{"id":6405,"date":"2024-04-10T16:24:12","date_gmt":"2024-04-10T15:24:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shindig-magazine.com\/?p=6405"},"modified":"2025-01-08T13:31:22","modified_gmt":"2025-01-08T13:31:22","slug":"exclusive-shindig-qobuz-playlist-11-cool-sunday-morning-american-soft-psych-1966-71","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shindig-magazine.com\/?p=6405","title":{"rendered":"Exclusive Shindig! Qobuz playlist #11: Cool Sunday Morning \u2013 American Soft-Psych 1966-71"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>We\u2019re very excited to be media partners with the truly\u00a0unique online streaming platform and\u00a0download store\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.qobuz.com\/\">Qobuz<\/a>. The 11th of our monthly bespoke playlists, which take in all manner of genres and sub-genres, scenes and beyond, then and now, encapsulates the joys of spring through wide-eyed American flower-children<\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-6406\" src=\"https:\/\/www.shindig-magazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Qobuz-Instagram-SOFT-PSYCH-300x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shindig-magazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Qobuz-Instagram-SOFT-PSYCH-300x300.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/shindig-magazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Qobuz-Instagram-SOFT-PSYCH-1024x1024.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/shindig-magazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Qobuz-Instagram-SOFT-PSYCH-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/shindig-magazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Qobuz-Instagram-SOFT-PSYCH-768x768.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/shindig-magazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Qobuz-Instagram-SOFT-PSYCH-24x24.jpeg 24w, https:\/\/shindig-magazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Qobuz-Instagram-SOFT-PSYCH-48x48.jpeg 48w, https:\/\/shindig-magazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Qobuz-Instagram-SOFT-PSYCH-96x96.jpeg 96w, https:\/\/shindig-magazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Qobuz-Instagram-SOFT-PSYCH.jpeg 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><i>Play <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/open.qobuz.com\/playlist\/20659764\">here<\/a><i> or use the scrollable frame with\u00a0tracklist the bottom of the page. You can sign up for a free trial today. Plans start from \u00a310.83 per month. For more on <\/i><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.qobuz.com\/gb-en\/discover\">Qobuz<\/a><\/span><i> read our interview with MD Dan Mackta <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.shindig-magazine.com\/?p=5784\">h<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">ere<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/widget.qobuz.com\/playlist\/20659764?zone=GB-en\" width=\"378\" height=\"390\"><span style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><span style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\"><\/span><span style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\"><\/span>Your browser does not support iframes.<br \/>\n<span style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\"><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span>\u00a0<\/iframe><br \/>\nAs hippiedom and drug culture took hold, minds were expanded and new universes were entered across the mid to late \u201960s, the American pop music industry evolved. The nation\u2019s wealthy key cities leading studio technology was also central, allowing for great gains in the new sonic template. If The Beatles and Stones had led to the formation of millions of garage bands in 1964-65, it was the experimentation of The Beatles\u2019 post <em>Rubber Soul<\/em> period, The Zombies\u2019 slightly odd but polite baroque, Brian Wilson\u2019s teenage symphonies, and even The Mamas &amp; The Papas\u2019 Californian clarion call that caught the attention of major record labels. Songwriters, Svengalis, scene shapers, zeitgeist cash-in hucksters, and garage bands sought to change name, or at least style, and become part of the age of Aquarius. Fashion and youth culture was everything and for a short while everyone wanted to be part of the psychedelic revolution \u2013 within reason. As acid-rock appealed to the genuine tripping freaks, the major labels and artists seeking hits adapted psychedelia into an easily accessible commodity. And pop music went weird. Harpischords, orchestras, fuzz, harmonies and sweet melodies all coalesced.<\/p>\n<p>The three hours worth of music in this playlist sees old guard figures like Del Shannon and The Tokens change with the times, folkies The Association embrace the new sound, and boy\/girl acts aplenty all greatly expand their palette. Spanky &amp; Our Gang\u2019s \u201cLeopard Skin Phones\u201d is about as wacky, clever and aware as anything truly cutting edge recorded in \u201969. The Monkees\u2019 <em>Head<\/em> was a great movie moment that captured the precise moment when teenybop bands got turned on. The opening psychedelic credits accompanied by their &#8216;Porpoise Song&#8217; is era defining. The Strawberry Alarm Clock, who started out as garage-punks Thee Sixpence, appeared in the AIP drugsploitation flick <em>Psych-Out<\/em> (alongside Jack Nicholson). &#8216;Pretty Song&#8217; is the ultimate summation of blissed-out life on the Haight for wide-eyed teenagers that frequented drive-in movies. Much of the music here is psychedelic music made for teens and young adults more averse to the Hot 100 than dropping LSD at a ballroom. A lot of it isn\u2019t really psychedelic at all, but by the nature of the recordings and arrangements so much pop music was affected by it. This new sound offered a distillation of the strangeness and escape of taking drugs without necessarily having to take them. Acts like Harper\u2019s Bizarre, The Cowsills, The Critters, The Turtles, The Magicians were all commercial artists that got caught up in the daring and experimental phase of pop music that The Beatles ushered in. And sure, Salvation, and a number of other acts featured here were genuine drug-taking hippies that, like the Airplane and the Dead, wanted to sell records.<\/p>\n<p>After three hours of this delightful soft-psych you too will be green with envy at the music that young Americans were surrounded by in the second half of the \u201960s.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a9 Jon \u2018Mojo\u2019 Mills \/<em>Shindig!<\/em>\u00a0magazine in partnership with Qobuz<\/p>\n<span class=\"synved-social-container synved-social-container-share\"><a class=\"synved-social-button synved-social-button-share synved-social-size-24 synved-social-resolution-single synved-social-provider-facebook nolightbox\" data-provider=\"facebook\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"Share on Facebook\" href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fshindig-magazine.com%2Findex.php%3Frest_route%3D%252Fwp%252Fv2%252Fposts%252F6405&#038;t=Exclusive%20Shindig%21%20Qobuz%20playlist%20%2311%3A%20Cool%20Sunday%20Morning%20%E2%80%93%20American%20Soft-Psych%201966-71&#038;s=100&#038;p&#091;url&#093;=https%3A%2F%2Fshindig-magazine.com%2Findex.php%3Frest_route%3D%252Fwp%252Fv2%252Fposts%252F6405&#038;p&#091;images&#093;&#091;0&#093;=https%3A%2F%2Fshindig-magazine.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2024%2F04%2FScreenshot-2024-04-10-at-16.19.45.jpg&#038;p&#091;title&#093;=Exclusive%20Shindig%21%20Qobuz%20playlist%20%2311%3A%20Cool%20Sunday%20Morning%20%E2%80%93%20American%20Soft-Psych%201966-71\" style=\"font-size: 0px;width:24px;height:24px;margin:0;margin-bottom:5px;margin-right:5px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Facebook\" title=\"Share on Facebook\" class=\"synved-share-image synved-social-image synved-social-image-share\" width=\"24\" height=\"24\" style=\"display: inline;width:24px;height:24px;margin: 0;padding: 0;border: none;box-shadow: none\" src=\"https:\/\/shindig-magazine.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/social-media-feather\/synved-social\/image\/social\/regular\/48x48\/facebook.png\" \/><\/a><a class=\"synved-social-button synved-social-button-share synved-social-size-24 synved-social-resolution-single synved-social-provider-twitter nolightbox\" data-provider=\"twitter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"Share on Twitter\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fshindig-magazine.com%2Findex.php%3Frest_route%3D%252Fwp%252Fv2%252Fposts%252F6405&#038;text=New%20post%20on%20our%20site\" style=\"font-size: 0px;width:24px;height:24px;margin:0;margin-bottom:5px;margin-right:5px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"twitter\" title=\"Share on Twitter\" class=\"synved-share-image synved-social-image synved-social-image-share\" width=\"24\" height=\"24\" style=\"display: inline;width:24px;height:24px;margin: 0;padding: 0;border: none;box-shadow: none\" src=\"https:\/\/shindig-magazine.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/social-media-feather\/synved-social\/image\/social\/regular\/48x48\/twitter.png\" \/><\/a><a class=\"synved-social-button synved-social-button-share synved-social-size-24 synved-social-resolution-single synved-social-provider-mail nolightbox\" data-provider=\"mail\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"Share by email\" href=\"mailto:?subject=Exclusive%20Shindig%21%20Qobuz%20playlist%20%2311%3A%20Cool%20Sunday%20Morning%20%E2%80%93%20American%20Soft-Psych%201966-71&#038;body=New%20post%20on%20our%20site:%20https%3A%2F%2Fshindig-magazine.com%2Findex.php%3Frest_route%3D%252Fwp%252Fv2%252Fposts%252F6405\" style=\"font-size: 0px;width:24px;height:24px;margin:0;margin-bottom:5px;margin-right:5px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"mail\" title=\"Share by email\" class=\"synved-share-image synved-social-image synved-social-image-share\" width=\"24\" height=\"24\" style=\"display: inline;width:24px;height:24px;margin: 0;padding: 0;border: none;box-shadow: none\" src=\"https:\/\/shindig-magazine.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/social-media-feather\/synved-social\/image\/social\/regular\/48x48\/mail.png\" \/><\/a><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019re very excited to be media partners with the truly\u00a0unique online streaming platform and\u00a0download store\u00a0Qobuz. The 11th of our monthly bespoke playlists, which take in all manner of genres and sub-genres, scenes and beyond, then and now, encapsulates the joys of spring through wide-eyed American flower-children \u00a0 Play here or use the scrollable frame with\u00a0tracklist [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6407,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1172],"tags":[1064,1138],"class_list":["post-6405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-qobuz","tag-qobuz","tag-soft-psych"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shindig-magazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shindig-magazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shindig-magazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shindig-magazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shindig-magazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6405"}],"version-history":[{"count":-4,"href":"https:\/\/shindig-magazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6405\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shindig-magazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shindig-magazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shindig-magazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shindig-magazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}