Talk:Younger Than Yesterday

Overshadowing
I'm more than a little curious about why that second paragraph about the release being "overshadowed" by the Beatles/Stones/Beach Boys "current releases" was reinserted.

Release date of Younger Than Yesterday -- February 6, 1967

Previous Beatles release, per discography -- Revolver, August 8, 1966 Subsequent Beatles release, per discography -- Sgt Pepper, June 2, 1967

Previous Beach Boys releases, per discography -- Pet Sounds, May 16, 1966, and Best Of, July 11, 1966 Subsequent Beach Boys releases, per discography -- Best of 2, July 24, 1967, and Smiley Smile, September 11, 1967

There were two contemporaneous Rolling Stones LPs, but that alone doesn't justified the comment. Without meaning to be excessively contentious, it strikes me as being speculation without any factual foundation. Monicasdude 07:01, 23 July 2005 (UTC)


 * No contention. I think you are right. I have removed it. &mdash;Theo  (Talk) 10:18, 23 July 2005 (UTC)

Who said I was talking about albums necessarily? "Good Vibrations" had just left the Top 10 and everyone was talking about Smile at the time (which would end up not coming out). The Stones had just released Bewteen The Buttons which (in the US) housed the #1 hit "Ruby Tuesday" that January. And The Beatles made their comeback with their new look that February with "Strawberry Fields Forever"/"Penny Lane" and the eye-catching promo films for both, with Pepper about to follow. In addition, that is also claimed in the liner notes for Younger Than Yesterday. Which I will now cite. That's sufficient proof. PetSounds 13:03, 23 July 2005 (UTC)

That isn't much proof. First of all, David Fricke has a reputation among other rock critics as being a hack. There's no nice way to say it and many critics have been less kind about it (Tim Riley, Jim Derogatis, Jimmy Guterman, Clinton Heylin, Bill no-relation-to-the-bassist Wyman, etc.) He writes watered down histories for reissue liner notes by the dozen and often makes mistakes, vague statements, and awkward assumptions. Second, so people didn't buy or notice "Younger Than Yesterday" because they were listening to a few other records? Or because of some records that hadn't come out yet? That's like saying "Cinderella Man" tanked at the box office because everyone was still flocking to see "Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith," and then didn't see anything else because of "Spiderman 3." The Byrds were in commercial decline, simple as that. Critics at the time DID notice. The concept of rock critics was still in its infancy, but the ones who were around and working like Greil Marcus and Paul Williams did praise this album. Neglected? Yes. Overshadowed? The word's not a good fit.

Reissue liner notes
The recent change of the text from:
 * A misreporting of the release date as July 1967 may explain Rolling Stone writer David Fricke's mistaken explanation of the the relatively poor sales in the booklet that accompanied the 1996 CD box set. He suggests that the album's release "was obscured by the windfall of epochal rock albums that spring and summer". In practice, however, the competing albums that he cites were released too late to materially affect sales of Younger than Yesterday''.

to
 * ''In its CD liner notes, Rolling Stone writer David Fricke suggests that the album's release "was obscured by the windfall of epochal rock albums that spring and summer", citing current and about-to-be-released albums by The Beatles, Jefferson Airplane and The Doors.

appears to lose the point that Fricke may have misremembered/been misinformed about the release date (not, that he cited the error in the notes). As I understand it, Fricke's argument is that the other big releases overshadowed the Byrds' new album and diminished its anticipated sales. In practice, however, the overshadowing releases came after Younger Than Yesterday in a market that is noted for its immediacy. If we keep Fricke's claim (and I think that we should), it seems appropriate to state that it may be in error. &mdash;Theo (Talk) 08:10, 7 August 2005 (UTC)

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Re-recording of "Why" for the Younger Than Yesterday album
I have removed the mention of Gene Clark having played on the version of "Why" featured on this album, since there is strong evidence to sugest that the version on Younger Than Yesterday was recorded long after Clark had left the band. I know that it has been claimed, by David Fricke and also possibly by Christopher Hjort, that the version of "Why" on Younger Than Yesterday was recorded during sessions for the Fifth Dimension album but I believe this to be erroneous for at least three reasons.

Firstly, both the sessionography found in Johnny Rogan's book Timeless Flight Revisited and the recording session chronology in the liner notes for the Never Before CD confirm that "Why" was re-recorded between 5 - 8 December, 1966, which would place it firmly among the Younger Than Yesterday recording sessions. The second, and to my mind, most compelling piece of evidence though, is the fact that the Younger Than Yesterday album lists Gary Usher as its sole producer. If the version of "Why" included on the album had indeed been recorded during the Fifth Dimension album sessions, then it would list Allen Stanton as the producer of this track - since it was he and not Usher who produced those recording sessions.

The third piece of evidence is a little bit more circumstantial than the first two, but is worth considering nonetheless - "Why" on Younger Than Yesterday sounds noticeably different in its musical approach to the versions of the song recorded during the Fifth Dimension sessions. McGuinn's whining, raga-style guitar, which was ubiquitous during the Fifth Dimension era, is not present on the version of "Why" found on Younger Than Yesterday, in keeping with the rest of that album. The Younger Than Yesterday versions also doesn't display any of Allen Stanton's production traits, such as wide stereo separation of vocals and instruments, it sounds much more like a Gary Usher production job to me.

Taking all three of these pieces of evidence into consideration, I personally think that it builds a pretty strong case for "Why" having been re-recorded during the Younger Than Yesterday sessions. If anyone can provide any other evidence to the contrary then I would be most interested to hear it. Kohoutek1138 10:44, 25 September 2009 (UTC)


 * Hi, User: 141.157.40.46. This ongoing disagreement regarding when the version of "Why" on Younger Than Yesterday was recorded and whether Gene Clark was involved or not is verging on Edit Warring and so it is my hope that we can discuss this here and hopefully reach a consensus. I also want to say "well done" on your contributions to the Byrds related articles and to Sweetheart of the Rodeo in particular, they are worthwhile and welcome. I realise that you are a newbie and, as such, you sometimes format things incorrectly but that's fine, everyone's gotta start somewhere and I'm more than happy to tidy up after you. Kohoutek1138 15:59, 25 September 2009 (UTC)


 * Hi I just saw this page for the first time and appreciate the kind words regarding "Sweetheart." I more or less reverted the article as to "Why" after changing it (again) and before seeing this page.  I think the exact recording date is not something the article really calls for and its inclusion arose, from me, out of an effort to clarify publicly what should have been sorted out on this page.  Since sources differ, and the possibility of including misinformation being worse than the benefits of including the exact recording date, doesn't it make the most sense to leave the date out and just put what's there now (different take, re-recording) since that much is clear?  Also I hope it was okay to combine the paragraphs since it all concerns the contentious songs.  Yes I'm new, was unfamiliar with the discussion page, apologize for what may have seemed like my own contentiousness, want to cooperate, am seeking confirmation of those last few Sweetheart credits, etc.  Thanks!


 * Quick followup: If you feel the article should include the recording date/timeframe and want to put it back I won't seek to change it. I think the points above do make a good case that Hjort's 2/66 date is likely wrong.


 * Hi, User: 141.157.40.46. Glad you finally found the talk page! :-D I've been trying to communicate with you for a while now...even saying things in my edit summaries like "please come and say hello to me on the talk page"...and I must confess that I have been finding it somewhat frustrating that you hadn't responded. I realised though that it was probably down to your not knowing about the existance of the talk page.


 * Anyway, hopefully this will be the start of good communications between us two Byrdmaniax. :-) I’m more than happy to work with fellow editors here on Wikipedia and reach a consensus on contentious issues. Just for the record, and incase you don't know, this talk page is just for discussions relating to the Younger Than Yesterday article. If you want to contact me regarding The Byrds articles in general or changes you're perhaps thinking of making on Wikipedia, then feel free to post a message on my own personal talk page, which you can find here.  Additionally, you can view my user page here if you want to know a little bit more about me.


 * Regarding the issue of when "Why" on YTY was recorded, I have to say that I think my points above, particularly those regarding Gary Usher being listed as the sole producer of YTY make for a pretty convincing case. You also have to understand where the info about "Why" on YTY being a Fifth Dimension outtake came from; and that would be David Fricke. Fricke was the first person to say in print that "Why" on YTY was a leftover from Fifth Dimension, in his liner notes for the YTY remaster. Since then it’s been repeated many times but personally, I believe it to be erroneous.


 * David Fricks is only a music journalist, not a Byrds historian (if that makes sense), and his liner notes for The Byrds remasters do contain a lot of inaccuracies. For example, just yesterday I was reading his comments in the Ballad of Easy Rider booklet and he states that "Tulsa County Blue" had already been a hit for June Carter. This is completely wrong...the song was not recorded by June but actually by her sister Anita Carter and she didn't have a hit with it until 1971, two years after The Byrds had recorded the song. This is unfortunately all too typical of Fricke's writing...just look further up this very page and you'll see another Wikipedia editor berating Fricke for his inaccuracies. Not everything Fricke says is false, of course, a lot of it is spot on but he does make silly errors and you have to be aware of that.


 * Johnny Rogan, on the other hand, was actually given access to the Columbia tape vaults and The Byrds' recording sessions documentation which he used to compile his Sessionography in Timeless Flight Revisited. Rogan is also pretty thorough in his research and seldom makes mistakes...he does make them, sure, but not as often as Fricke does. So personally, I'm more inclined to believe Rogan. I think that given the fact that he's actually seen the sessions sheets for The Byrds' Columbia recording dates, plus the fact that Allen Stanton is not credited as producer for track 11 of YTY, we should go with Rogan's dating of the song.


 * As for Hjort's repetition of "Why" having been recorded during the FD sessions, it's possible that he's just taking the information that Fricke provided and running with it. It would be interesting to know whether Hjort lists a source for this statement in his book or if he cites David Fricke's liner notes in the book’s bibliography. I'd really like to know how Hjort came to this conclusion.


 * In closing, I'm not saying that Rogan is definitely right, I'm just saying that given his track record for accuracy, the lack of a production credit for Allen Stanton on YTY and the more circumstantial fact that instrumentally, the song doesn't sound like a recording from the Fifth Dimension era, we should probably go with a December, 1966 recording date. As such, I've reinserted the December 5 - 8, 1966 date because I feel its pretty reliable. Please feel free to argue against this if you have a problem with it though. Kohoutek1138 11:37, 28 September 2009 (UTC)


 * I think Rogan is right, and that Hjort probably did just use Fricke's (likely) misinformation for his book. I think the article is correct now.  All I did in my latest revision was take out the redundancy (it said re-recording twice).  Now I think it reads correctly.  Finally.  And yes a new era of communication!  Sorry I missed those notes.  I skipped over them not knowing there was a talk forum.  So I'll set up an account sometime and contact you privately regarding matters more general than YTY.


 * Yeah, you should create a user account. For one thing it'll stop your IP address being on display to the whole world, which it is now. It'll also mean that other Wikipedia editors will be able to contact you more easily. Another reason is that I'm probably gonna nominate the Sweetheart of the Rodeo article for a Wikpedia "Good Arcticle" award at some point. If it's awarded the "Good Article" seal of approval, it'll mean that you’ll be entitled to display the award on your user page, since you’ve made significant contributions to the page. There's still more work to be done first though...I need to expand the opening section a little bit more and, in order to get a "GA" award, a page must be stable. ie. it's not subject to multiple edits on a daily basis, so when you're satisfied that the Personnel section is as good as you can make it, perhaps you'll let me know?


 * I'm currently going through all of The Byrds articles and have been for the last few months, fixing them up, expanding them, inserting inline references etc, etc. They were in a right sorry state before I started, I can tell you. So far I've done all of the band’s albums up to and including Ballad of Easy Rider (although I've more work to do on Turn! Turn! Turn!) and will be tackling the albums (Untitled) through to The Byrds over the next few weeks. I think that my experience as a published writer and considerable knowledge of The Byrds makes me an ideal candidate for improving these articles. But your contributions to the Personnel sections are certainly welcome.Kohoutek1138 13:07, 28 September 2009 (UTC)

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