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Poll Question: Which of these hippie bands is your favorite?
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5 [9.09%]
10 [18.18%]
9 [16.36%]
13 [23.64%]
2 [3.64%]
15 [27.27%]
1 [1.82%]
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Of those listed:

The Grateful Dead - one of those bands I always think I should like, but no matter how hard I try, don't get them
The Jimi Hendrix Experience - I am one of the few people who actually think Hendrix was over-rated (so shoot me) & never actually liked much other than the obvious few tracks
Soft Machine - Don't really know them
The Doors - A good band, can't fault them in the studio
The Byrds - Another good band, but not really on my 'fave' radar
The Moody Blues - Excellent band; not heard a track I don't like
Iron Butterfly - Only ever heard the obvious song

Gotta be the Moodys



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Voted for the Moody Blues.  Jimi Hendrix and the Doors are also favorites.  In-a-Gadda-da-Vida is a great song and the album is OK.
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I was never really a fan of the Doors or of Jim Morrison's voice or lyrics.  A song here or there was ok, but for the most part the Doors left me cold. 
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Originally posted by ExittheLemming ExittheLemming wrote:

Never considered the Doors a 'shoo in' hippie band (Morrison's influences were contra liberal bordering on right wing European aesthetics eg. Nietzsche, Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Artaud, Huxley et al)


Me neither, although there was quite a bit of shamanistic and mysterious in Jim's lyrics that probably made hippies like em better. 
The Doors were much more about theatre and cabaret than what the overt hippie music leaned towards. Still musically, The Doors experimented in the same vein as others around them did, at times sounding particularly psychedelic.
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Never considered the Doors a 'shoo in' hippie band (Morrison's influences were contra liberal bordering on right wing European aesthetics eg. Nietzsche, Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Artaud, Huxley et al)
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Jefferson Airplane.  Their run of albums from Surrealistic Pillow to Volunteers are imo the four best hippy albums ever.  Never thought of the Moodies so much as a hippy band as a prog band, although I suppose Search and Threshold could be considered hippy albums.  There was a psych feel to both.  Still, the Airplane is my favorite, even though it isn't on the list. 
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With a title like "The Sixties", this poll ought to have at least sixty bands in it.
 
And let's also discuss the music of these and other bands, rather than posting a repetitive list of the same few names over and


Edited by Stool Man - March 06 2013 at 08:35
rotten hound of the burnie crew
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Very diffrent, hard to compare, but  The Jimi Hendrix Experience this time.
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Well, I can hardly refuse The Byrds, seeing as how I named my Archives name after them!

The first two albums are charming psych/folk poppers, the trio of `Fifth Dimension/Younger Than Yesterday/Notorious-Byrd-Brothers' are some of the most exciting, inventive and daring pop albums ever recorded, their drift into country for `Sweetheart of the Rodeo' was superb, and `Dr Byrds and Mr Hyde' is a fascinating, confusing but addictive blend of spacey country rock! Patchy albums from then on, but each one had a number of killers tracks.

Such a special band to me, as much as I enjoy many of the other options on this list!
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I consider the Doors to be the band that truly got me into music, so I'll go with them.
I consider drone metal to be progressive...
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Dahhh....

But I love them all.
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of this list the Dead were by far the most cohesive, hard-working band
 
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Grateful Dead of these, but you should have included Spirit.
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The Moody Blues
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Points: 29625 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 05 2013 at 20:20
I went with the Doors, I don't have any albums by The Byrds or Iron Butterfly...
Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened...
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The Grateful Dead
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Points: 28772 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 05 2013 at 19:44
Soft Machine, their first two albums are damn near perfect. 
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Points: 4070 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 05 2013 at 18:29
The only one I have on my i pod and listen to---The Doors--although I like several of these.
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Points: 330 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 05 2013 at 18:26
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