Millennium

Drawn to psychedelia along with California rock, pop/rock producer Curt Boettcher of the Association gathered a studio supergroup in 1968 to pursue progressive sounds. The resulting Millennium album met with neither commercial traction nor fully realized artistic achievement, though it continues to convey a certain era-specific appeal. Pulling in comparable proportions from the Association, the Mamas and the Papas, the Smile-era Beach Boys, Nilsson, the Left Banke, and the Fifth Dimension, Boettcher and his collaborators produced a hybrid too openly commercial for underground FM radio yet too eccentric for the AM dial. AM airwaves would nonetheless have suited the project better, since the nearly excessive sunshine harmonies and memorable melodies take precedence across the suite-like, wide-ranging set of elaborately produced '60s pop/rock tunes.