# 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:** 2
**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, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-hippie-music-of-all-time/572471/21 "2011-02-24T19:16:28Z")
Ooops. What about: Keep on Trucking Feeling Groovy Another Brick in the Wall Aqualung ---
**Author:** ![Finagle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b19c9b/32.png) [@Finagle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Finagle)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2011, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-hippie-music-of-all-time/572471/22 "2011-02-24T19:19:30Z")
[White Bird](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NrFCwvlw0cs) by \* It’s a Beautiful Day. \* ---
**Author:** ![Max\_Torque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Max\_Torque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Torque)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2011, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-hippie-music-of-all-time/572471/23 "2011-02-24T19:23:54Z")
Gotta be [Spill the Wine](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3i0DMbCKnAg) ---
**Author:** ![Bumbershoot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bumbershoot/32/3428_2.png) [@Bumbershoot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bumbershoot)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2011, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-hippie-music-of-all-time/572471/24 "2011-02-24T19:28:48Z")
_Crimson & Clover-_ Tommy James and the Shondells ---
**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, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-hippie-music-of-all-time/572471/25 "2011-02-24T19:29:02Z")
> [@Finagle](#): > > [White Bird](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NrFCwvlw0cs) by \* It’s a Beautiful Day. \* Wow, I remember that song but bet I haven’t heard it in 15 or 20 years. Glad you did! ---
**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, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-hippie-music-of-all-time/572471/26 "2011-02-24T19:34:32Z")
Oooh! How did I forget _Feeling Groovy_? Thanks, **Annie**. How about:[ul] [li]_I Am the Walrus_ by the Beatles[/li][li]_Mr. Tambourine Man_ by the Byrds[/li][li]_Sunshine of Your Love_ by Cream[/li][li]_Why Don’t We Get Drunk and Screw_ by Jimmy Buffet[/li][/ul] I know, that last one doesn’t really fit, but what the heck… When I get this list done, I’m going to have to get me a lava lamp and some blacklight posters before I can listen to it. And maybe put _Wizard of Oz_ on the TV with the sound turned off. Why doesn’t Netflix have _Hair_ available for streaming? Humph! ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Rieux](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@Dr.Rieux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Rieux)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2011, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-hippie-music-of-all-time/572471/27 "2011-02-24T19:36:32Z")
“Something in the Air” by Thunderclap Newman ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2011, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-hippie-music-of-all-time/572471/28 "2011-02-24T19:36:54Z")
> [@5\_time\_champ](#): > > “Inna Gadda da Vida” was the first song that popped in my head. Yeah, a lot of good songs have been mentioned here, but this is the first song I think of when I think hippie music. ---
**Author:** ![Gangster\_Octopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a8b319/32.png) [@Gangster\_Octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gangster_Octopus)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2011, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-hippie-music-of-all-time/572471/29 "2011-02-24T19:37:19Z")
_California Dreamin’_ by the Mamas and the Papas _Within You, Without You_ by the Beatles ---
**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, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-hippie-music-of-all-time/572471/30 "2011-02-24T19:37:41Z")
Another one by The Youngbloods: _Get Together_ ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2011, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-hippie-music-of-all-time/572471/31 "2011-02-24T19:38:02Z")
_Let’s Get Together_ - **Jefferson Airplane** - Signe’s phrasing of her verse is absolutely sublime. Far superior to the Youngbloods version, IMO. _Pride of Man, Fresh Air, Mona_ - **Quicksilver Messenger Service** _Trip, Stumble and Fall_ - **Mamas & Papas** ---
**Author:** ![Don\_Draper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b2d939/32.png) [@Don\_Draper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_Draper)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2011, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-hippie-music-of-all-time/572471/32 "2011-02-24T19:47:35Z")
**the Byrds** : Eight Miles High **the Mamas & the Papa** : California Dreamin’ Twelve Thirty (Young Girls Are Comin’ to the Canyon) **Mama Cass (solo)**: Don’t Let the Good Life Pass You By **the Beach Boys** : Good Vibrations **the Beatles** : She Said She Said Tomorrow Never Knows Strawberry Fields Forever Lucy In the Sky With Diamonds Revolution #9 **Donovan** : Wear Your Love Like Heaven Atlantis **Cream** : I Feel Free Sunshine of Your Love **Fairport Convention** : Who Knows Where the Time Goes? **the Jimi Hendrix Experience** : Third Stone From the Sun Are You Experienced? Little Wing If 6 Was 9 **Jefferson Airplane** : White Rabbit the Ballad of You & Me & Pooneil Spare Chaynge If You Feel Wooden Ships **Grace Slick & the Great Society** : Sally Go Round the Roses **Grateful Dead** : Saint Stephen China Cat Sunflower Not Fade Away / Goin’ Down the Road Feelin’ Bad **Big Brother & the Holding Co.** : Down On Me Summertime **Janis Joplin solo** : Me & Bobby McGee **Quicksilver (Messenger Service)**: Pride of Man Fresh Air **It’s a Beautiful Day** : White Bird **Santana** : Soul Sacrifice **Joni Mitchell** : Both Sides Now Chelsea Morning Big Yellow Taxi Woodstock **the Doors** : the End People Are Strange **Spirit** : I Got a Line on You Babe **Love** : You Set the Scene **Sun Ra** : Space Is the Place **Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young (or any grouping of member of the four)**: Long Time Gone Carry On Almost Cut My Hair Ohio Love the One You’re With **Eric Burdon & War** : Spill the Wine **Hot Tuna** : the Water Song Keep On Truckin’ And for (relatively) more contemporary songs, you can throw in: **Michael Hedges** : Ragamuffin **Indigo Girls** : Closer to Fine **Ani Difranco** : Out of Range **Ozric Tentacles** : Dissolution ---
**Author:** ![gaffa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e68b1a/32.png) [@gaffa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gaffa)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2011, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-hippie-music-of-all-time/572471/33 "2011-02-24T19:49:58Z")
> [@FoieGrasIsEvil](#): > > _Incense and Peppermints_ by Strawberry Alarm Clock. Just recalling that song caused an acid flashback…and I’ve never taken acid! [The Nazz - Open My Eyes](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAetyZRJ9VE#t=0m32s) Hippies, in a field, with a bunch of long-haired hippie chicks! ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2011, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-hippie-music-of-all-time/572471/34 "2011-02-24T19:53:19Z")
Dandelion - Rolling Stones I’ll emphatically second “Incense and Peppermints,” “Ripple”, and “Mr. Tambourine Man” ---
**Author:** ![Quercus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/7ab992/32.png) [@Quercus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quercus)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2011, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-hippie-music-of-all-time/572471/35 "2011-02-24T19:56:25Z")
Since “Truckin’” is kind of cliche, I’ll say “Sugar Magnolia”. And the list needs at least one Traffic/Blind Faith song. “Can’t Find My Way Home”, maybe? No post-1970 hippie soundtrack would be complete without either “No Woman, No Cry”, “Trenchtown Rock”, or maybe “Legalize It” For neo-hippie, well, Phish or Dave Matthews are the obvious choices. Don’t know the right songs, though. Maybe Blues Traveller for the early 90’s fratboy/hippie crossover (along with the Dead’s “Touch of Grey”). ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2011, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-hippie-music-of-all-time/572471/36 "2011-02-24T19:57:46Z")
Itchycoo Park - Small Faces Waterloo Sunset - The Kinks ---
**Author:** ![antonio107](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/7ea924/32.png) [@antonio107](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/antonio107)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2011, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-hippie-music-of-all-time/572471/37 "2011-02-24T20:06:44Z")
> [@Doctor\_Who](#): > > [Goin’ Up the Country](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgqVuMj3Y4U) - Canned Heat That’s what I came in here to put. Every time this hippy lady I know grinds my gears so stands me up, I’ve come to sing this song in jest. I can only do it because I already do a sick Kermit D. Frog impression. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![johnpost](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f17d59/32.png) [@johnpost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/johnpost)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2011, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-hippie-music-of-all-time/572471/38 "2011-02-24T20:15:52Z")
[quote=“Gary “Wombat” Robson, post:1, topic:572471”] [ANOTHER NOTE: I’m looking for _songs_. Not albums, not artists, not concerts. Songs.] [/QUOTE] this is a difficult question to answer. if people played 45s then you would think songs. if people played LPs then you think sides. people would put a stack on the changer and play sides, if you had dupes of an LP you could play both sides without getting up to flip it (a feature in a hippie household being immersed in music). LPs were designed as sides or suites. you got used to the side as a whole. like with Young, you expected Cinnamon Girl –\> Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere –\>Round & Round-\> Down by the River then The Losing End –\> Running Dry –\>Cowgirl in the Sand like with the Dead, you expected That’s It for the Other One –\> New Potato Caboose –\> Born Cross-Eyed then Alligator –\> Caution like with Tull you expected Thick as a Brick then Thick as a Brick if it didn’t happen like that holes were ripped into space/time in the period of the 60s ('65 through '74, good 60s music existed after then though it was from groups already major in those years) there was a large amount of major groups who had a number of albums each (it must have been something back then). generally solid albums without weak songs and an output without weak albums. also being a music centered culture people enjoyed six to ten groups. so i would agree with 90% of the songs mentioned so far as worth rattling the windows with. to suggest another one. Terrapin from Terrapin Station good music has been made since the sixties, though a much different style and quality. though a number of groups have become popular in recent decades who have looked to the 60s for influence and style. ---
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[Hot Smoke and Sassafras](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fst7AtHOhI) by Bubble Puppy ---
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> [@RM\_Mentock](#): > > The ultimate hippie band: Mother Earth, or [any other band Mike Bloomfield played with](http://www.mikebloomfieldamericanmusic.com/1958-1965.htm) If you are a Mike Bloomfield fan you must have Super Session. Al Cooper, (not Alice), Steven Stills and Mike Bloomfield in a studio album. It’s one of my favorites. > **[Super Session](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Session)** > > Super Session is an album by the singer and multi-instrumentalist Al Kooper, with the guitarists Mike Bloomfield on the first half and Stephen Stills on the second half. Released by Columbia Records in 1968, it peaked at No. 12 on the Billboard 200 during a 37-week chart stay and was certified gold by RIAA. > Al Kooper and Mike Bloomfield had worked together on the sessions for Bob Dylan's ground-breaking classic Highway 61 Revisited, and played in the backing band for his controversial performa... But if you want to recall being a _real hippie_, you need to get yourself some Goose Creek Symphony. > **[Goose Creek Symphony](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goose_Creek_Symphony)** > > The Goose Creek Symphony is an American rock band with roots in Arizona and Kentucky. It was formed in 1968 in Phoenix, Arizona, as an outlet for the songs of Charlie Gearheart (aka Ritchie Hart). It was best known for its 1972 cover of the Janis Joplin song "Mercedes Benz." > The band recorded their first album at Audio Recorders in 1968–1969 and was subsequently signed to Capitol Records in 1970. The band continued recording until 1976 and then reformed in 1990. The band is considered one of t... [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-hippie-music-of-all-time/572471.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-hippie-music-of-all-time/572471.md?page=3)