Short, sweet, never incomplete…
Buffalo Springfield – Hung Upside Down
Genre: first past the post record company rock
Feeling: you gotta make it to the party tonight, man. It’s gonna be a gas!
Lyric Sample:
“There I sat ’till three
Gettin’ further behind myself”
The Byrds – Draft Morning
Genre: haunting protest rock
Feeling: I bet if the draft were still around, I’d know a lot more about international affairs
Sample:
“Take my time this morning, no hurry
To learn to kill and the will
From unknown faces”
David Crosby & Jerry Garcia – Mountain Song
Genre: vicarious roots rock
Feeling: lamenting the end of the 1960s, see “after the gold rush” in Webster’s.
Lyric Sample:
“Gonna make the mountains be my home”