What 50s/60s song "says it best"?

[sowhat]

What is that song — or songs — from the 50s/60s that reflects the best what you think and feel about life, both musically and lyrically (your "personal anthem")? Something that you've heard and immediately thought, "yes, it's about me, it's mine". Maybe not necessarily most "thought provoking" but the song you can relate to as if you've written it yourself. And did it change as the time went by?

[dedicated_follower]

I know everybody feels like this, but I really relate to The Kinks "I'm Not Like Everybody Else", although I probably am!
Jim

[kenposurf]

Interesting topic...a lot to put on one song! At one time it seemed I needed to hear Stone Free by Hendrix every day to get me in the "proper frame of mind". Now it's more like The Moody Blues Are You Sitting Comfortably...hah! Beter then being Comfortably Numb though

[dedicated_follower]

I suppose this is a bit like "our song" as well. I met my wife Jean in Dec 1966 and The Turtles "Happy Together" soon became and has remained "our song".

[sowhat]

Funny, when i started thinking about what song "does it" for me, the answer was, "too many". Well, not exactly. The one that really does it best is "Bridge over troubled water" (technically, it's still 60s if i'm not mistaken). But many others say a lot, too.

[nick_allen]

Maybe not exactly what you're talking about, but the most evocative for me is "Waterloo Sunset", by the Kinks - every time I hear it, it takes me back to London in 1967 (the year I moved there...) and I can feel, smell, taste what it was like...
As far as identification, or self-recognition, at the time the one that did it most for me, and I think it's probably 70s rather than 60s, is Kris Kristofferson's "The Pilgrim Chapter 33"...

[wmthor]

"Oh Lord, please don't let me be misunderstood"