124) Younger Than Yesterday

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Two years after being hailed as America's answer to the Beatles, these folk-rock pioneers were unraveling, commercially and internally -- a situation Roger McGuinn and Chris Hillman addressed with this album's rousing, ironic opener, "So You Want to Be a Rock 'N' Roll Star." David Crosby, whom McGuinn would later fire, contributed a ravishing noir ballad, "Everybody's Been Burned," and Hillman bloomed as a writer, simultaneously reviving the Byrds' early magic and foreshadowing their adventures in country rock with "Time Between." "My Back Pages," the obligatory Dylan cover, is the album's elegiac centerpiece.

Total album sales: Under 500,000

Peak chart position: 24

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