Are your parents more hip than you?

Here's an alternative look at the 1960's, the decade you thought you loved. It's just a bunch of conservative propaganda-type bullshit (I can't believe something like this could be made by government-sponsored TV), but if you can get past that, there's actually a lot of good footage here. The takeaway line probably comes in Part 5: "the '60s replaced pleasure with happiness". Hmm... And of course the biggest buzzkill is that the most popular musical act of the decade is not the Beatles, no, but someone by the name of Engelbert Humperdinck. Figures.



Oh, but that's not all you little weirdos. If you really wanna see how cool our parents were, check this clip of Pink Floyd when they were killing it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sr0hdXPH92M

Watch Macca at the end do some PR, translating what just happened for all the squares. The Floyd also played around the same time at the 14 Hour Technicolor Dream event - look at that fucking setlist - a 'happening' in the classic sense of the word. John Lennon was there. Were you? See him do some wandering around in the clip farther down the page. But first, here's more early Floyd...

What the fuck is this?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTfDUyUkVYE

Intelligent, candid, point-counterpoint analysis of pop music? When you compare that clip with this (remember that nightmare?) you begin to make the case for the devolution of man.

Back to Lennon. It's cool to see both of them in their Sgt. Pepper era looks. They must have just shot the cover of that record at the time these were filmed. Both clips are collected in the documentary Tonite Lets All Make Love in London which, you can already guess, is ESSENTIAL. Something Drew (I'm sorry, 'The Myth' - is that some kind of 24 Hour Party People reference?) should have on DVD but doesn't. The opening sequence:



Here's another look at the 14 Hour Dream. This is some kind of promo video, better quality, but notable for the smooth psych jam "Revolution" by Tomorrow, which could pass for a Ride or Telescopes song circa 1991 easily.



Finally, here's the song about the event (or was the event's title taken from the song?) by the Syn, accompanied by a hot video:



Yes, the '60s fucking Ruled. Case closed. Enjoy your weekend.