Best Songs Of The 60'S?

what are the best hippie or phychedelic songs from the 60's?NAME THEM

 

Rollercoaster: 13th Floor Elevators

 

now that is a tall order

 

jefferson airplane-white rabbit

 

Jefferson Airplane and the 13th Floor Elevators both kick arse!


Also, Pink Floyd's really early stuff like "Astronomy Domine" or "See Emily Play", and a lot of Donovan's less familiar material, like the songs on the album "A Gift From a Flower to a Garden."

Oh, and of course, "Nights in White Satin" by the Moody Blues; 'tis a beautiful song.

 

way too many wouldn't know where to start

 

Arlo Guthrie-Coming into Los Angeles and Canned Heat-Goin up the country and The Who(British, hoorah!)-My Generation + The Beatles-Lucy in the sky........

Goin up the country,ive read,is supposed to be the unofficial theme tune to the original Woodstock festival


Peace Out

 

Best Songs of the Sixties and early Seventies


1. "Who Knows" Band of Gypies album, Jimi Hendrix
2. "I don't need no doctor" Live version, Rocking the Fillmore, Humble Pie
3. "White Rabbit" Jefferson Airplane
4. "Sweet Jane" Live version, Lou Reed
5. "Born to be Wild" Steppenwolf
6. "In-a-gadda-da-vida" long version, Iron Butterfly
7. "Closer to Home" Grand Funk
8. "Black Sabbath" Black Sabbath
9. "Suite: Judy Blue Eyes" Live version, Woodstock, CSN
10. "Star Bangled Banner" Live version, Woodstock, Jimi Hendrix

Those are my personal best songs from the late sixties and early seventies. Of course there are so many good songs that came out of that period. Name your best ten songs from that period.

ALI

 

Epitaph - King Crimson
Suite: Judy Blue Eyes - CSNY
Purple Haze - Jimmy Hendrix
Glass Onion - Beatles
Thick as a Brick - Jethro Tull
Aumghn - Can
Astronomy Domine - Pink Floyd
Isle of Everywhere - Gong
White Rabbit - Jefferson Airplane
Are you Experienced? - Jimmy Hendrix
Black Magic Woman - Santana
Whole Lotta Love - Led Zeppelin
Paranoid - Black Sabbath
Revolution - Beatles
21st Century Schizoid Man - King Crimson
Going Home by Helicopter - Ten Years After

 

Time Of The Season: The Zombies
Purple Haze: Jimi Hendrix
Within you without you: The Beatles
Across The Universe: The Beatles
My Generation: The Who
Substitute: The Who
On The Road Again: Canned Heat

 

Well, this is an almost impossible task, but I will name a few songs that I think were very important in the 60s. (Meaning very influential)

The Beatles - "Tomorrow Never Knows" (Helped to usher in psychedelia to mainstream music)
The Beatles - "Love You To" (Helped to introduce Eastern music to the Western world; aka the sitar)
The Beatles - "All You Need is Love" (Inspiration for the Hippy movement)
The Beatles - "Helter Skelter"
The Beatles - "Paperback Writer" (Claimed by John Lennon to be the first "hard rock" song)
The Rolling Stones - "Satisfaction" (Showed people a different side to the British Invasion)
The Rolling Stones - "Gimmie Shelter" (Very influential to later artists)
Jefferson Airplane - "Somebody to Love"
The Who - "I Can See for Miles" (Helped to usher in psychedelia to mainstream music)
The 13th Floor Elevators - "You're Gonna Miss Me"
The Velvet Underground - "Venus in Furs"
The Velvet Underground - "Heroin"
The Velvet Underground - "Sister Ray"

Meh, there are so many, there is no point in going on. Check out the thread "Psychedelic Rock Essentials" to learn about artists and albums from this genre.

 

Summer In The City - Lovin Spoonful

Whiter Shade Of Pale - Procul Harem

 

'A saucerfull of secrets'-floyd
'Scarborough fair'- simon and garfunkle
'California dreaming'- mamas and papas

 

The Beatles: Rain, Lucy In The Sky, It#s All Too Much, Something, Come Together.

Rolling Stones: 2000 Light Years, Lantern, Child Of The Moon,

The Kinks: Lazy Old Sun, Days

 

jefferson airplane - somebody to love - tempted to say white rabbit too, i have a hard time choosing

janis joplin - kozmic blues

i love california dreaming too

 

Way too many to go through...

Bob Dylan's The Times They Are A-Changin'... many of his songs, in terms of wordsmanship (is that a word?)

 

BEATLES-rain, lsd, sgt. pepper, long and winding road, hey jude, dont let me down
JIMI HENDRIX- purple haze, foxy lady, are you experienced?, voodoo child, little wing, bold as love, electric lady land, all along the watch tower
BOB DYLAN- all along the watch tower, the times they are a-changin',knocking on heavens door
THE DOORS- light my fire, back door man, unknown soldier, wild child, wiskey bar
CCR- suzie q, proud mary, fortunate son
STONES- paint it black......many many more

 

"T.B.Sheets"Van Morrison
"Sympathy for the devil"Stones best song ever
"Like a rolling stone"Bob Dylan
Early Pink Floyd Stuff

Think the 70's rocked more
Darkside of the moon/Led Zeppelin 4/Exile on main street/Revolver.

A don't forget the Godfather of Soul
James Brown live at the Apollo

 

I must agree

The 13th Floor Elevators - Youre Gonna Miss Me

is awesome!

Sorry - The Easybeats
I Can See For Miles - The Who
Subterranian Homesick Blues
Pictures Of Matchstick Men - Status Quo
The Real Thing - Russel Morris
Get Off My Cloud - Rolling Stones
Hey Bulldog - The Beatles
All Day and All Of The Night - The Kinks
The Knickerbockers - Lies
Venus In Furs - The Velvet Underground
Carry on / Ohio - CSNY
The Small Faces - Ogden's Nut Gone Flake

 

Bob Dylan- The Times They Are A-Changin'