Gary Pig Gold's All-Time Top Ten Psychedelic Records (circa 1966)
Gary Pig Gold, inmusicwetrust.com, May 1999
WITH EVERY waking hour bringing yet another ill-advised Revival of sorts to our virtual doorsteps – today Slinkies, tomorrow Saturday Night Fever – I thought it, yes, high time I toss in my two tokes' worth (sorry) and offer the dazed 'n' confused reader out there a Consumer's Guide, as it were, to the kind of sounds one really should be hearing after staying up three or four nights in a row – that is, should the mood ever strike to slap on some patchouli oil and get back to (what's left of) the garden.
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