Best "Hippy" song of all time (in your opinion)

kabuki · Post by **kabuki** » Mon Aug 27, 2007 3:57 am

Fortunate Son - CCR

HANDS DOWN

forge · Post by **forge** » Mon Aug 27, 2007 4:42 am

kabuki wrote:Fortunate Son - CCR

HANDS DOWN

+1

and born on the bayou and run in the jungle

CCR are legendary

1pauper1 · Post by **1pauper1** » Mon Aug 27, 2007 5:53 am

Machinesworking wrote:
Tone Deft wrote:by '70 so many people heard about it SF was overrun, the feds got involved, drugs ran their course, the party was over. the ideas are still around, but it had to be a weird time. the beats were more interesting.
The beats were more fashion oriented on some levels and more intellectual, but the blending between the two was pretty fluid. My dad started out beatnick, and ended up hippy, it was a natural progression. We left SF in about 70, basically because my parents felt the hard drug scene that took over didn't make a good environment for raising a family.
a monologue near the close of fear and loathing captures the decline of the hippies well:
Hunter S. Thompson wrote:We are all wired into a survival trip now. No more of the speed that fueled that 60's. That was the fatal flaw in Tim Leary's trip. He crashed around America selling "consciousness expansion" without ever giving a thought to the grim meat-hook realities that were lying in wait for all the people who took him seriously... All those pathetically eager acid freaks who thought they could buy Peace and Understanding for three bucks a hit. But their loss and failure is ours too. What Leary took down with him was the central illusion of a whole life-style that he helped create... a generation of permanent cripples, failed seekers, who never understood the essential old-mystic fallacy of the Acid Culture: the desperate assumption that somebody... or at least some force - is tending the light at the end of the tunnel.
Don;t get me wrong, I like Hunter S. thompson, but I don't think he's a great example of a fluid analytical mind capable of making logical and healthy evaluations of his generation. I read that quote, and think more about how well it relates to his own personal demons, and his eventual suicide.
The central illusion that the hippy generation lived under that caused their failure was that they actually thought that hedonism was some sort of vehicle for social change, that taking drugs and partying would lead to social change. The average conservative had plenty of fuel for his/her disgust in what was offered. The fact remains that some of the most popular spokespeople in the music scene overdosed and painted that image of the "alternative" to being a square etc.
Not unlike in total opposite terms how a good percentage of the straight edge movement in the punk scene substituted aggressive violence for drugs and alienated the average person who might otherwise think they were on to something interesting.

the response for this philosphical rendering is easilly found in the subject
of this thread.......best hippy songs

"almost cut my hair " C S N+Y STRIKES AGAIN !!!

forge · Post by **forge** » Mon Aug 27, 2007 6:51 am

forge wrote:
kabuki wrote:Fortunate Son - CCR

HANDS DOWN
+1

and born on the bayou and run in the jungle

CCR are legendary

sent me on a CCR listening one

ohiowa · Post by **ohiowa** » Mon Aug 27, 2007 5:38 pm

"wicked woman" - Coven

dhilsabeck · Post by **dhilsabeck** » Mon Aug 27, 2007 8:08 pm

ethios4 wrote:Grateful Dead - "Ripple"
#1

yes.

#1.5 Phish- "You Enjoy Myself"

Machinesworking · Post by **Machinesworking** » Tue Aug 28, 2007 1:43 am

ethios4 wrote:Grateful Dead - "Ripple"
#1

Best Dead song by far. Never understood why people were into them though, unless it was all about hippy chicks.

ilia · Post by **ilia** » Tue Aug 28, 2007 3:39 am

Best -- and very unjustly overlooked -- hippy record --

McDonald & Giles

feyshay · Post by **feyshay** » Tue Aug 28, 2007 4:05 am

People who don't understand the Dead, don't understand "hippy".
Best hippy song--Scarlet Begonias--Grateful Dead

Tone Deft · Post by **Tone Deft** » Tue Aug 28, 2007 4:51 am

feyshay wrote:People who don't understand the Dead, don't understand "hippy".
Best hippy song--Scarlet Begonias--Grateful Dead

or listen to their early stuff, some damn good blues. opinions on the internet are just that...

Ripple is amazing, Friend Of The Devil, Jack Straw, Black Peter, Brown Eyed Women, I like a fair amount of Dead, just not the aimless guitar noodling.

anyway...

CSNY - Ohio - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVi-DXOfnAM

and

Hendrix covering Dylan - Like A Rolling Stone (Monterey Pop Festival) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3WeABKGckc

knotkranky · Post by **knotkranky** » Tue Aug 28, 2007 5:24 am

Do I have to spell it out?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePaHG6g7uFw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6HxNGyE3zng

Tone Deft · Post by **Tone Deft** » Tue Aug 28, 2007 5:34 am

lots of Rutles on the 'Tube...

nate_D · Post by **nate_D** » Tue Aug 28, 2007 5:38 am

man i didn't realize there were sooo many classic rock headz up in this mofo. scarlet begonias or me and my uncle ftw.

Tone Deft · Post by **Tone Deft** » Tue Aug 28, 2007 5:49 am

nate_D wrote:man i didn't realize there were sooo many classic rock headz up in this mofo. scarlet begonias or me and my uncle ftw.

me and my uncle, another good one. I've always been partial to the sublime version of Scarlet Begonias
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjsBHZhI ... ed&search=
damn, I still can't believe Bradley's dead... now I'm f-ing depressed...

3dot... · Post by **3dot...** » Tue Aug 28, 2007 6:54 am

UHMM...

JIMI- VOODOO CHILE / Purple Haze anyone???

Greatful dead - Anthem of the sun....(Whole album)

Steppenwolf - Born to be wild...