13th Floor Elevators

There seemed to be a hitch in Roky Erickson's haunting, throaty vocal during his Noise Pop performance at Great American Music Hall, right as he began the chorus to this classic psych-rock ballad, which he wrote with Tommy Hall more than 40 years ago. Since then, Erickson's life has been, well, very rocky -- a drug arrest, a stint in a mental hospital that brought with it electroshock therapy and thorazine, and a period where he believed his body was being inhabited by an alien. Not until very recently has he settled down and begun to tour again, with the aid of his brother Sumner. This turbulence and his recent return to the stage make the sleepy guitar and the soothing words of the chorus all the more poignant. "Now I'm hooooome, yes, I'm hooooome, I'm hooooome to stay."

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