Flower Power Time Life 10 CD set

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Simply wonderful
This bought large gift of the birthday of my Hubbys for 60th... for a "Oldien, but goodie"... He LOVES it and I enjoys it also!


I love the music, but I have a serious problem kicking in
Look, I love late 60's/early 70's rock music a lot. I love the friendly atmosphere, the songwriting talents, and the free spiritual creativity in the music. But I'm beginning to have a SERIOUS problem with these kind of boxsets and compilations.

It's just the same songs over and over again. It makes me sad to think there's so many record companies out there who want you to hear ALL these overplayed songs on one nice little collection, and while the songs are good, the musicians who made these songs deserve a LOT more respect than just having one or two of their big hits exposed. These musicians probably spent years creating music in an attempt to give us joy and happiness, and we deserve to give them an equal amount of respect by checking out some of their other, more official studio or live albums. NOT just the hit songs on a compilation. Here's some examples-

- The Moody Blues. They have seven classic albums, and each one is worth owning. Very consistently enjoyable albums they are.
- Canned Heat. A band that has a LOT more to offer than just one or two hits. Check out some of their live stuff to get a great experience.
- Seals & Crofts. These guys have a lot of beautifully-written and highly melodic songs that never became popular. Granted, some of their stuff is out of print, but some of their regular albums can be purchased here on amazon.
- Todd Rundgren. This guys is a creative genius- NOT a two or three-hit wonder kind of artist who does sugary ballads.
- Emerson, Lake and Palmer. These guys have a certain chemistry with the way they mix keyboard jams, unusual drumming and pretty vocals all together with some synthesizers thrown in for good measure.
- The Blues Image. Check out one of their first three albums to hear lots of melodic genius songwriting and neat electric guitar playing.
- Manfred Mann's Earth Band. These guys are *so* much better than "Blinded by the Light". That song stinks. A very diverse band.
- Norman Greenbaum. Please, check out some of his greatest hits albums to hear a really melodic songwriter. A one-hit wonder he most certainly is not.
- The Five Man Electrical Band. Again, check out their greatest hits album to hear hidden genius songwriting.
- The Zombies. A brilliant pop band that has a LOT of great songs besides "Time of the Season" all the darn time.
- Quicksilver Messenger Service. They can be a pop band one minute, and a hard rock band the next.
- Steppenwolf. Absolutely INSANE to think these guys have only two good songs. Check out Steppenwolf 7 for further proof.
- Jefferson Airplane. No WAY these guys were two-hit wonders. Check out, oh I don't know, ANYTHING they did!
- The Hollies. Some of the best harmonies ever made.
- Mott The Hoople. Again, consistently enjoyable glam rock/hard rock band. They had more than two hits people.
- Procol Harum. The most underrated pop band ever created. I love about seven or eight of their albums. Pick up at least one of them, such as A Salty Dog.

And the list goes on and on. Respect the older musicians please, and don't settle with just compilations. Just because you grew up with these songs *doesn't* mean they're the ONLY memories you need. You can start having memories again tomorrow, and spend the rest of your lives with NEW memories and fresh feelings to re-live again one day.


Time Life Flower Power
I got this CD set for my Husband's birthday. He loves it! He was there in the L.A. & Hollywood of the 60's and then to Vietnam on our Navy's river boats. He lived it all.
In his own words, This music brought back memories that are so powerful to a Vietnam Vet. I know the Flower Generation loved it as they sent their message of Love through the music and created the era with this music as it's spokesman. It also helped the guys who had to be in South East Asia to have something to hang on to. They listened to the music on the radio and the tapes of the day as it brought them back home for a little while. Some of the songs still have that special meaning of "shipmates" long gone now but it has the power to bring back wonderful memories that still make his throat tight.
No matter if you were a Hippie or a 19 year old sailor patroling the Rung Sat in a patrol boat, this music has it all for people who lived through those turbulent times in America's history. It's worth twice the price! Thanks Time Life.


It's not the be all and end all of hippy music, BUT ...
it is a condemned good beginning! Hundreds and seventy-five the largest hippy song of the late-1960s and of the early-1970s have you, saying ", which I this on the radio" numerous times and fewer well-known song also love heard. The best part of this accumulation is "summer of the love" CD - twenty successes of 1967, which belong to some the largest melodies in bang music history - hit miracles or not (and for not until a decade after the summer of the love nearly are carried, did not know I nearly each song!). My only disappointment with this compliation is that it includes song of the early-70s and that the same artists several times were marked, while others were not enclosed (those, to me, little inertia on the part of the time life suggests. In the past their have compliations a broad row singer and groups enclosed). From which I read, the HIPPI movement hung on by the proverbial thread in the early-70s (owing to Manson the Moron and the wonderful the role Eskapade Altamonte of stones, effectively cancelling from the good Woodstock did in August), and the music of the early-70s straight brought not the spirit of the late-60s together (straight my two cents). In each possible case it is large to have classical authors like preserved heat "on the road again," tiefpurpurne "silence" (, of the early-70s!), and song of the Yardbirds, of the Spencer Davis group and of traffic in my accumulation of music (the only thing-missed Steve Winwoods participation in very short-lived large's group the blind faith was). It is also a pleasure to hear everything by Spanky and our group. The five stars are for so many song into an accumulation together are begin and making some fewer well-known song accessible for the public, thereby victory-evenly victory-evenly that Lieden a second life. - Donna Di Giacomo


Failed Eden
A wonderful collection of hippie music. A groovy trip back to the LOVE generation. From squiggly acid songs like "White Rabbit, Sunshine Superman, and In a Gadda Da Vida" to staight out love-in grooves like "I Got You Babe and What the World Needs Now is Love". Part of the pleasure in this collection is the wide range of counter culture music it embraces. Something for the groover/tripper/lover/rocker and all those who just love the wind in their long hair. The "unofficial" goal back in the late 1960's was to break down social barriers and engage the straight laced public to open their mind to the possibility of putting love at the forefront of existence. Immerse yourself in the "official" sound of that time. Social consciousness through music was an innovative idea and there are many examples contained herein: "Mercy Mercy and Love Peace & Happiness" to name a few. The two set Bonus CD takes you back to the heart of the 1967 San Francisco scene before it fell apart into a heroine ghetto. FLOWER POWER is a well produced retrospect collection of 175 songs which emotionally transport you back to the vibrancy of being a hippie; complex, tender, psychedelic, exciting.....California dreamin, Born to be wild, Hair, Groovin, Blowin in the wind, Spirit in the sky, You really got me, In the year 2525, Hurdy gurty man, I feel free, etc.



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