Favourite Hippy Anthems

[Idaho]

Top 3 for me:

Roger McGuinn - I Wasn't Born to Follow
Joni Mitchell - Carey/Both Sides Now
Donnovan - There is a Mountain

 

[zenie]

Age of Aquarius
Windmills of your mind

 

[Firky]

 

[Idaho]

No that's shit.

 

[zenie]

Haven't heard that for a long time!!

 

[Kanda]

White Rabitt - Need Somebody to Love.

I win

 

[Firky]

Anything my Jam and Spoon or Astralasia, but it has to be at the right moment. Otherwise I get flash backs of Hayling Island.

There's loads to be fair.

 

[Iam]

White Rabitt - Need Somebody to Love.

I win

Apart from it being (Don't You Want) Somebody to Love? and being by Jefferson Airplane, you mean?

 

[Idaho]

White Rabitt - Need Somebody to Love.

I win

Me and a very good (and sadly distantly domiciled) friend of mine used to go to a club called the Basement on Friday nights in Brighton c.late 1980's and they would always play that song. At 10.30 they would put the smoke machine on full blast, turn the strobes on, and after a few beers and a spliff on the dancefloor... Good memories.

 

[Kanda]

Apart from it being (Don't You Want) Somebody to Love? and being by Jefferson Airplane, you mean?

You do know Jefferson Airplane became Starship and coined: Nothings gonna stop us now??

Also, they wrote I don't wanna miss a thing!!!

 

[Iam]

Grace Slick...

 

[Yossarian]

Country Joe & the Fish - "I-Feel-Like-I'm-Fixin'-to-Die Rag"

 

[Idaho]

You do know Jefferson Airplane became Starship and coined: Nothings gonna stop us now??

And it is truely worth listening to 'Built this City' as it is possibly the most bizare and meaningless song every written. Complete nonsense.

 

[Idaho]

Seeing as I double posted - may as well nominate something else.

Er... Howabout Alone Again Or - Love.

 

[Kanda]

So good you named it twice

 

[Iam]

And it is truely worth listening to 'Built this City' as it is possibly the most bizare and meaningless song every written. Complete nonsense.

Lyrics by... Bernie Taupin.

 

[Idaho]

Really? Well I didn't know that... heh

 

[Iam]

Really? Well I didn't know that... heh

Makes no difference to your point, really. It (the song, not the anecdote) is drivel.

 

[Idaho]

Makes no difference to your point, really. It (the song, not the anecdote) is drivel.

I kind of have a strange soft spot for songs that are not just a bit lyrically lame, but complete and utter random brain vomit. Echo & The Bunnymen's Crown of Thorns is a good example.

 

[newbie]

White Rabitt - Need Somebody to Love.

I win

but then... see if you can find the version of White Rabbit by the Great Society, the band before they became the Airplane.

 

[Iam]

Starship's 1985 anthem, the runaway No. 1 stinker, "seems to inspire the most virulent feelings of outrage," editor Craig Marks says. "It purports to be anti-commercial but reeks of '80s corporate-rock commercialism. It's a real reflection of what practically killed rock music in the '80s."

http://www.usatoday.com/life/music/news/2004-04-18-worst-songs_x.htm

 

[Idaho]

http://www.usatoday.com/life/music/news/2004-04-18-worst-songs_x.htm

Nice link

Can't fault that list. Almost scientifically extracted from the precise nadir of said wooden vessel:

BOTTOM OF THE BARREL

1. We Built This City Starship 1985
2. Achy Breaky Heart Billy Ray Cyrus 1992
3. Everybody Have Fun Tonight Wang Chung 1986
4. Rollin' Limpbizkit 2000
5. Ice Ice Baby Vanilla Ice 1990
6. The Heart of Rock & Roll Huey Lewis & The News 1984
7. Don't Worry, Be Happy Bobby McFerrin 1988
8. Party All the Time Eddie Murphy 1985
9. American Life Madonna 2003
10. Ebony and Ivory Paul McCartney, Stevie Wonder

 

[Iam]

Yeah. It's like a horrible wedding-disco tracklist.

 

[Idaho]

Yeah. It's like a horrible wedding-disco tracklist.

And the true horror, what really haunts and makes you wake up in a cold sweat is that you could imagine tapping along to them whilst distracted, only to catch yourself.

 

[DJ Squelch]

Neil - Hole in my shoe


but really Jefferson Airplane - White rabbit or the Mexican by Babe Ruth if it counts as a hippy sound.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

 

[lunatrick]

the ultimate - if your going to san francisco....donovan?

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

What can I say - I remember all these songs.

 

[Jonti]

One for you Johnny -- The Kinks "Waterloo Sunset"