Ok, ive been getting into sounds like The Parliaments - The Goose, The Exits - You've Got Have Money and The Vibrations - I Took An Overdose. And to me at least, they have a very Psychedelic feel to them which is appealing to me as I like a lot of 60s garage and psyc. You can really feel that kind of vibe with the guitar riffs and singing style and way out lyrics in some of those songs.

Just wondering if people could post their favourite psychedelic soul tracks?

Cheers

psychedelic soul by Saxxie Russell would be my fave....sorry but someone else would of done it....

'Soon be gone' by the Precisions.... Oh and 'Down is Up, Up is down' - the Delfonics is pretty trippy.

Edited January 6, 201312 yr by DaveNPete

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psychedelic soul by Saxxie Russell would be my fave....sorry but someone else would of done it....

Or the other one, not the same tune, just same title

El Pooks - Psychedelic Soul - Orivious Records

https://youtu.be/HDCZbB5XJGU

Does this count - New Holidays - Maybe So Maybe No (Soulhawk)

Cheers

Richard

Seem to recall some of the later Artistics cuts & other stuff out of Chicago (Chi-Lites, Lost Generation, etc.) being quite psychedelic soul influenced (but then by 69, any group influenced by the Temptations was going psychedelic).

Good thread . Norman Whitfield obviously had a leaning towards it, as did George Clinton, so who influrnced who? Or was it a direction that sort of grew organicly ?

Non- hit groups (& there were 1000's of those) along with their producers & record labels were always seeking out that illusive hit.

The best way most tried to achieve this was by seeing what type of sounds were dominating the current soul 45's chart & making a similar sounding track.

Thus, if a group / solo artist hung about on the recording scene for some years they would put out cuts influenced (at different times) by the likes of the Impressions, Uptown New York cuts, New Orleans influenced stuff, Motown, Stax, James Brown, Funkadelic, Norman Whitfield stuff, Hi / Al Green stuff, Philly International tracks, etc.

Thus an act could (& did) make records that had them sounding like many different artists .... all in a name of trying to secure a hit.

Many acts had a psychedelic sou era but then moved on to 'the next big thing'.

Politicians - Free Your Mind

https://youtu.be/lEFvX9gcezM

Stop Girl - 7 Dwarfs

atb Kev

I bought ' I know you don't want me' by the endeavours on the strength of it being labelled

as psych/soul by Steve Clancy and the trip still hasn't worn off yet !!!

I bought ' I know you don't want me' by the endeavours on the strength of it being labelled

as psych/soul by Steve Clancy and the trip still hasn't worn off yet !!!

Thought that was funk.

Anyway,psych soul - Thee Midniters "Love special delivery",Ozz & Sperlings - "Can you qualify",Explosiv Dynamics-"Whole lotta lovin".

I think this is the absolute 'biz'.........bass line is fantastic imho......

This is a big fav of mine. Marva Whitney - Giving up on love

Street funk or psychedelic Soul I'm not sure - but certainly influenced by Norman Whitfield

Edited January 6, 201312 yr by manus

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgRDpx3-Gjo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJA6wlxxaNY

The late great

Stop Girl - 7 Dwarfs

atb Kev

That's garage punk and really good garage punk as well..

I have compiled a list of 60 or so Psyche Soul/Funk tunes for a future mix..

Here are some of the tracks i am thinking of including in the mix;

Darrow Fletcher - The time is right for love

Ghetto Friendship - Build it up , tear it down

Segments Of Time - song to the siren

Symphonic Four - who do you think you're fooling

Masqueraders - Truth is free

Aggregation - A child is born

Issac Hayes - Walk on by

Edwards Generation - That's how much I love her

Green Berets - Just an ugly rumour

Edited January 7, 201312 yr by Mister Fish

You only need to listen to how Psychedelic soul affected George from Parlaiments to Funkadelic.

Heart Trouble remixed to You cant miss what you cant measure!

Cosmic Slop indeed!

https://youtu.be/6AvmgYHguWk

I like most types of black music including psychsoul plus Sidney Barnes (an old group member) is a friend ........ BUT ... I was never able to get into Rotary Connection stuff.

https://youtu.be/NhEJs5bgvAU

Here is the other side

The b side of the boss four walking by and that thing on edge "do what you gotta do" or whatever is (conteners)very trippy both kind of dub type instumentals of the a sides .Sort of psychadelic.Regards Timothy Leary.

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You'd need to take some acid to listen to most of the rubbish on this thread

Love the Jocelyn Brown re-mix of this on the rather excellent Nuyorican Soul album By Master At Work (Little Louie Vega).

This George Benson track You Can Do It Baby falls into the same genre if not a little jazzy, check it out, in fact the whole Nuyorican Soul album if full of gems.

This track takes a least a few minutes to get started, but boy does it start when when it gets going, ace track.

Aid.

Edited January 6, 201312 yr by MrsWoodsrules

Street funk or psychedelic Soul I'm not sure - but certainly influenced by Norman Whitfield

Manus

This a 7ts mover which is being played out in the rare soul & underplayed @ the moment only Demo only on Spring

before they moved to Vigor

Great toooooon :thumbup: something different for the soul scene IMHO!!!!! :thumbup:

atb Kev

Edited January 6, 201312 yr by soulghost

This has started something its took me 40 years to define whats Northern and whats Crossover and whats Modern Soul and now i,m trying to tell the difference Funk and P.Soul f**ked if i know

I'd say this great one from the Parliaments definitely has a psychedelic lean to it, and its a fantastic double sider with the pumping northern of "Don't Be Sore At Me" on the flip.

And of course we have to mention Dee Edwards - Why Can't There Be Love, for that amazing Dennis Coffey fuzz guitar

Really enjoying the replies, slowing working my way through them. Cheers!

Not so sure re the Chantells call - great record but this is out and out Beach

Cheap original to buy as well...

Although this says part 2 it is playing part 1. In part 2 they really let it go!!

Cheers

kev Bod

Good thread . Norman Whitfield obviously had a leaning towards it, as did George Clinton, so who influrnced who?

George Clinton influenced Norman Whitfield, who used to come to the Parliaments shows with a portable recorder (according to Billy Bass Nelson -I think it's him- in Wax Poetics).

But to me the Master is Sly Stone.

Why is "Sippin' A Cup of Coffee" by The Ordells "Psychadelic Soul"? It sounds like pure mid-sixties Philadelphia sweet Soul to me. Neither the instrumentation nor the lyrics make me think even remotely of any psychedelic association.

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Wakefield Sun - Trypt On Love (Man)..

The Del Reys - Destination Unknown is quite trippy too...

Al Wilson: Falling in love (in love with you) on Carousel...fuzzy guitars.

I would like to have one by the way...

Manus

This a 7ts mover which is being played out in the rare soul & underplayed @ the moment only Demo only on Spring

before they moved to Vigor

Great toooooon :thumbup: something different for the soul scene IMHO!!!!! :thumbup:

atb Kev

Yes great tune Kev - think it's had a few plays over the years and not too expensive either.

Cheers

Manus

Always reckoned Edwin Starr's version of Cloud Nine could be worth a spin some day

Why is "Sippin' A Cup of Coffee" by The Ordells "Psychadelic Soul"? It sounds like pure mid-sixties Philadelphia sweet Soul to me. Neither the instrumentation nor the lyrics make me think even remotely of any psychedelic association.

Must admit, I was thinking the same thing. The Ordells track is one of my all time favourite tunes with an utterly jaw dropping string arrangement and amazing atmosphere, but psychedelic? Not sure about that Steve, may be the eerie twink of a noise on the fade out.

Must admit, I was thinking the same thing. The Ordells track is one of my all time favourite tunes with an utterly jaw dropping string arrangement and amazing atmosphere, but psychedelic? Not sure about that Steve, may be the eerie twink of a noise on the fade out.

I see your point so I'll strike that one.

How about these?

Mandells- I can't forget

South Shore Commission- Shadows

Both Sunrise Movement 45's on Ghetto Prods.

Odyssey - No one else (Hi)

Dynamic Tints - Rosemarie

Relatives - Walking on

Halleluih Chorus - I've got to find a way

Vanguards & the Lady - Blue star rising

Ultimate Ovations - hello baby/chameleon man

My children + two - Fly so high

Call me tomorrow - major Harris

I would have thought that the obvious Northern track with a "trippy" feel is "The Crow - Your Autumn Of Tomorrow"

Des

I see your point so I'll strike that one.

How about these?

Mandells- I can't forget

South Shore Commission- Shadows

Both Sunrise Movement 45's on Ghetto Prods.

Odyssey - No one else (Hi)

Dynamic Tints - Rosemarie

Relatives - Walking on

Halleluih Chorus - I've got to find a way

Vanguards & the Lady - Blue star rising

Ultimate Ovations - hello baby/chameleon man

My children + two - Fly so high

I wouldn't know to be honest Steve, I'm not a psych expert. I've got the Halleluiah Chorus 45 (superb 45 btw) but again I wouldn't have thought that was a psych tune. Certainly I would agree around the right era and slightly oddball and leftfield compared to most straight soul. May be I don't really know what psychedelic soul is.

Think this has a lot to answer for

https://youtu.be/7dxVex-iCyY

A selection here ..

https://monobrow73.blogspot.co.uk/2010/03/20-greatest-psychadelic-soul-records.html

I wouldn't know to be honest Steve, I'm not a psych expert. I've got the Halleluiah Chorus 45 (superb 45 btw) but again I wouldn't have thought that was a psych tune. Certainly I would agree around the right era and slightly oddball and leftfield compared to most straight soul. May be I don't really know what psychedelic soul is.

Me too!!

Me either :huh:

chantells & aqua lads, psychedelic??