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Free Music Notes for The Byrds - Greatest Hits
Free Music Review: early acid
Hit: 5 Stars
This CD gives you the early days of "acid rock" straight from the west coast with lyrics that inspire you with the acid vision. Their major hits are there and fun to listen to along with some more obscure but worthwhile tracks. My favorite is "5D" fifth dimension. It comes straight from LSD and illustrates the philosophy behind the acid culture.
Free Music Review: 60's memories
Hit: 5 Stars
The quality of the remastering is exceptional. I'm hearing things I've never heard before. Mr. Tambourine Man has an electric piano subtling playing. You can hear it with headphones, not the automobile stereo. Brings back the good time memories of the 60's. Free Music Review: another missed opportunity
Hit: 3 Stars
One of the best popular, folk-rock, psychedelic, however you wish to name them, groups of the 1960s, The Byrds' Greatest Hits serves as the early career summary during their heyday on the pop charts. In its original configuration as released in 1967 with seven A-sides, one B-side, and three well-chosen LP tracks, it stands alongside the band's first six studio LPs as a worthy addition to the catalogue.
Sony's reissues of that catalogue executed in the mid- to late 1990s were exemplary: sound crisply improved, well-considered bonus tracks added tastefully, great liner notes by David Fricke. Unfortunately, they dropped the ball on this one. Since it was great in the first place, it's still a marvelous collection, but as a reissue for compact disc it's a botched job.
The key here is understanding that it was a collection of singles, not just a collection of favored album tracks. The Byrds, like so many other groups of their day, released wonderful 45's, including many equally wonderful b-sides. Most b-sides were not issued on this compilation originally to ensure room for the relevant hits, but some deserve to be here now with the expanded time available on compact disc. Given this as a summation of the band during the time up until the departure of David Crosby, the following tracks should have been added, obviously apparent to anyone with a real love for the band's music: "Why," "Everybody's Been Burned," "Lady Friend," and "She Don't Care About Time." A measly four tracks, keeping the three tagged on after "My Back Pages" by the company in 1999 and bringing the total to 18 songs, and the set would be pretty much perfect.
A blemish on a great remastered series, and another missed opportunity courtesy of music-hating record executives, most of whom seem to be in possession of a minimum of actively firing neuro-transmitters when it comes to the non-financial details of their business, as they endlessly repackage and remarket old music in new configurations every five years rather than doing the job once the *right* way, thereby having a thoughtfully produced and high quality item on their hands that will continue to sell for decades to come. A pity, but too many things are run by the wrong people, now aren't they?
Free Music Review: Exactly What it Says it is
Hit: 5 Stars
Long before the Band, Jimi Hendrix and others helped popularize the songwriting talent of Bob Dylan, the Byrds were bringing it to the fore with style. This CD contains the songs that received the most radio airplay during the era when the Byrds were at their zenith. To me, it is a nice companion to two other records released in the band's latter years, "The Notorious Byrd Brothers" and "Sweetheart of the Rodeo". I recommend all three of these recordings for capturing the spirit of one of America's most talented and inventive bands that emerged during the Beatles' world domination, the Byrds. Free Music Review: THIS IS A CD -- WHY SO SKIMPY ON THE SONGS?
Hit: 3 Stars
As someone else here mentioned, the CD format allows up to 78 minutes of music on one CD. Why is this simply a re-issue of the decades-old compilation? Yes, the songs are WONDERFUL and The Byrds get nothing less than 5 STARS. But I'm rating THIS CD. I can't give it more than 3 stars when there's scarcely 40 minutes of music here. Yes, I know people get nostalgic over certain albums and the EXACT song selection (I'm that way about "CHICAGO IX - Chicago's Greatest Hits", even though I own all the other albums. I like the songs in the order they're in on that album). But why not represent the original running order of the LP, then add "bonus tracks"?