Tucker Zimmerman - Ten Songs (1969)

American folk rocker Tucker Zimmerman's excellent debut LP. Surreal, psychedelic songs delivered with a fuzzy, rough-around-the-edges sound. Band includes a pre-cape Rick Wakeman on organ and the great Tony Visconti, who also produced the record.

Track listing:
1. Bird Lives
2. October Mornings
3. A Face That Hasn't Sold Out
4. The Roadrunner
5. Children of Fear
6. The Wind Returns into the Night
7. Running, Running from Moment to Moment
8. Upsidedown Circus World
9. Blue Goose
10. Alpha Centauri

And they kept on falling in
And they kept on crawling out

More along these lines:

Tim Hollier -
Tim Hollier (1970)

Andy Zwerling -
Spiders in the Night (1971)

Todd Rundgren - Initiation (1975)

Someone must've seen this post coming, right? I love synths, 70s pop-rock, and drugs, so it was only a matter of time before I posted Initiation, an album representing the moment in which former pop-rocker Todd Rundgren, clearly having already embraced his love for hallucinogens, did so for his love of synthesizers.

Track listing:
1. Real Man
2. Born to Synthesize
3. The Death of Rock 'n Roll
4. Eastern Intrigue
5. Inititation
6. Fair Warning
7. A Treatise on Cosmic Fire I: Intro - Prana
8. A Treatise on Cosmic Fire II: The Fire of Mind or Solar Fire
9. A Treatise on Cosmic Fire III: The Fire of Spirit or Electric Fire
10. A Treatise on Cosmic Fire IV: The Eternal Fire or Fire by Friction / Outro - Prana

Will the real God please stand up?

If you dig this, try these, too:

Automatic Man -
Automatic Man (1976)

Rick Wakeman -
No Earthly Connection (1976)

Rick Wakeman - The Seven Wonders of the World (1995)

Related:
Strawbs - From the Witchwood (1971)
Rick Wakeman - No Earthly Connection (1976)

Alright, that's it. Y'all thought I was fucking around when I said I was a nerd. NOPE. And it's time to separate the nerds from the boys. So here it is: the nerdiest thing I have ever posted on here. A new age concept album about the Seven Ancient Wonders of the World. Each Wonder is given a brief spoken introduction, then an extended, synth-saturated, noodle-packed instrumental that somehow is supposed to represent said Wonder. Written and performed by a man who enjoys wearing white capes. May God have mercy on our souls.

Track listing:
1. The Pharos of Alexandria: Narration
2. The Pharos of Alexandria
3. The Colossus of Rhodes: Narration
4. The Colossus of Rhodes
5. The Pyramids of Egypt: Narration
6. The Pyramids of Egypt
7. The Hanging Gardens of Babylon: Narration
8. The Hanging Gardens of Babylon
9. The Temple of Artemis: Narration
10. The Temple of Artemis
11. The Statue of Zeus: Narration
12. The Statue of Zeus
13. The Mausoleum at Halicarnassus: Narration
14. The Mausoleum at Halicarnassus

Meanwhile, thousands of years ago...

You might also wanna check out:

Al Gromer Khan -
Divan I Khas (Visions of a Mogul Prince) (1987)

Michael Shrieve & Steve Roach -
The Leaving Time (1988)

Rick Wakeman - No Earthly Connection (1976)

Try to tell me that Unwound didn't rip off the way this album starts for the opening of Leaves Turn Inside You. Nope, you're wrong, it's exactly the same.

Beyond that, No Earthly Connection takes Wakeman's love for synth-y, symphonic prog into swampier, sometimes funkier territory, and while it doesn't quite attain the highs of his first three solo LPs, it's still totally weird and great.

Track listing:
1. Music Reincarnate
2. The Prisoner
3. The Lost Cycle

Show me the way to the little man

Strawbs - From the Witchwood (1971)

Progressive, psychedelic folk rock. The lyrics are dark, but the vocal harmonies, kaleidoscopic sitar leads, frilly keyboards, and chiming acoustic guitars are sunshine and gentle breezes. It was hard to pick which Strawbs album to post, as they have so many great ones, so I just went with From the Witchwood because I associate it with summer and I don't want this summer to end like it's about to. And Rick Wakeman plays on it, so you know it's the shit.

Track listing:
1. A Glimpse of Heaven
2. Witchwood
3. Thirty Days
4. Flight
5. The Hangman and the Papist
6. Sheep
7. Canon Dale
8. The Shepard's Song
9. In Amongst the Roses
10. I'll Carry On Beside You

Like some evil bird of prey
The scaffold spreads its wings
The people build their fires and bolt their doors