What song do you think best imbodies the feeling of the 60s?

i love wild tyme, that whole album is awsome. a lot of JA songs sum up the 60s.

 

everyone's got some grest songs!!! I knew there were those I was overlooking....
lets keep this going..............

my generation - the who

 

How bout "I Remember When I Was Young" by Matt Taylor?

Well I remember when I was Young the World had just begun and I was Happy
I used to wonder about the Earth and how it moved around the Sun so Snappy
Imagination goin wild makes a very backward child they told me
So back at school Id sit around just waitin for the Sound so I could go Home

Sometimes I think about it It happens every day
I should think of the Present cause the Present Now

Well I remember when I was young how one and Thripence got ya to the Movies
To look Tough we'd Lite a Smoke and very nearly Choke but we had a real good time
Growin older Meant you get to fly a saber Jet and fight a few wars
So id just sit there all day and let my mind decay somethin awful

 

country joe mcdonald-im-a-fixin-to-die rag

 

that reminds me of a song by the Animals, "When I was Young"
its about a dying of innocence and growing up and all that fun stuff

 

Signs! thats an amazing song! I think summertime really did it too

 

I'd like to suggest "What's Goin' On" by Marvin Gaye as a good choice for a Sixties song because the lyrics convey a
lot of stuff that was happening during that time period:
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Mother, Mother, Mother
There's too many of you crying
Brother, Brother, Brother
There's far too many of you dying
You know we've got to find a way
To bring some lovin' here today ......


Father, Father, Father
We don't need to escalate
You see, war is not the answer
For only Love can conquer hate
You know we've got to find a way
To bring some lovin' here today

Picket lines and picket signs
Don't punish me with brutality
Talk to me, so you can see
Oh, what's going on .. (Right on!)

Father, Father, Father
Everybody thinks we're wrong
Oh, but who are they to judge us
Simply because our hair is long
Oh, you know we've got to find a way
To bring some understanding here today
Oh, what's goin' on?
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The Hippies were really into "making love, not war", and they were very against war and very much into spreading love and peace around. The lines that go: "Picket lines, and picket signs; Don't punish me with brutality.."
This was about how when the Hippies would assemble and hold anti-war demonstrations. They'd carry picket signs with "No War!" messages on them and march in a line in front of whatever building they had chosen for their anti-war demonstration .... they would hold peaceful gatherings, but the local cops would invariably confront the Hippies and tell them to leave; which violated their "free speech" rights; so the Hippies would oppose dis-assembling, and then the cops would use physically-violent force to make the Hippies leave (or they'd arrest them.) It was generally known that cops didn't like Hippies because they were different and they went against the grain - they were non-conformists who simply stood up for what they believed in, and the government didn't dig that at all. Historically, the government wanted the citizens to be fully compliant and not question what they did. (ie: "What's goin' on?")

Sincere Regards, Michaela
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"They will never make a perfect heart until they
make one that can't be broken."
.......The Wizard, "The Wizard of Oz"
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I agree with Alaskan, and I would add the Byrds: Turn!Turn!Turn!.

 

Michaela.....great choice! cant believe i overlooked that one....

Turn,Turn,Turn is actually a verse from the Bible....the whole fricking song. Cant remember exactly where...Old Testament, for sure...maybe Psalms?

 

Hmmm... Definitely Reflections of my Life, Marmalade

 

Iron Maiden - Number of the Beast.

 

I personally think "for what its worth" by Buffalo Springfield sums up the feeling of the 60's.

 

wooden ships by csn.

 

San Francisco (Be Sure To Wear Some Flowers In Your Hair)


-Scott McKenzie

 

Doesn't make it any less valid.

 

jefferson airplaane!---white rabbit!!!
the zombies!!---war!!!

 

theres no need to steel,
just tell someone how you feel,
maybe theil feed you a meal,
and you can get your first kill..

 

SAY HELLO TO MY LTTLE FRIEND, ha! you never know when deaths comin alls you hear is a gun shot, little kids get to runnin, and the block gets hot

im a gangster you find out for sure if you ever step on my toes,
im the one hanging out the window with an ak fillingyou punk ass with holes...

an eye for a eye, nigga, we was born to die at the pull of a, trigga

 

i think now, looking back... we did not fight the enemy, we fought ourselves... and the enemy was in us.....

 

its like fighting the enemy right on our own turf
its like getting a peice of wood and learning how to surf