The Psychedelic Sounds of the 13th Floor Elevators

i love psychedelic rock very enjoyable great album art would recommend but nothing incredible or mind blowing

I've been a fan of this album for a long time. There is a good balance between the twisted brain of psych rock and the thumping heart of garage rock. Wild for 1966.

definitely peters out but can imagine this must have sounded phenomenal at the time

I adore this album cover.

2.0

It wasn't bad, but I wasn't impressed either.

Latazo total. HE acabado harto del "tucu tucu tú". Dos estrellas.

If I ever became a funkadelic hippie this will be my smasher. Hope it will never happen.

botei esse pra ouvir de noite não esperando nada e fiquei impressionado
garage rock psicodélico bacaninha demais. os mano usaram um jug elétrico (ou seja um jarro com um microfone dentro pra pegar os sons de sopro) mto foda. achei legal!!

Now we are talking real Psychedelic rock. This is brimming with energy and nails the Psychedelic vibe right for one of the first works in the genre. The album cover is great and the music inside does it justice. I like the electric jug used throughout this album. The songs themselves here are great, from the sirens on Fire Engine to the energy of Monkey Island or You're Gonna Miss Me.

The Psychedelic Sounds Of The 13th Floor Elevators is honestly just an alright album. This band doesn't really seem to be that much different from any of the other psychedelic rock bands that were big around this time. Complete with all the insanely distorted guitars (with the production making them even more distorted). I guess the one thing that this album has that it's contemporaries did not have was that odd sound in a lot of the songs which sounded like constantly poking at a bubble. This is also one of those albums in which i have a tough time picking a favorite/least favorite because they all sound so similar. This album is okay but you can do a lot better than this.
Best Song: Splash 1 (Now I'm Home)
Worst Song: Tried To Hide

Eh

Understood that this may have influenced a generation of psychedelic rock however it took a lot of muscle to get through this album. It might have been more palatable without all of the electric jug. I worry I’ll have nightmares with that sound in them.

The title of this album really intrigued me, but it's pretty bland for me. 2*
I agree with others, the bubble sound is super annoying.

Another rock album from the 60’s but this one didn’t bother me as much as most of the others. I had no idea what the fuck was making the weird sounds I kept hearing, and never in a million years would I have guessed that it was an electric jug. It was bothering me that I couldn’t figure it out but now that I know I think I like it more.

Great psychedelic rock album! Honestly, the only bad thing I have to say about it is that the "electric jug" sound quickly got annoying. Other than that, they've got everything I love about psychedelic rock music.

My absolute favorite moment of the entire album is the intro and first drum hit on Reverberation. You can tell this was super influential for groups like The Stooges. Not sold on the electric jug though. Favorite songs were You’re Gonna Miss Me, Roller Coaster, Reverberation, and Tried To Hide.

psychedelic indeed

It’s a psychedelic band whose singer was later diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia and was treated to electroshock therapy. Pretty good stuff

“The Psychedelic Sounds of the 13th Floor Elevators” features a more or less classic four-piece band and an electric jug. This actually makes sense, as the band play their 60s psychedelic rock pretty well and Tommy Hall fills in his jug like a virtuoso - the middle part of "Roller Coaster" is a great example of this. Many of the songs - take e.g. "You're Gonna Miss Me", or "You Don't Know" would work without the jug but are indeed enhanced by its use.
Unfortunately, to my knowledge, Tommy Hall is the only person who has achieved world fame in this way, and so knowledge of the musical use of the electric jug has been largely lost today. However, the bubbling of my espresso maker, which is not yet quite synchronized, shows me that the potential is still there.
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