# 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:** 5
**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, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-hippie-music-of-all-time/572471/81 "2011-02-25T02:38:20Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > Say what? 1968? Perhaps you missed it. [The song](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wadrAU6baV0). I saw Harris on Johnny Carson; when asked about the lyrics, Harris said he had no clue what any of it meant. Oh, and I would add: anything done by Ravi Shankar. ---
**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 25, 2011, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-hippie-music-of-all-time/572471/82 "2011-02-25T02:55:26Z")
[Here They Come - Ten Years After](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZiEbfewefU&feature=related) ---
**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, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-hippie-music-of-all-time/572471/83 "2011-02-25T02:55:26Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > 1968? Perhaps you missed it. [The song](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wadrAU6baV0). . Good lord. It’s going to take a while to shake that. You, Sir, are buying the beer next time. ---
**Author:** ![bmoak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9dc877/32.png) [@bmoak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bmoak)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2011, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-hippie-music-of-all-time/572471/84 "2011-02-25T03:09:52Z")
The song I most surprised not to see mentioned yet is “Reach Out of the Darkness” by [Friend & Lover](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqLRd4neGGE), closely followed by “Journey to the Center of the Mind” by [The Amboy Dukes](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TokYdNmOt3s). ---
**Author:** ![bmoak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9dc877/32.png) [@bmoak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bmoak)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2011, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-hippie-music-of-all-time/572471/85 "2011-02-25T03:18:58Z")
> [@Evil\_Captor](#): > > 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 … Would it have been a bigger hit than the 1973 original by [Stevie Wonder](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QnbdXWvmysg)? also, “Signs” by the Five Man Electrical Band and “Almost Cut my Hair” by CSN&Y. ---
**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 25, 2011, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-hippie-music-of-all-time/572471/86 "2011-02-25T04:26:10Z")
> [@The\_Surb](#): > > Rolling Stones - [2000 Light Years From Home](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=drwM5jQvrpU&feature=related) Wow…man. Wizard! ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Jeffrey\_Lebowski](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_jeffrey_lebowski/32/215_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Jeffrey\_Lebowski](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Jeffrey_Lebowski)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2011, 5:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-hippie-music-of-all-time/572471/87 "2011-02-25T05:17:05Z")
_Fortunate Son_, _Have You Ever Seen the Rain?_, CCR _I Shot the Sheriff_, Bob Marley & The Wailers _Friend of the Devil_, The Grateful Dead _American Pie_, Don McLean _Alice’s Restaurant_, Arlo Guthrie ---
**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, 5:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-hippie-music-of-all-time/572471/88 "2011-02-25T05:23:39Z")
> [@bmoak](#): > > Would it have been a bigger hit than the 1973 original by [Stevie Wonder](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QnbdXWvmysg)? Well sure … if it had come out in the 60s ahead of Stevie Wonders’ version! 😃 ---
**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, 5:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-hippie-music-of-all-time/572471/89 "2011-02-25T05:27:59Z")
[This one](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUADeRYIwW0) was SOOO popular among the hippie chicks and the hippie chick wannabees, and well, most young women of the time … you could almost feel the estrogen curdling whenever it came on … I swear, it could make women ovulate … ---
**Author:** ![Rick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9f8e36/32.png) [@Rick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2011, 5:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-hippie-music-of-all-time/572471/90 "2011-02-25T05:31:30Z")
> [@Evil\_Captor](#): > > “Sweet Lorraine” by Country Joe and the Fish [Nitpick] The title is [Not so sweet Martha Lorraine](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4WeqP2G6pI). [/nitpick] ---
**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 25, 2011, 10:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-hippie-music-of-all-time/572471/91 "2011-02-25T10:31:31Z")
Donovan’s already been mentioned; which leads me to mention The Incredible String Band. Remember [Way Back In the 1960’s](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQ-jspv-Qok)? Or maybe [First Girl I Loved](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdtnMzPWqIs)… T Rex started out in that same folky vein & morphed into something else. Here’s an early [Ride A White Swan](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Pldzo1Elz0). Sensitive psycho-folk from America: Pearls Before Swine with [Another Time](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPxpMVd0v4s). Earlier, I mentioned The Chambers Brothers’ “Time Has Come Today.” [Here it is](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxpcZrQQM-4); the long version, of course. (Of course we listened to the Beatles, the Stones, Dylan & the other big names; I’ve just been hitting some of the oddities.) ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2011, 11:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-hippie-music-of-all-time/572471/92 "2011-02-25T11:23:17Z")
We definitely need more Byrds in this thread: [“Wasn’t Born To Follow”](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWhgLjim6Rc) [“Draft Morning”](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6pb2pLeR_s) [“Fifth Dimension”](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55AgdrEsdZo) ---
**Author:** ![njtt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ecd19e/32.png) [@njtt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/njtt)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2011, 11:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-hippie-music-of-all-time/572471/93 "2011-02-25T11:24:38Z")
> [@Don\_Draper](#): > > 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. Oops! No I meant _Forever Changes_ (by _Love_), but somehow this got attached to the line below the one that it belonged too, which actually did list a song off _Forever Changes_ (it must be all the drugs!) :o I agree that there are a lot of other good songs on _Surrealistic Pillow_ too, and it is probably the best Airplane album, but I do not love it as an album the way I love _Forever Changes_. ---
**Author:** ![singular1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ba9def/32.png) [@singular1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/singular1)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2011, 11:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-hippie-music-of-all-time/572471/94 "2011-02-25T11:30:02Z")
> [@Evil\_Captor](#): > > [This one](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUADeRYIwW0) was SOOO popular among the hippie chicks and the hippie chick wannabees, and well, most young women of the time … you could almost feel the estrogen curdling whenever it came on … I swear, it could make women ovulate … Your link, she no work no more. Could you just tell us the song? I want to see if it makes this old hippie chick ovulate… And nobody mentioned “It’s a Beautiful Morning” by the Rascals? I love this thread! ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2011, 12:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-hippie-music-of-all-time/572471/95 "2011-02-25T12:34:45Z")
Magic Carpet Ride-- Steppenwolf Frankenstein-- Edgar Winter Sound of Silence-- Simon & Garfunkle Cloud Nine-- Temptations For something a little newer, Prince’s cover of Crimson and Clover/Wild Thing. ---
**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, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-hippie-music-of-all-time/572471/96 "2011-02-25T14:59:48Z")
The Who: [My Generation](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=594WLzzb3JI) and [Magic Bus](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0nr12u-sWU) The Beatles: [Magical Mystery Tour](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hnrsqf33MXA), Strawberry Fields, Lucy In The Sky, and many others of that age. Joe Cocker: [With A Little Help From My Friends](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hnrsqf33MXA) ---
**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, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-hippie-music-of-all-time/572471/97 "2011-02-25T15:11:52Z")
Sugar Magnolia - Dead Stella Blue - Dead Sugaree - Dead or Garcia Deal - Dead or Garcia Wheel - Dead or Garcia You Shook Me - both Beck and Zeppelin Stairway to Heaven - Zeppelin Sunshine of Your Love - Cream In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida - Iron Butterfly (i recall hearing on the radio a mashup of the drums of the last two songs, while you would think it would sound like crap it was kind of interesting.) ---
**Author:** ![psychonaut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/psychonaut/32/4655_2.png) [@psychonaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychonaut)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2011, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-hippie-music-of-all-time/572471/98 "2011-02-25T15:57:27Z")
[Steve Hillage](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Hillage) made some great hippie music in the 1970s. I especially like “Garden of Paradise” and “Four Ever Rainbow”, the two 20+ minute tracks that comprise the album [Rainbow Dome Musick](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbow_Dome_Musick). ---
**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, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-hippie-music-of-all-time/572471/99 "2011-02-25T16:42:20Z")
> [@singular1](#): > > Your link, she no work no more. Could you just tell us the song? I want to see if it makes this old hippie chick ovulate… > And nobody mentioned “It’s a Beautiful Morning” by the Rascals? > I love this thread! Sorry about that. It’s “Our House” by Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young. It actually inspired fear in young hippie males. (I may be exaggerating here … a little.) ---
**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, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-hippie-music-of-all-time/572471/100 "2011-02-25T16:44:57Z")
America: **Ventura Highway** and **A Horse With No Name** These were more California pop of the 70s. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-hippie-music-of-all-time/572471.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-hippie-music-of-all-time/572471.md?page=6)