Meaning of prepsychedelic | Babel Free

Definitions

Related to or characteristic of the period preceding the Psychedelic era of the late 1960s.

not-comparable

Examples

“Lehrer's songs--cynical and sarcastic, Tin Pan Alley style black humor, as if Lenny Bruce teamed up with Lerner and Loewe--were welcome⟳ assaults on the bland conformism of their day, the prepsychedelic early 1960s; we could use⟳ some of that biting comedy in the yuppified 80s, and David Whitehouse and Andy Miller, whose songs form⟳ the spine of this brief show⟳, seem willing to oblige.”

“By the time of their second album, The Fugs (which actually made the top forty), the group had evolved into a kind of primitive clatter marked by lustful evocations and mantralike prepsychedelic trance-Rock.”

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