Which songs give you the strongest sense of the turbulent 60s/early 70s?

Pride of Man - Quicksilver Messenger Service

 

All of disc 2 of "Hot Rocks", the Stones' best greatest hits compilation and possibly the best compilation of all time.

 

Pick any handful of Phil Ochs.
He artfully documented it.

 

A turbulent song for turbulent times:

 

Vietnam:
The Byrds - Draft Morning
Eric Burdon and the Animals - Sky Pilot

War at home:
Mark Lindsay - Indian Reservation
Buffalo Springfield - For What it's Worth

 

REO Speedwagon - "Golden Country"

 

.44 flows better than .38.

 

Sly Stone “Thank You falettin etc”

 

Or Sly Stone “Thank You for Talkin etc”
Take your pick...

 

"For".

 

Eve of destruction

 

Mick's songwriting had better "stopping-power" than the NYPD did at the time.

 

Did you mean the instrumental "Liberation" or "Prologue (August 29, 1968)/Someday (August 29, 1968)" which precedes it?

 

I couldn't find a decent copy of the EP version on YouTube and the Woodstock version's "FISH" cheer isn't SFW.

 

War Pigs live. So strange to see them in a theater setting. Amazing the power they displayed.

 

Anyone mention Gil Scott-Heron yet?

And one for the avatar: New Speedway Boogie.

 

Hendrix Star Spangled Banner at Woodstock.

 

Steppenwolf - Monster (I've always preferred the live version over the studio)

 

Anything by the greatest American band of that period Sly and the family stone

 

The Beatles White Album, taken as a whole, is the closest thing I've heard from that year that plays like a direct mirror of the times. In terms of coming from a mere pop music group. A true dizzying and fragmented collision of almost every emotion and ideal, good or bad, that was out there at the time.

 

I entered this thread to post that very song if it wasn't there yet.

 

Definitely this one by the Temptations, from the summer of 1970, "Ball of Confusion" -also, out at the same time, "War" by Edwin Starr.

 

I meant to add Jimi's cover of All Along The Watchtower.

 

So let's hear it!