prepsychedelic

English

Etymology

From pre- +‎ psychedelic.

Adjective

prepsychedelic (not comparable)

1. Related to or characteristic of the period preceding the Psychedelic era of the late 1960s.
   • 1988 November 11, Albert Williams, “An American Dream”, in Chicago Reader‎^[1]:

     Lehrer's songs--cynical and sarcastic, Tin Pan Alley style black humor, as if Lenny Bruce teamed up with Lerner and Loewe--were welcome assaults on the bland conformism of their day, the prepsychedelic early 1960s; we could use some of that biting comedy in the yuppified 80s, and David Whitehouse and Andy Miller, whose songs form the spine of this brief show, seem willing to oblige.

   • 2002, Joe S. Harrington, Sonic Cool: The Life & Death of Rock 'n' Roll‎^[2], →ISBN, page 173:

     By the time of their second album, The Fugs (which actually made the top forty), the group had evolved into a kind of primitive clatter marked by lustful evocations and mantralike prepsychedelic trance-Rock.