I know there’s constant kidding about hippies here, and I have a dear real-life friend whom I also kid about being a hippie. I have no idea what hippie means anymore, but it got me thinking…what are the best anti-hippie songs? I like I’m Straight. There’s also of course Okie From Muskogee.
Are there others? Is it fair to think of it as a genre?
joeyess
I gotcher hippie song right here.
agorabum
Granola Head by the Queers:
Xecky Gilchrist
Hm, maybe something out of the Top 50 Conservative Rock Songs?
Michael Bersin
Jerry Jeff Walker – “Up against the wall redneck mother”
Jim, Foolish Literalist
Hah! I can finally play this game:
Dr. Loveless
The Dead Kennedys, either “California Uber Alles” or “Holiday in Cambodia” (although these days, to me, the latter’s lyrics sound more anti-Totebagger).
double nickel
“I Like Beer” – Tom T Hall
Mike in NC
Ballad of the Green Berets?
Egypt Steve
Well, I heard Mr. Young sing about her,
I heard ol’ Neal put her down
Well I hope Neal Young will remember
A southern man don’t need him around, anyhow.
me
Cartman says, anything by Slayer.
O Possum
There’s a 70s video somewhere (which I can’t seem to find tonight) of an obviously-stoned Beach Boys snarking their way through Okie From Muskogee. Best version I’ve ever heard.
SFAW
Born in the USA
Laertes
Sweet Home Alabama?
Laertes
Oops. I see Egypt Steve got there first. Nevermind!
Linda
There’s the other great anti-hippie song by Merle, The Fightin’ Side of Me.
GregB
Breaking News:
Matt Drudge and the GOP think that it is optimal when four Americans are killed!
mai naem
I was looking up the Romney boys after the Tagg stuff today. These are where they served their mormon missions:
Tagg Romney served in Bordeaux, France.
Matt Romney served in Paris France.
Josh”Crazy Eyes” Romney served in Leeds, England.
Ben “The Mailman’s” Romney served in Australia.
Craig “Homeboy” Romney served in Santiago, Chile.
Apparently not one could serve in a third world country(Chile is not a third world country esp. Santiago.)
Also Josh”Crazy Eye”Romney was a model. I ain’t shitting you. Found it on the google. He apparently quit because he didn’t like the meat market aspect of being a male model. Mah gaydar is going off here very strongly. He’s also the only one who’s interested in running for political office.
And three of the boys have used surrogates/artificial insemination to have kiddies going against their church laws. Ben doesn’t have kids. So only one did it normally.
This is one wacky family.
Joel
Bohemian like you… btw, the “official” video is very NSFW.
Nicole
“Hip to Be Square.”
nepat
And then there are hippie icons who come out as anti-hippie at the height of the hippie era while performing to an audience of hippies – while boasting about taking their money.* Bonus points!
*Recorded at the Fillmore East, NYC, May 7, 1970
Yuppers
“Hippie Smell” by Ween would have to qualify…
The Other Chuck
Ok, am I just too much of a nerd for thinking this was was a riff on Coleridge? “His flashing eyes, his floating hair”? Yeah, probably just me.
Oh and the slugline says “that woodstock grin” — guess someone’s been munching their Mondegreens :)
BGinCHI
Only Raven will know this, but “I hate the Grateful Dead, I’ll be grateful when they’re dead,” by the Killbillies.
Also, ever song by the Clash.
beltane
@mai naem: If the Palin family felt all too familiar (at least if you live in a rural area), the Romney family feels all too foreign and strange. They are almost not of this earth, and I do not mean this in a good way. Do they have their own little eugenics project going on there at the Romney compound? It sure does look that way.
Werner Herzog should make a documentary about them.
Peter
I’d go with “Who Needs The Peace Corps” from Zappa’s We’re Only In It For The Money, along with several other tracks on that brilliant record. The whole thing, really, now that I think about it, though there’s plenty of right-bashing too.
Petorado
CDB – Long Haired Country Boy Though actually it’s a redneck hippie song.
Brad Paisley – I’m Still a Guy Not so much as anti-hippie as pro-women in binders.
Anton Sirius
Here we stand
Like an Adam and an Eve
Waterfalls
The Garden of Eden
Two fools in love
So beautiful and strong
The birds in the trees
Are smiling upon them
From the age of the dinosaurs
Cars have run on gasoline
Where, where have they gone?
Now, it’s nothing but flowers
There was a factory
Now there are mountains and rivers
you got it, you got it
We caught a rattlesnake
Now we got something for dinner
we got it, we got it
There was a shopping mall
Now it’s all covered with flowers
you’ve got it, you’ve got it
If this is paradise
I wish I had a lawnmower
you’ve got it, you’ve got it
Years ago
I was an angry young man
I’d pretend
That I was a billboard
Standing tall
By the side of the road
I fell in love
With a beautiful highway
This used to be real estate
Now it’s only fields and trees
Where, where is the town
Now, it’s nothing but flowers
The highways and cars
Were sacrificed for agriculture
I thought that we’d start over
But I guess I was wrong
Once there were parking lots
Now it’s a peaceful oasis
you got it, you got it
This was a Pizza Hut
Now it’s all covered with daisies
you got it, you got it
I miss the honky tonks,
Dairy Queens, and 7-Elevens
you got it, you got it
And as things fell apart
Nobody paid much attention
you got it, you got it
I dream of cherry pies,
Candy bars, and chocolate chip cookies
you got it, you got it
We used to microwave
Now we just eat nuts and berries
you got it, you got it
This was a discount store,
Now it’s turned into a cornfield
you got it, you got it
Don’t leave me stranded here
I can’t get used to this lifestyle
Spaghetti Lee
I’ve sometimes felt that American pop culture from 1968-1970 was all about how awesome hippies were, and American pop culture since 1971 has been all about how hippies suck. I’m not really a hippie myself, but I find the obsession a little weird.
Short Bus Bully
Anti- hippie you say? Uh, how about nearly everything in the “Country & Western” genre?
beltane
@Spaghetti Lee: Pre-1967 America must have been one lame-ass place if the appearance of hippies created such a furor. Was it really all that shocking to see guys with long hair walking around? Grow up and get a life, America.
psycholinguist
My favorite:
Conservative, Christian, Right-Wing Republican, Straight, White American Male
srv
We’re stronger than you,
http://m.youtube.com/?reload=3&rdm=mc3dk84r4#/home
PJ
“trouble behind, trouble ahead, the only good deadhead is one that’s dead.” -Teen Idles
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JaUo2Q4Dy0Y
Glasseater
Country Joe & The Fish “1-2-3 What’re We Fighting For”
SW
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=no00oHll06w
skyway
Nitemare Hippy Girl by Beck
She’s playin footsie in another dimension!
Petorado
The Atlas Shrugged soundtrack. It’s like kryptonite to hippies, if they don’t yawn to death first.
Hill Dweller
@GregB:
I’ll admit to being a bit worried when they started disseminating the propaganda, but after watching The Daily Show, the wingnuts have nuthin’.
dead existentialist
@Anton Sirius: OK I recognize some of the lyrics and they’re hippie enough. Who was that?
And for those who were “there” and ran away after the 12th playing of this monstrosity . . . .
uila
The correct answer is Beatles “Revolution”
Higgs Boson's Mate
@beltane:
Lived through those times. The number of actual hippies were a vanishingly small percentage of the population. More people, even in landlocked states, bought into the surf craze of the Sixties. The obsession was as American as apple pie; people thought that someone might be having way more fun than they were so, by God, they were going to put a stop to it.
Political Observer
Hey did you losers see this?
In the bag, baby! Even Kos is freaking out over it.
You’re already deciding to say ZOMG TEH ELECTION WAS STOOOLEEEEN, now I KNOW you have lost!
gbear
I Want To Bomb The Mars Hotel by the incredibly great Eleventh Dream Day.
Find and buy the album ‘Beet’ asap.
Maude
If You Go To San Francisco. I hope that’s the title.
Eve of Destruction
Where Have All the Flowers Gone
Blowing in The Wind
The album Sargent (sp) Lonely Hearts Club Band
The White Album
Anne Laurie
@beltane:
/Been a while, but IIRC Aguirre the Wrath of God was a pretty fair analog…
Political Observer
You got it. Mitt Romney’s machines will be counting the votes in Ohio. ;)
Funkula
Pretty much every song ever written by Anal C**t is about hating people for having feelings or contributing to society. Some that seem particularly hippie-focused are “Pottery’s Gay,” “You Go to Art School,” “Laughing While Leonard Peltier Gets Raped in Prison,” “Sweatshops Are Cool,” and of course “Beating up Hippies for their Drugs at a Phish Concert.”
Soylent Green
The best pro-hippie song is “Hippie From Olema,” by the Youngbloods, sung to the tune of “Okie From Muskogee.”
Well i’m proud to be a hippie from Olema
Where we’re friendly to the squares and all the straights
We still take in strangers if they’re ragged
We can’t think of anyone to hate
We don’t watch commercials in Olema
We don’t buy the plastic crap they sell
We still wear our hair long like folks used to
And we bathe often, therefore we don’t smell
Well i’m proud to be a hippie from Olema
Where we’re friendly to the squares and all the straights
We still take in strangers if they’re ragged
We can’t think of anyone to hate
We don’t throw our beer cans on the highway
We don’t slight a man because he’s black
We don’t spill our oil out in the ocean
’Cause we love birds and fish too much for that
And i’m proud to be a hippie from olema
Where we’re friendly to the squares and all the straights
We still take in strangers if they’re Haggard
In Olema, California, Planet Earth
Speaking of Merle Haggard, “Okie From Muskogee” was written as a parody of rednecks, not as a celebration of them.
zombie rotten mcdonald
Dead Milkmen, “The Thing That Eats Only Hippies”
AA+ Bonds
“Deutschland, Deutschland über alles“
MikeJ
@zombie rotten mcdonald: I was just about to mention the Dead Milkmen. A fair percentage f their songs fit the category.
KenM
Frank Zappa – Who Needs the Peace Corps?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GzVlUnKUts4
dead existentialist
This thread is about white hippies, who were pretty sad poseurs, really. Think about it: they tuned in, dropped out, and eventually became yuppies after they came to their senses.
I share with you the real hippies who were about peace, love, and going beyond the limits although they came along just a few years later.
Pfunk.
Because you all deserve it.
Nylund
The burger joint near me in Texas proudly displays photos from the 60’s where the owner is shown kicking out college kids for having long hair.
Not a song, I know, but it seems like a weird thing to still be proud of some 50 years later. Oh yeah, and there’s lots of pictures of Laura Bush too.
AA+ Bonds
“Submission” by Wade Michael Page
Mnemosyne
@Spaghetti Lee:
I think it’s difficult for non Gen-Xers to understand how easy it is to loathe a stockbroker who shows you the pictures of him and his “old lady” (who is now an upper-class housewife) at Woodstock in 1969 and insists on telling you how your generation is all stupid and lazy because you didn’t change the world like he did.
AA+ Bonds
The Star-Spangled Banner
SW
“incredibly great Eleventh Dream Day.” Taste in music is an incredibly diverse thing. Whatever turns your crank. To me, that sounds like somebody got an electric guitar for Christmas. To someone else I guess it is the raw energetic sound of great Rock n Roll.
HellorRochester
I second (strongly) Bomb The Mars Hotel by 11th Dream Day
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5x9p1RGza8U
Kafka
39 Clocks – Shake The Hippie – 1981
AA+ Bonds
Hail to the Chief
KoolEarl
Kill The Hippies by late 70’s Los Anegeles avant punkers The Deadbeats
AA+ Bonds
God Save The Queen
Comrade Mary
There’s always Cracker’s Teen Angst if you feel free to conflate folk singers and hippies, but I think they also had conflicted feelings about lady doctors.
kindness
White Rabbit.
OK that one is actually a drug song so it probably isn’t a real good example.
Mnemosyne
Is it just me, or does the Romney slogan I keep seeing at the top of the page sound like an ad for the Betty Ford Clinic? “We promise recovery, not dependency”?
AA+ Bonds
March of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army
Spaghetti Lee
@Mnemosyne:
I guess. I’m too young for those fights to matter. My own opinion is that if you want overblown poseurism, punk rock is a great place to look. I love the Clash and the Ramones are OK, but I’ve never understood how, say, the Sex Pistols have remained so ‘important’ for so long.
Political Observer
ROMNEY NOW FOUR POINTS AHEAD IN PENNSYLVANIA, SHOCK POLL
AA+ Bonds
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBgMeunuviE
Bago
Ain’t goin to goa by the Alabama 3.
Don’t need no freaky deaky fractal geometry, put me on another bad trip.
srv
What a lovely picture:
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-250_162-57535709/sharing-a-stage-romney-and-obama-go-after-laughs-not-each-other/
How is it you hippie punchers can type so much and swallow at the same time?
Spaghetti Lee
@Short Bus Bully:
Both kinds?
Comrade Mary
@Spaghetti Lee: They genuinely, unironically loved The Monkees when The Monkees weren’t cool. Now that’s punk.
Poopyman
Another Zappa tune, Camarillo Brillo is a wonderful lampooning of Hippies.
JWL
I am a bona fide, second wave, San Francisco suburban white punk on dope hippie. Which is to say, I was just another dumb kid.
The answer, without a doubt, is Okee From Muskogee. It was one of the few pop tunes/huge hit that skewered Mister Straw Dog Hippie with genuine wit.
Okee also inspired Asshole From El Paso, and Hippie From Olema. What higher praise?
angelfoot
There are some nice choices here: http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2008/03/keep-america-be.html
Hippy Stomp gets a nice groove going.
MikeJ
Some might think Ravi Shankar was a hippie, but anything with droooooones might fit. I don’t know any famous bagpipers.
AA+ Bonds
ACCEPT – TEUTONIC TERROR
Brother Shotgun of Sweet Reason
@beltane:
Yes, yes it was. The start was the Beatles. They had bangs. They wore their hair like girls. It really was quite a shock.
MikeJ
@JWL:
The Tubes! Of course, White Punks on Dope.
Political Observer
ROMNEY AHEAD <a href="ROMNEY NOW FOUR POINTS AHEAD IN PENNSYLVANIA, SHOCK POLL“>FOUR POINTSIN PENNSYLVANIA POLL!
Ohio may now be irrelevant!
srv
@Bago: If I had hated you more, just a little more, we would have had a lot less trouble.
Best live band evah.
AA+ Bonds
ACCEPT – SHADES OF DEATH
burnspbesq
Pretty much anything by X. They were about as non-hippie as you could get.
AA+ Bonds
ACCEPT – BLOOD OF THE NATIONS
AA+ Bonds
ACCEPT – BEAT THE BASTARDS
Spaghetti Lee
@Political Observer:
I wouldn’t call Ohio irrelevant. They did beat Penn State earlier.
burnspbesq
Maybe I misinterpreted it, but I’ve always thought there was a gentle undertone of hippie-mockery in “Hot Fun in the Summertime.” I mean, Larry Graham singing “county fair in the country sun” in that basso profundo of his?
Forum Transmitted Disease
Anything by the Meatmen.
burnspbesq
@Political Observer:
You can spew all the mindless bullshit you want on this blog, but you’d better fucking show up on November 7 and take what’s coming to you, you fuck. Your guy is toast. The American voters aren’t as stupid as you.
Mnemosyne
@Comrade Mary:
Steve Jones of the Sex Pistols is now a part-time deejay here in Los Angeles.
Actually, he may have a nationwide syndicated show, but I’m not really sure. CBS Radio swooped him up after Indie 103 got turned into yet another Spanish language station.
FlipYrWhig
Wally Pleasant, The Hippie’s Lament.
Chorus is a number of variations on this theme:
SFAW
@Spaghetti Lee:
No, I think he’s talking about “Ohio” by CSNY. He just means the song isn’t as powerful as it was back in 1970.
zombie rotten mcdonald
DEVO were from Ohio. I’d say they were relevant, since most of their work is kind of antithetical to the hippie worldview.
Platypus
Add Flower Punk (“Hey punk, where you going with that flower in your hand”) to the list of Frank Zappa songs mocking hippies.
AA+ Bonds
ARDITI – THE FALSE MASK OF FREEDOM
JWL
@MikeJ: My fuck-em-all heyday actually preceeded The Tubes. I never caught a show at the Fillmore (West) either, but loved Winterland.
Daly City was, and will ever remain, an armpit. But it does border San Francisco.
zombie rotten mcdonald
Has anybody mentioned Phil Ochs’ “Love me, I’m a liberal” yet?
Specifically, I’m thinking of the Jello Biafra version.
AA+ Bonds
@zombie rotten mcdonald:
WRONG
AA+ Bonds
ARDITI – RELIGION OF BLOOD
Kris Collins
Some good suggestions here, (though there seems to be some confusion as to whether we’re talking about anti-hippie or pro-hippie tunes.) Whatever, I think anti-hippie is more interesting and IMHO, the hands-down winner there is “Who Needs the Peace Corps” by Frank Zappa. Absolutely scathing.
zombie rotten mcdonald
Accept are an eazy listening band.
AA+ Bonds
ARDITI – ENDKAMPF
burnspbesq
@JWL:
Dude, Daly City has an In-n-Out and a Krispy Kreme that share a parking lot. That is, by definition, paradise. The only thing close is the co-located Tim Horton’s/Cold Stone Cremery on West 50th Street in Manhattan.
MikeJ
We are the Folk Song Army.
Everyone of us cares.
We all hate poverty, war, and injustice,
Unlike the rest of you squares.
AA+ Bonds
MARDUK – PANZER DIVISION
AA+ Bonds
SATYRICON – MOTHER NORTH
SFAW
@AA+ Bonds:
OK, we get it already.
AA+ Bonds
SATYRICON – FUEL FOR HATRED
AA+ Bonds
@SFAW:
You’re welcome
AA+ Bonds
BLUT AUS NORD – MEMORIA VETUSTA I: FATHERS OF THE ICY AGE (45 min 13 sec)
freelancer
Please don’t crucify me here. I have a tremendous amount of respect for Frank Zappa for his fight against the PMRC, but no one every really made him made sense to me. His music, what I’ve heard of it, has been not to my liking at all. I get that he wasn’t aiming for catchy, but it’s just not good IMHO.
Someone help me out here.
handy
@freelancer:
Zappa I like. Tom Waits on the other hand…
AA+ Bonds
DEATHSPELL OMEGA – SOLA FIDE II
AA+ Bonds
AOSOTH – III (VIOLENCE & VARIATION) (45 min, 58 sec)
freelancer
@handy:
You had to mention the other guy I can’t get behind. Great.
dance around in your bones
Don’t Bogart That Joint, My Friend – Country Joe and the Fish
cuz no hippie would bogart, right?
Yutsano
@dance around in your bones:
Well maybe on the weekends…
Capt. Seaweed
Panama Red. New Riders of the Purple Sage:
Panama Red, Panama Red
He’ll steal your woman, then he’ll rob your head
Panama Red, Panama Red
On his white horse, Mescalito
He come breezin’ through town
I’ll bet your woman’s up in bed with
ol’ Panama Red
Everybody’s looking out for him
‘Cause they know Red satisfies
Little girls love to listen to him
Sing and tell sweet lies
But when things get too confusing, honey
You’re better off in bed
And I’ll be searching all the joints in town for
Panama Red
dance around in your bones
@Yutsano:
One Toke Over The Line, Sweet Jesus
Greg
Hippy Chick – Soho
Redshift
Woo! I’m going to see the president in the morning! Just got an email back from my field organizer that even though I couldn’t make it to the volunteer training tonight, they still need more volunteers.
I need to be there in six hours, I guess I better get to bed if I don’t want to doze off…
Villago Delenda Est
@AA+ Bonds:
The lyrics to that song were written in the 19th Century.
Just because it’s associated, now, with the ultimate in squares, is no reason to be so hostile.
As for Taco, well, the maggot boasts that Rmoney is criminal scum. This tells you a lot about Taco.
dance around in your bones
I Got Stoned And I Missed It – Dr.Hook.
All I can think of is pro-hippie songs. I guess cuz I’m an ol’ hippie.
dance around in your bones
OK, maybe this is anti-hippie – Why Don’t We Get Drunk And Screw?
due to the lack of herb
ranchandsyrup
Trigger hippie by Morcheeba
Michael G
It’s a bit on the nose, but Kill All Hippies by Primal Scream. Awesome video, too.
RadioOne
I’ve always thought that “Bennie and the Jets” was always a firm push back against the hipster culture in the 70’s, if not a song outright against hippies.
Will
OT: do people think there’s any legs to the Obama Daily Show “optimal” comments? Just want someone to reassure me there isn’t. It’s now on the front page of the NYT. I can’t take anymore of this election.
Suffern ACE
@Will: well it’s going to get bandied about like the You didn’t build this…but I don’t think it will matter too much. New slogan. You’ll hear about it until the debate. It was a rather bureaucratic data way to put it.
Hill Dweller
@Will: Obama was just reusing Stewart’s word in the answer to his question.
The MSM are reporting it because the wingnuts pretended it was important. It shouldn’t have any legs past tomorrow morning.
Tim I
Autoban by Kraftwerk.
Will
@Hill Dweller:
Thanks everyone. I don’t see it popping up anywhere other than memeorandum and the nyt feed, so maybe it’ll just get buried under everything else. This is what this election has turned me into: a pitiful, nervous wreck over tiny, stupid things.
Hill Dweller
@Will: Don’t feel bad. When I first heard the wingnuts were cranking up the fake outrage, it worried me. But after watching the show, I calmed down.
If Stewart hadn’t used “optimal” in his question, it might have hurt the President. But I don’t think it will have legs.
The entire thing reeks of wingnut desperation.
Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again)
Sonic Youth
Death Valley 69
Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again)
And damned near any Steely Dan song. I’ll go with this one.
fuckwit
Greeks Don’t Want No Freaks
blahblah
And none of them are as good as White Rabbit or Epistle to Dippy.
Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again)
@blahblah:
Heh.
The Stooges
No Fun
Allen
I don’t know if this has already been addressed, but as a college student in the late 60’s and early 70’s the way things were (to my memory) is there were hippies and yippies. Hippies, in general, were strongly materialistic and apolitical. Yippies, in general, were strongly anti-materialistic and very political. Never the twain shall meet.
Allen
As far as an anti-hippy/yippy song, I can’t recall any. Merl was putting on his audience, so doesn’t really count as being anti-hippy but anti-redneck. About the only music I’ve listened to since the early 70’s is Bluegrass with a smattering of Western Swing so is difficult for me to comment.
YellowJournalism
@Will: It’s another case of a group screaming about tone, context, and meaning of their nasty comments (nasty in tone, context, and meaning) forgetting to take into consideration tone, context, and meaning when it comes to the President and a sincere exchange with the host of a comedy show. Please make it stop.
NobodySpecial
Neil Young – Ambulance Blues.
blahblah
@Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again): Except that one.
Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again)
@blahblah:
It doesn’t stop there. I can come up with quite a few more…Like this.
Death Panel Truck
@Peter: Zappa was an equal-opportunity hater. That’s what made him Zappa.
Death Panel Truck
@freelancer: If you don’t get Zappa, I can’t help you. Nor can anyone else.
ljdramone
@MikeJ: I still have a “White Dopes on Punk” button.
Central Planning
How about Keller Williams’ Gate Crashers Suck where he got screwed out of seeing the 2nd show of The Grateful Dead.
If you're one of them,
and you hear this song,
fuck you, you cock sucking mother fuckers.
I’ve never heard so many harmonies around “fuck you”.
Central Planning
Why in the world is the expanded version of “F U cok suking mofos” put a comment in moderation? FYWP.
FridayNext
A little late, but how about C.W. McCall’s Crispy Critters?
FridayNext
@Death Panel Truck:
Or in the words of The Onion
“Frank Zappa Fan Thinks You Haven’t Heard the Right Album”
raven
My Crime, Canned Heat.
If you are going to have a thread about hippies and music you shouldn’t have them in the middle of the goddamn night when we are asleep!
I went to Denver
Late last fall
I went to do my job
Yeah I didn’t break any law
We worked a hippie place
Like many in our land
They couldn’t bust the place
And so they got the band
`Cause the police in Denver
No, they don’t want none of them long hairs hanging around
And that’s the reason why
They want to tear Canned Heat’s reputation down
You people in Denver
Will know what I mean
Yeah, the things I’m gonna tell ya
Yeah, you’ve all heard and seen
You remember when a cop on the beat
Used to rob and steal
Today they’re gone, but the others get it on
So you know just how I feel
`Cause the police in Denver
Lord, they don’t want none of them long hairs hanging around
And that’s the reason why
They try to tear Canned Heat’s reputation down
Yeah, they try to tear it down, boy
They ain’t gonna do it though
Let me tell you this just one more time
Just one more thing I wanna tell ya
Before I go
It’s a shame the Man in Denver
Has to lie and mistreat people so
Now six months ain’t no sentence
One year ain’t no time
When I hear from one to ten
It worries my troubled mind
`Cause the police in Denver
Lord, don’t want no long hairs around
And that’s the reason why
They try to tear Canned Heat’s reputation down
raven
Van Morrison
The Great Deception
Did you ever hear about the great deception?
Well the plastic revolutionaries take the money and run
Have you ever been down to love city?
Where they rip you off with a smile and it don’t take a gun
raven
I guess My Crime isn’t really a hippie song but it’s about people fucking with hippies.
A moocher
@Mnemosyne: Im a boomer and I understand just fine. Die Yuppy Scum.
gorillagogo
@Peter:
Flower Punk was the song that first came to my mind, but yeah the entire album would pretty much qualify
Gus
@Peter: Also Flower Punk. Not sure what album it’s on. Very funny, but ironically, extremely psychedelic.
Edit: and I see I’ve been beaten to the punch.
Gus
@Short Bus Bully: You ever hear of Willie Nelson?
Bruuuuce
How can this thread have gotten to 160 comments and missed two of the best known (superficially) anti-hippie songs?
“Signs”, by the Five Man Electric Band and “Uneasy Rider”, by Charlie Daniels
virginia
Most anything by Elvis Costello. And some old Steeley Dan.
bored by the hippies since '78
@angelfoot: Thanks for digging up that FMU post. Rex is King. (And I did the illustration for that one!)
Submitted for your approval: two anti-hippie gems from the Replacements
http://youtu.be/tOSkGOZ2GvA
Grover's Bathtub
“Metaphysical” by Sumack: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1W4txX5sR8
bjacques
“Timothy Leary Lives” by the Pop-O-Pies: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OvQXuFj1Kc4
OK, against just one particular hippie. Sort of.
Mr. Upright
Another by Zappa: “We’re Turning Again”
bcinaz
Hello…Hello…is this thing on? Can somebody tell me if Ted Nugent is in the house?
ZaftigAmazon
According to one of my Texas friends, the biggest marijuana bust to date occurred in Muskogie Oklahoma, as the song “Okie from Muskogie” was climbing the charts.
Downpuppy
@Michael Bersin: I seem to remember Up Against the Wall being about an Okie ass in his 30s – yep:
He was born in Oklahoma
His wife’s name’s Betty Lou Thelma Liz
And he’s not responsible for what he’s doing
Cause his mother made him what he is
And it’s up against the wall Redneck Mother
Mother, who has raised her son so well
He’s thirty-four and drinking in a honky tonk
Just kicking hippies asses and raising hell
Sure does like his Falstaff beer
Likes to chase it down with that Wild Turkey liquor
Drives a fifty-seven GMC pickup truck
He’s got a gun rack”Goat ropers need love, too” sticker
And it’s up against the wall Redneck Mother
Mother, who has raised her son so well
Not many songs in any genre that criticize mothers.
Anton Sirius
@dead existentialist:
Sorry, I thought I already responded to this, d-e. It’s (Nothing But) Flowers by the Talking Heads
Thatgaljill
Am I the only one getting this banner ad here?
http://awesomescreenshot.com/0f5jqcie3
Seems like poorly placed ad dollars somehow…
fuckwit
The thing about Zappa’s work is that he hated EVERYTHING, even things he liked, he hated them at the same time too. He lived to mock things. He could not make a composition wonderful without deliberately throwing in a fart joke or horrible dissonance or something to fuck it up ON PURPOSE. That’s just how he rolled. Ask the guys in his band. He built castles specifically so he that he could knock them down.
Zappa was like a kid who loved blowing shit up.
Wait, he actually LITERALLY WAS that kid: he used to blow shit up– his dad worked for the Army as a chemist making weapons in WWII, and he grew up with an obsession with explosives and really enjoyed blowing shit up, made his own explosives out of golf balls, shit like that. The more baffling– and, for me, entertaining– aspects of his music are easily understood in this way.
“Serious” modern music– he loved it, composed it with passion and expertise, and hated it, lambasted it, mocked it.
Jazz– played it, hired guys who played it, and hated it, called it “the music of unemployment”.
Hippies and freaks, and later yuppies– his whole audience for most of his musical existence, and he hated them. He hated noodly hippie jams, but would indulge in 20-minute guitar solos. Ahem.
Punks and punk rock– he arguably was among the first of the punk rockers, thhe lyrics to We’re Only In It For The Money foreshadowed Malcolm McLaren by a decade, but he hated that punk, and mocked it at every turn.
America and American pop culture– loved it, and hated it. His work is deeply steeped in American “cheepnis” pop culture, particularly of the 1950s, but always mocking it too.
Drug culture– he was physically addicted to nicotine and caffeine, which probably ended up claiming his life early, but was vehemently against any other drugs.
Authoritarianism– he was fiercely anti-authoritarian, but ask anyone who ever worked for him, he was the strictest, most absolutely despotic authoritarian bandleader in recent times (second only perhaps to Sun Ra).
The right wing and glibertarians– there was so much in his philosophy that was anarchist/libertarian, particularly anti-communist, but he thought the glibertarians were a bunch of deluded clowns (and turned down running for office on the libertarian because of it).
The only thing I can find that was really internally-consistent about Zappa was his contempt for religion and the religious right.
In general, and otherwise, Zappa was a weird stew of genius, wit, and self-hatred.
M. Bouffant
The Dictators: “Hippies are squares/With long hair/And they don’t wear no underwear/Country rock is on the wane/I don’t want music/I want pain.”