psychedelic rock
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- noun
- /ˌsaɪkəˈdɛlɪk rɑk/
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rock psicodélico
- Many legendary artists, such as Jimi Hendrix and The Doors, helped define the genre of psychedelic rock in the 1960s.
- psychedelic rock band
Examples
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George's psychedelic rock will leave you feeling funky, obviously.
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-[psychedelic rock music]
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It's got roots and Blues and psychedelic rock and other heavy rock.
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-[psychedelic rock music]
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[ Psychedelic Rock ]
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(Both play also in Rocketchief) to form the blues-driven, heavy, and sometimes psychedelic rock formation that should go by the name of ZODIAC.
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For those not aware, Prince Rama is a two-piece psychedelic rock act made up of sisters Taraka and Nimai Larson.
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Taking cues from Sly and the Family Stone, Temps singles like "Cloud Nine" and "Ball of Confusion (That's What the World Is Today)" started to address the ills of the day while incorporating the sounds of psychedelic rock.
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(In contrast to these dour European decadents, hallucinogens were used more expansively to open the mind to the cosmos in the psychedelic rock-and-roll scene of 1960s America.)
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The unique sound of psychedelic rock features distorted guitars and surreal lyrics that reflect the counterculture of its time.
Synonyms
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A 1960s rock style with long guitar solos and unusual sounds often linked to drug use
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Morphology
The phrase is compositionally transparent: the adjective 'psychedelic' (relating to vivid hallucinations/altered perception) modifies the noun 'rock' (a music genre), so a learner who knows both words can infer it denotes rock music that evokes or is associated with psychedelic experiences. This straightforward adjective + noun pattern is cross-linguistically common and does not involve an idiomatic shift, so it should be understandable to a B1 learner who knows the constituents.
Etymology
Psychedelic rock gets its name from psychedelic, a word meaning 'mind-changing', and rock, the music style. Bands used bright lights, strange sounds and studio effects to copy a 'trip', so the name now means rock music that sounds dreamy and unusual.