# Best hippie music of all time **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 24, 2011, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-hippie-music-of-all-time/572471 "2011-02-24T17:51:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Gary\_Robson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gary_robson/32/3448_2.png) [@Gary\_Robson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gary_Robson)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2011, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-hippie-music-of-all-time/572471/1 "2011-02-24T17:51:22Z")
[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.] ---
**Author:** ![Gary\_Robson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gary_robson/32/3448_2.png) [@Gary\_Robson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gary_Robson)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2011, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-hippie-music-of-all-time/572471/2 "2011-02-24T17:55:14Z")
I’ll start: [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] ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2011, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-hippie-music-of-all-time/572471/3 "2011-02-24T17:56:37Z")
Spirit: _Great Canyon Fire_ and _Elijah._ ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2011, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-hippie-music-of-all-time/572471/4 "2011-02-24T17:56:55Z")
The Grateful Dead Early Simon & Garfunkel Pink Floyd Jethro Tull ---
**Author:** ![Oakminster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/77aa72/32.png) [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2011, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-hippie-music-of-all-time/572471/5 "2011-02-24T18:03:37Z")
\*San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Flowers in Your Hair) \*as performed by Scott McKenzie _Summertime_–Janis Joplin _Truckin’_–Grateful Dead _Love the One You’re With_–Stephen Stills, or one of the more popular cover versions ---
**Author:** ![RM\_Mentock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e274bd/32.png) [@RM\_Mentock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RM_Mentock)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2011, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-hippie-music-of-all-time/572471/6 "2011-02-24T18:20:55Z")
The ultimate hippie band: Mother Earth, or [any other band Mike Bloomfield played with](http://www.mikebloomfieldamericanmusic.com/1958-1965.htm) ---
**Author:** ![Doctor\_Who](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Doctor\_Who](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doctor_Who)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2011, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-hippie-music-of-all-time/572471/7 "2011-02-24T18:22:31Z")
[Goin’ Up the Country](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgqVuMj3Y4U) - Canned Heat ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2011, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-hippie-music-of-all-time/572471/8 "2011-02-24T18:25:30Z")
> [@Doctor\_Who](#): > > [Goin’ Up the Country](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgqVuMj3Y4U) - Canned Heat Well, there’s mine too. Wear Your Love Like Heaven - Donovan ---
**Author:** ![5\_time\_champ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/5/278dde/32.png) [@5\_time\_champ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/5_time_champ)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2011, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-hippie-music-of-all-time/572471/9 "2011-02-24T18:25:54Z")
“Inna Gadda da Vida” was the first song that popped in my head. ---
**Author:** ![loshan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ce73a5/32.png) [@loshan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/loshan)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2011, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-hippie-music-of-all-time/572471/10 "2011-02-24T18:27:02Z")
Jonie Mitchell - _Clouds, Free Man in Paris, Twisted, Ladies of the Canyon_ ---
**Author:** ![Contrapuntal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e274bd/32.png) [@Contrapuntal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Contrapuntal)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2011, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-hippie-music-of-all-time/572471/11 "2011-02-24T18:28:05Z")
> [@Annie-Xmas](#): > > The Grateful Dead > Early Simon & Garfunkel > Pink Floyd > Jethro Tull One minute! That didn’t take long. ---
**Author:** ![Manduck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/manduck/32/256_2.png) [@Manduck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Manduck)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2011, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-hippie-music-of-all-time/572471/12 "2011-02-24T18:28:51Z")
Somebody to Love - Jefferson Airplane ---
**Author:** ![loshan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ce73a5/32.png) [@loshan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/loshan)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2011, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-hippie-music-of-all-time/572471/13 "2011-02-24T18:29:23Z")
CSN&Y - _Suite Judy Blue Eyes, Ohio_ ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2011, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-hippie-music-of-all-time/572471/14 "2011-02-24T18:33:11Z")
_White Rabbit_, _Somebody to Love_ - Jefferson Airplane _Saint Stephen/The Eleven_ - Grateful Dead _In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida_ - Iron Butterfly ---
**Author:** ![FoieGrasIsEvil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foiegrasisevil/32/16638_2.png) [@FoieGrasIsEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FoieGrasIsEvil)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2011, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-hippie-music-of-all-time/572471/15 "2011-02-24T18:36:39Z")
_Incense and Peppermints_ by Strawberry Alarm Clock. Modern quasi-hippie song: _No Rain_ by Blind Melon always had a hippie vibe (to me). ---
**Author:** ![SeldomSeen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7ba0ec/32.png) [@SeldomSeen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SeldomSeen)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2011, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-hippie-music-of-all-time/572471/16 "2011-02-24T18:41:14Z")
_Ripple_…Grateful Dead _One toke over the Line_…Brewer & Shipley _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. ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2011, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-hippie-music-of-all-time/572471/17 "2011-02-24T18:42:04Z")
_Tomorrow Never Knows Within You, Without You_ ---
**Author:** ![Bridget\_Burke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7cd45c/32.png) [@Bridget\_Burke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bridget_Burke)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2011, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-hippie-music-of-all-time/572471/18 "2011-02-24T19:08:05Z")
**Local Heroes** The Elevators, Man: [The Kingdom Of Heaven](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lx4ddfYwqdo) & [Slip Inside This House](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwSA0Tckwbk&feature=related) Doug Sahm: [At The Crossroads](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jq7V2DV5sTs) & [Texas Me](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCzi8-H08Jw) (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](http://www.wolfgangsvault.com/doug-sahm/backstage/rolling-stone-magazine/RS23.html). Red Krayola:[Free Form Freakout](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zv3HMvdyYU8&feature=related) (Houston weirdos!) Shiva’s Headband: [Kaliedescoptic](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CyALVR3dKqE&playnext=1&list=PL0E111D1A1D283EA4) (Austin weirdos!) And [Lightnin’](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h82sL4cTXSU&p=ACE5106DAA9BBBDC) **Because they were Far Out!** The Fugs: [Nothing](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4HmJX11_AQE) Country Joe & The Fish:[Section 43](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6MKfmjCDkU) The Airplane: [Saturday Afternoon/Won’t You Try](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rSDIC1etsFM) **Because We Loved Them** The Youngbloods: [Darkness, Darkness](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-CYWbfFoXY) (from E_lephant Mountain_; with Charlie Daniels on fiddle, proving that he was not always a douchebag) Love: [Andmoreagain](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h82sL4cTXSU&p=ACE5106DAA9BBBDC) (from _Forever Changes_) I could go on… ---
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_Who’ll Stop The Rain; I Heard It Through The Grapevine-_ Creedence Clearwater Revival ---
**Author:** ![Gary\_Robson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gary_robson/32/3448_2.png) [@Gary\_Robson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gary_Robson)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2011, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-hippie-music-of-all-time/572471/20 "2011-02-24T19:14:39Z")
Cool – I mean, “groovy.” There are a lot of great suggestions here. Keep 'em coming. I can’t decide which is the “hippier” version of _Blowing in the Wind_. I lean a bit toward Dylan’s, but I think I like Peter, Paul & Mary’s better. What would be the best hippie song from Pink Floyd’s “Dark Side of the Moon” album? I’m thinking _Time_. [quote=“Gary “Wombat” Robson, post:1, topic:572471”] [ANOTHER NOTE: I’m looking for _songs_. Not albums, not artists, not concerts. Songs.] [/QUOTE] > [@Annie-Xmas](#): > > The Grateful Dead > Early Simon & Garfunkel > Pink Floyd > Jethro Tull :dubious: [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-hippie-music-of-all-time/572471.md?page=2)