The Youngbloods/ Earth Music/ Elephant Mountain

Very happy with this CD just as described, with a speedy delivery, thanks

My original Best of the Youngbloods album was worn nearly wafer-thin, and for ages I've been lamenting the fact that it couldn't be found on CD. So, hooray! - I can add this to the soundtrack of my teenage years, and once again drive the neighbours mad!

Three albums on two CD,s. The first two 'The Youngbloods' and 'Earth Music' are brilliant with a whole range of styles from jug band, old timey, folk, folk rock to psychedelic rock. Among the best music of the sixties if this is your taste. Five stars for both. The third album Elephant Mountain although in my opinion has the best song with 'Darkness Darkness' contains some weaker songs and aimless jams which might be considered filler. 3.5 stars for this one. In all though highly recommended.

2 CDs, with the sublime Elephant Mountain all on its own.Amazing music from a much underrated band.

Three great albums in one package.

Fantastic service.Very very pleased with everything

I only knew the Youngbloods from their hit single "Get Together".They are much more than that,the albums show a good variety of song writing and sounds.all in all three good albums for a bargain price.The item arrived speedily so the supplier is to be recommended.

Nice music.

Excellent.....Very Good

An extremely well remastered CD version of the Youngbloods' first 3 LPs, which definitely represent the climax of their quite significant musical career. Warmly recommended to all lovers of American 60's music in its more creative and variegated form!The only drawback in this excellent edition is John Tobler's extremely weird article in the booklet. Rather than examining in detail the Youngbloods' career, he employs more than half of his article to talk about Felix Pappalardi (who produced the Youngbloods' first 2 albums) and his different bands, collaborations, incarnations etc., which have absolutely nothing to do with the Youngbloods.

Die 3 wichtigsten Alben der Youngbloods auf Doppel CD. Sehr guter Sound und informatives Booklet. Elephant Mountain ist ein Kultalbum das ich anfang der 90er auf einem Edselsilberling besaß und irgendwann verloren ging. Der Sound auf dieser BGO Reissue ist viel klarer und dynamischer. Das Debutalbum ist eine Folkpsychperle aber Earth Music mein Fave. Kannte ich davor nicht, bin froh es "entdeckt " zu haben. Kaufen!!

Between the comments and most of the reviews, my response is well-covered. So let me emphasize a few thoughts: 1) I always loved this band, and was sad to see Corbitt leave after "Earth Music." But that's the way these things go with strong personalities; I think JC leavened a little bit of JCY's sweetness for the better. IOW, I would have loved the original quartet to continue. (I think a negative by-product of the change is "Sir Francis Drake," a riff and a jam given legitimacy and, IMHO, something that might have shown up on the reissued "Elephant Mountain" along with the other outtakes, but not on the original LP.) 2) I have never understood reviews like, "if only they were Band B instead of Band A." Band B (in this case, the Dead) started out like a Spoonful-ish jug band but left that territory in a hurry; after the first official Dead album, they and the 'Bloods (Band A) are in different worlds altogether. As was said by others, the 'Bloods and the Spoonful are close in psyche and style (and somewhere someone compared them to Cat Mother, a brilliant observation).3) Can we all agree to accept that an analog recording digitized CANNOT and WILL NOT sound like the analog recording? Sampling a sound turns it into thousands of numbers, like a superparticular digital TV broadcast (in theory, at least). The human ear hears analogically, period; that why so many digitized versions of analog recordings lack acoustic warmth: they force our ears to make sense of thousands of numbers, which our ears can't really do. What we miss then is what I call "room tone" (I don't claim coinage rights to this term, but I've always used it), and it's missing from digital recordings and digitalizations (unless someone has figured out a way to "suppress" the "unnatural" aspects of digitalization). I think it's one thing to remind people that analog does not equal digitalization, but it's another to downgrade the record itself, as if the sins of the technological children fall on their technological ancestors (to bloat a metaphor into infinity).The rant endeth. The 'Bloods are WAY more than "Get Together." Sorry that Joe's gone. The great stuff came with RCA, for better or worse. "Grizzely Bear" forever....

The Youngbloods are part of that quickly shrinking circle of the lesser known 60s major signed acts that have yet to be given the incensing treatment by the classic rock press, yet their music is truly great and inspiring: a infectious mix of folk, jug, soul and rock very true to their Village dna. Very enjoyable music. Shame to the liner notes author who managed to cobble together the shittiest boringest rant about every single band connected with Pappalardi and forgetting all about some much needed information about the Youbgbloods other than what can be found on a casual wikipedia read.