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Artist:
Youngbloods
Title:
Euphoria 1965-69

Tracks:
1. ANOTHER STRANGE TOWN
2. HEY BABE
3. SOMETIME
4. RIDER
5. GRIZZLY BEAR
6. THE OTHER SIDE Of THIS LIfE
7. STATESBORO BLUES
8. FOOLIN' AROUND (THE WALTZ)
9. MERRY-GO-ROUND
10. ALL OVER THE WORLD (LA-LA)
11. GETTOGETHER
12. REASON TO BELIEVE
13. ALL MY DREAMS BLUE
14. DREAMER?S DREAM
15. THE WINE SONG
16. EUPHORIA
17. SUGAR BABE
18. LONG AND TALL
19. DARKNESS DARKNESS
20. SUNLIGHT
21. RAIN SONG (DON?T LET IT BRING YOU DOWN)
22. QUICKSAND
23. SHAM
24. BEAUTIfUL
25. RIDE THE WIND

Info: Over the three and a half albums they recorded in the 1960s - albums rich in textures flourishes and musical imagination - The Youngbloods crafted a sublime gestalt a brave hybrid of styles not readily found in the frame of reference of beat-besotted teens of the day. However like the Buffalo Springfield The Youngbloods were lauded far greater in death than in life; their actual span of operation yielding one memorable (though almost accidental) Top 10 single. Though rock scribe Lilian Roxon hailed their "tightness and free-swinging humour their country-blues-jazz-rock" The Youngbloods consistently fell between the cracks - not claimed by the 16 magazine set (like the Lovin' Spoonful or Byrds) the psychedelic scene (like Love) or the rootsy counter-cultural Woodstock-era (like The Band). Too jazzy to be truly pop too country-folk to be acid rock too white R&B to be country rock they were just too musical to be marketable. Even so their string of admirable but largely ignored albums - EARTH MUSIC and

Label: Raven

This item was added to our catalog on Thursday 10 April, 2008