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The Youngbloods - The Get Together/Elephant Mountain Audio CD

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The Youngbloods Band: The Youngbloods
Title: The Get Together/Elephant Mountain
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Release Date: 1999-03-17
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Grizzly Bear 2: All over the World (La-La) 3: Statesboro Blues 4: Get Together 5: One Note Man 6: Other Side of This Life 7: Tears Are Falling 8: Four in the Morning 9: Foolin' Around (The Waltz) 10: Ain't That Lovin' You, Baby 11: C.C. Rider 12: Darkness, Darkness 13: Smug 14: On Sir Francis Drake 15: Sunlight 16: Double Sunlight 17: Beautiful 18: Turn It Over 19: Rain Song (Don't Let the Rain Bring You Down) 20: Trillium 21: Quicksand 22: Black Mountain Breakdown 23: Sham 24: Ride the Wind

MINDBLOWING
Then, it was simply named: "The Youngbloods", (I'm referring to the first 11 tracks) It got lost and I tried for 20 years to find it. I bought this LP when it was first released (1967). RCA said it was out of print. It was renamed and re-released "Get Together" for obvious reasons. Every Note on this LP is a true Gem. This is my ALL TIME most favorite LP. You will not be disappointed. A true footstompin', finger tappin' GEM.


More Than Just One Hit Wonders
However, at a bargin list price . Agreed, BMG certainly did not provide the care in presenting a remastered reissue, not to mention the total lack of historic liner notes, leaving any first time listner clueless as to the orgins and basic facts of this very underated sixties group. . . , you do get two entire unedited albums and two of their best I might add. The Youngbloods scored a major hit with Get Together in '67, however they never cracked the top fourty again. It wasn't due to a lack of effort nor songwriting talent. Whatever the reasons there are some great songs here including the beautiful Sunlight, Ride The Wind and Quicksand. Like so many other great and talented bands of that era, Buffalo Springfield, The Flying Burito Brothers, Moby Grape and others, they'll most likely be remembered as one hit wonders. Truth be told, they were so much more than just "Get Together". This fine collection is evidence of that.


Great music, but NO remastering, NO notes
This is just the bare minimum for a reissue--NOTHING was done to sonically polish these '60s classics w/digital technology. The Youngbloods deserve better than this.

There are no notes of any kind, either.

The great music will carry you through, but, as I said, The Youngbloods deserve the loving attention that the Byrds, Velvet Underground, and the Doors, to name just three, have received in CD reissues.


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