An introduction into Psych....
Turntablist
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Recently people have been showing me psych records, and next weekend I'm heading back to an old spot I used to dig. They seem to have a lot of pysch and I was wondering if anyone could suggest any lp's I could keep an eye out for. Fuzz guitar and heavy drums would be nice 
Thanks!
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Haha point taken!
okay I'm into this one now!
quiet you
I don't know how much luck you'd having finding teh rare US psych in Bristol, but here's an old thread - http://www.soulstrut.com/ubbthreads/printthread.php?Cat=0&Board=crates&main=1144774&type=thread that may be of no use at all. (the search function/google is your friend)
Out of curiosity which 'old spot' is it that has lots of psych?
For me personally, I find that the essential Love albums are on Elektra - Forever Changes, Four Sail, Da Capo, and their self-titled first album. Not to mention Revisited, a best-of which has one or two singles-only tracks.
Out Here and False Start, both on Blue Thumb, are good.
But not $15 good (especially if you're getting into Love for the first time).
Those are the albums you buy after you've heard the Elektra albums and are already convinced, IMO.
forever changes.
And then some
I third that emotion. For every Circus Maximus or Free Spirits who blew my mind, there was a 49th Parallel or a Freeborne that had me wondering what all the commotion was about.
Discuss
Because they were labeled such by people who have never done LSD,
and they were just guessing.
"Psych" has a different meaning to different people.....whether it be garagey Velvet Underground......or heavy guitar Hendrix.......or CJ & The Fish.....or Blue Cheer.....Hawkwind/Krautrock psych...... Linda Perhacs folk psych ........Kyuss stoner psych........etc.......etc......and then of course anything that sounds remotely like any of these styles.
Are you being sarcastic? The thing is, I don't think you are, because
I know you already said you really don't like the 49th Parallel ... but
riding for Circus Maximus while dismissing the Freeborne is borderline
insanity.
listening to delay's mix on there right now....jeeebus! this shiv is good!
theres some insane looking records going on in there
phew
that sounds about right to me
no musical genre can be narrowed down to one thing
hell, there are soul records that dont sound like sam & dave...
ah-ha-ha, when i mentioned Freeborne and 49P, i knew i was gonna get some dialogue from you!
well, man, what can i say...i WANTED to like that freeborne joint, but apart from the first 2 or 3 tracks, i found my interest kinda lagging.
but that just goes to prove my point - not just with psych, but with early seventies hard rock, as well...when it's good, it's real good, but its still a bit of a crapshoot.
love circus maximus, dont really like country joe & the fish
love h.p. lovecraft, dont really get the 49th Parallel
love superfine dandelion, dont like aorta
love clear light, really hate the Beacon Street Union
and the beat goes on
I always thought Beacon St was considered to be a pop group.
Nope, I've heard their stuff, I borrowed their two albums from a college/community radio station back in the early nineties...they were just a little too heavy/serious to be called "pop." They weren't exactly the Cowsills.
I think Circus Maximus kind of sucks, but dig The Eyes of the Beacon Street Union. To each their own, I guess.
i'm still working my way through that motherload. best ss thread ever.
I like that first self-titled Circus Maximus LP (never heard the second album). It's not as excessive as most psych...matter of fact, it comes dead close to being garage-rock.