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Originally Posted by hat and beard
It's a word I throw around alot without giving any thought to what exactly it is I'm talking about. Is it a sound/genre/feeling/mental state? Is recreational chemicals use the only way to properly understand it, or does it serve as a replacement in the absence of said chemicals? Does it have anything to do with drugs at all?
I suppose when I use the word I'm generally refering to something that has a kind of transcendent quality to it. Music that leaves you in a state of bliss without having to contemplate too much what is happening. Maybe a completely egoless musical experience, if that makes sense. Which I suppose means that in my experience, at least, drugs have nothing to do with it, but rather your ability to let music take control of your concious mind.
Eh, reading over what I just wrote kinda sounds like a load of new age psycho babble. Oh whale. I"m totally serious.
What do you think?
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Your answers to your own question are as good as any I might come up with. I don't think you need drugs to have a psychedelic experience, but if you don't use them it should at least
feel like you're on drugs. And I think that usually means the type that slow down time and reality rather than speed it up.
I've often wondered about Fugazi's trippier stuff on Red Medicine and if this qualifies as psychedelic music in the broad sense.
Also, you are definitley looking at the broad sense here. Psych rock is something very specific, but "psychedelic" is not even exclusively a type of music.