Acid rock
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- For "acid rock" as a geologic term, see Igneous rock.
Acid rock is a form of psychedelic rock and was the first form of it to achieve popular acclaim.
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[edit] History and use of the term
The term acid rock was much used in its heyday of the late 1960s and early 1970s, but has fallen into disuse except for putting this music into its historical perspective.
When hard rock and heavy metal became prominent in the late 1970s, the phrase "acid rock" was sometimes generically and erroneously applied to these genres. This use of the term was often negative in nature, and was generally attributed the heaviest forms rock; often perceived as abrasive or un-listenable to the individual using the phrase. Over time, the common use of the term "heavy metal" replaced "acid rock" for these styles of music..
[edit] Genre description
Historically and more accurately, the term refers to a type of music generally perceived or specifically meant to be; written and recorded under; or to be experienced in conjunction with lysergic acid diethylamide, or LSD, commonly called "acid".
Characterized by an off-beat style, vivid imagery, and sometimes strange sound/musical effects, acid rock often settles into a hypnotic groove wherein a listener (and possibly even the band) can "get lost" within a song.
[edit] Notable acid rock tracks and singles
[edit] 1966
[edit] 1967
- Tales of Brave Ulysses (Cream)
- The End (The Doors)
- White Rabbit (Jefferson Airplane)
- When the Music's Over (The Doors)
- Hole In My Shoe (Traffic)
- Alone Again Or (Love)
- Purple Haze (The Jimi Hendrix Experience)
- See Emily Play (Pink Floyd)
- Interstellar Overdrive (Pink Floyd)
- Astronomy Domine (Pink Floyd)
- Arnold Layne (Pink Floyd)
- Take Up Thy Stethoscope And Walk (Pink Floyd)
- Lucifer Sam (Pink Floyd)
- Third Stone From The Sun (The Jimi Hendrix Experience)
- Strawberry Fields Forever (The Beatles)
- Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds (The Beatles)
- Incense and Peppermints (Strawberry Alarm Clock)
- Flying (The Beatles)
- Green Tambourine (The Lemon Pipers)
[edit] 1968
- Voodoo Child (Slight Return) (The Jimi Hendrix Experience)
- In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida (Iron Butterfly)
- EXP (The Jimi Hendrix Experience)
- Dark Star (Grateful Dead)
- If 6 Was 9 (The Jimi Hendrix Experience)
- Summertime Blues (Blue Cheer)
- Pictures of Matchstick Men (Status Quo)
- Ball and Chain (Janis Joplin)
- Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Condition Was In) (Kenny Rogers & The First Edition)
- gold & silver (Quicksilver Messenger Service)
[edit] 1969
- Dazed and Confused (Led Zeppelin)
- Space Oddity (David Bowie)
- Paradise Now (Group 1850)
- Acid Queen (The Who)
- White Room (Cream)
[edit] 1970
- Mommy, What's a Funkadelic (Funkadelic)
[edit] 1971
- Sinner Boy (Taste - Live at Isle of Wight)
[edit] 1972
- Sugar Mama (Taste - Live Taste)
- Catfish (Taste - Live Taste)
[edit] 1975
- Medley: When I was young/War Child (The Eric Burdon Band - Stop)
- Letter from the country farm (The Eric Burdon Band - Stop)
[edit] 1976
[edit] See also
- Psychedelic rock for origins of Acid rock.
