"The Island" creates a tropical lysergic sound.
THE BYRDS DISCOGRAPHY RAR FULL
"I Just Want To Be Your Friend," "5 A.M.," and "It's You" all stand out as should-have-been singles, but the full impact of The Millenium can be found in the tracks "The Island" and "Karmic Dream Sequence #1." Both of these songs have stellar hooks, but are far too weird even for singles. The tripped out folk sound is similar to The Byrds The Notorious Byrd Brothers (produced by Usher), but to my ears surpass even that enviable achievement.
The opening medley of "Prelude" and "To Claudia On Thursday" (the latter of which makes me think of 90's psych poppers The Olivia Tremor Control) reveal production that was state-of-the-art for its time, including compressed drums and full use of stereo range. The band also uses many other sounds, such as raga singing, steel drums, and sound effects, to create amazing atmospherics. Like Wilson's productions, Boettcher, along with co-producer Keith Olsen, created difficult to pick out instrumental combination, and use potential dissonance to create a wall of sound. In fact, many moments of Begin stand up well to Pet Sounds and surpass the sunshine pop of later Beach Boys albums. The basic sound of the disc harkens back to Beach Boy Brian Wilson's 1966-1968 productions. Ron Edgar and Doug Rhodes joined in from the Music Machine ("Talk Talk"), and Sandy Salisbury was a holdover from the Ballroom project.īegin is truly a lost classic that has not yet recieved it's due. In fact, the members make up a sort of an obscuro 60's supergroup. Although the Begin album is Boettcher's baby, it is also very much the work of a functioning band. The Millennium was a short lived project headed by sunshine pop producer extrodinaire, Curt Boettcher.
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