re: Best psychedelic rock song?

Beat me to the punch on 1983. Voodoo Chile(15 minute blues jam), Zeppelin's Dazed and Confused, How Many More Times and The Rain Song.

You said best, so some are mainstream:

-White rabbit by Jefferson Airplane
-Iron butterfly theme by Iron butterfly
Interstellar overdrive by Pink Floyd (who has a monopoly-they just churned out the stuff with Barrett and after)
- swalbr by cream
-8 miles high by the byrds


Picking one- white rabbit b/c of lyrics

Deep Purple - Child in Time

From the mainstream. Some already were mentioned:

Helter Skelter
White Rabbit
8 Miles High
Purple Haze
Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Condition Was In)

Let me add a few more :

The Ballad of You and Me and Pooneil - Jefferson Airplane

Inside Looking Out - Grand Funk Railroad

Wasted Union Blues - It's a Beautiful Day

I'm a Man - Chicago Transit Authority

Soul Sacrifice - Santana

OK some of the suggestions in this thread are ridiculous, but

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ELP- Lucky Man

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officially takes the prize

I guess you need to have a Doors song or two in the discussion. So here are a couple to consider:

Strange Days

Waiting on the Sun

And I guess these two Beatles songs should be in the discussion:

Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds - I don't care what Lennon claimed, there's no way this song wasn't inspired, and about by LSD

I am the Walrus

And then I figured I'd throw in a couple Grateful Dead tunes for the best psychedelic rock song:

China Cat Sunflower - I used the Europe '72 version, so you get I Know You Rider thrown in, but China Cat is the one I was thinking of as psychedelic.

The Golden Road To Unlimited Devotion

L.A. Woman .... Doors

Sky Pilot-Eric Burdon and the Animals

Steppen Wolf-Sookie Sookie

In A Gadda Da-vida Iron Butterfly

Strange Brew-Cream

Sunshine Superman-Donovan