What songs do you consider Psychedelic? It can be popular or obscure.

Reach Out in the Darkness by Friend and Lover
:)

White Rabbit - Jefferson Airplane

Purple Haze - Jimi Hendrix is the ultimate psychedelic song

Purple Haze - Jimi Hendrix is the ultimate psychedelic song
I would add "3rd Stone From The Sun" & "Are You Experienced" to the list of  Psychedelic Songs by Jimi Hendrix

In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida by Iron Butterfly

I Am The Walrus - The Beatles

from 1970 the band Quatermass put out 1 album and utilized no guitars but had a supercharged totally amazing organ on 2 songs that were quite trippy. "Gemini" and "Make Up Your Mind" 

Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds by The Beatles, is the most common known to be a Psychedelic Song.

Whiter Shade of Pale - Procol Harum
Good Vibrations - The Beach Boys
Crimson and Clover - Tommy James and the Shondells

Magical Mystery Tour
Strawberry Fields Forever
A Day In A Life

Good Vibrations - The Beach Boys
Crimson and Clover - Tommy James and the Shondells




not really considered in the psychedelic scheme

not really considered in the psychedelic scheme
The vibrations in Good Vibrations by The Beach Boys, I have always considered t be something else.

Good Vibrations - The Beach Boys
Crimson and Clover - Tommy James and the Shondells

though both are cool songs (all be it a little cheesy IMO)
I think they were commercial songs trying too hard to be psychedelic.
that might just be me though :)

Fire....Crazy World Of Arthur Brown

21st Century Schizoid Man...King Crimson

Welcome To The Machine....Pink Floyd

Fire....Crazy World Of Arthur Brown

excellent song choice Kevin. I was just gonna add that when I saw you already had.

I will add 1 more Jimi Hendrix song that I personally experienced Psychedelically  :D  Dolly Dagger

yanno, when listening to Jimi's music while in a altered state of mind, one can't help but experience Psychedelia & that being said, if one is hallucinating, then just about any song is a Psychedelic song at that moment, but the ones mentioned in all of the above posts are some of the most well known and actually assist & contribute to a psychedelic trip because of the incredible instrument sounds and imagery a person gets from the lyrics.

Fire....Crazy World Of Arthur Brown

He certainly looked psychedelic.

He certainly looked psychedelic.
kind of a cross between Alice Cooper & Frank Zappa

kind of a cross between Alice Cooper & Frank Zappa
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Arthur Brown

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Arthur Brown
yeah, that's him. he's freaky  :o  and his song is freaky too & I like it!

yeah, that's him. he's freaky  :o  and his song is freaky too & I like it!
Captivated witha famous appearance on Top of the Pops.

In the video for "Fire" that masked man behind the drum kit is none other than Carl Palmer, Of Emerson Lake & Palmer
fame, when he was a mere lad of 18 years of age. He was the touring drummer because Drachen Theaker, the drummer
on the album, was afraid to fly.

I could name heaps, being a fan of that type of music...some of the more famous ones that haven't been listed include 'Incense and Peppermint' by Strawberry Alarm Clock, 'Age of Aquarius' by the Fifth Dimension, 'What About Me?' by the Quiksilver Messenger Service, 'Interstellar Overdrive' by Pink Floyd.etc.

All Along the Watchtower -  Jimi Hendrix. 

White Rabbit-Jefferson Airplane, Crimson & Clover- Tommy James & the Shondells,My Green Tamborine-The Lemon Pipers, Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds-The Beatles& Eight Miles High- The Byrds

25 o'clock by Dukes of the Stratosphear

Which I was surprised to learn was only released in 1985 (according to wiki anyway).  I'm sure I remembered hearing it a year or so before that (being when I started to listen to 60's psychedelia).  Must be the drugs distorted my memory!  ;D

Two incredible debut albums which should be in your collections even if you only have a passing interest in 'psych'...they're that good!

'The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn' - Pink Floyd

'Are You Experienced' - Jimi Hendrix Experience

...although at times nearly equalled by others, nothing surpassed this pair...

"The End"---The Doors

"The End"---The Doors


Friend of mine always used to play this as the last song at his psychedelic 'discos'

How about "Jelly Jungle ( of Orange Marmalade ) by The Lemon Pipers. http://www.inthe00s.com/smile/03/dazzler1.gif

First song that pops into my head is White Rabbit-Jefferson Airplane.


Others:
Incense & Peppermints-Strawberry Alarm Clock
I Want You-Beatles
Come Together-Beatles
Lucy in the Sky-Beatles (even though they claim it wasn't  ::) )
Anything by the Doors


I'm sure I will think of others later.



Cat

First song that pops into my head is White Rabbit-Jefferson Airplane.


Others:
Incense & Peppermints-Strawberry Alarm Clock
I Want You-Beatles
Come Together-Beatles
Lucy in the Sky-Beatles (even though they claim it wasn't  ::) )
Anything by the Doors


I'm sure I will think of others later.



Cat

Lucy In The Sky...

I have always thought it was patently obvious.

Lucy In The Sky...

I have always thought it was patently obvious.



They CLAIM that it came from a drawing that Julian Lennon drew as a boy. That may have been where they got the title but the subject matter...




Cat

not really considered in the psychedelic scheme

Crimson & Clover, Incense & Peppermints, Green Tambourine...these were sort of your bubblegum psychedelia.

Definitely the aforementioned Beatles & Hendrix.

Here's some of my favorite classic Floyd and Zappa for appetizers:

Pink Floyd: See Emily Play
Pink Floyd: Julia Dream
Pink Floyd: Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun

Frank Zappa: Lumpy Gravy I & II
Frank Zappa: Help I'm A Rock!/It Can't Happen Here/Return of the Son of Monster Magnet
Frank Zappa: The Duke of Prunes

The term "psychedelic" coined by Huxley and Osmond in 1957 simply means "mind manifesting."  Then there's the pop culture meaning of the word.  Anything can be "psychedelic" in the original sense of the word if you make it so. 

"Broken Arrow" by The Buffalo Springfield
"She's A Rainbow",  "In Another Land", and "2000 Light Years From Home" by The Rolling Stones
"Only A Northern Song" and "Within You, Without You" by The Beatles
"Vegetables" by The Beach Boys
"Hard Coming Love" by The Untited States of America
"My White Bicycle" by Tomorrow
"My World Fell Down" by Sagittarius
"It's A Happening Thing" by The Peanut Butter Conspiracy
"1983...  (A Merman I Should Turn To Be)" by Jimi Hendrix
"Tales of Brave Ulysses" by Cream
"Long Title: Do I Have to Do This All Over Again?" by The Monkees
1st two LPs by Terry Riley

I have to disagree with a couple of earlier posts...
The Strawberry Alarm Clock were most definitely a real psychedelic group and "Incense & Peppermints" was a legitimate psychedelic song.
And to the guy who said "Good Vibrations" was a song that "tried too hard" to be psychedelic... that song was begun in early 1966. It was as avant as anything The Beatles, Zappa, Floyd (or anyone else on the planet) was doing in early '66.  It was right there in that mix of early experimentation/psychedelia. When Carl Wilson heard the instrumental track over the telephone he is reputed to have said to brother Brian that the music sounded "bizarre." I've seen many sites and books that mention "Good Vibrations" as being in the psychedelic genre. Check out the instrumental track on the Pet Sounds box set and give it a fresh listen.

"Cellophane Symphony" and "I am a Tangerine" by Tommy  James and the Shondells.

Nozmo

Itchycoo Park by The Small Faces

Pink Floyd: Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun
i'm listening to this right now, the studio version. (the ummagumma version is pretty great too.)

freakout!

Klaatu - Little Neutrino

To name a individual song by artists that were considered psychedelic is tough as there were so many bands of that genre.  13th Floor elevators are definetly psychedelic as are LOVE. Forever Changes by LOVE was released in 67 i believe and is one of the genres best albums. Captain beefheart is another artist in that genre.  Stranger in Blue Suede Shoes by Kevin Ayers is a wicked psycho song as well.

Higher and Higher
House of four doors
Just to name two Moody Blues somgs.
Lets not forget
Uriah heep
Demons and Wizards album

To name a individual song by artists that were considered psychedelic is tough as there were so many bands of that genre.  13th Floor elevators are definetly psychedelic as are LOVE. Forever Changes by LOVE was released in 67 i believe and is one of the genres best albums. Captain beefheart is another artist in that genre.  Stranger in Blue Suede Shoes by Kevin Ayers is a wicked psycho song as well.

OMG I haven't heard of Captain Beefheart in ages