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Excellent harmonies and lots of impressive guitar throughout, but nothing really jumped out at me. I found the whole album really fading into the background even on successive, more focused listens. Enjoyable but not particularly memorable (except for Mr. Spaceman)
Good Byrds album.
Apparently the 60's is an era of music that I can do without. Calling this psychedelic rock is a stretch too. Uninspiring and very forgettable. Even the Hey Joe was not very good. And that's the biggest memory from this album, a bad remake of Hey Joe. Gogdamn this stuff. 2
2.5 Not as bad as that country album these guys attempted, but it’s not a whole lot better either - for the most part, it’s just inoffensive, but forgettable classic rock. Supposedly people credit this as being one of the first psychedelic albums ever recorded, but I don’t really hear that. Maybe topically, with there being songs about space and fifth dimensions, but I’m more willing to give someone like Donovan credit as having innovated the genre over these folk rockers and cowboy wannabes. Like, nothing about this album is trippy - it’s just a series of short, early Beatles-esque rock numbers that come and go without ever really leaving much of a lasting impression. I listened to this multiple times, and the only two songs that I would say have stuck with me are Hey Joe, mostly because of Jimi Hendrix’s later cover (though I will say this version isn’t bad), and that Lear Jet song near the end that was annoying as all hell. Though, apparently, there isn’t just one, but TWO songs here were previously recorded by Joan Baez and featured on the album we literally just had prior to this (John Riley and I Know You Rider) - really weird coincidence. I couldn’t really tell you how much better or worse these versions are as compared to hers given how forgettable they were, but at least the vocals here didn’t cause me physical discomfort, so they have that going for them. Of all the 60’s rock records I’ve heard, this is definitely one of them. Also, if you listen to the bonus tracks at the end of the album's re-release, it ends with an interview with the band - except, it seems that they removed the questions being asked by the interviewer, so it’s just a series of uncontextualized responses. What the hell were they thinking there?
I *just* had a Gene Clark solo album that he released a few years after this. Mid-60s folk-rock is really hard for me to stomach. Just a bit too easy listening
Dude! What a great soundtrack for a smoke sesh! I'm convinced that it was sequenced so that if you start hitting the bong when the album begins, you'll get through the initial giggles and such by the time you're through with "Mr. Spaceman." I See You and What's Happening build you up, and then the horrific subject matter of I Come and Stand at Every Door gives you a quick tether to reality before Eight Miles High kicks in and you get into some good floaty tunes on the back half of the album. Probably would have been better had I lit up first, but it's a decent listen regardless. Unexpected banger: Captain Soul
An incredible blend of folk, blues and psychedelia. I've always loved the guitar tones and vocals from the Byrds and this record is no exception. Wild Mountain Thyme is a very special song for me, and while this isn't my favourite version, I think this is a beautiful cover. Other highlights are the title track, Mr Spaceman, Why, and I See You. There's a few tracks I don't care for, but overall this a fantastic record.
Great
This gets a few points for being a bit ahead of its time on psychedelic rock, but uneven is a great description of this album. I See You was the only track of note for me and Captain Soul and Hey Joe were both fun listens. Mr. Spaceman also got a laugh out of me. Altogether nothing to write home about, but not offensive.
Heard it
Very 60s but also quite all over the place. It’s a no thanks from me - I didn’t like anything about this one. Plus the worst cover of Hey Joe I’ve ever heard. Listens: 1 No fave track. Rating: 2
Would seriously love to talk to the author of this list and find out what the reasoning behind a lot of his choices were.
Super uninspiring. When people say the 1900s had more unique music than current era I'm gonna show them 90% of the albums from the 60s alone
Folk, blues and traditional. Fairly bland, felt a little like a contractual obligation album.
This album really should not be on a list of this magnitude. it really listens as purely average psych rock with no standout tracks. It pales in comparison to it's contemporaries, and I have no interest in listening to it again. 2/5.
2.4 - I dunno, I feel I should really like this band. Again, just didn't click with it and nothing really stood out to me.
Really scruffy and sonically uninteresting. I don't know what I expected here but I thought it would be something better than this. The best track for me was the Bonus Track "Why". 2.5/5
Meh im going back to KEXP 2
The random guitar notes that have no point annoy the shit out of me.
Very poor. This might have been new and interesting at the time: but just sounds lame now - psychadelia doesn't cut it anymore and the 'lead guitar' work is terrible. The traditional folk songs are especially poor renditiond.
I have a love/hate relationship with the Byrds. I love when they cover Dylan, I hate when they don't. I didn't hear anything worth revisiting except Eight Miles High.
2 - The Byrds seem to get more and more boring every time I listen to one of their albums... Nothing much to say. None of the lyrics were very interesting, except maybe I Come and Stand at Every Door, which they didn't write. That song also sounded like it wasn't dark enough for the lyrical content. I know it was 1966, so music generally didn't sound that dark yet, but it didn't hit when presented in this way. It just felt weird. Music was also generally pretty boring and not really my thing. I quite like one Byrds album and that's it, I guess. Oh well.
Went in and out of dylanness.
A bit odd, in that sixties sort of way that things are. I didn't object to anything on it - although there are many better versions of Mountain Thyme - and there are some OK tracks. But I don't think I'll listen again anytime soon.
Good, groovy, psych rock
McGuinn's guitar style and choice blended rock music with folk music... maybe this was an influence for Dylan to pick up and 'electrify' his music?
Sounds like something the brady bunch would listen to. Fave: Mr. Spaceman, Hey Joe, 242 Fox Trot, Psychodrama City Least: I Come and Stand at Every Door (dramatic), John Riley I don’t really like the story songs. Some songs sounded more modern classic rock and some sounded like colonial rock.
2.5
Þessi gerir ekkert fyrir mig.
Rating: 7/10 Best songs: What’s happening?, Hey Joe, 2-4-2 Fox trot
OK, but someone needed to invent reverb.
"Eight Miles High" is really an amazing song, still. The rest was probably earth shaking at release, but as with any influential album, the original amazement fades as so many take up the sound.
I got one thing from listening to this album - I've learned that I despise harmonized vocals. Yuck.
Monotonous. This is a single song album, which is a single song that affords this trying work a two star.
Love this. Classic Byrds vibe. Great harmonies. Soothing in the midst of unease.
Not their best effort.
Good
I get that they're catchy, I get that they were important, and I get that this band do have a couple albums of great material in them. But really all they are is pleasant, semi-interesting pop, which really only warrants one, maybe two albums. But five albums of The Byrds!? More than Floyd and Talking Heads? This album in particular is certainly not essential listening, and not deserving of it's entry.
Getting this right after a solo Gene Clark felt weird (literally the day after). This The Byrds without Gene Clark and without Bob Dylan's songs. It's... experimental. Okay.
4.25
It was OK. Would not spin again or tell others to listen.
I like this album quite a bit, it's one I listened to semi frequently before I started the 1001 albums thing and it's one I'm going to continue listening to after. It's fascinating to listen to music from a birth of a genre and that's exactly what you get from 5th dimension with psychedelic rock. Tropes that would become staples are first taking shape here.
First time listening to a Byrds album. Some decent folk psychedelic rock.
I enjoyed it.
Listened Before? N Pretty good Byrds album. More polished than their early work, but lacking some of the spirit. I enjoyed it but it's not their best work. Added to Library? N Songs added to playlist: Eight Miles High
Hey Joe ;D
As good as the first two Byrds albums were, Fifth Dimension veered the Byrds music towards a more Psych-Folk Rock sound and Roger McGuinn's 12-string Rickenbacker gave the band an unique signature sound. There's no doubt my favourite Byrds song is Eight Miles High, mainly because of that jangly 12-string guitar, it's a classic! Overall, the album is uneven with more covers (yet, not Dylan) and experimental songs, but I like this album a lot. I bought a ragged vinyl copy of the record many years ago and it's still gets a lot of play on the turntable. A good musical representation of the time period and era.
sounds fine but nothing really stands out. easy to listen to but overall average
Meh. It was meh. Whiffs of Bob Dylon here and there, just didn’t catch my interest over all though.
# 171 : Psychedelic flower power rock. Not much to get excited about here. Fairly bland. Mr Spaceman was alright. Should have stuck to the Bob Dylan covers. Fav Track : Mr Spaceman
I like the overall sound and I liked a couple of the tracks: Hey Joe and John Riley. But it doesn’t quite rise above a three for me.
Solid start, but lost me around the same time they started sampling Leer jet engines.
Ugh. Really wasn't enjoying this and then got to their version of 'Hey Joe,' wondering if they could at least equal Hendrix or the Lee Moses version. But no. Seriously no.
Most of this just sounded like noise, with no comprehensible rhythm or melody
Have enjoyed the very little of the Byrds I’ve listened to in the past and this was no different. Nice stuff. Simpsons reference: Kent Brockman covers a song!
Was nice, would listen to them again.
Was probably better received when it was first released but doesn't really hold up today
It was a nice listen but didn’t blow me away. I wouldn’t mind if someone else put it on but wouldn’t chose to myself
Favourite tracks: hey Joe; captain soul; wild mountain thyme; 5D; eight miles high
Love these amazing harmonies
Watered down Beatles. If country is the American stereotype, this is the British stereotype, therefore… same treatment.
Psychedelic rock again #499
I'm not a huge fan of the airy, hippie-dippie stuff. Not a bad album, but nothing I'd pick to listen to again. Fav tracks: What's Happening?, Captain Soul
Classic. Can see how their sound developed more after this album.
3.5 Good album throughout nothing too amazing
Excellent album
Yeah it’s an album
Probably a controversial take, but I think the Byrds are very much a dollar store Beatles. Not my favorive, but if I had to listen to them I guess I would, it's still decent music.
This album feels sort of like if Simon & Garfunkel decided to hire a bunch of musicians to do whatever they liked overtop their harmonies, and I mean that in a good way, but also that it could be better. There's weird, psychedelia infused guitars mixed with space-y effects that feel like Psychedelic rock is finally coming into its own, but while that makes the overall calmer lyrics more of a novelty than anything, it does feel weird to have tracks stating the usual "gonna kill my wife for cheating on me" lyrics while someone goes ham on the strings. It works sometimes, while other times it doesn't. I think Beatles were mastering the craft already at this point, and the Byrds just didn't want to let go so they could really launch into the stratosphere here, instead they still seem to orbit Earth. Still, for 1966, its out of this world.
Solid Harmonies, if not a little droning. The music is repetitive and a little bit weird – backward echoes, reverb, and the like. Eight Miles High is a great composition. Their interpretation of Hey Joe is simply bonkers. As a whole, I can see this being really appealing if I were tripping. But I'm not tripping.
Beatles-like
Clearly The Byrds were exploring here. This makes the record interesting as we get a sometimes cool, sometimes super awkward blend of straight arrow old school Byrds and envelope-pushing psychedelic experimentation. There were moments where I literally laughed at loud at how bad it was and others where found myself nodding my head and feeling grateful for the chance to hear 1960s musical evolution happening in my headphones. There is a ton of music in this world to listen to so I’m not sure I’d ever get back to this album but I also won’t throw it away completely either. 3.75 stars.
Inoffensive but compared to what the Beatles and Stones were doing, and with bands like Floyd and Zeppelin on the way and Hendrix's debut coming the next year, it's dated and boring.
Excuse me, there are HOW MANY Byrds albums on this list?
I don't think I'm on enough drugs to appreciate this. What's Happening is pretty good. Some grim depressing stuff like I Come and Stand at Every Door. Not one to revisit.
Enjoyed listening to classic Byrds harmonies. Despite having only a few big hits, their sound was unmistakable and pleasant to listen to today. My fave would be their folk-rock collaborations and their toe-dipping into country-rock with Gram Parsons.
Good ole classic tunes. With guitars. And harmonies. Good stuff.
A bit James Bond sounding, psychedelic tones and some wild lyrics. Par for the time...
Can see why people like it. Not for me
nice
I'm sorry first ding and I don't like their voice, it is somehow too old. Though I like the folk vibes, plus the different ear sounds. It's too country but not too bad as it's rocky too didn't really like it. Second song got me in a church. I like the violin in my right ear. This one has nice voice and less countryness. This sounded too good and unique for this album. Third song goes back to being a country album. It is a story-song, but still lazy to check the meaning. I like the guitar in my right ear, very folk-country. 4th song has a second song sound but the vibe is too upbeat. I am slowly liking this set of instruments played, I mean the way they are introduced (fast). 5th song starts low key melancholic, but still upbeat environment. Nothing different just fun to listen to. Now 6th song is slow and much better to listen to like the second song. There's drums in my right ear and guitar in the other one. 7th song is progressive plus those solo guitars. It has beach boys vibe sometimes. Not bad, just repetitive. Getting used to their voice. 8th song has a different instrument in my right ear, better. Otherwise he's screaming like Beatles. It's so boring though, I just want to end it now. Can't listen to this for another 8 songs (I think). 9th song has a fully different vibe, it feels like I'm in a movie where I'm moving slowly and elegantly. Country kills me, I can't. It was fully instrumental which made it worse. 10th is quite weird, all of the instruments is in my left year and the voice is in the middle. Right ear is too clean. I feel like my right ear headphone doesn't work but now there's violin playing occasionally. Liked this because it was kinda different. AAAAA 11TH song has absorbed my right ear with that hoover sound. It's till going, actually it's a racket?! Even metal is less complicated, this is next level of sound fusion, there is a man talking about that racket probably, omg it flew away, such a cool song woww. 12th song, back to original way of sounding the song, it was a loong solo, almost slipped the song. Nothing can top the last song. Booring sadly. Beatles have better sounds overall, but the rocked song here is quite unusual in a good way. 13th song, it is not different at fucking all. Long intro, idk why I'm still listening to it. The fact that they have different sounds in each ear makes this album a standout but eh. I did numerization wrong somewhere because I should be on 15th rn and it's only 14. 14th song, and agaaain same vibe, same voice, I mean expected but there isn't a anything unique unless we count their church like singing. Also apparently this is just a different version of the song I listened to up there, well it doesn't sound better. Same with the 15th and last song, sounds almost same just slightly alternative. Well there's two unavailable songs too but by their titles they don't mean a much I thinkk so that's it. I would normally rate this 1 star because it has nothing that would make me listen to this again, BUT that rocket song will make it to 2 star, also the second and that other song, both slow, will help it get to 2 star album. It was an okay one, easy listening, but that's it. Nothing wow, which was already not expected as it's an old one.
Meh
Way too many Byrds albums on this list and songs about your trip are interesting to nobody but you. That said, I did enjoy the second half of the album more than the first and when they’re on they’re on.
Man, if that ain't the hippiest hippie music that ever hippied. Despite absolutely reeking of patchouli, "Fifth Dimension" came off the ropes swinging. Unfortunately, it lost its way somewhere around the ill-advised cover of "Hey Joe" and never really managed to find the path back to great. Shame.
Discount beatles som syntes india var litt kult men de har kansje ikke egentlig hørt noe indisk musikk, for licksa på What's happening er helt grusom haha. First price ost kan være digg. Men dette er ikke egentlig ost. Bare revet. Smertefult mediocre.
Weno bonito
Couldn’t find this album on Amazon so listened to each track individually. Very good.
I don't think I'd ever listened to this entire album. Growing up with an old hippie record collector, that's rare to find for something from 1966. I had no idea this was pre-Gram Parsons either. Wikipedia got a workout for this album. I can appreciate the songwriting, but it's a bit too slow and plodding and 'samey' for me. 3/5
Classic classic rock. Big fan of the Byrds and their unique sound. A little bit of if Dylan could sing vibes.
I like some of these songs a lot, but I'm not blown away. It can be a little lackluster. I can see how they're moving away from Dylan's songs, but still folky... Productions is 1966... I like that eastern psyche sounding guitar on I Know My Rider :chef-kiss: Overall though, probably a 3.2 or so... it doesn’t resonate enough for 4 territory.
Not my favorite. Too folksy.
It was okay. Didn’t love it or hate it. Realizing that the 60s sound of some songs that I love are just a product of its time.
Bright and Jangly guitars doing electrified folk fingerstyle picking arpegios combined with perfect close harmonies, sutbly melodic bass, and some well crafted arrangements mean this album is overflowing with melodies. It's at once exuberant and tightly controlled, exemplifying the style of tight fractal baroque psychadelia that proliferates inwards (vs say the let it all hang out liquid light show psych of 60s Grateful Dead). Eight Miles High gets into more 'freak out' territory with frantic drumming and guitar spasms, but they reign that back in quickly with a tight harmony. The raga-style drone on Why portends a lot of what's to come, but again, even though it emerges nicely from the chorus they confine this to a tightly bracketed segment that ends with an abrupt shift back to the verse, keeping the psych on a leash. Not sure what it means that I think this band is best at arrangments and stuff, but also I prefer the Dead's version of I know you Rider and Hendrix's Hey Joe - I guess it's the looser more improvisatory open approach they take over the tightly structured Byrds versions. The sitars and sitar-sounding guitars all over this album are really great and they're probably the best at that renaissance 9?) sounding melody/harmony in rock. This list has made me realize that I like the Byrds more than I'd thought, but 5 Byrds albums, 2 Gene Clark, 1 David Crosby Solo (+2 CSNY), and 1 Graham Parsons might make this the most over-represented group after only the Beatles. Favorites: 5D, Eight Miles High, Wild Mountain Thyme, Why, Psychodrama City
Some really cool psychedelic bangers (5D, Wild Mountain Thyme, What's Happening), some snoozers. That's all I can really say. Like Buffalo Springfield did a bit more LSD.
The Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young (trigger warning Jim) extended universe might be one of my favorite genres of rock and music as a whole. Just chill ass dudes making chill ass music. Throw some folk in, some psychedelia, meet the Beatles, smoke a Doobie, and sing along to that beat. Poggers in chat
Mr. Spaceman was a bopenstein. I actually really enjoyed this album. Was nice and chill for a rainy seattle monday AM.
не почувствовала неровности. просто милый альбом
A bit of a mess this. Some things hit some things feel like they were just filling out time. I get the psychedelic folk roots thing but this just sounds like a bunch of guys taking too much stuff and recording whatever.
I'd love to say that I enjoyed this. But I didn't. It's tepid. Production is good, but man, this list has way too much The Byrds.
Landfill psyche fodder
2.5?
Enjoyable album this, better than the Beatles
Pretty good but not list-worthy, especially when there's 3 other fucking Byrds albums on the list and no Carly Rae Jepsen
A few good songs Eight Miles High which has a great guitar solo... but the rest of the album is very midling and not that interesting to me
harmonic singing in folk music....not my taste
Very all over the place. I understand this is supposed to be psychedelic, but really it's just messy in a lot of places. This Album has an identity crisis in front of my ears.
Very psychedelic, I feel like I should be doing mushrooms & acid listening to this
very beatles, there were some nice melodies, but the guitar sounded messy at times
Un bon album rock, aux accents parfois folk, parfois psychédéliques
It's ok, better than their later country music albums. No Dylan covers this time, however there is Hey Joe pre-dating Hendrix I think. And it includes 8 Miles High which is one of the better 60s psychedelic rock offerings. It's ok.
Interesting harmonies and guitar tones. Killer bass lines throughout the album but I just don’t dig this era of music for some reason. Gonna look up the bass player and do some studying. 2.5/5
Yep, some classic tunes.
What came first the Byrds or the Beatles? Not sure but they give off the same vibes. This album is pretty melancholy and mellow. Some fun guitar riffs in Hey Joe and Captain Soul.
Whatever this was. 2
For many albums in the 1001 I get half way through and either get board, wondering when it will finish, or I start to get into it and enjoy it to the end. Thankfully this was one of the latter. 3.5 stars.
Gooood
I liked this a lot more than I expected, their most well known songs have always turned me off ("Tambourine Man" is like listening to a depressed drunk version of the Beatles, bleurgh). But this album had some good surprises - "what's happening?" and "psychodrama city" have ended up on my Spotify favourites playlist. Can hear how they influenced a lot of 90s American indie bands, amongst many others I'm sure
I might revisit this one.
What a strange choice, given it all reviews, note that this album was lacking its primary songwriter and that everyone else came up short for ideas. But it's also apparently where the psychedelic folk stuff originated. Some of it was interesting, and then there were airplanes sound effects.
A fine album but not the classic that is ether Younger than Yeserday and Mr. Tambourine Man. Eight Miles High is amazing as is Mr. Spacemean and the cover of Hey Joe is actually pretty good and the title track is a minor classic as well - the rest is pretty ordinary. Still 4 stars
Fine. Nothing grabbed me. Even the big song on here Eight Miles High was kind of a snoozer for me.
Perfectly adequate stuff from the perfectly adequate Byrds. I’m always surprised when I look at all the different members in The Byrds that I don’t like this band more. But put them all together and it’s just fine, not mind-blowing, no matter how psychedelic they attempt to be.
Pleasant enough, but ultimately pretty unremarkable and boring.
Not a bad album. Easy to listen to. My biggest problem was that the two best songs were done better by other people. Hey Joe by Hendrix and Hey Mr. Spaceman by........ Jimmy Buffett and Gonzo o.O
Pretty nice listen. You can see the early rumblings of psych rock here
Classic
this was like if the beatles played music that was more my vibe
Really good! Enjoyed the vocals a lot.
I am really surprise that I really liked it.
Had never listened to the Byrds but I really enjoyed this ablum! A mix of styles and sounds, but all a great listening experience
Maschine: DCA ÆON 2 Noire / AüR Audio Aurora Mische: überraschend modern abgemischt und dynamisch Mugge: etwas zu esoterisch bis belanglos für meinen Geschmack Meinung: 2/5
A monumental recording in psychedelic music. Eight Miles High is a behemoth of a track. Hard to believe this came out in the mid-60s, even before Hendrix formally burst onto the scene. However, I feel where this album lacks is the format. There are some filler tracks on here, particularly on side 2. There are some real hitters tho, like the aforementioned Eight Miles High, and I See You.
3/5 Best track: Mr. Spaceman
Easy listening. Reminds me of the Beatles
Psychedelic fun and smoothness. A lovely listen 🩵
down are way the birds are singing down are way the birds are minging - liam gallagher
-never heard of this album or band -but so far this first song sounds nice! -the instrumentals in these songs are very interesting -they sound very busy but not in a bad way -this is the strangest guitar solo i have ever heard (eight mile high) -sometimes this persons singing feels like they are trying to hypnotize me -this album has some good songs at the end but mostly kind of boring to me -it is getting three stars from me
This is the second album from The Byrds that I've listened to, and it's definitely very different than their country album (this one came first). I feel like I should like The Byrds a little more than I do for some reason. 60s alt/psych rock plus David Crosby seems like a winning formula, but this one is just a bit inconsistent for me. There are a few songs that are really solid; "Eight Miles High" is awesome and "What's Happening?" has really good vibes as well. There's some down moments here too though, with a few more traditional covers and an instrumental on a fairly short album overall (only 30 minutes on the original release). I enjoyed listening to it enough, but it's definitely a bit all over the place. I'll keep waiting for The Byrds to fully click with me, hopefully it's coming. Favorite song: Eight Miles High Other: 5D (Fifth Dimension), Mr. Spaceman, What's Happening? 11/28/23
5D (Fifth Dimension) is a strong start to the album. I really liked the vocal melody and the guitar solo on the outro. The next few tracks were fine enough, and had a pretty chill vibe. I really liked “I see You” and “What’s Happening”, two examples of the songwriting talent that David Crosby would go on to develop in subsequent years. The only weak points on the album were the cover songs, and the ending track due to the annoying plane noises.
Nice to listen to but nothing special
One or two really good songs, but its not enough
Not as great as expected, feels like a little more of the same.
Had never heard of these guys before this. Despite being called ‘fifth dimension’ its just a pretty average 60s record
Psych groovy rock
Every time The Byrds come around, I think it’s gonna be just another mid-60’s pseudo-psychedelic swampy Beatles-esque time, and while it’s not like it *isn’t* that, there’s always enough new to pick up on, something interesting about their approach that I didn’t pick up on last time. This time, it’s definitely the rhythm and lead guitars. This stuff feels well past the Tomorrow Never Knows riffs and into really crazy, frantic, jagged territory. I wanna play guitar like that. The guitar to me has more of a personality than their songwriting, which is often kind of meandering and formless, or pulls too deep into the psych folk, Bob-dylan-y direction for it to feel like I’m hearing something new. I really love harmonies too, and these songs let the harmonies breathe. It’s experimental! Especially on the stereo mix, you feel the walls of music start to crack. The whole rhythm section is in one ear… what is it doing there?? The drums are turned way down, just keeping time for a vocals-and-strings arrangement. This doesn’t have any of the Lennon/McCartney songwriting star power at all, and the album drags in parts, but there are fresh ideas here, and it’s maybe my favorite Byrds pick we’ve had so far. I’m feeling like they deserve a deep dive… a bit of a dark horse pick for this 60’s psych stuff. I had a good time so it’s 3/5
Mixed feeling on this album. I love the guitar tone and that these songs feel like they are solely responsible for the genre. However, I'm not really of fan of many of the songs.
Ok - won’t rush to listen to it again but pleasant enough and liked a couple of songs
Oke album. Dobre harmonije. Malo generic.
Awful.
I had to skip "I come and stand at every door". The rest wasn't quite as bad, bit still not an enjoyable listen for me.
Tan aburrido como el country.
Really cool album
Great vocals and psychedelic vibes, but nothing that memorable.
Love their sound. Not my favorite album from them but still groovy AF.
Just like a 3D cinema compared to today's 5D cinemas, this album may have been cutting edge and influential at the time, but it now seems pretty tame. Having lost their main songwriter, this album includes four covers and an instrumental amongst it's 11 tracks and 30 minutes. Apparently it was described at the time as "wildly uneven" and "awkward and scattered". I wouldn't say that's an unfair characterisation. Rating: 2/5 Playlist track: Mr Spaceman Date listened: 10/11/23
Pretty rad, not all good but some really interesting stuff. Love the borderline avantgarde guitar work, more far out than I anticipated
Now you’re talking.
meh. Never really listened to The Byrds before, and this didn't entice me to start.
A spacey 60s jam
Eight miles high and when you touch down You'll find that it's stranger than known Signs in the street that say where you're going Are somewhere just being their own Nowhere is there warmth to be found Among those afraid of losing their ground Rain gray town known for its sound In places small faces unbound Round the squares huddled in storms Some laughing some just shapeless forms Sidewalk scenes and black limousines Some living some standing alone 4/5
Classic 60s rock avec de beaux moments d’orchestration.
Pretty lame Byrds offering. Nothing special at all. 2/5
This album did not contain a "Turn, Turn Turn!" or "Mr. Tambourine Man" amongst its collection of songs, but it is an interesting contextual look into how psychedelic rock eventually formed. Since this album was released in July 1966, I can't help compare it to the corresponding Beatles era. They had just released Rubber Soul, and would go on to release Revolver a month later. While comparing anyone to the Beatles is a fool's errand, but I will say this album fits nicely between them as a musical evolution of the times. They built upon their previous albums and paved the way for what eventually would be titans of psychadelia like Sgt. Peppers and early Pink Floyd.
Gives me nothing.
first listen good album
I mean I don't hate it: I felt this was a solid album but the song choices felt a little odd. I didn't hate the sound but there were no really good songs on this album. Paired with the fact they did a far from suitable Hendrix solo and some of the final tracks in the album aren't even available to listen to, it just wasn't all that. Probably won't revisit this project again but could've been a lot worse.
Amazing psychedelic rock album.
Alright album. Can hear the influence it had. Velvet Underground, Can, Yo La Tengo, etc.
Solid rock album. Nothing stands out too much in this to me.
3.5
Eight Miles High, the rest goes in one ear and out the other.
Fifth Dimension by the Byrds is definitely an album that exists. I thought it was alright. It is a fairly important and influential album, as it helped lay the groundwork for psychedelic rock. However, this album on its own isn't anything that I find that special. It's decent, but not much more. The fact that 4 out of the 11 songs are covers makes it feel less original than it should. There are some bonus songs as well, but I didn't really see a ton of value in them. I like the sound of the album, though. It's nice. Some of the songs are pretty good. The general feel of the album is good. It's nothing special, but I definitely wouldn't call it bad, and I definitely understand why it's on here. 3/5.
Strong 2
Jingle jangle guitar...sweet sounding vocals. Wishy washy songs. I'm getting a bit tired of Byrds albums. I must have had 4 or 5.
This seems like it must've been a fun album when it came out. Full of psychedelic sounds and far-out lyrics, this record sounds every bit as 60's as it looks, almost stereotypically so. I'm unfamiliar with the history of the genre so I may not be giving enough credit where credit is due here, but very little here stood out to me as something I'd come back to. Highlight: What's Happening? Lowlight: 5D (Fifth Dimension) Surprise Hit: 2-4-2 Fox Trot (The Lear Jet Song)
Not for me. Inclusions like the Lear jet song add nothing, poor covers too
I feel like Tippi Hedren
Fuck the Byrds. Terrible. I'm not listening to any more if they come up
Most of the songs sound the same.
Fine but hardly memorable
Previously I complained how the Joan Armatrading album was some really boring and repetative jam. It still is, but Id rather listen to her entire discography 10 times in a row, rather than hear another The Byrds album, which is soulcrushing, as I know there are like 4 more of their shit here? Its an offensive album that doesnt respect its listener. I couldnt care less about how influental it was then, but now it just wastes your time. There might be an interesting song idea in a song, but it is never developed, its just the same shit repeated over an over again, sometimes with a fucking jet engine roaring into your ear. The "psychedelic" part of the album remind me of when I begun learning guitar, and discovered I can make funny and random noises with it. Well these guys made an entire fucking album out of this. And its not good. Its random, but it doesnt sound like the guy can even play guitar properly. God I wish I could turn back time to never hear this shit again. I recommend anyone who stumbles onto this to listen to something good, like Rolo Tomassi - Time Will Die and Love Will Bury It. Actually a good album.
Sounded like a Beatle rip off. I gave them a second listen after hearing their interview at the end cause I seemed to really like them but I didn't really find anything remarkable. Thats a shame. I probably would've gave them a 3 if I wasn't so disappointed relistening to it.
I dug this. I don't have the words to speak like a true audiophile but it was good. I would give it another listen for sure.
This was okay. A lot of the guitar playing seems technical and ahead of it's time. If I were alive back when this came out, I probably would have been a fan. As it stands, I think this is another example of an album that I might not come back to, simply because it doesn't offer anything that I can't get elsewhere in more modern music. Favorite tracks: Captain Soul, Eight Miles High.
This was fine, although I enjoyed their "Younger than Yesterday" album from earlier in the list more.
Imagine you are David Crosby and you convince your band to record this song HEY JOE and you are like, "trust me, ours will be definitive. Trust me, there is NO CHANCE a once in a generation guitar player will release a superior version in a few months. This will ABSOLUTELY be BANK!!!" Then you're like, lets fire the main songwriter, pfft, afraid of flying? The BYRDS ain't got no time for that. Anywho, this was okay, a bit fractured and a passible opening act for the seismic shift that would be Jimi Hendrix.
My 200th album from this project and a bit of a disspointing one. While I enjoyed some tracks in the middle of its short run, the rest of the tracks made no impact. 3/5
Had quite a nice feel to it, need to listen again
I like this. It will probably grow on me. I don't like country songs, so some parts of this record - where the country influences are very obvious - didn't appeal to me much
Another one where I like the singles but overall it just got a bit samey. And this is after Gene Clark left so they were struggling a bit hence four cover versions. I always let it run on to autoplay after finishing and I have been getting so much of the same style lately I swear my Spotify defaults to ‘Strange Brew’ by Cream, which is usually better than anything that has gone before. Come on generator, mix it up a bit!
boring hippy stuff
That sure was a Byrds album.
Standard 60s album. Not bad, but also nothing to write home about.
Meh. I ended up listening to Sweetheart of the Rodeo instead.
Eh. It's alright. I get that maybe it was considered more experimental at the time. But it's really sloppy allover. And you can tell that sloppiness was not on purpose.
Not my thing
Pretty good. Had some enjoyable songs. I enjoyed the feel and all, but it was nothing groundbreaking
Amazing guitar. Amazing harmonies. Gives you a small array of genres, which is pretty cool. An amazing collection of songs in that era. Despite the fact I’m not a big into folk music, this is a solid 4.
This is my second album from The Byrds. In a way, I see it and I don't at the same time. There is no denying the influence this band had. One of the first to combine the sound of folk and psychedelia, which would become the sound of the 60's and 70's. And there are many members of the group who have had large careers spanning many decades. So as a piece of history, it is good to go back and listen to this. But as an overall listening experience, it doesn't hold up compared to albums that would come out after, or even music from their contemporaries in the same time period. There are very small hints of a space theme to this album, and that combined with the sound of the music makes this album feel like it is leaning more on the psych aspect of the band's sound. I don't know how many more albums I will end up listening to for this band, but unless they pull something really interesting, I can't imagine myself giving these albums a very high score.
Bom, mas sem muito diferencial das bandas de folk rock dos anos 60.
Good album and one should pick up a copy. A bit repetitive at times.
My first listen through indicated it's another middle of the road 60s folk album and I'm thinking this genre is over represented on the 1001. In any event, Eight Miles High is an excellent song and if this was the song / album that set the psychedelic genre in motion then I feel I shouldn't be trouncing it.
I find it hilarious that, per Wikipedia, the most notable aspect of this release described by critics as "wildly uneven" and "awkward and scattered" was the fact that it was the first Byrds album not to include any songs written by Bob Dylan! That said, the opening track, “5D”, sounds like a reprise of Mr. Tambourine Man, which I think they would have been familiar with : ) There’s a lot of improvised guitar experiments, apparently Coltrane & Ravi Shankar influenced, that run throughout a few of the songs, like “I See You”. I’m surprised that “8 Miles High” has the aforementioned frantic guitar as well. I thought that it couldn’t possibly have made it onto the single that I remember from my youth, but apparently, I was wrong. Anyway, that song is a cut above the rest, and by then its composer Gene Clark had split. On a more positive note, some of the original compositions are okay and I do prefer this to the country album they released a couple of years later.
There’s a lot of jingly jangly guitars here, but the album is saved by their best song ever, 8 miles high and it gets a charitable 3 as a result.
This is my second Byrds album (the first was Mr. Tambourine Man) on the list. I have to say, I enjoyed Mr. Tambourine Man more. Some good songs, jangly guitars (that often sound like sitars) and two instrumentals on this particular version of the album. There are also some songs that are kind of all over the place and guitar solos that just sound like someone playing as many notes as they could without regard to the underlying tune. Some standout tracks for me are "Why" (both versions), "Eight Miles High" (the only song I've heard before) and "John Riley". I think their version of "Hey Joe (Where You Gonna Go)" was good too - really different than the bluesy rock version by Jimi Hendrix or Wilson Pickett's soulful rendition.
I kinda prefer country Byrds, but this is solid folk rock. I’ll for sure come back to this one in the future
Really came around on this after a second listen, special shout out to Mr. Spaceman and some wild chaotic guitar parts on Eight Miles High and their version of Hey Joe for really winning me over.
Theres a few songs i really like but a bunch that are boring
A few dudes, but very consistent and great sound. I’m a little ignorant of the genre, but I’m loving it!
Your average 60s psych rock record. There’s not a lot of memorable moments here. The mixing of the guitar in some parts is weird as well. But, I enjoyed ur even if I don’t remember all of it. Good, but not THAT good.
"Wild Mountain Thyme" "Eight Miles High"
Very forgettable to me frankly. I guess the album cover should have given me some hint at what I was about to hear. Somehow the actual songs themselves doesn't sound as hallucinatory as the art feels, but there are still some songs where the experimentation goes wrong. Like 'Eight Miles High' for example, which was a low point for me personally. In general I think this album have some of the worst guitar solos I've heard. We've had one more The Byrds album before, and I just fail to see the greatness with them.
I really enjoyed the begging of the album, the intro to 5D was a nice start of the album with just acapella vocals and the straight into the song. The album dropped in quality and when I got to "I come and Stand at Every Door" i was kind of done. Luckily both "Eight Miles High" is good song and then I was treated to a very interesting cover of "Hey Joe". On the topic of covers the very different take on "Wild Mountain Thyme" was fun to and a long way the folky original. Both these covers were not necessarily better then the original but they were definitely a new take.
Solid byrds shtuff. Feeling a strong 3 on this one
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Generic 60s
Most of it drifted through me like typical 60's stuff
also glad its over
After a stressful week where it’s felt a little like my brain is melting out of my head, it was like a little Ray of sunshine to be generated an album by The Byrds. A year ago, I’d only heard a couple of songs by them where now I’ve heard a few albums, and I’m hopeful this is as good as the others. Songs I already knew: none Favourites: Mr Spaceman, 2-4-2 Fox Trot Although I enjoyed this album, it didn’t really seem to try anything different to other Byrds albums that I’ve heard so far. If I was to give a criticism, the albums aren’t really different from each other and after hearing several albums it is starting to show. I did still like this, and the vocals harmonies were perfect, but it does feel like I’m just repeating myself after previous reviews here, as there isn’t really anything new to comment on.
65/100
This thing is all over the place. Psychedelic, blues jam, even a touch of country. And the Lear Jet thing… Still, a few jems. 5D, Eight Miles High are keepers.
Classic
Good, and I'd probably like it more after closer listening.
HAIKU REVIEW - The Byrds - Fifth Dimension Hey mister spaceman Beam me up to somewhere else It is boring here
Waffled between a 3 and 4 for this. I did listen twice, but the hippie sounding songs like Wild Mountain Thyme bring it down a bit for me, and the others aren't quite up to the level of Mr. Tambourine Man and Turn! Turn! Turn! A couple of songs sounded a little too similar to those though. I liked Mr. Spaceman.
This list loves The Byrds more than is strictly necessary, as this is the fourth album I've got to - while the likes of nineties indie legends EMF go unchosen. It's a pretty solid four stars, two stellar singles and always something interesting going on.
Psicodelia na dose certa, a guitarra do Crosby garante o envolvimento da viagem entre o folk e blues.
Fifth Dimension is the third album by the American rock band the Byrds. This folk rock album was influential in originating psychedelic rock with its experimental songs. Critical reviews of the album were mixed, noting the awkwardness of all the different types of songs compiled together. Retrospective reviews are better, since they point out the origins of psychedelic rock on this album. I thought this was a decent album of rock music from the mid-60's. Of course some songs were better than others, but most of the album seemed to be forgettable tracks that I wouldn't notice if I randomly heard them over the next few days/weeks. Still, it's almost a classic of early rock music so I recommend giving it a listen, and deciding for yourself how you like it.
it really does sound like a mix of bob Dylan and the Beatles 2.5
I really enjoyed this. Hey Joe cover was great
Gene Clark havia marxat. Roger McQuinn i David Crosby agafen les regnes i demostren que la banda encara pot millorar... i expandir les seves fronteres. Curiosament, però, un dels millors temes del disc és de Clark, 'Eight Miles High'. El pop desbordant i magnètic de la banda, aquí ja amb clars tocs psicodèlics, és tremendament disfrutable. Estaven en uns anys que no erraven un sol tret, i décades després som afortunats de poder continuar disfrutant-ho
It is a good and classic album, it just isn't the best Byrds album. It drags a bit more than their prior two albums and doesn't feel quite as genre defining as those either. Still a good listen.
Presumably very important historically but not exactly a thrill to listen to with modern ears
I felt like I could hear some of the same influences that inspired The Beatles' Revolver, but maybe that's just wishful thinking on my part. This album just SOUNDS like 1966 music to me. I'm not big into The Byrds but it's an undeniably good album. I was getting kind of sick of the vocals by the end, though. The singing felt repetitive. None of the songs stood out to me, but I thought the album was decent overall.
Melodic and 60s trippy. Not as memorable as other Byrds albums, but still a mostly-pleasant ride.
Too much Byrds on this list, it's sort of inexcusable. In spite of a couple gems, it's a patchy album.
I must admit. I like the Killers version of Spaceman better. It's relatively melodic and the lyrics make some type of sense.
Eight Miles High is the only standout, though tracks like 5D and Mr. Spaceman, maybe John Riley hold down some solid tracks. The rest are pretty forgettable.
A fantastic psychedelic folk record that blends both parts of the genre perfectly rather than just hopping between them track to track. One of the pinnacles of the genre for sure and maybe the best The Byrds album? (I’ll have to relisten to Younger than Yesterday but it’s definitely up there)
kinda cool!!
Width, length, depth, country and jangle. Jangle is the fifth dimension.
The fifth dimensions is jingle-jangle? EINSTEIN YOU SAW IT ALL
For as small as this album is, it’s enjoyable. Fifth Dimension is a psychedelic rock album with nice solos and some bluesy and folky influences. But it is most definitely psychedelic. It’s enjoyable and you’re bound to find something enjoyable on this album. Frankly I don’t have much more to add. A lot of the songs are pretty short (less than 3 minutes for most) and it’s pretty consistent. The solos are also nice and fit the psychedelic influence this album has. Sometimes tracks feel more bluesy or more folky but they’re still psychedelic. This was a fine album worthy of a 6/10 and that’s kind of it.
Whack a skull with the pool-noodle pop of the Byrds enough times, and the distinctive elements more or less sink in. Fifth Dimension takes a minute to get strange, never does anything with it, and is notably quiet to boot. In 29 minutes, that's personality if nothing else, the band working it out in time. I underrate, perhaps, on the lack of earworms. Green footprints, though, are a delightful and sticky image.
Like a couple of songs but not great tbh
Meh
A pretty good psychedelic record with the beautiful evergreen"Eight Miles High". Besides that, "5D" as well as "I See You" are standout tracks. Everything else is of a pretty decent level. The covers on this album have in my humble opinion, been performed and outclassed by other artists. The Byrds did have their own sound. They mixed the style of The Beatles with that of Bob Dylan, with the typical sound of the 12-string Rickenbacker guitar and the harmony in David Crosby's voice. I really don't mind The Byrds or this album, but it's not something to listen to for very long. That's why this album of barely half an hour is perfect.
Meh think there is enough Byrds albums in the list we don’t need this one.
This is some hippie bullshit and luckily I like hippie bullshit. I think this needs a little more energy for me to bump it up into "really like" territory though. Still this is the highest 3.5 stars I can give.
Wasn’t bad but also nothing that blew me away. I liked the more jammy type songs.
I liked the folk-y stuff more than the psychodelic stuff.
As this album goes on I get "considered by critics to be influential in originating the musical genre of psychedelic rock."
Best Song: Eight Miles High. A prototypical 60s rock song, but one with enough focus to actually stay coherent. Worst Song: I Come and Stand at Every Door. It feels disingenuous to just drop in a song about the bombing of Hiroshima into an otherwise peppy rock album. Such a weird departure from the rest of the album to make such a brief pass at such a serious topic. Overall: Grandpa rock. There are a few tracks in here that are alright, but it's lost in the mix of "experimental" rock noodling. Also, I find this style of aggressively stereo mixing really awful to listen to on headphones. It feels like trying to listen to two conversations at once.
Wow, another kinda bland Byrds album. They must have better folk albums to put in the list than just endless Byrds
Good fun, true sound of the 60s
Even though Bob Dylan and Gene Clark didn't write any of these songs, their influence is still super apparent, especially on that opener. Really interesting to see a band in transition, trying to figure out their identity and come into their own. Which is kind of hard when you do an album half of which are covers, but I would argue the seeds are planted and the covers were enjoyable. Out of CSNY, I'm least versed in Crosby's pre supergroup work (I guess my parents didnt have these records) and I'm not sure why I haven't explored it before. Did anyone else get the feeling that some of the songs ended kind of abruptly? Still, a worthwhile experience
This was good, but as an album it felt all over the place.
This is a tough one. There are great tracks on this disc (Mr. Spaceman, Eight Miles High and wild Mountain Tyme, for example). However, there is a lot that is either average or filler. This doesn't make my list.
This is good but not special. Other than 8 Mile High, no outstanding tracks. There are other, better Byrds albums on the list.
I think this is on here more for its historical importance than its actual quality or relistenability. It had great moments but it sounded like Simon and Garkfunkel with fuzzy psychedelic guitars.
Klasik psychedelic rekord
No
a decent album, pleasant but forgettable overall. i don't think i knew anything by the byrds prior to this, though several of these songs are covers of traditional folk or popular 50s/60s songs, so i knew wild mountain thyme and hey joe. mr spaceman was good. 2-4-2 fox trot (the lear jet song) is one of the worst and most annoyingly grating songs I've ever heard. the instruments are hard-panned to the left channel, there's a bunch of like, scraping metal and mechanical aviation noises hard-panned to the right, and the center channel has the astoundingly repetitive vocals phrase. insane audio engineering choices here, even for the 60s. the 17-minute song+interview at the end of the album on spotify ("John Riley - instrumental version 1") was wild. lots of weird/awkward pauses that seemed to be added in specifically for this track. highlights: around 9 mins in they start talking about aliens and around 10 mins in they're making plane noises. tbh i think this interview made me come around a bit on the rest of the album favorites: wild mountain thyme, mr. spaceman worst song of all time: 2-4-2 fox trot (the lear jet song)
This album was all over the place. Lyrics about kids being blown up to green aliens. Always a good beat and jammin guitar though.
Some really cool songs here but I definitely see where the consensus of it being uneven come from. It's a bit all over the place. The guitar work is really solid though.
Klart det är bra men nu har jag totalt fått tre plattor med Byrds. Så bra är de inte.
I liked this one! It’s got nice psychedelic pop, rock songs. The songs almost have a kind of jolliness to them. Definitely worth revisiting! 8 out of 10
Major knock-off Peter, Paul, and Mary vibes. If I’m gonna listen to that sort of music, I’m just going to listen to PPM.
They somehow remind me of the beatles, I find them charming. Liked mr. Spaceman
Folk-rock. Ni fu ni fa.
I think The Byrds is the best shitty band I've ever heard and I mean that with a passion. I don't think I'd spend any time listening to these guys except that they're such an outlier and everything they make is unique. I've never been one to make love to dirty hippy bands, but every Byrds album on 1001 is oddly deserved. This one included. I think their oddities lay in the fact that there seems to be a different lineup on each album. David Crosby, the GOAT original dirty hippy seems to always be involved in The Byrds albums I like the best. The blow-y harmonizing I could do without John Riley, I'm talking to you, and also the rest of the album. The Hey Joe cover is odd, but not bad. Mr. Spaceman is a classic as is Eight Miles High. This is not quite a train wreck, more like an artfully deconstructed locomotive piled high on the railroad tracks.
The Byrds were seemingly at their best early in their career when they were covering Dylan, though Gene Clark’s early originals were pretty good too. “Fifth Dimension” sees the Byrds moving on from Clark, but he still has writing credits on “Eight Miles High,” which is the best song on the album. Clark may have only worked in the context of the Byrds though, because I really didn’t care for his solo album.
There are too many boring folk songs on this album…zzzzzz. And some of the more interesting songs have the faster picked, muddled, psychedelic guitar sound which is more annoying than anything else. The instrumental Captain Soul and What’s Happening? are the tracks I like the best.
Singles: ---------------------------------- Eight Miles High (#14 US, #24 UK) 5D (Fifth Dimension) (#44 US) Mr. Spaceman (#36 US) Not one of my favorite groups, but pretty good/easy listen 3.5/5
It was pretty good. Groovy, but it wasn’t exceptional. Although Eight Miles High is an incredible song. 7/10.
Mid psychedelic
Another Byrds album? Wiki says it was influential for psychedelic rock, but I found it forgettable.
I definitely preferred this to the other Byrds album I'd had on here. Parts of this have a pretty scuzzy garage rock feel to the guitar which I like. It's not all jingly jangly sing along with the Byrds.
Great guitar work here. Harmonies slick as always. The more Britishy folk vibes are here. Would have given it 4 but giving it 5 cause the haters made me love it more.
I think I’m done with the byrds now, which means I really hope I’m done with them because they’re probably the most non 60’s band of all and they have 5 of these albums I swear. The album itself… short and boring zzz 2/5
Amazing, loved it <3
Probablement le meilleur album de The Byrds que j'ai eu à date. Il se démarquait beaucoup plus par ses compositions et il y avait beaucoup plus de variation d'une pièce à l'autre. Toujours pas un grand fan du band, mais j'ai eu beaucoup plus de plaisir à écouter cet album que les précédents. 7/10
Just…meh. 1/5
Not bad
Wonderful album, and definitely seems to be tipping the scale towards psychedelia. Had lots of classic early 60's charm. Always interesting to find out songs I didn't think were covers are: Mr. Spaceman
absolute genius. 1966 and what a blend of voices and harmonies, rock, folk and some Shankar inspired sounds... Thought provoking and hopeful lyrics. Love it
Pretty cool 60’s rock album, feel like it would be best enjoyed stoned chilling out. Lots of great guitar work. Punchy too at 29 minutes long.
3 stars
Not bad. Sort of quiet as expected for the time. Well put together
This list really does love psych rock, huh? Good thing I do too, this was delightful.
I honestly love David Crosby the more I listen to him. Hell yes to the tightness on display too.
One of the more iconic Byrds albums, it includes some of there better known songs. It also leans heavily into covers including Hey Joe and the traditional folk song Wild Mountain Thyme. There renditions are good but with the Byrds, you want to see more original music. Still, you can hear the beginnings of 80s jangle rock and present day indie folk in this album from the mid-60s. That's something worth celebrating.
Nice. I can see the psychedelic roots on this album
Pleasantly surprised with this
3.5
The Byrds suck. Sorry.
Not my cup of tea.
Reasonably engaging but didn't really lead me to wanting to find out more. 3/5
Not quite my taste, but still some classic songs
Good, but not great to be honest. 'Eight Miles High' is a very good track tho and my favourite of the album. 3,5/5