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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
Youngbloods, The - Euphoria 1965-69 - CD
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