Best Songs Of The 60'S?

Pink Floyd - Apples and Oranges

 

If I had to just pick one song from the sixties I couldn't live without, it wouldn't be a hippie or a psychedelic track, like you asked for, but a great big slab of Who-esque, Freakbeat/Mod brilliance called "I'm Rowed Out" by The Eyes. Second place to that would be the same bands track "When The Night Falls".

 

If I had to pick one best psychedelic track it would be


The Factory - Path Through The Forest

 

this may not be pychidelic.... but Hey Jude is the best!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

to bad i cant spell phychedelic! well the best phycedelic song is Glass Onion by the beatles. or maybe insence and peppermint by strawberry alorm clock. i actually dont know..

 

For psychedelic songs, I always liked:

Pink Floyd - "Lucifer Sam" (Of course )
Pink Floyd - "See Emily Play"
The Doors - "The End" (One of the greatest recordings ever) (Actually, this is kinda like acid, not psych)
The Yardbirds - "Shapes of Things"
The Byrds - "Eight Miles High"
The 13th Floor Elevators - "Reverberation"
The Beatles - "Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds"
The Rolling Stones - "Citadel"
The Rolling Stones - "She's a Rainbow"

Plus TONS more I can't think of right now!

 

my favourite psychedelic songs from the sixties:

them - square room
the human expression - love at psychedelic velocity

the 13th floor elevators - rollercoaster

the pretty things - walking through my dreams
the electric prunes - i had too much to dream (last night)
tomorrow - revolution
kaleidoscope - flight from ashiya
gandalf - you can travel in the dark alone
the beatles - i'm only sleeping
we all together - it's a sin to go away
the yardbirds - happenings ten years time ago
the byrds - eight miles high
the rolling stones - 2000 lightyears from home
pink floyd - arnold layne
kim fowley - the trip
jefferson airplane - white rabbit
cream - i feel free

plus two very odd (and scary) songs...
the bees - voices green and purple
the blues magoos - dante's inferno

 

Nice one Skelter

Them's Square Room I'd have in my top 10 psychedelic tracks easily

 

Alice's Restaurant is brilliant. Everything in it is TRUE!!! This song has to get a vote.

 

John Hartford-Gentle on my mind.
The Beatles-In my Life
The Beatles-Yesterday
Bob Dylan-Ballad of the Thin Man
Bob Dylan-Like a Rolling Stone

The entire Sweethearts of the Rodeo album.

 

Star Spangled Banner by Hendrix at Woodstock

 

here are songs i think best represent the 60s.

Louie Louie - The Kingsmen (or any version you like really)
Beatles - Strawberry Feilds Forever
Beachboys - Good Vibrations
Jimi Hendrix - Hey Joe
The Byrds - Mr Tambourine Man
The Ronettes - Be My Baby
Cream - Crossroads
Bob Dylan - Like A Rolling Stone
Velvet Underground - Venus In Furs
Chocolate Watchband - Are You Gonna Be There (at the love in)
Rolling Stones - Satisfaction
Kinks - Dedicated Follower of Fashion

 

oh, i love that album, i can't stop listening to it!

 

Yeah, My sister, a music freak, bought it for me when i was about 11 i guess. I loved it, and that was kinda when i moved away from shitty 90's pop.

 

okay for 60's psychedelic and just all round fuckin great songs these are essential:

-the beatles:tomorow never knows, lsd, accross the universe
-velvet underground:heroin, venus in furs, all tommorows parties
-the who:magic bus, substitue
-the rolling stones:2000 light years from home, paint it black, sympathy for the devil
-the doors: light my fire, the softparade, the crystal ship
-stramberry alarmclock: insense and peppermints
-blood sweat & tears: spinning wheel
-cream: white room, strange brew
-bob dylan: like a rolling stone, blowin in the wind, just like a woman
-buffalo spingfield- for what it's worth, mr. soul
-traffic: dear mr. fantasy
-crazy world of arthur brown:fire
-CSN&Y: ohio, almost cut my hair, and so many more...really all of de je vu
-david bowie: space oddity, andy warhol
-donovan: mellow yellow, hurdy gurdy man
-easybeats: friday on my mind
-the animals: house of the rising sun, monterey, sanfranciso night
........don't you just love how this continues and i still have more to say.......
-grass roots: lets live for today
-mamas and the papas: california dreaming
-janis joplin: me and bobby mcgee, down on me, mercedes benz
-peter, paul &mary: one tin soldier
-jefferson airplane: white rabbitt, someone to love
-procol harem- whiter shade of pale
-pink floyd:astronomy domine, see emily play, arnold layne
-simon&garfunkle: mrs. robinson, the boxer
-troggs: wide thing
...and i'll stop there with the knowledge that many have been left out but i don't want to type any more.

 

shit i feel really bad for having just left out jimi hendrix but thats all i'll say cause im going to end up listing again

 

the tracklist of any 'Best Of The Sixties' compilation would fit in this thread.

 

Dont Forget:


Barry McGuire - Eve of Destruction
Scott Mckenzie - SF
Buffalo Springfield - for what its worth
Beatles - My bonnie
Turtles - Happy Together

 

why my bonnie when almost all their other songs are better? It's not even the beatles singing, it's Tony Sheridan!

 

there are of ofcourse better songs but i just like it alot so i made it a hit :H

But your right is not one of their greatest songs and they do the music