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Byrds | 
 enlarge | Artist: The Byrds
Label: Wounded Bird Records
Category: Music
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Rating:  11 reviews
Sales Rank: 98844
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
UPC: 664140505827
EAN: 0664140505827
ASIN: B0002VGU10
Release Date: September 21, 2004
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| Tracks:
| • | Full Circle | | • | Sweet Mary | | • | Changing Heart | | • | For Free | | • | Born To Rock 'N'Roll | | • | Things Will Be Better | | • | Cowgirl In The Sand | | • | Long Live The King | | • | Borrowed Time | | • | Laughing | | • | (See The Sky) About To Rain |
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Album Description
The original five members of the Byrds reunited in 1972 for this one time album. Those original members were David Crosby, Roger McGuinn, Gene Clark, Chris Hillman & Michael Clarke. This album actually became the Byrds fourth highest charting album hitting #20 on the Billboard charts. It features unique versions of some classic tunes such as Neil Young's "Cowgirls In The Sand" and Crosby's "Laughling".
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 1973 has become a great vintage April 26, 2007
Mr. John L. Ward (Manchester, England)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
There were very high hopes for this album prior to its original release. McGuinn had helped to fuel this sense of anticipation some months earlier by telling a jounalist that the new album would "continue where 'The Notorious Byrd Brothers' had left off.". When 'Byrds' finally appeared it seemed as segmented as the latter day Byrds' Columbia albums and had little of that remarkably unified sound that had been the hallmark of the same lineup between 1965 and 1967. I would however urge prospective buyers not to be put off as the reputation of this album has improved during the period since. The two Gene Clark compositions ('Full Circle' and 'Changing Heart') have become classics and are worth the price of admission alone. McGuinn's 'Sweet Mary' is in the style of a traditional folk song and features some excellent mandolin and acoustic guitar. Neil Young's (then unreleased) 'See the Sky About to Rain' sees some stunning 12 string guitar work, great harmony and the kind of Gene Clark vocal that we would hear from him on 'No Other' the following year. David Crosby is very much in his element as a harmony singer - especially on 'Cowgirl in the Sand' and the version of his own composition 'Laughing' contains enough of McGuinn's Rickenbacker raga sound to render its inclusion worthwhile. And don't forget that there is an astonishing outtake from this album -'My New Woman' on McGuinn's self titled solo album from a few months later.
 docked at least 1 star for the disappointing sound and packaging April 2, 2007
Gordon Pfannenstiel (Russell, KS United States)
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
You'd think I'd be happy. After all these years, finally a reissue of this "lost" reunion album by those fantastic original Byrds. The music has always been under-rated because what could possibly compare to the classics Mr. Tambourine Man, Turn, Turn, Turn and 5th Dimension (I'd also include Younger Than Yesterday, though it was sans Gene Clark)? Those were perfect albums, great time capsules and timeless music. Nineteen seventy-three was NOT 1965, and they had sense enough to know that the magic of that time and place could not be recaptured, so they made the type of music that they thought was "relevant" in 1973. I think they did quite well. The album has always been lambasted by critics and Byrd fans; unfairly so, I now think. However, it's taken a lot of time to come to that conclusion. I was just as disappointed at the time it came out; I wanted the original Byrds to SOUND like the original Byrds. I even eventually gave my LP to the local public library in the 80s; at the time, I never thought I'd want to listen to it again.
But, as time passed, that hole in my collection nagged at me, and I started to want to hear the album again, to see what I'd think of it now. Finally, a couple of years ago I found the original LP, in "fair" condition, for around $[...] and I picked it up. Even through the occasional clicks and pops, it sounded glorious. Therefore, I was so excited when it finally was released domestically. Finally!...no more clicks and pops!...in glorious digital sound!
When I got this CD, however, there was one problem: it WASN'T glorious sound. It was flat and lacked definition. HMMMM...I thought maybe I was having a bad ear day and pulled out my CD recording of my old LP to do an A/B comparison. WOW! I wasn't having a bad ear day. The old LP sounded much brighter, deeper and better. So, another bad digital remaster...not the first one, and probably won't be the last. It's amazing that there have been so many inferior digital remasters. I have an old Phillips CD recorder, 9 years old, that I use to transfer my old LPs to CD. It captures every nuance that is present on the vinyl. How can access to the master tape, with no transfer loss, with all the advances in digital remastering, yeild something inferior to what I captured on an old, scratchy LP? Makes you think, doesn't it?
Also, when a classic of this calibre is finally re-released, I think it fitting that we get some sort of "package" with it. A bit of history, maybe some perspective from the surviving Byrds...SOMETHING!!!...besides a 10" X 5" sheet of paper folded in half that has the original album image, song titles and credits.
I know I seem like a whiner, but this is a really excellent album by one of the greatest musical groups of all time. One would think they (and their fans) would deserve somthing of better quality than this.
Great album, several homeruns November 12, 2006
T. A. Guay
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
It's such a shame that this record still spilts Byrds fans after all these years.
I loved this album when it first came out and still think it's great. The Gene Clark songs are all homeruns, whether he's singing his or Neil Young's songs. Crosby did a great job getting the acoustic instruments to pop out and sing. Makes sense that the electric 12-string is de-emphasized here.
What a shame these guys couldn't get along.
I see another fan didn't like Crosby's version of For Free, but I think this version a great interpretation that takes advantage of the best of what this version of the Byrds had to offer.
Could've been great, but... October 10, 2006
Major Tom (CA, United States)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
Found this on vinyl at Amoeba recently, and snatched it right up. Whether it was good or not, I have most of the other Byrds releases, on record and CD, and particularly like the Gene Clark/David Crosby days the most. Sadly, it's just not that great compared to their past glories--it's the aural equivalent of an anticlimax. There are some high points--I like Clark's "Full Circle", the cover of Joni Mitchell's "For Free", and I like how they give Neil Young the Bob Dylan treatment with "(See The Sky) About To Rain", which is better than Young's original (their cover of Young's "Cowgirl In The Sand" however simply falls flat. Disapointing). Also disapointing here is the version of Crosby's "Laughing", which sounds tailor made for Byrds-style, skyscraping harmonies which are missing here ("Laughing" on Crosby's great solo record "If I Could Only Remember My Name" is far superior, and a much better representation of his skills at the time). I can see why this album is virtually out of print, it's simply not a Byrds album as we knew and loved them. For completists I admit it's a must have.
 All Buildup and No Delivery August 7, 2006
Jason Stanley (Ontario, California United States)
5 out of 10 found this review helpful
I own all of the Byrds albums and I have to say that this one is by far my least favorite. I wasn't alive when the Byrds were originally formed and I wasn't alive when they regrouped and then broke up again, so I have a different historcial perspective on this. I love all the early Byrds records (particularly "Turn Turn Turn") but, I have to say that I think they did their best stuff once Crosby was out of the band. My favorite Byrds album is "Untitled". I think the Byrds really hit their stride once Clarence White came into the picture. All that said, I think this album was a big step backwards. I know there was alot of anticipation at the regrouping of the original line-up. But it seems to me that they were doing just fine with the "Untitled" line-up. If it's not broke, don't fix it. The best stuff on this album (as with all the early albums as well) is the stuff written by Gene Clark. The rest of it's pretty forgettable. Do yourself a favor and stick to "Sweetheart of the Rodeo", "Untitled/Unissued" and "Ballad of Easy Rider"
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