A divina comedia by Os mutantes.
8. Would you believe by Billy Nichols.
9. Present tense by Saggitarius.
10. Evolution and Butterfly by The Hollies.

Of course everything recorded by The Beatles between 1965-1969 and everything that Brian Wilson and The Beach Boys did during the same period,
Also, I would like to mention a couple of psychedelic Pastiche- like records, though  none of them were recorded during the 60's: Dukes of Stratosphere by XTC and A dusk at the cubist castle by Olivia Tremor control, delightful  for those who enjoy psychedelic stuff, brilliant albums really. :)

Yup, totally agree with you on the Dukes on Stratosphere which of course is not by XTC, but rather a pseudonym for them. We've got a separate thread discussing OTC (and of montreal) - great, great stuff!

I don't know if i would call The Honeybus' or Margo's album psychedelic, perhaps light psychedelic pop at most. But that's ok, nevertheless excellent albums. :)

For those who are interested in late 70s / 80s neo-psychedelia, Rhino's Children of Nuggets compilation is highly recommended - lots of great bands (including the Wondermints) were obviously inspired by the first psychedelic era of the late 60s. The Teardrop Explodes albums and the early solo LPs of Teardrop Explodes leader Julian Cope are also well worth seeking out - his second solo, 1984's Fried actually sounds like a long lost obscure psych-pop album from cca 1968.

I always liked the Dream Academy and World Party as neo-psychedelic heirs.

In the past decade, Sufjan Stevens and Akron/Family keep the psych alive for me.

A few days ago i discovered the song "Gemini" by Del Shannon. I cannot for the life of me get that tune out of my head!

Off his stone cold classic psych album "The Further Adventures of Charles Westover". I like every song on it -- especially Thinkin' It Over! Also really cool is his (until recently) unreleased psych album with Billy Nicholls, Small Faces, Andrew Loog Oldham on Immediate "Home & Away". Dig the psych version of Runaway: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NzsD3iJEzX8

Well that's actually not accurate, most of the tracks from 'Home & Away' can be found on 'And the Music Plays On', released first in 78 on LP, and then on CD in 1996 (as a twofer: Live in England/...And the Music Plays On). Okay album though! :)