Hello everyone, I hope you are all having a great day.
I would like to know how many of you out there stick to the music that is labeled "psychedelic" by the record company? The music composed of trippy sounds, clicks and clacks, and mostly electronic noise in my opinion..

I have experimented with this kind of music before, sober or on psychedelics. Everytime I try I am disgusted in a way, it is like my ears just reject this badgering noise knocking harder and harder at my inner peace. I respect everyones music choices, but the point of this thread is to see what other bands people listen to besides the electronic and psychedelic music I always see threads on here about, and people in the chat discuss this type of music a lot.

I have complete collections of Bob Dylan, Grateful dead, Pink Floyd, Van Morrison, Beatles, James Taylor, Don McLean, Simon and Garfunkel, and many more..

The most spiritual, greatest feeling I have ever gained from a trip was sitting in my truck (parked in my driveway) on a rainy afternoon, looking out across my fathers giant yard in a little town in the country in northern Michigan. I listened to a Simon and Garfunkel greatest hits album, at the time I had listened to track 12, and when it got to track 12 which was the song "America", My mushrooms hit pretty hard.. I looked up and out of the window, and saw as neon green starting flowing up out of the yard in spider web patterns. Dancing and moving to the beat, the trees joined in with the grass, and all living life came together by track 16, which was the song "el condor pasa", which I had never heard..

I'd rather be a sparrow than a snail.
Yes I would.
If I could,
I surely would.
I'd rather be a hammer than a nail.
Yes I would.
If I only could,
I surely would.

CHORUS
Away, I'd rather sail away
Like a swan that's here and gone
A man gets tied up to the ground,
he gives the earth
its saddest sound,
its saddest sound.

I'd rather be a forest than a street.
Yes I would.
If I only could,
I surely would.

I'd rather feel the earth beneath my feet,
Yes I would.
If I only could,
I surely would.


As those words rang true in my ear, I saw all life from every mountain top, to every meadow, roll together into my front yard. I will quote the book "A River Runs Through it" which I had recently read, and say that "in the end, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it". I saw this play before my eyes and was amazed.. And when the last note faded out, a car drove by on the road which had since faded out of view, and crashed through the things I was seeing, and it all went back to how it was when "america" started playing, and the cd ended..

SO! please, if there are any of you out there who can relate to the old stuff with me, I would really like the reassurance to know that I am not the only one listening to such music while tripping besides me and my friends.

Thank you for reading, much peace and love everyone