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Primary Stylistic Influences: Rock & Roll, Blues Rock, Folk Music, Folk Rock, The British Invasion, Garage Rock, Surf Rock Secondary Stylistic Influences: Electronic Music, Jazz, Classical Music, Indian Music, Experimental Music Psychedelic rock = rock music + drugs + off-beat influences. The original alternative rock. Psychedelic rock is a style of rock that began in The '60s under heavy influence from the hippie scene’s psychedelic culture. Its main goal is ostensibly to create the audio equivalent of a hallucinogenic drug trip. Thanks to their stated goal, the psych-rockers really pushed the envelope in terms of sonics and radically broke from the then-dominant folk-rock and blues-rock scenes. Psychedelic rock heavily emphasises sound, sometimes even over actual songs, for the purpose of creating a hallucinatory atmosphere. To this end, psychedelic rock's main characteristic is heavy use of overdubs and elaborate studio effects (with particular love for tape manipulation, phasers/flangers, reversing/back-masking, panning and reverb and echoes) to create a dense atmosphere. Despite this, psychedelic rock is often lumped with Blues Rock due to the two genres mixing in the 1960s and 1970s, the use of extensive improvised solos in psychedelic rock, and because of the rise of the very psychedelic-blues oriented stoner rock in the 1990s, which led many to re-examine the genres as a single entity. Psych-rock also distinguishes itself through surreal lyrics, more concerned with spirituality, tripping, existentialism or literature than Silly Love Songs—some bands such as Jefferson Airplane and The Beatles exhibited a particular affinity for Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland books (hence the Alice Allusions in some of their songs), feeling kinship with the book's whimsical, hallucinatory style—extended instrumental solos and song lengths and love of exotic instrumentation. The psychedelic rockers were the first people to introduce and popularise the sitar and tabla in a pop song context, and made heavy use of "exotic", modal melodies influenced by Indian raga and drone music. You can probably guess the genre's main pitfall, then: the balance between whacked-out trippy-ness and accessibility. Keep the trippiness grounded enough and make sure you provide enough catchy riffs and weird sounds and you're dead-set to end up sounding wicked cool. Go overboard with the drugs and improvisation and you'll just get the musical equivalent of a Gainax Ending. |
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