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Psychedelic pop (or acid pop) [3] is pop music that contains musical characteristics associated with psychedelic music. [1] Developing in the mid-to-late 1960s, elements included " trippy" features such as fuzz guitars, tape manipulation, backwards recording, sitars, and Beach Boys-style harmonies, wedded to melodic songs with tight song structures. [1] The style lasted into the early 1970s. [1] It has seen revivals in subsequent decades by neo-psychedelic artists. [2]
According to AllMusic, psychedelic pop was not too "freaky", but also not very " bubblegum" either. [1] It appropriated the effects associated with straight psychedelic music, applying their innovations to concise pop songs. [1] The music was occasionally confined to the studio, but there existed more organic exceptions whose psychedelia was bright and melodic. [1] AllMusic adds: "What's [strange] is that some psychedelic pop is more interesting than average psychedelia, since it had weird, occasionally awkward blends of psychedelia and pop conventions – the Neon Philharmonic's 1969 album The Moth Confesses is a prime example of this." [1]
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By the end of the 1960s, psychedelic folk and rock were in retreat. Many surviving acts moved away from psychedelia into either more back-to-basics " roots rock", traditional-based, pastoral or whimsical folk, the wider experimentation of progressive rock, or riff-laden heavy rock. [12][ verification needed] Psychedelic influences lasted a little longer in pop music, stretching into the early 1970s. [1]
Psychedelic pop became a component of the neo-psychedelic style. There were occasional mainstream acts that dabbled in the genre, including Prince's mid-1980s work and some of Lenny Kravitz's 1990s output, but it has mainly been the domain of alternative and indie rock bands. [2]
This article needs additional citations for
verification. (December 2023) |
Psychedelic pop | |
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Stylistic origins | |
Cultural origins | Mid-1960s, United States and United Kingdom |
Derivative forms | |
Other topics | |
Part of a series on |
Psychedelia |
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Psychedelic pop (or acid pop) [3] is pop music that contains musical characteristics associated with psychedelic music. [1] Developing in the mid-to-late 1960s, elements included " trippy" features such as fuzz guitars, tape manipulation, backwards recording, sitars, and Beach Boys-style harmonies, wedded to melodic songs with tight song structures. [1] The style lasted into the early 1970s. [1] It has seen revivals in subsequent decades by neo-psychedelic artists. [2]
According to AllMusic, psychedelic pop was not too "freaky", but also not very " bubblegum" either. [1] It appropriated the effects associated with straight psychedelic music, applying their innovations to concise pop songs. [1] The music was occasionally confined to the studio, but there existed more organic exceptions whose psychedelia was bright and melodic. [1] AllMusic adds: "What's [strange] is that some psychedelic pop is more interesting than average psychedelia, since it had weird, occasionally awkward blends of psychedelia and pop conventions – the Neon Philharmonic's 1969 album The Moth Confesses is a prime example of this." [1]
1966
1967
1968
By the end of the 1960s, psychedelic folk and rock were in retreat. Many surviving acts moved away from psychedelia into either more back-to-basics " roots rock", traditional-based, pastoral or whimsical folk, the wider experimentation of progressive rock, or riff-laden heavy rock. [12][ verification needed] Psychedelic influences lasted a little longer in pop music, stretching into the early 1970s. [1]
Psychedelic pop became a component of the neo-psychedelic style. There were occasional mainstream acts that dabbled in the genre, including Prince's mid-1980s work and some of Lenny Kravitz's 1990s output, but it has mainly been the domain of alternative and indie rock bands. [2]