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'''Psychedelic Rock''' = [[X Meets Y|rock music + drugs + off-beat influences]].
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1967 proved to be the sort of "Holy Year" for psych-rock, boasting [[The Beatles]]' ''Sgt. Pepper'', ''Magical Mystery Tour'', and assorted singles ("Strawberry Fields Forever", "Penny Lane", the super-avant-garde "I Am the Walrus", "All You Need Is Love"), [[Jimi Hendrix]]'s ''Are You Experienced'' and ''Axis: Bold as Love'', [[Cream]]'s ''Disraeli Gears'', [[The Who]]'s ''The Who Sell Out'' (where they jumped on the psychedelic bandwagon), [[The Rolling Stones]]' ''Their Satanic Majesties Request'' and [[Pink Floyd]]'s debut ''The Piper at the Gates of Dawn''. However, psych-rock's wave started to crest soon afterwards, as the overall optimism of the movement vanished and bands embraced increasingly harder drugs (amphetamines, heroin, cocaine, etc.) which led them to increasingly heavier music. While Miles Davis did pioneer psychedelic-jazz-rock with ''In a Silent Way'' and ''Bitches Brew'' in 1969, most of the rock world moved on to other sounds. This change was best shown by [[The Beatles]], who abandoned psychedelia after their unsuccessful film/soundtrack ''Magical Mystery Tour'', choosing to return to their roots with [[New Sound Album|''The White Album'']]. The Manson family murders and the violent Altamont festival (where a fan was stabbed to death by Hell's Angels acting as security guards while [[The Rolling Stones]] were playing "Under My Thumb") served to only worsen the overall atmosphere.
While psychedelic-rock retreated from the spotlight after the end of [[The Sixties]], it mutated and continued to evolve and thus never really became a [[Dead Horse Music Genre]]. Several of its offshoots appeared in [[The Seventies]], such as [[space
[[The Eighties]] led to the appearance of "neo-psychedelia", an indie form of psych-rock drawing additionally from jangle pop and space rock, as seen in The [[Flaming Lips]], [[Mercury Rev]], [[XTC]] (especially their side-project ''The Dukes of Stratosphear'' and any material made after they stopped touring) and The Teardrop Explodes. Neo-psychedelia evolved into the harsher noise rock and noise pop of [[The Jesus and Mary Chain]] and [[Sonic Youth]], while its brighter elements were taken by Madchester bands such as [[The Stone Roses]] and the [[Happy Mondays]] as they briefly became a national phenomenon in late-80s UK. Neo-psychedelia itself proved to be a massive influence on [[Shoegazing]] a/k/a what [[My Bloody Valentine (band)|My Bloody Valentine]] sound like, while [[Space
'''Psychedelic Rock''' in its purest form doesn't have such an easy time gaining mainstream success as in [[The Sixties]], but it still shows up from time to time and continues to thrive in indie/AlternativeRock scenes. The genre's role in expanding the sonic boundaries of pop and rock also won't be forgotten soon.
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