What Song Did You Hear That Made You Realize You Were A Hippie?

Fleetwood mac- dreams

 

the song I loved and not many of my friends were crazy about was Ball and Chain. sung by Big mama Thornton and Janis Joplin. I love the blues, war songs, union songs and a lot of Elvis. My favorite song of the day was & as the movie bothered me for days, Clockwork Orange, I loved the music score.

 

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Big A Little A, by Crass. That song spoke to me like no other had ever done before - or after.

 

Stop children what's that sound, everybody look what's going down I played this song so many times, I hummed this tune for years. Today if I hear it, I can totally flashback to what and where I was everytime I heard the song. Great song, great message.

Jefferson Airplane

 

After I heard The Band's "Music from Big Pink", Santana's "Soul Sacrifice" and Marvin Gaye's "What's goin' on", I realized I was traveling a very different path from my parents and didn't need their roadmap(s) for my life. My values and attitudes; even my clothes and work paths, would go in directions that either confused or appalled them...I have no regrets in being a "hippie"; someone who's "hip" to being non-conformist to the mainstream...

 

Tomorrow Never Knows...Beatles
White Rabbit...Jefferson Airplane
In A Gadda Da Vida...
Time Has Come Today..The Chambers Brothers
Michael from Mountains...Joni Mitchell

 

I'm surprised that no one has posted this yet.

Jackie DeShannon - Put A Little Love in Your Heart


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMj7UcjPZ0U

 

When I heard buddy holly in the gym before the 8th grade sock hop. I was transfixed in time. It was all I needed to know I was not of the usual sort and based on that experience I never went back to Doris Day.

 

Not a one particular song but these have made an impression.
The Songs: All you need is Love, Let it be ( , All along the watchtower (or anything fromJimi), Maya (Ingredible String Band), Light my fire (or anything from the Doors), early reggae...

It game to me slowly over the years. I was ten when Summer of Love happened. The Beatles and all the music and general feeling that something new and beautiful was happening. The realization that Vietnam war was just wrong. In my teens i realized that i wanted out of the normal ratrace; started meditating at 17 and did not go to army.

Punk happened when i was 19 and strengthened my conviction. At 25 I smoked dynamite hash with fiends, dont know if it was laced with something but i went zooming right into space and received so much information that i had process it for years.

I nearly lost my vision and soul for years while trying to make living -my misconception was i thought have conform to values of babylon to make it. Of course i was wrong!

About five years ago starting read this forum and the realized that i've found my spritual home; I am a Hippie!

Peace!

 

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he turned 55 last sunday, in his hair he found some grey, but he still aint changed his life style, he likes it better the old way...so he grows a little garden in the back yard by the fence, hes consuming what hes growing now-adays in self defense, yea he gets out there in the twilight zone sometimes when it just dont make no sense

he gets off on country music...cause the new shit left him cold, hes got young friends in a new way, but hes just to f*ckin old, and he dreams at night of woodstock and the day john lennon died..how the music made him happy and the silence made him cry...yea he thinks of john sometimes and he has to wonder why..

cause hes and old hippy and he dont know what to do, should he hang on to the old should he grab on to the new...hes an old hippie this new lifes is just a bust...he aint tryin to change nobody..hes just tryin real hard to adjust.

he was sure back in the 60,s that everyone was hip...then they sent him off to vietnam on his senior trip...and they forced him to become a man while he was still a boy...and behind each wave of tragedy he waited for the joy....NOW THIS OLD WORLD MAY CHANGE AROUND HIM, BUT HE JUST WONT CHANGE NO MORE.

Well, he stays away a lot now from the parties and the clubs
And he's thinking while he's joggin' 'round
Sure is glad he quit the hard drugs
Cause him and his kind get more endangered everyday
And pretty soon the species will just up and fade away
Like the smoke from that torpedo...just up and fade away

-----and about 25 other songs prior to this one that seem to fit me snuggly

 

"Peace Train"

 

this song and this movie...i wanted to be one of the hippie kids in this movie so badly when i saw it
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