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Friday Playlist: Sing This All Together

Spring is coming! Here, have some psychedelic tunes.

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Here are 21 tracks from the global psych underground, suitable for stomping the gear shops of Carnaby Street, haunting the incense-scented streets of Istanbul, and shimmying on the Sunset Strip. Open your head, let the pictures come. This is a good weekend for some “soul-manifesting,” don’t you think?

Illustration by Minna

39 Comments

  • flupos March 16th, 2012 11:10 PM

    OS MUTANTES ♥
    i love when you talk about something od brazil!

    • Amy Rose March 17th, 2012 2:00 AM

      OS MUTANTES FOREVER!

    • deuxiemesexe March 17th, 2012 11:27 AM

      Are you brazilian? I am! So happy to see a Rookie’s reader from Brazil! And a Mutantes fan!!! Saudades da formação original :)

  • TessAnnesley March 16th, 2012 11:15 PM

    This is AWESOME, but I was expecting some Gang Gang Dance/Stevie Nicks type stuff! What is more explorer-y than glitter-and–acid electro and everyone’s favourite pop witch?

  • nini March 16th, 2012 11:26 PM

    im from brazil and its really cool to see Mutantes on the playlist :) thanks!

  • Giulia Lain March 16th, 2012 11:30 PM

    I didn’t hear it yet, but I like almost all the songs that is in the playlist. And… wow! Os Mutantes, a brazilian band, and I’m from Brazil, so I’m really happy. Here we’re going to autumn, and finally getting out of this really really hot summer.
    Really nice!

    • deuxiemesexe March 17th, 2012 11:37 AM

      We are from the same country, we both read Rookie… and my name is Giulia too! Wow, strange.

      • Giulia Lain March 18th, 2012 5:19 PM

        Ô_ô wow… it’s really weird! But I’m happy to find someone from Brazil who has the same interests.
        We should be friends, I think so.

  • katie_eileen March 16th, 2012 11:33 PM

    Love this! I’m going to add one more :)
    The Cowsills – The Rain, The Park, & Other Things

  • Kaleidoscopeeyes March 16th, 2012 11:59 PM

    Best art pic so far

  • Susann March 17th, 2012 2:27 AM

    I always love it when you have The Beatles on your playlists :)

    http://fashioninpepperland.blogspot.com

  • Carolina March 17th, 2012 8:19 AM

    Os Mutantes and Gal Costa! Already in love with this playlist!

  • MissKnowItAll March 17th, 2012 8:23 AM

    The soundtrack from 3 idiots is also really good.

  • Toscanilda March 17th, 2012 8:53 AM

    MUTANTES <33333

    Aww, I love when you mention something from Brazil~ COMM'ERE AND LET ME LOVE YOU, ROOKIE STAFF

  • Toscanilda March 17th, 2012 9:30 AM

    Also, Gal Costa = pure love

  • sovietkitsch March 17th, 2012 11:27 AM

    Os Mutantes! Gal Costa! Brazilian stuff!! Trippy playlist!!! Many exclamation marks!!!!!!!!!!!

  • luiza_am March 17th, 2012 12:20 PM

    Brasil is everywhere!!! love mutantes <3<3
    this is my blog, about them.

    http://themutanteseffect.tumblr.com/

  • Serena.K March 17th, 2012 1:56 PM

    PERFECT!!!!! ah rookie, your playlists are a delight.

  • Annie92 March 17th, 2012 4:00 PM

    Minnie Riperton, yay!!

    grinandbearitzine.blogspot.com

  • cfsizz March 17th, 2012 4:55 PM

    Ooooh Gal Costa foreeever

  • sttefaaa March 17th, 2012 8:51 PM

    One of the best playlists I`ve seen! Ekhm.. heard :))

    http://stefanystrange.blogspot.com/

  • lua March 18th, 2012 3:00 AM

    omg so many readers from brazil <3
    beijos do rio!
    (daonde vcs são?)

    • deuxiemesexe March 18th, 2012 9:35 AM

      Sou do Rio também :)

    • Toscanilda March 18th, 2012 1:19 PM

      Right?! I’m impressed <3
      (Sou de Natal, RN~ longe de todas vocês, aposto :'3)

      • Giulia Lain March 18th, 2012 5:26 PM

        Brazilian girls ♥
        Sou de Santos, SP :)

    • sovietkitsch March 18th, 2012 4:09 PM

      interior de SP!

  • Toscanilda March 18th, 2012 1:21 PM

    Hey everyone, you should totally give a look at this ultra-rare with great quality video of Mutantes

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMwjlMpaUR0

    • Leeann March 28th, 2012 1:33 PM

      Oh wow, I’d never seen this, thanks so much for the link! Youtube is so amazing.

  • bela_ps March 18th, 2012 1:42 PM

    BRAZILIAN MUSIC!!!!! i love you more everyday, Rookie <3

  • Typiquement.ridicule March 18th, 2012 3:58 PM

    The Rolling Stones , The Zombies , The Beatles , Minnie Rippertson , The beach boys … it’s a perfect playlist !!

  • Isabelle March 18th, 2012 8:10 PM

    That playlist made me smile… :)

  • Jenn W.T. March 19th, 2012 11:43 AM

    I love that you have Turkish psych on this playlist!! 3 Hur El is the best! <3

  • Caitlin March 19th, 2012 4:56 PM

    YES. The Seeds are soo good. They deserve the light!

  • Launderground March 21st, 2012 7:20 PM

    Ohmy god! Gal Costa and Mutantes!! Are you kidding me? That’s awesome! XD

  • caro nation March 24th, 2012 5:09 PM

    Ok, not a de facto, bona fide, valid, authentic, legitimate, kosher WHATEVER 1960′s counterculture hallucinogenic ooh-swirly-colors Timothy Leary band, but THE FROGS DID SOME PRETTY WEIRD SHIT.

    “Outta the mist how could I miss you with your drugs?
    Outta the mist how could I miss you with your druggy ways?
    (your drugs)
    Outta the mist
    (I missed you)
    Outta the mist
    Outta the mist I kissed your lovely drug-filled lips.”

    • Leeann March 28th, 2012 1:27 PM

      Oh man, you’re awesome, I hadn’t thought about them crazy Flemion Brothers in YEARS!! I love that one song where they basically just make fun of Nirvana the whole time. Maybe I’ll make a future playlist about 90s semi-psych weirdos, like them, Mercury Rev, early Flaming Lips, etc.

  • poison ivy May 28th, 2012 4:19 PM

    WHOA whoa whoaaa there…wheres all the early pink floyd with Syd Barrett? The Gnome? whats more phsychadellic than that?

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