The latest Mercury Rev album is what you call quite a trip, and the Jesus and Mary Chain have just released a 4-CD boxed set of B-Sides and Rarities, which means it's time to talk about post-1960s psychedelia...

While psychedelic rock emerged in the late 1960s as LSD became popular among musicians and their fans, it didn't exactly take over the world for very long. Yet, while pop music rejected many of its more self-indulgent traits--long, improvisatory jams, spacey sound effects--the music lived on in the underground, inspiring--to this day!--groups to turn on, tune in and make albums. The last few decades have seen quite a few notable groups that have a psychedelia in their soul and here are some of them!

25) Oneida: Brooklyn-based band that knows how to drone. Current project is a three-part collection where the meaning of life is explained haphazardly through the use of heavy instrumentation and repetitive riffage. Had they come about in the 1970s, they might have spearheaded the

David Gilmour, the notably notable guitar player from Pink Floyd, is back with a two-CD or 2-DVD (take your pick) of the final performance from his 2006 On An Island tour: Live In Gdansk. It features the Polish Baltic Philharmonic, conducted by Zbigniew Preisner, who is not mentioned often enough here at List Of The Day. Gilmour is one of those great guitar players whose tone, taste and ability immediately alerted me to the fact that I would never be a rock 'n' roll star. I was destined to observe from afar.

From these cheap seats, I've compiled a list of the 25 Best British Electric Guitar Players, since if we were profiling here (and, heck, we are) that's where Mr. Gilmour would fall. Personally, I wouldn't get too hung up on where anyone places. There are only 25 slots and list-making demands an order. Wake up on a different day and these guys get juggled in a different order. And then there are always those you kick yourself for forgetting in the first place.

And then there are

You can't judge a book by its cover? Sure you can! Really lame folk music always comes with an album cover that perfectly reflects the corniness within. Generic metal bands always manage some endless variation of an unreadable logo matched with bloody, "scary" imagery that isn't shocking to a junior high schooler. Metallica are banking on plain ugly!

Throughout rock history, controversy has helped sell records. And the easiest way to drum up controversy is by putting something on the album cover that you know is going to cause people to complain. It's cheaper and more prevalent than making an incendiary video that potentially no one will ever see. Or paying for advertising.

What's amazing is how few controversial album covers there have been, considering how many millions of albums have been released. The most controversial ones are often by bands that no one--besides a band's loyal cult following--has ever heard of. Therefore, the mainstream just ignores it. As long as it's not in MY

I'll accept any excuse to take a day off and if the government wants to have a holiday that celebrates work that's fine by me. How's about 15 weeks of vacation a year while we're at it?

But we here at List Of The Day never stop working. We're always thinking of new lists that need to be compiled. When we saw Labor Day coming up on the calendar, we knew it was time to wheel out the work songs. Not the old, smelly work songs that musicologists once discovered in the hands of the workingman, but the ones written and performed by rich rock stars who've never done any real work. Rich rock stars, you see, complain better than anyone. So who better to give voice to than the oppressed?

And before you ask where's "Take That Job And Shove It"? Think about it. That's an ANTI-work song. As much as we support the sentiment, it doesn't qualify here.

Now, let's get to it!

25) "Maggie's Farm"--Bob Dylan: This borders on "Take This Job And Shove It" territory, except while Bob is telling us he won't