The Byrds - Younger Than Yesterday
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Artist: The ByrdsEdition: Music CD
Format: Original recording reissued, Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 1996-04-30
Music Label: Sony
Soundtracks:
- So You Want to Be a Rock 'N' Roll Star - The Byrds, McGuinn, J.
- Have You Seen Her Face - The Byrds, Hillman, C.
- C.T.A. - 102 - The Byrds, McGuinn, J.
- Renaissance Fair - The Byrds, Crosby, D.
- Time Between - The Byrds, Hillman, C.
- Everybody's Been Burned - The Byrds, Crosby, D.
- Thoughts and Words - The Byrds, Hillman, C.
- Mind Gardens - The Byrds, Crosby, D.
- My Back Pages - The Byrds, Dylan, B.
- The Girl with No Name - The Byrds, Hillman, C.
- Why - The Byrds, McGuinn, J.
Free Music Notes for Younger Than Yesterday
Free Music Review: The Byrds masterpiece of psychedelic folk rock and roll
Hit: 5 Stars
For the longest time, I never bothered with the Byrds. I'm not a hippie, but grew up during the punk/new wave era, and brought a lot of my esthetics from that sound, along with the Doors, Velvet Underground, and Rolling Stones. I liked Bob Dylan as well, but as for the Byrds, I thought only of their earliest work, when they did Dylan covers with thick harmonies. Much later, maybe after hearing how REM, or PETTY, were so influence by the Byrds, that I got a BEST OF cassette, but it still didnt show thet whole story. Well, I got this album, and NOTORIOUS BYRD BROTHERS, and found out the truth. This was the trippiest band around, for awhile. They did psychedelia very early on, (5th Dimention) in fact, they turned on John Lennon to his second acid trip. For early 1967, its amazing to hear how freaky so many of these songs are. ROCK AND ROLL STAR is all anphememine rush. Done live in concert (Monterey Pop Festival Box set ONLY, sadly) these songs were performed at super high velocities. Crosby's songs stand up the best, like EVERYBODY"S BEEN BURNT. A beautiful surreal ballad about the universiality of heartbreak, in a 5/4 beat. WHAT? That was considered "new" when Jethro Tull used it two years later for LIVING IN THE PAST. Renascance Fair was just as beautiful, and both of those songs seem to me like High Points in David Crosby's writing. (Along with TRIAD). Then, you have the SCI FI epics like C.T.A.-105, which is about....Alien consciousness I guess. If the album has a "theme", its summed up in the last song," WHY?" The album starts with the sell out mentality of ROCK AND ROLL STAR (a huge favorite of Patti Smith, and anyone who has been thru the rock meat grinder), love songs, fantasies, scifi UFOs, LSD visions, (Mind Gardens, an experiment that didnt work as well as others), a mandatory Dylan cover on these early Byrd's albums (MY BACK PAGES, which again was about the look back at adolescent arrogance), and ending with WHY? Because to me, the band was asking that question thruout this album. Doesnt the best art always ask WHY? I'm not calling this the best song on the album, but rather, it does call into focus, the questioning of the Hippie generation, about War, and the whole American dream of oppulence, excess leading to death, that was given out wholesale, without anyone asking WHY? WHY DOES THIS APPLY TO ME? WHY SHOULD I GO TO VIETNAM? WHY SHOULD I STAY STRAIGHT? WHY GET MARRIED? or whatever other WHY you could add in there. So, this is TRULY the CD you want to start out with, if you want to hear what the Psychedelic, highest flying BYRDS were about, before they left psychedelia and nascent folk rock behind them forever, for the reinvention of country and western rock, which was also hugely influencial for decades to come. To this day, I could kick myself in the [...], for not listening to this album in college. Of all the psychedelic type albums I have, this one still holds up, since it depended on the least amount of effects and gimmics popular at the time.
Younger Than Yesterday Poster
Four of the five original Byrds were aboard for this folk-rock landmark. Within months of its release in the summer of 1967, David Crosby would move on and the group would enter a permanent period of flux. Younger Than Yesterday, however, finds songwriters Crosby, Roger McGuinn, and Chris Hillman prodding one another with varied but complementary triumphs. "My Back Pages" is one of their best Dylan covers (and the Byrds had plenty of them), while "So You Want to Be a Rock 'n' Roll Star" (written as a jab at the Monkees) represents two minutes of compressed pop cynicism that's as valid today as it was when it hit the airwaves. --Steven StolderPop Music CDs
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