The Doors Vs. Creedence Clearwater: a Hippie/Music Enthusiast's Poll

**Steppe Merc** · 09-03-2005, 23:31

Huh. Well I stand corrected. But I see them more hippie than say the Who, or some other contemporaries. But you'd know better than I would.

**Big King Sanctaphrax** · 09-03-2005, 23:32

Originally Posted by Steppe Merc

Huh. Well I stand corrected. But I see them more hippie than say the Who, or some other contemporaries. But you'd know better than I would.

I think you'll find that The Who were a mod band.

**Steppe Merc** · 09-03-2005, 23:43

Well yeah, that's what I mean. They weren't hippies.

**Big King Sanctaphrax** · 09-03-2005, 23:47

Originally Posted by Steppe Merc

Well yeah, that's what I mean. They weren't hippies.

You said more hippie, which I took to mean that you thought The Who were hippies-just not very extreme ones.

It's a weird subculture, Moddism. I've never quite understood it.

**Steppe Merc** · 09-03-2005, 23:58

No, Pete Townsend is too pissed off to be a hippie.

And I also have never gotten the whole mods and rockers thingy.

**Axeknight** · 09-04-2005, 00:00

The Doors did 'The End', so they win by default.

And BKS, being a Mod was all about riding a moped and wearing a completely new fashion every week. Any attempt to analyse it further will only result in your brain imploding. FYI, The Who themselves weren't mods. Mods just liked them. They say so in the story on the Quadrophenia sleeve notes.

**Gawain of Orkeny** · 09-04-2005, 00:44

And BKS, being a Mod was all about riding a moped and wearing a completely new fashion every week.

You want to know what a Mod is listen to Quadraphania. Mods were however sort of the original hippies. . All us hippies called the Who our own. They invented heavy rock. All their stuff was protest and drug related. They were the more militant arm of the hippie movement. Wont get fooled again is a real classic as is my generation just to name a few. Theres nobody other than the Beatles that I indentified with more back then. The who only were mods for a while . That was in the early 60s. When the hippie movement started they were right there.

MODS

Hippies

I always loved watching Pete do this

**Axeknight** · 09-04-2005, 01:12

I love Quadrophenia, Gawain. In the thanks it says (paraphrasing since I don't have it in front of me) "None of the characters in the story are supposed to represent our lives, especially not the parents. Our Mums and Dads are all lovely people who live in bungalows we've bought for them in the Orkney Islands."

**Del Arroyo** · 09-07-2005, 17:11

Since I don't know who CCR is, and the Doors definitely have a lot of catchy songs which have a habit of getting stuck in my head.... the Doors.

DA

**Reverend Joe** · 09-07-2005, 19:53

Several people voted here who didn't know, or hadn't heard, one of the two albums. I think that, for future reference, you should really listen to both groups before passing judgement in a poll. Not criticism, just advice.