13th Floor Elevators – His Eye Is On The Pyramid [Full Album]

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Charly Records / ATOM

32 of the greatest tracks from the legendary Texan psychedelic band’s album’s ’13th Floor Elevators’, ‘Easter Everywhere’ and ‘Bull Of The Woods’. Includes the hit single ‘You’re Gonna Miss Me’, plus the gentle folk rocker ‘Splash 1’. Double slimline jewelcase. 1999 release.

To put this into proper context, this double-disc Roky Erickson compilation is a double- disc, 32-cut collection that documents Erickson’s tenure with the 13th Floor Elevators. Those who are indeed collector’s of the influential psychedelic band’s material have everything already, the only convenience is that this is in a single package and leaves off some of the real dross, although there is some here. There is a great version of Bo Diddley’s “Before You Accuse Me,” taken from a 45, and a fairly clean-sounding of “Pictures (Leave Your Body Behind),” and the acoustic “Dust.” Of course it opens with “You’re Gonna Miss Me” (what did you think, it wasn’t gonna be here?) The problem with this set is that it’s on Charly, who do fine reissues except for sound. Their CDs are always muddy, for the most part, and this is no exception. Still, as hard as some of this music is to find readily, it may be worth the investment because the tunes themselves are, for the most part, amazing. ~ Thom Jurek

The 13th Floor Elevators: Roky Erickson.

01. You’re gonna miss me (00:00:00)
02. Street song (00:02:45)
03. Pictures (Leave your body behind) (00:07:44)
04. Slide machine (00:14:15)
05. Earthquake (00:18:01)
06. Rose and the thorn (00:22:52)
07. You can’t hurt (00:26:32)
08. Slip inside this house (00:30:26)
09. You don’t know (00:38:30)
10. Levitation (00:41:30)
11. Thru the rhythm (00:44:12)
12. Dust (00:47:24)
13. Kingdom of Heaven (00:51:27)
14. Roller coaster (00:54:40)
15. Fire engine (00:59:55)
16. Barnyard blues (01:03:18)
17. She Lives (In a Time of Her Own) (01:06:12)
18. Splash 1 (01:09:17)
19 Scarlet And Gold (01:13:14)
20 Don’t Fall Down (01:18:14)
21 Monkey Island (01:21:18)
22 Before You Accuse Me (01:23:59)
23 Reverberation (Doubt) (01:27:45)
24 I Had To Tell You (01:30:37)
25 Roller Coaster (01:33:05)
26 Nobody to Love (01:38:12)
27 Till Then (01:41:11)
28 Baby Blue (01:44:30)
29 Tried To Hide (01:49:47)
30 I’ve Got Levitation (01:52:50)
31 Never Another (01:55:44)
32 May the Circle Remain Unbroken (01:58:10)