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Album • 1967

Younger Than Yesterday

The Byrds17 songs • 46 minutes

Younger Than Yesterday is the fourth studio album by the American rock band the Byrds, released on February 6, 1967, by Columbia Records. It saw the band continuing to integrate elements of psychedelia and jazz into their music, a process they had begun on their previous album, Fifth Dimension. In addition, the album captured the band and record producer Gary Usher experimenting with new musical textures, including brass instruments, reverse tape effects and an electronic oscillator. The album also marked the emergence of the band's bass player Chris Hillman as a talented songwriter and vocalist. Prior to Younger Than Yesterday, Hillman had only received one shared writing credit with the Byrds, but this album saw him credited as the sole composer of four songs and a co-writer of "So You Want to Be a Rock 'n' Roll Star". Byrds expert Tim Connors has remarked that two of Hillman's compositions on Younger Than Yesterday exhibited country and western influences and thus can be seen as early indicators of the country rock experimentation that would feature—to a greater or lesser degree—on all of the Byrds' subsequent albums. From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Younger...) under Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...)

Songs

  1. 1
    So You Want to Be a Rock 'N' Roll Star
  2. 2
    Have You Seen Her Face
  3. 3
    C.T.A. - 102
  4. 4
    Renaissance Fair (Single Version)
  5. 5
    Time Between
  6. 6
    Everybody's Been Burned (Single Version)
  7. 7
    Thoughts and Words
  8. 8
    Mind Gardens
  9. 9
    My Back Pages
  10. 10
    The Girl With No Name
  11. 11
  12. 12
    It Happens Each Day
  13. 13
    Don't Make Waves (Single Version)
  14. 14
    My Back Pages (Alternate Version)
  15. 15
    Mind Gardens (Alternate Version)
  16. 16
    Lady Friend (Single Version)
  17. 17
    Old John Robertson (Single Version)

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