Top 200 Psychedelic Songs from the Original Psychedelic Era
- Jason LeValley
- April 13, 2021
- 7:39 am
Top 200 Psychedelic Songs from the Original Psychedelic Era
Lists are highly subjective, of course, and the idea behind this one isn’t to dictate which songs are better than
others. This list is designed more to enlighten, turn people on to songs they may not have known, and
invoke discussion.
It bears mentioning, however, that The Beatles are predominant on this list because they were the best
band ever and arguably did psychedelic music better than any band has ever done. For this reason, it was
hard for us not to fill the Top 10 with Beatles songs. Instead, they’re spaced out within the list, although
four songs are in the Top 10.
1. Tomorrow Never Knows – The Beatles
2. My White Bicycle – Tomorrow
3. I Am the Walrus- The Beatles
4. The Red Telephone – Love
5. Strawberry Fields Forever – The Beatles
6. See Emily Play – Pink Floyd
7. White Rabbit – Jefferson Airplane
8. Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds – The Beatles
9. Bass Strings – Country Joe and the Fish
10. 1983 (A Merman I Should Turn to Be) – Jimi Hendrix Experience
11. At The Mountains of Madness – H.P. Lovecraft
12. Strange Days – The Doors
13. Mind Gardens – The Byrds
14. Mountains of the Moon – The Grateful Dead
15. In a Gadda-da-Vida – Iron Butterfly
16. Still I’m Sad – The Yardbirds
17. The American Metaphysical Circus – The United States of America
18. Sky Pilot – Eric Burdon and The Animals
19. Hurdy Gurdy Man – Donovan
20. Magoo – Country Joe and The Fish
21. Interstellar Overdrive – Pink Floyd
22. Other Side of The Sky – Gong
23. White Bird – It’s a Beautiful Day
24. Sybil Green (of the In-Between) The Blues Magoos
25. Rain- The Beatles
26. Help I’m a Rock – Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention
27. Beacon From Mars – Kaleidoscope (US)
28. Electrallentando – H.P. Lovecraft
29. Grace – Country Joe and the Fish
30. I Am a Tangerine – Tommy James and the Shondells
31. Castle In The Clouds – Gong
32. Shifting Sands – West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band
33. Blue Jay Way – The Beatles
34. Bracelets of Fingers – The Pretty Things
35. Are You Experienced – Jimi Hendrix Experience
36. Roller Coaster – 13th Floor Elevators
37. Eight Miles High – The Byrds
38. Horse Latitudes – The Doors
39. Rack My Mind – The Yardbirds
40. Hallucinations – Tim Buckley
41. 1906 – West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band
42. 10,000 Words In a Cardboard Box – Aquarian Age
43. Within You Without You – The Beatles
44. Venus in Furs—Velvet Underground
45. Set The Controls For The Heart of The Sun – Pink Floyd
46. And The Gods Made Love – Jimi Hendrix Experience
47. Itchycoo Park – Small Faces
48. Astronomy Domine – Pink Floyd
49. Nightfall – The Incredible String Band
50. Keep Your Mind Open – Kaleidoscope
51. Mechanical World – Spirit
52. Heaven Is In Your Mind – Traffic
53. Orange & Red Beams – Eric Burdon and The Animals
54. Rene – Small Faces
55. Splash 1 – 13th Floor Elevators
56. The Beauty of Time Is That It’s Snowing – Steve Miller Band
57. Ether Ships – Steve Hillage
58. Leiyla – West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band
59. In Another Land – The Rolling Stones
60. OXO – Bruce Palmer
61. Paper Sun – Traffic
62. Two Weeks Last Summer – Dave Cousins
63. Hurdy Gurdy Glissando – Steve Hillage
64. Just The Thought – Eric Burdon and The Animals
65. Translucent Carriages – Pearls Before Swine
66. Now Your Time Has Come – Tomorrow
67. Armenia City in the Sky – The Who
68. The Lake – Moby Grape
69. Third Stone from the Sun – Jimi Hendrix
70. I’m Five Years Ahead of My Time – Third Bardo
71. Ritual #1 – West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band
72. Fresh Air – Quicksilver Messenger Service
73. War in Peace – Skip Spence
74. Rosemary – Grateful Dead
75. Madman Running Through The Fields – Dantalian’s Chariot
76. Pat’s Song – Country Joe and the Fish
77. Creation – The Incredible String Band
78. Walking Thru My Dreams – The Pretty Things
79. Flashback – Moving Sidewalks
80. The Gnome – Pink Floyd
81. No Way Out – The Chocolate Watch Band
82. Paranoia #2 – Hawkwind
83. 2000 Light Years from Home – The Rolling Stones
84. Lather – Jefferson Airplane
85. Magic Man – Caravan
86. Fantasy – Fifty Foot Hose
87. Time Has Come Today – The Chambers Brothers
88. Pandora’s Golden Heebie Jeebies – The Association
89. A Child’s Smile – Clear Light
90. Matilda Mother – Pink Floyd
91. Iron Butterfly Theme – Iron Butterfly
92. My Friend Jack – The Smoke
93. Happenings Ten Years Time from Now – The Yardbirds
94. Section 43 – Country Joe and the Fish
95. Upside Down – Hawkwind
96. Tiptoe on the Highest Hill – Twink
97. Coloured Rain – Traffic
98. Life Is Just Beginning – The Creation
99. Joy of a Toy – Soft Machine
100. March of the Flower Children – The Seeds
101. Dark Star – Grateful Dead
102. Dear Mr. Fantasy – Traffic
103. Cloud Song – The United States of America
104. We Did It Again – Soft Machine
105. SF Sorrow Is Born – The Pretty Things
106. A Question of Temperature – The Balloon Farm
107. Dancing Madly Backward – Captain Beyond
108. She Comes In Colors – Love
109. I Can Hear the Grass Grow – The Move
110. Real Life Permanent Dream – Tomorrow
111. Lady Rachel – Kevin Ayers
112. A Rose for Emily – The Zombies
113. The Parable of Arable Land – The Red Crayola
114. Children of the Sun – The Misunderstood
115. Flight from Ashiya – Kaleidoscope (U.K.)
116. The Ballad of Freddie and Harry – Clear Light
117. The Hum Gum Tree – The World of Oz
118. The Murder Mystery – Velvet Underground
119. I’m Coming Home – The Deviants
120. Open My Mind – Nazz
121. Hot House of Omagarashid – The Yardbirds
122. A Whiter Shade of Pale – Procol Harum
123. Inside People – The Freeborne
124. Reverberation – 13th Floor Elevators
125. Girl on a Swing – Kevin Ayers
126. Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite – The Beatles
127. Om Nama Shivaya – Steve Hillage
128. Season of the Witch – Vanilla Fudge
129. Every Christian Lion-Hearted Man Will Show You – The Bee Gees
130. Flower King of Flies – The Nice
131. Over, Under, Sideways, Down – The Yardbirds
132. The Porpoise Song – The Monkees
133. Psychotic Reaction – The Count Five
134. I Had Too Much to Dream Last Night – The Electric Prunes
135. Legend of a Mind – The Moody Blues
136. Cold Turkey – Big Boy Pete
137. We Love You – The Rolling Stones
138. We Wil Fall – The Stooges
139. No Time Like the Right Time –The Blues Project
140. Bike – Pink Floyd
141. Anxious Colors – The Painted Faces
142. Fire – Arthur Brown
143. It’s-a-Happening – The Magic Mushrooms
144. Morning Girl – Neon Philharmonic
145. My World Fell Down – Sagittarius
146. Dandelion – The Rolling Stones
147. Crimson and Clover – Tommy James and the Shondells
148. Journey to the Center of Your Mind – The Amboy Dukes
149. Planet Caravan – Black Sabbath
150. Pretty Song from Psychout – Strawberry Alarm Clock
151. The Best Way to Travel – The Moody Blues
152. Where Is My Mind – Vanilla Fudge
153. Piece For Piano and Electric Bass Guitar – The Red Crayola
154. Fire Engine – The 13th Floor Elevators
155. In My First Mind – Steve Miller Band
156. The Child Bride – Earth Opera
157. And I Wish I Were Stoned – Caravan
158. Hot Smoke and Sassafras – Bubble Puppy
159. San Francisco Girls — Fever Tree
160. Let’s Go to San Francisco – The Flower Pot Men
161. Incense and Peppermints – Strawberry Alarm Clock
162. Hole in My Shoe – Traffic
163. Song from the Bottom of a Well—Kevin Ayers
164. Flower of the Orient – Amon Duul II
165. Through with You – The Lemon Pipers
166. Wild Mountain Honey – Steve Miller Band
167. That’s It for the Other One – Grateful Dead
168. Cellophane Symphony – Tommy James and the Shondells
169. Mr. Farmer—The Seeds
170. I Can’t Find the Time to Tell You – Orpheus
171. Baby – Os Mutantes
172. Maiden of The Cancer Moon – Quicksilver Messenger Service
173. Farmer John – The Premiers
174. Michael Angelo – 23rd Turnoff
175. Pictures of Matchstick Men – Status Quo
176. Spontaneous Apple Creation – Arthur Brown
177. Defecting Grey – The Pretty Things
178. She’s a Rainbow – The Rolling Stones
179. Love You To – The Beatles
180. Here She Comes Now — Velvet Underground
181. She Said, She Said – The Beatles
182. The Way – July
183. Years Ago – Alice Cooper
184. Mobius Trip – H.P. Lovecraft
185. The Long Road – Genesis (US)
186. Summertime Blues – Blue Cheer
187. I’m So Glad – Cream
188. Flaming – Pink Floyd
189. Pentecost Hotel – Nirvana (U.K.)
190. Mrs. Bluebird – Eternity’s Children
191. Only a Northern Song – The Beatles
192. Dear Delilah – Grapefruit
193. The Disturbance – The Move
194. It’s All Too Much – The Beatles
195. Green of My Pants — The Red Crayola
196. Images of April — Pearls Before Swine
197. Just Dropped In (to See What Condition My Condition Was In) – The First Edition
198. Pretty Ballerina – The Left Banke
199. Silver and Gold – Country Joe & the Fish
200. Feel Flows – Beach Boys
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Looking for the song which includes lyrics of “sun spinning ’round with great emotion, world turning round with great devotion”