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.
