Jack's "Hippie" Songs

[jstephens9]

This song sure does seem like it would be a hippie song, but I'm wondering if it may actually be older since they are dressed in suits and the girls dancing around are more like cheerleaders. It would definitely fit psychedelic, but I'm not completely sure if psychedelic necessarily means hippie. Ok now this is getting confusing. I saw this song listed as being something that would fit on my thread, but after watching the video I'm not quite sure  And the words aren't very deep either  If anyone has any thoughts on that please post them. I do not want to get hit over the head with a bong or anything 

Psychotic Reaction by Count Five

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODR6rGcluRs[/youtube]

And the words:

I feel depressed, I feel so bad
'Cause you're the best girl that I ever had
I can't get your love, I can't get a fraction
Uh-oh, little girl, psychotic reaction
(shouted) And it feels like this!

[Instrumental break]

I feel so lonely night and day
I can't get your love, I must stay away
I need you girl, by my side
Uh-oh, little girl, would you like to take a ride, now
I can't get your love, I can't get satisfaction
Uh-oh, little girl, psychotic reaction

[Instrumental break]

[Fade]

[jstephens9]

I'm really not sure about this one either 

I Had Too Much To Dream Last Night by The Electric Prunes

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSBTzSatzJY&feature=related[/youtube]

Last night your shadow fell upon my lonely room
I touched your golden hair and tasted your perfume
Your eyes were filled with love the way they used to be
Your gentle hand reached out to comfort me
Then came the dawn
And you were gone
You were gone, gone, gone

I had too much to dream last night
Too much to dream
I'm not ready to face the light
I had too much to dream
Last night

The room was empty as I staggered from my bed
I could not bear the image racing through my head
You were so real that I could feel your eagerness
And when you raised your lips for me to kiss

Came the dawn
And you were gone
You were gone, gone, gone

Oh, too much to dream
Oh, too much to dream
Too much to dream last night
Oh, too much to dream

[jstephens9]

Ok now I know this one would qualify and Katie provided the words earlier

Eve of Destruction by Barry McGuire

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8SfiCnwF28[/youtube]

[jstephens9]

Ooh, I like this one!

I like that one too and from that group came Ted Nugent who later did well by himself. He also made a statement many years after that saying he was very conservative and that he had never even smoked a cigarette. Hmmmmmm.....I'm not so sure what to think about that 

[Katie77]

Great vids Jack.....I'm havig a great trip down memory lane watching them....

I didn't realize back then, just how far "out of it" a lot of those groups were. And I think now of my innocence, singing along to those songs, completely unaware of the hidden references to "getting high" and "tripping"....I didn't have a clue.

Dont know what to make of the Count Five group or that song....maybe they wanted to show a "cleaner" image....and the song is a bit of a "nothing" song.

[Katie77]

Oh yes.....I love that song..."Puff the Magic Dragon"...and I found the story in the words quite sad, as I thought of a little boy and his imaginary friend Puff....until  "Jackie" grew up and didnt need his childhood "friend" anymore.

Then years later, I read that the song was about drug taking and hallucinary trips, and I was flabergasted.

No matter what,  though, when I hear the song now,  I still have the picture of the little boy and his imagineray pet dragon.

[jstephens9]

I have heard this about the song being about drugs, but I read the words very closely and I do not believe they are. It is obvious that they are about a child's imagination and how when he grows up that imagination is lost. He no longer believes in dragons. It is actually quite a sad song. It is also deep if you begin to think about all that goes along with the loss of imagination. I believe at certain times people have found every song imagineable about drugs or something similar. It is also funny that on my "Ramblings" thread Shasta and I have been talking about the imaginations we both had as children