Trippiest track ever?

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Cos many allegedly trippy tracks are really just hippy dippy tracks. So what's GENUINELY trippy? Please advise, as we say here at work.

― colin s barrow (colin s barrow), Wednesday, 18 June 2003 02:34 (twenty-two years ago)

Eddy Grant's "Electric Avenue"

― Millar (Millar), Wednesday, 18 June 2003 02:51 (twenty-two years ago)

I Feel Love-Donna Summer

― scott seward, Wednesday, 18 June 2003 02:54 (twenty-two years ago)

I rather like the "Juanita/Kiteless/To Dream of Love" cut that open's Underworld's Second Toughest in the Infants...

― ham on rye (ham on rye), Wednesday, 18 June 2003 03:01 (twenty-two years ago)

[insert any King Tubby dub here]

― oops (Oops), Wednesday, 18 June 2003 03:04 (twenty-two years ago)

Electric Avenue - what a good call!!

― colin s barrow (colin s barrow), Wednesday, 18 June 2003 03:08 (twenty-two years ago)

Buffy St.Marie-God Is Alive,Magic Is Afoot

― scott seward, Wednesday, 18 June 2003 03:10 (twenty-two years ago)

"Don't Laugh" - Josh Wink

― Scott Stanley (Scott Stanley), Wednesday, 18 June 2003 04:03 (twenty-two years ago)

flow coma - 808 state and 10^6 other acid house hits

― vahid (vahid), Wednesday, 18 June 2003 04:10 (twenty-two years ago)

Freur - d00+ d00+

― Famous Athlete, Wednesday, 18 June 2003 04:15 (twenty-two years ago)

the Trilogy side of Daydream Nation
last track on Fushitsusha Live 2CD
Heathen Earth by Throbbing Gristle

― autovac (autovac), Wednesday, 18 June 2003 04:27 (twenty-two years ago)

oh yeah man, and on the acid tip don't forget "I've Lost Control" by Sleazy D.

But my #1 choice would have to be "Bad Trip" by the Ethix. They only put out one single, then went on to become 50 Foot Hose. That group only released one lp, which is now on cd along with the earlier single. The album is nice, dreamy psychedelia some cool electronic effects, but that "Bad Trip" cut is just completely wild; multitracked guitar scraping over pulsing bass and crashing drums, and this totally unhinged yowling. I've never listened to it stoned and I don't know if I'd want to.

― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Wednesday, 18 June 2003 04:36 (twenty-two years ago)

"sleep" by 3rd eye foundation

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Wednesday, 18 June 2003 04:39 (twenty-two years ago)

"Love Without Sound" - The White Noise

― Sean Thomas (sgthomas), Wednesday, 18 June 2003 04:41 (twenty-two years ago)

The first one...Beatles, "Tomorrow Never Knows"

― Chris Clark (Chris Clark), Wednesday, 18 June 2003 05:39 (twenty-two years ago)

nice one

― oops (Oops), Wednesday, 18 June 2003 05:40 (twenty-two years ago)

Once I was spinning in a bar in Manchester, doing a mostly hip hop set with the Beasties, DJ Shadow, Kid Koala, Prince Paul, Dust Brothers and the like. At the end, I played Cornelius' 'Thank You For The Music', the last song proper on Fantasma, which samples the whole album while sound effects and samples play amongst the discordant and disorienting chaos.

The set was still well received and it was worth it seeing the confused looks on people's faces as this went on.

Add Cornelius' 'Rock/96', which takes 'I Am The Walrus' and gives it a kicking outside.

― Barima (Barima), Wednesday, 18 June 2003 05:53 (twenty-two years ago)

ornette coleman 'theme from a symphony' bugs me out, i don't like it

― ron (ron), Wednesday, 18 June 2003 06:01 (twenty-two years ago)

Primal Scream - If They Move Kill 'Em (MBV Arkestra mix)

― M Carty (mj_c), Wednesday, 18 June 2003 06:05 (twenty-two years ago)

Pink Floyd: Julia Dream

― Jez (Jez), Wednesday, 18 June 2003 10:26 (twenty-two years ago)

Ace Frehley - Back in the New York Groove

― Chris V. (Chris V), Wednesday, 18 June 2003 10:27 (twenty-two years ago)

boards of canada 'the devil is in the details'

― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 18 June 2003 10:28 (twenty-two years ago)

"Heads" or "Candy Candy" by Medicine. Whoooaaaa, is that the cat?

― kate (kate), Wednesday, 18 June 2003 10:32 (twenty-two years ago)

Autechre: Drane

― MikeB, Wednesday, 18 June 2003 10:47 (twenty-two years ago)

"journey in satchidananda" - alice coltrane (particularly when still drunk with the sun pouring through high windows on a frosty morning)

― cameron, Wednesday, 18 June 2003 12:47 (twenty-two years ago)

carl craig - from beyond

― myopic pix (nathalie), Wednesday, 18 June 2003 12:50 (twenty-two years ago)

monster magnet - tab...25 (the 30 minute song).

― Johnny Badlees (crispssssss), Wednesday, 18 June 2003 12:51 (twenty-two years ago)

As anyone who has ever been fucked and listened to top 40 radio knows, absolutely anything can sound trippy if you're out of it enough. Therefore this question is utterly subjective.

Therefore, Dana Dane - "Dana Dane is coming to town"

― Jacob (Jacob), Wednesday, 18 June 2003 13:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Primal Scream - 'Higher than the sun' is the correct answer to this question.

But Jacob also has a point.

― James Ball (James Ball), Wednesday, 18 June 2003 13:27 (twenty-two years ago)

Mr. Bungle's "Goodbye Sober Day"

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 18 June 2003 13:35 (twenty-two years ago)

ooh, and also "Interworld and the New Innocence" by Praxis!

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 18 June 2003 13:39 (twenty-two years ago)

I have to go with that old standby "Revolution #9" -- I can't think of anything more obviously by acid and for acid.

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Wednesday, 18 June 2003 13:39 (twenty-two years ago)

Rapoon - Jerewat.

― Sommermute (Wintermute), Wednesday, 18 June 2003 14:04 (twenty-two years ago)

Probably the entirety of Lull's Cold Summer.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 18 June 2003 14:06 (twenty-two years ago)

"I wanna come back from the world of LSD" by the Fe Fi Four Plus 2

― tigerclawskank, Wednesday, 18 June 2003 15:13 (twenty-two years ago)

13th Floor Elevators-"Slip Inside This House"

― Charles McCain (Charles McCain), Wednesday, 18 June 2003 15:20 (twenty-two years ago)

the time machines-"7-Methoxy-B-Carboline(Telepathine)"
or really just that entire album

― Felcher (Felcher), Wednesday, 18 June 2003 15:55 (twenty-two years ago)

Wu-Tang Clan - Let My Niggas Live

This beat is disorienting as hell, and they even reference mushrooms, so...

― Bobby D Gray (bedhead), Wednesday, 18 June 2003 15:59 (twenty-two years ago)

haha good call. what does rae say, "catch me in the caper on shrooms"? that song is like a bad trip tho. speaking of bad trips, if i ever listened to Rev. #9 on acid i think i would go insane.

my contribution: the flaming lips' "oh my pregnant head" with all its harsh shimmering guitars and the crashing sing-songy verse. the whole song sounds either spooky or uncomfortably blissful

― brains (cerybut), Wednesday, 18 June 2003 17:16 (twenty-two years ago)

(The UK) Kaleidoscope's "Music"

― Wandering Boy Poet, Wednesday, 18 June 2003 17:21 (twenty-two years ago)

The Incredible String Band, "A Very Cellular Song".

― Colin Meeder (Mert), Wednesday, 18 June 2003 17:27 (twenty-two years ago)

BDP 'South Bronx'. I think it's the horn crescendo bit

― ss, Wednesday, 18 June 2003 17:40 (twenty-two years ago)

And the robot voice saying "up in the south bronx" at the end

― ss, Wednesday, 18 June 2003 17:43 (twenty-two years ago)

Timbaland's "Can't Nobody" is pretty trippy towards the end when the beat switches up and the little man starts ramblin' on- and in the background Timbaland keeps repeating "HEY GIRLS AND GUYS!" in that antagonizing voice..

"I am Music" (also Timbaland) could be described as trippy, but I'm leaning more towards surreal.

― Bobby D Gray (bedhead), Wednesday, 18 June 2003 17:53 (twenty-two years ago)

Ween's "Pink Eye On My Leg", "Exactly Where I'm At", "Right to the Ways and Means of the World", "Ice Castles", and at least another 20 or so of their songs.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 18 June 2003 18:03 (twenty-two years ago)

"Smoke On The Water"

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Wednesday, 18 June 2003 18:20 (twenty-two years ago)

Wandering Boy Poet stole my idea with UK Kaleidoscope, but I'd also
say Brainticket's 3-part "Brainticket" suite on
Cottonwoodhill, Aphrodite's Child's "All The Seats
Were Occupied" off 666, and Funkadelic's "Mommy,
What's A Funkadelic" and "What Is Soul" off
Funkadelic. Oh, and all of Miles Davis' On
The Corner.

― Dave Segal (Da ve Segal), Wednesday, 18 June 2003 18:23 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah, that Kaleidoscope track really is a corker. Good call, WBP.

― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Wednesday, 18 June 2003 18:27 (twenty-two years ago)

On the Corner is a great choice! I love how that record just starts. "Black Satin" is one of my favorite tweaky-tracks evah.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 18 June 2003 18:35 (twenty-two years ago)

Funkadelic's got hella trippy going on. I love what "War Machines of Armaggeddon" and the extended jam on "Red Hot Mama" do to me.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 18 June 2003 18:39 (twenty-two years ago)

I need to point out that while it may appeal strongly to potfiend sensibilities, I don't find any of Ween's music to be trippy in the least.

I think there is a distinct line being drawn on this thread between the people who define 'trippy' as this sort of repetitive oddness that draws you in and makes everything that much more surreal (repetition being uncommon in regular reality p'haps? whatever) versus people who think something is more 'trippy' if it freaks you out even when dead sober.

Like, for instance, Midnight Star's 'Freak-A-Zoid' - a lot of electronic tracks from that day and age are 'trippy' to me because they assault my sensibilities with unfamiliar everything. Here's a pop song, maybe a spoken intro, maybe a little strange noise bit, and then three solid minutes or so of my rockist mind going "WHAT? WHAT? WHAT THE FUCK? THIS IS AWESOME"

If I'm in a good enough place chemwise it's quite amusing to see. One night I think I threw on 'Atomic Dog' at a friend's apartment after who knows how many and started doing the Robot with all seriousness across the kitchen floor.

― Millar (Millar), Wednesday, 18 June 2003 19:31 (twenty-two years ago)

I found Ween hella "trippy" years before I ever toked. The reason I started listening to them initially was probably very related to the "getting out of my head" factor that their insanely melodic and humorous and schizophrenic not-of-this-earth music could deliver. Then 4 years later I discovered them again to be hellaciously good dope-smoking accompaniment, after I had almost forgotten about them entirely. Mostly for me it's their sonic sense of adventure and willingness to go ANYWHERE from one moment to the next that I find "trippy", the way they take their avant-pop in directions I didn't even know existed, but I'd say it only works because they temper their wild-tendencies with just enough normalcy that you don't know what to expect from one second to the next.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 18 June 2003 19:40 (twenty-two years ago)

"Anything by Funkadelic" is indeed a good choice. Try this: Donna Fargo's "Happiest Girl in the Whole USA" on an endless loop. I get all trippy just thinking about it.

― Salmon Pink (Salmon Pink), Wednesday, 18 June 2003 19:50 (twenty-two years ago)

Perfect Perscription

― Colin Beckett (Colin Beckett), Thursday, 19 June 2003 07:33 (twenty-two years ago)

Perfect Perscription = not trippy at all!

Druggy != trippy.

― kate (kate), Thursday, 19 June 2003 07:42 (twenty-two years ago)

kate OTM

― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Thursday, 19 June 2003 07:57 (twenty-two years ago)

Kenneth Newby: Ephemera
plus bonus points for referencing Terence McKenna

― Michael Dubsky, Thursday, 19 June 2003 08:06 (twenty-two years ago)

piano phase - steve reich (am i hallucinating? is it slipping? what the fck is that?)

― gaz (gaz), Thursday, 19 June 2003 08:28 (twenty-two years ago)

" I of IV " by Pauline Oliveros is very trippy. " Diamond Sea" or
"Echoes" also have my eternal affection. But "Magic City" by Sun Ra is really the most trippy music ever.

― Rem Lezar, Thursday, 19 June 2003 20:06 (twenty-two years ago)

'Miles Runs the Voodoo Down'
--never really 'got' Bitches Brew til I heard this stoned out of my gourd

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 19 June 2003 20:52 (twenty-two years ago)

Pink Floyd - "Interstellar Overdrive" and The Dark Side of the Moon of course!

― Evan (Evan), Thursday, 19 June 2003 21:51 (twenty-two years ago)

Trigger Hippie by Morcheeba (from Who Do You Trust?

(This track made me say, "Who's that?" After that album, the others just couldn't measure up, somehow.)

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Thursday, 19 June 2003 23:33 (twenty-two years ago)

Druggy != trippy

But don't you think these areas overlap often?

― T. Weiss (Timmy), Friday, 20 June 2003 03:28 (twenty-two years ago)

only if you're on drugs

― Millar (Millar), Friday, 20 June 2003 03:28 (twenty-two years ago)

"Dream Weaver," Gary Wright.

― Neudonym, Friday, 20 June 2003 04:17 (twenty-two years ago)

nope. "Strawberry Letter 23" by Bros. Johnson. It's better than the original because of the 'roid-rage Quincy Jones overproduction. you have to concentrate HARD to air-guitar that shit perfectly.

― Neudonym, Friday, 20 June 2003 04:19 (twenty-two years ago)

The Wu-Tang is a great choice. 'We Will Fall', Stooges.

― Andrew Thames (Andrew Thames), Friday, 20 June 2003 04:25 (twenty-two years ago)

Olivier Messaien's organ works.

― colin s barrow (colin s barrow), Friday, 20 June 2003 04:26 (twenty-two years ago)

maybe Manuel Gottsching E2=E4
or The Necks Hanging Gardens

oh no, even better: TV Victor's "Agai" from Timeless Decceleration -- 72 minutes later, and you always look up and you're somewhere else.

― marco (marco), Friday, 20 June 2003 11:52 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah yeah, Manuel Gottsching's E2=E4! Definitely came from a parallel universe.

― colin s barrow (colin s barrow), Friday, 20 June 2003 11:54 (twenty-two years ago)

speaking of Wu, I'd say Killah Priest's "Heavy Mental" would definitely qualify as "trippy", no matter what your neural chemical state.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 20 June 2003 11:58 (twenty-two years ago)

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