Greatest Experimental Rock Songs?

[Midas]

This is just a list of early Experimental Rock Songs from the mid to late 60's. Progressive Rock, Psychedelic rock, electronic, musique concrete, jazz fusion, and World Music influences are the basis of the list. It's in no order. I would welcome any other songs since this has been a topic on this forum. Any song recorded before 1970

King Crimson- In The Court Of The Crimson King-King Crimson-
King Crimson- Epitaph-King Crimson
King Crimson- 21st Century Schizoid Man
King Crimson- Talk to the Wind
Jimi Hendrix Experience- Voodoo Chile-
Jimi Hendrix Experience - Are You Experienced
Jimi Hendrix Experience- Third Stone From The Sun
Jimi Hendrix Experience- And The Gods Made Love
Frank Zappa- Who Are the Brain Police
Frank Zappa- The Return of the Son of Monster Magnet
Frank Zappa- Brown Shoes Don’t Make It
Frank Zappa - Peaches En Regalia
The Who- The Ox
The Who- Quick one while he's away
The Who- Armenia in the Sky
The Nice - The Diamond Hard Blue Apples Of The Moon
The Nice - America 1968
The Nice- Rondo
The Byrds “Eight Miles High”
The Byrds "Mind Garden"
The Silver Apples- Oscillations
The Silver Apples - Ruby
The Beach Boys- Good Vibrations
GENESIS - In the Beginning
GENESIS - The Serpent
The Beatles- Tomorrow Never Knows”
The Beatles - A Day in the Life”
The Beatles- Within You Without You
The Beatles- Revolution 9
The Yardbirds- Still Im Sad”
The Yardbirds- Over Under Sideways Down
Pink Floyd- A Saucerful of Secrets
Pink Floyd- Interstellar Overdrive
Pink Floyd- Astromony Domine
Pink Floyd- Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun
Pink Floyd- Several Species of Small Furry Animals Gathered Together in a Cave and Grooving with a Pict
The Rolling Stones- Gomper
The Rolling Stones- 2,000 Light Years From Home
Giles, Giles & Fripp - Make it today
The Velvet Underground- Heroin
The Velvet Underground- Venus In Furs
The Velvet Underground- Sister Ray
Soft Machine- Moon In June
Soft Machine- Joy of a Toy
Steve Miller Band- The Beauty of Time Is That It's Snowing
The Monks - Shut Up
Renaissance - Kings and Queens
Colosseum - Valentyne Suite part 1
The Doors- The End
The Doors- Strange Days
The Doors- Crystal Ship
PROCOL HARUM- In Held 'Twas in I
Van Der Graaf Generator- Octopus
Van Der Graaf Generator- Afterwards
Red Crayola Hurricane- Fighter Plane
Red Crayola- Free Form Freakout
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band- When Big Joan Sets Up
Jethro Tull- Dharma for One
Jethro Tull- "Bourée" (J. S. Bach arr. Jethro Tull
Tangerine Dream- Journey Through a Burning Brain
The Quintessence - Midnight Mode
Spirit- Mechanical World –
Spirit- Taurus
H.P. Lovecraft- At The Mountains of Madness
H.P. Lovecraft- Electrallentando
Tomorrow- My White Bicycle
Traffic- Paper Sun
Country Joe & The Fish- Section 43
The Incredible String Band- Creation
The United States of America- Cloud Song
Electric Prunes- 'To Much To Dream Last Night'
The Moody Blues- Nights in White Satan
The Moody Blues- Om
Donovan- Three Kingfishers
Paul Butterfield Blue Band- East-west"
The Pretty Things- "Defecting Grey
Jefferson Airplane- Two Heads"
Jefferson Airplane- Embryonic Journey
Jefferson Airplane- A Small Package of Value Will Come to You, Shortly
It's a Beautiful Day- White Bird"
Jeff Beck- Beck’ s Bolero
Led Zeppelin- Black Mountain Side
Led Zeppelin- How Many More Times
Cream- Toad
Cream- White Room
SAGITTARIUS-VIRGO
The Fourth Way - The far side of your moon

[JohnnyRocketFingers]

Klaus Schulze - Satz Ebene
Velvet Underground - Sister Ray
Captain Beefheart - Moonlight On Vermont
Faust - Miss Fortune
Glenn Branca - The Ascension
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[JohnnyRocketFingers]

Red Crayola - Hurrican Fight Plane
Nico - My Only Child
The Residents - Ship's A'going Down
Slint - Good Morning Captain
Tortoise - Djed
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[RFNAPLES]

Chubby Checker-The Twist-1960
Elvis Presley-Little Sister-1961
Booker T. & The MG's-Green Onions-1962
The Kingsmen-Louie Louie-1963
The Kinks-You Really Got Me-1964
Bob Dylan-Like a Rolling Stone-1965
The Beach Boys-Good Vibrations-1966
The Beatles-Strawberry Fields Forever-1967
The Rolling Stones-Sympathy for the Devil-1968
Led Zeppelin-Whole Lotta Love-1969
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[JohnnyRocketFingers]

Was that a joke?
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[telefunker]

Pink Floyd - Us And Them
Animal Collective - Banshee Beat
Frank Zappa - Peaches en Regalia
King Crimson - I Talk To The Wind
TLC - No Scrubs
Sonic Youth - The Diamond Sea
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[RFNAPLES]

What I chose to list were progressive songs for each year of the 60s. I chose to include songs that took steps forward, improved, advanced, or developed rock of the day. Those songs made progress, new sounding music, in other words were progressive. They could have been the Greatest Experimental Rock Songs at the time!

Progressive Rock came in many shapes and sizes, but it can be loosely defined as music that attempts to combine rock and psychedelic with classical, symphonic, and literary elements. Progressive Rock has its origins in the British psychedelic scene of the late 60s. Inspired by the Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper, the first wave incorporated elements of European and classical music into rock. Progressive Rock expands the limits of rock & roll. It tends to be traditionally melodic, literary, and oriented toward classically trained instrumental technique.

Sometimes it is called Art Rock which is more likely to have experimental or avant-garde influences, placing novel sonic texture above Progressive Rock’s symphonic ambitions. Experimental Rock is tangentially related to Art Rock, yet it is more challenging, noisy and unconventional.

Also sometimes known as “classical rock”—bands playing suites, not songs; borrowing riffs from classical composers instead of the founders of rock n’ roll; using language closer to poets than to rhythm and blues artists. One should not be confused of course with all the related styles: Album Rock, Art-Rock/Experimental, Avant-Prog, Canterbury Scene, Experimental Rock, Kraut Rock, Neo-Prog, Noise-Rock, Obscuro, Post-Rock/Experimental, Progressive Metal, Prog-Rock/Art Rock, etc.
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[Midas]

RFNAPLES I agree with everything you have except these are not experimental rock songs. Experimental ROCK experiments with the basic elements of the genre, and/or which pushes the boundaries of common composition and performance technique. All of these songs are still basic songs in form and chord usage even if "Like a Rolling Stone" goes for six minutes it's still a simple blues folk rock song.

[RFNAPLES]

Progression tends to happen slowly in an evolutionary manner. There are not always complete or great differences with songs that preceded. The songs I listed were different from the norm and often had emulators and later became considered standard fare themselves.
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[Midas]

"Strawberry Fields Forever" was recorded in 1966. Elvis was rock and roll and “Summertime Blues" (1958) Eddie Cochran is just as much a precedent to that song. I have to disagree with you and the only songs on your list are actually experimental rock are these songs. I don't mean to be harsh but the "Twist" and "Little Sister" experimental rock you must be joking.

The Beach Boys-Good Vibrations-1966
The Beatles-Strawberry Fields Forever-1967
The Rolling Stones-Sympathy for the Devil-1968
Led Zeppelin-Whole Lotta Love-1969