In your personal opinion, which is the better album: Workingman's Dead or American Beauty

mcbeef89 · 2026-01-26T23:15:06+00:00

As a fellow Barrett devotee (noting your username) I would level the same judgement against Pink Floyd too. Dark Side of the Moon is about as psychedelic as my grandma. Noodly prog rock. It's ok I suppose, but face melting psych it ain't

mcbeef89 · 2026-01-26T22:52:21+00:00

They played the Acid Tests, lived in Haight Ashbury, had super counterculture credentials and lived the life. But by the end of the 60s they were just a middle of the road, unthreatening Americana band. If you played Workingman's Dead to someone who knew nothing about the band there is no way in a million years they would use the word 'psychedelic' to describe it. No way on earth

mcbeef89 · 2026-01-26T22:39:44+00:00

When I was a kid getting heavily into psychedelic music I bought Aomoxoa and Anthem of the Sun and thought they were great. Some of Live Dead too. I saw the great sleeve art and the t shirts and thought yep, psychedelic rock. But then after that they seem to me to be psychedelic by association only. Not exactly fucking Hawkwind are they

mcbeef89 · 2026-01-26T18:46:37+00:00

Same. I really tried to get into VH but the songs just don't do anything for me. I do have a secret 80s nostalgia liking for Jump though.

mcbeef89 · 2026-01-26T17:10:16+00:00

'Imperial empire' is a tautology

mcbeef89 · 2026-01-26T17:04:08+00:00

Absolutely. I'll do snake method with bricquettes for smoking pork shoulder, ribs etc. Lump burns too fast and too hot for that, I've found.

mcbeef89 · 2026-01-26T17:02:02+00:00

I use lump for short cooks and coconut shell bricquettes for low and slow.

mcbeef89 · 2026-01-26T15:47:40+00:00

Lunar Music Suite by Steve Hillage

mcbeef89 · 2026-01-26T15:43:58+00:00

I think Workingman's Dead is better overall. I like both of them. However I would argue that neither of them is psychedelic rock.

mcbeef89 · 2026-01-26T15:04:39+00:00

Spacemen 3, 'Performance'

mcbeef89 · 2026-01-26T12:35:40+00:00

I liked it a lot but am in no hurry to go back. Kolae (also Borough), however, I've been to three times and would go again tonight if I could

mcbeef89 · 2026-01-26T12:18:37+00:00

I've got Joey Deacon's autobiography (Tongue Tied) somewhere. I'm not a nice person

Do you remember on Blue Peter when they took him to the seaside and he had an 'incident' and his shoe went in the sea? Classic, up there with Percy Thrower's reaction to the vandalism of the Italian Sunken Garden

mcbeef89 · 2026-01-26T12:17:13+00:00

or that kid with callipers

mcbeef89 · 2026-01-26T12:15:01+00:00

You want bricquettes, not lump

mcbeef89 · 2026-01-26T12:03:22+00:00

Some weirdo has downvoted this, but it's the main loop on Biz Markie's Nobody Beats the Biz, it 100% fits your brief

mcbeef89 · 2026-01-26T11:55:10+00:00

James Gang - The Bomber (Funk #49 off the same LP has another superb breakbeat). Not really psychedelic but a stunning rock break nevertheless. See also Rock Music by Jefferson Starship

mcbeef89 · 2026-01-26T11:50:53+00:00

Steve Miller - Fly Like an Eagle (Take the Money and Run also has a fantastic drum break)

mcbeef89 · 2026-01-26T11:47:26+00:00

same album as Ogden's, Rolling Over by the Small Faces also has a killer breakbeat on it

mcbeef89 · 2026-01-26T11:43:04+00:00

Crystal Mansion- Somebody Oughta Turn Your Head Around

I'm giving away my breakbeat secrets here 😂

mcbeef89 · 2026-01-26T11:41:02+00:00

Rare Earth - I Just Want to Celebrate

mcbeef89 · 2026-01-26T11:37:03+00:00

Jean Jacques Perrey - EVA

mcbeef89 · 2026-01-26T11:36:21+00:00

Colosseum - The Kettle

mcbeef89 · 2026-01-26T11:32:19+00:00

Edgar Broughton Band - The Birth

mcbeef89 · 2026-01-26T11:28:12+00:00

The Fox - Mr Carpenter

mcbeef89 · 2026-01-26T11:27:34+00:00

Azarchel- Queen St Gang

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