Best Album enjoyed with mind expanding products

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

Poll question: Best Album enjoyed with mind expanding products

Picked some of my favorites, I know I forgot many, so if yours isn't there, please list it!

Any fried stories from the years of these albums?

[NashVegas]

1. Stone Roses 1st Album

I and several of my co-workers used to semi-regularly (like 3-4 times a year) take blotter and somehow that album always wound up in the CD player at some point, without fail.

[pasadenaboy]

3. Agreed

happy mondays are good too.

[DeathvadeR]

76. .

Gonna buy an Airforce base,
Gonna Wipe out your race,
Gettin stoned in a differnt place,
Don't you know I got bad taste.......

[mmm]

2. where is townes van zandt?

or brown cow thang dawng?

mmmmmm????

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

4. My age is showing.... LOL

[jeanmarc]

80. Listening to Townes right now!

Live at the Old Quarter.

[jeanmarc]

81. Pavement or Radiohead

Pavement's Slanted and Enchanted or Radiohead's Ok, Computer are excellent.

One of my favorites is Camper Van Beethoven. Our Beloved Revolutionary Sweetheart is a fine one to listen to.

And someone mentioned Townes Van Zandt.

[jeanmarc]

82. Heh, heh, 'Wendy' Carlos' Switched On Bach

Not bad at all. REM's Murmur through Fables of the Reconstruction is good.

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

83. Me... Cranking to Mr. Oldfield at the moment....

Totally encompassing music. A clip:

http://entertainment.msn.com/radio/launchradio.aspx?url=%2falbum%2fDefault.aspx%3falbum%3d101291&rcd=slalb1&type=album&id=101291

The then-newly-formed Virgin Records allowed Oldfield a year to complete this 49-minute conceptual effort, which required him to record eighty tracks of himself playing 28 different instruments. Tubular Bells achieved Top Ten chart success in the US when it was used in the soundtrack for the film The Exorcist, selling over 10 million copies. ~ Scott Bultman

http://entertainment.msn.com/album/?album=101291

[Redneck Socialist]

5. pink floyd: Meddle

Simply unmatched. A mind expanding experience all by itself.

[Spirochete]

6. Echoes!

that was my favorite one to take acid by. hehe

[Redneck Socialist]

8. Off of Umaguma I liked...

...the song "Several species of small furry animals gathered together in a cave and grooving with a pict." Another great mind twister by the floyd.

[DancingBear]

15. "come back..." N/T

[DancingBear]

13. Damn - beat me to it!

Lying on the floor with my head between the stereo speakers and a load full of chocolate mescaline - 30+ years ago!

[pfitz59]

79. I vote for Meddle

Super fine spiritual guidance.

[tridim]

7. Beck's "Mutations"

Equally enjoyable, toasted or not. Just try to listen to "Cold Brains" without getting goosebumps. IMO, it's the best album by any artist in at least the past 10 years.

[Old and In the Way]

9. AOXOMOXOA

<>

1st album mixed on 16 track, by the way......1969

My 1st experience with psychedelics was listening to this album....

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

10. My god, I left out The Dead....

And The Band
And the Soundtrack to Easy Rider :smile:

[dweller]

25. hehe

diff'rent strokes...




whatever takes you there, it's all good.

dp

[Old and In the Way]

47. Indeed..........

Garcia's banjo playing was pretty amazing, eh?

[Rooktoven]

32. Live Dead

would be my Dead choice-- especially Dark Star, St. Stephen, the Eleven and Turn on your Lovelight...

[Old and In the Way]

45. If truth be known

Skull and Roses (1971) is my all time favorite Dead album.....the essential Rock and Roll album ever made, IMHO.

But that was not what the thread asked. ;-)

[kodi]

51. agreed, but there are a couple of early dicks pix that are close

first trip, and with with the boys was at the philly civic center aug. '74. up all night, crashed, woke up two states away with strangers.

btw 5 hours of dead are on wednesdays 9pm-2am at wncw over the net. 9-10 dead hour, 10-2 dead air

http://www.wncw.org/

they play some incredible personally taped music from the early days.

[Old and In the Way]

55. 1st show - Boston '72.

Dropped something at BC and had the strangest subway ride of my life.
NRPS started at 6;30 and the show ended after 1:00. Had to walk back to BC (lost contact with my friends). I kept asking directions and promptly forgot 'em 30 seconds later....I think I made it back around 9:00 the next morning.

2 days later I saw the Dead and NRPS again in a small auditorium at Clark Univestity.....I was reasonably straight for that show....it was outstanding!

I've listened to the show on wncw

Something about the Skull and Roses album, technically, I think it's the cleanest "live" sound of anything I've heard from the Dead (or any other band). I am amazed that 32 years later, I've yet to hear a live album that delivers the goods like that album. NFA~GDTHFB is maybe the finest rock and roll tune ever recorded, IMHO.

[kodi]

61. the PITB>Lovelight>GDTRFB off 100 Years Hall is sweet too.

and there was nothing like the feeling of the initial impact of recognizing a couple of notes coming out of a jam that you knew would lead into GDTRFB, albeit, 5 minutes before it happened.

all i can think of when that happened was where in lawrence of arabia you see omar sheriff slowing appearing from the nothingness of the desert.

i just wished i could have seen the boys in front of the pyrimids.. those were shows for the ages.

[Old and In the Way]

66. There was a Rolling Stone article about the Pyramid gig.

IIRC, there was a side story that Lesh and Garcia set up inside one of the burial rooms(?)for checking out the acoustics/harmonics...they were jamming and Phil hit a note that sync'd to the Pyramid's resonant frequency....it was pretty intense.

I think I read that in RS, anway....

Yeah, seeing them play "Blues for Allah" would have done it for me, too.

[AndyTiedye]

74. Live Dead was my first favorite for that sort of thing

and it was at Dead shows (lots of them) that I came to realize that dancing should be an integral part of the experience.
Moved away from listening to their albums in favor of live tapes.
Now they're releasing a lot of those old shows, on CD.
You can also get CDs of all the shows on this year's summer tour.
I went to the Red Rocks shows and those were really fine! I know
it's not the same without Jerry, but the old magic is still there.

Of the stuff in the poll, Tangerine Dream was the clear winner.

Best of the 90's: Shpongle: Are You Shpongled
(also look for Hallucinogen, Mystery of the Yeti, or anything else with Simon Posford).

Now it's all about psytrance.

[Search Party]

84. 5.2.70 Harpur College

"That's It for the Other One"

Jerry's finest acidic moment....wow.....

Aren't we all forgetting the album that was specifically written with an acid trip in mind??????


Country Joe & the Fish "Electric Music for the Mind & Body"


Airplane's "Baxter" album always does for me too.

[jus_the_facts]

11. ..but I got nowhere to FLY TO.....FLY TO....FLY TO.....FLY TO.....FLY TO..

.....FLY TO ...FLY TO....fly to...fly to...fly to...fly to.

....the ONE and ONLY time I did blotter acid...me and two other friends watched The Wall...after the movie ended we all three kept hearing that echo in our heads...'cos there was NO other sound in the room at all...freaky trippin' shit...was/is one of the BEST times I've ever had...but never repeated!! :evilgrin:

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

14. Oh, yeah! but... Nomber nine, number nine, number nine...

The Beatles White Album should be on the list as well.

[jus_the_facts]

28. Oh and BTW...the picture on the blotter was a pink flamingo no less......

:D

[VOX]

12. Other: "Troutmask Replica" by Captain Beefheart...

Utterly insane, unlike anything else. Best listened to in an altered state:

1. Frownland
2. The Dust Blows Forward N The Dust Blows Back
3. Dachau Blues
4. Ella Guru
5. Hair Pie Bake 1
6. Moonlight On Vermont
7. Pachuco Cadaver
8. Bills Corpse
9. Sweet Sweet Bulbs
10. Neon Meate Dream Of A Octafish
11. China Pig
12. My Human Gets Me Blues
13. Dalis Car
14. Hair Pie Bake 2
15. Pena
16. Well
17. When Big Joan Sets Up
18. Fallin Ditch
19. Sugar N Spikes
20. Ant Man Bee
21. Orange Claw Hammer
22. Wild Life
23. Shes Too Much For My Mirror
24. Hobo Chang Ba
25. The Blimp
26. Steal Softly Thru Snow
27. Old Fart At Play
28. Veterans Day Poppy

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

16. Okay... Howsabout The Fugs, or Mothers of Invention?

And Ke-RIST, I left out Hendrix and Joplin!

[VOX]

87. All of these are excellent altered-state material!

The Fugs and MOI if you're feeling humorous, and of course Hendrix and Joplin if you want to delve into the darker emotions.

Good stuff!

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

17. Dark Side Of The Moon

First time I got so "mind-altered" I lost contact with my body, I was listening to Pink Floyd with headphones on. Talk about finding the center of the universe! Woo woo! :evilgrin: :nuke:

[Timbuk3]

18. I've got to go with The Dark Side of the Rainbow

Listening to the Dark Side of the Moon while watching the Wizard of Oz is a trip, the first time you do it.

Check out http://members.cox.net/stegokitty/dsotr_pages/dsotr.htm or do a google search http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=%22dark+side+of+the+rainbow%22 for the hows and why's.

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

19. Heh. I was waiting for someone to bring that up!

I'm surprised it took so long!

[Timbuk3]

23. Well, somebody had to do it

I was told about it by a neighbor, the weekend before AMC ran it. I taped it. Now, I'll put it on in the basement at parties. I'm surprised at how few people have heard about it.

As far as I'm concerned, it only works the first time through. But that "cha-ching!" when the door opens and the movie goes to color is really well-timed for a "coincedence".

There's another one, I think it's "echos" synched to the end sequence for 2001 that's OK, not as good as Dark Side of the Rainbow.

Now for the tough question. WHO was it that did this the first time? ;->

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

24. (Oh, and welcome to DU by the way) You gave it away with WHO...

But I don't know what or which.

[Timbuk3]

26. Thanks

But now I hope you'll help me out.

How did "WHO" give it away?

Oh, and what did it give away?

I'm so confused... ;->

[Skip Intro]

20. cots

mesc

way fun

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

21. Throbbing Gristle

"Hamburger Lady"- D.O.A. The Third And Final Report.


Oh, you said "enjoyable."

"I Think I love You"- Partridge Family.

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

22. Well, I did have a crush on Susan Dey... LOL

Especially after she did the movie First Love

Bad movie but she was nekkid!

[boilerbabe]

71. I was in 4th grade when that came out

A bunch of us girls got up in front of the class and sang "I think I'm pregnant" to the tune of that. This was during the very experimental teaching years back in the late 60s early 70s.

Those were the good old days...we would have been escorted out in straightjackets if we pulled that shit now...too sad....

[Capn Sunshine]

27. DR. Sardonicus

Actually "the 12 Dreams of Dr.Sardonicus" Spirit's masterwork . You listen to it with headphones, it's like being on psychedelics anyway. :)

But depending on the mood, it reminds me of the New Mexican Desert, Sierra Nevadas above June Lake or Mission Bay Beach after a storm.....

all excellent locales to be UI of mushrooms or peyote.

Nothing as psychedelic as peyote barf is there?

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

29. I remember giving Charlie Daniels a big helping of peyote when

he was still human. It was right after he came out with Uneasy Rider.

We got wasted and jammed til my fingers bled.

[Peachhead22]

30. Jim Morrisson

"An American Prayer"

Sober it's just bad poetry. But in the right frame of mind...The recording qualty of the music is excellent too.

[Rooktoven]

31. In the Court of the Crimson King (King Crimson)

First Acid trip, and many others...

Remains the trippiest album ever made IMNSHO

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

33. Another great one! Oh yes, I remember it well...

[carpetbagger]

40. Agreed. It's even better to play loaded in a garage band

You can do anything you want with the title track. It's more performance art than music. We had a system where when the drummer got tired of what was happening, he'd start into a ten second fill, and we'd jump back into the chorus (the wordless chorus).

[Rooktoven]

67. Don't know if I agree more performance art

I mean the Peter Sinfield Lytics lend themselves to that. But that incarnation (and all the other ones of KC, to be fair) was so incredibly musically versatile. It may be an atypical song, but it was played really well.

"The yellow jester does not play,
but gently pulls the strings,
He smiles as the puppets dance,
In the court of the Crimson King..."

Man I have lived through that court intrigue so often... Why is the Black queen chanting the funeral march?

[carpetbagger]

77. Let me paint the picture...

Anywhere between 4 and 8 very stoned or drunk teenagers, of moderate to hefty musical talent, trying to navigate the somewhat free-form interludes in between the "core" sections (verses and the wordless chorus). There was no telling where the thing would go.

When your bass guitarist suddenly starts playing a bong while your drummer is playing beer bottles, along with a flute and keyboard, you've left what can clearly be defined as music.

Come to think of it, it sounded a lot like subsequent King Crimson albums.

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

78. been there. done that... LOL!

http://www.knology.net/~rareandfirsts/adu.wav

[Blue_Chill]

34. pffft those are old crap.

I used to go for Paul Oakenfold and DJ tiesto. :D

I once encountered a guy who swore he could taste the Music Oakenfold was spinning live at Buzz club in DC.

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

35. Old crap???? Where's my fucking cane? I'll get you, you young

whippersnapper! :toast:

[Blue_Chill]

37. lol!

I do like most of those but I don't think my generation listened to them while...er...enjoying chemistry all that often. Everyone I knew would listen to either hard core rap or some sort of techno junks.

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

42. Advice from an old friend: Tune in, Turn on and drop out!

Find some Rick Wakeman or Yes tunes, turn the TV on, the sound down, imbibe and enjoy!

There were several classically trained musicians in many of these groups wha could play more than three chords and actually think outside the box. It was, IMHO one of the greatest ages in music since Ludwig Van!

[bearfan454]

93. You just inspired me

to get my groove on.

[RobinA]

41. More Old Crap

Surrealistic Pillow.

God I love that album. Still.

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

44. Now, dat's some gooood shit!

[rucky]

36. My Bloody Valentine - Loveless

Massive Attack - Mezzanine
Sigur Ros - (sumptin in Icelandic)
Radiohead - OK Computer
Granddaddy - The Sophware Slump
Yo La Tengo - I Can Hear The Heart...
Galaxie 500 - This Is Our Music
Sparklehorse - Good Morning Spider
Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
Slowdive - Souvlaki
Spiritualized - Live at Albert Hall

[Booger]

38. original Butthole Surfers

the early stuff

Another Mans Sac
Cream Corn
Rembrandt Pussyhorse

[Redneck Socialist]

48. cool!

I was wondering if anyone would bring them up. I use to be a fan, haven't listened to them in a long time though.

[Booger]

53. saw them often

Halloween night.
85 or 86, can't remember.

Raining.
flooding in parts of the city.
tripping.
Surfers on a tiny stage in the basment of a VFW hall.

Pure gold I tell you, pure gold.

[Spider Jerusalem]

39. The Future Sound of London - "Dead Cities"

Absolutely amazing on eight hits of blotter. Also Orbital's "Insides".

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

43. Lawrence Welk would be absolutely amazing on 8 hits of blotter.

[dae]

46. Grand Funk Railroad...

[Capn Sunshine]

49. Days of Future Passed- Moody Blues

I can't belive "tuesday Afternoon ----segue into Breathe Deep was playing on the radio when I just got in the car!!

Now, where are those buttons????

[peekaloo]

91. I'll add 'On The Threshold of a Dream'

first time :smoke: that album mesmerized me.

[ScreamingMeemie]

50. It was only wine, but I drank the whole bottle then laid on the

couch and starting living the Doors. It got so intense I had to spend the rest of the evening in the bathroom. Sadly, I cannot listen to that album without getting a little queasy to this day.

[Rooktoven]

68. Living the Doors? First album?

God, hope you didn't act out that Oedipal complex... ;-)

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

69. What lyrics!

This is the end, Beautiful friend
This is the end, My only friend, the end
Of our elaborate plans, the end
Of everything that stands, the end
No safety or surprise, the end
I'll never look into your eyes...again
Can you picture what will be, So limitless and free
Desperately in need...of some...stranger's hand
In a...desperate land
Lost in a Roman...wilderness of pain
And all the children are insane, All the children are insane
Waiting for the summer rain, yeah
There's danger on the edge of town
Ride the King's highway, baby
Weird scenes inside the gold mine
Ride the highway west, baby
Ride the snake, ride the snake
To the lake, the ancient lake, baby
The snake is long, seven miles
Ride the snake...he's old, and his skin is cold
The west is the best, The west is the best
Get here, and we'll do the rest
The blue bus is callin' us, The blue bus is callin' us
Driver, where you taken' us
The killer awoke before dawn, he put his boots on
He took a face from the ancient gallery
And he walked on down the hall
He went into the room where his sister lived, and...then he
Paid a visit to his brother, and then he
He walked on down the hall, and
And he came to a door...and he looked inside
Father, yes son, I want to kill you
Mother...I want to...fuck you
C'mon baby, take a chance with us X3
And meet me at the back of the blue bus
Doin' a blue rock, On a blue bus
Doin' a blue rock, C'mon, yeah
Kill, kill, kill, kill, kill, kill
This is the end, Beautiful friend
This is the end, My only friend, the end
It hurts to set you free
But you'll never follow me
The end of laughter and soft lies
The end of nights we tried to die
This is the end

http://www.knology.net/~rareandfirsts/adu.wav

[ScreamingMeemie]

75. I really don't remember much of that night.

;)

[FDRrocks]

52. DSOTM

Wiz of Oz, some LSD... I can see how some people saw a 'connection' heh..heh..

[Swede]

54. Mike Oldfield Tubular Bells

worked for me.

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

56. Love it. The theme from The Exorcist!

A lot of talent there. I've got the CD & I think I'll play it now!

[boilerbabe]

73. Had that on 8 track, remember those??

[The Lone Liberal]

57. Most any music accompanied by Timothy Leary’s elixir.

will expand you mind. Make you taste colors.

Just don’t lay outside and look at the sun, I know a dude that did that and went stone blind.

[Swede]

58. Another one Edgar Winter They Only Come Out At Night

Frankenstien was a blast while tripping.

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

60. I heard them do Frankensien Live! I remember I was freaked because I got

one of Rick Derringer's picks that he dropped while playing.

Sweet memory!

[rppper]

59. judas priest-screaming for vengeance....hands down....

listen to "bloodstone", "riding on the wind" or "electric eye" baking on some windowpane.....your outlook will definatly change....

[Khephra]

62. Tool's

Lateralus

[lynndew2]

63. LOL...I know this is wrong but

Johnthan Livingstone Seagull...recited by Richard Harris, and great background music. I would put the headphones on and go to a different world for an hour or so.

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

64. That is akin to listening to Macarthur Park while tripping....

A verrry dangerous thing!

LOL

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

65. And this is what you might have heard....

http://www.knology.net/~rareandfirsts/adu.wav

[lynndew2]

72. Yeah thats what I heard!!!

Dont let them make me a God. I am a seagull, I like to fly. the cake melted in the rain. And i'll never have that recipe again. You are very intuitive!!!:-)

[DeathvadeR]

70. come on

<>

When she sings "I think were alone now"" just mind blowing

[maveric]

85. DOA, one of the eeriest songs ever.

Frightening lyrics.

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

86. Ya think?

D.O.A
Bloodrock
Bloodrock 2

Laying here looking at the ceiling
Someone lays a sheet across my chest
Something warm is flowing down my fingers
Pain is flowing all through my back

I try to move my arms and there's no feeling
And when I look I see there's nothing there
The face beside me stopped it totally bleeding
The girl I knew has such a distant stare

I remember
We were flying along and hit something in the air
I remember
We were flying along and hit something in the air

Then I looked straight at the attendant
His face is pale as it can be
He bends and whispers something softly
He says there's no chance for me

I remember
We were flying along and hit something in the air
I remember
We were flying along and hit something in the air

Life is flowing out my body
Pain is flowing out with my blood
The sheets are red and moist where I'm lying
God in Heaven, teach me how to die

I remember
We were flying along and hit something in the air
I remember
We were flying along and hit something in the air

[Downeast]

88. Sgt. Peppers Lonley Hearys Club Band.

It was a real trip back then.

[peacefreak]

89. Waiting for the Electrician or Someone Like Him--Firesign Theater

Blows Against the Empire--Jefferson Starship
American Beauty--Dead
White Album--Beatles

[Red_Storm]

90. In A Silent Way - Miles Davis

[bearfan454]

92. I graduated HS in 1974.

Need I say more ? Been WAY out there millions of times. Done that.

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

95. THAT explains the being a Bears fan....

(Just kidding) LOL

[imax2268]

94. Dark Side of the Moon...

untouchable...!