13th Floor Elevators "The Psychedelic Sounds of..." [1966]

Boy, it sure didn't take much to get tagged "psychedelic" back in the 60s. The 13th Floor Elevators were simply one of those faceless garage bands with bad sound quality, except they added some weirdo blowing 16th-notes into a big jug like some loser hillbilly. If that's enough to make you trip out, you should probably just stay away from drugs altogether. But you wanna hear what's really annoying? The jug guy sticks around and plays that goddamn thing on almost every single track! So perhaps it still counts as a hallucination if you're driven to smash your record player to smithereens, as a sort of an out-of-body experience of sheer annoyance. It's certainly true The Sonics, Sam the Sham and ? and the Mysterians were all annoying as shit, too, but none of them shoved their creepy freak-flag in their face quite as aggressively as these Texas morons did. Those guys also had brains enough not to slow their tempos down every other song like 13th Floor Elevators, the slovenly cousins of the Zombies. Thus this band added a new element to their so-called "psychedelic" experience: complete boredom.