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* Creepy, terrifying psychedelia that's less about [[Epic Rocking|rocking the fuck out]] and more about horror. Think: "Revolution 9", "Blue Jay Way" and "Tomorrow Never Knows".
Psychedelic rock basically came out of disparate influences but was for all intents and purposes [[Trope Codifier|codified]] by [[The Beatles (Music)|The Beatles]], since [[As You Know|as we know]], [[The Beatles (Music)|The Beatles]] invented absolutely everything. The 1965 album ''Rubber Soul'' showed the band's first flirtations with the genre, letting [[George Harrison (Music)|George Harrison]] play sitar on "Norwegian Wood" and containing [[John Lennon (Music)|John Lennon]]'s first song about universal love (a favourite trope of psychers), "The Word". Their first actual psych-rock was "Rain", a B-side to the 1966 single "Paperback Writer" that boasted a bright guitar riff and the first rock song to use backmasking. They dived completely into psychedelia with ''Revolver'' (witness "Tomorrow Never Knows"' sitar drone, booming drums, dizzying special effects and processed vocals) and the famous paragon of psychedelic rock, ''[[Sgt.
Other bands besides the Beatles that contributed to the genre's development in the same period included: [[The 13 th Floor Elevators (Music)|The 13 th Floor Elevators]] (who coined the term "psychedelic rock"), [[The Yardbirds (Music)|The Yardbirds]], [[Jimi Hendrix (Music)|The Jimi Hendrix Experience]], [[San Francisco]] bands such as Big Brother and the Holding Company, [[Jefferson Airplane (Music)|Jefferson Airplane]], the Quicksilver Messenger Service, [[The Grateful Dead (Music)|The Grateful Dead]], the [[Steve Miller Band (Music)|Steve Miller Band]], and Moby Grape, and [[Los Angeles]] bands such as [[The Byrds (Music)|The Byrds]], [[The Doors]], Love, [[Frank Zappa (Music)|The Mothers of Invention]], and [[The Beach Boys (Music)|The Beach Boys]] (closer to baroque pop than psychedelia, but whatever). This time just before the boom of Psychedelia also saw other artists join the movement, such as earlier British Folk Pioneer Donovan releasing one of the first Psychedelic Rock albums with 1966's Sunshine Superman. This period saw the crystallisation of other psych-rock tropes, such as [[Design
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.
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