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The Guess Who - American Woman
Don McLean - American Pie
Jefferson Airplane - Somebody To Love
Cream - White Room
Scott McKenzie - San Francisco(Be Sure To Wear Some Flowers In Your Hair)
Mamas & Papas - California Dreamin'
The Byrds - Turn Turn Turn
The Turtles - Happy Together
Led Zeppelin - Stairway To Heaven
Led Zeppelin - Dazed And Confused
Janis Joplin - Piece Of My Heart
Deep Purple - Smoke On The Water
Beatles - All You Need Is Love
The Doors - Light My Fire
The Doors - Break On Through(To The Other Side)
Simon&Garfunkel - America
Simon&Garfunkel - Old Friends
Bob Dylan/The Byrds - Mr. Tambourine Man
Bob Dylan - Like A Rolling Stone
Bob Dylan - The Times They Are A-Changin'
Bob Dylan - Blowin' In The Wind
The Who - My Generation
The Who - Magic Bus
Grateful Dead - Friend Of The Devil
Lynyrd Skynyrd - Freebird
The Youngbloods - Get Together
CCR - Proud Mary
Bob Dylan/Hendrix - All Along The Watchtower
Jimi Hendrix - Purple Haze
Joni Mitchell - Big Yellow Taxi

And countless other Zeppelin/Beatles/Doors/Beach Boys/Floyd/Who/Dylan/Simon&Garfunkel stuff...

Countless other stuff period...

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Bob Dylan isn't a hippie, man. :tsk: And Led Zeppelin? Duuuuuude.

But there's some good stuff on that list ... I just think you should have called this the "Sixties and Seventies Music Appreciation" thread. :wink:

I love Joni Mitchell. She's classic. Ditto Simon & Garfunkel.

The Dead do nothing for me, although I appreciate American Beauty and the one song I love by them is "Box of Rain."
 
I think if you said The Beatles post-Rubber Soul, you would've been dead on. :wink:
 
google//wikipedia the original woodstock. there's your list.

hippies, yeah. important phase, some good music, but i'm glad we've moved on.

one of my favorite Bono quotes is about grunge being hippie-music warmed over. a bit overgeneralized, but mainly dead-on.
 
dr. zooeuss said:
google//wikipedia the original woodstock. there's your list.

hippies, yeah. important phase, some good music, but i'm glad we've moved on.

one of my favorite Bono quotes is about grunge being hippie-music warmed over. a bit overgeneralized, but mainly dead-on.
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Why are you glad we've moved on?
 
dr. zooeuss said:
hippies, yeah. important phase, some good music, but i'm glad we've moved on.
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To piggyback on the previous question, moved on from what? Moved on from that style of music, or the "phase"?
 
namkcuR said:

...The Youngbloods - Get Together
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C’mon people now
Smile on your brother
Everybody get together
Try to love one another right now :rockon:

The world could use some hippie power right about now.

corianderstem's got me wondering what a hippie really is/was, but they probably need and a tangible connection to the 1967 music scene, an indisputable peace & love ethos, and some sort of enduring passion. In other words: Neil Young.

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Interesting how CSNY and Buffalo Springfield are mentioned...also Neil! Chrome Dreams II, his new album is also full of hippie ideals and imagery: trees, spirit, love...the sky! Amazing album, and it's completely relevant. :drool:

Two of the songs clock-in at over 14 minutes (extended hippie love). Anyway, I especially love the lyrics to one of them, No Hidden Path:

Sometimes when I go walkin'
Among the tall trees
I feel the light comin' down on me
Under moon, under sun
I feel the chosen one
Through the mist, come walkin' here with me

And the leaves on the ground
Make a rustling sound
In the wind now blowing in my face
It's that cool wind again
And I feel my missing friend
Whose counsel I can never replace

Show me the way and I'll follow you today
Show me the way and I'll follow you today

Show me the way
No more darkness. No more wasted time
Show me the way
Let me stay here with this heart of mine
And with you I feel no hidden path
No hidden path
No hidden path
No hidden path
No hidden path
No hidden path

How you change, how you change
And how you rearrange
Everything that touches me

Now you're her, now you're her
And she's sleeping here with me
Everything that touches me

Ocean sky, sea of blue
Let the sand wash over you
Giving all that you can give

Will the northern lights still play
As we walk our distant days?
Giving all that we can give

Show me the way and I'll follow you today
Show me the way and I'll follow you today

Show me the way
There's a cold wind, blowin' through my mind
Show me the way
But I'm holdin' on to the threads of time
And with you I feel no hidden path
No hidden path
No hidden path
No hidden path

Will the northern lights still play as we walk our distant days?
Ocean sky, sea of blue, let the sun wash over you

dr. zooeuss said:
hippies, yeah. important phase, some good music, but i'm glad we've moved on.
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Some good music is timeless.
 
angelordevil said:


. In other words: Neil Young.

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Interesting how CSNY and Buffalo Springfield are mentioned...also Neil! Chrome Dreams II, his new album is also full of hippie ideals and imagery: trees, spirit, love...the sky! Amazing album, and it's completely relevant. :drool:
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Love the new album. Of course, you got contrarian Neil.


"Hippie Dream"

Take my advice
Don't listen to me
It ain't paradise
But it used to be
There was a time
When the river was wide
And the water
came running down
To the rising tide
But the wooden ships
Were just a hippie dream
Just a hippie dream.

Don't bat an eye
Don't waste a word
Don't mention nothin'
That could go unheard
'Cause the tie-dye sails
Are the screamin' sheets
And the dusty trail
Leads to blood
in the streets
And the wooden ships
Are a hippie dream
Capsized in excess
If you know what I mean.

Just because
it's over for you
Don't mean
it's over for me
It's a victory
for the heart
Every time
the music starts
So please
don't kill the machine
Don't kill the machine
Don't kill the machine.

Another flower child
goes to seed
In an ether-filled
room of meat-hooks
It's so ugly
So ugly.

His entire history is embrace, discard, embrace, discard, return.
He was a little too edgy to be all about peace and love.

Certainly embraced some of the hippie ethos, some of the reactionary ethos too. Kind of the anti-hippie hippie. The dark hippie.

But yeah, I think Neil Young was a huge voice back then.
 
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One of my favorites:

like to dream yes, yes, right between my sound machine
On a cloud of sound I drift in the night
Any place it goes is right
Goes far, flies near, to the stars away from here

Well, you don't know what we can find
Why don't you come with me little girl
On a magic carpet ride
You don't know what we can see
Why don't you tell your dreams to me
Fantasy will set you free
Close your eyes girl
Look inside girl
Let the sound take you away

Last night I held Aladdin's lamp
And so I wished that I could stay
Before the thing could answer me
Well, someone came and took the lamp away
I looked around, a lousy candle's all I found

Well, you don't know what we can find
Why don't you come with me little girl
On a magic carpet ride
Well, you don't know what we can see
Why don't you tell your dreams to me
Fantasy will set you free
Close your eyes girl
Look inside girl
Let the sound take you away

1968-Steppenwolf
 
BonosSaint said:


Love the new album. Of course, you got contrarian Neil...His entire history is embrace, discard, embrace, discard, return.

A little too edgy. Kind of the anti-hippie hippie.

But yeah, I think Neil Young was a huge voice back then.
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I completely agree...he transcends any label, really. He goes to the heart of what that generation stood for...much more than a cool t-shirt, or magazine cover.
 
I think he was exquisite at capturing a mood, capturing a pulse. "Ohio" comes to mind. He didn't do it always, but when he did, it was dead-on.
 
BonosSaint said:
I think he was exquisite at capturing a mood, capturing a pulse. "Ohio" comes to mind. He didn't do it always, but when he did, it was dead-on.
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I personally think he's a visionary, the kind of artist that will be remembered long after they're gone. It's so funny, the other day I was listening to a classic rock station here, and they played This Note's For You. Great song, and they played it because it sounds great...but I'd forgotten how biting the lyrics are...and maybe they did, as well. Right after, they cut to a commercial for some event sponsored by a beer company. :wink:

I'm too young to be a complete hippie, but I've always loved this one from my childhood: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSFLZ-MzIhM It's one of my favourite songs of all-time. :reject:
 
I like some sixties psychedelica and Forever Changes by Love is one of my favourite albums, but I honestly can't think of anything especially nice to say about the hippie culture at that time, so I'll end this paragraph now.

one of my favorite Bono quotes is about grunge being hippie-music warmed over. a bit overgeneralized, but mainly dead-on.
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Man, he had some great opinions on music back in the day.
 
I've been listening to a lot of early Black Sabbath lately, and it's actually quite interesting to note how many anti-war (and anti-Satanic/pro-Christian, but that's another thread altogether) songs the band wrote. While they more or less despised the hippie culture, they wrote some visceral songs crying for peace. Everyone knows "War Pigs," but I really love "Children of the Grave."

Revolution in their minds - the children start to march
Against the world in which they have to live
and all the hate that's in their hearts
They're tired of being pushed around
and told just what to do
They'll fight the world until they've won
and love comes flowing through

Children of tomorrow live in the tears that fall today
Will the sun rise up tomorrow bringing peace in any way?
Must the world live in the shadow of atomic fear?
Can they win the fight for peace or will they disappear?

So you children of the world,
listen to what I say
If you want a better place to live in
spread the words today
Show the world that love is still alive
you must be brave
Or you children of today are
Children of the Grave, Yeah
 
When I think of that wonderful time of 1967-1970, I think of the idealism and what could've been.

Instead we got George W. Bush.

What happened? What went wrong?

*sigh*

:sad:
 
LOL, good question. I'm mystified about that, too. The '60s fascinate me, such a crazy decade. I love the rebellion, I love the music (some excellent songs listed thus far in this thread), it's just always been a part of history that I've loved learning about.

Regarding Neil Young, I'm only going based off what I've heard by him, which isn't a whole lot, but what I love about his music is how it always has this sort of spooky, fall-ish, late night feel to it all. It's sorta haunting, or something, and I really like it when music sounds that way. Like BonosSaint said, a mood-yeah, he's definitely good at that.

(It's not from the 60s, but seriously, "Harvest Moon"...:drool:. I love that song so much)

My parents always joke that I was born in the wrong time period-I've got some definite hippie tendencies to me :p. I'm one of those "peace and love" types-was part of an anti-war protest right when the Iraq war started, actually. I know that sort of thinking is incredibly idealistic (and unrealistic at times, too), but...I dunno. I think holding on to that sort of belief helps get me through life or something :shrug:. I do understand why that sort of attitude gets to people, though.

Angela
 
Moonlit_Angel said:


Regarding Neil Young, I'm only going based off what I've heard by him, which isn't a whole lot, but what I love about his music is how it always has this sort of spooky, fall-ish, late night feel to it all. It's sorta haunting, or something, and I really like it when music sounds that way. Like BonosSaint said, a mood-yeah, he's definitely good at that.

Angela
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Kickass description--that "spooky, fall-ish, late night feel to it" I don't know that I've heard a better one.
 
Kinda hippie. Kinda tough broad. Kinda vulnerable. All kinds of awesome.
 
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