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ORIGINAL: barelynangel

Summer of 69!!!!

That song can have me flying back to when i was 20 years old.  (of couse that was the summer of 91, but whose counting.  Flying down Lake Shore Drive during the summer nights.

Lordy! the memories.

angel

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ORIGINAL: Anaxagoras
Personally I feel the Blue Cheer version is slightly too heavy and leaden. In a way they are really the first proto-metal band. I like The Who version as its so aggressive it could almost be a punk band doing it ten years later. No wonder they were a big influence on that movement. Its better than their later live versions which were slower and heavier.

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ORIGINAL: Edwynn

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ORIGINAL: Anaxagoras
Personally I feel the Blue Cheer version is slightly too heavy and leaden. In a way they are really the first proto-metal band. I like The Who version as its so aggressive it could almost be a punk band doing it ten years later. No wonder they were a big influence on that movement. Its better than their later live versions which were slower and heavier.

Not that I didn't count on the point being missed, but the cultural difference between 1958 and 1968 was a ten year change that I don't think we'll witness again anytime soon.

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ORIGINAL: Anaxagoras

A few extra tracks that sort of remind me of summer:

Who Loves the Sun - Not one of The Velvet Underground's better tracks but nonetheless a nice piece of vaguely post-modern pop from the Loaded album (1970), a style which influenced a lot of 80's and 90's indie bands: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JeGRNT_Sd24

Quite a nice song from 2001 by Weezer called “Island In Sun” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hy4Y20dOlKs

One of Led Zeppelin's lighter tracks called "Fool in the Rain" from their final album In Through the Outdoor (1979): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RgAFoyIgskY

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ORIGINAL: Edwynn

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ORIGINAL: Anaxagoras
Personally I feel the Blue Cheer version is slightly too heavy and leaden. In a way they are really the first proto-metal band. I like The Who version as its so aggressive it could almost be a punk band doing it ten years later. No wonder they were a big influence on that movement. Its better than their later live versions which were slower and heavier.

Not that I didn't count on the point being missed, but the cultural difference between 1958 and 1968 was a ten year change that I don't think we'll witness again anytime soon.

You were right to count on the point being missed in post 52 since we're not mind readers. [8D] You're right thought about the huge social changes between the late 1950's and late 1960's. Arguably though there was a similar level of social change post 9/11, partly leading from the advent of the Internet for consumers in the 1990's. Perhaps time will tell.