Mazzy -- your classification of psychedelia is right on. As I remember it, we never really called any particular style of music "psychedelia." In fact, if we used that word to describe music in the 1960s, we were using it sarcastically to criticize commercial efforts that were attempting to capitalize on what record execs thought drug culture was. Psychedelic music was the music we chose to influence the setting during a psychedelic trip. It's function was psychedelic. Days of Future Past is a key example of this. Actually, you hit my 1968 playlist right on the head.

I am 69 now and was around as a teenager during the 1960s, I had my first trip in 1969 and listened to Hendrix record, Electric |Ladyland. I can tell you now, it was, most definitely a psychadelic record, trust me, I know. I like a lot of your selection and have seen most of them live, we were spoiled back then, we had the best of times.

For me, the Piper at the gates...is the best British psychedelic album of the 60s. Genuinely strange, psychedelic from start to finish.

Good to see The Zombies' Odessey and Oracle so high up your list. It's a masterpiece. Don't know if you can really include Magical Mystery Tour in there, as it's a bit of a Frankenstein's monster stitched together for the US market. Great sequence of songs though. Peace!

For me, this series of videos has been up there amongst the best you’ve ever done, many thanks.

Another thoroughly enjoyable vid in this series! Great picks! Hoping to see more.

Wonderful! So glad Procol Harum is in there - not once but twice. I remember playing A SALTY DOG endlessly when I bought the album in late 60s. Great great band that had many great sounds through the years... Thank you!

My attention span is usually 5-10 mins max for KZfaq videos but I watched all of this and really enjoyed it. Excellent. Thank you.

Great selection of records again. Love all those albums. Cheers!!!

THANKS for including Hollies' Evolution, which I listen to more often than King Midas, probably because Evolution is less psychedelic but it was a big progression from the early pure pop Hollies sound. Graham Nash started pushing them that way with the For Certain Because/Stop Stop Stop album where they finally had band songwriting credits for every song on the album. I love so many of the great records/bands you're featuring here. Thanks for this, Mazzy.

This was a great series. Thank's for posting.

Thank you Mazzy! You nailed it, including several of my guilty pleasures(Hollies, Pretty Things, Donovan, Beegees). Now I have to check if you filed my lp's correctly. Cheers from Canada!

Great video Mazzy. I can see how much you enjoy this music because all through this video you had a smile on your face.

So glad I found your channel. I learned a lot of bands new to me! 🎉🎉🎉

Great list! I love an obscure psych record by an British duo that had huge succes in the states. Chad & Jeremy’s “Of Cabbages And Kings” especially “The Progress Suite” Produced by Byrds best producer, Gary Usher! A great record. The opener “Rest In Peace” is a killer! A true gem. Cheers from Stockholm.

Mazzy, thank you for reminding us of some great music! I love the trip through the past. My favorite song from the Brit-psych scene is Tuesday Afternoon. Love that song!

So glad you give love to SF Sorrow and yes Days Of Future Passed really is a masterpiece! Plus the bonzo dogdoodah band's first album Gorilla from '67 is a great example of doing the 20s flapper jazz thing you mentioned. SUPER JOB MAZZY , KEEP IT GOING!

very helpful primer for me - thanks. I had no idea I had so many of the songs you cite. Currently compiling a playlist - many thanks

Mazzy your knowledge of music always amazes me, another history lesson for me.

Magical Mystery Tour was the third album I ever bought when I was 13 years old and had enough money to start buying records... and to this day it’s in my top five or six favourite records of all time, of any genre. I couldn’t live without it. Nice

Good to catch another brilliant video Sir, the 60's were an unique time for music, culture and how it was progressing, am on a countdown to 24th with a massive birthday celebration

A fun list. A glaring omission, in my opinion, is Basket of Light, by Pentangle. Love that psych/folk sound.

another great show....thanks...and a coincidence, as I just listened to a british psychedelic box set , Let's Go Down and Blow Our Minds', this morning, inspired by your recent overviews...for me, it points out that the Beatles were part of a scene...which also influenced them as much as they were influencers...

Always enjoy your presentations btw

Great break down Mazzy as always. I'd slip in the Bonzo Dog Band's Gorilla somewhere on your list being that it's not only a great psych record but it's connected to your overall number 1 pick.

Another great one, Mazzy. And some surprising choices on here, still. Amazing list. Nicely done!

Thanks so much for the effort here. Some personal fav's on the list, as well as some things previously unheard to check out, as well as some reminders of "oh yeah, where did that go in my collection?" Agree that Magical Mystery Tour is stuffed with pop-psych nuggets. I would argue that The Pretty Thing's S.F. Sorrow should be #1 here, but if I amend your title to be more reflective of your choices -- i.e. Best 60s British Psychedelic POP Albums Ranked -- then maybe not, since S.F. Sorrow was a pretty heavy album. Overall, love the genre, and love your list.

What an amazing list! 😍

I really enjoyed this, 30 great picks..Thanks for this, you do have a knack with these things (and the records).

What a thoroughly enjoyable video…! Thanks for your wit and personality…in the service of so much extraordinary music. Yes, wore out Disraeli Gears!

Hi Norman. Just discovered you here on youtube and really enjoying being educated by these ranking videos. As an Englishman am proud that you include Hendrix here in the British section - Guess I've always considered that we pinched him from you. I remember being surprised that Captain Sensible from The Damned rated the first Beegees album his all time favourite. I don't have the depth of knowledge concerning psychdelic music that you do but I would have included Twink's "Think Pink" in my top twenty and would have Syd Barrett's "Mad Cap Laughs" as my number one choice. Thank you for the great videos!!

Hi Mazzy, great video and quite a few albums that I’ll now check out. Tomorrow never knows is almost certainly my favourite Beatles album track

I absolutely loved both your videos on top psychedelic albums. I have to agree with you on most of the choices. My brain kept getting triggered with all the joyous remembering. Thank you Mazzy,

Truly great video 👍 outstanding selection

Here are some essential Brit-Sike bands: July - Tomorrow - Blossom Toes - The Smoke - The Creation - The Open Mind - Apple - The Plastic Penny - The Gods. All released a great debut record and definitely in the genre. I always enjoy watching your shows, and you always come across as a kind and knowledgeable fellow.

Really enjoying your compilation vids & no-one is going to agree with you 100%. Particularly liking your style with all the background info.

Your choice for the #1 album was a great one!

Great selection! New subscriber from Japan, (ex. Scotland). Love your channel and your UK psychedelia LP choices. Cheers!

Thanks for another great video,. I spent this winter in a jazz deep dive, now I have transitioned to 60’s rock? Of all the albums I know on this list, electric ladyland is my pick.

I just listened to the The Zombies Odessey and Oracle for the first time thanks to your recommendation. What an album and the song Hung up on a dream is unbelievable. Keep up the videos. Thanks

Amazing vídeo, thanks 👏👏

Really great channel man great taste! If you know any, a video on some underground/obscure psychedelic albums would be awesome! Lots of great albums that got buried in the ether over the years. Also, I couldn’t agree more about within you without you! I love when George did his raga thing. That’s one of the things I love about psychedelic music so much is that a lot of bands injected an eastern influence in their music.

Great list and commentary.

Hey Maz I loved that you gave a shout out to Sky Pilot. It was big on top 40 radio in L A, and I was astounded when I bought the single, and the song continued on side 2! We only got the short version on the radio. Starting around 15 years ago, I've been re-listening to the Stones Satanic Majesty album. . .and I really like it a lot nowadays. Most of the songs are really good to great. That album and Sgt. Pepper were the first Beatles and Stones albums to have the same album cover, track list, and mixes on both sides of the Atlantic. Also happy to see The Who Sell Out -- on most days, that's my favorite Who album. I know that bubbling just below your list was Listen To The Flower People by Spinal Tap. ;)

A very enjoyable and informative listen, thank you. A few personal favourites are Thoughts of Emerlist Davjack by the Nice, Book of Taliesyn by Deep Purple, and We Are Everything You See by Locomotive.

Thank you for including Small Faces. I recently heard a well respected music critic say that although Beatles were the best all round band, HIS personal favorite band was Small Faces!! Me too, I think they were brilliant, but sadly mostly unknown to many of us from the US and younger folks. This was a fun video. Great job...

I used to stare at the Disraeli Gears cover forever. Mind blowing back then.

A very good ranking of Brittish psychedelia. My only comment is that the Yardbirds probably deserve more credit. But their best psychelelic songs were Shapes of Things, and Happenings Ten Years Tima Ago, neither of which were released on their studio albums.

Aloha Mazzy, Great rankings of British Psychedelia record albums. All those record albums you've named I had at one time or another in my collecting years. I to enjoy Donavan's Music. Crazy world 🌎 of Author Brown Awesome! Moody Blues Days of Future pass, Classic. They are all great. Thanks Again Mazzy, for sharing your rankings. Looking forward to seeing your next video. Mahalo Ed

Awesome video mate .I love The Move and The Floyds debut lp

Loved your revues, very interesting.

So glad you included the 1966 'The Yardbirds' and Small Faces albums.

Would also add Twink-Think Pink, Kevin Ayers-Joy of a Toy, The End by The End, July-July, Blossom Toes-We´re ever so clean, The Deviants-Ptoff, Nirvana- Story of Simon Simopath (second album is also good), the Smoke´s debut, White Noise-Electric Storm (electronic psych) and the Action-Rolled gold (the great brit psych lost album). Anyway great list ! I also enjoyed your lists on best SF and LA 60s psychedelic rock albums.

Thanks for including the Moodies! too many reviewers forget their contribution. Put your spotlight on their "Childrens Children"...in my top 5 albums regardless of category. Just one more indulgence...have to include Soft Machines' "Volume 2", so unique & beyond any one of the "Top 30"....Hendrix was their biggest fan

So happy when I find another Mazzy list,knocked it out of the park with this list!

Saw Procol Harum in '71 supported by the great Terry Reid [ with the equally great David Linley on guitar ] Remember they played most of " Broken Barricades " my favourite Procol album . Once again a great show Norman . Best Wishes from England .

Great list Mazzy! I would put Cream’s Wheels of Fire in there being my favorite Cream album

Magical Mystery Tour is the most psychedelic of the Beatles records and it is a record I love (but I love all the Beatles records so I guess that isn't saying a lot). So many great songs on it! I think the first impulse is to pick Sgt Pepper since it was so different, but overall the songs on MMT fit the psychedelic genre more accurately.

As an eleven year old I first heard Magical Mystery Tour in England. It was formatted as a book containing 45 rpm singles. I was haunted by the beautiful Blue Jay Way. Wonderful to see you rate it so highly . Years later i saw Argent perform, had no idea the Zombies were so influential in the British psychedelic . Love your presentation and humour. Love is all you need innit .

Oh you beaut! Norman you are amazing! Thank you for including The Idle Race, from my hometown, and one of the best bands from Birmingham (as well as the Moody Blues and the Move)

So many old favorites you showed Mazzy! I immediately pulled up Procol Harum here on KZfaq.

What a wonderful list! Only 3 or so I have never heard- now I will look them up. Only a few things missing- other Traffic, other Cream.... I love it that you feature Donovan so prominently and agree with that choice. Also the choice of Beatles and Jimi... That Moody Blues album I over-heard in the Berkeley dorm in 1969, but will have to listen to it again on YT. The 1st bluesy Moody Blues is great and almost unknown (but NOT psychedelic!!!) Glad The Yardbirds are on there. Their song Happening Ten Years Time Ago is very psychedlic.

Great choice of Albums. Well done. You picked out some rare gems. I saw Traffic perform John Barleycorn at the Roundhouse, Muswell Hill just after the album was released. A wonderful, intimate concert. I could tell it was very special for Steve Winwood by the way he introduced each song. By the way the UK album cover for Mr Fantasy is 2000% better than that one with an amazing fold out cover and a great set of photos inside featuring Dave Mason a lot. By the way Procol Harum had a non playing member, Keith Reid, who wrote all their lyrics and worked closely with Gary Brooker and the rest of the band. His surreal, sometimes confusing lyrics help create that melancholy, bewildered feel that runs through all their music. I'd love to see your next 30 from 31 to 60 :)

Thank you Mazzy, You are helping me listen to more music and fewer depressing news oriented podcasts. I have a lot of material queued up that I've ether never heard, or haven't listened to in a very long time. Thanks again.

Fun, informative video, many thanks. And a few I need to check out. I’d have found room for either of the first two Deep Purple albums. Very psych, very entertaining, as they were live in those pre-hard rock days.

Great shirt! I´ve always loved that photo of John.

Glad I found you and your astonishing knowledge and amazing record collection very enlightening. I was there but I was largely unaware mainly because I was too skint to buy many records and just listened to the pirate radio stations (based off shore to avoid UK government regulations). Now I’m going to work my way through your selection of records courtesy of the wonderful KZfaq. Of course there was lots of other great music being made at the time and I have always been interested and enjoy the sounds of the west coast. Thanks

Good Call Mazzy - you are stimulating some useful debate. I was in to West Coast bands in my teens (Steve Miller etc) but my favourite UK bands were Traffic and Family + HENDRIX.

You pretty much nailed it! I own them all (even July) and they're all good to great. The first Move LP, SF Sorrow, etc. I might have substituted "Easter Everywhere" for the Bee Gees And the first Soft Machine LP for either of the Moodies, but you have a fine, fine list. Thx for posting.

Thank you for giving some love to the very underrated The Who Sell Out It often is my #1 from them as well

Full respect Mazzy! As a Brit now living in NZ you nailed it. Always love your perspectives and deep knowledge. God help you (and your removal men) if you ever move house. And loving The Smiths reference behind you. Britain's greatest band (perhaps you need to be a bookish native of those windswept Isles to REALLY "get them"?) Anyways, love your work. It's an education. Thank you from, (originally The Home Counties),and now Aotearoa. If ever you visit, let's grab a beer!!

Totally agree with your assessment of Magical Mystery Tour. Listening to it now always transports me back to a happier time and place.

Great list, MMT is definitely the no.1 Psychedelic album of all time, they were panned from pillar to post for the movie, yet the music shone through. I have this on high rotation constantly, nothing beats the technology of today for being able to pick and chose what you want.

Great series Norman - those of us in England swept away by the American bands at that time tend to under appreciate British psych. 'Revolver' - another one still framed on my wall!

Saw Stevie Marriott in a small biker dive in the 80's Had their double low priced disc set lost&found on vinyl. I had to replaced it , pretty much sold or lost everything . Very much like Ogden's . Big fan of Rough Mix . Thanks for showing us this part of your collection.

He, like you is a music aficionado! Here I thought I knew some stuff but you sat me right on down. Lol.

Good list Mazzy. After the first Donovan album was wonderin' if you were going to include "Sunshine Superman". Joan Jett actually does a decent cover of "Season of the Witch" as well. Love the early Bee Gees work that often get's overlooked. I'm glad you put Magical Mystery Tour at #1 simply for Strawberry Fields. Although, I'd at Revolver at a very close 2nd because of the greatness of each track, Taxman, Eleanor Rigby, Tomorrow Never Knows, She Said...., etc, even Yellow Submarine.

Large applause for your bold and logical choice of Magical Mystyery Tour. Revolver is also my favorite Beatles album for most of your similar reasons. Keep on ratin'! most enjoyable.

Crazy World Of Arthur Brown is a great album. Vincent Crane plays fantastic on his organ.

thank you thank you thank you....i understand the importance of sgt pepper;s...i was there...but i remember picking up mystery tour when it came out and loving it from the start....most people rarely mention it, and i thought your number one was going to be the zombies...i was shocked to see mystery tour pop up...so cool....i wfore my copy thru and thru....great list my friend...peace...rocky

I love the incredible string band "Wee Tam and the Big huge "

Wouldn't any of us love to go hang out at Masie's house on a Saturday afternoon (acid, incense and balloons) and listen to vinyl track after track? These videos are so full of the knowledge that can only be gleaned by years of growing up with and being passionate for the music.

Mazzy, you're a gun, man. Love this video, as I have all your psych reviews (and the whole thing you're doing with this mad channel). I gotta say, when it comes to the music I love most--LOVE the old-skool good stuff, '60s psychedelia especially--I just dig it, get into the ritual and feel of it, and enjoy it, and let it make those wonderful gardens in my head and heart and soul and teach me how to live, as I've been doing since I was a '90s teenage freak. While sure, I have my opinions on this album or that artist, I'm never interested in 'defining' anything , man. After all, "psychedelia" is about as broad a church as you can get. Me, I'm just happy to defer to the original fans and freaks who lived it as it was all happening, maybe learn something, and share the love and joy of this musi and the world it sprang from and creates! Keep on truckin' Mazzy! Great stuff, man xo

A thoroughly enjoyable tour and well considered list. Thanks. I would have added The Hangman’s Beautiful Daughter somewhere though, probably at number one actually.

great list Mazzy… i need to revisit the zombies album… admitting I don’t recall it as much as all the other top albums. thanks!

It’s rare I get surprised in the VC but you loving The Bee Gees debut caught my attention very acutely. Ive never seen that cover. Im excited to hear it

Just discovered your very enjoyable videos. You have great taste and are so knowledgeable. In this one I was pleased Electric Ladyland ranked so highly. Is it a psychedelic album? Well it may not have the obvious drug references or the whimsy of some psychedelic albums but its incredibly trippy. I've always loved 1983 (a merman I should be) it's such an intimate sound it feels almost voyeuristic listening to it, more like hearing documentary sound than something concocted in a studio. His voice is so gentle and seductive sounding like someone who is drifting in and out of different states of consciousness. The UK album cover is also amazing, the photography is outstanding.

Hey Mazzy, I totally agree with Magical Mystery Tour as their best psychedelic album - yes - ahead of Sgt. Pepper and Revolver for that genre. On most days, MMT tops out Pepper for me as an overall favorite. Really enjoyed your analysis of this period of UK Psych. Wonderful. And, for what it's worth, and off-topic by one year (1970), had it been released a year earlier, Ten Years After's Cricklewood Green is a fantastic psych LP, a real mindblower. But I guess that is for another video... Peace out.

thanx a lot Mazzy, this is one of my favorites : FAMILY : How-HI-the-li (from their album Entertainment)

Wonderful list and a fun time for one and all ...especially for the benefit of Mr. Kite

Good job! Didn't National Lampoon or someone do a parody called Magical Misery Tour? It was pretty humorous as I recall. "Mick's a fairy cross the Mersey" or something like that. I also remember some strange rumor from somewhere that there was a hit of acid manufactured into the cover of the first 500 copies of the Donovan box set. There should have been anyway. I 100% agree about the 1st BeeGees album. The lyrics of NY Mining Disaster. Perhaps they've given up and all gone home to bed, Thinking those that once existed must be dead. Doot, doot do do. Great imagery! Also Procol Harum, absolutely great stuff. Thanks for posting!

Groovy list, man! Nice to see some Idle Race and Hollies. I do recall hearing Odessey and Oracle and SF Sorrow during college which blew my mind! I would also suggest Tomorrow (with Steve Howe before he joined Yes) and their self-titled album. Also wondering if you're familiar with the Hollies' Butterfly album? Great stuff...🙂

Not a bad choice in your collection Norman, and your supporting arguments are well-reasoned. I slightly disagree with you on the psychedelic credentials (or lack of) of Electric Ladyland, 1983/Moon Moon turn the tides is, in my opinion just about as trippy as any song goes, but as you say its your choice. I would also strongly recommend giving the first Soft Machine album a listen or two, as well as Music in a Doll's House by Family..

Top notch channel Mazzy. Nice one. I enjoy watching your videos. Check out Dantalian's Chariot for some superb Psychedelic tracks from London in 1967.

Another interesting video and list. Thanks. I was hoping till the end for Blossom Toes first, the Nice Emerlist Davjack, Kinks Something Else and something by Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band (Gorilla maybe). I didn't recognise the Traffic album you showed, Mr Fantasy and Traffic were their first couple - No ?

Hi from Morocco, great countdown, totally agree with you for the Top five. Maybe I would put Odessey and Oracle at the top list and Magical Mystery Tour on second place

Great list, Mazzy. Glad Magical Mystery Tour got some love, one of my favourite Beatles albums. Love Electric Ladyland, my favourite Hendrix album. Did you ever see him live?

Dylan cover: Kooper-Stills Supersession It Takes A Lot To Laugh... Donovan cover: Brian Auger-Julie Driscoll Season Of The Witch

Soft Machine - "Volume 2" (1969) A wonderfully unique UK psych LP but may not be for everyone. It remains different from almost any LP that was released in '69 or ever for that matter IMO. A somewhat transitional LP for the band compared to their 1st as it has some slightly jazzier moments (adding horns on some tracks) but overall this is really a full on psych LP. One of my Top 3 LP's of all time, nothing like it.

Great records excellent choice. 👍