As music pulled away from folk influences heading in the uncharted territory of psychedelic music, The Byrds dove headlong into the fray, but still tried to maintain at least a tenuous connection with the past. 

The album’s title is a direct reference to a Dylan lyric (“I was so much older then…”), but the album’s contents move in a direction that is significantly apart from the band’s roots. Almost everything here is fueled by a pharmaceutically aware mindset. While Jefferson Airplane rearranged the music scene around San Francisco, the Byrds attempted to do the same thing for the Hollywood crowd, with similar results. 

“Younger Than Yesterday” is also a stepping-out party of sorts for bassist Chris Hillman, who gets writing credit on five of the songs here. Steve Miller may have coopted the phrase “Space Cowboy,” but it never applied better to any record than it does here. 

Featured tracks include; 

1) So You Want to Be a Rock and Roll Star

2) Have You Seen Her Face

3) C.T.A. 102

4) Renaissance Fair

5) Time Between

6) Everybody’s Been Burned

7) Thoughts and Words

8) Mind Gardens

9) My Back Pages

10) The Girl with No Name

11) Why

February 1967 - Billboard Charted #24