This is a list of what I consider to be the outstanding West Coast Acid Rock tracks from the sixties. The book Rock Routes goes into a lot of detail about this and every other genre. It makes for an interesting informative read!
| Artist | Stand out tracks |
| Captain Beefheart & his Magic Band | Abba Zabba
Grow Fins Yellow brick road Safe as milk Electricity Drop out boogie Zig Zag wanderer Ah feel like ahcid Safe as milk Trust us On tomorrow Gimme that harp boy Moonlight on Vermont Dachau Blues Ella Guru The blimp Steal softly through snow She’s too much for my mirror Veteran’s day poppy Hobo chang ba Smithsonian Institute Blues |
| Jefferson Airplane | Somebody to love
White rabbit Let’s get together Plastic fantastic lover She has funny cars The ballad of you and me and Pooneil Crown of creation Lather Triad We can be together Volunteers Good shepherd The son of Jesus |
| Blue Cheer | Summertime Blues
The hunter |
| Mothers of Invention | Help I’m a rock
What’s the ugliest part of your body Who are the brain police Brown shoes don’t make it Call any vegetable Concentration moon Who are the brain police You’re probably wondering why I’m here Plastic people Call any vegetable The idiot bastard son Let’s make the water turn black Take your clothes off when you dance Harry you’re a beast The way I see it Barry My guitar wants to kill your mama Willie the pimp Lonesome cowboy Burt I’m the slime Dinah-Moe Humm Debra Kedabra Muffin man Sam with the showing flat top Poofter’s Froth Wyoming plans ahead Titties and beer Cosmic debris Don’t eat the yellow snow |
| Quicksilver Messenger Service | Mona
Who do you love Happy trails |
| Buffalo Springfield | For What its worth
Mr Soul Expecting to fly Broken arrow Rock ‘n’ Roll woman Bluebird Flying on the ground is wrong Burned Nowadays Clancy can’t even sing Hung upside down Rock ‘n’ Roll Woman Expecting to fly I am a child Bluebird |
| Doors | Love me two times
Moonlight drive The crystal ship The end Gloria Back door man Break on through (to the other side) Soul kitchen Strange days You’re lost little girl People are strange Unhappy girl When the music’s over My eyes have seen you Hello I love you Love street The unknown soldier Not to touch the earth Five to one My wild love Wild child Wishful sinful Shaman Blues The soft parade Maggie McGill Peace Frog Waiting for the sun The changeling Love her madly Crawling kingsnake |
| Grateful Dead | Goodmorning little school girl
Sitting on top of the world Born cross-eyed St Stephen Cosmic Charlie Dark star The eleven Uncle John’s band Casey Jones Sugar Magnolia Truckin’ Box of rain Playing in the band |
| Big Brother & the Holding Company | Piece of my heart
Ball and chain Down on me Summertime I need a man to love |
| Country Joe & the Fish | Janis
Grace I Feel like I’m fixing to die rag Who am I? Magoo Untitled protest Not so sweet Martha Lorraine Porpoise mouth Superbird Bass strings Pat’s song Colors for Susan Susan Rock & Soul music Bright Suburban Mr & Mrs Clean Machine |
| Byrds | 8 miles high
I wasn’t born to follow Dolphin smile So you want to be a Rock ‘n’ Roll star Chymes of freedom All I really want to do Mr Tambourine man Turn Turn Turn Lay down your weary tune He was a friend of mine 5D (fifth dimension) John Riley Everybody’s been burned My back pages The girl with no name Have you seen her face Artificial energy Triad Tribal gathering Goin’ back Change is now Dolphin’s smile Space odyssey Draft morning Nothing was delivered This wheel’s on fire Deportee Ballad of easy rider It’s all over now baby blue Lover of the bayou Positively Fourth Street |
| Love | Alone again or
My little red book Mushroom clouds My flash on you A message to pretty Signed D.C. 7 and 7 is Stephanie knows who Orange skies She comes in colours Alone again or A house is not a motel Andmoreagain Live and let live The daily planet Bummer in the summer You set the scene Singing cowboy |
| Crosby, Stills Nash & Young | Wooden ships
Ohio Teach your children well Suite: Judy blue eyes Chicago Woodstock Guinevere Helplessly hoping Long time gone Carry on Almost cut my hair Helpless Our house Just a song before you go The lee shore 4 + 20 Wasted on the way Find the cost of freedom |
| Janis Joplin Kosmic Blues Band/Full Tilt Boogie Band | Kozmic blues
Try (just a little bit harder) To love somebody Mercedes Benz Me and Bobby Mcghee Cry baby
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