this post was submitted on 19 Jun 2025
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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

I don't think there's any asparagus in this picture. I wish there were, it makes a great pun look forced

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

The 5th Dimension were amazing. I really like Wedding Bell Blues and Stoned Soul Picnic, but Age of Aquarius is such an instantly recognizable song across generations :)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Let the sunshine in!

(That song was released decades before I was born, BTW.)

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago (2 children)

You don’t necessarily need to be old enough to remember the song.

You just need to have grown up with parents that loved playing the soundtrack to Forrest Gump

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Anyone can be old enough to remember the song if you don't limit your music consumption

Edit: "one" to old

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Also, the age of aquarius starts somewhere around 2600. Or if you're not really into actual astronomy, but instead prefer nonsense, somewhere between 1962 and 2024, depending on how you define the word "in".

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

It's originally from the 1967 musical Hair, 5th element merged two songs from the musical and released it in 1968, that's the version you linked.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aquarius/Let_the_Sunshine_In

The 1979 film version:

Warning, hippies as they were imagined in the late 70s: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTZArvbmG_o