The 13th Floor Elevators: The Psychedelic World Of The 13th Floor Elevators (3 CD Box) 2002

 
This Box set Contains the group's four original albums in their entireties, plus live recordings and bonus tracks.
                                                                      

Hailing from Austin, Texas, the members of 13th Floor Elevators were quite possibly the first artists to

describe their music as psychedelic. Their lyrics and sleeve notes openly and religiously endorsed the use of drugs (particularly LSD) to alter human consciousness for the better. The band rattled to the middle of the Hot 100 in 1966 with You’re Gonna Miss Me, anchored by Roky Erickson’s unforgettable yelping vocals, Stacy Sutherland’s guitar, and Tommy Hall’s electric jug runs. According to myth, Tommy’s jug was tuned by the amount of marijuana stored in it.
                                                                    

 

The group pioneered some of the first garage psychedelia on its albums The Psychedelic Sounds of the

13th Floor Elevators 1966, and the followup Easter Everywhere 1967. However, Texas at that time was an extremely conservative area that still hadn’t come to terms with 50’s rock ‘n’ roll. The authorities and the police set out to bust the entire band for pot (and—not surprisingly—succeeded).
                                                 

The International Artists record label in Houston, also home to contemporary Texas underground

groups such as Red Krayola and Bubble Puppy, signed the Elevators to a record contract and released the album The Psychedelic Sounds of the 13th Floor Elevators in November 1966, which became popular among the burgeoning counterculture. Tommy Hall's sleeve-notes for the album, which advocated chemical agents (such as LSD) as a gateway to a higher, 'non-Aristotelian' state of consciousness, has also contributed to the album's cult status.
                                                

During their California tour, the band shared bills with Quicksilver Messenger Service, the Great

Society (featuring Grace Slick), and Moby Grape. On returning to Texas in early 1967, they released a second single, "Levitation", and continued to play live in Austin, Houston and other Texas cities. In November 1967, the band released a second album, Easter Everywhere. The album featured a cover of Bob Dylan's "It's All Over Now, Baby Blue".
                                                          

However, shortly before work began on Easter Everywhere, Walton and Leatherman left the band and

were replaced by Danny Thomas on drums and Dan Galindo on bass, because of disputes over mismanagement of the band's career by International Artists and a fundamental disagreement between Walton and Hall over the latter's advocacy of the use of LSD in the pursuit of achieving a higher state of human consciousness.
                                                     

As a result, they were not credited in the Easter Everywhere sleevenotes, despite having appeared on "(I've Got) Levitation" and "She Lives (In a Time of Her Own)". Despite the lengthy studio work and

resources utilized, Easter Everywhere was not the success the band and International Artists had hoped for. Lacking a hit single and released too late in the year, it sold out its original run, but was never reprinted, suggesting somewhat disappointing sales. Record label paperwork indicate that the band's debut album sold upwards of 40,000 copies during its original run, while Easter Everywhere may have sold around 10,000 copies.
                                                 

Stacy Sutherland was jailed. To avoid a prison term, Roky pleaded insanity—a misguided ploy that

landed him in Rusk State Hospital for the criminally insane for 3 years. That turn of events spelled the end of the band, although there was a posthumous 1968 LP, Bull of the Woods.
                                                

Roky Erickson was released from hospital in 1973 and embarked upon a successful solo career that

resulted in a CBS album produced by Stu Cook from Creedence Clearwater Revival. During the 1980s he struggled with mental illness and withdrew from public life for many years. However, in the 2000s he has re-emerged with one of his late 70s/early 80s backing bands, The Explosives, playing regular gigs including the Austin City Limits festival in September 2005, as well as Coachella in California, the Hultsfred Festival in Sweden and Montreal World Film festival in Canada.
                                              

Erickson died in Austin on May 31, 2019. His death was made public through a Facebook post by his brother Mikel, who wrote, "My brother Roky passed away peaceably today. Please allow us time." To date, no cause of death has been announced.
                                                                    

The 13th Floor Elevators – The Psychedelic World Of The 13th Floor Elevators
Label: Charly Records – SNAJ 709 CD
Format: 3 x CD, Compilation, Remastered, Box Set
Country: UK
Released: 2002
Genre: Rock
Style: Folk Rock, Garage Rock, Psychedelic Rock, Rock & Roll

DISC ONE: THE PSYCHEDELIC SOUNDS OF THE 13th FLOOR ELEVATORS (1966)

                                                                                   

  
01. The 13th Floor Elevators – You're Gonna Miss Me  (Written-By – R. Erickson)  2:31
02. The 13th Floor Elevators – Roller Coaster  (Written-By – R. Erickson, T. Hall)  5:07

03. The 13th Floor Elevators – Splash 1  (Written-By – C. Hall, R. Erickson)  3:56
04. The 13th Floor Elevators – Reverberation (Doubt)  (Written-By – R. Erickson, S. Sutherland, T. Hall)  2:51
05. The 13th Floor Elevators – Don't Fall Down  (Written-By – R. Erickson, T. Hall)  3:00
06. The 13th Floor Elevators – Fire Engine  (Written-By – R. Erickson, S. Sutherland, T. Hall)  3:19
07. The 13th Floor Elevators – Thru The Rhythm  (Written-By – S. Sutherland, T. Hall)  3:11
08. The 13th Floor Elevators – You Don't Know  (Written-By – Powell St. John)  2:59
09. The 13th Floor Elevators – Kingdom Of Heaven  (Written-By – Powell St. John)  3:12
10. The 13th Floor Elevators – Monkey Island  (Written-By – Powell St. John)  2:41
11. The 13th Floor Elevators – Tried To Hide  (Written-By – S. Sutherland, T. Hall)  2:48

LIVE IN SAN FRANCISCO 1966

    
12. The 13th Floor Elevators – Everybody Needs Somebody To Love  (Written-By – Russell, Wexler, S. Burke)  5:15
13. The 13th Floor Elevators – Before You Accuse Me  (Written-By – E. McDaniel)  2:33
14. The 13th Floor Elevators – You Don't Know  (Written-By – Powell St. John)  2:35
15. The 13th Floor Elevators – I'm Gonna Love You Too  (Written-By – J. Mauldin, N. Sullivan, N. Petty)  1:53
16. The 13th Floor Elevators – You Really Got Me  (Written-By – R. Davies)  6:17
17. The 13th Floor Elevators – Splash 1  (Written-By – C. Hall, R. Erickson)  3:35
18. The 13th Floor Elevators – Fire Engine  (Written-By – R. Erickson, S. Sutherland, T. Hall)  3:00
19. The 13th Floor Elevators – Roll Over Beethoven  (Written-By – C. Berry)  2:46
20. The 13th Floor Elevators – The Word  (Written-By – J. Lennon, P. McCartney)  2:49
21. The 13th Floor Elevators – Monkey Island  (Written-By – Powell St. John)  2:42
22. The 13th Floor Elevators – Roller Coaster (Written-By – R. Erickson, T. Hall)  5:41

MP3 @ 320 Size: 180 MB
Flac  Size: 391 MB

DISC TWO: EASTER EVERYWHERE (1967)

                                                                    

  
01. The 13th Floor Elevators – Slip Inside This House  (Written-By – R. Erickson, T. Hall)  8:03
02. The 13th Floor Elevators – Slide Machine  (Written-By – Powell St. John)  3:43
03. The 13th Floor Elevators – She Lives (In A Time Of Her Own)  (Written-By – R. Erickson, T. Hall)  2:58

04. The 13th Floor Elevators – Nobody To Love  (Written-By – S. Sutherland)  3:00
05. The 13th Floor Elevators – Baby Blue  (Written-By – B. Dylan)  5:17
06. The 13th Floor Elevators – Earthquake  (Written-By – R. Erickson, T. Hall)  4:51
07. The 13th Floor Elevators – Dust  (Written-By – R. Erickson, T. Hall)  4:02
08. The 13th Floor Elevators – Levitation  (Written-By – S. Sutherland, T. Hall)  2:41
09. The 13th Floor Elevators - I Had To Tell You  (Written-By – S. Sutherland, T. Hall)  2:28
10. The 13th Floor Elevators – Postures (Leave Your Body Behind)  (Written-By – R. Erickson, T. Hall)  6:30

LIVE IN TEXAS 1967

    
11. The 13th Floor Elevators – Splash 1  (Written-By – C. Hall, R. Erickson)  4:21
12. The 13th Floor Elevators – Kingdom Of Heaven  (Written-By – Powell St. John)  3:33
13. The 13th Floor Elevators – Your're Gonna Miss Me  (Written-By – R. Erickson)  3:42
14. The 13th Floor Elevators – She Lives (In A Time Of Her Own)  (Written-By – Erickson, Hall)  3:03
15. The 13th Floor Elevators – Reverberation (Doubt)  (Written-By – Erickson, Sutherland, Hall)  3:23
                                                          

BONUS TRACKS

    
16. The Spades – Your're Gonna Miss Me
(Written-By – R. Erickson)  3:25
17. The Spades – We Sell Soul  (Written-By – R. Erickson)  3:21
18. The 13th Floor Elevators – Fire In My Bones  (Written-By – Erickson)  2:04
19. The 13th Floor Elevators – Levitation (Instrumental)  (Written-By – Sutherland, Hall)  3:11
20. The 13th Floor Elevators –  Slip Inside This House (Single Edited Version)  (Written-By – R. Erickson, T. Hall)  4:07

MP3 @ 320 Size: 186 MB
Flac  Size: 461 MB

DISC THREE: LIVE (1968)    

                                             

01. The 13th Floor Elevators – Before You Accuse Me  (Written-By – E. McDaniel)   3:46
02. The 13th Floor Elevators – She Lives In A Time Of Her Own  (Written-By – R. Erickson, T. Hall)  3:04

03. The 13th Floor Elevators – Tried To Hide  (Written-By – S. Sutherland, T. Hall)  2:56
04. The 13th Floor Elevators – You Gotta Take That Girl  (Written-By – Powell St. John)  3:05
05. The 13th Floor Elevators – I'm Gonna Love You Too  (Written-By – J. Mauldin, N. Sullivan, N. Petty)  2:06
06. The 13th Floor Elevators – Everybody Needs Somebody To Love  (Written-By – Russell, Wexler, Burke)  3:48
07. The 13th Floor Elevators – I've Got Levitation  (Written-By – S. Sutherland, T. Hall)  2:49
08. The 13th Floor Elevators – You Can't Hurt Me Anymore  (Written-By – R. Erickson, T. Hall)  3:52
09. The 13th Floor Elevators – Roller Coaster  (Written-By – R. Erickson, T. Hall)  5:04
10. The 13th Floor Elevators – You're Gonna Miss Me  (Written-By – R. Erickson)  2:25

BULL OF THE WOODS (1969)

    
11. The 13th Floor Elevators –  Livin' On  (Written-By – S. Sutherland, T. Hall)  3:23
12. The 13th Floor Elevators –  Barnyard Blues  (Written-By – S. Sutherland)  2:53
13. The 13th Floor Elevators –  Till Then  (Written-By – S. Sutherland)  3:17

14. The 13th Floor Elevators –  Never Another  (Written-By – R. Erickson, T. Hall)  2:27
15. The 13th Floor Elevators –  Rose And The Thorn  (Written-By – S. Sutherland)  3:37
16. The 13th Floor Elevators –  Down By The River  (Written-By – S. Sutherland)  1:51
17. The 13th Floor Elevators –  Scarlet And Gold  (Written-By – S. Sutherland)  5:01
18. The 13th Floor Elevators –  Street Song  (Written-By – S. Sutherland)  4:58
19. The 13th Floor Elevators –  Doctor Doom  (Written-By – S. Sutherland, T. Hall)  3:13
20. The 13th Floor Elevators –  With You  (Written-By – Leatherman)  2:13
21. The 13th Floor Elevators –  May The Circle Remain Unbroken  (Written-By – R. Erickson)  2:44

BONUS TRACKS

                                                           

  
22. The 13th Floor Elevators  –  Wait For My Love  (Written-By – S. Sutherland, T. Hall)  3:27
23. Roky Erickson & Clementine Hall – Splash 1  (Written-By – C. Hall, R. Erickson)  3:05
24. Roky Erickson & Clementine Hall – Right Track Now  (Written-By – C. Hall, R. Erickson)  3:01
25. The 13th Floor Elevators  –  60 Second Radio Spot For "Bull Of The Woods" Album    1:00

MP3 @ 320 Size: 188 MB
Flac  Size: 445 MB