October 1969 saw the release of Ummagumma, Pink Floyd’s fourth album. . This vinyl definitively propelled the band of Roger Waters, David Gilmour, Rick Wright and Nick Mason into the world of experimental rock, presenting them as an acknowledged leader of the musical avant-garde of the time. It is a double album divided into two […]
The year we are about to deal with was prolific for rock music. It is therefore a rather difficult task to isolate the ten most significant rock albums of 1968. However, even though this is a list essentially based on my personal taste, and therefore certainly debatable, it does take into account the importance of […]
On March 1, 1973, Pink Floyd’s most successful album and one of the best-selling in rock history, The Dark Side of the Moon, was released. The dark side of the moon, in fact, remained in the Billboard charts for 824 weeks (more or less 15 years) from 1973 to 1988. An epochal success due above […]
Their satanic majesties request is the first and only album produced by Rolling Stone themselves Released in December 1967 at the height of the psychedelic epic, this Their Satanic Majesties Request remains one of the most fascinating and controversial albums in the Stones’ entire discography. An album that is in some ways overrated, in others […]
Between the buttons, released in 1967, is the fifth album in the UK discography and the seventh in the US discography of the Rolling Stones. After the release of the previous Aftermath, in which compositional creativity was expressed for the first time of the Jagger/Richards couple, the Stones allowed themselves to be drawn into the […]
The ten essential records for psychedelic music At the beginning of the 1960s, the experimental use of drugs spread widely, especially in underground circles where many artists, including many musicians, were eager to test the potential of these substances, which were said to give the ability to expand perceptual capacities. Hence the desire to create […]
Released in the middle of the Summer of Love period, Anthem Of The Sun is the second release by the Grateful Dead and sees multiple differences compared to the homonymous debut. Within the Californian and more generally American psychedelic scene of the 60s, the Grateful Dead certainly occupy a place of honour, together with Jefferson […]
The Piper at the Gates of dawn is the first album recorded by Pink Floyd under the guidance of Syd Barrett. Today we’re talking about one of the albums that most influenced the evolution of psychedelic music, that is The piper at the gates of dawn. The piper at the gates of dawn, in addition […]
On August 5, 1966 Revolver (Parlophone PMC 7009) was released in the UK, considered by many to be the best work of the Beatles With Revolver, the Beatles radically change their approach to their way of making music by dedicating themselves to new experiments and doing work in studio, which with the then new equipment […]
The Psychedelic Sounds of the 13th Floor Elevators For all things there is an origin point and musical genres are no exception even if, it must be said, the origin of certain currents is not always easily identifiable. There is a definite point of origin for 1960s psychedelic rock, at least as far as the […]
