Acid rock
subgenre of psychedelic rock music
Acid rock is a form of rock music, focusing mainly on hallucinations and drugs. It is related to psychedelic rock. It is mostly an off-beat style. It uses vivid imagery, and sometimes strange sound/musical effects (like backward recorded music).
History change
"Acid rock" was popular in the late 1960s and early 1970s. But it is not very popular today.
Name change
Acid Rock got its name from the mixture of music and the drug LSD (lysergic acid diethylamide), which most people call "acid". "Acid rock" is usually recorded when the musician was high on LSD. Often the lyrics are about hallucinations.
Acid rock tracks and singles change
1966 change
1967 change
- White Rabbit (Jefferson Airplane)
- Spare Chaynge (Jefferson Airplane)
- Purple Haze (Jimi Hendrix)
- Third Stone From The Sun (Jimi Hendrix)
- Light My Fire (The Doors)
- Baby You're a Rich Man (The Beatles)
- Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds (The Beatles)
- I Am the Walrus (The Beatles)
- Interstellar Overdrive (Pink Floyd)
- Flaming (Pink Floyd)
1968 change
- That's It for the Other One (Grateful Dead)
- Voodoo Child (Slight Return) (Jimi Hendrix)
- In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida (Iron Butterfly)
- EXP (The Jimi Hendrix Experience)
- If 6 Was 9 (Jimi Hendrix)
- Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun (Pink Floyd)
- Careful With That Axe, Eugene (Pink Floyd)
- Pictures of Matchstick Men (Status Quo)
1969 change
- Dazed and Confused (Led Zeppelin)
- Acid Queen (The Who)
- White Room (Cream)
- Hot Smoke and Sasafrass (Bubble Puppy)
1970 change
Other websites change
- Hear Acid rock (music and interviews) on the Pop Chronicles (1969).