Does anyone know of good psychedellic bands that have songs similar to maybe "Neighborhood #1" by The Arcade Fire or "Caring is Creepy" by The Shins?

My first reccomendation is to get both Shins albums and AF's album. I'm hoping you have them already, but if not, the Shins' albums are called Oh, Inverted World and Chutes Too Narrow. Arcade Fire's is called Funeral.

As for other reccomendations, I guess Wilco's Yankee Hotel Foxtrot and Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea are albums that might fit what you're looking for.

"Dusk at Cubist Castle" by Olivia Tremor Control

Don't know if you care to go all the way back to the '70's, but Todd Rundgren's "A Wizard, a True Star" is a pysch-pop Salvador Dali style masterpiece.

I'm intrigued because, though those two tracks are good, I wouldn't say either are similar nor would I call them psychadelic!
Anyhow, I understand the NMH/OTC pointers for Arcade Fire, though AC rock harder. Try the Decemberists too, since NMH/OTC haven't released stuff in years.
Shins are intelligent power-pop to my ears, so try The Weakerthans>New Pornographers>Fountains of Wayne>even through to Death Cab for Cutie. All good stuff.

I thought you were asleep already! I think I know a lot of psychedelic bands, but I'm not sure that the ones you mentioned are psychedelic, so I'll check back.

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Originally posted by mark f:
I thought you were asleep already! I think I know a lot of psychedelic bands, but I'm not sure that the ones you mentioned are psychedelic, so I'll check back.

I don't think shins21 means psychedelic if he/she's after bands that make sounds like those two tracks.

Anyhow don't bother me now. Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

It seems a bit like shins here hasn't heard much (or any) indie music previous to these two tracks.

haha maybe its not classified as phsychedellic, but i just didn't know how to describe it. It is obviously a different sound from say modest mouse. The other shins songs sound a little different from "caring is creepy". And "caring is creepy" is my favorite song on the album, and "neighborhood #1" is my favorite song off the Arcade Fire album. They both seemed to sound somewhat similar and i know im not really making my self clear here but i was just hoping SOMEONE out there knew what i was talking about.

and i love giving you guys a headache

I think some of Modest Mouse's older stuff could fall into the "pyschedelic" category, at least as defined by Tunnels and Caring is Creepy. Although, those two songs don't really sound alike...

I'm kind of partial to New Slang off Oh, Inverted World, although Tunnels is my favorite off of Funeral.

If you want something that is in the same vein as the songs you mentioned, I'm going to have to second the recommendation of Neutral Milk Hotel's In the Aeroplane Over the Sea. That album will knock your socks off.

If you want some psychedelic music, check out The 13th Floor Elevators, Dead Meadow, Jefferson Airplane (not Jefferson Starship), Black Sabbath, Black Mountain, and a-ju-fin. I doubt those bands are what you are looking for though...

if ur looking for a psychedelic sound similiar to velvet underground listen to either the stars or another band called ambulance ltd theyre really good and if its psychedelia ur looking for they def qualify

to be quite frank, for sheer psychedelic retro-osityness, you can't beat (and yes, its shamefully mainstream) The Coral. If you're talking stonery psychedelic then Nightfreak and the sons of Becker has that sorta thing.... or Dreaming of You is surefire psychedelic. Or did i get the definition? Either way, i havent been able to get it out my head for three years...