Todays SotD is some premium psych revival from LA's The Rain Parade. Part of the Paisley Underground scene that spawned the excellent Dream Syndicate (the Steve Wynn version, not the John Cale/La Monte Young drone band), Mazzy Star and the Bangles (on whom see this, right now, assuming you like indiepop), the Rain Parade put out a couple of proper albums as well as various live/outtakes collections. This song's about my favourite by them and appears on their Explosions in the Glass Palace EP: it was also a single. The EP was tacked onto the end of their first album when it was reissued so you can get it there.
Anyway, I think this is really good. Jangly psychedelia with some nice guitar playing too. I often think the Paisley Underground scene doesn't get enough credit for the influence it had on later US indie, probably because it didn't really have the whole concept of "independent" labels (it all happened before independents were much of a going concern). Anyway, it's not too far from this kind of thing to something like Green on Red.
The Rain Parade - You Are My Friend
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