Favorite Beatles psychedelic era-sounding groups?

[roll plymouth rock]

Just wondering what are board members favorite Beatles sounding records? I know this is a vague definition....but most of the bands I'm listing have sly references to Beatles tracks on some tracks.

For me I'm digging:
-The Merry-Go-Round (& Emmitt Rhodes solo stuff)
-The Moon
-Grapefruit
-Badfinger
-The Four Seasons psych album Genuine Imitation Life, does a Hey Jude thing on the title track
-Harry Nilsson has some great stuff like You Can't Do That
-The Flame


...and much more. Anyone else partial to any Beatles-like music I haven't listed?

[Jason]

Laghonia
Os Mutantes
Bill Holt
Pink Floyd
We All Together

[Dunderhead]

Tomorrow is really great if you haven't heard them.
Monkees are great too.

[donald]

Crack the Sky used to do a mean version of I am the Walrus

[Dunderhead]

The Rolling Stones - Their Satanic Majesties Request

Also, is that Four Seasons LP good? It's been on my radar a long time but I haven't gotten it yet.

[Aum Bop Diddit]

Dukes of the Stratosphere!  And though I wouldn't exactly call them "psychedelic", let me proffer Jellyfish.  Psychedelicate maybe -- anyway, it's always a good thing to listen to Jellyfish!

[rab2591]

The Zombies.

[donald]

The Rolling Stones - Their Satanic Majesties Request

Also, is that Four Seasons LP good? It's been on my radar a long time but I haven't gotten it yet.

I bought that lp from a fellow vinyl collector......I could not connect with it ....perhaps had I heard it when it was new.  No Pet Sounds or Sgt Pepper IMHO.

[Mike's Beard]

When I first heard that the Four Seasons of all people had gone psychedelic (a good two years after every other band from that era) I couldn't hold back the laughter. A few trips to youtube later and I stand corrected. What I've heard is pretty good and I now have the cd on order.

[Dead Parrot]

How about the Butterfly era incarnation of The Hollies. Now there's a band that produced some great, and very underrated music. "King Midas In Reverse" by itself is a wonderful song, and one of the best things Graham Nash ever wrote.

[Mike's Beard]

King Midas is amazing. It should have been a monster hit everywhere.

[roll plymouth rock]

I'm a big fan of the pastiche stuff like this by Gene Clark: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGctiFIxVFE

Also really really dig the tune Holly Park by The Merry-Go-Round


Cool thing about that 4 Seasons record is that it that Bob Gaudio who wrote most of it, also wrote an album for Frank Sinatra called Watertown at the same time. The whole concept of the 4 Seasons one is that the LP is this psychedelic newspaper (worth tracking down an original pressing to get the newspaper booklet-its really funny). But anyways, the two albums are inter-related and refer to each other both lyrically and in the packaging for Genuine Imitation Life Gazette there is an ad for houses in Watertown, etc, etc....pretty cool, albeit conceptually flawed (at least commercially speaking). I for one find it fascinating that pretty much every big 60s recording artist "turned on" at least for an album or single, and this is one of the more interesting examples considering its two major, fairly straight artists

[D409]

The Moon two-fer (Without Earth & The Moon) is definitely worth getting, Jon Stebbins' book on David Marks sold that one to me, some of it sounds like a trip straight into Pepperland ! David's guitar work on the albums is great too. As recommended above, Tomorrow and The Zombies are also excellent, as are Eclection and Trader Horne (for the period whimsy).

[punkinhead]

I'm a fan of the 4 Seasons Genuine Imitation Life. a great album and a cool gatefold/newspaper-like vinyl album cover.

Would Left Banke fit under this category?

The Monkees stuff during this era is great.

Sagittarius has its moments.

[roll plymouth rock]

Harry Nilsson's quintessential Beatles tribute: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-3IH3T1DoE


Yep!! Love The Moon....two essential LP's if you ask me. They logged 600 hours of studio time or something on Without Earth

[Music Machine]

The Monkees' Pieces... and Birds albums, The Wackers' Hot Wacks and The Milenium's Begin.

[Seaside Woman]

Not a group but a Donovan.

[Lowbacca]

TAME IMPALA. Try Innerspeaker (great album, by the way). It's scary at times.

[louielouie]

Don't forget Honeybus who wrote beatlesque gems as "Story" (very "Something") or "Fresher than the sweetness in water" among many other great tunes.

Also, the Australian band "The Twilights"(according with wiki they even met the Beatles  and were present at Abbey Road studios  during some sessions, Penny Lane i think) they wrote some very Beatle influence stuff, i personally would recommend two songs: "Time and motion study man" and "Paternosta Row" both highly psychedelic works, the later is sort of a LSD rendition of both Penny Lane and Being for the benefit of Mr, Kite (and the Walrus too!).

...I almost left out another great band that resembles Beatles's psychedelic era , The Pretty Things and their classic "S.F. Sorrow", even the voices sounds very Lennon.

[homeontherange]

The Zombies.

Seconded. "Odyssey And Oracle" is an underrated masterpiece. Very Brian Wilson-esque at times

[roll plymouth rock]

Don't forget Honeybus who wrote beatlesque gems as "Story" (very "Something") or "Fresher than the sweetness in water" among many other great tunes.

Also, the Australian band "The Twilights"(according with wiki they even met the Beatles  and were present at Abbey Road studios  during some sessions, Penny Lane i think) they wrote some very Beatle influence stuff, i personally would recommend two songs: "Time and motion study man" and "Paternosta Row" both highly psychedelic works, the later is sort of a LSD rendition of both Penny Lane and Being for the benefit of Mr, Kite (and the Walrus too!).

...I almost left out another great band that resembles Beatles's psychedelic era , The Pretty Things and their classic "S.F. Sorrow", even the voices sounds very Lennon.

Great picks!! This is exactly what I was hoping for...love SF Sorrow what a concept album! You checked out The Merry-Go-Round at all? Holly Park is one of the most Beatles-sounding tracks not by The Beatles I've heard

[Chocolate Shake Man]

Some great ones have been mentioned already but I'd like to thrown in Bee Gees' 1st.