“What I was originally trying to do was make a psychedelic record that sounded like psychedelic records from the late 1960s and early ’70s. Basically, anyone who was copying the Beatles,” Burton says. “I suppose bands like the 13th Floor Elevators and the Prunes are the ones people have heard of, but that was really nameless music; there were thousands of those groups. And what I liked about those bands was that the musicians made crazy decisions. They would play a normal melody for thirty seconds and then throw in something completely uncommercial and insane. Why did they do that? It blew my
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