Younger Than Yesterday

chill hippies, solid 60s

The Byrds hebben mij ooit met 1 plaatje heel blij gemaakt, dus ik ben geneigd ze eeuwige liefde te verklaren, maar het is nu na een paar kut platen toch echt klaar.

Ziijg. En die stukken waar die zanger redelijk solo zingt zijn niet te doen.

Meh, pretty dull and partly responsible for the explosion of terrible jangle-pop nonsense yha followed. Not for me

1.5

An improvement on the last album I heard by them. That’s hardly a ringing endorsement though.

This just didn’t engage me at all

Was lovely in the background of Crash Bandicoot but upon further listening I just wished it was The Beatles Favorite song: It Happens Each Day

The first track was good, got me excited for a cheery 60's pop/rock album, but then it devolved into so much psychedelic experimental bullshit that I just got sick of it. That one track with the weird voices speaking what sounded like a made up chipmunk language... WTF was that?!? The Byrds needed to just stick with sweet, wistful pop/rock jams and be cool.

Not a fan of this album.

Diverse group of 60s pop tunes that remind me of the Monkees. Typical pop instrumentation, great vocals, but overall kind of bland.

Not really a fan

another Beatles inspired group that didnt have any interesting songs

It's close to being good. Very good when it wants to be, very boring for the most part.

Too psychedelic for my taste...

Kinda boring except for the sonic experiments

I see why 1967 liked this one.

Track 1: So You Want to Be a Rock ‘N’ Roll Star This song opens with sounds that resemble armpit farts. There’s a lot of chaos with horns, children screaming, and a mediocre song. Sounds like diet Beach Boys. Track 2: Have You Seen Her Face The lyrics describe the way wattpad explains what eyes look like. This is fine. I like the guitar solo. This song is like the typical 60s pop that you think of. Track 3: C.T.A. - 102 This is a little radio opening kind of song. It has little beep boops. It’s kinda annoying. Oh those are aliens. I was so confused. Track 4: Renaissance Fair I like this song. The vocals are cool and the instrumentals are groovy. I could casually listen to this. Track 5: Time Between This song is fine. It’s a country bumpkin sounding campfire song. Track 6: Everybody’s Been Burned Good song to fall asleep to. Great guitar work. Track 7: Thoughts and Words This is another boring song. I think I just heard someone light a joint. Track 8: Mind Gardens Snooooore. I like the weird backwards reverb sound. Nvm, the beeps get so annoying. Track 9: My Back Pages I like the guitar work on this song. I actually think the lyrics are interesting. Idk what they’re about. Track 10: The Girl With No Name I like this. It’s poppy and makes me wanna skip. This is nice sounding. Track 11: Why Idk what this song is about. Honestly thought it was a pedo song at first. This is ok Track 12: It Happens Each Day This is chill. I don’t have much to say abt it. Track 13: Don’t Make Waves Ok this is straight up Beach Boys. They are talking about the BEACH. Track 14 and 15 are the couple of songs I already heard Track 16: Lady Friend This is ok lol. Beach boys vibe again. Track 17: Old John Robertson Another bumpkin song.

Heard it before?: No Enjoy it?: Yeah it was ok, had a charming feel to it and sounded alright Favourite song: Track 9 - My Back Pages

Damn I really didn't like this album. My Back Pages is an excellent song, and the Byrds definitely made it better than Dylan's original. But the rest? Not so much.

This album was bad with a couple redeeming songs. So much backwards guitar loops!

Some good, some not so good. I would give it 2.5 if I could 2/5

It is impossible to be younger than yesterday. 🤔

Note for me. Nope.

meh

started hot then gradually got worse

Track 2 is super weird

Rallattelua. Ei ihan mun juttu mut ei ny mitää skeidaa kumminkaan. Tuli välil vähä semmonen fiilis et Beatlesin levyiltä ois otettu sitä harmaata massaa mikä ei erotu joukosta ja tehty niistä levy. Paras biisi: Thoughts and Words Huonoin biisi: C.T.A. - 102

Not for me, i also didn’t like the german minion in one of the songs

I liked a lot of the singing, but then they just play on the guitar for ages really random and not needed… sounds messy

Didn’t really get on with this sorry

5 albums on the list? Sheesh.

A real yawner. Don’t judge albums by their covers, but take it from me that this cover is an accurate depiction of what you’re in for.

Not feeling this one. Maybe I've just found a bad copy of the album, but I'm not big on the psychedelic sounds.

Goddamit. Put this on yesterday, didn't look at the track listing. It was 17 tracks long and around the 12th track I was like "Jesus, when is this gonna be over." And of course, it's a 10 track album in a 17 track sack thanks to streaming music. But anyway, sounds like the Byrds were getting into experimenting with sonic textures and, I mean, awesome. Enjoy. But Mind Gardens is rough going. The alien voices on CTA 102 are cartoonish. This one has several okay songs. My Back Pages and So You Want To Be a Rock 'n' Roll Star are the best and that's not really a super high bar. But this is a solidly 1967 album. It feels and sounds of that year and it doesn't seem like it traveled far beyond it.

That 60's sound is just okay to me. Those first couple songs sounded great, but that sound just doesn't inspire me. I understand that era is the greatest era in music, but it just doesn't grab me.

Meh

Yes was ok

Tedious. Spotify says they were more responsible than any other band or artist for the entire folk rock movement. Fuckers.

Has the classic 1960s rock sound which admittedly, I am not a fan of. This album is a pretty easy listen and the best song by far is the Bob Dylan cover. Everything else was just sort of there. Nothing really caught my attention.

After listening to a few Byrds albums, I'm beginning to think I don't like The Byrds

Somehow the whole album is a 50:50 split of happy, airy harmonies (a bit like the Beatles) or absolute dead grinds (Simon and Garfunkel making love to a cat - bagpipes? Wtf?). I had to skip some as they rubbed me the wrong way. My Back Pages VS Mind Gardens illustrate my example fairly well.

Nyt ei Byrdsi yltäny oikein millekään tasolle. Vaisu, väljä ja väritön kuten hyvä ystäväni Jorma Uotila sanois.

Aika perus 60-luvun albumi, nothing special to see hear

Eh. The Beatles meets Jefferson Airplane?

Pretty meh. Nothing that caught my attention or made me want to return to it.

CTA-102 guest starring the Minions? What the hell was that? I just had a Crosby, Stills & Nash album yesterday. This is exactly the same thing. I guess I should see who the guitarist for The Byrds is. Oh, it's fucking David Crosby again. The most important man in musical history according to this book. Is he the guy who looks like Patrick Bateman cosplaying as Heisenberg on the album cover? There's 5 Byrds albums on this list for some reason. Who the hell are The Byrds? Who the hell is David Crosby? Where is my wife? Oh yeah, the music. It was boring 60s folk rock. Not horrible, but not for me.

It was just OK. A bit too floaty for me...

Meh, pas grand chose de spécial sur cet album, j'oubliais qu'il jouait

Mid 60s californian rock. The album sounds pretty generic for its time, and I can't find anything that hasn't been done better by other groups. Disappointing. 2/5

Bukkake for the soul

they sounded a little similar to the beatles for a little but they got extremely annoying and their voices were just no.

Estuvo ok. Lo escuché la semana pasada y ya lo olvidé. No es mi estilo, la verdad

Not great.

Fine, would rather listen to Dylan

A bit tough to get through parts of it. Kind of just an uninteresting album. 4/10.

No surprises here. Its a Byrds album. Thats it.

Overrated sixties coat tail riding musicians continue on with their bland melody free store brand psychedelic rock. Probably far out if you were about 8 when this released. It just sounds dated now. It says a lot when their best song is written by someone who isn't in the group and they have the cheek to edit out verses. Lame. Best Tracks: So You Want to Be a Rock 'N' Roll Star; Have You Seen Her Face; My Back Pages

Pretty meh. Nothing that caught my attention or made me want to return to it.

Late 60s psychedelic and jazz influenced rock... ...possibly influential, not really my thing.

couldn't finish

Eh.

Interesting through headphones with the stereo mix. Rich sounding guitars, bass dancing around and some airy-fairy vocals. Didn't hate it, but didn't notice when the album ended.

Ugh The Byrds. Feels like this album is being pulled in a few different directions, but not all of them bad. At best there are tracks that sound like what The Beatles were doing two years ago. The worst parts are horrible though, the experimental psychedelic technique is sound amateurish and cack-handed.

S obzirom da sam bila prevelikodušna s prošlim albumom, ali svejedno mi se jako svidia no možda neka 4.2 ocjena. Ovaj doduše nimalo ne vajbam, malo psihodelično s country vibrom.. Nisam oduševljena

Hmm....

Inoffensive but I didn't feel like there was much to hold my interest here.

Solid!

Oh good, the Byrds again! Just what this list needed. 2/5 and go fuck yourself.

Average at best

Meh

Feels like we’ve already had this album a dozen times 😂

American, 70s, Rock/Pop + Multiinstrumetal = Male - Oldish, boring {0/17}

Contains some of the birds hits. Worth being on this list?

It was ok

First listen. 2/5. Couple good songs.

Do you remember the middle school dance? You know when you had your first dance with someone else. Where do you put your hands? Who leads…and what is leading anyway? You try to slowly move in a circle while your partner tries the lady/right shuffle. You step on each other’s toes. Oops…sorry. Do you stare them in the eyes? Do you look at other people dancing to try and figure out what to do? Do you put your head on their shoulder? How much space do you leave between you? A bible’s width? Or are you pressed up against each other? Everyone in this experience is doing something they want to and are excited to experience. Yet it takes two to tango, and the dance is out of synch because you don’t know how to dance with a partner … it’s a bit awkward. That’s this album for me. The various parts are enjoyable…at times anyway. But I swear none of them are NSYNC (get it? in synch). It’s awkward. They needed tighter arrangements and a conductor.

they rock, but I got bored.

10th August 2021 Smashed this out on my phone at lunch. Had book club up at Erica's in the evening for Before the Coffee gets cold. The Byrds have done Dylan, now they try to do the Beatles. Are they a cover band?

Another Byrds album and I like it much less than the previous one. The songs aren't interesting and the dissonance just sounds bad. I enjoyed the Bob Dylan cover My Back Pages a lot. That song by itself is a 4.5 star song to me. But the rest of the album really isn't good.

Beatles-esque rock from the same era. A bit of the overly happy stuff. The Beatle Monkey's!!! Interesting in the same ways but comparatively mundane from a greatness point of view. Still solid overall.

What a strange, short album. It has the typical 60s chords, but then tosses in random trumpet, static, and alien voices. I don't know what the hell I'm listening to.

Bored by track 3

A decent album but it felt repetitive at times and didn't have a great standout

Album just ok. No stand out tracks

Some nice psychedelic moments but the rest is cut and paste era specic rock.

60s tripe - worse than their second album - how did this band get two on this list

wasn't very memorable for me. I think I would've been more engaged if we didn't have the Beatles the day before

I've always had a soft spot for So You Want To Be A Rock 'N Roll Star, with it's comically rolling bassline, Latin beat and sardonic lyrics. Have You Seen Her Face has a lovely vocal arrangement and is Beatlesque in the best sense. My Back Pages is a stellar Dylan cover. And the Byrd's harmonies are just gorgeous. At their best, the Byrds' combination of folk rock, country, psychedelia and pure pop is a delight. But I'm sorry to say that Younger Than Yesterday is not a very good album. The attempts at psychedelia here are amateurish and juvenile, ruining the otherwise fine C.T.A. - 102. Roger McGuin's attempts at lead guitar throughout are an embarrassment. And other than the first two songs and the Dylan cover, the songwriting is weak. Two stars for the three strong tunes mentioned, zero stars for the rest. 2/5

Had to listen a couple of times, didn't dislike any songs but not many stuck out to me during casual listening. Really like the Back Pages cover Saved: My Back Pages

Beatles-lite. Rock and roll sure was different back in the day! Nothing really stood out to me. Weirdly as I was typing this a song called 'My Back Pages' sounded nice. Most listened to song on the album on Spotify. Always find it weird that these songs stand out, full albums are built around them.

I find it difficult to rate albums on their musical merits alone and ignore the dated sound or if you don't like the genre

A rollercoaster. Pretty high highs and also some low lows. There was some good stuff here but not enough to keep me engaged throughout the whole album.

I gave the first song a listen and got a general glimpse of it. There's something about this era of rock'n'roll that I just don't connect with. From the 60's I prefer jazz and soul, but 60's rock it's too often a no-go. Everything changed and evolved so much during the 70's that it feels whole eras apart.

This was okay. Nothing special, nothing stand out.

Quintessential sixties music. Short poppy songs

Suena como Beatles pero más ácidos... Nada nuevo que aportar.

started strong ended weak, could not stick to a single theme

The Byrds used common 60s methods like backwards guitar riffs in the album but they all just felt wrong. A few songs sounded like what a headache feels like.

So so

What the fuck is the ending on cta -102. It was okay and weird. Definitely sounded like the time it was produced. Won't revisit, didn't think it was anything spectacular. 3/8.

I am not a Byrds fan. They are better when they do Dylan covers, not as good as Dylan, but better. Whoever's idea it was to add some sci-fi UFO noises and alien chatter to the album needs to lay off the drugs. No one has made more of a career off Bob Dylan's songs than these guys...and that includes the Band. Their version of My Back Pages is my favorite Byrds song.

Didn't feel this one. Really at all

No lo escuché entero porque no me gustó mucho

Folk rock really doesn't stick to me but I appreciate it

1. ztar - 0 2. face - 1 3. cta - 1 4. fair - 1 5. time - 1 6. burned - 1 7. uuordz - 1 8. mind- 2 9. pagez - 1 10. name - 1 11. uuhy - 0 12. day - 1

not a fan, didnt even finish the album I guess this was where the beetles got their sound but .. yeah, no

Nope, never again.

Pretty groovy, great album to dance to! Fav song is ‘Have You Seen Her Face’.

< the Beatles

2/3 Boring

Enough of this band

Tää kuulosti vanhalta musalta jopa ollaakseen 60-luvun lopulta. Ei kyllä tämmönen uppoo yhtään, osin varmaan ku faija luukutteli lapsuudessa suunnilleen jotain tän tyylistä paskaa, niin sisäinen kapinahenki nostaa päätään.

it's as byrdsy as you'd expect given how much byrds are on this list ENOUGH

So there's a few things to be enjoyed about this record, I'm an admirer of Chris Hillman, the banjo playing mandolinist who got stuck playing the bass. Ditto Jim McGuinn, and there's some good moments here for both of them. But what is significant about this record is that Crosby has finally and completely pushed Gene Clark out, and he did it cause Gene was the true talent in the band. That's why this record is just a curio. This list, it is so so strange. Why another Byrds record? Too many of these album are mere curios, I did not need to listen to this again before I dead parrot, to paraphrase Julia Gillard, 'I did not'. Where's Beyonce? How is the greatest artist of the 21st century not worthy of one mention while we drown in a sea of byrdy metalic steely youth?

Sometimes being boring is worse than being bad, and unfortunately this is a pretty boring album. It's just so flat throughout, there is nothing that stands out to me here. Even my favorite track on the album, "My Back Pages," is a Bob Dylan cover. I don't think anything here was bad, but I don't see myself coming back to this album in the future.

Nie klar ob sie Drogen genommen, zuviel in Indien waren oder gerade Chorübungen haben.

So much to hate. Stupid band name spelling, use of Beach Boy producer, David Crosby, etc. Found a mono 1967 version that was transcribed from vinyl with its clicks and pops. That was nice. One interesting track was CTA-102. Not a Burds/Berds fan.

woooo more 60s slop

I dont normally just dosmiss a band or album but Ummmm no, that was a bit boring, wasnt anything special

What a lame piece of crap. Folk pop that the Byrds can happily do without. If "so you want to be a rock 'n' roll star" is really meant to be a reference to the Monkeys, congratulations, they did it much better. For me this album is a boring waste of time. Perhaps the album had a certain significance at the time it was made, I can't see it today. The album is absolutely dispensable. Thank god they have a few other, much better works

If there’s one thing this list has taught me it’s that I hate the fucking Byrds. How a band got so huge off of mediocre Dylan covers I’ll never know.

fucking wierd, did not like

Standard

1967. Experimental. 1/5

I found this a painful listen. It is stereotypical 60s psychedelic at its cheesiest. Never been a Byrds fan and I am definitely not one after this album.

Boring...

this is not a joke I will keep them safe every member of the byrds i am not joking i am serious i am stalking them I will do it to them I hate it NNN

Tried to go to sleep while listening to this one. no can do. it be a nightmare though? Maybe i WAS asleep? Edit listened twice just to make sure i truly was awake. I was

Same with the young bloods. Too 60s, not interested at all. Even less interested than in the young bloods bc they do that group sing thing.

Appreciated some of the psychedelic touches, but mainly a pretty flat album

Apart from a few interesting songs, this project did not strike me as interesting at all.

Some of these songs are good, and although I've tried, I just generally don't like The Byrds very much. Too twangy folky for me. Very skilled musicians and they had quite an influence on their contemporaries as well as countless bands that followed. Just a matter of personal preference. Not my thing.

Maybe there are not 1001 decent albums

This album has a near 60 year legacy and I doubt I’ll remember anything about it after 6 minutes.

Hearing stuff like this really drives home how much the Beatles were in a league of their own

Trash.

I feel like the last 10 albums have been from this time period. This may not help my review of this one.

not for me...

Personal preference, but there is nothing appealing about the sound of the 60's. If you're into that, though, then man is this album for you. It was a boring slog to get through this entire album.

It doesn’t really do anything, does it? The first few seconds set out the stall for the rest of the album and it doesn’t go anywhere else. I dunno if this is meant to be a concept record of some sort, but listening through twice I couldn’t hear any theme or reason. Anyway, this isn’t ‘bad’ but it’s not my kind of thing. If I could sum it up with an emoji, it would be this… ⬜️

The title of the last song from the original release (“Why”) sums up this album for me. It’s somewhere around a 1.5, but rounding down because if it’s already that bad, you don’t get any bonus chips.

Didn’t finish. Snooze fest

soft rock The Byrds - Everybody's Been Burned favourite song

Similar to some albums of yesterday, a tone-hungry list of songs that raises little interest

Would have liked their “Best of album 💿” but not one of the songs on this one inspired any reason to listen. They are great musicians but not this album and I turned & turned to the next songs

Boring

Enjoyed

A bit odd, not in a pink Floyd pushing the boundaries way

A Crosby, Stills & Nash's dispassionate-handjob to The Beach Boys type album 1.7

Second boring Byrds recommendation in a week, clearly the algorithm hates us

Disco del monton del hipie rock

I think 3 songs were decent. Most of them weren’t great. And Mind Gardens was one of the worst none troll songs I’ve ever heard.

Too folky for me