Some would say that The White Album was The Beatles retreat from psychedelic music but I would say that people that say that are misreading things quite a bit. I don't consider The White Album to be a retreat in anyway. It's further expansion of the themes they were already exploring. This album is filled to the brim with mind blowing songs like "Happiness is a Warm Gun," "Dear Prudence.

What I think is really psychedelic about The White Album is how there are 30 tracks on it and almost every one of them sounds like they are from some other band in some other world but somehow simultaneously they all sound like The Beatles. As a side note; I consider The White Album to be the greatest album of all time - psychedelic or not Blue Moon Tea.

In 1967 the Beatles' created their undisputed masterpiece, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. This is the Beatles' mescaline album. It is a radically different departure from anything that had come before. It created a world of its own, a world of sounds and sonic textures never heard before. Its very form was radical as it had no singles, no spaces between the individual songs.

The world of Sgt. Pepper's was one of bright colors and mirrored or lead the world from a gray suited existence with black and white television, magazines and even motion pictures to one of technicolor movies, color photos in magazines, color television and the acceptability of grown men to choose clothes in colors other than black, gray, brown or Navy Blue.

The songs on Sgt. Pepper's include the metaphor for an acid trip, Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds, another surreal sounding song about a carnival (as metaphor for a psychedelic experience?), Being For The Benefit Of Mister Kite, and a song with an instrumental interlude that is the sonic interpretation of astral projection or "tripping out" or entering "into a dream", A Day In His Life.