# 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:** 4
**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, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-hippie-music-of-all-time/572471/61 "2011-02-24T22:57:23Z")
> [@njtt](#): > > 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)_). Methinks you mean “Surrealistic Pillow” - the Jefferson Airplane album that “Comin’ Back to Me” originates from. “Forever Changes” is an album by the L.A. band called “Love.” But actually, anything from either one of those albums (or those groups) would fit. And I’d like to suggest you include some songs by the Staple Singers, who weren’t true hippies (they were more aligned with the Civil Rights movement) but did embrace the spirit of peace, love & brotherhood that is the essence of hippie flower power. Some suggestions for “Staple” songs: We’ll Get Over Heavy Makes You Happy Oh La Dee Da! I Know a Place If You’re Ready (Come Go With Me) Not to mention a fantastic rendition of “the Weight” (a song that is more commonly associated with the Band.) ---
**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, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-hippie-music-of-all-time/572471/62 "2011-02-24T23:59:25Z")
triad by Airplane or CSNY ---
**Author:** ![Gil-Martin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Gil-Martin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gil-Martin)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2011, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-hippie-music-of-all-time/572471/63 "2011-02-25T00:04:03Z")
Can Black Sabbath be categorized as hippy music? If so, listen to anything from the Sabbath Bloody Sabbath album. Otherwise, I’ll go with the Doors and the obvious choice, already mentioned a couple times in this this thread, “The End.” ---
**Author:** ![The\_Second\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bbe5ce/32.png) [@The\_Second\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Second_Stone)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2011, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-hippie-music-of-all-time/572471/64 "2011-02-25T00:06:02Z")
My favorites have already been picked. For hippy music, I strongly recommend Itchycoo Park by The Small Faces, No Rain by Blind Melon and anything by the Grateful Dead, but especially Dark Star. ---
**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 25, 2011, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-hippie-music-of-all-time/572471/65 "2011-02-25T00:12:41Z")
Let’s not forget that bit of weirdness called **MacArthur Park** , sung, oddly enough, by Richard Harris. ---
**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 25, 2011, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-hippie-music-of-all-time/572471/66 "2011-02-25T00:21:26Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > Let’s not forget that bit of weirdness called **MacArthur Park** , sung, oddly enough, by Richard Harris. Say what? ---
**Author:** ![blue-butterfly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8c91f0/32.png) [@blue-butterfly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blue-butterfly)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2011, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-hippie-music-of-all-time/572471/67 "2011-02-25T00:23:11Z")
Anything by Jimi Henrix ,The Doors and The Grateful Dead.🆒 ---
**Author:** ![Lilacs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e9c0ed/32.png) [@Lilacs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lilacs)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2011, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-hippie-music-of-all-time/572471/68 "2011-02-25T00:39:39Z")
Lots of good ones so far. Two of my favorites: Cream - Tales of Brave Ulysses The Yardbirds - Happenings Ten Years Time Ago ---
**Author:** ![DfrntBreign](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f6c823/32.png) [@DfrntBreign](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DfrntBreign)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2011, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-hippie-music-of-all-time/572471/69 "2011-02-25T00:41:14Z")
A lot of great and iconic music in this thread, but… Most times I found myself in a room full of tie-dye and smoke, the music was something I’d NOT heard on the radio. A lot of it, I never (or at least, rarely) would. These are some of those. Best of all time? Well…probably not, but maybe you’ll hear something you like anyway… [Affinity - All Along The Watchtower](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPWdhcoDiF0) [If - Child of Storm](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NV5fjPNE--E) [Brian Auger’s Oblivion Express - Whenever You’re Ready](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0ec5np5qxw) [Gypsy - Dead And Gone](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0ooti9EC_U) [The Mighty Groundhogs - The Grey Maze](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2hdLFg_Nbw) [Captain Beyond - Dancing Madly Backwards (On A Sea Of Air)](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-iUbry_HkFQ) [Cactus - Song For Aries](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W630Fdvct4E) [Temptations - Ball Of Confusion (That’s What The World Is Today)](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=miZWYmxr8XE) [Demian - Windy City](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xw-an-9oOc) [Krokodil - Lady Of Attraction](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6pH9vERgpw) ---
**Author:** ![koeeoaddi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/koeeoaddi/32/408_2.png) [@koeeoaddi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/koeeoaddi)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2011, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-hippie-music-of-all-time/572471/70 "2011-02-25T00:52:18Z")
So real hippie music, you say? With a sitar and everything? [The Half Remarkable Question](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xEaEALzyJo) Anyone else getting a contact high from this thread? ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2011, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-hippie-music-of-all-time/572471/71 "2011-02-25T00:56:21Z")
Spirit in the Sky might fit somewhere in this category. Maybe if you seperate AM and FM music. ---
**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 25, 2011, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-hippie-music-of-all-time/572471/72 "2011-02-25T01:25:55Z")
Hypnotized by Fleetwood Mac ---
**Author:** ![waits](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/df788c/32.png) [@waits](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/waits)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2011, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-hippie-music-of-all-time/572471/73 "2011-02-25T01:32:21Z")
“Coming Into Los Angeles” by Arlo Guthrie “She’s A Lady” or “The Room Nobody Lives In” by John Sebastian ---
**Author:** ![K364](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/k364/32/5_2.png) [@K364](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/K364)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2011, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-hippie-music-of-all-time/572471/74 "2011-02-25T01:40:09Z")
We’re near the bottom of page 2, and no-one has mentioned: “A Whiter Shade of Pale” - Procul Harum ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2011, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-hippie-music-of-all-time/572471/75 "2011-02-25T01:45:34Z")
My number one vote would be “[Just Dropped In](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZ8k6fVe25k)”–Kenny Rogers and the First Edition Also “Mama Told Me not to Come”–Three Dog Night ---
**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 25, 2011, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-hippie-music-of-all-time/572471/76 "2011-02-25T01:50:41Z")
Now that I’m home, let’s see what my computer holds in the way of hippie music. Some that haven’t been mentioned: \* For Your Love\* - **Yardbirds** _Hesitation Blues_ - **Janis Joplin** _Ballad of You and Me and Pooneil_ -\*\* Jefferson Airplane\*\* _Bombay Calling_ -\*\* It’s A Beautiful Day\*\* _I Had Too Much To Dream Last Night_ - **Electric Prunes** - Taught me good, Lord, taught me all I know Taught me so well, I grabbed that gold And I left his dead ass there by the road.\* ---
**Author:** ![johnpost](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f17d59/32.png) [@johnpost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/johnpost)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2011, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-hippie-music-of-all-time/572471/77 "2011-02-25T01:58:36Z")
with many 60s albums having 1/2 to 2/3 of the songs being hit quality for many groups i would guess the number of best songs be many hundred. over 200 might be listed here. ---
**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 25, 2011, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-hippie-music-of-all-time/572471/78 "2011-02-25T02:05:59Z")
Yes, it’ll be a long list, and difficult to shorten to a “top 40.” > [@K364](#): > > We’re near the bottom of page 2, and no-one has mentioned: > > “A Whiter Shade of Pale” - Procul Harum Good song. But we’re not even halfway through page 1 yet! (Remember that people can change the number of posts per page in the User CP. I’m guessing from your comment that yours is set to 40. Mine is set to 200, so a thread that’s ten pages long to you would only be two pages long for me.) ---
**Author:** ![sinjin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ebca7d/32.png) [@sinjin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sinjin)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2011, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-hippie-music-of-all-time/572471/79 "2011-02-25T02:17:06Z")
Logins and Messina: [Danny’s song](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4FDcTyyXQb8) And the one we played at our wedding: [Run River Run](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5uovFeeTvG0) Gah, we were so optimistic then. ---
**Author:** ![Indygrrl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/58f4c7/32.png) [@Indygrrl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Indygrrl)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2011, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-hippie-music-of-all-time/572471/80 "2011-02-25T02:37:16Z")
Soulshine–Allman Bros Tangled Up in Blue–Bob Dylan Here Comes the Sun–George Harrison Heart of Gold–Neil Young The Weight–The Band Teach Your Children–CSNY [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-hippie-music-of-all-time/572471.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-hippie-music-of-all-time/572471.md?page=5)