Tag Archives: Psychedelic 60s

SATAN 🖤 PSYCHEDELIA

May 13, 2019 · by · in a) Sixties and earlier [0 - 1969], ACROSS THE DECADES, Particular platters · 23 Comments

The Rolling Stones The Rolling Stones No.2 Out Of Our Heads Aftermath Between The Buttons Their Satanic Majesties Request Derided by some at the time as a second-rate Sgt Pepper or a cynical (and late) cash in on so-called Summer of Love psychedelia, Their Satanic Majesties Request is, simply put, neither. Full of great uses […]

THE SACRED GARAGE

August 12, 2017 · by · in a) Sixties and earlier [0 - 1969], ACROSS THE DECADES · 37 Comments

Where do you file your ‘Various Artists’ albums? By title in the A-Z? In their own section? Luckily that’s not what we are here to discuss and anyway it was extensively canvassed not long ago. Today we’re here to pay respect to one of the best compilations of all time, Nuggets. Curated by guitarist Lenny […]

MELLOW FELLOW

April 28, 2017 · by · in a) Sixties and earlier [0 - 1969], ACROSS THE DECADES · 36 Comments

We are in a TV studio in London, and the aspirant Music Quiz champion in the spotlight has chosen Donovan’s sixties music as his special topic. Having already netted points for the musician’s birth name and place (Donovan Phillips Leitch, born Glasgow, May 1946) and his first album release (What’s bin did and what’s bin […]

WEIRD SCENES

March 3, 2017 · by · in a) Sixties and earlier [0 - 1969], ACROSS THE DECADES, Records · 49 Comments

1/1 Hey, get that couple dancing. Her latin rhythms hot and slippery as a bourbon kiss, his rock energy thrusting towards her like an ICBM. They’re one explosive unit; the floor can scarcely hold ‘em. Something’s gonna give for sure. “Break On Through (To The Other Side)”. 1/2 “Soul Kitchen” is a lush with a couple too […]

MULTI-COLOUR OF THE RAINBOLD

November 17, 2015 · by · in a) Sixties and earlier [0 - 1969], Cover Art, Particular platters · 33 Comments

An opening electric guitar chord, solo-strummed, then the drums and bass kick in. It is a simple, powerful rhythm that is instantly inviting and enveloping. If it was a concert, you’d be on your feet already. You could sway to this intoxicating rhythm forever, but Steve Marriot’s voice enters,   There’s wheat in the field […]