# 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:** 6
**Author:** ![Darth\_Nader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Darth\_Nader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Nader)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2011, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-hippie-music-of-all-time/572471/101 "2011-02-25T17:29:06Z")
Edie Brickell and New Bohemians’ song “What I Am” should get some love here. I was going to link to their SNL performance… but this other one has [cowbell.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGjh6duUPXc&feature=related) ---
**Author:** ![Crafter\_Man](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crafter_man/32/458_2.png) [@Crafter\_Man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crafter_Man)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2011, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-hippie-music-of-all-time/572471/102 "2011-02-25T18:03:52Z")
Wow, three pages long and no one has mentioned \*We’re Only in It For the Money \*by the Mothers of Invention. Yea, I know it’s a parody. But the music is hippie and great. 🙂 Zappa’s _Lumpy Gravy_ also has some great “hippie” tunes. Other than that, the only thing I’ve got is Strawberry Alarm Clock, which others have already mentioned. ---
**Author:** ![Turble](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8dc957/32.png) [@Turble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Turble)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2011, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-hippie-music-of-all-time/572471/103 "2011-02-25T18:25:47Z")
[Fever Tree-San Francisco Girls](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ts0Y7uKtaAI) [Rotary Connection - Turn Me On](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrTb3uHeXDY) [Vanilla Fudge - You Keep Me Hangin’ On](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5WMh9BAFmM) ---
**Author:** ![kath94](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/67e7ee/32.png) [@kath94](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kath94)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2011, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-hippie-music-of-all-time/572471/104 "2011-02-25T18:34:31Z")
> [@TriPolar](#): > > Spirit in the Sky might fit somewhere in this category. Maybe if you seperate AM and FM music. I came in specifically to mention this one. **Gary “Wombat” Robson** , are you making a mix-tape? If so, can I have a copy? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Lust4Life](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ecc23a/32.png) [@Lust4Life](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lust4Life)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2011, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-hippie-music-of-all-time/572471/105 "2011-02-25T18:38:56Z")
Hole in my Shoe by Traffic Flowers in the Rain by The Move Virtually anything on Seargent Pepper or Revolver. ---
**Author:** ![cjepson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a9adbd/32.png) [@cjepson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cjepson)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2011, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-hippie-music-of-all-time/572471/106 "2011-02-25T20:36:10Z")
A few rather obscure ones that I particularly love… [Essence of Now](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DxVel3boji4)by It’s A Beautiful Day. ["Maker"](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KEj0MBhC_7g)by the Hollies (just before Graham Nash left) [“Orange and Red Beams”](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-eZYmF-RWYQ) by Eric Burdon & the Animals [“Putting Out the Vibration and Hoping It Comes Home”](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gR_eJpfZ2UQ) by Richie Havens [“Pictures and Designs”](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7XfzeHW_iU) by the Seeds [“Birds Can’t Row Boats”](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MzM_Rj51u9I) by Johnny Winter [“Everybody’s Here”](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVcEewHevfY) by Lost and Found [“Pindar’s Revenge”](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xP8r6wFvaU) by Ed Sanders (watch out, this one is really out there) [“Kites”](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbS2KmEecTo) by Simon Dupree and the Big Sound And here are some from more well-known artists: Beatles – “Rain”, “It’s All Too Much” Stones – [“In Another Land”](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRNdA8OiJug), [“Child of the Moon”](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txB507oMGAg) Pink Floyd – [“Flaming”](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6A9iPFF5Yrs), [“Lucifer Sam”](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8sNEedLeHY) Donovan – [“Three King Fishers”](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ro-bZZT_gJ0), [“The Fat Angel”](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=023ENkCFupY) Moody Blues – [“Legend of a Mind”](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_TbovyVOzs), “[Departure/Ride My See-Saw](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGEye0b5JXw)” Cream – [“World of Pain”](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tgqYWQKBnw), [“Dance the Night Away”](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lteb--nvuyo) ---
**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, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-hippie-music-of-all-time/572471/107 "2011-02-25T20:57:04Z")
> [@kath94](#): > > I came in specifically to mention this one. > > **Gary “Wombat” Robson** , are you making a mix-tape? If so, can I have a copy? 😉 This is helping me to assemble my playlist from many songs I already have, but there are dozens of songs mentioned that I don’t own and dozens more that I’ve never even heard of. I have quite a task ahead of me! I’ll be previewing all of these and probably spending a bunch of money buying some of them. ---
**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, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-hippie-music-of-all-time/572471/108 "2011-02-25T21:33:19Z")
Reaching a little deeper: while not as well known as Baez and Dylan, these folkies were very popular in hippie circles. Buffy Sainte-Marie (who actually _wrote_ “Universal Soldier”): [Codine](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7PtDycHbiw) was one of my faves, along with _Cripple Creek_ and _Broke Down Baby_. I saw her in concert in NYC in about 1968: front row seats! Ian & Sylvia: [Four Strong Winds](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjfTDPhMdTk) and other tunes from the wilds of Canada. ---
**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, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-hippie-music-of-all-time/572471/109 "2011-02-25T21:46:32Z")
Boobs a Lot - Fugs or Holy Modal Rounders I Feel Like I’m Fixin’ to Die Rag - Country Joe and the Fish ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2011, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-hippie-music-of-all-time/572471/110 "2011-03-01T13:47:14Z")
If we’re talking Eric Burdon I’d have to throw _San Francisco Nights_ and _Sky Pilot_ in there too. Humble Pie: _30 Days in the Hole_. I really want to put some Deep Purple and Tommy Bolin in there, like maybe off _Come Taste the Band_ but I wonder if that’s not too post-hippy, like _Post Toastee_. ---
**Author:** ![E-Sabbath](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e19adc/32.png) [@E-Sabbath](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-Sabbath)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2011, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-hippie-music-of-all-time/572471/111 "2011-03-01T14:21:20Z")
[![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/LgVMMdOplHw/hqdefault.jpg "The Hombres - Let It Out (Let It All Hang Out)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LgVMMdOplHw) Thbbbt! Nobody else remembers The Hombres? Let it all hang out, man. Hm. Can’t find a copy of Paul Butterfield’s Love March, but it was pretty awesome too. ---
**Author:** ![Sam\_A.Robrin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sam_a.robrin/32/14497_2.png) [@Sam\_A.Robrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_A.Robrin)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2011, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-hippie-music-of-all-time/572471/112 "2011-03-01T14:47:55Z")
> [@lieu](#): > > If we’re talking Eric Burdon I’d have to throw _San Francisco Nights_ Problem with that song is the refrain about “warm San Francisco nights.” As a former Haight-Ashbury hippie, I can tell you, there ain’t no such, uh, animal! ---
**Author:** ![Book\_it](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b3f665/32.png) [@Book\_it](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Book_it)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2011, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-hippie-music-of-all-time/572471/113 "2011-03-01T16:19:20Z")
Coca Cola Song ---
**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:** [March 1, 2011, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-hippie-music-of-all-time/572471/114 "2011-03-01T16:44:45Z")
[Free to Be You & Me](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mU8gDKN5sE&feature=related) - the New Seekers ---
**Author:** ![Philliam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/philliam/32/3011_2.png) [@Philliam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Philliam)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2011, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-hippie-music-of-all-time/572471/115 "2011-03-01T18:36:41Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > _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** Yes, yes & yes, but you have to include Quicksilver’s “The Fool” (if you can listen to the ending instrumental choruses without holding your breath, you got me beat). John Cippolina & Gary Duncan - best hippy Guitar duo ever. ---
**Author:** ![Philliam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/philliam/32/3011_2.png) [@Philliam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Philliam)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2011, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-hippie-music-of-all-time/572471/116 "2011-03-01T18:55:09Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > Reaching a little deeper: while not as well known as Baez and Dylan, these folkies were very popular in hippie circles. > > Buffy Sainte-Marie (who actually _wrote_ “Universal Soldier”): [Codine](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7PtDycHbiw) was one of my faves, along with _Cripple Creek_ and _Broke Down Baby_. I saw her in concert in NYC in about 1968: front row seats! > > Ian & Sylvia: [Four Strong Winds](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjfTDPhMdTk) and other tunes from the wilds of Canada. Don’t miss Buffy’s “God is Alive, Magic is Afoot”. Totally trippy. ---
**Author:** ![Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hilarity_n.suze/32/6223_2.png) [@Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hilarity_N.Suze)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2011, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-hippie-music-of-all-time/572471/117 "2011-03-01T19:34:01Z")
Holy Modal Rounders, “If You Wanna Be a Bird” Mungojerry, “In the Summertime” Insect Trust, “The Eyes of a New York Woman” ---
**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:** [March 1, 2011, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-hippie-music-of-all-time/572471/118 "2011-03-01T20:17:22Z")
> [@Book\_it](#): > > Coca Cola Song No, no, no! The original song (“I’d like to teach the world to sing”) is already on my list, but we’re talking about _hippie music_. You can’t use the commercialized version with the words changed to promote a product. Absolutely not. ---
**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:** [March 1, 2011, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-hippie-music-of-all-time/572471/119 "2011-03-01T20:20:46Z")
> [@Philliam](#): > > Don’t miss Buffy’s “God is Alive, Magic is Afoot”. Totally trippy. Buffy’s music–[Leonard Cohen’s words](http://www.leonardcohenfiles.com/book29.html). ---
**Author:** ![mrklutz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ebca7d/32.png) [@mrklutz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mrklutz)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2011, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-hippie-music-of-all-time/572471/120 "2011-03-01T21:07:16Z")
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