I miss psychedelic album covers.

Another great overlooked band from this era were The Fleur De Lyes. Their version of The Who song "Circles" is a monster psych 7inch. Thanks for another great video Matt. Some great obscurities here. Just a little note, the second Tintern Abbey song is called "Vacuum Cleaner". Cheers.

this is one of those small more obscure channels which is perfect for me, literal perfect channel and something i’ve been looking for, for awhile lmao

Thanks for this welcome feature on some underrated bands. I know Glyn James of Ice very well - he's alive and well in 2022. I'm currently arranging some songs he's writing for choir and piano.

Matt, if you see this comment, it's just to let you know that I am doing a gig with Fraser from The Poets in Glasgow in a couple of hours time. He was also in the band White Trash who were signed to Apple in the late 60s. I'm going to share this video with him as I am sure he'll enjoy it.

SUGGESTION: Please consider doing a video on the British band, Traffic!

A great UK psych single is Path Through The Forest by The Factory.

Tintern Abbey has a huge comp of demos out now in 2023! The double LP is a bit shorter than the CD. It's released in the US. Strong material, for the most part, often heading for prog rock. Both Deram Single Sides are included. It is often said, that Decca had put out such an incredible load of Mod and Psych at the time because the label still suffered from the "rejecting the Beatles trauma" and didn't want to repeat the old mistake. The fun fact about Deram is, that it stands for "Decca Panoramic Stereo", a technology to synchronize multiple 4-track machines along with sophisticated mixing consoles (there weren't panorama potentiometers on mid-60ies mixing consoles, hence the "block stereo"). It died when 8-track machines came. Early Deram releases were HiFi Easy Listening albums. And then came "Days of Future Passed" and the focus of the label changed.

Glyn James of Ice went on to sing with Jade Warrior whilst other members formed another band signed to Vertigo called Affinity.

Remember a few of these but many were new to me. Thank you...

The two Tintern Abbey songs are just absolute stone-cold classics of British psych.

Brilliant! Great stuff! Thanks for turning us on to this music!

Very cool Matt, Thanks for the upload. You are a music connoisseur my friend!

Getting to know a little bit more about the poets. Keep up the great work, Matt!

Thanks for another good one. The Poets have been a long time favorite of mine.

The End became Tucky Buzzard and recorded a funky version of Time Will Be Your Doctor.Loved the feature on 60s GG Psych acts.Excellent work,Matt.

A band that I was expecting to see on this video was The Eyes with their song 'When The Night Falls'. I listen to that song when I'm playing Garage Bands whose songs are good, but never became hits in the US.

Really nice, because I am a music nerd, and I don't have any of these. So big kudos for delivering on the title of this video article. 😀

Wow Matt, this video hits me where I live. I was especially pleased to see that you featured "The Great British Psychedelic Trip" as I (that's just me folks) think that the series is the best compilation on this period. I still have the Rhino box, but I thought that Rubble series was exactly that, rubble, with a few nice tracks per disc. Hearing 'Ice Man' sent me scurrying to the shelves to listen to disc one of the set, and it is one of the few compilations that I return frequently. I would have swapped a couple of tracks, but your choices are still good for my ears. And I like the way that See For Miles groups the tracks by label affiliation.

Cool topic and cool era for music! I loved Procol Harem..R.I.P. Gary Booker.

Tintern Abbey was a great recommendation! Love this channel, keep up the good work.

That Tintern Abbey single is a GEM! Can't get enough of it.

1. I had a copy of "Muffin Man". I may still have it. The Poets sound cool. 3. I wish there was a psychedelic streaming audio service.

Wow! Thanks for broadening my palette! I'd known of The Poets and the Oldham connection. One of their earlier songs, "That's The Way It's Got To Be," ended up on the soundtrack of a horrendous mid-60s sci-fi called "Frankenstein Meets The Space Men," riffed on Mystery Science Theatre sometime in the 90s... and when I finally got around to seeing that MST3K last year or so, the song sort of appeared out of the minutia--it was miles better than anything else in that film, lolz...

“Fix me up with your sweet dose, now I’m feelin’ like a ghost…” And that fuzzed-out guitar solo! Also, Paul & Ritchie and the Cryin’ Shames! I bought this album in the 80s. An excellent sampling of 60s British psychedelia! Thanks for another great video!

A superb one was "Red Sky At Night" by The Accent. Very advanced sound like the great Yardbirds ones you mentioned for '66 psych. "Wings of Love" by Nirvana (UK) was great. Talking '66 psychedelic, have you heard "Black" by The Throb? A wonderful Aussie 45.

Hey Matt, I forgot to mention, isn’t Toby Twirl on that compilation? I thought they had a pretty groovy song on that LP. Something about “Romeo and Juliet.” I have several “Highs in the mid Sixties” psychedelic compilation LPs with so much insanely good material on them! One group from 1968, out of Portland Oregon, was a band called Hunger with their song, “Colors.” You should check it out, if you hadn’t heard it yet. So heavy and the intro into that blistering Hammond B3 solo will knock you out of your chair! Not to mention the incredible ending! Also, Limey and the Yanks, “Outta sight, Outta mind.” (1966) Then there is “Pictures and Designs by the Seeds.” Also, The Beaver Patrol, “E.S.P. (1967). I have a funny story behind that group for a later time. Love your channel!

Just caught up with your excellent video Matt. I feel ashamed that I'd only heard of 'The End'! Many thanks for sharing with us.

The Tintern Abbey single is superb and genuine psych/pop. That guitar "solo" is fantastic. The Poets did a great tune, "wooden spoon". Another memorable, but fairly obscure tune...a freakbeat/psych cross over, is the great song "Come on back" by Paul and Ritchie and the Cryin' shames.

Another good one, Matt! So glad we're already friends. :0

Good work Matt

WOW Matt you have gotten me into so many great pysch bands! ICE is another one!

Fantastic, superlative work, as usual! One very minor technical fix- I think the super titles of the 1st two Poets tracks you played got switched - you played I Am So Blue, followed by In Your Tower. I noticed because In Your Tower is a fave of mine, really great early psych single, with that cool hook riff played on I think ocarina (like the solo in Wild Thing, ha )

Well done! A couple of bands that I hadn't heard of ... and I love my UK psyche! Check out 'Father's Name Is Dad' by the Fire!

Just read that Tintern Abbey has a complete compilation on Spotify now. I thought I knew obscure psychedelic bands- 0/5 on this list. Much more to discover apparently!

Thanks for mentioning The Poets, Matt--one of my favorite '60s groups. I don't consider them psychedelic, but they had many great songs, including That's the Way It's Got To Be (oddly, used in the film Frankenstein Meets the Space Monster), I'll Come Home, Baby Don't You Do It, Call Again and I Love Her Still, -to name a few. They did a lot of recording not to have had a formal album.

The End were fantastic... the album is excellent from beginning to end... the CD box set includes their album, alternate takes, unreleased tracks and is a must have.

Tintern Abbey , " vacuum cleaner"!!!!!---and the Creation....( and their earlier name was " the mark fours" in roman numerals)" thats how strong my love is", " through my eyes", " making time", " painter man", " how does it feel to feel",etc etc, all their stuff is great. Doesent get any better than those two right there.

A few years back I found the original version of Green Plant on 45 done by that doo-wop group The Tokens. Pretty cool version too. I wasn't expecting psychedelic Tokens!

Who knew Bill Wyman wrote songs & managed a group called The End? I sure didn't...he's also married now to a girl 50 years younger than him..the guy is full of surprises!

Other great British psych bands include Tomorrow, who were on the same label as the Beatles and whose self-titled album is solid psych-pop (also, their guitarist was a pre-Yes Steve Howe), and Fire, who had an album called The Magic Shoemaker.

Could you do more of these? I'd like a focus on bands who got full albums.

Certainly not a "Top 5" effort, but I was delighted a while back to discover a nice slice of British psychedelia in the form of "Michaelangelo" by "The 23rd Turnoff".

The Poets have a drum solo. A rarity in the mid 60's

Great!!! Love The Poets, The Eyes, Les Fleurs des Lys, The Accent Do you know The Open Mind - Magic Potion and Germanys The Dragons - Hearttransplantation?

Spotted a Claudine Longet lp in your collection. I enjoyed her music growing up.

Ice after they broke up reconvened in late 1969 with singer Linda Hoyle and formed the band Affinity,who recorded a seminal album for vertigo and there is even a short movie of them of them the band touring and interviewed by Uk music journalist Annie Nightingale

That was an interesting video Can you do a video on Bill Wymans solo career? I remember he released a solo album in the 80’s

I highly recommend a search (on KZfaq) for the demo of 'Bee Side' by Tintern Abbey. Very different from the released version. Also, 3 other new songs by them appear on Psychedelic Jumble Vol. 1 . Along with other deep cuts that would be contenders for your list. Count on it.

There was a cd released with all The Poets singles and some of their early Demos from 1963 to 1964 unfortunately it’s already out of print but I’m surprised they never made an album there sound was very different for the time with the acoustic 12 strings.

There is a great CD compilation of The Poets called “Wooden Spoon: The Singles Anthology 1964 - 1967” on Grapefruit Records (a division of Cherry Red Records Ltd). A great two singles 60s UK Psychedelic band was The Factory - check out “Path Through the Forest” and also “Try a Little Sunshine”. There was also a USA Factory (different band).

These seem like good bands to check out and I never heard of them. I know a few bands from this era like Tomorrow and Kaleidoscope. I did know one group briefly mentioned here as terrible: The World of of Oz with "The Muffin Man". That song was a minor hit in the Midwest in the summer of '68, possibly because of its similarity to Bubblegum Music.

Also check this one out - The Owl - Run To The Sun... kzfaq.info/get/bejne/a8WEgMqfztXHlmw.html

The Timebox track you played consisted of Ollie Halsall and John Halsey as 2 of their members , both of whom went on to become key members of The Rutles (John was Barry Wom and Ollie did all the studio work) John Halsey aka “Barry Wom” was also one of the session drummers credited on Lou Reeds “Transformer” albeit that they spelt “Halsey” wrong in the credits ...but it’s him

You forgot Ice Anniversary of love which got airplay. The Accent Red sky at night is a stand out track.

I was in England at the time absorbing the great music of the time. Don't know any of those though heard of Tintern Abbey.

More great stuff to check out! Have you ever done anything on Blossom Toes?

Love this stuff, and love this video. Cool that you have sound samples. I have those 3 compilation CDs and enjoy them. Love '60s psych, sunshine pop, baroque pop, garage, etc.. (question: did those brief sound samples result in your getting a "copyright notice" from KZfaq? I've posted some '60s stuff and got the notice, but I played the entire track, so maybe that was why). Cheers. Jeff

Do you know Plastic Penny and their (UK) hit version of The Box Tops song, Everything I Am? If not, check them out - they also do I nice butcher (than the original) version of Never My Love.

Fade away Maureen is a really good song by Cherry smash. Had it in my Spotify list already. That The end album i have on cd.

I have the 3 CD's mentioned. I'm going to give you my opinion on a few tracks in this series that i consider great. Firstly I'll take out three tracks that charted in New Zealand (Where I'm from). I like them all: The Muffin Man - The World of Oz (Peak 13 - 3 weeks on top 20) Little Games - The Yardbirds (Peak 11 - 4 weeks) Excerpt from "A Teenage Opera" - Keith West (Peak 10 - 6 weeks) Now I'll list the top 10 tracks ranked in the order I consider, best first. These tracks were never played here (So before the CD series I had never heard of them). I consider the top 3 or 4 absolutely terrific compared to all songs i like. Here we go: 1. Secret - Virgin Sleep 2. In My Magic Garden - Tinkerbell's Fairydust 3. Heavenly Club - Les Sauterelles 4. Beeside - Tintern Abbey 5. Kites - Simon Dupree & the Big Sound 6. Love - Virgin Sleep 7. William Chalker's Time Machine - The Lemon Tree 8. In Your Tower - The Poets 9. Deep Inside Your Mind - Keith Shields 10. Skeleton and the Roundabout - The Idle Race

“So many times” by Ice is an amazing song

Love Tintern Abbey. I am wondering if The Pretty Things are in an unhappy middle ground where they aren't popular enough or obscure enough to get mentioned. Their 1968 work alone should cement them in some psychedelic discussion.

Tinturn Abbey sounded really great. That guy in the center of the pic is a dead ringer for Syd Barrett. Never heard of them before. It’s a pity that they had no future beyond that single. They really had potential.

Fuckin great job man Please please do more and more in depth if you feel. Inclined. Binging on your vids, the more obscure ones. You've a great style and for once someone does their research. Cheers from Aus

so true

Do you know ‘The Virgin Sleep?’ Tracks like ‘Halliford House’ and the enormous ‘Secret.’ ‘Halliford House was close to where we moved to, when I was 11. We played in the ruins. The band came from the Feltham/Hanworth/Sunbury area, I believe. Deram label 67-68. An outskirts of West London band

Looks like "Ice" were a 4 piece band with their manager stood in the back in the photo at 2:36

Timebox morphed into Patto who also signed to Vertigo.Timebox version of 4 Seasind Beggin’ is excellent.

Gotta check out Blossom Toes

I had that Tintern Abbey single about 30 years ago. Traded it off to a mate who really wanted it. I shudder to think how much it'd be worth today!

I have been trying to remember who did the version of Strawberry Fields on The British Psychedelic Trip, but keep coming up blank. My 4 album collection disappeared many years ago.

The first piece of music I heard described as "psychedelic" was "Blue Snow NIght," by the Gurus. Does anyone know anything about it, or them?

Interesting bands. One question is why does the video title say 10 bands but the video only covers 5 bands? Or is that just a typo?

Was Cherry Smash a drug reference or did they sell the soda in the UK as well?

More obscure please, sir!

To try and pick just 5 British Psychedelic Bands and call them 'the top 5' obscure psychedelic bands is to trivialise British Psychedelia. What about Nirvana, July, The Open Mind, Dantalions Chariot, Blossom Toes, Kaleidoscope (the UK band), Velvet Opera, The Smoke, Apple, Factory, Fire, Tomorrow, Andwella's Dream, Wimple Winch, Tales Of Justine, Paper Bubble and a host of others? You only have to look at the track listings of the second Nuggets box set (that you link to) or the 20 volumes of the Rubble Series not to mention the 20 volumes of the Piccadilly Circus series to realise how extensive and varied the UK Psychedelic scene was. Its not that these 5 were not great bands, they were and they are very much worth mentioning, but there was so much more (and thats not even really exploring the Mod /Freakbeat side of UK Psychedelia ~ Creation, Eyes, Action, Birds, Fleur De Lys etc) either. Perhaps this should be the first of a periodic series? What is worth noting in regard to the bands mentioned is that some tapes from Tintern Abbey's recording sessions have been discovered and have now been released as a double CD set (in 2021). Not so much the mystery anymore. The End has a 4CD boxset of material available. The Ice's 'Iceman' album was re-released and greatly extended on CD some years back and all the Poets beat and psych material has been reissued twice on CD. That just leaves Cherry Smash left who haven't yet received the full retrospective treatment. Hopefully there are some tapes still waiting to be rediscovered.....

The End actually were quiet popular in Spain,before they met Bill Wyman or rather before he agreed to produce them,I think one of the end members lived in Bill wyamn's neighhbourhood in Penge..the reason why the End's album was released towards the end of 1969(by which time the band had split up and renamed themselves Tucky Buzzard),is easily explained.The lp had already been recorded in the spring of 1968,it was thanks to Allan Klein,then the manager of the Stones,who held back the release of the album,every time Bill Wyman asked Kl;ein ,when he might be sanction the release of the album,hge was fobbed off with some excuse...so nearly two years after the album was recorded it crept out..

There’s also a group that I don’t know if it’s bad psychedelia but it’s called July and made an album in 1968 and they are still active today

"Sing Songs Of Love" was also recorded by Manfred Mann

Ah! Good old See For Miles records. I had many of their releases at one time. Not this one, darn it!

Cherry Smash from Gosport......really surprised to see them included. they never were promoted as a psychedelic band. The Hug's were a musical family. Mike , as mentioned was the Manfred's drummer. Bryan Hug his brother , the singer with Cherry Smash ......cousin Nick Hug , fronted his own band, Deaf Boy Hug and the Hearing Aids , as well as being a member of Smiling Hard , who in truth were probably the best band Portsmouth ever produced but they didn't have any decent original material. Nick's sister Jane was also a singer in a folk band but the passage of time has dimmed the memory on what they were called.

I always look at what's on the wall behind Matt. I see Claudine Longet & remember her well - wispy voiced & absolutely adorable. What's the album to the left of her, I wonder?

How about Blossom Toes?

Do you know a British band called Kaleidoscope? I was hoping you would mention them in this video. To my mind, their LP "Tangerine Dream" is a psychedelic masterpiece.

This is going to be good, heard of Tintern Abby, but that's it. Always on the look out. Do you like Blodwyn Pig? Anybody out there into the film, Privilege, Paul Jones and Jean Shrimpton- very cheezy esp the rock group, dressed like monks, tonsure and all, awful but...interesting film for 60's survivors or buffs analogous to those of us drawn to the 1920's. Namaste, Z. ( spotted Claudine Augier or L ...? Up on the top self? You should do a show on the French Pop, yea-yea girls, Francoise Hardy is the best and of course luscious, Vanessa Paradis...Great fun. Just a suggestion for a light-hearted, something different. I WILL ALWAYS LISTEN TO FRANCOISE HARDY. She survived a coma several yrs ago, cancer and wrote w worthwhile autobiography for anyone who likes that escapist musically fun- 1 or 2 inspired M. Faithfull, so...Juliette Greco.

I envy these guys because they got to wear capes. I don't get to any such thing. I can't even celebrate Halloween properly without being judged.

THE END is really groovie they deserved more . Do you know they lived in spain in the late 60's?

World of OZ is not bad psych it's actually a really good example of toy town psych

These excerpts were even shorter than Juke Box Jury! Please consider extending to 30mins to give a better idea of the songs

"Sing Songs Of Love" was on Track, not Decca!

Whiskey on the rocks?

I think you pronounce DERAM - deee-ram. (for your future reference). I always said it your way as well.

Bourbon?

so what were you saying whilst you were previewing the songs and your vox was silenced? talking gibberish or what is something profound that we will never find out? (unless you reply to this ..obvioulsy!!)

The Pink floyd was awsome and bitchin.lol

Yes I got these CD'S because I can't stand Todays Music. Give me 60's Psychedelic Music any day!

Another list-making Kiwi here. Because I am old and only clicked because I thought "Yeah, obscure to some younger people", I thought I would keep score after the first act was neither heard nor heard of. 1. Cherry Smash not heard, nor of. 2. Ice not heard, nor of. 3. Tintern Abbey not heard, nor of. (But Cool.) 4. The Poets not heard, nor of. 5. The End not heard, nor of. I will have to concede I don't know as much as I thought, though I was only 15-16 yo at this period. No way would these bands have been released a world away in NZ.

Another good source for British psych is the Nuggets ii.

Hey, I like Muffin Man.... but becuase it's extremely stupid, lol.