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Younger Than Yesterday is the fourth studio album by the American rock band the Byrds and was released on February 6, 1967, on Columbia Records. It saw the band continuing to integrate elements of psychedelia and jazz into their music, a process they had begun on their previous album, Fifth Dimension. In addition, the album captured the band and record producer Gary Usher experimenting with new musical textures, including brass instruments, reverse tape effects and an electronic oscillator. The album also marked the emergence of the band's bass player Chris Hillman as a talented songwriter and vocalist. Prior to Younger Than Yesterday, Hillman had only received one shared writing credit with the Byrds, but this album saw him credited as the sole composer of four songs and a co writer of "So You Want to Be a Rock 'n' Roll Star". It was preceded by the "So You Want to Be a Rock 'n' Roll Star" single in January 1967, which reached the Top 30 of the Billboard Hot 100. Two additional singles taken from the album, "My Back Pages" and "Have You Seen Her Face", were also moderately successful on the Billboard singles chart. The title of Younger Than Yesterday is derived from the lyrics of "My Back Pages", a song written by Bob Dylan, which was covered on the album.

The Byrds had initially come to international prominence in mid 1965, when their folk rock interpretation of Bob Dylan's "Mr. Tambourine Man" reached number 1 on both the U. S. Billboard Hot 100 chart and the UK Singles Chart. Further commercial successes followed, with the band releasing two hit albums and reaching number 1 for a second time in the U. S., with a cover version of Pete Seeger's "Turn! Turn! Turn! (to Everything There is a Season)". In early 1966, the Byrds' principal songwriter, Gene Clark, departed the band, leaving Jim McGuinn, David Crosby, Chris Hillman, and Michael Clarke to complete the band's third album, Fifth Dimension, without him. As a result, the Byrds' popularity began to wane and by late 1966, they had been all but forgotten by mainstream pop audiences. Shortly after the release of Fifth Dimension, the Byrds found themselves without a record producer, when Allen Stanton, who had worked with them on that album, left Columbia Records to work for A&M. The band chose to replace Stanton with Gary Usher, a former songwriting partner of Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys, who had recently co produced Clark's debut solo album, Gene Clark with the Gosdin Brothers. In addition to producing the recording sessions for Younger Than Yesterday, Usher would produce the band's next two albums. The Byrds' biographer Johnny Rogan states that Usher's wealth of production experience and love of innovative studio experimentation would prove invaluable as the group entered their most creatively adventurous phase. the Byrds completed the entire Younger Than Yesterday album at Columbia Studios, Hollywood, during a work intensive, eleven day period, starting on November 28 and finishing on December 8, 1966. Although Clark had left the Byrds prior to completion of the Fifth Dimension album, he did participate in the recording of the songs "Eight Miles High" and "Captain Soul" from that record. As a result, Younger Than Yesterday was the first album to be entirely recorded by the Byrds without Clark's participation. As on Fifth Dimension, guitarists McGuinn and Crosby continued to hone their songwriting skills in an attempt to fill the void left by Clark's departure. However, the most surprising development within the Byrds at this time was the emergence of bass player Chris Hillman as both a lead vocalist and the band's third songwriter. Chris Hillman contributed two country rock flavored songs with "Time Between" and "The Girl with No Name", the latter of which was inspired by a young lady with the unusual moniker of Girl Freiberg.#tag:ref|Girl Freiberg was married to David Freiberg of the San Francisco band Quicksilver Messenger Service at the time that "The Girl with No Name" was written. Her maiden name was Julia Dreyer. Byrds expert Tim Connors has suggested that the pop country sound of "Time Between" and "The Girl with No Name"—like "Mr. Spaceman" from the band's previous album—anticipated the experimentation with country music that would color the Byrds' subsequent albums. South African jazz musician Hugh Masekela contributed the trumpet solo featured in the song, which represented the first use of brass on a Byrds' recording. McGuinn and Crosby's songs, written both separately and together, represented an expansion of the jazz influences and psychedelia that had been featured heavily on the band's previous album. The song "C. T. A. 102", named after the CTA 102 quasar and written by McGuinn and his science fiction minded friend Bob Hippard, was a whimsical, but ultimately serious song that speculated on the existence of intelligent extraterrestrial life. Although the band's earlier song "Mr. Spaceman" had been thematically similar, "C. T. A. 102" was a slightly more serious attempt at tackling the subject matter, highlighted by the extensive use of studio sound effects, simulated alien voices, and the sound of an electronic oscillator. In addition, Eder also described "Renaissance Fair" as "a perfect synthesis of the group's original electric folk sound evolved into a new, more contemporary form of music and songwriting, almost hippie folk music". An acoustic recording of the song by Crosby, dating from this pre Byrds period, was eventually released on the archival album Preflyte Plus in 2012. Author Johnny Rogan has stated that the Byrds' recording of the song features one of Crosby's best vocal performances and one of McGuinn's most moving guitar solos, Cash Box called it "a slow moving, blues drenched soft rocker." Crosby's ambitions for artistic control within the band were expanding along with his compositional skill, and the resulting turmoil would ultimately lead to his dismissal from the group during recording sessions for the Byrds' next album, The Notorious Byrd Brothers. In conversation with Byrds biographer Johnny Rogan in 1980, Crosby defended the song by stating, "it was unusual and not everybody could understand it because they'd never heard anything like it before. At that time everything was supposed to have rhyme and have rhythm. And it neither rhymed nor had rhythm, so it was outside of their experience. It was just a little story and what it said was true if you build walls around your mind to keep out the abuse and harshness of life and the pain, then you also shut out the joy and the love." However, Rogan has described the song's Indian classical music influences as being considerably watered down on the re recording, when compared to the earlier B side version.

Younger Than Yesterday was released on February 6, 1967, in the United States (catalogue item CL 2642 in mono, CS 9442 in stereo) and April 7, 1967, in the UK (catalogue item BPG 62988 in mono, SBPG 62988 in stereo). The album was preceded by the "So You Want to Be a Rock 'n' Roll Star" single, which was released on January 9, 1967, and reached number 29 on the Billboard Hot 100, but failed to chart in the UK. Melody Maker was also enthusiastic about the album, commenting, "if you ignore this album you are not only foolish – but deaf!"

Although Younger Than Yesterday was somewhat overlooked by the record buying public at the time of its release, achieving only moderate chart success as a result, its critical stature has grown substantially over the years. The author goes on to say that the album and its follow up are "now revered as two of the great 1960s albums by historians and fans", while also acknowledging that "at the time, though, the Byrds were considered by many to be waning." Critic John Nork gave the album a glowing review on the Analogue Planet website, calling it "a scrumptious smorgasbord of eclectic musical styles and groundbreaking innovation", before concluding that "in every sense, Younger Than Yesterday is an utterly brilliant album, arguably the Byrds' best." Alan Bisbort, writing in the book Rhino's Psychedelic Trip, described Younger Than Yesterday as "an essential snapshot of an incense scented, acid drenched world in motion: a kaleidoscope whose every turn yielded some fantastic window on the age". In 2003, the album was ranked at number 124 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. When the list was revised in 2012, to accommodate a number of albums released since 2003, Younger Than Yesterday was repositioned at number 127. It was voted number 197 in Colin Larkin's All Time Top 1000 Albums 3rd Edition (2000).

Younger Than Yesterday was issued on Compact Disc for the first time by Edsel Records in 1987. It was later reissued by Columbia in the U. S. in 1989 and in the UK in 1993. It was then remastered at 20 bit resolution and reissued (with three of its tracks remixed) in an expanded form on April 30, 1996, as part of the Columbia/Legacy Byrds series. The Columbia/Legacy reissue featured six bonus tracks, including "Lady Friend" and "Old John Robertson", which had both been issued on a non album single in July 1967. The remastered CD also included the David Crosby penned track "It Happens Each Day", which had been omitted from the original album, and "Don't Make Waves", a song that had been written and recorded by the Byrds for the 1967 Alexander Mackendrick film Don't Make Waves. In 2011, the audiophile record label Audio Fidelity released the original mono mix of Younger Than Yesterday on CD for the first time, remastered by audio engineer Steve Hoffman. The mono version of the album was reissued again, along with its stereo counterpart and three bonus tracks, on a single Blu spec CD in Japan in 2012.

DateLabelFormatCountryCatalogNotesFebruary 6, 1967ColumbiaLPUSCL 2642Original mono release. CS 9442Original stereo release. April 7, 1967CBSLPUKBPG 62988Original mono release. SBPG 62988Original stereo release.1987EdselLPUKED 2271987EdselCDUKEDCD 227Original CD release.1989ColumbiaCDUSCK 94421993ColumbiaCDUKCOL 468181April 30, 1996Columbia/LegacyCDUSCK 64848Reissue containing six bonus tracks and a partially remixed version of the stereo album. May 6, 1996UKCOL 48370821999Simply VinylLPUKSVLP 0007Reissue of the partially remixed stereo album.1999SundazedLPUSLP 5060Reissue of the partially remixed stereo album with three bonus tracks.2003SonyCDJapanMHCP 69Reissue containing the partially remixed stereo album and six bonus tracks in a replica LP sleeve.2006SundazedLPUSLP 5200Reissue of the original mono release. March 22, 2011Audio FidelityCDUSAFZ110Reissue of the original mono release. May 30, 2012Sony Music EntertainmentCDJapanSICP 20375Reissue of the original mono release and the partially remixed stereo album, with three bonus tracks in a replica LP sleeve.