# 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:** 3
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2011, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-hippie-music-of-all-time/572471/41 "2011-02-24T20:21:01Z")
Have to go with “Don and Dewey” by It’s A Beautiful Day, featuring Jerry Garcia on guitar “China Grove” by the Doobie Brothers “All Along the Watchtower” by Jimi Hendrix, though it also would work well as a Dungeons and Dragons theme. (Yeah, I know, Dylan wrote it, but Hendrix PERFECTED it.) “Sweet Lorraine” by Country Joe and the Fish “Grazing in the Grass” by the Friends of Distinction “Wooden Ships” by CSNY “In Memory of Elizabeth Reed” by the Allman Brothers In a more modern vein: “Higher Ground” by the Red Hot Chili Peppers – swear to God … would have been a MONSTER hit in the 60s … … more later … " ---
**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, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-hippie-music-of-all-time/572471/42 "2011-02-24T20:32:15Z")
I recognize a lot of music from Beaker Street, so I must include _Cindy’s Cryin’_ by Deep Water Reunion. ---
**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, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-hippie-music-of-all-time/572471/43 "2011-02-24T20:35:25Z")
> [@johnpost](#): > > 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). Excellent point. My viewpoint is a bit different because I was a little kid in the 60s. I’ve been recording mix tapes of my favorite songs since I was in middle school in the early 70s. First on a little reel-to-reel deck, then on an 8-track recorder, then on cassette, and so on. It all builds up to these playlist exercises. I will absolutely grant that there are albums that need to be listened to in order every time, but most “hippie music” didn’t strike me that way. As long as this is a good song and the next one is a good song… ---
**Author:** ![Truman\_Burbank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecc23a/32.png) [@Truman\_Burbank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Truman_Burbank)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2011, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-hippie-music-of-all-time/572471/44 "2011-02-24T20:36:42Z")
The Low Spark of High-heeled Boys, by Traffic. Uncle John’s Band, the the Grateful Dead I have to say that I see Pink Floyd as a somewhat different oeuvre than what the OP had in mind, but maybe that’s just me. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Surb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ce73a5/32.png) [@The\_Surb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Surb)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2011, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-hippie-music-of-all-time/572471/45 "2011-02-24T20:41:11Z")
My nominations: maybe not hippie but certainly psychedelic The Great Society - [White Rabbit](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8C74ET-fZw) Kak - [Lemonaide Kid](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gddotLV2gI) Spirit - [Topanga Window](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RcVU9PiS6tQ) Pink Floyd - [Astronomy Domine](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ts-2lg5fpQ4&feature=related) Pink Floyd With Syd Barrett - [Interstellar Overdrive](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2iA7wdO00VI&feature=related) Neil Young- [After the gold rush](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12T95RHGLH8) Rolling Stones - [2000 Light Years From Home](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=drwM5jQvrpU&feature=related) Creedence Clearwater Revival -[Green River](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XcxFNONz64&feature=related) I really liked psychedelia until punk came along. ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2011, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-hippie-music-of-all-time/572471/46 "2011-02-24T20:44:12Z")
5th Dimension “Up, Up and Away”, “Wedding Bell Blues”, “Stoned Soul Picnic”, “One Less Bell to Answer”, “(Last Night) I Didn’t Get to Sleep at All”, and “Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In” Janis Joplin Piece of My Heart Anything off Cream Disraeli Gears People usually play an album side, not a single song. Johnpost makes a good point. Some entire album sides even played on FM. Hippies like folk too Peter Paul and Mary - If I had a Hammer, Puff Magic Dragon, Leavin on a Jet Plane ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2011, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-hippie-music-of-all-time/572471/47 "2011-02-24T20:54:56Z")
Forgot Alro Gutherie Alice’s Restaurant Massacree , City of New Orleans , The Motorcycle Song. Joan Baez Diamonds and Rust, The Night they Drove Old Dixie Down ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2011, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-hippie-music-of-all-time/572471/48 "2011-02-24T20:58:08Z")
Buffalo Springfield: [For What It’s Worth](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6lHTnwK694&feature=fvst) CS&N: [Marrakesh Express](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGsF6bCkuN4) The Animals: [House of the Rising Sun](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmdPQp6Jcdk) and [Monterrey](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLo8GJJLUhE) Steppenwolf: [Magic Carpet Ride](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EEEzbFxEbB8) Arthur Brown: [Fire](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOErZuzZpS8) The Kinks: [You Really Got Me](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mFABWnt_qeE) Donovan: [Try and Catch the Wind](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IjIqVL7G-CI) (complete with psychedelic video) ---
**Author:** ![Inigo\_Montoya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inigo_montoya/32/124_2.png) [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2011, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-hippie-music-of-all-time/572471/49 "2011-02-24T20:58:21Z")
> [@Annie-Xmas](#): > > Ooops. What about: > > Keep on Trucking > Feeling Groovy > Another Brick in the Wall > Aqualung Truckin’ I can get behind, but The Wall was pretty heavy for hippies. For trippy Floyd I might suggest **Interstellar Overdrive** or **Echoes**. Those two can trip you away even _without_ drugs. I’d be willing to bet _Interstellar Overdrive_ with quad sound could make someone throw up if they were prone to motion sickness. 😃 I’d really like to hear some Melanie. I really liked **Candles In The Rain** at naptime as I recall. ---
**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, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-hippie-music-of-all-time/572471/50 "2011-02-24T20:58:34Z")
There are going to be _way_ too many suggestions to use these all in a poll, so I’m going to have to count how many are mentioned more than once. This is awesome. > [@Truman\_Burbank](#): > > I have to say that I see Pink Floyd as a somewhat different oeuvre than what the OP had in mind, but maybe that’s just me. For the most part, yes, but “Dark Side of the Moon” is different. As is _Several Species of Small Furry Animals Gathered Together in a Cave and Grooving With a Pict_. > [@The\_Surb](#): > > My nominations: maybe not hippie but certainly psychedelic There is _definitely_ overlap between those two genres! ---
**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, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-hippie-music-of-all-time/572471/51 "2011-02-24T21:00:26Z")
Slight hijack: If you light a candle and listen to _Tommy_, your entire future will be revealed. If that ain’t hippie fodder, I don’t know what is. ---
**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, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-hippie-music-of-all-time/572471/52 "2011-02-24T21:02:27Z")
Let’s not leave LA out of this: _Light My Fire, The End_ - **Doors** _For What It’s Worth, Nowadays Clancy Can’t Even Sing_ - **Buffalo Springfield** _Eight Miles High, Mr. Tambourine Man, Turn, Turn, Turn_ - **Byrds** ---
**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, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-hippie-music-of-all-time/572471/53 "2011-02-24T21:02:55Z")
> [@Dallas\_Jones](#): > > 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 - Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Session) > > But if you want to recall being a _real hippie_, you need to get yourself some Goose Creek Symphony. > > [Goose Creek Symphony - Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goose_Creek_Symphony) Of course, you also had the LP from Al Kooper’s first group–[Blues Project](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blues_Project). Also from Green-Witch village were [Jim & Jean,](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_and_Jean) who started out as folkies (& friends of Phil Ochs) but got real folk-rock with _Changes_: featuring the Ochs tune “Changes.” Or those Cambridge folkies, [Jim Kweskin & his jug band](http://www.cookephoto.com/kweskin.html), who continued into hippie years. Oh, I need to name a song: how about [If You’re a Viper](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBGVX-T5JGw)? Check out other photos at the Jug Band link! Like [The Chambers Brothers](http://www.cookephoto.com/chambers.html)–a few years before the anthemic “Time Has Come Today.” Or take the folkie way-back machine to the Holy Modal Rounders [Euphoria](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8S2hCUVisg)–the first record that used the word “psychedelic.” Goose Creek Symphony were great; another group I knew more from performance than records. Also on the folk/rock/country cusp was _Wheatstraw Suite_ by The Dillards; not on YouTube but available on Rhapsody. Listen to the whole thing. Still in LA, The Fantastic Expedition of Dillard & Clark includes [Train Leaves Here This Morning](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9GQDKkhAas). Well known from that scene? Buffalo Springfield with [Mr Soul](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVH-5v-BhHM). Obscure from that scene? Hearts & Flowers with [She Sang Hymns Out Of Tune](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yksOZPHl-_w&feature=related). (The Dillards covered it on _Wheatstraw Suite_.) “Now is the time for hearts & flowers & golden hours in the sun.” ---
**Author:** ![njtt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ecd19e/32.png) [@njtt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/njtt)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2011, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-hippie-music-of-all-time/572471/54 "2011-02-24T21:16:50Z")
The Doors: [The End](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGmAmJFUvzM) Love: [Maybe the People Would Be the Times, or Between Clark and Hilldale](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1PhMSTj0uw) Jefferson Airplane: [Comin’ Back To Me](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0NdvMT32skw) (actually, anything off _[Forever Changes](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forever_Changes)_). Janis Joplin with Big Brother and The Holding Company: [Summertime](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8npK1q6LY9Q) Pink Floyd: [Careful with That Axe, Eugene](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPgAM31N5Co) Grateful Dead: [Box of Rain](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4SqDx1vi4c) (actually, anything from _[American Beauty](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Beauty_%28album%29)_). ---
**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, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-hippie-music-of-all-time/572471/55 "2011-02-24T21:29:02Z")
Wow…no Moody Blues yet? I’ll nominate \*Tuesday Afternoon \*and \*Nights in White Satin \*for starters. ---
**Author:** ![mambocrow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc348/32.png) [@mambocrow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mambocrow)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2011, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-hippie-music-of-all-time/572471/56 "2011-02-24T21:29:33Z")
Here’s the one I thought of first: [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/EvGJvzwKqg0/hqdefault.jpg "Don't Bogart That Joint!") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EvGJvzwKqg0) “Don’t Bogart That Joint” - in the above Youtube link incorrectly attributed to Country Joe and the Fish. It was recorded by a group called “The Fraternity of Man”. (I always thought of Michael Bloomfield as a guitarist that played Blues. I wish he was still with us. Awesome tone, awesome licks.) ---
**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, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-hippie-music-of-all-time/572471/57 "2011-02-24T21:39:38Z")
I’ve been playing a lot of these, generating a few flashbacks:cool: Kudos to the OP for a very interesting topic. I wonder…it’s almost a sub-genre and I wouldn’t want to hijack, but is there room here for some… Cowboy Psycho[COLOR=“Blue”]delia[/COLOR]??? New Riders Of The Purple Sage - [The Last Lonely Eagle](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGxSYOZVhlM) The Flying Burrito Brothers -[Juanita](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0vWVpXHQNQ) Great Speckled Bird - [Rio Grande](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BcqaeNi-CGQ&feature=related) The Band - [Cripple Creek](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EisXJSsULGM) ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2011, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-hippie-music-of-all-time/572471/58 "2011-02-24T22:22:35Z")
Donovan: [The Universal Soldier](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4Fe797IL04) Barry McGuire: [Eve of Destruction](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5RfolQzInEE) The Boxtops: [Cry Like a Baby](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVY691ObVJE) Dylan: **Subterranean Homesick Blues** The Cowsills: [Hair](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYGP3CIT4r4) ---
**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, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-hippie-music-of-all-time/572471/59 "2011-02-24T22:30:22Z")
Who can forget the classic [Listen to the Flower People](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UfD-E9hKCWM) ? ---
**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, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-hippie-music-of-all-time/572471/60 "2011-02-24T22:34:47Z")
How about [One Tin Soldier](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTKx2f44tDo) ? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-hippie-music-of-all-time/572471.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-hippie-music-of-all-time/572471.md?page=4)