Playlist #1: The Big LP's Psychedelic Blues
--By Tzarathustra--
It always starts so simply. I just throw on a song or two by some band just to check something guitar-related or some such thing, and before you know it, I've fallen down the rabbit hole into a whole era-specific obsession. This time it was a few CCR songs that sucked me in, and now there's nothing on my mp3 player that wasn't released between 1966 and 1972. I've got Jefferson Airplane on the stereo, a Doors t-shirt on, and there's incense burning. The only thing missing is the weird cousin who hasn't said much since he got back from Khe Sanh.
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A tougher, leaner CCR than most people expect. Slow build to nowhere. Just reminding everyone that you better effing run.
Psychedelic blues rework of Bo Diddley's Rock and Roll classic by these live performance giants, briefly capturing their magic in the studio.
Discovered by many thanks to their performance at Woodstock, Ten Years After had their first genuine hit with I'd Love to Change the World from their 1971 album A Space in Time. The first track from which (One of These Days) proves they hadn't gone soft in the least.
4.Send Me a Postcard (Shocking Blue, Scorpio's Dance: Track 11) Shocking Blue - a lot like Jefferson Airplane, only, you know... Dutch. Shocking Blue wrote and recorded the song Love Buzz, notable not only in its original version, but also for being the first single Nirvana ever released. But the stronger song, frantic, fuzzy, and furious, is 1970's Send Me A Postcard.
5. Evil Hoodoo (The Seeds, The Seeds: track 4) Released in '66, this is the oldest somg on this list. It's also the rawest. In fact it's hard to imagine Garage Rock sounding any more '1966' than this. You can just feel psychedelia straining to break open out of this sound. It just needed one more year to let the acid really circulate.
