 John the OFM  | 01 May 2026 6:04 p.m. PST |
Rules:
None. YOU can define it however you want.
Wait. You MUST give the artist, the song title, and provide a link. I have been accused (😱) of being a Debbie Downer about music. So, here. Your likes. Bellamy Brothers. Let Your Love Flow.
YouTube link If you throw in "Imagine", all I can say is that I will not vote for it |
 Old Contemptible | 01 May 2026 6:22 p.m. PST |
I'll be Debbie Downer, but in a good way. It's too much. Too broad. If I list it all, I will break the internet. |
| 35thOVI | 01 May 2026 6:29 p.m. PST |
Two the of best (Steppenwolf)
Subject: born to be wild – Google Search
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Subject: magic carpet ride – Google Search
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| Gear Pilot Too | 01 May 2026 7:21 p.m. PST |
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| Tgerritsen | 01 May 2026 8:04 p.m. PST |
For what it's Worth by Buffalo Springfield
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 piper909 | 01 May 2026 9:23 p.m. PST |
My mind freezes up, 'cause I have SO MANY I'd like to nominate… I'll just restrain myself with a classic goofy but popular hit similar in time and tone to some already noted: the one-hit wonder "Spirit in the Sky" by Norman Greenbaum. YouTube link |
| piper909 | 01 May 2026 9:24 p.m. PST |
"Atlantis" by Donovan. YouTube link "Happy Days Toy Town" by the Small Faces YouTube link "Lay Down (Candles In the Wind)" by Melanie. YouTube link "Smoke on the Water" by Deep Purple YouTube link "Iron Man" by Black Sabbath YouTube link "In The Year 2525 (Exordium & Terminus)" by Zager & Evans
YouTube link "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida" by Iron Butterfly (FULL LENGTH!!) YouTube link SO MANY!! I have a Swinging Sixties playlist on my iTunes compiled from my library of CDs and downloads and it has 655 sings on it. Not all are "hippie era" songs, but a ton are. These are some of the goofiest,commercially successful "hippie" things. The genuine psychedelic freakouts and mind-blowers would require a whole 'nuther list. |
| Oberlindes Sol LIC | 02 May 2026 1:13 a.m. PST |
Born too late for the Hippie Era. I didn't really hear the music of the 1960s until college in the late 1970s. |
| robert piepenbrink | 02 May 2026 6:29 a.m. PST |
Hippie Era is about when I gave up on songs and went exclusively instrumental. (I'm counting Carpenters as IN but not OF the Hippie Era.) But I'll admit to an affection for the Fifth Dimension--Aquarius (already linked) and Up Up and Away
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| OSCS74 | 02 May 2026 6:43 a.m. PST |
piper909 "In the Year 2525" +1 |
 miniMo | 02 May 2026 6:52 a.m. PST |
When the good drugs were flowing! Several Species Of Small Furry Animals Gathered Together In A Cave And Grooving With A Pict (Pink Floyd):
YouTube link
Also, Umma Gumma is Pink Floyd's best album.
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+1 White Rabbit (Jefferson Airplane), but I'll put in that the mono version of this (and also Someone To Love) is even better than the stereo — Grace Slick's voice comes through so much stronger when it's not being split between the speakers. Such a pity her voice was shot all to crap by the 70s.
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 Virtualscratchbuilder  | 02 May 2026 8:24 a.m. PST |
Time has Come Again – Chambers brothers YouTube link
Pressed Rat and Warthog – Cream pressed rat and warthog cream
Oh Well – Fleetwood Mac YouTube link
Dear Mr. Fantasy – Traffic YouTube link
Low Spark of High Heeled Boys – Traffic YouTube link |
| 35thOVI | 02 May 2026 8:44 a.m. PST |
"To be considered a band of the hippie era, the music generally entails the years 1965 to 1972" |
| John the OFM | 02 May 2026 9:54 a.m. PST |
Read MY rules.
You can define it any way you want. |
