Amon Duul’s debut album is 90% attitude and 10% skill, but man, what attitude! Imagine what would have happened it the cast of Gilligan’s Island had brought a copy of the Velvet Underground’s White Light/White Heat with them on their ill-fated voyage. After lots of communal sex and a diet of magic mushrooms, Psychedelic Underground is the music they would have made after going crazy from being stranded for all those years, with only “Sister Ray” to keep them company.

The album kicks off with a seventeen minute “song”, snarls screams and chants over a mammoth drum beat. This is the sound of your soul being purified by fire, burning away years of negative karma. Then a cut into a beautiful guitar/violin piece, one of the most soothing Amon Duul songs ever. The violin is the grim reaper, slowly bringing his scythe across a barren land. The impure s