The Trip

About The Trip

"The Trip" is a song written and recorded by American singer-songwriter Kim Fowley. It first appeared on the A-side of Fowley's debut single as a solo artist, which was released in early 1965 on Corby Records (see 1965 in music). Anticipating the surreal essence of psychedelia, and his early work with the Mothers of Invention, "The Trip" remains one of Fowley's most experimental compositions of his recording career. Lyrically, the song is regarded as one of the earliest recordings to explicitly make references to LSD. In the composition, Fowley, with a lascivious tone, encourages those depressed with the world to escape it by taking LSD, pronouncing "Summertime's here, kiddies, and it's time to take a trip! To take trips!". The contents become more bizarre as he describes hallucinogenic visions of animals, and drug-induced seduction. Remarkably, despite "The Trip"'s unusual arrangement, it became a regional hit in Los Angeles, and was covered by noted deejay Godfrey, and Thee Midniters, in 1966. An advertisement in a November 1965 edition of the Los Angeles Free Press promoting the remaining copies of "The Trip" suggest the single was one of the earliest works to obviously speak about the psychedelic experience. Since its initial pressing, the song has appeared most notably on Pebbles, Volume 1 and the 1998 expanded box-set of Nuggets: Original Artyfacts from the First Psychedelic Era, 1965–1968. Godfrey's rendition, retitled "Let's Take a Trip", is featured on Pebbles, Volume 3. The track was featured on the soundtrack for the 2008 film RocknRolla by director Guy Ritchie. more »

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1998

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Summer time here, kitties
And it's time to take a trip
To take a trip
If you feel so bad, if you feel so sad

You gotta take a trip into a world so glass
A world of frost and clean fountains
And flying dolls and surfing cakes
And there's no rats and purple clouds
Our faces as clown and wall of glass that never pass
And pick his head upside-down

Would I ask, where you, is another world?
You and your girl, and all your friends
All be there, oh yeah, let's take a trip

TNT, S.O.S, HOB, TOP

Here we go now , let's climb some mountains, everybody
Get all your walking shoes
It's time to climb some mountains, here we go

Let's take a trip , it's time to dream , just close your eyes
Is grooving now, yeah, it's all around, let's take a trip
I felt in the ground, ooh yeah , let's take a trip

It's really here, no one will know what's going on
Just you and me and the dreams that we see, oh, c'mon baby
You doing right, just put your head back

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Kim Fowley

Kim Vincent Fowley (July 21, 1939 – January 15, 2015) was an American record producer, singer, songwriter and musician. He is best known for his role behind a string of novelty and cult pop rock singles in the 1960s, and for managing the Runaways in the 1970s. He has been described as "one of the most colorful characters in the annals of rock & roll," as well as "a shadowy cult figure well outside the margins of the mainstream." more »

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