Human Captain is speaking:

OK, now we must do this episode in english. The thing is that our space ship has crashed into a cloud. And the cloud thinks we are a green submarine on a mystical magic trip. The cloud's imagination is very british. So now we have to tell it which our favourite psychedelic rock bands are. Unfortunately (I mean luckily) we aren't supposed to get out of the cloud until each one of us has mentioned their group. By now we have become seventeen people, so I hope all you animals know your Beatles?!

Well, the cloud is most interested in what we can't live without. Picture yourselves alone in a desolated space shuttle! Which music would you keep on board if you only could have one? Otherwise the rules are easy. Each band has to be started in the 60's (even if very late) and remind a bit of Beatles. An advantage but not a demand is that your band was born in Great Britain. You also have to give a motivation for your free choice. So, the cloud looks forward to join our psychedelic love for a while. I will begin myself.


1

Human Being's choice

THE BEATLES

because you can return to them as many times you like without getting bored, rather more and more fulfilled.


2

DragonFly's choice

TAGES

since they made an album as good as any Beatles', already in -67 when no one hadn't heard the best of Beatles yet, and Tages were much younger than them. Besides they come from world's most beautiful land Sweden, where I have flown many wonderful waters.


3

Walrus's choice

PROCOL HARUM

A confident band to rely on even in the coldest sea. (Besides, those Beatles never were real walruses, pretended to make magic and mystery, just happened to wear walrus costumes in a silly way, when they should have sticked to real sorcerers.)


4

Owl's choice

DONOVAN

O, sorry, he ain't a band. Not the less he was first hippie who went to India. Donovan inspired Beatles more immediately than human beings know...


5

Mushroom's choice

THE INCREDIBLE STRING BAND

Surprisingly not cello-bound, but tied with indian strings, abstractly etherical though still with many small roots in mother earth, I must discover their symbiosis with me.


6

Snake's choice

ROLLING STONES

for makin' so sexy music that I just have to put it on to make it with myself forever really bad.


7

StarFish's choice

BEACH BOYS

Los Angeles' shining cousins to those Liverpool guys, though sang more beautiful. Started surfin' but soon was deepest into space. Could have picked Bee Gees too, the are as good brothers and singers, but I am no kangaroo who would move to Australia and jumping around that way.


8

Octopus's choice

VAN DER GRAAF GENERATOR

because they made music about octopusses. I don't give a fucking limb if they play in a different, darker division than Beatles, for to me VDGG captures both beauty and harshness of the universe.


9

Rabbit's choice

JEFFERSON AIRPLANE

since they came first, first into psychedelica, first out to some kind of progressive punk, even before Velvet Underground, growing in the mountains of San Fransisco. Also they created the song about the rabbit, sang by that woman in wonderland.


10

Robot's choice

ELO [Electric Light Orchestra]

Captain Jeff Lynne took Beatles music into the electronical era in an incredibly natural way, even worked with Harrison, continued to travel back in time, passed the 60's into the 50's.


11

Flying Squirrel's choice

DAVE DEE, DOZY, BEAKY, MICK & TICH

not only made a legend of Xanadu, they fixed even more exotic themes, seemed as kindly lost in their breakfast as any british boys, but possessed the power to jump down jungle trees by, more awaken than most of them spoiled and spaced-out bands.


12

HummingBird's choice

LEMON PIPERS

Yes, you don't know them, and yet you don't know what instrumentational mastership is before you've discover their both albums, filled with almost too sweet fantasy.


13

Bat's choice

DEEP PURPLE

since they started as soft, as catchy, as spiritually deep as any pink floydfully psychedelic band, but got devilish wings and succeeded to grow really heavy...


14

ELEPHANT's choice

Who

WHY? OF COURSE 'CAUSE THEY POSSESS MOST ENERGY!


15

Ant's choice

THE MAMAS AND THE PAPAS

Rooted in folk music, dealt their work equally between two men and two queens, forerunners for the 70's, bearers of the 50's, as talanted singers as any group should include but few do.


16

Pig's choice

KINKS

cause most cosy


17

Camel's choice

TRAFFIC

Who else could make a sun of paper shine so joyfully fantastic?! And by empty pages have written songs that makes you already ridden to another solar system before you even thought of leaving...