Songs That Make You Feel Like You're on Acid

Aesop Rock's "The Greatest Pacman Victory in History" starts out with Aesop simultaneously saying "You like acid, little boy?" and "I can't feel my legs!" This is a sign of things to come, but shit gets real during verse two when, for an entire verse, Aesop weaves together words that start with the letter L, then S, then D. LSD, LSD, LSD, LSD, LSD, LSD, LSD. Wait, is he really doing this? Or am I tripping? Oh my god.

Lazy summer days

Like some decrepit landshark dumb luck squad dog lurks sicker deluded

Last sturdy domino lean's secluded

Don't let stupid delusions lessen super-duty labor students

Dragnet lifer solutions

Daddy loved sloppy dimensions like son-daughter links

Such determinated lepers, successfully disheveled

Little soliders developed like serpents despite life sentence ducking

Lemmings

Some don't like sobriety's dirty lenses

Some do

Let sleeping dogs lie still

Don't look so damn lackluster

Suck defeat

Lump summed damage

Load sample, delete

Late Show Dave Letterman, shitty diner lip-slide dutch

Low self-discipline leaders see dead lung self-destruct

Life sucks dickhead

Lost summers display laminate showcasing divinity live

System definitive

Liturgy soaked, depict lowly spectactular delight

Why, what kind of L.S.D. you like?

Everything is okay. Everything is not okay. Everything is amazing. What's that sound? Did you hear that? Wait, where'd you go? Am I by myself? Fuck, this carpet is amazing.

Everything about this song, from the terrifying cover art to the barrage of sounds which distort and mutate, to the bizarre imagery painted by Clarence Clarity's lyrics is a multi-sensory rush. It's a swirling, whirling, unstoppable dervish of sounds that really aren't meant to go together, but the fact that they are starts to fuck with your mind.

And god forbid you actually play thins song if you are on acid.

Why is that girl spreading Vaseline on toast?

Why is that guy wiping his nose on magazines?

Why is that girl trying to dye her hair with tangerines?

Am I real?

If this song and all its warm, floating euphoria doesn't make you feel like you're tripping balls, the music video will. If you still don't feel like you're on acid, then you're probably actually on acid. Check your pupils.

It's like Q-Tip meets jj meets that surreal feeling of looking out a plane window while you're cutting through a cloud. Maybe that's just the power of suggestion. Maybe it's just the title that makes this song feel like flying through a cloud. Or maybe it's the acid.

It's summer, and you're lying in a field with your girl, holding hands, tripping, both staring at the beautiful fluffy white clouds in the mindblowingly blue sky. Life is perfect.

When you listen to this song that winter, or years later, you will always be transported back to that magical moment.

It's almost too obvious to include a song called "I Love Acid," but Luke Vibert's brilliant release on Warp Records really is a musical trip. In only four short minutes you can become totally lost in the song, with its manipulated vocals and sudden splashes of color working their way into your mind and refusing to leave.

Listen to this a few times and you'll be like, "You know what? I really do love acid."

At the start of this song, reverberating percussion and whispers swirl around you, making you feel like you are about to be attacked from all sides. The seductive onslaught starts when the main beat drops in, chattering, shaking, asking you to just go with it and start dancing to whatever sadistic magic you've just dropped yourself into. Smoke is billowing around you and the world is green and flashing. Was that an alien or an animal crying in the background?

It doesn't even matter anymore, the poison is spreading through your body.

The musical personification of a bad trip, Actress' "Shadow From Tartarus" is oppressive and unescapable. Various elements come and go throughout the song, appearing briefly before dissipating quickly into the haze of your mind, making you wonder if they were ever really there at all. There are moments of beauty, of color, but all the while that ominous backdrop reminds you that something is definitely not right.