[wuwhere]

I would also add David Bowie:
 

 

[rehabitat]

 
An obvious one, I know. But still...
A demonstration of how to be psychedelic without studio trickery, i.e. stripped-back psych.
 
It's all in the songs

 

[TheWuss]

"well oh baby my hairs on end about you..."
 

 

[Moontan13]

Bowie. Yep, Bowie.
 
He got caught under the Glam genre, but a lot of his stuff is truly psych. It's a shame many rejected his art because of the Bi thing.

 

[elbuzzard]

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An obvious one, I know. But still...
A demonstration of how to be psychedelic without studio trickery, i.e. stripped-back psych.
 
It's all in the songs

Love this record and Opal. 
 
 
 
To the OP, I had a similar experience after getting the Nuggets box set may years ago.  I started collecting many of the  bands I heard on it.  Hunting for the original vinyl of tracks that appeared on that set unlocking a vast genre that clearly influenced my taste in music.   
 
 
Great thread guys,  keep em coming.  

 

[TheWuss]

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To the OP, I had a similar experience after getting the Nuggets box set may years ago.  I started collecting many of the  bands I heard on it.  Hunting for the original vinyl of tracks that appeared on that set unlocking a vast genre that clearly influenced my taste in music.   
 
 Great thread guys,  keep em coming.  

you know what they say ---  it's the greatest era of music! 

 

 

[TheWuss]

The Who - The Who Sell Out
Although one would be hard pressed to categorize this entire record as psychedelic, the hit single "I Can See For Miles" certainly is.
As are a few other moments ("Armenia, City in the Sky").
And this was quite a departure for The Who.
 
This is, without a shadow of a doubt, my favorite 'oo album.
My best bud and i used to sit and harmonize the lyrics to "Tattoo".  Ha.  those were the days.
 
Highly recommended.
 

 

[TheWuss]

 
Small Faces - Ogden's Nut Gone Flake
 
Not just The Small Face's best work, but one of the shining moments of Brit psych.
The album's packaging resembled a tobacco tin, with the design lifted from a can of Ogden's Nut Brown Flake tobacco.
The word brown cleverly changed to gone, a very psychedelic word.  

 
 
It's really something to listen to this, and then to hear the direction the band would take (as The Faces) after Marriott's departure...  quite something.
 

 

[falis]

But The Faces really weren't the same band, despite some shared personnel.  The vision just went in a different direction. I like both.
 
- Ed

 

[TheWuss]

@ falis - Agreed.  adding Rod and Ron pretty much changed them from a whimsical, somewhat diminutive band into a beer-guzzling bar brawling bunch.
and the music certainly reflected this.
 
 
here's a multi-album post, just to sweep up a few other albums that, while not on the same tier as the previously posted stuff, are pretty good...
 
Arthur Brown - The Crazy World of Arthur Brown
 

 
Tomorrow - Tomorrow
 

 
Nirvana - The Story of Simon Simopath
 

 

[GlendaleViper]

Wow, some really great recommendations in here. Big thumbs up to The Move! "The Stars were Fair..." is one of my favourite weird folk albums of all time. A few others to complement:
 
Forest

 
Vashti Bunyan

 

 

[TheWuss]

ahhh... great mentions, GlendaleViper.
i love Forest, Vashti, and tons of others from the psych-folk or freak-folk genre.
i'd call it a very fruitful sub-category of british pysch for sure.
 
keep 'em coming.  here's another in the same vein:
 
Trees - On The Shore  (1970)
 

 

 

[GlendaleViper]

Back 'atcha, Wuss (feels weird calling you that!). Mary Anne with the Shaky Hands is probably my favourite Who tune, and Sell Out has a massive chunk of my favourite single tunes out of all their albums.
 
Anyone else find themselves holding "cut-n-paste b-side" albums higher than a band's more sophisticated efforts?

 

[falis]

Yup! Give me Happy Jack.
 
- Ed
 
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Back 'atcha, Wuss (feels weird calling you that!). Mary Anne with the Shaky Hands is probably my favourite Who tune, and Sell Out has a massive chunk of my favourite single tunes out of all their albums.
 
Anyone else find themselves holding "cut-n-paste b-side" albums higher than a band's more sophisticated efforts?

 

[TheWuss]

Here's an underappreciated gem.
The first international release by the Brothers Gibb, aka Bee Gees.
Called, aptly, Bee Gees 1st.
 
The album is a heady mix of chamber pop and experimental sonic concoctions, and contains some outstanding songwriting that, in my humble opinion, places the Gibbs only one notch below Lennon and McCartney.