Some people don't get the difference between Progressive and Psychedelic Rock

The Doors. the band I will never stop loving. Oh, and John Densmore is a severely underrated drummer.

All the songs played of Pink Floyd here are of the progressive rock Genre: the true Pink Floyd sound. Before these songs they had amazing Psychedelic numbers : See Emily Play, Astronomy Domine, Set the controls, Atom heart Mother, Be careful with the axe, Remember the day.... and the ultimate psychedelia...Interstellar Overdrive!

if you don't want to waste you time: *10. tame impala* *9. the moody blues* *8. cream* *7. 13th floor elevators* *6. the beatles* *5. the grateful dead* *4. jefferson airplane* *3. the doors* *2.the Jimi Hendrix experience* *1. Pink Floyd* the honorable metions: -the yardbirds -the byrds -animal collective -frank zappa -the flaming lips

don't worry, syd. we know you changed everything.

I’m not sure I’d describe pink Floyd as a “group of Londoners”, Roger Waters, Syd Barrett and David Gilmour all grew up in Cambridge

Syd Floyd is definitely the most psychedelic band I have ever heard

Not even an honourable mention for King Crimson??

Syd Barrett.

They put Pink Floyd on the top and without even a reference to Syd Barrett!!! What the hell people!?!?!?!?

No matter how you wanna call it: The era between 1966 - 1976 was the best era in the history of music PERIOD !!!!

Great list!! My absolute favorites are The Doors and Pink Floyd!

Pink Floyd's major contribution to this genre is, in my opinion, 'Piper at the Gates of Dawn'. Not only one of the greatest psychedelic albums but also one of the great albums to come out of the 60's period.

Pink Floyd without a Song of Syd Barrett???

I never really knew how much influence the 13th floor elevators really had, I only really heard stories of how my great uncle had been a guitar player in the band and kind of brushed it off as a local phenomenon, come to find out they were actually pretty widespread

CREAM IS ON 8?!

If you're mentioning Pink Floyd, then at least show Syd Barrett's numbers rather than the progressive ones.

Pink Floyd weren't a "group of Londoners". They're from Cambridge.

5.) The Grateful Dead 4.) The Jimi Hendrix Experience 3.) The Beatles 2.) Pink Floyd 1.) The doors. But honestly #2 #1 are really really close

Pink Floyd deservedly number 1. There was no other choice. Greatest band of all time. Was also surprised and glad to see Tame Impala and Animal Collective (even though the latter was just an honorable mention) make the list. 2 of my favorite bands around today.

*KING GIZZARD AND THE LIZARD WIZARD*

where is syd barrett? the guy who invented psychedelic rock.

Pink Floyd is definitely number one but you totally forgot King Crimson. BTW, I was a Floydian ever since I saw them live in 1968. Never missed a tour since then.

Pink Floyds A saucer full of secrets !! Thats Psychedelic

So glad that they put Tame Impala on the list. Those guys keep the psychedelic rock alive.

PF is my favorite rock band.

After 50 years, I'll come back and watch this video again. Watching David Gilmour play the WYWH intro will make me cry. 🥺 PINK FLOYD FOREVER!

Some of tame impalas early stuff from 10 years ago sounds like cream, later beatles and santana. Its really worth checking out. Try 'late night moonlight' and 'feelings in the core'

Why would you not play anything from The Piper at the Gates of Dawn from Pink Floyd, their most psychedelic album?

>"Pink Floyd" >plays none of their actual paychedelic songs cause fuck syd, right?

Janis Joplin with Big Brother and the Holding Company is #1. Listen to their Cheap Thrills album. Best psychedelic rock ever!

WHY ARENT KING GIZZARD AND THE LIZARD WIZARD ON THIS LIST

Tame Impala and Pink Floyd are my favorites

10.Tame Impala 9.The Moody Blues 8.Cream 7.The 13th Floor Elevators 6.The Beatles 5.The Grateful Dead 4.Jefferson Airplane 3.The Doors 2.The Jimi Hendrix Experience Honorable Mentions:The Yardbirds,The Byrds,Animal Collective,Frank Zappa & The Flaming Lips 1.Pink Floyd

I do like what you have stirred up here. Got me really thinking about some great bands. Thanx for that.

Hate to be “that guy” but Tame Impala is not “a band”

I love how you use Wish you were here when its not a psychedelic rock song in any way. Good list, agree strongly.

Pink Floyd is honestly my favorite band ever. They fucking rock

If you’re going to have the Moody Blues, at least play their best psychedelic song, Legend of a Mind (aka Timothy Leary’s Dead)

Alvin Lee Ten Years After - Religion, Alvin Lee Ten Years Later - Devils Screamin, Zombies - Time of the Season

I discovered Tame Impala from a friend during an LSD trip, it sounded so beautiful

Surprised nobody here is mentioning the Zombies: Odyssey and Oracle is easily one of the greatest psychedelic albums ever made.

10. Tame Impala 9. The Moody Blues 8. Cream 7. 13th Floor Elevators 6. The Beatles 5. The Grateful Dead 4. Jefferson Airplane 3. The Doors 2. The Jimi Hendrix Experience Honorable Mentions: The Yardbirds The Byrds Animal Collective Frank Zappa The Flaming Lips 1. Pink Floyd

Whole album Wish you were here is absolutely not a psychedelia. Psychedelic era of Pink Floyd has ended with Meddle album, or even earlier.

If The Doors aren't on here, I'm gonna be PISSED. ABSOLUTELY.

Where are Iron Butterfly? "In-a-Gadda-da-Vida" is one of the most iconic songs of psychedelic rock. "Butterfly Bleu" is another psychedelic classic.

Pink floyd started as a psych band during the Syd Barrett era and ended up as a prog rock band

Dark star should have been the background song for the Grateful Dead’s piece, anyone agree?

I swear they mention Pink Floyd as the best psychedelic band but they play wish you were here. Like they missed their most psychedelic songs like Breathe or Any Colour you like.

Honestly, i feel like pink floyd turned prog later on. If you're talking early floyd, then it is a deserved number 1.

Great presentation. I actually flashed back to seeing, Iron Butterfly, The Doors, 3 times, Jefferson Airplane, and above all, 13th Floor Elevators in San Francisco....... Definitely better days. Thanks.

I love all the bands mentioned. For me one of the most Psychedelic bands is actually a " cover " Band. They took songs , added some acid , maybe .. and made songs their own. Vanilla Fudge.

Glaring omissions: Quicksilver Messenger Service, Country Joe & the Fish, Bonzo Dog Band and Everpresent Fullness. Oh yeah - and Syd Barrett...

My fav psychedelic bands 1: Pink Floyd 2: The Beatles 3: The Doors 4: Jefferson Airplane 5: Tame Impala

PINK FLOYD is from another planet, at 11:37 my soul exit from the body and flyyyyyy

Honorable mentions:Earthless, Blue cheer, Hawkwind, King crimson, YES, The Myrrors, Tool, Weird Owl, Echo and the bunny men, Deep purple, Blue oyster cult. Not all these bands are pure physc rock but all contain some pretty trippy cool offerings.

Strawberry Alarm Clock, Electric Prunes, Small Faces, Crabby Appleton, Arthur Brown, Hawkwind,

WHAT ABOUT SYD BARRETT

I'm not sure about some of these, but you really got it right on number 1. Pink Floyd is Awesome!!

Captain Beefheart (Safe as Milk), Country Joe and the Fish ( Electric Music For the Mind and Body), The Incredible String Band, The United States of America, Traffic, - all these bands have the one thing that defines psychedelic music - they're great to trip to.

The Electric Prunes (Too Much To Dream) were very short-lived but had a very unique sound ... all their own. The Iron Butterfly was a band I was sure would be on the list, but wasn't even in the honorable mentions.

Needed more moden bands mixed in like mgmt or flaming lips glad tame impala made it

Not sure how the LA band Love could be excluded, particularly since their masterpiece LP Forever Changes routinely tops the lists of best psychedelic albums of all time.

My list (don't take it too seriously folks): 1 - Jimi Hendrix Experience 2 - The Beatles 3 - The Doors 4 - Jefferson Airplane 5 - Cream 6 - The Moody Blues 7 - Pink Floyd (arguably stopped being psychedelic after '69) 8 - Grateful Dead (don't really know much about them) 9 - 13th Floor Elevators 10 - Tame Impala Seriously, it's a watchmojo video, what did you expect?

SYD BARRETT SWEETIE I'M SO SORRY...

Strawberry alarm clock , 13th floor elevators and love

When you ask real expert persons , who definitely know what psychedelia was about, what *the two most important and most influencial psychedelic albums* (beside "Sgt. Pepper") of all times were exactly, they usually name these two legendary recordings: 1. *The Piper at the Gates of Dawn* by *Syd Barrett's Pink Floyd (GB)* (Here David Bowie once said, that to the rock musicians of this era the "Piper"-album was absolutly equivalent in it's significance as "psychedelic key-album" to "Sgt.Pepper" of the Beatles!) 2. *The United States of America* by *The United States of America (USA,)* (Sadly few non-experts do know this album today - but it was spectacular in many points and went much further in its musical experiments and revolutunary expression then f.e. "The Jefferson Airplane" or the "Grateful Dead" ever did - it also was the *beginning of electronic rock*, as later was evolved mainly by german Krautrock-bands as "Tangerine Dream", "Can" , "Amon Düül 2", "Popol Vuh" and "Cluster"! -) - both recorded and released 1966/67. Why this two albums and what do we learn from the above video? - Well, if you'd like to really know something about surgery you should talk to a surgeon, not to a butcher (even though both know how to cut into flesh!) - When it comes to the makers of this video, it seems to me, as if it is even like askng the milk-man!! *"Garage sound" and "catchy melodies"* have *absolutely nothing to do with psychedelia*. Even pop crooners use such musical style-elements!* And what's about the above presented selection of "psychedelic bands"?- *Cream, The Doors and Jimi Hendrix* were primarily *blues oriented* rock interprets and *The Moody Blues* were early *prog rockers* - much more interested in classical/orchestral then psychedelic sounds . You have to consider, that according to the "Zeitgeist" of the late 60ties, nearly every rock musician then experimemted with psychoactive drugs, surrealistic lyrics and strange sounds, but *only a few bands declared "psychedelic" as explicite basis of their self-image!* *You'll have to differentiate between "psychedelic bands" and bands which made "psychedelic songs or a psychedelic album"* Psychedelic elements of mid-1960- records of the *Beatles* as f.e. "Tomorrow never knows" or "Norwegian wood" were *early trials, but not totally style-defining* for them in this Times! - If you want to mention every title of early psychedelia, you also have to regard f.e. the *"Pet sounds"-album of the *Beach Boys* in the U.S (with *"Good vibrations"* as a real significant example!!) or "Their satanic majesties request" by the Rolling Stones - but these bands *didn't see themselfes as "psychedelic" 'per se'-* after a short phase they usually returned to their actual musical styles! And the *"The Wall"- time of Pink Floyd* *was long, long (more then 10 years!) after their psychedelic era* and after Syd Barrett, their master-mind during this musical era, was gone!! The point (or question) is, were the sound and (on'stage) Media Band ligjtshow-experiments and surrealistic lyrics *style-defining, revolutionary and essential for the musician/the band?*- I think, the makers of this video *do not really know* *the difference between psychedelia and early prog rock* and they also don't understand *the difference between being real avantgarde or only commercial successful!* - "Earning a "Grammy" for example says much about the commercial success of a band....it says nothing about their originality, artistic quality, peculiarity, significance or uniqueness! Regarding the evolution of rock music the role of psychedelia was very essential, not because some weird freaks did consume psychodrugs and produce a lot of funny noise, but because psychedelia was *the germ cell of the emergence of the later evolving Heavy Metal Rock* and so perhaps *one of the most significant styles of todays rock music!!* The classical band on the treshold between 60ties/early 70ties psychedelia and the upcoming metal rock was *"Hawkwind"* (with - significantly! - later "Motörhead"- frontman Lemmy Kilmister!). I cannot understand, why Hawkwind weren't mentioned in this "Top 10" - they were as "the missling link"/ so relevant for both genres!

i wouldnt consider about half of the bands on this list a psychedelic band and what not even a mention of King Crimson or Yes

I went through the Pink Floyd Discography. It's like one big acid trip. They started off as like a Beatley sounding band with a lot of weirdness mixed in, this is the beginning of the trip. 2nd and 3rd album get a bit weirder, most parts of the 3rd album seem kinda empty, yet so unique that they made less look like "More". 4th album is like the peak of the trip where the best thing they could come up with is random piano notes, loud organ strikes, animal noises, and a flute introduction to a fucked up drumming ceremony thing. After that is where they have AHM and Meddle, heavily psychedelic yet very acoustic and pleasing. There's a great precursor to the greatest album of all time, Obscured by Clouds, Then once it hits Dark Side, they just explode into a heavily immersive and long trip out where you're having the time of your life and the music is the best it's ever been; The middle of the trip. This trip lasts until The Wall, and after The Wall, it kinda starts to wear off and fizzle out, where their music is very much so still beautiful, but it seems more organized and not as intense. Toward the end they still have that unique touch of Floyd psychedelia, but it's like the trip is over, and the music sounds sober, yet with intense knowledge of a trip, and still remains beautiful. But it's like a gentler beauty that doesn't seem nearly as good as the Dark Side era.

Funkadelic definitely deserves a mention here. Their first three albums are psychedelic masterpieces. 👽🚀🛰🎶

What? No Iron Butterfly?! Wuzup wid dat? In a gadda da vida is the psychedelic rock anthem imho!

When talking about Psychedelic Bands The Rolling Stones one off album Their Satanic Majesties Request is always worth mention. very trippy.

Could have given honorable mention to Iron Butterfly, King Crimson, or Spirit even, altho i do agree Pink Floyd is #1. They make me trip even without the acid.

I'm just happy Tame Impala is here.

My favorite kind of rock. Doors, Hendrix and Floyd the holy trinity

Nothing on It's A Beautiful Day with their signature hit *White Bird*? Or the Zombies with *Time Of The Season*? That my friends is straight on a true psychedelic masterpiece!

LOVE.....Forever Changes

In my opinion, The Doors is a very underrated band nowadays. I mean, I know they're still famous and all, but compared to other bands like Queen for example, I feel like they're more in the background

Did you consider this repertoire? Season of the Witch Hurdy Gurdy Man Atlantis Mellow Yellow Sunshine Superman Catch the Wind Wear your Love like Heaven Epistle to Dippy Jennifer Juniper Lalena There is a Mountain Colours I thought not.

All the music that came from 60s and the 70s are legendary that only comes once in a lifetime .

The list was made too early to include serious reference to King Gizzard

Man. Before I watch the video here's my personal top 10 ranked on trippiness. Coming from a psychonaut and psych-rock junkie. 10. Jefferson Airplane 9. Buffalo Springfield 8. Crosby, Stills, Nash AND Young 7. Country Joe & The Fish 6. The Beatles 5. Led Zeppelin 4. The Doors 3. Jimi Hendrix 2. Grateful Dead 1. Pink Floyd

There can never be a proper list as no band were purely psych throughout their careers, however top 15, according to me, would be (no particular order though): 0. Indian Classical Raagas 1. Syd Floyd upto Echoes - UK 2.Jeff Air 66 to 71 - US 3. 13th Floor - US 4. Shocking Blue - the Netherlands 5. Ananda Shankar Orchestra - India 6.Quick Silver Messenger Service - US 7. Magic Bus - UK 8. Electric Prunes - US 9. Lord Baltimore - US 10. Iron Butterfly -US 11. Strawberry Alarm clocks - US 12. The Doors - US 13. Atomic Forest - India 14. The Road - UK/US 15. Cristopher - US Honorable Mention: Deep Purple mark 1 (especially Mandrake Rootz)

My top 10 greatest pyschdelic rock bands of all time. 10. The 13th floor elevators 🇺🇸 9. The byrds 🇺🇸 8. The grateful dead 🇺🇸 7. Jefferson airplane 🇺🇸 6. Pink floyd 🇬🇧 5. Cream 🇬🇧 4. The Beach boys 🇬🇧 3. The Doors 🇺🇸 2. The Jimi hendrix experience 🇬🇧🇺🇸 1. The Beatles 🇬🇧

Without a doubt Pink Floyd is the premiere Psychedelic band.

iron butterfly

Favorites of mine include Quicksilver Messenger Service and Procol Harum. Fortunately I got to see both of them in concert. And what about Big Brother and the Holding Company?

magic carpet ride - steppenwolf. travelled to that song so many times

David Gilmour and 'Comfortably Numb" is probably one of the best lead guitar solo's ever played.

Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon was Billboards top 100 albums for 24 years. A record that will never be broken.

The "Odyssey and Oracle" album by the Zombies is a long-overlooked gem.

All of them appear on the Ed Sullivan Show but yet the Doors were fired from the Ed Sullivan Show for singing Light My Fire in 1967. For saying Higher on his TV show.

Personal favourites: Pretty things (s f sorrow), 13th floor elevators, Love, Electric prunes, Traffic, Kaleidoscope, Bonzo Dog band, Captain Beefheart, Jefferson airplane, zombies (odessey and oracle)

I don't know how The Moody Blues got on this list. The big ones missing are ......Iron Butterfly - In A Gadda Davida.....Eric Burdon and War - Spill the Wine.....Donovan - Mellow Yellow etc.

Jimi Hendrix. Man. Only 27 at his death. My God and look what he accomplished.

This is the greatest three year period in the history of music by far. 1967 with so many great bands coming out with their first albums has to be the greatest year of music. Love to see the 13th Floor Elevators out of Austin on the list

My 3 favourite psychedelic bands are jimi hendrix experience, led zeppelin and pink floyd

Iron Butterfly has to be in there. They had the first platinum selling album ever. Still one of the biggest selling records of not just the 60's but all time.

Doors were America's first psychedelic rock band .They were only together 54 months 🖤 Pink Floyd best music EVER 🇬🇧

Being one of my favorite 3 bands in history, Jefferson Airplane should be higher than 4 and they have better songs that Somebody to love and white rabbit, in terms of talent, psychedelia and Grace Slick performance! Glad to see them up here in the first place