The Millennium
Influenced by psychedelia and California rock, pop/rock producer Curt Boettcher (the Association) decided to assemble a studio supergroup who would explore progressive sounds in 1968. Millennium's resultant album would find no commercial success and only half-baked artistic success, but nonetheless retains some period charm. Influenced in roughly equal measures by the Association, the Mamas and the Papas, the Smile-era Beach Boys, Nilsson, the Left Banke, and the Fifth Dimension, Boettcher and his friends came up with a hybrid that was at once too unabashedly commercial for underground FM radio and too weird for the AM dial. It would have fit in better on the AM airwaves, though; the almost too-cheerful sunshine harmonies and catchy melodies dominate the suite-like, diverse set of elaborately produced '60s pop/rock tunes.
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Discography
4 album(s) • Sorted by Bestseller
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Pop/Rock - Released by Legacy Recordings on 15 Nov 2008
The Qobuz Essential Discography16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Magic Time: The Millennium Ballroom Sessions
Pop - Released by Columbia - Legacy on 2 Sep 2016
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Voices of the Millennium
Pop - Released by Sonic Past Music on 8 Apr 2003
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