Criteria: - Artists are ranked by their influence, impact, and popularity. Includes artists that performed psychedelic music for only a portion of their career.
Newly added names are in Red
Edited By: Piper, Brett Alan, pauldrach
List Begun: 3-13-12
1. The Beatles (mid-to-late 60's) 2. Jimi Hendrix Experience 3. Jefferson Airplane 4. The Doors 5. Cream 6. Grateful Dead 7. Sly & The Family Stone 8. Love 9. The Byrds (mid-60's) 10. The Yardbirds 11. Quicksilver Messenger Service 12. Country Joe & The Fish 13. The United States of America 14. Pink Floyd (early career) 15. Donovan 16. The Beach Boys (mid-to-late 60's) 17. Moby Grape 18. Santana 19. The Pretty Things 20. Frank Zappa/The Mothers of Invention (60's) 21. The 13th Floor Elevators 22. The Incredible String Band 23. The Zombies 24. Vanilla Fudge 25. Hawkwind 26. Spirit 27. The Small Faces 28. Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band 29. Blue Cheer 30. Traffic 31. Soft Machine 32. The Temptations (late 60's-to-early 70's) 33. West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band 34. Os Mutantes 35. Shuggie Otis 36. Big Brother and the Holding Company 37. Steppenwolf 38. Gong 39. The Rolling Stones (mid-60's) 40. The Who (mid-60's) 41. The Holy Modal Rounders 42. Red Krayola/The Red Crayola 43. Silver Apples 44. Pearls Before Swine 45. Tomorrow 46. Syd Barrett 47. The Charlatans (US) 48. Procol Harum 49. Kaleidoscope (US) 50. The Seeds
51. The Moody Blues (late-60's) 52. Iron Butterfly 53. The Monkees (later career) 54. The Crazy World of Arthur Brown 55. Electric Prunes 56. Eric Burdon & The (New) Animals 57. The Millennium 58. The Status Quo (early career) 59. The Blues Magoos 60. The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band 61. The Move 62. The Bee Gees (mid-to-late 60's) 63. John's Children 64. The Nice 65. The Chambers Brothers 66. Nirvana (UK) 67. Yes (early career) 68. Kevin Ayers 69. Skip Spence 70. Funkadelic (early career) 71. The Chocolate Watch Band 72. H.P. Lovecraft 73. The Great Society 74. The Amboy Dukes 75. The Zakary Thaks 76. Tyrannosaurus Rex 77. It's A Beautiful Day 78. Family 79. The Left Banke 80. David Axelrod 81. Ultimate Spinach 82. Man 83. Strawberry Alarm Clock 84. Nazz 85. Harry Nilsson (early career) 86. Moving Sidewalks 87. The Creation 88. Lothar and the Hand People 89. Elmer Gantry's Velvet Opera 90. The Idle Race 91. Fifty Foot Hose 92. Kaleidoscope (UK) 93. Vashti Bunyan 94. Sagittarius 95. Andromeda 96. The Neon Philharmonic 97. The Yellow Balloon 98. Sweetwater 99. The Flower Pot Men 100. Peanut Butter Conspiracy
101. Bubble Puppy 102. Clear Light 103. The Blues Project 104. C.A. Quintet 105. Aphrodite's Child 106. The Music Machine 107. The Count Five 108. Earth Opera 109. Circus Maximus 110. Kenny Rogers and the First Edition 111. The SRC 112. The La De Das 113. Blossom Toes 114. Sopwith Camel 115. The Attack 116. We the People 117. The Deviants 118. Comus 119. Orpheus 120. Amazing Blondel 121. Third Ear Band 122. Beacon Street Union 123. Mystic Tide 124. Velvett Fogg 125. Fever Tree
126. Mad River 127. Gandalf 128. July 129. The Golden Dawn 130. Quintessence 131. The Savage Rose 132. The Tripsichord Music Box 133. Dantalian's Chariot 134. Forest 135. Neighb'rhood Childr'n 136. Mighty Baby 137. Ash Ra Tempel 138. Ford Theatre 139. Dr. West's Medicine Show and Junk Band 140. The Sons of Champlin 141. The Open Mind 142. Le Fleur de Lys 143. The Paupers 144. Flower Travellin' Band 145. Group 1850 146. The Outcasts 147. Frumious Bandersnatch 148. Blonde on Blonde 149. The Litter 150. The Misunderstood
75 Greatest Neo-Psychedelic Artists
1. The Flaming Lips 2. Echo and the Bunnymen 3. Lenny Kravitz 4. Robyn Hitchcock 5. The Teardrop Explodes 6. Neutral Milk Hotel 7. Super Furry Animals 8. Phish 9. The Apples in Stereo 10. Love and Rockets 11. Dream Syndicate 12. The Soft Boys 13. The Dandy Warhols 14. of Montreal 15. The Charlatans (UK) 16. Spiritualized 17. Kula Shaker 18. The Church 19. Mercury Rev 20. Spacemen 3 21. The Brian Jonestown Massacre 22. The Olivia Tremor Control 23. Rain Parade 24. Inspiral Carpets 25. The Bevis Frond 26. The Soup Dragons 27. Ozric Tentacles 28. That Petrol Emotion 29. Gorky's Zygotic Mynci 30. Television Personalities 31. The Chills 32. The Three O'Clock 33. Animal Collective 34. Tripping Daisy 35. Butthole Surfers 36. The Fuzztones 37. The Farm 38. Lyres
39. The Essex Green 40. MGMT 41. The Mighty Lemon Drops 42. Elf Power 43. Ocean Colour Scene 44. The Dukes of Stratosphear (XTC) 45. The Icicle Works 46. The Wondermints 47. The String Cheese Incident 48. The La's 49. Opal 50. Devendra Banhart 51. Ariel Pink 52. Grizzly Bear 53. Screaming Trees 54. The Chesterfield Kings 55. Darker My Love 56. The Dodos 57. Tame Impala 58. Plasticland 59. The Green Pajamas 60. Angel'in Heavy Syrup 61. Widespread Panic 62. Yeasayer 63. Acid Mothers Temple 64. Black Moth Super Rainbow 65. Magic Hour 66. Baby Lemonade 67. The Black Angels 68. The Bangles (early career) 69. Charalambides 70. Euros Childs 71. Julian's Treatment 72. Plan 9 73. Mandragora 74. Floatation Toy Warning 75. Hum
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