Earth Music [Import]

Youngbloods | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (June 16, 1994)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Edsel Records UK
• ASIN: B0000011T9
• In-Print Editions: Vinyl
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #495,949 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Euphoria

2. All My Dreams Blue

3. Monkey Business

4. Dreamer's Dream

5. Sugar Babe

6. Long and Tall

7. I Can Tell

8. Don't Play Games

9. The Wine Song

10. Fool Me

11. Reason to Believe

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars a great diverse second album of psycedelic blues folk rock, March 1, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Earth Music (Audio CD)

Earth Music ,the sophmore effort from the pre San Francisco based Youngbloods,continues in more or less the same Greenwich Village folk rock style as their impressive debut. Only here the band begins to step out and really explore blues, country, jug band and psycedelia in a more realized way that brings their playing and singing to the fore. Highlights include the opening , Euphoria, a psycedelic jugband favorite, the Jesse Collin Young folk rocker, All my Dreams Blue, and the country tinged Sugar Babe and The Wine Song. Banana Levinger and Jerry Corbit contribute the tuneful Dreamers Dream and the acid soaked, Fool Me. Jesse even manages some great blues wailing in Long and Tall and the more laid back blues rocker, I Can Tell. An impressive album from the still east coast based and Jerry Corbit included Youngbloods.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The 3 P's: plaintive, pretty, and party [take your pick], May 10, 2002

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Phil Rogers (Ann Arbor, Michigan) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Earth Music (Audio CD)

I first heard this at a party in a house across the street from East Quadrangle (University of Michigan) during the Winter Term of 1969. I didn't know anyone except my frat brother Frank; but the party was hosted by a very gracious young red-headed woman named Marilyn who owned a pet rat which rode on her shoulder. The rat's name was Bazel (Basil?). A lot of the people at the party were from an honors class which Frank was enrolled in titled 'Fantasy Literature'. Note: Frank isn't the same person whom Bob Dylan speaks of in the liner notes of 'John Wesley Harding'.

Anyway, I was totally captivated by the plaintive song "Dreamer's Dream", and really, all the songs were kind of blowing me away, so I bought the album the next day, and never regretted it.

This was pretty much my first introduction to 'country rock' outside the sphere of the Byrds. It's a downright moving, inspiring album. About half of the other tunes are in a similar style as "Dreamer's Dream", namely "All My Dreams Blue" (another absolutely gorgeous tune), "Fool Me", "Don't Play Games", and the slower numbers: "I Can Tell" and a beautifully harmonized version of Tim Hardin's "Reason to Believe". These are all kind of folk-rocky, though [of course] with more of a country edge. The guitars don't ring and twang like [the Byrds'] Roger McGuinn's 12-string Rickenbacker, and much of their sound is characterized by the band's signature [somewhat boomy-sounding but very well-played] Wurlitzer electric piano licks. (The same instrument is used by Joni Mitchell on her version of the song "Woodstock" from her 'Ladies of the Canyon' album.)

The other tunes are more in an up-tempo 'party' mode. Note that most late 60's and early 70's 'party rock' bores me enough to make me want to rhetorically vomit. Not so here: "Euphoria" and the "The Wine Song" are both very catchy and hilarious. "Euphoria", which starts the album, is a total attention-getter: it's well nigh impossible to NOT listen to it. I mean, my ears pricked up right away, and remained engaged thereafter. "Monkey Business" is one of those 'complaint songs', and a very good one. "Sugar Babe" is definitely a feel-good song, The rhythm section lays down an infectious groove, and the singer is totally zapped into it. The riffs and solo bits (including pedal steel) conspire effectively to make this, all and all, a complete anti-depressant of a song. "Long and Tall" continues in a similar vein, but it's more the singer bragging about his honey, using lyrics as good as some we hear from Taj Mahal on his landmark album 'The Natch'l Blues' from the same time period. Very funny, evocative stuff!

Buy it--you'll like it !!!

4.0 out of 5 stars excellent, May 22, 2011

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Bill Your 'Free Form FM Handi Cyber Print DJ ... (Mahwah, NJ USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Earth Music [Vinyl] (Vinyl)

It surprised me just how good Earth Music is, but maybe it should not have. I have always loved Jessie Colin Young's ability to give his folk extremely diverse dynamics. Suddenly there is an unexpected echo or walking jazz bass line when you least expect.

Finding this album on vinyl-the RCA 1967 black label in mono-I expected a jangley folk rock album with the same problem a lot of great bands had starting in this era--nice ideas held back by thin, tinny sound.

Was I ever wrong---even at this early stage The Youngbloods had their audio act together. There are some guitar solos that do have phasing that could only be from 1967, but there are also electric pianos, extremely fat slide guitar leads, jazz asides, and big boom on the blues tracks. Young here is almost full bloom in his experimentation.

Never judge an album by the cover, especially by the Youngbloods.