Mud - Flower Power

[john111257]

now these guys made some top tunes...this is TOP NOTCH...

[Miekski]

Love this song! First time I heard this song I was about 8 years old (born in 1961). Les was a part of my family and I really miss him. Les, my best wishes are: 2012 a year full of fun, love and music in heaven!!! xxx

[moonheaver]

Interesting song, never heard it back in 1967. Thanks for posting it, always thought of Mud as a 70's band. Actually The Sweet did some pop psyche in their very early days too.

[SpikeFancier]

I was definitely born in the wrong era.

[JasonRodzArt]

@SpikeFancier yeah... all of us modern day hippies were born in the wrong time =[

[ioanalazar1]

A great song! Thanks!

5*****

[SaarduLady]

I never heard this before. I love it!

[flaxonx3]

Would never haved guessed the Mud I knew from the seventies with their Teddy Boy revival glam-rock mix would have had such hippy conscious beginnings. Well apart from the guitarist with the flamboyant outfits.

[wouldntyoulike2know]

That guy on the right is really beautiful looking.

[Wilthomer66]

The flip "You're My Mother" is a nice quirky '67 Move style piece, both are sides are nice little slices of '67 U.K. pop-sike!

[fatpizzaman]

Why on earth wasn't this song a major hit? It sounded perfectly in league with the hits of the time. This is gorgeous!

[joecool3535]

i agree

terenceq58 :-)

[jovesheerwater]

Warm Sounds - Nite is A'Comin greatest psych song ever !!!

[terenceq58]

if only we could have stayed forever in the 60s/70s without ever aging what a life thet would have been best times ever tq

[rawfogod]

oh how i wish...at least i wish i coulda gotten a taste of those times.

[TheSilentTAGGER]

me too bro

[soxfan1957]

@terenceq58 What happened to the world that the 60's seemed to promise?. Some of the people I knew that marched against the war. protested against (Nixon's) government* and resented capitalism are now right wing activist. I can't help believe we have fallen back into the "dark ages". It all started with the death of the hippie and that was 1968. (*I exclude the Weatherman and groups like them. They went too far. Martin Luther King Jr. had it right we should have stayed his course).

[SaarduLady]

@terenceq58 I'm writing a scifi series about the elegant universe, and as part of book 5, which delves into an alternate reality, Vincent van Gogh hypnotizes my protagonist and takes her to a 60s commune on Kolob. "Logic will take you from A to B, but imagination will take you everywhere." -Einstein

[sponsler]

@SaarduLady and..."the mind that creates the problem cannot be the same one to solve it"..(something like that).

[kkdavid123]

@SaarduLady -------- what is the name of the book ???

[SaarduLady]

@kkdavid123 that is an Einstein quote, paraphrased.

[unclemeat2u]

this must be the kind of music that Spinal Tap was satirizing with their song "Flower People."

Only this is actually good. ha ha!

[rickhorror]

hahaha spinal tap lol

[glaetze]

I missed-out on these guys. Where was I back then?

Can I get a CD? I need to make-up for lost time.

[paulhamerton]

if anyone has Jumping jehosaphat on Basil brush show pls let me know

[puddypuss]

I never knew they had a psychedelic phase. I suppose that was the order of the day and the sincerity was there somewhere.

[1starryeyedkid]

is 'in the mood' by mud/dum about on you tube?

[FatwNker]

This is a million times better than "Spicks and Specks."

[scagnettislunchbox]

shut up you musical snob, if people didn't copy great music like pachelbels canon AND mud flower power music would be shit

[ronnoten]

is that les grays brother in the photo? certainly no dave mount.

[saint157]

It is Les`s brother who was the drummer before Dave Mount.

[LOVEDAVEGAHAN]

Yeah, it's Les's younger brother Pete.

[PsychedelicGuy]

Never heard of this band before, wow what a great song!

[fatpizzaman]

@PsychedelicGuy They were massive in the UK and Europe during the 1970's, and had two major hits with "Tiger Feet" and "Lonely This Christmas" in 1974. Most of their songs are available on Youtue.

[fatpizzaman]

@PsychedelicGuy Mud were one of the top UK bands of the 70's, they had the biggest selling single in 1974 with "Tiger Feet", a good glam rockabilly song. :)

[beamerZ]

It's a good song with beautiful harmonies.

Ity reminds me a bit af ''spics and specs''but this is just as good.

[fatpizzaman]

Should have been a No.1 hit the world over. It's a great hippy anthem along with "San Francisco", "Flowers In The Rain" and "All You Need Is Love".

[darlantro]

The extreme end of this song is really cool; wish it carried on and became a psychedelic minor-key thing, contrasting the happy pop lyrics of the rest of the song.

A second listen reminded me of Portishead... hah!

[AxisDimension]

nothing special

[chuckdee121]

Sounds like spicks and specks, but cool.

[skip99]

i like this shit y cant i find any of there songs?

[lakeviewviking]

"listen to the flower people!"

[mudrocker]

I've heard a lot worse. Why wasn't this a hit ?