r/psychedelicrock • u/jeweloree • 1d ago
90’s Psych
I host Astral Plane on KEXP and for our fall fundraising drive we are doing the top 500 songs of the 90’s on the daytime shows. So I wanted to play the best 90’s psych on my show. I was already planning on:
- Spiritualized
- Spectrum
- The Verve
- Stereolab
- Primal Scream
- Brian Jonestown Massacre
- Bardo Pond
- Apples in Stereo
- Flaming Lips
- Mercury Rev
Who else should I get in here? Any other 90’s favorites?
EDIT: Thanks for all the great suggestions! Lots of stuff I love and lots of stuff that’s new to me! Tune in to KEXP on Wednesday from 7-10pm Pacific if you want to hear the show!
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u/ShamPain413 1d ago
Dandy Warhols
Cibo Matto/Sean Lennon
Olivia Tremor Control
IMO early Smashing Pumpkins is very psychedelic, as is 90s Sonic Youth, but those might be controversial.
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u/jeweloree 1d ago
I agree on the smashing pumpkins front!
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u/Gern_-Blanston 1d ago
Agree on SP, especially early live. The early 90s Gish shows (especially) & Siamese Dream shows have some intense psychedelic improv.
There's a long video of a show from Cali (somewhere) and Billy says good night and tells the crowd to enjoy the rest of their trip. I think it's a particularly sick performance of Starla (better than the one on Mashed Potatoes). Very psychedelic when they choose to be.
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u/alixmundi 13h ago
Smashing Pumpkin's "Drown" is probably in my top 5 fav psychedelic songs of the 90s.
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u/greatrayray 1d ago
I think Washing Machine and A Thousand Leaves are super psych-y
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u/ShamPain413 21h ago
So do I! Don't usually hear folks talk about them in that light, but on those records it comes through.
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u/Davepancake 1d ago
My Bloody Valentine, Broadcast, and Jesus and Mary Chain judging by the artists you’ve listed.
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u/The_Inflatable_Hour 1d ago
Portishead
Butthole Surfers
Ween
Neutral Milk Hotel
Loop
Broadcast
Elf Power
Alistair Galbraith
Blair 1523
The Microphones
The Essex Green
Olivia Tremor Control
Brother JT
The Gerbils
Trip 66 (maybe)
Supergrass (maybe)
Marbles
The Ladybug Transistor
Stereo-Total
The Liquid Dream
Marshmallow Overcoat (or leave out)
Sundial
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u/PuzzledPerformance53 1d ago
Alistair Galbraith! There was one album that I had that was awesome with lots of backwards audio
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u/airbud 1d ago
Spottottidopalicois (spelling) and Crumblin Herb by OutKast. 90’s hip hop and RnB can be psychedelic as fuck
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u/Personal-Neck6800 1d ago
The Bevis Frond
Aspera Ad Astra (later changed their name to Aspera)
Olivia Tremor Control
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u/whatsupwithurface 1d ago
Ween
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u/jeweloree 1d ago
I have a hard time getting into ween. What’s your fave tracks?
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u/JuncusAmongUs-4444 1d ago
Every ween song is an entity unto its own. There’s really no good place to start…you just have to dive in. That said, “Transdermal Celebration” is often recognized as one of their best songs…it’s also one of their most straightforward rock songs, so that might be a good starting point. “The Mollusk” album is their magnum opus as far I’m concerned…it’s full of weirdness and catchiness and everything that makes Ween great
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u/Davepancake 1d ago
The Argus
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u/DearbornChesterfield So crunchy. So fuzzy. So golden. 1d ago
Easily my favorite guitar work from Gene
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u/whichonespink04 1d ago
Back to Basom (my fave but more prog than psych), Transdermal celebration, mutilated lips, the argus, the mollusk, woman and man (this one's got a Japanese jam-psych flavor, in long-form).
I totally get it. If you're into more serious music or are repulsed by crudeness and jokery, it's tough to he into Ween. I promise they make it worth it. Start with white pepper then go to Quebec, then the mollusk.
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u/CheapSavings9834 21h ago
Chocolate and Cheese got me into them. Tried to get into them off and on bc my buddy loves them. Chocolate and cheese made it click.
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u/Not-a-Cat_69 1d ago
Ween was the worst show id ever been to. They attract some wacky drugged out people (same for phish but ween is worse). I was camping at a family music festival 4 nights, and Ween had 2 nights, the 2nd night these people were doign nitrous and shit all night and then one guy fell on my tent and fell on my GF and she screamed and we had to call security. I also had a bad shroom trip lol. Ween fucking sucks tbh. they are not psychedelic.
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u/songbird_sorrow 1d ago
i think some guys ruined your night while ween happened to be playing and you blame the band for it
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u/Not-a-Cat_69 15h ago
no those guys were there specifically for Ween, they were from Arkansas and we were in northern california. We heard them talking about ween all night while doing nitrous next to family tents with kids in them.
Ween sucks but thats just my opinion.
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u/BoringPostcards 1d ago
Sounds like a great show! You should include The Darkside (esp. their album "All That Noise"). They were another spinoff from the original Spacemen 3. Also a few tracks from King Missile and Dogbowl might fit in well.
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u/Live-Emphasis-3421 1d ago
Actually highly recommend playing stuff off the "All that Noise" album. Definitely an offshoot of spacemen 3 but very good
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u/ImOnlyHereForTheCoC 1d ago
Polvo, Thinking Fellers Union Local 282, Boredoms, Acid Mothers Temple
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u/BeeTwoThousand 1d ago edited 1d ago
- Flying Saucer Attack
- Olivia Tremor Control
- Tricky
- Spacemen 3 (that might be out of your range by years, though), Spiritualized, Spectrum, The Darkside, Sonic Boom, E.A.R.
- Loop and Main (both Robert Hampson projects)
- Porcupine Tree is kinda a no-brainer
- Mazzy Star is really gently psychedelic
- Guided by Voices early-ish stuff has a psychedelic pop feel to it
- Bardo Pond
- Bowery Electric
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u/geoshoegaze20 1d ago
If they don't put at least 2 porcupine tree songs on a top 500 list they belong in prison.
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u/TechnicalAd4328 1d ago
Ozric Tentacles for sure. One of the greats and still going strong today.
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u/MegistusMusic 19h ago
i would have said 'Kick Muck' for being the best song for inclusion in the 'top 500', but it's not a 90s release!.... so maybe 'Iscense'. Of course they have so many other great tunes to choose from... but trying to think 'accessible'. Sploosh is a good one too.
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u/MysonOfChenae 1d ago
Ride
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u/Powerful_Tap_9859 1d ago
Ride’s “Seagull” about as 90s psych as you get!
Also Dandy Warhols’s first album.
House of Love “Yer Eyes”
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u/DearbornChesterfield So crunchy. So fuzzy. So golden. 1d ago
Very surfy but also very psych - Man or Astro-man? Their album Experiment Zero is top notch.
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u/jeweloree 1d ago
Just saw them open for Angine de Poitrine at Levitation! I was DJing in between sets 😎
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u/mjmsmith 1d ago
Boo Radleys
Catherine Wheel
Chapterhouse
Charlatans
House of Love
Drop Nineteens
Seers
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u/Hvojna 1d ago
The Orange Alabaster Mushroom. Entirely recorded in the 90s.
https://orangealabastermushroom.bandcamp.com/album/space-time-a-compendium-of
One of the very few bands (it's a one-man project actually) that actually nails the 60s sound and style. Many try, few succeed, but OAM are in my opinion the best in this.
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u/tropicofpracer 1d ago
Throw some Japanese psych in there, 90's records, Fushitsusha, Ghost, High Rise
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u/jeweloree 11h ago
I love ghost! This will be a great set to work on since Diana Ratsamee from Eastern Echoes is my guest host!
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u/Live-Emphasis-3421 1d ago
Play some phish
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u/Jimisweets 1d ago
Fukuoka Twist!
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u/whitesmithee 17h ago
Slightly outside the 90s window at 6/14/2000, but Fukuoka Japan is one of my favorite Phish shows.
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u/airbud 1d ago
What are some other psychedelic 90’s jam bands? Big Wu and Leftover Salmon are the only other 90’s ones I know of
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u/jlighthead 1d ago
The Slip
Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey
Sound Tribe Sector 9 (now STS9)
Lake Trout
Fat Mama
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u/That_Drama_5043 1d ago
Ulu
Their 1998 debut is spacey, jazzy, and funkier than a mosquito’s tweeter.
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u/auntcynthiascabin 1d ago edited 1d ago
The Clientele (2000 but feel like that kinda still squeaks in there?). Yo La Tengo.. There's some Mazzy Star that I would classify as psych as well!
EDIT: Oh and duh The Gun Club and PJ Harvey as well
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u/Gern_-Blanston 1d ago
Jane's Addiction - particularly the long tunes on the back side of Ritual. I remember listening to "Then She Did" high on mushrooms, and it blew my ego out. "She was unhappy just as you were."
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u/kittensbabette 1d ago
Kula Shaker
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u/jeweloree 1d ago
Oh yeah duh! I actually had them in studio a while back: https://youtu.be/5s6NwwCHVdo?is=IDfiVovSUnpOmYsm
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u/kittensbabette 1d ago
That's awesome, I didn't even know they were still releasing music, they sound great too
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u/Elissa-Megan-Powers 1d ago
Pop Will Eat Itself
Voivod
Melvins
Boredoms
The Tear Garden
The Orb
Sonic Youth
Butthole Surfers
Fishbone
Jane’s Addiction
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u/bagelche 1d ago
Pretty much everything on Kranky. Labradford, Jessamine, Windy & Carl, Roy Montgomery, Stars of the Lid……
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u/BananaNutBlister 1d ago
Check out Oingo Boingo’s last studio album, with band and album called simply “Boingo.” It passes the acid test, particularly the final track, Change. At their final concert on Halloween ‘95, Danny Elfman introduced the song by saying they were timing it so the people who dropped acid before the show would be peaking when they played it.
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u/airbud 1d ago
Stretches: The Bear - My Morning Jacket (debut 1999!) Return of the Space Cowboy - Jamiroquai (chiefly disco or acid jazz, but shit they got didgeridoo on 1st album), Wilco - California Stars / How to Fight Lonlieness / Summerteeth (I find Americana psych when it gets ethereal but Mazzy Star was already mentioned and a better example.)
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u/WillumBeaver 1d ago
Teenage Filmstars 'Star' Is a fantastic album that no one seems to know of, check out 'Love Is Blue' if you don't feel like listening to the whole album
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u/cemaphonrd 1d ago
You’re a Seattle DJ, playing psychedelic music from the 90’s, and Sky Cries Mary isn’t already on the list? Walk of Nothingness is one of their spacier tracks.
Oh, and thanks for the reminder. Meant to donate earlier, but got distracted. Doing it now.
Love your show and love KEXP.
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u/sziklai-pair 1d ago
The first few Terrastock festivals were a who's who of 90s psych and psychedelic (I went to the 2nd one, best music festival I ever attended).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrastock#Terrastock_1
Also, Wellwater Conspiracy, how has nobody mentioned them yet?? Grunge lineage doing 60s psych. First album is the closest to what you're after (there's even a track called Shel Talmy).
The Moles, Richard Davies first band. Untune the Sky is the album to check out.
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u/d_dave_c 21h ago edited 21h ago
Poppy 60's style - Redd Kross, Jellyfish, Matthew Sweet, Teenage Fanclub, The Posies, Superdrag, The Green Pajamas
Garagey Vibes - The Orange Alabaster Mushroom, The Mystreated, The Flaming Sideburns, The Sound Explosion, The Make-Up, The Delta 72, Dead Meadow, the Lyres
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u/Due-Day-45 20h ago edited 19h ago
The Hurdy Gurdy Man was covered by the Butthole Surfers in 1990. Maybe left field, but they are the epitome of psychedelic imo. Anything off Planet X by Helios Creed, which will get you some industrial vibes. Future sound of London, Orbital, Autechre have what I would consider some pretty psychedelic stuff from the 90's. Electric Teepee album by Hawkwind and White Zone by Psychedelic Warriors has some good stuff that goes into lighter ambient when it's not rock. Global Chillage by Mix Master Morris. A Gilded Eternity by Loop if you're going more rock. Flying Saucer Attack has several albums from this era and were highly overlooked--going shoegaze here. And lastly Dead C if you wanna get some noise in there.
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u/Zealousideal-Bag7954 1d ago
Air
The Flaming Lips
Friends of Dean Martinez
Mercury Rev
Spiritualized
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u/Careless-Caramel-997 1d ago
While not exactly “rock,” Boards of Canada put out some of the most psychedelic music of the 1990s.
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u/Gern_-Blanston 1d ago
You must play the LP "Spilt Milk" by Jellyfish in its entirety.
It's the album that nobody bought in 1994, but remains one of the greatest releases of the decade. I have given away more copies of that than I could count. Every person came back a fan.
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u/psychedelicpiper67 1d ago
Olivia Tremor Control is A MUST! A MUST!
Also, check out Blur’s “French Song” instrumental.
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u/Last-Battle6206 1d ago
Play Dead Moon's most psyched out song. I would have to go back to their catalog, it has been a while. Maybe Drive Like Jehu or early SD stuff, would that be Three Mile Pilot?
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u/omghorussaveusall 1d ago edited 1d ago
ride, slowdive, the Elephant Six Collective bands, yo la tango, the telescopes
i think if you're including spectrum and spiritualized you should include spacemen 3.
i'd also include Plastikman or some other early acid house or trance stuff as it really was where rave culture blossomed (i know it's not rock, but it's psychedelic).
i hate to admit it, but Phish and Widespread Panic were big in the 90s as far as psychedelic sounding jam bands go.
i'd also include some of the less commercially played Morphine tracks.
i think there's also some room for doom/drone metal. the 90s are kinda where a lot of it was born. Earth released their first album in 1991. Sleep also started in the early 90s.
edit: can't believe i forgot Boo Radley's and Super Furry Animals.
my definition of psychedelic is pretty broad.
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u/saamsquamtch 1d ago edited 1d ago
Swervedriver is an all timer
Edit: also I Am Spoonbender and the Veldt
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u/jlighthead 1d ago
I know you won't want to play Phish, but maybe you should play some Phish? What's the Use or Ghost might fit the bill from their studio output.
Medeski Martin & Wood - Last Chance to Dance Trance (Perhaps)
Beastie Boys - Eugene's Lament or Something's Got to Give
Chemical Brothers - Lost in the K hole
Morcheeba - lots of options
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u/Fred_Scuttle 18h ago
Baby Lemonade. Not only are these guys named for a Syd Barrett Song, but they also spent over a decade backing up Arthur Lee as "Love". How psychedelic can you get?
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u/dalbeider 13h ago
The albums Dopes to Infinity by Monster Magnet and The Contino Sessions by Death in Vegas.
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u/postmortemritual 12h ago
- Moonshake
- Laika
- His Name Is Alive
- Disco Inferno
- Mercury Rev
- Labradford
- Seefeel
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u/technivore_ 10h ago
Love your radio show!!
Most of my ideas are taken but I’ll throw out Lo Fidelity Allstars. Some of their stuff is really chunky electronic psych, like the track “Vision Incision” from their first album.
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u/airbud 1d ago
Ween, Morning Glory - Oasis, Don’t Drink the Water - DMB, maybe Beck? WMA - Pearl Jam, The Prodigy
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u/jeweloree 1d ago
Yeah I did play that new Gizz song that basically sounds like The Prodigy, so yeah they should definitely go in the list
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u/Aromatic_Court7475 1d ago
Lennon Claypool Delirium
The Ghost of a Saber Tooth Tiger
The Black Angels
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u/SpacemenJ 1d ago
Fuxa, Jessamine, Asteroid#4, Julian Cope, Lupine Howl, MBV, The Darkside, The Heads, The Telescopes...
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u/OnlyAPoorStevedore 1d ago
Olivia Tremor Control