Last night, while looking around for some Sly & The Family Stone, I stumpled upon
The Red Hippie, which within minutes became my new favorite blog.
What grazed my tired, jaded eyes was an impressive amount of 60s and 70s prog, psychedelia, blues rock, folk, jazz, and combinations and variations of the five. It wonderfully fills the void of two of my favorite blogs of all time - the much missed ChrisGoesRock and the hibernating
Time Has Told Me. I ended up spending the next five hours downloading close to a hundred albums. I didn't get to bed until 02:00 AM.
I just had to lump a bunch of my favorite tracks together and share it with y'all. Turned out an awful lot of them were from 1968. It was a good year, whaddayagonnado. Technically the title of this complilation,
Songs Metal Bastard Learned From The Red Hippie, is misleading as I was already familiar with the Richie Havens and Donovan tracks, but everything else on here was new to me.
The opening track by Bill Plummer is a personal favorite. Some kind of demented, pre-historic new age rap over sitars and tablas. It's even stranger than it sounds. So weird and so incredibly addictive.
The best part about all of this? The dude behind
The Red Hippie is only seventeen. Apparently not all kids today are douchebags.
There is hope for the future.
(zip) V/A - Songs Metal Bastard Learned From The Red Hippie (77 mb)
1. Bill Plummer - Journey to the east (1968)
2. H.P. Lovecraft - Spin, spin spin (1968)
3. Ravi Shankar - An introduction to Indian music (1968)
4. Gnidrolog - A dog with no collar (1972)
5. Ten Years After - I'd love to change the world (1971)
6. High Tide - Walking down their outlook (1969)
7. The Hobbits - Break away (1967)
8. John Mayall - She's too young (1968)
9. Quintessence - Notting Hill gate (1969)
10. Ramases - Balloon (1971)
11. Richie Havens - Handsome Johnny (1968)
12. Tomorrow - Three jolly little dwarfs (1968)
13. Canned Heat - Bear wives (1968)
14. Fresh Maggots - Car song (1971)
15. Donovan - Three king fishers (1966)
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