13th FLOOR ELEVATORS - Psychedelic Sounds of LP

Cheap fanclub repro.
Highly recommended. 

Did the 13th Floor Elevators invent psychedelic rock? Aficionados will be debating that point for decades, but if Roky Erickson and his fellow travelers into inner space weren't there first, they were certainly close to the front of the line, and there are few albums from the early stages of the psych movement that sound as distinctively trippy -- and remain as pleasing -- as the group's groundbreaking debut, The Psychedelic Sounds of the 13th Floor Elevators.

Straight out of a seedy Texan garage with savage instincts to spare and musical proficiency on level with The Shaggs (they do master the jug, though), the Elevators rank in garage rock's pantheon just a nudge below the Sonics.