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Can you pass the acid test?

Can you pass the acid test?

Basel, April 16, 1943, Sandoz Laboratories. Dr Albert Hofmann was researching the properties of rye fungus, as a cure for migraine. During the afternoon he began to feel peculiar, and went home to lie down. “With eyes closed,” he wrote, “I perceived an uninterrupted stream of fantastic pictures, extraordinary shapes with intense, kaleidoscopic play of colours.”

Unwittingly, Dr Hofmann had taken the first-ever acid trip.

67 years later, here's some historical perspective.

 
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1. You're My Drug - The Dukes Of Stratosphear
2. Get Me To The World On Time - The Electric Prunes
3. The Trip - Kim Fowley
4. Tomorrow Never Knows - The Beatles
5. Christian Science Reading Room - Mark Eitzel
6. Voices Green And Purple - The Bees
7. Open My Eyes - The Nazz
8. Donovan Said - The Brian Jonestown Massacre
9. I Can Hear The Grass Grow - The Move
10. My Friend Jack - The Smoke
11. Are You Gonna Be There (At The Love In) - The Chocolate Watchband
12. Visions of Johanna - Bob Dylan
13. My White Bicycle - Tomorrow
14. Feeling Yourself Disintegrate - The Flaming Lips
15. I Had Too Much To Dream (Last Night) - The Electric Prunes
16. Bufferin: "Memories" (Original) - Raymond Scott
17. Setting Sun - The Chemical Brothers
18. Aht Uh Mi Hed - Shuggie Otis
19. Mindrocker - Fenwyck
20. Drugs - Talking Heads
21. I Think I'm Down - The Harbinger Complex

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