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Psychedelic music covers a range of popular music styles, genres and scenes, that may include psychedelic rock, psychedelic folk, psychedelic pop, psychedelic soul, psychedelic ambient, psychedelic trance, and others. Psychedelic rock is also commonly called acid rock. Psychedelic music can occur in almost every genre of music, including classical Western art music.

Background
The first era of psychedelic music began in the 1960s as a subgenre of the rock and roll movement combining elements of rock, electronic music, eastern influences - particularly sitars, and other diverse elements. It was inspired by the growing mainstream use of mind altering drugs like cannabis, psilocybin, and especially LSD, which was still legal for the first half of the psychedelic era.

In 1965-1967, The Beatles recorded and released to the public some of the first psychedelic rock, with tracks like "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" and "Tomorrow Never Knows" to name just two. Their innovations included Eastern influences, rare instruments, early electronic sampling machines, prototypical electronic instruments, backwards guitars, backwards cymbal hits, but of course, were not strictly limited to psychedelic rock. However, contemporaries of the Beatles, such as the 13th Floor Elevators and Pink Floyd, utilized the idea of psychedelia fully in all of their music. Thus began psychedelic rock which led into the first psychedelic era of rock and roll (1966-1968), in which this music was both popular and was highly sought after. During this period, even mainstream commercials depicted allusions to psychedelic drug use and effects.

The First Psychedelic Era (1966-1968)
Following the success of The Beatles, Cream and Pink Floyd, came a flood of psychedelic music. Even the Rolling Stones paid homage to the Beatles' acknowledgment of psychedelia, by releasing their one and only psychedelic album, "Their Satanic Majesties Request", in a tribute to them. The Grateful Dead were used in the Acid Tests beginning in late December of 1965, and developed a jam band approach to psychedelia as a result of playing live to experimenters on LSD. Jerry Garcia cited the Beatles' "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" as being a pinnacle of inspiration for psychedelic music. As did Professor Timothy Leary, also known as the "guru of LSD", who went around college campuses in 1967 giving lectures about using psychedelic music to explore the mind, using this Beatles album as the best example. He touted the use of the "Sgt. Pepper's..." album for promoting experimentation with LSD at home, while encouraging kids to turn on, tune in, drop out.

Psychedelic music could also be interpreted as simply a "surreal and dreamy feeling" in a particular song, instead of a specific genre with rules to follow. Even mainstream artists released psychedelic-tinged songs, and an example of this was "The Rain, The Park and Other Things" by The Cowsills, a family-oriented band. It featured psychedelic effects and urban psychedelic phrases that were coined and used during this time, such as referring to "blowing the mind".

Another hit psychedelic song from the first era was, "Itchycoo Park" by The Small Faces, which also refers to blowing one's mind after arriving at the park. It is psychedelic music because this, and because of the phasing effects used, on the vocals and instruments, as part of the hook of the song. "Hole in My Shoe" by Traffic is also one of the defining tracks of psychedelic rock and became a classic in its own right.

Methods of Recording Psychedelic Music
In 1966, Country Joe And The Fish soberly wrote, and recorded the song "Bass Strings". It was originally a raw, and offensive protest song in the jug-band style. In 1967, the height of the first psychedelic music era and the intertwined Summer Of Love, they re-recorded the song under the influence of the then-legal LSD as an experiment to see how it would turn out. The song changed dramatically, and the new result was clearly self-evident. On Country Joe's first studio album ("Electric Music for the Mind and Body") the re-recorded version of the song "Bass Strings" featured a much slower tempo, delayed vocals, added reverb, studio reversed cymbals, electric organ, desert traveler lyrics, and a continuous blues guitar solo.

The Jefferson Airplane website states that (the album), "After Bathing at Baxter's" was the group's attempt to capture what the psychedelic experience sounded and felt like to them from the inside." Jimi Hendrix is also renowned for his talent and guitar virtuosity being able to emulate the psychedelic experience.

Acid rock
Acid rock is a form of psychedelic rock, which is characterized with long instrumental solos, few (if any) lyrics and musical improvisation[1]. Tom Wolfe describes the LSD-influenced music of The Jimi Hendrix Experience, Pink Floyd, The Doors, Iron Butterfly, Big Brother & The Holding Company, Cream, Jefferson Airplane, Ultimate Spinach, New Riders of the Purple Sage, Blue Cheer, Quicksilver Messenger Service, The Great Society, Stone Garden and the Grateful Dead as "acid rock" in his book about Ken Kesey and the Acid Tests, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test.

"Acid rock" also refers to the subset of psychedelic rock bands that were part of, or were influenced by, the San Francisco Sound, and which played loud, "heavy" music featuring long improvised solos.

History and use of the term
Acid rock got its name because it served as "background" music for acid trips in underground parties in the 1960s (e.g. the Merry Pranksters' "Acid Tests"). ("Acid" is a slang term for LSD.) In an interview with Rolling Stone Jerry Garcia quoted Grateful Dead band member Phil Lesh stating, "acid rock is what you listen to when you are high on acid." Garcia further stated there is no real psychedelic rock and that it is Indian classical music and some Tibetan music that are examples of music "designed to expand consciousness." The term "acid rock" is generally equivalent to psychedelic rock. Rolling Stone magazine includes early Pink Floyd as "acid-rock". In June 1967 Time Magazine wrote "From jukeboxes and transistors across the nation pulses the turned-on sound of acid-rock groups: the Jefferson Airplane, The Doors, Moby Grape". In 1968 Life magazine referred to The Doors as the "Kings of Acid Rock".

The term was much used in its heyday of the late 1960s and early 1970s, but has fallen into disuse; it is now only used as a means of putting this music into historical perspective.

When hard rock and heavy metal became prominent in the early and mid 1970s, the phrase "acid rock" was sometimes generically and erroneously applied to these genres. Over time, the common use of the term "heavy metal" replaced "acid rock" for these styles of music. Examples of hard rock bands once commonly called "acid rock" are: Alice Cooper, Vanilla Fudge, and Deep Purple.

Disc 1
01. DMZ - When I Get Off
02. Left Lane Cruiser - Wash It
03. Plan 9 - I Like Girls - 4.03
04. Roky Erickson - Sponge EP - Red Temple Prayer
05. Mondo Drag - Light As a Feather - 2.19
06. The Deviants - Police Car - 7.24
07. Peacepipe - Sea Of Nightmares - 6.26
08. Pete Brown & The Piblokto - Aeroplan Head Woman
09. Phantasia - Transparent Face
10. Victoria - Peace - 2.44
11. Weed - Sweet Morning Light
12. McKenna Mendelsohn Mainline - One Way Ticket
13. Dickie Peterson - Brainkiller - 3.24
14. Dragonfly - Miles Away - 4.33
15. Edgar Broughton Band - Evening Over Rooftops - 5.02
16. Southern Comfort - Netti-Netti - 11.54

Disc 2
01. Sir Douglas Quintet - Mendocino - 2.40
02. Spring - Grail - 6.46
03. SRC - Black Sheep
04. The Litter - I'm a Man - 4.03
05. Fear Itself - Underground River - 3.23
06. Bruce Cameron - Doctor Please
07. Funcadelic - Friday Night, August 14th - 5.23
08. Gene Clark With The Gosdin Brothers - Think I'm Gonna Feel Better - 1.38
09. Headstone - Still Looking - 8.29
10. Howling Diablos - Carwash - 4.40
11. Kahvas Jute - Free - 5.07
12. Mahogany Rush - Look Outside
13. Country Joe & The Fish - Flying High
14. California Love-In - Cinema Trailer Edit - 1.11
15. Stiv Bators - The Last Year
16. The Balloon Farm - A Question Of Temperature
17. Shadows Of Knignts - Oh Yeah
18. Kim Fowley - The Trip - 2.03
19. The Barracudas - I Can't Pretend - 2.32
20. The Rezillos - Destination Venus - 3.36
21. The Masterplan - What´s Up With That

Disc 3
01. The Cheepskates - Run Better Run
02. AcDc - Soul Strippper
03. Pink Floyd - See Emily Play
04. The Dictators - Search and Destroy
05. T. Rex - Rock On
06. Rory Gallagher - Going to My Home Town
07. Aerosmith - Train Kept a Rollin' - 5.33
08. Black Sabbath - Planet Caravan
09. Quicksilver Messenger Service - Pride of Man - 4.06
10. Lord Sutch & His Heavy Friends - Baby Come Back
11. Rory Gallagher - Going to My Home Town
12. Simon and Garfunkel - Cecilia - 2.54
13. The Byrds - I'll Feel a Whole Lot Better
14. The Doors - Strange Days
15. The Flying Burrito Brothers - Christine's Tune - 3.02
16. The Mothers of Invention - Trouble Every Day
17. The Kinks - Where Have All the Good Times Gone
18. The Pretty Things - Come See Me
19. The Rolling Stones - Parachute Woman - 2.20
20. The Yardbirds - Lost Women