Mr. Tambourine Man

I know it's a classic album, but sounds like they're trying too hard to be The Beatles and the same jangly guitar sound on every track is repetitive. I think you had to be there in the 60s to fully appreciate this.

Man, they really took that whole twinkly little guitar intro motif and ran it into the damn ground, didn’t they? Even beyond that many of these songs just sounded the same to me. Speed up the tempo and go more for the straight up Beatles rips (like on “I’ll Feel a Whole Lot Better”) and I would have been much happier, ya damn hippies.

This is very of its time. Jingly jangly 60s acoustic/clean electric rock with typical 60s weird lyrics.

Well. It's an album from the 60's which means it's likely to peak on the first song. It does. The album is fine, but it's nothing special. Highlight: 1.

Not bad. Favorite song is Here without you

Eh, it was alright. Nothing special imo.

Record Mirror in the UK awarded the album two stars out of five, deriding it as, "The same nothingy vocals, the same jangly guitar, the same plodding beat on almost every track. The Byrds really must try to get some different sounds." I agree with this statements.

Ну вот такое я хоть как то ещё понимаю. В целом могу понять почему рокерам это нравится. Я так понял эти челы решили в своё время хайпануть на фоне битлов. Музыка - мелодичная, ни к чему не обязывающие тексты. Вполне сойдёт за саундтрек к мультику. Так как я такое не слушаю, не могу оценивать по каким то техническим критериям, но в целом норм, особенно, на фоне предыдущего говна. 5/10

ну нет уж сука не возьмете, буду слушать весь блять рок какой есть назло, думали я сдамся а хуй там говно из 10

More like Mr. Boring man. Again, it hasn't aged well. It sounds like B grade The Who. I don't like it and won't be listening again. I give it a star due to being influential and due to the members of the band being very talented, but stifled due to the times.

Any music from the 60s with this kind of style seems to make my brain automatically want to compare it to the Beatles and just chalk it up as a 'close copy' of their sound. It all ends up sounding very samey to me. Didn't really do it for me unfortunately

Enttäuschung ab dem 2. Lied

Not bad but kinda boring. Like a poor man's Beatles

Early sixties rock. Good beats, no bass. Beatleseque.

Yawn

Dated melodies of Bob Dylan songs that made me appreciate the Dylan version more.

Started well, but the wetness was a bit overwhelming by the end. Very low energy, in a way that sounds more like they couldn't be bothered rather than being nice and chilled. Think it might be the whiney vocals.

Jangly. A whole one third are Dylan Covers though!

too hippy

Meh, too old for me.

It was ok, old though

The title track is a classic that I’d heard a million times. Not much else familiar on the album and if I’m honest I can see why. It’s just not engaging. Really samey soft lyrics over very safe music.

yeah I don’t really know why this album was here, not really a huge fan of 60s music and it just felt very samey - I did quite like ‘It’s No Use’ though :) still only 2.5 max

Apparently this was supposed to challenge the "British Invasion" and compete with The Beatles... No.

Twangy hippie nonsense, but also Jesus. Of course classics on this too. No standout tracks I hadn't previously heard.

Ok - not really my thing

3/10, it was ok

I like how this sounds, I just don't need it to sound like that for an entire album. It is very samey throughout, which results in you disliking everything you liked on hearing the first tunes. If I were rating just one songfrom this album, it would likely score 3, but the overwhelming repetition drives that down a notch to 2. Less of this would have been a nicer 60s pop experience.

Not my bag, baby

Boring

Just so boring. I didn’t love the original versions of these songs and I don’t think The Byrds add much to them.

60s folk rock with lots of added tambourine Every song sounds the same, and that sound is cack I started getting agitated 3 songs in because of that damn tambourine As individual songs, they're a 2. As a collective, it's a 1

Offensively bad. The title song is a boring , soul-less piece of saccharine tripe that somehow removes half the lyrics yet still seems to drag on forever. The cover of It Ain’t Me Babe is even worse. Both songs have the potential to invoke feeling but The Byrds transform them into hollow, meaningless shells. And this is why I find it so offensive - they put so much effort into sounding “pleasant” that nothing is left.

Really not into this sound. Was a chore to get through. I wanted to like this but just so bland and this harmonizing does nothing for me.

Bob Dylan wrote it and did it better. The Byrds suck. This is awful. And that pains me to say since this album is 1/3 Dylan covers. I just don't like all the Beatles influenced 60s rock. The Bells of Rhymney is the best song so far. They cut all the Dylan songs down. Pop music in the 60s sucked. There are a lot of great Dylan covers out there, these are not them. All of these bands just feel like crappy cover bands, from their stupid matching suits and haircuts on all their dumb tv performances to the knockoff Beatles harmonizing. Chimes of Freedom is a better effort.

nudny i dziwny

Non… most of the time this was a painful listen, with vocal harmonies that don’t always land and get tiring pretty fast. And the shadow of the Beatles is constantly hanging over the whole thing. It just annoyed me as a Dylan… but a good one.

Can't stand their sound.

Hey mr tamboring man rape this good song for me. I’ll get sleepy and want to kill myself.

very boring

I know I’m probably supposed to love old classics like this but I just don’t. A lot of the tracks sound the same to me, jangly guitar just isn’t my thing.

Wayyyy too saccharine for me. Pollyanna vibes. Barely made it through.

Not good

pretty boring

Dadrock, and not the fun kind. No thrown punches from these pacifists, and a damn shame too. Favorite Tracks: It’s No Use, Chimes of Freedom

You know that part in Spinal Tap where they're showing the different stylistic iterations of the band before they became a well-known cock rock act? Well this is that grating, twee folk version.

Pleasant enough. But the harmonies and jingle jangley business just became repetitive. Mr T was lovely enough but they just got stuck in the same gear. And the gear was beige.

Uninspiring in the extreme.

Boring Boring Boring

Verrrry dull. Enjoyed Mr. Tambourine Man, can't go wrong. But it is a Dylan cover. Not really sure of the point of this on the list. A bit of a waste of time.

Country.

I just don’t like this decade and style of music. Just not for me.

This album sucked.

1. tambourine - 1.5 2. better - 1 3. harlem - 1 4. cry - 1.5 5. here - 1.5 6. bellz - 1 7. really - 1 8. kneuu - 1.5 9. uze - 1 10. doubt - 1 11. chimez - 1 12. again - 1 13. uuay - 1 14. feel - 1 15. uze - 1 16. cry - 1 17. really - 1 18. me - 1

That was hard to listen to & it was only 30-minutes! Like the original name of the band JET SET. Interesting to note that this LP was released in both mono and stereo.

Gezapige jaren '60 klanken. Luister het direct na The Kinks. En dan zit er toch een flink gat tussen de twee albums. Ik erger me nu continue. En dan begint en eindigt het album met twee van mijn grootste muziekergernissen. Wellicht versterkt doordat ik deze veel te vaak aan moest horen. Een onafgeronde 1.

Most of the songs sound the same as each other and it's all folk. Just a really boring listen.

"The material on the album mostly consists of cover versions of folk songs, primarily composed by Bob Dylan" *Edit to remove swearing* really? No stars if I could. Plus one star for making Bob Dylan songs sound better. Why did I have to listen to that. Take all your tambourines and *edit to remove vulgar language*.

Samey and boring . Clean cut young white people who your gran would have loved. Cant stand this. Hippy shit - glad no one even thinks making this horrible bland music is a good idea any more

D- Birds spelt wrong.

If I were one of the boys that don't finish their vegetables, 10 seconds of this would be enough Some songs might not have been that bad, but I shed a tear or two from yawning too hard

I didn't realise who these guys are until I heard the first song than realised that's probably the only song of theirs that I know. Unfortunately as the album went on, it just felt repeative with different lyrics.

Urgh. So far my favourite thing about the album is the cover art. Half of these songs are covers??

Boring . Didn't listen past 30 seconds. Don't need to explain myself. HueHueHue

The Tyrds.

Extremely forgettable. The 60’s vibe is not my taste and it was pretty boring

If folk rock was America’s answer to the British Invasion, let’s all just be happy that we won the Revolutionary War. Seemed like the music of 60s flower children just trying to be one with nature. (1.4*s)

Meh

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This was pretty awful. Bad Dylan covers with a psych-folk vibe which sanitized everything out of the original songs. I can’t decide whether or not this would be good stoned. Probably not.

Blocked

Not a fan...slow and boring for the most part

Wow this was incredibly boring

Huoh.. Ei viihdyttänyt.. Puolen tunnin afrikkalais tampuriini heilutus toisaalta heh.. Alkumalaalais-asuja nimittäin.. Heh.. Heh...

I can’t. Even though I love folk rock, something about this is just hard to listen to. It’s like the mumble rap version of folk rock hahaha. Whiny voice, no melody. Listen again: no Purchase for my collection: no Favourite Song: none

Every cover sounds the same. The Monkees did it better and even they sucked. Jesus bloody hell this sucks.

Got nothing on the Mamas and the Papas. And what is that song all about 'opening your gob'

Just very bland and unremarkable. Even Bob Dylan songs I like and didn't know these covers existed of become pretty sterile and boring to listen to. The whole album pretty much sounds the same and the cover of We'll Meet Again was tragic

Outside of the drum and bass tracks switching channels from song to song, I can hardly tell one track from the next. I got so bored with the album that by 'The Bells of Rhymney' I was yawning, and my eyelids were getting heavy. The only think that prevented me from fading off into sleep, was how annoyingly imbalanced the levels were on the guitar tracks. It was like I was stuck between two street performers that were competing for my donation by trying to drown each other out. Then 'I Knew I'd Want You' started, and I heard the keys and thought things could get interesting. But, my hopes were dashed by about 20s in. From there I started scanning the remaining tracks and I didn't find anything to merit digging in much further. I really don't want to hear this album again.

Fuck the Byrds! Transmitting live from Mars!

tee paskempi versio dylanin kirjoittamasta biisistä ja laita se albumin nimeksi + julkaise singlenä....''first american band to challenge charts of british invasion bands'' ja suurin osa covereita european here. younger than yesterday byrdseiltä oli hyväkin nojoo debyytti albumi tämä niin kuulostaa samalta kun kaikki 60-luku alun hönö nenät... valkomussukat...saatanan tylsää kunneltavaa ill feel alot better

This is very high pitched. Your tweeters will not like the tinniness of this. It's... OK. There's a couple of decent tracks here, but it isn't great. Won't be listening again any time soon.

This is the quintessential Byrds album thad generates terrible BMs. Such sickly sweet cumbaya bullshit. Thank goodness all Byrds albums don't sound like this. In spite of this album, the Byrds have been one of the most surprising and interesting artists on the list. But I never would've known it because of this Tambourine Man garbage. Do yourself a favor and listen to Notorious Byrd Brothers before making a decision on this band. This album is just plain awful.

1 is a little harsh as I enjoyed the first song, but found the rest of the album so boring. Was trying to give it the benefit of the doubt, however then read they were all covers, so it's not fun, not original, not engaging. what's the point. Everything about this screams band pushed as they resembled the Beatles in some way. 1.4

Forgettable. I must not have been in the mood for music when I listened to this because I basically tuned the whole album out. I could say I'd got back and give it another listen but I'd be lying. Sounded like knockoff beetles.

Not for me

this is the 3rd Byrds album i've had to endure on this list. one is enough, all their songs sound the same so i don't understand how two identical albums are essential listening. its the same issue with neil fucking young.

Was doing laundry while listen and it wasn’t hitting. No highlights

Nope

I'm feeling a little vindictive, but definitely needed my janglemeter calibrated. These aren't bad covers, exactly, just worse than the originals: Slowing everything down is not, in fact, a good idea.

So boring. How many Ooh Aahs sissy choir beach ball vanilla 60s boy bands are there? Jesus, gtfo.

Какой нахуй 1965? вы ебанутые? Уже даже смысла нет такое старье слушать. 0/10

didnt like