Choose one of the following songs as the no.1 hippie anthem!
 

Yesterday I was thinking about Somebody To Love as the most iconic hippie song...but I'm not sure, so I decided to create this poll to see the results.
For what it's worth
Purple haze
Light my fire
Somebody to love
A whiter shade of pale
San francisco (Be Sure To Wear Flowers In Your Hair)
Waterloo sunset
See emily play
White rabbit
All you need is love

Maybe add these to the poll:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pafY6sZt0FE


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKdsRWhyH30

How can I add more options?

I think a mod needs to do it.

OK, but would you like to vote one of the options and coment about your reasons?

I voted Somebody To Love-Jefferson Airplane out of the choices but I always think Mamas and Papa's California Dreamin' when I think of hippies.

I can't believe how I forgot to add that one...Thanks for voting!

When I think of hippie songs the first thing that comes to mind is Teach Your Children by Crosby, Stills and Nash

Ohio is a great one.

So is Love the One You’re With

Give Peace a Chance

OK, I'm not a hippie, I just tried to choose 10 iconic hippie songs, I had thought about including Give Peace A Chance and California Dreamin', but I forgot to add them.

It doesn’t matter. It just means out of these ten, which are all good choices, which one does it best. It kind of boils down to peace and love vs drugs and sex.

I went with "Somebody to Love" but if "Fortunate Son" or "Time of the Season" was up there it would have been tougher.

Fortunate Son is a great one I hadn't thought about, I wasn't sure whether to open a poll about hippie songs or anti-Vietnam war songs.

Even in Europe the anti-war movement mobilized against The American War of Imperialist Aggression was synonymous with the core values of peace and love from hippyism.

lol

Yeah, probably, I don't understand all these differences between movements from the 60s (mod, hippie, rocker, etc.)

Voted for "All You Need Is Love".

I also love The Byrds' "Eight Miles High" and Donovan's "Hurdy Gurdy Man".

I thought of that too

If you're curious about hippies
movies about hippies:
Taking Woodstock
Alice's Restaurant
And movies where parent(s) were hippies:
My Girl
Flirting with Disaster

The dividing line between them is mostly music and fashion at that particular period of time. Rockers were late 50s/early 60s, Mods mid 60s, and Hippies later 60s. Mods dressed up while Hippies dressed down. Mod and Rockers were mentioned in Hard Days Night, which was a Beatles' film released in '64. I'm guessing "Rockers" is more a British thing. In America Rockers would be called Greasers, but then that term probably came later -- (I'm guessing) the term was popularize by the movie Grease. An example Mod group would be early era The Who. In the 70s The Jam were Mod revival band. Rockers (I'm guessing) were into early Rock and Roll and Rockabilly wore leather and rode bikes. A good example of Rockabilly singer who wore leather jacket would be Gene Vincent.

The Hippies ethos was basically an extension of the Beat Generation from the 50s. The difference would be Hippies had long hair, dressed down and they favored Folksy music, and Psychedelia/Acid Rock.

The 5th Dimension - Medley: Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In (The Flesh Failures) a song about peace, love and harmony -- says it all. Plus the second part of the song where Joe Osborn tears it up on bass as Billy Davis Jr. goes to church.
The Cowsills - Hair song about the hallmark of hippieness: long hair.
Joni Mitchell - Woodstock song about the concert which was the pinnacle of hippiedom.
Canned Heat - Going up to the Country The song is laid back. It's yearning for a more peaceful rustic life. The singer is doing his best at imitating Skip James. I don't know how anthemic of hippies others would consider this song, but somehow it's the song I identify most with Woodstock, probably from clips about Woodstock.

Yeah, thanks for the explanation! I'll listen to the songs too, I've never heard them.
P.S. A Hard Day's Night is the best movie of all time. Ringo said the Beatles were "mockers" or something like that, and I didn't get it at first. And I answered you on another thread about the Rolling Stones

The original and the best.

That's a very good summary and list of recommendations, Neapolitan. Just this bit I'd like to comment on if I may:-

"Greasers" was used in England too, in fact I was in high school with a guy whose nickname was "Greaser". It predates the movie Grease
and in England meant " a guy with long unwashed hair, leather jacket and such a love of low-budget motorbikes that his hands, like his hair were likely to be greasy." AFAIK Rockers were the same group, but before long hair was fashionable: they adopted the long hippie hair and became Greasers.

Yes, that was a clever remark from Ringo, making fun of the rivalry between Mods and Rockers, which at one time was both serious and bitter in England:-



(An old codger like Trollheart ;) might notice the Ford Anglias in this video clip: very first car my big sister bought, and therefore the first car in my family, as my parents never had one.)

Lord, I thought that Mods and Rockers were almost the same thing!!

Haven’t you listened to Quadrophenia?

:mad:

Yes, but I didn't know there had been a civil war in Great Britain between Mods and Rockers at such a scale.
I obviusly knew before entering here Mods and Rockers were different, but not that they hated each other that much. They belonged to the same generation lol
And although I've listened to Quadrophenia, I've never started paying attention to the lyrics of a song till last year. I've been listening to The Wall for my whole life. I found out 2 months ago what was it about. And as I've said in another thread, I've always prefered Tommy and Who's Next instead of Quadrophenia.

By the way, I'm not a an expert in rock music, so don't get angry if I don't know very well the stories behind some songs/albums. It's not so easy to find time to search for everything. I create threads while I'm doing a maths online lesson lol. I can only listen to music while I'm doing homework cause I don't have much free time.

I would, yes.

Then I'm afraid I have to report you to the moderators of this forum AND to your maths teacher! ;)

no!!

by the way, what's a mod?

I voted for "San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Flowers In Your Hair)" because that one comes the closest to describing the late 60's hippie vibe in the US at that time for me.

However, this song would've been my choice if it had been in the list...

I don't know what's a mod with you?

What????

I voted that one too.

I'm sorry because i wrote head instead of hair in the options.

I thought about Get Together too

Come on people now
Smile on your sister
Everybody’s not a mister
Try to love everybody right now

Used on this forum, a mod (small "m") is a moderator: they have special rights and responsibility to keep us well-behaved. They also get to have their name in blue. Marie Monday is one of the best, and most active at the moment. Frownland is also excellent, but the forum gossip is that he is in the grip of a new romance and isn't posting so much.

A Mod ( capital "M"), is like the guy on the Quadrophenia album cover. He bought a motor-scooter instead of a motor bike, and , weird as it seems, therefore commited to one gang of guys, a certain type of fashion, haircut, etc. As well as The Who, The Small Faces were another band who were clearly Mods in their younger days.

OK, I was asking what's a mod used in this forum.
Thanks.

You're welcome, Eleanor, and just in case...
The Small Faces, Mod style icons:-

https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/i...6_S3A&usqp=CAU....https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/i...lymgw&usqp=CAU

Yeah, I know, I already knew that.

I was asking what a mod in this forum

People dressed so strangely in the 60s.