This is so funny, I have been getting heavily into acid rock and folk recently, the trippiest party stuff I could find. Grateful Dead's Live/Dead is the most trippy and unlyrical, sounds like what you're after
http://www.myspace.com/g...ve-dead-expanded-8521278 ) I've been listening to stuff like The United States of America
http://www.myspace.com/byrdmoskowitz , Love (check out Forever Changes first
http://music.myspace.com...stid=669&albumid=134 ), Jefferson Airplane (Surrealist Pillow and After Bathing at Baxter's), etc.
The Blues Magoos because of their song "Who do you love"
http://www.myspace.com/bluesmagoos2"I walked 47 miles of barb wire,
I've got a cobra for a necktie,
I've got a brand new house on the roadside, made out of rattlesnake hide
I've got a brand new chimney up on top, made out of human skull
So come on take a little walk with little Buke(???)
And tell me who_do_you_loooove?"
Love those lyrics!!! Also HP Lovecraft
http://www.myspace.com/hplovecraft12345 and the US Kaleidoscope
http://www.myspace.com/pulsatingdream ('I found out' is a great song)
On the quieter side, Crosby, Stills & Nash (& Young), Quicksilver Messenger Service, Bert Jansch, It's a Beautiful Day, Jack Rose, Linda Perhacs, Third Ear Band.
I could go on forever about the oldies. As for new bands, I'm afraid I have found that avenue very disappointing. So-called psychedelic bands these days have nothing on acid rock. They're just depressing crap for stoners with really negative vibes, nothing like the upbeat old days, or just really weird and difficult like all that 'New Weird America' and 'Freakfolk' stuff. So, newer bands:
Akron/Family are awesome, maybe not what you're after but worth a listen just for the fact that the band worship their own (blatently entheogenic) cult religion called Ak
http://www.myspace.com/akronfamily Listen to 'River', sweet song.
Spacemen 3 are no longer around- they went on to form Spiritualized but were way better before I think
http://www.myspace.com/spacemen3 real minimalist psychedelica to drift away to. This could be what you're after.
One still-around band is White Magic
http://www.myspace.com/whitemagicmusic I love New Egypt, crazy song! Other than that, the river is pretty dry I'm afraid... not enough people eating mindblowing hallucinogens, too many musicians stuck in boring stoned creepy weirdness.
I guess you could try out The Flaming Lips, or The Apples in Stereo 'Fun Trick Noisemaker', but meh I'm not sure about them really. Maybe you could try Tranquility Bass?
http://www.myspace.com/tranquilitybassmusic they flit between downtempo electronica and good old fashioned guitar.
Let me know if you like any of them! Sorry I can get a bit manic about this subject
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