13th Floor Elevators - The Psychedelic Sounds of the 13th Floor Elevators

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The Psychedelic Sounds of the 13th Floor Elevators
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Artist(s)	13th Floor Elevators
Studio	Varese Sarabande
Release Date	July 22, 2003
UPC Code	302061320210
Buy this item	$11.98 at Amazon.com As of Dec 4 23:11 EST (details) 1 Audio CD, Usually ships in 24 hours, Extra tracks, Original recording remastered

Tracks

You're Gonna Miss Me - 13th Floor Elevators, Erickson, Roky
Roller Coaster - 13th Floor Elevators, Erickson, Roky
Splash 1 - 13th Floor Elevators, Erickson, Roky
Reverberation - 13th Floor Elevators, Erickson, Roky
Don't Fall Down - 13th Floor Elevators, Erickson, Roky
Fire Engine - 13th Floor Elevators, Erickson, Roky
Thru the Rhythm - 13th Floor Elevators, Hall, Tommy
You Don't Know (How Young You Are) - 13th Floor Elevators, Saint John, Powell
Kingdom of Heaven - 13th Floor Elevators, Saint John, Powell
Monkey Island - 13th Floor Elevators, Saint John, Powell
Tried to Hide - 13th Floor Elevators, Hall, Tommy
Everybody Needs Somebody to Love - 13th Floor Elevators, Burke, Solomon
You Really Got Me - 13th Floor Elevators, Davies, Ray
Gloria - 13th Floor Elevators, Morrison, Van
You're Gonna Miss Me - 13th Floor Elevators, Erickson, Roky

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User Reviews

Average user review:

(14 reviews)

thirteenth floor elevators

the original phsychedelic sounds of the time . pre the dead . rocky erickson screams and the jug rocks. you must hear it! November 3, 2006

Glimpses of a great album but sound quality is terrible

As a fan of psychadelic music I was repeatedly told I had to get this cd. Listening to it you can get a sense of why this album gets this hype but frankly the sound quality is so poor you really have to make an effor to try to appreciate it. Again there are glimpes of great garage/psychadelia and the use of the jug is cool and different.

I would not buy it until someone actually makes an effort to put forward a version that sounds good. Even if the original tapes are terrible I find it hard to believe that they could not have done more with this. This is possibly a five star album but I can't tell for sure due to the sound. October 26, 2006

Greatest psych album ever?

I'm afraid not. I hate to be a dissenter, but "Psychedelic Sounds" is quite simply run-of-the-mill 60s garage rock. Some of the tracks are noteworthy (You're Gonna Miss Me), others, however, are unlistenable. How much the sound quality (which is horrible) plays into this is hard to determine. April 26, 2006

ALL THESE CRITICS!

I WAS THERE..HOUSTON/LOVE ST.LITE CIRCUS/THE CATACOMBS...ELEVATORS AND THAT SIGNITURE "wicketie"SOUND THATS ON MANY SONGS LIKE ROLLERCOASTER...WHO NEEDED SAN FRANCISCO...ROKY AND THE ELEVATORS CONSISTANTLY DID THEIR 20 MINUTE FREAK OUT...WITH BOLD NEW SOUNDS NO ONE HAD EVER HEARD ,,OR HAS SINCE...SLIP INSIDE THIS HOUSE WAS PROPHETIC ANDFULL OF IMAGERY...AND I STILL LISTEN TO SPLASH ONE TODAY..".DON'T PASS IT BY"
ALIAS/KPFT RADIO/HOUSTON January 19, 2006

Five stars for the music not the recording

I had the pleasure to grow up in the years when the Elevators performed and lived just down the street from Andrus Studios where Easter Everywhere was recorded.

There is a tribute band in Austin called The Tommy Hall Schedule that does a superb tribute to the Elevators music with state of the art recording quality. I would recommend any Elevators fan getting their cd at their website, www.tommyhallschedule.com. Don't judge the cd quality by the live downloads at their site, though. August 8, 2005

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