![]() It sounds crazy to say the 1960s featured conservatism and restraint, but it did. The 1960s, as one would expect, features prominently, a time which, artistically, happily resembled the great Romantic era in poetry: sensual, but not overly so, intellectual, but not overly so, and perhaps because indulgence was miraculously tempered by a certain unstated restraint, popular. In a thousand years from now, when we look back at this era, all of our popular music will be seen for what it really is: hippie music. And what is amazing is how great and various and popular this list of hippie songs is. We know what “hippie songs” are, even as they expand like a stain. When we mentioned to the poet Marcus Bales we were putting this list together, he immediately assumed a pejorative intent yes, “hippie” has come to mean a term of censor, even in music-but we assured him our research was sincere.Ĭategories are safe, even when they dissolve into others. ![]() If Mick Jagger’s hair had been shorter, the whole face of the earth would have changed. ![]()
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