Albums that give you a contact high

Beethovens Ninth

Abbess Hildegard von Bingem - Ordo Virtutum

"The Who Sell Out" starting with that supersonic guitar sound Townshend somehow created on "Armenia". Also puts me in another place--immediately.

Beethoven's Ninth... yes, yes, yes, YES.
Here are some from the genre Misspent Youth, West Coast.

WHITE BIRD

SHE HAS FUNNY CARS -gee, never knew the name 'til now

SUMMERTIME

ALABAMA SONG (Whisky Bar)

Wow, Piffka, White Bird! That song sums up my early years in the NW, some 30 years ago. Thanks for the memory!

Pink Floyd "Meddle"

Meddle, I think is my favorite Pink Floyd album, especially when it comes to contact high...

Piffka! I'm flashing!! Were we together in the sixties? WHITE BIRD!!! and the rest!

Fealola, I think we might have been ~ ~ in which case we had some wild times. Maybe you remember some songs on this album...




I'm thinking Whiter Shade of Pale must be on the Meddle album but I'm too lazy to check.

Thelonious Monk, "Himself," even though he was crazy, not stoned.

Hendrix Experienceienceience, Electric Ladyland -- but that's probably just sense memory...

Anything by (Rahsaan) Roland Kirk. (A producer put together a eulogy sound collage for Kirk that including the blind horn player saying, "When I die I want to have my ashes put in a bag, with hash and pot, and have everybody smoke it." Amazing the way he continued to record stuff after his stroke -- got a lot more conceptual, a lot more stripped down, a lot more basic. But "Inflated Tear" was before that, when he still had full command of himself, and that album is a trip... Highly (er, HIGHly) recommended...)

The Stones, Beggar's Banquet -- it just sounds like being stoned in the morning with a day full of nothing ahead. To me, anyway...

whiter shade of pale was on the Procal Harem lp

Pifka, I was going to mention that CSN album-- Wooden Ships! (that's a high. Airplane did it too) I marched down the isle to Whiter Shade of Pale. (The tune is actually Bach).

YES!!!

(Fealola -- I am totally impressed in italicized indigo!) I want to hear more about your wedding.

Thanks, Dys... Procul Haram, duh.


Hmmm, not that I've ever.......

The band was Procol Harum (sorry to be pedantic about spelling). I loved their album "A Salty Dog"--great tunes.

And while we're in that era, how about the Incredible String Band? "The Hangman's Beautful Daughter"--the title of the album alone give me chills. Evokes an entire era for me...

Bloomfield/Kooper Superssion-Season of the Witch

Rod Stewart/Every Picture Tells A Story

Traffic

My wedding was pretty traditional. But I wanted Whiter Shade of Pale. Only my friends and I knew the intention was not Bach. It's "Our Song". We also had Ode to Joy from Beethovens Ninth.

"Dear Mr. Fantasy"--loved it!

Perfectly fine to be pedantic... I knew that spelling looked funny.

Fealola -- That makes it even better, a secret!

Did we forget the Beatles? The first time I heard "Hear Comes the Sun" on the radio we were in a VW bug racing down the freeway towards the sunset. The announcer loved it so much he played it three times in a row.

I also remember the first time I heard "Abbey Road". It was a night when many of my friends got on a bus from our campus in Upstate NY to ride to DC for a massive anti-war protest. I was going through an apolitical phase, so I stayed on campus, ingested something with a friend, and listened to the campus radio station debut that album. Heady times, for sure...