The Smiley Smile Message Board

yo,
i was wondering...what albums u dig while trippin?  trippiest beach boys song?

You mean driving right?
Well, then Little Deuce Coupe is definitely a "trippy" album. All the songs are about taking trips in cars.

Amusement Parks USA, man, that's a trip and a half. I was like, sooo low on gas. I don't think I ever got so low before. It's scary being that low.

VERY nice, Chance. I nearly fell on the floor reading that.

bleh...well, i tried to make a decent thread...

No man, it's fine! We're just hazing you!

I gave a friend of mine SMiLEY SMilLE, and apparently he had a horribly bad acid trip and he told me that he was deciding what method of suicide he was going to use, and that he put on the SMiLEY tape and within 10 minutes he had totally dropped the idea of death, he felt so good. True story!

So SMiLEY would have to be my choice, although the best drug experience I've had with a BB album was, strangely enough, Surfer Girl. I, like, BECAME the ocean, dude. For reals.

surfer girl is fahkin out there...those harmonies...and brians falsetto at the end. smiley smile is interesting...ive unfortunately never heard any of smile on psychs...my girl has to listen to the beach boys everyday...i talk about the beach boys so much i can't believe she still stays around....i really dig i can hear the heart beating as one
btw ian, thanks fer the conversation last night man....sarcastic bastid

No problem, man!
Where are you from and how did you get into the Beach Boys?

"Acid shattered my mind...."

I hope you guys aren't doing LSD -- seriously -- I saw a lot of cats who did not make it back from that trip.  I suspect it may have played a serious role in Brian's demise.  Didn't do me too much good!

That said -- "Electric Lady Land" was the one I remember digging a lot when I was shattering my mind.  And Timothy Leary had this very strange LP called "You Can Be Anyone This Time Around" ("You can be Martin Luther King, this time around!  You can be John and Yoko, this time around!  You can be the Grateful Dead, this time around!")  The real mindblower was a track called "What Do You Turn On When You Turn On"  Very messed up.

Of course, 40 minute two LP side jams by Canned Heat or Quicksilver Messenger Service sounded kinda cool when your brain molecule count is diminishing....

Yeah, I've quit except for the VERY occasional Ecstacy ride. But I don't really recommend it.

well...im from indiana originally...i move around a lot...i just moved to miami from seattle...bad decision but oh well.  my dad had a beach boys tape that i wore out when i was young, just singing the crap outta that stuff.  my dad didnt know nothing about pet sounds or smile tho...neither did i until i was about 17 i think, and my friend who was really turning me on to a lot of music made me come out to his car and listen to the beach boys...he put in the vigotone bootleg of smile, do you like worms? and i was blown away.  i was into the beatles floyd nuggets...but that bootleg is really what got me into the beach boys.  and then i got pet sounds

electric ladyland is good stuff...i like to stare at the cover
timothy leary blows

Excellent! Sounds like you have really great taste in music, man. I love the whole psych-60's-garage thang very much too. Have you heard the 13th Floor Elevators, Love, The Seeds, Chocolate Watch Band?

I totally agree on Timothy Leary. One of the phoniest egotistical charlatans to ever walk the planet.

what about u ian?...and if i'm breaking the thread rules im sorry, i tend to get really off topic sometimes.  i've never written on a message board before.
but yeah, where u from ian?  and well, share anything u want...
ahhhhhhhhhhhhh,
my girls favorite band is the 13th floor elevators..well one of em...we got a nice copy of easter everywhere on vinyl, and a copy of psychedelic sounds...but its remixed in stereo, but its RED, so its cool anyways.  forever changes is great, not something i put on very often but very groovy.  seeds rule...don't know much about the chocolate watch band, but did they not do the soundtrack on beyond the valley of the dolls, or did they do psych out?  strawberry alarm clock

Watchband all the way! I suspect Love is great when you're all psyched out. My drugged out mailman loved early Pink Floyd. Elevators & Seeds would be 2 other interesting suggestions... but you're already there!

I am from Los Angeles, been here since I was 2, played music since I was 8, been in tons of bands, written a lot about music for various publications. Had a pretty crazy existence, I guess. Have a great girlfriend, we currently live in Reseda, Ca.

Sounds like your g/f has great taste in music! It's great to have music in common with your partner, it's a pretty rare thing. Yes, the Alarm Clock did the BVD and Psych Out soundtracks. The Watch Band had some great albums, a few songs on the Nuggets box-"Let's Talk ABout Girls", "Are You Gonna Be There". They also made one of the trippiest psych albums, The Inner Mystique.

Do you really like the Syd Barrett period of the Floyd?

Magical Mystery Tour,  Safe As Milk,  Lovless, I can Hear the Heart Beating as one.

Loveless and Safe As Milk are great, great albums.
One of the best shows I have ever seen was My Bloody Valentine in 1991. brain-bleedingly loud!

Moi? or mygfisinme?
I haven't heard that much- like some of what I've heard, tho. I think I posted a great story last spring on the old, old board, about my mailman and his LSD experience at a Floyd show. Yes? No? It's a great story! If no- LET ME KNOW- I'll post here- perfect place!

Unless I'm having an acid flashback, we've done this before, haven't we?

These worked for me at the time:

Pink Floyd: Mostly the stereo Interstellar, but also Echoes and Saucerful

Quicksilver: Who Do You Love suite

Terry Riley: Rainbow in Curved Air

Mahavishnu Orchestra: Inner Mounting Flame (esp. Noonward Race)

Can: Tago Mago

... but I'd hang a big DO NOT GO THERE sign on anything by Zappa and Hendrix ...

(I got into the stuff everyone knows as psychedelic - the Elevators, etc - after I got into Nuggets - which was after I'd stopped eating acid.)

EDIT: Most spectacular live music experienced on acid: Pink Floyd at the Lanchester Festival, around '71 (?), when they did a Quadraphonic Echoes. That one still buzzes round my head occasionally!

Been a long time.  Interesting question.  It really depended on the quality of the substance, circumstances, my frame of mind, being alone or with friends and so on.


Some memorable lysergic sounds....

to accentuate and stimulate

Firesign Theater
Jefferson Airplane Baxters through Bark
Early FZ albums
Jethro Tull Benefit
George Harrison Electronic Sounds
Pink Floyd Umma Guma
Blows Against the Empire*

to chill and calm the jittery passages

Moody Blues...In Search of the Lost Chord, Threshold of a Dream, Childrens Children
Fleetwood Mac Future Games
Pink Floyd Atom Heart Mother
CSN
Blows Against the Empire*

*good both coming and going

The Music Machine/Bonniwell Music Machine. Original Sound & Warner Bros LP's. The later available thru Sundazed.
I'm sure those sounds might be a bit intense depending on the mood you're in. Definitely not for a mellow mood. Highly playful, however. Wonder what these sounds might be like under the influence?
High, HIGH praise for Sean Bonniwell !!

All these psychedelic groups mentioned and no one mentioned Silver Apples or Os Mutantes? Man ohhhhhh man.

Never heard 'em.

Looks like I need to send you some stuff, Ian.

And you call yourself a music fanatic, tsk tsk.

I know, I know. I gotta leave some stuff to discover!
But I am always more than willing to be hipped!

Os Mutantes are great! Got me into that whole Tropicalia thing for a while. It's pretty neat to see your five-year-old kid cruising around the house singing Spanish lyrics to Latin Psych music. Gilberto Gil is cool too.

good choice on the silver apples...pretty far out sh*t for the time

I kinda feel like if you can remember what you listened to, you didn't have good sh*t.

That said, I have found these, among other albums, around my stereo the day after:

Soft Boys: "A Can of Bees"
the oft-mentioned "Smiley Smile"
Goldfrapp: "Felt Mountain"
The Allman Bros. Band: "Live at Fillmore East"
Television: "Live at the Old Waldorf"
Ho-Hum: "Funny Business"


Ian, I can't believe you're not already into Mutantes! I think you'd probably really enjoy Rita Lee's "Build Up," which isn't OFFICIALLY Mutantes, although they do back her up. Her version of "And I Love Her" is my favorite Beatles cover.

personally, the mutantes(which i havent heard much beyond the song on nuggets tune), dont do too much for me...the library a few years ago had a disc of their greatest hits which i checked out...and they are good....just trippin i dunno if they'd be my cup of tea...they are farked erp...but i havent heard em on anything other than pot and opiates...

robyn hitchcock tho...dope

neu!? anyon e?

Lately it's been The Millenium Begin, a cd-r comp of Yes doing stuff from Tales From Topographic Oceans live and the Rolling Stones' late 60s and early 70s albums.

no-one seems to have mentioned anything P-Funk related

the music alone is enough to get you high!

Geroge Clinton/Bootsy Collins & Brian Wilson - that wouldve been an interesting collaboration in the 70s  :hat

Flaming Lips - The Soft Bulletin

Phish - Billy Breathes

Grateful Dead - From the Mars Motel

Pink Floyd - Animals

Wilco - A Ghost is Born

Big Fish Ensemble - Lucky

Widespread Panic - Light Fuse, Get Away

Oh jesus, people would have died if that had happened. That'd be sick.

Guys, as much as I like Brian Wilson... he's not exactly a soulful -- let alone funky -- white guy! (Though I do seem to recall he and Sly Stone had associations of some kind... probably drugs mainly?)

These are all the psychedlic albums i had great trips listening to or had playing while i was out of it. :)

The Beatles - Magical Mystery Tour
Pink Floyd -  The Piper at the Gates of Dawn
Pink Floyd- The Dark Side Of The Moon
Pink Floyd - Animals
The Who - The Who Sell Out
Led Zeppelin - House of the Holy
The Rolling Stones - Their Satanic Majesties Request

Once when my friends and I were on hallucinogens my housemate put Solid Air by John Martyn on. It sounded great and all was well until the bonus track Rather Be The Devil (his version of Skip James' Devil Got My Woman) came on, it totally freaked me and my other friend out so we quickly stopped the album and grabbed the nearest CD which happened to be a 'best of' by Django Reindhart - it calmed us right down and sounded incredible!

I beg to differ, particularly as to "soulful".  And even as to "funky" -- at least a bit.  Listen to "Wild Honey."  And there is a tremendous groove/pocket on the classic stuff, albeit not "funk".  And then there is "Sail On Sailor."  But I'm not denying Brian is quite white.

I almost thought that first poster was nobody/ghost, but then I saw the date.