Most Important Songs In Psychedelic History

The Top Ten

1 Tomorrow Never Knows - The Beatles

No-one knew that this was possible

2 White Rabbit - Jefferson Airplane

3 Little Wing - Jimi Hendrix

4 Strawberry Fields Forever - The Beatles

A despairing come down

5 Venus In Furs - The Velvet Underground

6 The End - The Doors

7 Are You Experienced? - The Jimi Hendrix Experience

8 Riders On the Storm - The Doors

9 Comfortably Numb - Pink Floyd

10 Heart Full of Soul - The Yardbirds

Released in 1965, it predates everything else on this list, the Yardbirds talented guitar lineup of first Eric Clapton, then Jeff Beck, then Jimmy Page is unprecedented in its skill, little wonder they went psychedelic before anyone else.

The Contenders

11 Echoes - Pink Floyd

12 Lucy In the Sky With Diamonds - The Beatles

13 Astronomy Domine - Pink Floyd

14 A Day in the Life - The Beatles

15 Nothing that Has Happened So Far Has Been Anything We Could Control - Tame Impala

16 Shapes of Things - The Yardbirds

17 Over Under Sideways Down - The Yardbirds

18 Eight Miles High - The Byrds

19 Itchycoo Park - Small Faces

20 Dope Hat - Marilyn Manson

Good band, but I don't think this song is that important.

21 Sober - Tool

Again, good band, but this song's not that important.

22 Kingdom of Heaven - The 13th Floor Elevators

23 The Trip - Kim Fowley

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