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You're Gonna Miss Me – The 13th Floor Elevators 02:30
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Roller Coaster – The 13th Floor Elevators 05:07
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Splash 1 – The 13th Floor Elevators 03:56
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Reverberation – The 13th Floor Elevators 02:51
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Don't Fall Down – The 13th Floor Elevators 03:03
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Fire Engine – The 13th Floor Elevators 03:23
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Thru the Rhythm – The 13th Floor Elevators 03:10
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You Don't Know (How Young You Are) – The 13th Floor Elevators 02:59
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Kingdom of Heaven – The 13th Floor Elevators 03:11
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Monkey Island – The 13th Floor Elevators 02:40
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Tried to Hide – The 13th Floor Elevators 02:48

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Slip Inside This House – The 13th Floor Elevators 08:03
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Slide Machine – The 13th Floor Elevators 03:43
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She Lives (In a Time of Her Own) – The 13th Floor Elevators 02:57
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Nobody to Love – The 13th Floor Elevators 02:59
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Baby Blue – The 13th Floor Elevators 05:17
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Earthquake – The 13th Floor Elevators 04:50
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Dust – The 13th Floor Elevators 04:02
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I've Got Levitation – The 13th Floor Elevators 02:40
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I Had to Tell You – The 13th Floor Elevators 02:28
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Pictures (Leave Your Body Behind) – The 13th Floor Elevators 06:29

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Before You Accuse Me [Live] – The 13th Floor Elevators 03:58
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She Lives (In a Time of Her Own) [Live] – The 13th Floor Elevators 03:10
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Tried to Hide [Live] – The 13th Floor Elevators 03:06
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You Gotta Take That Girl [Live] – The 13th Floor Elevators 03:17
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I'm Gonna Love You Too [Live] – The 13th Floor Elevators 02:10
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Everybody Needs Somebody to Love [Live] – The 13th Floor Elevators 04:09
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I've Got Levitation [Live] – The 13th Floor Elevators 03:00
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You Can't Hurt Me Anymore [Live] – The 13th Floor Elevators 04:04
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Roller Coaster [Live] – The 13th Floor Elevators 05:23
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You're Gonna Miss Me [Live] – The 13th Floor Elevators 02:33

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Livin' On – The 13th Floor Elevators 03:23
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Barnyard Blues – The 13th Floor Elevators 02:52
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Til Then – The 13th Floor Elevators 03:18
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Never Another – The 13th Floor Elevators 02:27
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Rose and the Thorn – The 13th Floor Elevators 03:37
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Down by the River – The 13th Floor Elevators 01:50
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Scarlet and Gold – The 13th Floor Elevators 05:00
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Street Song – The 13th Floor Elevators 04:57
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Dear Dr. Doom – The 13th Floor Elevators 03:13
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With You – The 13th Floor Elevators 02:12
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May the Circle Remain Unbroken – The 13th Floor Elevators 02:42

Although the title is rather misleading (this is everything the band ever did), Legendary Group at Their Best is an excellent way to view the Thirteenth Floor Elevators' checkered career. All four releases are included, even the infamous live album. Starting with their first album, The Psychedelic Sounds Of..., the band was a creative monster at the time, making some of the wildest and most original psychedelic rock of the decade. Rivaling Pet Sounds and Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club in terms of importance to modern music, the band started out on top. On Easter Everywhere, their second album, the band was still making the same sort of urgent, angst-ridden rock with the weird jittery sound effects and wild drug-influenced vocals intact. Drugs had in fact dulled their creative powers at this point, but the band was quite unaware of it, leading to some of the most interesting music composed at the time. The disastrous third disc, originally released just as Live, was actually the band's studio outtakes with crowd noise pasted on courtesy of the record company. The sound is awful, and the few new songs featured are mostly just competently played covers. Finally, Bull of the Woods, the last disc, is the final release from the Texas madmen. By this point Roky Erikson, their lead singer and songwriter, was so numbed from drug and mental problems that he barely appears on the album at all. The album is their most dated by far, sounding more typical and uninspired than they ever had before. That being said, they still sounded pretty wild, but time has dulled the impact of it greatly. Still, it is nice that this album was included, because Erikson's last song with the band, "May the Circle Remain Unbroken," is without a doubt the weirdest thing the band recorded, and it's a perfect way to sum up their short existence. The collection follows a promising young psychedelic band through their entire career in only four hours, and tragically the band was forever splintered when Erikson was brutally tortured in a mental home after pleading insanity in a court case where he was on trial for holding one ******. As a listening experience, this is an uneven album with a disappointing second half. But as a historical piece, there is no better way to collect the releases by the Thirteenth Floor Elevators than to get this album. Bradley Torreano, Rovi

Genre: Rock
Category Garage Rock, Psychedelic, Proto-Punk
Label: COLLECTABLES
Release Date: February 13, 2001
Artist: 13th Floor Elevators

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