April 5, 2013 Playlist

"Younger Than Yesterday" by The Byrds (1967)
CLASSIC ALBUM OF THE WEEK
The Byrds  "Younger Than Yesterday"  1967 (USA)
The Byrds were a pivotal band of the 1960's for several reasons:  the ultimate L.A. scenesters (especially the irrepressible David Crosby), they merged the two hippest strands of the mid-sixties by "Beatlizing Bob Dylan songs".  Originally they were a beat group with tight harmony singing doing the protest music of Dylan and Pete Seeger, but soon developed their own ecclectic style with forays into jazz and raga (the legendary single "Eight Miles High") and going beyond folk music into full-on country & western, reaching a hillbilly peak when Gram Parsons joined the band in 1968.  But the country influence reared its head even earilier, as exemplified by bassist Chris Hillman's contributions to this album (none of which we heard on the show this week!)  Also, Crosby is pushing his jazzy songwriting style further forward into psychedelia, and leader Roger McGuinn turns in arch ironic numbers like the leadoff hit single "So You Want To Be A Rock & Roll Star" (with trumpet solo by Hugh Masakela).  Younger Than Yesterday is a brilliant batch of mismatched songs that sound right together and a seminal album of 1967.  However, this lineup was not to last -- having already lost founding member Gene Clark (vocals, tambourine & songwriter) during the recording of their previous album, by the time they released the followup to YTY they had lost David Crosby as well (he wrote a couple tunes for Jefferson Airplane and started fooling around with scenester pal Steve Stills, before meeting Graham Nash . . . )
(N) = New Release
(M) = live DJ remix
   
Artist Song Album Year (Label) Country
Eric Burdon & The Animals
Monterey
 		The Twain Shall Meet
1968
UK
The Black Angels I Hear Colors (Chromaesthesia)
Indigo Meadow (N)2013 (Blue Horizon)USA
Charles Bradley Confusion
Victim Of Love (N)2013 (Dunham/Daptone)USA
Camper Van Beethoven You Got To RollLa Costa Perdida (N)2013 (429 Records)USA
Mind Spiders Upside Down
Meltdown (N)2012 (Dirtnap)USA
The Men Freaky
New Moon (N)2013 (Sacred Bones)USA
 
 
The Byrds My Back Pages (Bob Dylan)
 		Younger Than Yesterday
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1967
USA
The Beatles If I Needed Someone
 		Rubber Soul
1965
UK
The Byrds Renaissance Fair
 		Younger Than Yesterday
 CLASSIC ALBUM OF THE WEEK
1967
USA
The Byrds Tribal Gathering
 		The Notorious Byrd Brothers
1967
USA
The Byrds Why?
 		Younger Than Yesterday
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1967
USA
The MonkeesThe Door Into Summer
 		Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn & Jones Ltd.
1967
USA/UK
Eric Burdon & The Animals
Ring Of Fire (Johnny Cash)
 		Love Is
1968
UK
   
 
Cave Teenager
 		Pure Moods EP
2010
USA
Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti Round And Round
 		Before Today
2010
USA
Ducktails Under CoverThe Flower Lane (N)2013 (Domino)USA
Faust
J'ai Mal Aux Dents
 		The Faust Tapes
1973
Germany
 
 
Kraftwerk
Home Computer
   / It's More Fun To Compute
 		Computer World
1981
Germany
Matmos Tunnel
The Marriage Of True Minds (N)2013 (Thrill Jockey)USA
Kraftwerk
Autobahn + Trans Europe Express / Klingklang = Florian Schneider's 66th birthday party remix
 		Autobahn / Trans Europe Express / Kraftwerk 2 (M) 1971-77
Germany
Pink Floyd
Obscured By Clouds
 		Obscured By Clouds 1972
UK
Enoch Light
Bond Street
 		Spaced Out
1969
USA
Hugo Montenegro
Hair/Aquarius
 		Moog Power
1969
USA
Dick Hyman
Green Onions (Booker T. & The MGs)
 		The Age Of Electronicus
1969
USA
 
  
Eric Burdon & War
Tobacco Road / I Have A Dream / Tobacco Road part 2
 		Eric Burdon Declares War
1970
UK/USA
Eric Burdon & The Animals
Yes I Am Experienced
 		Winds Of Change
1967
UK
Jimi Hendrix Hey Gypsy BoyPeople, Hell And Angels (N)rec. 1969 (2013 Experience Hendrix/Legacy)USA
 
 
Pat Metheny OrchestrionThe Orchestrion Project (N)2013 (Nonesuch)USA
      
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