A SLIP OF THE LIPS: OF COURSE IT WAS ARTHUR LEE WHO WAS IN LOVE AND NOT ALVIN LEE WHO WAS IN TEN YEARS AFTER!

I was 13 when I found Forever Changes in a flea market bin shortly after it was released. It was the first album I ever bought...still in my top 5 of all time.

Here's some trivia for you. Ed King from Strawberry Alarm Clock went on to join Lynyrd Skynyrd. He came up with the intro to Sweet Home Alabama. The Strat he used on that song is for sale for $500,000.

OMG Arthur Lee and Love. Forever Changes, Da Capo 💙♥

Thanks for including Notorious Byrd Brothers. Great songs and ridiculously great-sounding as well.

I have ALL the SPIRIT albums....geat,great band!!!!

Glad to see Spirit in your top 10. Including the first LP, I think The Family That Plays Together, Clear and 12 Dreams are great examples of how far ahead of their time this band was. I like your list. Keep up the good work!

The Electric Prunes, Penny Arkade (Not The Freeze), St. John Green, Clear Light, Kim Fowley (Outrageous) - 60s L.A. psych LPs I listen to often. Great episode!

Man! Another brilliant list from the Norman Maslov catalog ! This was so great Mazzy! I’m proud to say I have many of these records but I am also reminded of many that I still need to hunt down I was glad you included such garage/psych stuff like the Music Machine, my favorite Pop/garage rock album even over the Doors (Blasphemy?) and also the Seeds debut! I think the organ playing on that Seeds album is what makes it fit into the psych category. Darryl Hooper was great just like Manzarek! Tim Buckley! The Byrds! Beef heart! Zappa and the Mothers! This was amazing! Thanks for taking the time to put this together and share it with us! Peace ☮️✌️👽🤘☮️

I love the spirit album. the family that plays together

So, thanks for this. I really appreciate your perspective. I was one of the original Hippies on the Sunset Strip, so the L.A. music scene for me was like the San Francisco scene for you. I was 16 in '66, 17 in the Summer of love and 18 in 1968, 19 in '69. Our Summer of Love included the love-ins in Griffith Park, as yours did in Golden Gate. The music scene in L.A. was a catalyst for so much of what would materialize around the country and world. Thanks for including L.A. in your videos reviews. I do disagree about CSN. The had plenty of psychedelic music in their albums. I sat in on the recording sessions of Strawberry Alarm Clock's second album. They were from my home town, Pasadena, before I moved to Hollywood in high school. I was a DJ in a teenage nightclub on the Sunset Strip in '66-'67. It was called It's Boss. Love played there (from my home town, Pasadena), The Bobby Fuller Four, The Byrds. John Kay used to bum cigarettes off me at the front door, before his first album even came out. I danced in Cher's fashion show in the club where I worked. After hours we'd often go to Barnie's Beanery, where more than once Jim Morrison would stagger out the door with a Hippie girl on each arm. Sky Saxon's brother was my upstairs neighbor and we used to go to Sky's parties in Malibu. Also, one of our lesser known music celebrities on the Strip was Wild Man Fisher, who's brother, Norm was a friend of me and my wife. Later on in my life, I got to jam with Doug Ingles, of Iron Butterfly, as well as Dick Dodd of The Standells, who did the music soundtrack for the movie Riot On Sunset Strip, which mock chronicled the Hippie riot at Pandora's Box in 1966, which I was in the middle of. It was about the L.A. police enforcing a new curfew on the Strip for anyone under 18, and also trying to change the admission age of the teenage night clubs, in an attempt to drive the masses of teen Hippies from the Strip. Stephen Stills wrote the song, "For What It's Worth," that night, while watching the riot. Later on, I also worked with Julius Chambers, who was one of the brothers of The Chambers Brothers. We worked together in stage production for years. The band I worked with in 1967 played at Gazzarris West, on La Cienega Blvd., where Spirit came in one night and auditioned. They were turned down by the owner as being too out there, too strange. If only he knew. I was also a regular dancer on American Bandstand and other teenage dance shows that were filmed/taped in L.A. It was an awesome time to be growing up in L.A., and I was right in the heart of the Psychedelic, Hippie, Counterculture, Summer of Love, war protest scene!

Zappa....an artist I absolutely love one minute and the next, I have a wtf moment!

Speaking of the Seeds, I too have a copy of their 1967 album Future. It contains A Thousand Shadows. As a single, it peaked at #72 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart in the summer of '67. That song sounds like their earlier hit Pushin' Too Hard.

That first STRAWBERRY ALARM CLOCK album has an excellent long song entitled "THE WORLD'S ON FIRE"!

Was waiting the whole time for that Buffalo Springfield record -- nice to see it make #1. Also The Monkees "The Porpoise Song" deserves honorable mention.

as a londoner I agree with you totally, which I find strange since we live so far apart - keep up the great work

I loved this! What a great selection, I want to hear all of that immediately.

This is fun for a collector like myself. Spent most of my funds on records concerts and equipment in the 60's and 70's. Was based in Wash. DC then moved 1st to LA and then SF for 10yrs. Loved them both. Thanks for these posts. Brings back fond memories.

What about Freak Out by the Mothers of Invention. Like you, on buying albums for their cover; I took the bus from the coast, to Market Street in San Francisco (that's what we did, when bored) and saw Freak Out in a record bin. I said WTF, and had to have it. For a 16 year old, it was quite a revelation. Keep up the great work, I love your reviews.

One album not included here is Da Capo by Love, a wonderful early psychedelic album. I even like the jam "Revelation" which takes up the entire second side.

i really like the fact that you included Joni Mitchell on your list. David Crosby was asked what album should every young person listen to he said Blue. And it is a wonderful album

Joni Mitchell is my favorite in many ways. Thank you for including her. Now your LA video is one of the best on KZfaq for me.

What an amazing time for music, thanks as per Sir, always look forward to your videos, keep safe

Tim Buckley’s debut, while not truly psychedelic, is so unusual sounding like it was made on a different planet, like Astral Weeks. The Buckley album does feel like folk/psych sort of, and for a guy who was in his teens to make it and in 1966 is crazy. One of my favourites. Trout Mask Replica is fast and bulbous the Mascara Snake.... The three Beach Boys albums after Smile were huge discoveries for me about six or seven years ago. Fairly psychedelic. They need more love. All three Byrd’s records from ‘66-68 are in my top 15 albums of all time for me. Couldn’t live without them, and that includes Forever Changes

I missed Spirit’s debut for decades until about five years ago. I still haven’t forgiven myself.

The most psychedelic Monkees album was their fourth Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn and Jones Ltd. It was also their best. Nesmith's Daily Nightly was one the first songs to feature Moog synthesizer and it's a classic.

Aloha Norman Maslov Awesome rankings. Really enjoyed your insights & your personal commentary of why you decided to rank these records as you did. Thanks again for another great Video. Looking forward to seeing your next video. Mahalo Ed

Excellent video Mazzy. I was definitely surprised by your number one pick, but they were all great. Thanks for taking the time to put this together.

Mazzy, I absolutely love your videos, you're a couple years older than me, and you're a San Francisco person (I love your accent when you say Sanfercisco). I'm an east coast person, a New Jersey person, so I was introduced to Soul and R & B before I got into Rock music. I was an attendee of Woodstock, I was there with my older cousins, and that was the first time I saw my favourite band (Grateful Dead) in person. My favourite band leading up to Woodstock was Jefferson Airplane, and I was thrilled to see them too, but that show was my biggest intro to the San Fran feel and style of music, since Country Joe & The Fish, Santana, and CCR were at the show. This video features the L.A. version of the Psychedelic phase of music, and I agree with you completely! Thank you for posting these outstanding videos!

Thanks for another great video. Glad to see In-a-Gadda-da-Vida on your list. Bought that album in 1969, the first album I'd ever bought after a couple of years of buying 45s; I was 14 years old at the time (just a few weeks younger than you!)

Norman: shows a record Me: pause video goes on Discogs adds to my want list *repeat*

i just found your channel and this is what Ive been looking for. Someone my age that has the same taste in music as i do. thank you so much. and yes i agree about the Mamas and Papas. Cass Elliot was just so involved with the Laurel Canyon scene and introducing people.

Great presentation Mazzy - pour yourself a stiff drink!. Such good times!

Great selection Mazzy!

Hey Mazzy.. really like how you are ranking albums. I so agree with including Dan Hicks and we'll never forget his Hot Licks... he was in the seen, and, of course, originally in The Charlatans as well.. Love how you put "Clouds" by Joni on the So Cal list.. Man, in L.A. all the great artists worshipped her. Great video, again Cheers JT

Thank you. I really like your style. You are so real and honest. Kudos.

As a bassist, I feel it incumbent upon me to point out that The Doors used bass guitarists extensively on their studio recordings. Larry Knechtel, Doug Luban, Harvey Brooks and Leroy Vinnegar are just some of the bass players on Doors records.

I love to see how pristine all of your records are. Rare to see someone who still has many of their originals from 50 years ago!

Very enjoyable review of many of my record collection, east end boy from the late 60s who fell in love with the doors spirit love and springfield great 👍

From Spain. Congratulations for your channel. Many thanks for all your hard work. I have a great friends and I talked about you. Greetings.

Thanks for this, that was a fantastic video! Very informative....cheers!

What a list ,like a travel in time this Video is.... Your taste is exzellent Sir!

Saw the great Spirit in '70 on England tour (4 wonderful albums) and Love 'Four Sail' band. 'Forever Changes' still the best ever for me. Saw Beefheart twice in England too - 'Trout Mask' can still be a tough listen even now. 'Safe as Milk' with 'Electricity' still a phenomenal first album. And The Doors first two - had so many of these. Thanks for another great episode Norman.

Mas your doing a great job love your picks keep on keepin on brother !!!

The two songs that made me want to learn guitar and form a band are ‘Burning of the Midnight Lamp’ (Hendrix) and ‘August’ from ‘Four Sail’ by Love. Great list !

Great Video Mazzy

Great Stuff! Very enjoyable- thanks !

I'm 23 and trying to get into more psychedelic music and the doors are my favorite band and I already love the seeds, Jefferson airplane, iron butterfly, the mamas and papa's, the turtles etc.. I'm going to check these out! thanks man✌🏻

I am always in the mood for Trout Mask Replica. It is essentially unusual but exceptionally well made one.

Great list that brings back many colorful memories...

Loved this. I know what I'll be listening to for the next week. How about a sunshine pop list next?

Steppenwolf seem completely underrated in recent decades, thanks to grossly overexposed Born to Be Wild. The debut is spectacular AND sounds fantastic on the Classic (?) Label reissue. All the Dunhill albums (except the misguided Monster) have much to offer.

I did guess your #1. I kept waiting for Buffalo Springfield Again and when it did not come up, and the #1 spot was all that was left, I knew it had to be Buffalo Springfield Again. Expecting to Fly is majestic and transcendent. David

So glad you included the United States of America. I first heard them on a CBS sampler album, Rock Machine Turns You On. A few months later if found a 45rpm single in a clearance bin which had my favourite track on the 'b' side "Love Song For The Dead Che". The album's opening track "American Metaphysical Circus" has a marching band which comes in through one ear, crosses through your head & exits the other. Just an amazing album.

Great video, as always. I was excited to see Tim Buckley on your list. He’s probably my all time favorite musician. Happy Sad is in my Top Five favorite albums of all time. 👍

Love your content mazzy. I'm trying to keep up! Great stuff!

Great list and memories. I could quibble with the order of the list, but that would only be individual preferences. What a period in music! Thanks, Chris

Re The Monkees, "Head" is a true psych classic, thanks to great songs and the collage structure. The record and the movie were an unprecedented act of commercial self destruction...

Norman this IS my collection!!!!!same taste thanks i'm not alone !😊

Great list! Thanks for including The Monkees (re-think PISCES, AQUARIUS, please, sir...). Many, many of these artists and tracks I played on radio sometime or another, so I agree with you about there being a lotta hits here. (We even used to play "The Blimp" from Beefheart's TROUT MASK on radio...) For me, I tend not to listen to whole albums when I played A LOT of the HITS on radio. But when you got to it, I realized that ABSOLUTELY FREE by The Mothers is STILL my favorite Zappa record, too, and a record I still sit and listen to start to finish. Then, you hit PET SOUNDS. Still listening to that whole album, too.

Nice work again norm You really are a audiophile when you remember Spirit That’s incredible insight and rare Ya the byrds really great also Great work

Glad you mentioned Tim Buckley - Amazing Artist!

Hi Norman, enjoyed your countdown. I finally finally listened to entire full album 'Strange Days', without any interruptions, always enjoyed Moonlight Drive and My Eyes Have Seen You. Very suggestive lyrics,but that's what most Doors tunes were. I also bought Buffalo Springfield greatest hits 40 years ago.

Hey mr. Mazzy, thanks for your videos. Glad to see I'm not the only music freak with excellent taste ;-). Since your quite keen on showing the front, back and - if possible - gatefold sleeves I'd lke to suggest you also show the inner sleeves and/or inserts in your next installments.

This is really specific, I love it

Thank you for your list of LA albums.

You are very organized. You have fun, I like when you show front and back of Album jacket. I always was curious about the people(hippies), on the ground in LA V SF. I grad. HIGH school in Mich. In 1966. First albums I bought Bob Dylan greatest hits and FREAK OUT, THERE wS a guy Paul Sheridan, who I was inspired by, he thought The Mothers were too much. Thanks for your work man.

Loved your video Norman. Before I watched, I made my own list and you hit almost all of them except Steppenwolf. So glad you included Spirit - one of my favorite all-time bands. They were so ahead of their time. I remember seeing them at the Rose Palace with Ten Years After and The Moody Blues - and I think it cost around $5. Times have certainly changed music-wise.

Love didn't tour to support their releases or Forever Changes would have been given the lofty praise it deserves. It's number one to me and always will be as it is unequaled from that era. Ask that era's musicians.

You surprised me with your n 1 choice. Its my favorite of all. I agree on all the choices Fantastic video thank you from Italy. Head Monkees yes is missing xx

I definitely have to wash his video it may be in two or even three sessions but I'm definitely going to get through!! I was trying to find out more about psych thanks for sharing this with us man.

I enjoyed your list. I kept waiting for Buffalo Springfield Again to come up. So when you said can anybody guess what number 1 is, that was my guest. Personally, I like Everbody Knows This Is Nowhere by NY & CH much better than his first record. I wouldn’t mind seeing Love’s first two albums on your list too. Loved that you had 3 Byrds albums. I was lucky enough to see 4 original members together in the late 70s In small clubs . . . Pure magic.

GREAT list!!!

That was fun. A few that I'm not familiar with. Love and Spirit are two of my favorites. I would have found a spot for Da Capo very cool. LA had such a great music scene in those years.

Very enjoyable... glad you mentioned The Association and ranked “Pet Sounds” and “More Of The Monkees”, and a unique pick for #1..

Like Pet Sounds very much. Another very good video.

Sooo Cool that you gave a nod to Neil Young's first solo album ..... Still one of fav LPs ...... I'm about the same age as you and one of my sister's friends was the head of the buffalo Springfield fan club . With regular access to the band .... Ha ! so many funny stories ....... Oh . Spirit was my favorite band for a time back then and got to see them ...... They were amazing live ..... Funny having your parents drop you off alone for a rock show when you are 13 ..... Couldn't imagine that now ......

Thanks again for another great list which took me way back. Unlike the SF list, I don’t know many of these. I enjoyed the very appropriate inclusion of pop-based acts Monkees, Paul Revere and Turtles. In that vein another good choice would be Johnny Rivers self-produced “Realization. It was definitely psychedelic, both musically and the cover art, unlike anything he did before or after. Interesting song choices, from Dylan and Procol Harum, to the beautiful “Look To Your Soul” And of course the ubiquitous “Hey Joe”! It did very well on the charts, riding the success of the unavoidable hit “Summer Rain”. “Everybody kept on playing Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band…”

Well done, Mazzy. Thank you. Agree entirely on The Byrds.

Thanks for including the first Spirit album, a masterpiece that easily equals popular (and the also much-loved) Twelve Dreams of Dr. Sardonicus album. On the Monkees, I must preferentially promote the next two albums -- "Headquarters" and "Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn & Jones Ltd." as better examples of the Monkees' psych offerings, especially the latter.

I would have considered dropping a Firesign Theater album into the video somewhere. Definitely LA all the way, as psychedelic as comedy will ever be. They definitely embodied the spirit of their place and times.

You are right to talk up "Forever Changes." I bought it when it first came out. Very nearly perfect. I had its forerunner, too, which you referenced, but somehow it slithered off the stack. It had a song that took one whole side, yeah?...Arthur Lee was a genius, he went to the hoosgow for awhile, then made "Songs for Sail" (Sale?!) when he got out. Good stuff. Thanks, I'm luvvin' your vids.

Regarding Spirit--- indeed the 1st album and "12 Dreams.." are a must; I would include their 2nd album ("The Family That Plays Together") as one of the essential three. Also, I found "Forever Changes" and "Notorious Byrd Bros." as a high school kid stuck in the early 80s and both have never left my top 5 list.

Great list, Mazzy ! Can't argue with your top 10. Springfield at #1; cool !!!! Nice to see Fifth Dimension so high .

Good vid mazzy

Not picking up on the psychedelic definition but I owned most of your top 30 I will say in 71 the byrds and iron butterfly did a concert nearby and I'm proud to say I was there so many young folk have never heard of either group. Enjoyed watching and remembering thank you.

I agree Mas…. Your ratings are more accurate than some of the others. Take care bud 👍🏻

Interesting list, Mr. Maslov. First, props to you for including Paul Revere and the Raiders. I feel Mark Lindsay is one of the great singer/front men of that era and is overdue for a major critical re-evaluation. My vote for the best LA psychedelic album of the sixties goes to Touch (the record's title and the name of the band), released in 1968. A very tight, accomplished rock band (a rarity in this genre - no Wrecking Crew here) who created one of the great rock records of any style. Should be listened to on headphones for maximum mind-expansion! Touch included Don Gallucci on keyboards. Gallucci went on to produce other acts, among them Crabby Appleton, another underappreciated LA band. Crabby Appleton was fronted by Michael Fennelly, who was a guitarist and vocalist on The Millennium album from your list.

I've gotten heavy into Tim Buckley after you recommended Greetings from L.A. a while back.

Love's "Forever Changes" and the Doors' debut album top the LA-Psych list for me.

Love your taste. Mirrors mine. Learned a few things too. Thanks

Thank you! Tim Buckley "Starsailor" is hyper psychedelic album. Forever...

Thanks for doing the LA psych scene! There are several there I never heard, so I'll have to look them up and see if they were really worth replacing the first two Love albums. But that's the point of these kinds of lists, to generate discussion... No problem with BS Again as #1 on my part. I love the Byrds too, but not sure I'd put that many in the top ten. Da Capo!

Pleasantly surprised to see not one but two Tim Buckley records on here! Curious to hear what you think about his weirder more out there records, Lorca and Starsailor, as they are some of my personal favorites.

fine job sir thank you from the great state of South Carolina

i have four of those albums,you picked some awesome psychedelic rock albums!

Ridiculously great list. I fist heard a Love song done by the damned in around 89. Then I fount that Love song and the album a few years after that. That was a great experience stumbling onto it.

Great video! I would love to add to your list if I may......Jan & Dean : "Save For a Rainy Day" (released in 1966)....great thematic album to play on, you guessed it......a rainy day!

Digging your list

Bravo. . . I couldn’t agree with you more with Buff Springfield Again as #1 . . . I was betting on the Springfield being in your top 3 but betting that with your love of the Byrds, they would be #1. . . I’m slipping on my Neil young Buff Springfield fringe jacket to celebrate 👍 . . . both their first and second albums are brilliant major influences in the 60’s psych/pop/whatever style you want to include in LA scene and beyond. . . Again is more diverse in music styles than the first album but both are 2 of the finest. . . FWIW, people totally discount the 3rd album “last time around”, but it has some brilliant work even with Neil’s absence (songs penned by Furay, Stills and now Jim Messina). . for the mid-late 60s LA scene, give me the Mothers, Doors, Byrds and of course The Springfield. Thanks again, Mazzy. . always entertaining!