Younger than Yesterday

Review

(Columbia/Legacy)
Release Date: 02/20/1967 12:00

It wasn’t even the Summer of Love yet, and the Byrds were already burned out on the ’60s. Opening with an acid-tongued dis of their own profession, “So You Want to Be a Rock ’n’ Roll Star,” this fourth album articulates their weariness with travel, politics, pop, romance and modernity. Crosby’s drug-y “Mind Gardens” overreaches, but he and Hillman were emerging as insightful, adventurous writers. The sole cover, Dylan’s “My Back Pages,” is a brilliant parting shot to the band’s first phase.

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