13th Floor Elevators - Psychedelic Sounds Of The 13th Floor Elevators
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Artist: 13th Floor ElevatorsEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1993-11-12
Music Label: Collectables
Soundtracks:
- You're Gonna Miss Me
- Roller Coaster
- Splash 1
- Reverberation (Doubt)
- Don't Fall Down
- Fire Engine
- Thru the Rhythm
- You Don't Know (How Young You Are)
- Kingdom of Heaven
- Monkey Island
- Tried to Hide
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Free Music Review: In A Time Of Its Own, The First And Authentic
Hit: 5 Stars
I first heard of this group in 1966 when I lived in a new neighborhood in NYC called the East Village. A lot of other new things were around; recreational drugs; some more serious ones only to be used around and with experienced people (like LSD) and the last flowering of "all good music has value" that America ever saw from its "youth culture". Almost everybody I knew had jazz, blues, rock and roll, rockabilly,R&B, folk or other exotic music around. But one of the standards that you found in EVERY good collection was one of the most immediately recognizeable record covers in history, and nicely enough the title was The Psychedelic Sounds of the 13th Floor Elevators. If you saw someone knowingly lift it from their (or your) collection, they automatically rose in status. From the first echoey note of You're Gonna Miss Me, you knew these guys were different, and the most amazing thing is that I can recall hearing this song, Fire Engine and Kingdom of Heaven on the radio on "underground music" shows in NYC in 1966-67. It would be the equivalent today of hearing Into Another or Engine Kid on CNN as background music. They even had liner notes that gave you a "guide" to the "meanings" of each song. For anyone looking for a "commercial" psychedelic record like The Doors or The Byrds first albums where studio musicians did a lot of the work, look elsewhere. Also, there are no corporate "song doctors" working with the group. This is undistilled All-American Garage Psychedelica at its very best. Of course, that's also the limiting factor. A previous reviewer was correct - the siren at the beginning of "Fire Engine" on my original 1966 vinyl copy was at a higher gain than anything else on the disc, and would blow you out of the room (or get your neighbors to call the cops), so it's a shame the "remasterers" screwed up the mix. Then again, maybe they didn't have much to work with, either. Remember, this was an experimental music laid down on probably a two-track recording done in one or two takes. In its context, this is a breakthrough album of unprecedented importance, and must be seen as such: not for every taste, but not meant to be. It's boomy in some places, there are other times when levels aren't quite right, but that was the state of the art 37 years ago. Too bad there isn't a better set of master tapes somewhere that could really be reworked - but isn't that the problem with Surrealistic Pillow too? The only real shame of this is that the excellent live album culled from a radio show never got on CD: it had much better sound. But this is the ultimate REAL THING, and in its own way opened the door for the next real change in music: Jimi Hendrix, who also didn't get played much on the radio when his first albums came out because the music was "too weird".And I didn't put that stuff about "voting buttons" on here - Amazon did. Listening to The Elevators?
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