I always like to discover new Hippie/Flower Power bands/songs so I was thinking that I (and perhaps many others) could use a list of bands that others are listening to ... just to know where to dig. What I would like to propose here would be that anybody who wants to share his favorite hippie/flower power band to post it here. And to make it more entertaining I think that we should also post a short comment on why you like it or why should everybody else listen to that band/artist. So the place could look something like... Arlo Guthrie - he's the coolest guy around. Greatful Dead - the most lighthearted band I've ever heard. Tom Waits - cause he's crazy and doesn't want to grow up. That's it I think. Take it easy.
Ozzy (adter his Black Sabbath phase)- A find a cry for peace under the whole "bloodbath" scene. Death - "The Philosopher" clearly has hippie based ideology. Iron Maiden - "Throw Your Doughter...To the Slaughter" is in reality a song against the government, the doughter being the government and the slaughter being the revolutionaries. Pantera - "By Demons be Driven" is actually a song about the Yuppie movement. Jerry Rubin and abbie Hofman are charactarized as "demons", because they went against the "angelic" government. Sepultura - "Refuse, Resist" is clear social protest. Shadow Gallery -"War for Sale" is a clear protests against the war which is fought over oil. There you go.
Why don't you check out the thread "Psychedelic Rock Essentials"? I started that thread for the same reason(s) you started this one.
Well... there's two reasons .. I get an error when I try to search for threads so I had no idea about your post. I'll check it though. . I wanted this to be like as general as it gets not just psychedelic rock. And from what BraveSirRubin posted it truly got generous, which is great.
