Easter Everywhere

13th Floor Elevators | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (April 25, 2006)
• Original Release Date: 2005
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Snapper UK
• ASIN: B00008GQGV
• In-Print Editions: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #181,707 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Slip Inside This House

2. Slide Machine

3. She Lives (In A Time Of Her Own)

4. Nobody To Love

5. Baby Blue

6. Earthquake

7. Dust

8. Levitation

9. I Had To Tell You

10. Postures (Leave Your Boby Behind)

11. Spash 1 (Bonus)

12. Kingdom Of Heaven (Bonus)

13. You're Gonna Miss Me (Bonus)

14. Reverberation (Doubt) (Bonus)

15. You Don't Know (Bonus)

16. Fire Engine (Bonus)

17. Monkey Island (Bonus)

18. Roller Coaster (Bonus)

19. Levitation (Instrumantal) (Bonus)

20. I Don't Ever Want To Come Down (Bonus)

Editorial Reviews

2003 reissue of the acid rock originator's 1967 album, includes ten bonus tracks including previously unreleased live versions of eight songs from the band's debut album, recorded in Texas & San Francisco, 'Splash 1', 'Kingdom Of Heaven', 'You're Gonna Miss Me', 'Reverberation (Doubt)', You Don't Know', 'Fire Engine', 'Monkey Island' & 'Roller Coaster', plus the previously unreleased 'Levitation' (instrumental) & 'I Don't Ever Want To Come Down'. 20 tracks in all. Includes 12-page illustrated booklet.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

22 of 24 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This is the version to buy, June 20, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: Easter Everywhere (Audio CD)

Already having a copy of the original album on cassette, I had my reservations about buying this CD. At any rate, I did--hoping the bonus cuts would be worth it. Well, folks, they are. Tracks 11-14 are live recordings from Texas, 1967, and the recordings are crisp and authentically LIVE (as opposed to the 1968 live album). The other live recordings of songs from the 1st album are from a San Francisco gig in 1966. Although these 1966 recordings aren't as well recorded as the previous tracks, the historical significance of the Elevators doing psychedelia in the Love Capitol at a time when the Airplane were still a Mamas and Papas throwback makes up for any minor lack of fidelity in the recording process. The instrumental "Levitation" is a studio workout. Last but not least, though, the final track, "I Don't Ever Want To Come Down," is a previously unreleased track from the "Bull" sessions that I'm glad I didn't miss out on.

14 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars LSD not included...or needed., August 16, 2008

By 

old white guy 57 (USofA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Easter Everywhere (Audio CD)

Your wife will hate it. She will like the album well enough, but you will play it so much that she will be a most sympathetic figure at the divorce proceedings. If you are a fan of late 60's psychedelia, and really, who is not...and you have never heard this...order it now, and hire a good lawyer.

8 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Kenny Rogers might've been better'n Lelan (no, Lelan was fine), March 1, 2009

By 

Stephen M. Amy (Portland, OR United States) - See all my reviews
(REAL NAME)   

This review is from: Easter Everywhere (Audio CD)

It is a GREAT album, but could've been better: the culprit was the IA (Int'l Artists) label. This label was run by some parsimonious swine! As great as "Easter Everywhere" is, first-hand accounts say that it sounded a whole lot better than does the final mix (which sounds muddy in comparison, they say). This could be a reason why most of the songs have similar "color" (similar sound of the dominant electric jug, with the rhythm section relegated to being almost obliterated. Good thing Sutherland's guitar isn't too far back). IA was just too cheap to spend money on a person who knew how to mix an album.

When the Elevators were recording this, they were ensconced in a fleabag motel that had a large fungus growing under one of their beds! (And it was not edible or psylocibin). Fleabag rates in those days were probably about $3 or $4 dollars per night. These were the state of the accommodations of one of the most important bands in US history during the recording of their magnum opus.

Lelan Rogers was a cool dude. The Elevators & Red Crayloa members all liked him. I believe he wrote liner notes on "Parable of Arable Land". Too bad he ended up as advance man for some robotic bean-counters.

So, despite all this, it's still an essential recording.

(Read a book called "Eye Mind"- a fantastic in-depth bio of the Elevators).