[NOTE: If you don’t like hippie music, go away. Scat! Don’t clutter up my thread. Thank you.]
It’s time for another edition of Gary’s Fun With Playlists. Today, we’ll be building a list of the best hippie music of all time. Let me define my terms before we begin:
“Best” - Most representative of the genre while still being enjoyable enough to have on a playlist.
“Hippie music” - You walk into a room with a bunch of old hippies wearing tie-dye and sitting around a hookah. What’s playing on the stereo?
“Of all time” - Hippie music did not end in 1969. Feel free to suggest music from the 70s or even newer if it fits the vibe.
Please comment on other people’s suggestions, too. I will take the songs from this thread and build a poll out of them when we have enough.
[ANOTHER NOTE: I’m looking for songs. Not albums, not artists, not concerts. Songs.]
[ul]
[li]Age of Aquarius by the 5th Dimension[/li][li]Shambala by Three Dog Night[/li][li]Where Have All the Flowers Gone? by the Kingston Trio[/li][li]Hair from the musical[/li][li]One Toke Over the Line by Brewer & Shipley[/li][/ul]
Blowin’ in the Wind…Dylan or the Peter, Paul & Mary version
Four Strong Winds…Ian & Sylvia*
*This one has transcended hippiedom and become a bona fide folk classic, but I still think of it that way. Also my own personal all-time favorite song.
Doug Sahm: At The Crossroads & Texas Me (From live performances; we had the records but & actually went out to hear live music, too.) These tunes were originally recorded during Doug’s California Exile.