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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. 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.