Modern music and the hippie community

so what is your favourite post-Woodstock act or singer? This ranges from 1970 to the present day

 

I feel like we're really far removed from the hippy culture, and ultimately that the music you hear today doesn't lend itself to psychedelia.

 

I'm 25 and have always disliked most modern music they play on radio stations for people my age range. When I was a kid/teen my dad used to play this tune a lot (I love this) on his stereo and in his car, among other songs;

 

Sounds a bit boring, lol.
I prefer some songs from bands like ACDC, Bon Jovi, Beachboys (cheesy!), Rainbow (since you've been gone), and to a lesser extent Van Halen, Joan Jett, Def Leppard, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Dire Straits, Kiss, Queen.
Actually, there's loads of songs out there from all genres that I like... just not so much modern tunes. My dad was a proper rock legend fanatic. If only he could turn on a computer to be able to join a forum, these days he just enjoys sitting out in the garden listening to the birds twerping in the forest in his retirement.

 

The Beach Boys were not cheesy. Brian Wilson was a songwriting genius who wrote arguably the best pop song of all time with "God Only Knows."

And to address the thread as a whole, other than the Beach Boys, virtually everything I listen to is post 1970. But my formative teen years were in the 90s, so that makes sense. I listen to a lot of punk, post punk, pop punk, lots of riot grrrl, 90s hip hop, garage rock, alternative, stuff like that. Basically, stuff that wasn't even around in 1970.

 

Dire Straits.. 1977..

 

Probably Nirvana.

 

I like Avril Lavigne, Bon Jovie, Aerosmith, some Phil Collins, disco, 3oh!3, and the Go Gos.
Born. 1992

 

Talisman is a good song too

 

but I'd disagree if you were to suggest that psychedelia is an inherent symptom of hippy culture. hippy culture seems like a vehicle for what was already conceived.

for post-1970 psychedelia
I go for the butthole surfers
or the meat puppets
even Earth

angels of darkness, demons of light
is very psykhedelos

 

Yes exactly.
Glad it had already been said.

 

I think that there is a movement, and that it has lost momentum. At some point the management stepped in and made some executive decisions - we will sell more records if x, y, & z - and when that happened some of the bands tried to listen to their management. Now today, some of the management has either allowed some of the talent to engage in their creative process more, or have directed something in a creative direction for their relative clients.

I think ultimately though, the whole movement toward something that supported psychedelia has gone by the wayside.

 

sure it has gone wayside
like a bottle by the waters edge
but the Ideas that the movement made manifest are very much alive
I'll even venture to suppose that they were alive & well before the hippy movement
that the movement was just another cultural vehicle for the same seed that gave life to the beats or the saints or Johnny Apple seed
it is the turtle with the head of wild oats clamped in its shell

 

Phish if I had to pick one. I have some trinkets from them in my office and it's one of the only things my coworkers know about me I guess. I am obsessed and my boss will ask whenever I ask for a day off if it's for a Phish show.

 

Rave and Trance do to some extent.

There are also some modern Psychedelic bands as well .

Hawkwind have long been associated as the grandfathers of Trance music. So in my mind there is some connection albeit a loose one .