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This feels like a time capsule record. Like if you were to ask “hey what was music like in the 60s” this album would be included in that list. That said, it’s pretty mid to low mid for today’s standards.
One blink and it was gone. Did not made an impression.
This was bland. Interesting hearing I See You having been familiar with the Yes version for years. But yeah, nothing special overall.
This was ok. Not a big fan of the noodly guitar work, it just sounded like someone learning to play guitar messing around with random strings. 2/5
eh.
This may have been groundbreaking but it now sounds like a parody
I struggled with this album and didn't complete listening. It jumps around, it lost me
I know the Byrds are a legendary band and they have a unique sound, but I found this album to be boring
M’oui
This was like every cliche of psych rock and I guess they created those cliches so it’s okay. I got nothing here, didn’t like it won’t listen again but it’s fine. There’s five of these on the list?
Oouff…boring 60s album. Had 2 cool tracks though. Wouldn’t save the two to relisten but wouldn’t turn the radio off either.
Guess I’m not a Byrds fan.
A couple funky psychedlic tunes but a lot of weird and just straight bad songs too. The fuck was that Hiroshima shit? Would not recommend
I didn’t care for this one.
This was fine as background music.
I smell suede and patchouli.
Why are there so many Byrds albums on here?? There hasn't been a single one worth listening to.
The third Byrds album I've encountered here, and apparently there are two more to go. Zero reason to have more than one of their albums on this list. Absolutely none.
Meh. Sixties pop. Well played but nothing to write home about.
Couldn’t finish it 1.5 stars
Psychedelic Folk Rock from the mid 1960s. A little bit dated now perhaps? Contains their cover of "Hey Joe" which was covered by many artists in the 1960s including Jimi Hendrix and Love. Best known track on the album is probably their hit single "Eight Miles High".
Did not need another Byrds album. 2.65
One of five Byrds albums that doesn't deserve a place on the list. Some poor covers mixed with some average. The album is all over the place. I'm sure it's here for "cultural and historical significance" but fuck that, it's weak. 2/5.
I dig the deranged guitar solos. Other than that, it's just another psychedelic pop/rock album.
Nada especial en mi opinion
No, this didnt give me anything.
Listened to this driving from London to Cambridge…in other words a bit distracted. There are a few moments that held my interest but overall like an inferior version of the Doors. 2/5
Prima. Maar zou niet zomaar nogmaals aanzetten.
I think there are probably better options to represent this era of music, this is not it Best Song: 5th Dimension Rating: 4/10 Stars: 2
there are 5 albums by the byrds on the list, and the inclusion of this one in particular is pretty unjustifiable. worse songwriting than the others (bye gene clark, wish you were here gram parsons) the performances are lackluster in comparison, it just doesn't offer anything you can't get better elsewhere
I like the first track and then it kinda devolves from there. Some really strange covers here.
this is the second byrds album I've had on here and now i want to throw that guys guitar out of the window. it doesnt sound good, it doesnt sound 'kooky', you dont sound like jimi hendrix, you've just taken too many drugs to realise you can't play the fucking guitar!
For how boring and forgettable The Byrds are, I can't believe they have 5 albums on this list, and then their members have another 8ish albums. Enough is enough, they are okay at best. The best thing I can say about this album is that it sounds like music and everything seems to be in tune. Every song is a 10 second idea stretched out to a 3 minute song. Nothing here really has a chorus, they just vamp until the song is over. If this was the only Byrds album on this list I would call it unremarkable and give it a low 3, but they are now my mortal enemy and I will give them a Mid 2.
Sort of a hodge podge, mostly good songs but kinda schizophrenic
Not quite to my liking. This sounds like a band in transition to me. I preferred this to the more country sound of another Byrds album in this project. But overall, I'm not impressed.
More cowbell was had
Another Byrds album? Do we really need to chart their progress this closely? Anyway, it means I don't have to think very hard about what to say, I think my opinion of The Byrds is about as developed as it's going to get, and here it is: this is fine. It's fine. The only really notable thing for me was that the opening track sounds quite Dylan-esque in structure, very Hey Mr Tambourine Man, almost a rip off. I guess he rubbed off on them.
Not really my type
This is just such average b-list 60s music. I'm familiar with The Byrds, I know a handful of their songs, but there is a good reason they haven't managed to remain as relevant as say The Beatles or Jimi Hendrix, and listening to this painfully mediocre albums makes it very clear why they are "just another 60s band."
I've no idea why this is the 4th album by these that I've seen. I can't understand. It's so dull and it's mostly cover songs
Look I’m sure there’s a contingent of people that are annoyed that *NSYNC, Backstreet Boys, and 98 degrees all sound the same (they kind of do) and that is just a symptom of the time. The Byrds is one of the 60s versions of that and meh. It’s fine. So very average - nothing memorable.
This is honestly one of their weaker albums. What's more is that I think the Byrd's best songs are covers of Dylan.
Most of the individual songs were fine, but I feel like the album as a whole is not great
Feels like every 60s album. Not bad, but…
1960s groovy rock with a lot of harmonies. Seriously, most of the songs sounded like a barbershop quartet got ahold of some electric guitars. I do like some of the instrument work on here, but overall I didn't really care for much of the vocals, which killed the score for me. 2/5
Didn’t really do much for me. Felt familiar but nothing special - I feel like if I wanted to listen to this kind of music, then there’s better artists to listen to.
Ok
Elvis may have been kind when he said he appreciated modern music like the Byrds. I guess it was an interesting listen, especially songs like I See You and What's Happening. But otherwise everything else felt rather janky and overall too psychedelic for my taste.
Hat für mich nicht funktioniert. Stimme gefiel, allerdings passt die sehr häufig frickelige Instrumentarisierung für mich gar nicht dazu.
Fands weder besonders spannend noch langweilig. War durch Kinderbetreuung aber auch sicher nicht genug aufmerksam.
Psychedelic, jangly, intricate harmonies. More of the same from The Byrds - impressive considering this is the first record after the departure of Gene Clark. While I enjoy parts (especially Eight Miles High), I don't feel completely drawn in or blown away by the album. Best Tracks: - What's Happening? - Eight Miles High Worst Tracks: - I Come And Stand At Every Door - 242 Foxtrot Rating: 5/10
It's not awful. But it's from that time where stereo was still pretty new, and they thought they had to hard pan every damn instrument. Hard to listen to.
Overall pretty forgettable.
Three fun opening songs and i like the folk sound. The album just didn't stick with me tho.
Meh
This one's a decent album, but it's not all that memorable. It's probably telling that my favorite track was "Wild Mountain Thyme," a traditional melody, as opposed to any of the album's new material.
folk is not really my thing
I don’t like the Byrds, the guitar sound is atrocious, there’s another space song, they’re trying to do Dylan but aren’t as good as Dylan. I did like the arrangement on wild mountain thyme, a song I have weird hangups about. But their covers suck also Sweetheart of the rodeo is good The Byrds suck
Uneventful and unremarkable.
Harmless 60's pop but nothing of note to make it seem like it belongs on this list.
Viel Gitarre. Es blieb nichts hängen.
This album is in a weird space of Beatles-esque with some covers, lacking a true musical identity. Some very fun hidden gems but on the whole a fairly uninteresting album. At least it doesn't overstay it's welcome. Top tracks: What's Happening?, Captain Soul
Didn't really stand out to me
Siento que he escuchado este álbum mil veces desde que empecé este desafío x2.
After four previous Byrds albums, it's hard to muster much enthusiasm for yet another one, and there's not much on "Fifth Dimension" that contradicts my lack of enthusiasm, sadly. Given how interchangeable most of the albums have been so far--aside from the semi-successful effort Gram Parsons made to inject some country into "Sweetheart of the Rodeo"--I really don't understand why this particular album was included, especially since it seems both uninspired and uneven, and doesn't even have any of their radio- or fan-favorites (except the noodly "Eight miles high" and maybe "Mr. Spaceman"?); they apparently suffered more from Gene Clark's songwriting absence than they probably expected. I guess it has some claim to birthing psychedelic rock, but that seems fairly dubious and doesn't really justify so many Byrds albums. Sorry guys.
downgraded due to the fact that Hendrix's version of Hey Joe was released earlier and yet somehow the Byrds thought a speedy version with lots of cowbell was somehow a good thing.
What flavour of The Byrds is this? It is the hippy folk, pop/rock backbeat with hints of psychadelia. It aometimes works, sometimes its a but gratimg. Like What’s Happening, for example - it has the bines of a great song, the words ate a bit half arsed and them there is an incongruous psychadelic guitar riff(?) laid over the top. Great version of hey Joe. I can see how this band
This album was pleasant enough to have on in the background, but psych rock really doesn’t do it for me.
meh 2/5
Like wow man.
Album No. 0048 on my list. Well, I've known a few The Byrds songs before, and pretty much all songs on this were a new listen for me. To be frank, if I'd listen to this album again in a week or two, I would have the same impression. I have to say that most songs on this album felt rather boring and uninspired. The title track, "Eight Miles High", and "2-4-2 For Trott" were the most catchy, most memorable ones for me on this album, and I'll likely listen to them again. The other ones are rather forgettable - sorry to say that. I didn't like the sound of this much either, although some guitar work was quite decent. Might have given 3 stars if in a better mood, but I'll stick with the lower rating for now: 2/5 stars.
Boilerplate 60’s music. I feel like I would have liked it more if they had spent 10-15 more minutes working out the melodies for each song. I’d be giving it three stars if not for 2-4-2 Fox Trot, which might be one of the worst songs I’ve ever heard.
God has given me two things to spice up my monotonous working week - this and Cemantle. A humbling diurnal battle and proof some days are good and others are a shit sandwich. Half way through the album I couldn't listen anymore, but I did get 'valve' in 21 guesses... you can't have it all. 2 stars for non-finishing guilt
Way too many cover songs. Are we sure that the third- or fourth-best Byrds album should be on the top 1000 list?
Pretty middle of the road album, but “The Lear Jet Song” was obnoxious enough to drop a full star, and Jimi’s version of “Hey Joe” is way better
Didn't get to this today. Maybe Monday.
The Byrds is a band that might have a ok greatest hits album, but I doubt any of their actual albums should be on the list. Musically this album is interesting and good, but lyrically it’s one of the worst things from the decade. All of the sins of cheap, trite 60’s songwriting. Notable tracks include Wild Mountain Thyme, What’s Happening, Eight Miles High, I Know My Rider.
Ugh, more boring music!
These guys were clearly fucked up the whole time they were recording this.
Just nothing here worth committing to memory, even a little bit
I have never really got the Byrds. I had a greatest hits when I was younger - and it was fine - but never really grabbed me. Very surprised to learn that there are 5 Byrds albums on this list.... This ones a real mixed bag. Eight Miles High is the obvious standout. Everything else pretty meh.
The titular track is so Dylan - even when not covering him, the Byrds are enthralled to the man. The chord changes, metre, phrasing is pure Bob. Rarely can Dylan impersonators match the visceral and cerebral source material - and I feel that the case here. Gene Clark had absented the band by this point. 'Eight Miles High', the one track he did contribute to, carves a path of its own - Dylan from another planet maybe. The mystical chord progressions are equally eastern and beautifully folk simultaneously, which brings an intriguing but comforting feel to this pathfinding tune (even if the lead guitar busily stumbles over itself at times). Great stuff. Aside from these tracks, I found the album lazy. Folk reinterpretations; throwaway pop; blues-jam. On the positive side 'Wild Mountain Thyme' is another version of their 'Mr Tambourine Man'; it's over-orchestrated but still a touching song. 'What's Happening' is a self-assured tune with some majesty though. It's a gem in a lot of rough. The more I listen the more it's obvious the album hangs off the excellent centrepiece; the seminal 'Eight Miles High'. Despite a couple of nice tracks the rest doesn't come close.
They should have kept Dylan
Holy crap. 2 records in a row that are difficult to appreciate. Yesterday Steeley Dan - Aja, and this 1966 rager. 4 of the songs are covers. At least the record represents change. It’s not all folk rock and there is an interesting shift into folk-rock-neopsychedelia with some Ravi Shankar noodling references. The Ravi Shankar passages are distracting. See What’s Happening for a prime example. Beautiful vocal by David Crosby and a bit of a jaunty tune with the Shankar Noodles. Then there is a WTF moment. Who decided that I Come and Stand at Every Door should be released? Morose doesn’t quite describe the impact on the listener. a song about a seven year old child killed by the A-Bomb on Hiroshima whose spirit walks the earth in search of peace. This is a song to overdose too. Eight Miles High and Hey Joe are easily the best tracks on the record. The psychedelic Eight Miles High and the rather excellent cover of Hey Joe are the best if a rather uneven batch of songs. The instrumental Captain Soul is also rather interesting as it captures some of the Jim McGuinn precise leads with a piercing jangle guitar tone that is the Byrds sonic trademark. John Riley has a monotone vocal matching the folk origins of the original. I’m sure if I liked folk music and was dropping acid this would be mildly interesting but as I am neither interested in folk or on acid this song is just blah. It could be Steeley Dan. The final track starts with a vacuum cleaner emulation of apparently a Lear jet. The 2-4-2 Fox Trot (The Lear Jet Song) is the least interesting track on the record and signals the end of a rather uninteresting album. Once all the way through was more than enough. When I look back on this journey I’ll know this is an album never to revisit.
Hardly a magic carpet ride as the cover suggests, it's more or less confined to token folk pop. The folkies of the '60s were musical elitists who demanded a puritanical level of adherence to a notional set of rules that included arbitrary and shifting goalposts; in this instance, they were rightfully annoyed. But let's be honest about The Byrds, even when they were respected, they played mostly covers, at least on their first two records. On their third album, "Fifth Dimension," The Byrds wrote their own music and incorporated electricity; the outcome was meh. The record has its moments, but there is hardly anything here that dictates an essential listen or a return to listen. The Byrds are another bunch of dudes with instruments who didn't write the material that made them famous. It's no surprise that when they do write their own music, a fifth dimension on the third spinny disc would occur. Assuming the substitution for the list must be another folk record, the album that should be added instead is S/t Jackson C. Frank. David Van Ronk's Folksinger would also be a fair substitution for Mississippi John Hurt's Folk Songs and Blues.
I wanted it to be better. Nothing stood out to me.
Captain Soul is a great instrumental track. I don't care for the rest, although I know this has a few important and innovative tracks. And every sound David Crosby produces annoys me. And why didn't they call it Fyfth Dymension? Missed opportunity.
2/5 - I didn’t really need to hear this album. Other than Eight Miles High, nothing even prompted me to check the song title. It’s an extremely 60s record without much appeal for me. I don’t get why this is on the list.
Boring soulless 60’s psychedelic rock.
Just so boring, another Psychedelic Rock album that sounds like a dull Beatles and Dylan album. Silly list for putting 5 albums of them in it.
The Byrds don’t even deserve one album on this list and this is I think my third. Bit fucking pointless!
3/10
Not much to say, quite an forgettable album. I don't really enjoy country albums 2/5
Okay.
Was fine.
This was pretty pleasant. I thought Turn Turn Turn would be on this album since every song sounds like it is building up to it. So it was surprising it wasnt on here. This was pretty nice.
Meh
"Why" sounds like an REM song. A lot of this seems like it could have been influential for 1966. I also have the same feeling I'm sure most of my teachers had about my effort levels: minimal and half assed. Learned Gram Parsons didn't join until the 6th album.
Theres a ton of great 60s music… and this isnt part of it. I love Eight Miles High and I Know My Rider (which is a bonus track). The rest of the album all sounds alright, but not noteworthy. The most “2.5 stars” of an album ive ever heard
Pretty boring, this album. This band feels like a mediocre example of the music of the era, and you'd be better off listening to any of their contemporaries than them.
Wasn’t into this one
wasn't a fan of this - i couldn't even concentrate on listening to the songs. it just felt a little too bland which made it difficult to distinguish between songs. i can appreciate the influence they had over music (psych rock etc.) but i struggled to finish the album without getting bored which is concerning considering it was only half-an-hour long.
Folkrock, 1966 -> 2
I can see the historical importance of the album and some of the songs did grab me. Fighting between 2 and 3 stars.
Better than it started. Hey Joe
Another 60s album. Doesn't please my ears, I'm not a fan. Sorry.
The grooves were nice but the lyrics were underdeveloped (I could have done without the detailed Hiroshima accounting). Not bad for 1966, but not quite inspiring.
Lidt bedre end den sidste med Byrds, den her havde vist lidt flere originale sange, men de gør stadig ikke noget for mig
No more Dylan covers!
Meh. I was expecting a little more from this.
These guys could not write an intro, outro, or bridge to save their lives. Every song comes in on one note, and just stays on that note the whole time.
This is the second time I have been recommended this band. It’s fine, but I do t care for it
Not a lot to say about this one. It's ok. Super short songs, but a lot of them. It definitely all ran together for me and I found myself not paying attention to it at all. I don't really know why this album would be included on this list, and surely one from The Byrds would have been enough. This is my first one from them but apparently they have 5 on the list? Seems excessive to me... 2/5
Not for me, sorry. Pleasant enough, but doesn't grab me.
4/10 Another one that shouldn’t be on this list. All the ingredients for a good album are there, but it just doesn’t work. Song choice and songwriting isn’t right, it is well put together but tends toward folk rock with a psychedelic wrapper. Problem is that everything they do here is not as good as others, say Dylan, Beach Boys, Simon & Garfunkel. Best: Eight Miles High
Singles are okay, the rest is boring middle of the road folk pop and sounds like everything else from the valley, which this list has way too much of.
Felt very chaotic, couldnt focus on or enjoy it.
I listened to the original release of this album (rather than a remastered version), and I think it desperately needs remixed. The use of only the L or R speaker throughout this album is so damn irritating. I almost DNF'ed on the very last song and it wasn't even 3 minutes long lol. This album was a snoozefest other than a few exceptions that still weren't worth relistening. 2/5
Ugh, I'm not sure how much byrds I can take. At least this one doesn't have any Dylan covers Listening -Vocals still seem trying to be Dylan-lite on this opening -I love Wild Mountain Thyme, an old classic of Irish music. And this is a good cover. But it just has a little too much going on -Mr. Spaceman is a stupid song. but fun. My primary memory of this song is a cassette tape when I was kid of Muppets playing with various human musicians. Anyway Jimmy Buffett played this with Gonzo, and obviously it had an impact. Anyway, I had fun, but this song is totally empty. -In general, I feel like their instrumentals are always a little too much going on. -Eight Miles High is quite cool. The slowly building open, the guitar solos. But I'm not sure I actually like it very much. It's just a peek into the fact they could be musically creative if they wanted. Review: I wanted to be more optimistic about this one, but it still feels like watered down 60s rock. Like, its just very soft and doesn't really feel like it has anything to say. Eight Miles High is enough to bring it to 2.5, but even the songs I like feel poorly produced and busy. At least it's short. Rounding down. Ostensibly the Byrds were one of the biggest bands of the 60s and I think it's the equivalent of small-town midwesterners getting excited when a dish has black pepper and is thus "spicy": 60s people just weren't ready for musical complexity in popular music yet. At least they helped give us that dope Gene Clark album from earlier by starting his career.
Maybe we've had too much of The Byrds or related solo projects, but I found this album to be far more boring than their other works, which is kind of disappointed since I liked the earlier ones on this list so much more.
Lyrics obviously not the byrds strong point in this one but you can see this influencing a lot of music going forward.
#22 Fifth Dimension ~ The Byrds The Byrds stake their claim as one of the first psychedelic folk acts, which is nice. They have David Crosby, which is nice. I can definitely hear a bunch of acts they've influenced, like Tom Petty and REM, which is nice. But I guess the issue is I don't necessarily hear anything of substance for the first few albums. I guess it's a bit too easy-listening for my taste. Like sugar water. The album feels very inconsistent. Some songs are pretty good. 8 Miles High is the biggest stand out, but after that song, my god I nearly fell asleep, and that's not necessarily a good sign, because I get excited or piqued by the lowest of tricks. Still it's not as bad as Beau Brummels, in the sense that there's something redeemable and charming I find about this album, but certainly an album I can't really see revisiting.
If this album were a colour it would be taupe or magnolia! Very bland and un interesting to listen to and certainly not an album I would listen to again.
Certainly not their best effort and the change in song writing shows The Byrds always emulated Dylan, it's especially true and less successful on this album. Certainly not bad as there's some good songs, including and especially Mr Spaceman but their first two albums were far better
Yeah didn't mind some of this but not really my wheelhouse. Mid 2s
PRetty boring album. Didn't do a lot for me. No real stand out tracks
I listened to this album. But that’s all you’re getting from me. I’ve already wrung every word I’m capable of writing about the Byrds out of myself. I’ve got nothing left. I can only say “mid psych folk jangle pop” so many times and in so many ways and I ran out of original combinations twelve Byrds albums ago. I’m done.
Wow, it was the first album ever not to include any songs written by Bob Dylan. That alone deserves a higher than usual rating
Really uneven and nothing super interesting here for me. Eight miles high as the high point for me but I just didn’t enjoy this sound very much. Psychedelic rock has left this so far behind it is hard to go back
Fun album, fun look into a moment in time, but not an essential byrds album.
Couldn't get into this.
i fall the fuck off this world
Me gustó mucho pero llegó escuchando rock de los 60 varias álbumes seguidos 😅 Muy rollo beatles Le doy un 5/10 en la escala wow
I'm incredulous there's YET ANOTHER Byrds album on this list. Props to Mr. Spaceman for doing something different at least.
It's fine, just not my style. I was pretty bored early on.
Yeah psychedelic rock had to start somewhere I guess
I liked it better than their previous folk albums. I'm guessing this wanted to be more of a psychedelic record, but it kind of flops all over the place between folk, experimental and psychedelic. Three Mile High is a decent song but the sitar-sounding guitar bits are a little tedious. Hey Joe was an unnecessary cover.
Aside from Kim Gordon of Sonic Youth, no woman has more than four albums on this list. No black artist has more than four albums on this list. Somehow, The Byrds have five? Let’s be fucking for real. Also I love that Wikipedia says this is their first album without Dylan material and the first song is a Dylan knock off.
Second album proposé par le générateur après 'Mr. Tambourine man' que j'avais trouvé quelconque (noté 2/5). Celui-ci n'est pas beaucoup mieux. J'ai reconnu le morceau 'I Come and Stand at Every Door', il a aussi été repris en 1991 par 'This Mortal Coil' dans l'album 'Blood', bien plus intéressant mais ... pas dans la liste. 'Eight Miles High' est un peu plus original, et la reprise de 'Hey Joe' est assez réussie. Mais c'est trop peu pour donner envie de l'écouter de nouveau. =>2/5
Feels like a typical l psych rock album. Nothing really grabbed my attention. Maybe need to listen in a different mood
Il y a quelques chansons sympathiques, mais c'est l'exemple parfait comme quoi les standards de ce qu'on appelle un album étaient plutot bas dans les années 60. Ça sonne la marde, la guit sonne le cul, le drum est tout croche, la moitié des tounes sont des covers, les 3/4 sont des fillers. Je sais pas dans quelle dimension quelqu'un peut penser que cet album est un incontournable. Les Byrds, c'est juste bon pour un Best Of, pis ça ferait pas un disque double. Aussi, en lisant les autrs reviews, j'ai su qu'il y a 4 autres albums des Byrds dans le palmares. Fuck off. Ça donne le gout d'écouter du Beefheart.
Everything sounds the same. Just doesn’t resonate with me.
Nothing at all
Þetta fannst mér ekki skemmtilegt.
Pretty standard 60's album, and pretty forgettable at that...
Ok
I mean, I like The Byrds, but I felt this album fell short compared to their other works. Not terrible, but overall just....boring. 2.25/5
A bit perplexed to realize this is the 4th album from The Byrds that I have received on this list, and they are one of my few "Controversial Artists." I loved Sweetheart of the Rodeo with Gram Parsons and the other records have just been kind of meh, but I get why they are on this. This however, I just don't know. It's uneven, half the songs are cover songs or an instrumental. I feel it's maybe not essential listening when there are 3 other records from this band that are better. An odd and (one of many) unworthy inclusions on this list I think.
Nothing to note, can’t say there are any rememberable songs. Seemed ahead of their time for the decade. One song sounded like a hoover was on in the back, not sure how u felt about it.
Not much for me to recommend in this - I found it quite dull, basic covers and weird folky songs.
The Byrds are the only band to this day that Houmous & Chutney refuse to tour with. As Len has always said. We’ll take the good, the bad and the ugly but we sure as hell wont take middle of the road!’ 2.0
I mostly know The Byrds from Greatest Hits compilations, so I'm used to a bit of unevenness. This is a very uneven album, though. It almost feels like outtakes from other good albums, like material only for real big fans of The Byrds.
Mediocre and messy
The same goes for the Byrds as for many other bands of that era: The Beatles did it better, and if I can't find anything original on an album like this, I'm not inclined to listen again. 2/5
There is no FUCKING WAY this is the third Byrds album I pull in two weeks. Unacceptable!!! To the maker of this list, I hope you suffer the listening of 1001 bloated, nothing-burger pop albums this year. What’s worse is this comes on my Sunday run day. This is not music to run to!!!! “5D” is a respectable opener that is both placid and transcendental, which momentarily quelled my rage for having to listen to this album. Aa I make my way through this track list, I’m realizing this is the easiest on the ears of the three Byrds albums I’ve had so far. No matter the performance or message, like the anti-war “I Come and Stand at Every Door”, I’m having a hard time reckoning with this. “Eight Miles High” doesn’t have the star power needed to justify anything either. No, no “Hey Joe” variation will do oy for me either. No, the endearing “John Riley” won’t stop me from being mad. The Byrds are not among the handful of artists that deserve 3, let alone 2, spots on this list.
Just what this list needed - another fucking Byrds' album. One of the most overrated bands in history. Never has a band coasted so much on shitty jangling covers of Dylan or try hard wannabe jangling originals of Dylan knock offs. I've never met a Byrds fan in the wild and on the basis of this no balls, Ned Flanders idea of psychdelia album and their other dross I have no want to. Best Tracks: 5D (Fifth Dimension); Mr Spaceman; Eight Miles High
Not the best tone. Felt disjointed but the harmonies were pretty cool
Very bland.
Meh, it’s listenable because its nostalgia fir my youth, but i hear to many other bands in the songs. 2
The Byrds geven ons een overzicht van de jaren '60. Alhoewel. Daar doe ik de jaren '60 wat mee te kort. De verschillende stijlen worden wel vertegenwoordigd. Maar voor elke jaren '60 smaak hebben ze wel de meest matige weergave gevonden. Er komt op zijn best een vergeetbare nevergreen voorbij zoals de titeltrack en op zijn slechts een drama van een verlengde-klinkers-track (And we'll aaaaaaaaaalll go together.....pfff; Heeeeeeeejjjjjj mr. Spaceman...pffff).
⭐⭐ Beetje saai
no :(
Not my jam, but okay in the background in specific mental situations.
Inte riktigt min grej, rätt till intetsägande
2.5
All pleasant but nothing standout.
So many Byrds albums So little to get the pulse racing This project has made me realise how little I like The Byrds (though I can't deny their influence on so many of the bands I love)
What’s Happening? //
Highlights: 5D (Fifth Dimension), Hey Joe, Captain Soul. In a nutshell: stuck in the middle. It seems that The Byrds are trying to leave their Mr Tambourine Man era with this album. Instead they straddle both worlds - their legacy and the evolutionary. It could have been good. It's not, it's just...fine. Overall: 4/10
Was definitely not in the mood for ANOTHER The Byrds pyschfolkwhateverthefuck this is today...
This was an ok album, I wasn't fully invested and none of the songs really stayed with me, overall a pretty mid album
I didn't need to hear this before I died.
This was fine, but boring, and the 15 minute closing track felt like the narration to an art film in a dusty corner of a contemporary art museum in a way that i really disliked.
Does a song like Hey Hoe become a rock standard through so many people playing it that you inevitably get shit versions of it or do the shit versions come because it is a rock standard? Real Byrds and the egg situation here. This was fine until it wasn’t. It’s just the most boring era of rock and roll imaginable.
This album feels really quite hit or miss, while at first I instantly felt like I was enjoying the obvious folk rock sound, there were a few, pretty short, songs that just completely went by without having any affect on me. They were generally just pretty generic and unenjoyable. The psychedelic production and melodies throughout this track list did have a big affect on me, but sadly overall too many songs slipped by me with no impact for me to enjoy this more.
folk
Didn't hate it but it was 100% forgettable
The albums from the 60s have to have something special in it for me to give it a high score. While I understand the impact they might have had on later bands I judge them on what I hear and this album, while not bad, is not something that appeals to me. It just feels like there is so much better music made later than this that I would rather listen to. That being said its another example of an album I'm glad I listened through just for the experience.
Never been the biggest fan of the Byrds, but I have to admit that Eight Miles High is a great track. Harmonies are on point and I can definitely see how this record was influential to the psychedelic rock genre. Though I very much prefer David Crosby's later work in Crosby, Stills, & Nash. Highlights: -Mr. Spaceman -Eight Miles High Lowlights: -Hey Joe (Where You Gonna Go) -2-4-2 Fox Trot (The Lear Jet Song)
The byrds aren't bad but I don't feel like this was one of their better albums. Low 2.
As bland as psychedelic music can be, not even middle of the road, just sitting on the side of the road, unable to cross it.
5d- 4 wild mountain thyme- huh mr spaceman- 3 i see you- 4 whats happening- 4 i come and stand at every door- ayo??? 2 eight miles high- 2 hey joe- 2 or 3. put the cowbell down captain soul- 3 john riley- 2 no more this stinks
Doesn’t really stand out from other rock albums of its time.
Hmmm... Yeahhh I don’t know about this one. I am trying to be open but this was just snoozy to me. I just don’t get it all the time. This was boring to me and I tried to get behind it but I just kept finding myself waiting for it to be over. A lot of the guitar playing felt repetitive and all similar to itself and I couldn’t tell when one song ended and the other had started.
Yes yes fine it's The Byrds. Instantly recognizable harmonies and 12 string electric guitar. Obviously massively influential even to this day. But JFC....the guitar playing bugs the everliving shit out of me. Jim (or...I thought his name was Roger? Did he change his name somewhere along the years...?) McGuinn has to be the absolute worst 12 string player in rock history. Fine, sue me. He sounded like a drunken bumblebee. He's absolutely fkng terrible and permeates too much of this. The shitty guitar playing doesn't help the already poor songs. I'm just not a fan - the wiki entry is littered with middling-at-best reviews both upon release and contemporary which...yes, it truly is "scattered" but I think that just means "lousy." 3/10 2 stars.
Basically Back-to-back Byrds. Alliterative nonsense aside, last one was a 4, let me check out the FIFTH dimension. Apparently this bad boy is 28 minutes. God damn Reign in Blood type album. Decent track. A little sappy in places. Moving on. Another nice yet not great one. I find this album has been more agreeable and a little less interesting to start. Same thing really. The melody is nice but something is missing somehow. I see you is pretty bad. Man this is like Beatles extra-lite. It’s flying by but there is really nothing happening here. The vocals are nice but the melody doesn’t stick and it asks nothing of the listener. This one almost has a nice folk lilt, but something is off. It’s annoying in a way. Like I have nothing to say about this whole album. It’s just there. Eight miles high??? I think I’d need to be to make this something groundbreaking and sticky. The riff is ok here. That’s really it. This just makes me want to listen to Hendrix. Captain soul was a run of the mill guitar solo for me. Unnecessary harmonica but that’s like saying silent silence or loud thunder. John Riley is folk without soul. Everything just feels kind of empty on this album. It’s not clicking. Still, this one held me the most I suppose. Jet taking off. Doesn’t compare to the weird alien interludes form before. Oh my god this one was insufferable. Ugh. After really loving the Byrds’ “Younger than Yesterday,” this one seemed like an exciting prospect. It was anything but. This was middling to poor as the Byrds never really got off the ground. Didn’t even seem like they wanted to. 2 HIGHLIGHTS: John Riley
Another one that I should at least respect, but I just can’t get into. It’s not bad, but I don’t know… too much harmonizing? too poppy? I’m glad I gave it a listen and all that, but not one I’ll be going back for.
I'm close to 900 albums in and, at this point, sometimes I'll come across an album I've already reviewed but I can't recall anything about it. Clearly it wasn't awful, because that would be memorable, but it must also not be particularly good, interesting, or creative either. I can say with some confidence this will be one of those forgettable albums.
Better than the other album of theirs I listened to from this list. Nothing life changing.
2.1 How many fricken Byrds albums are we gonna get. Half their catalogue is Dylan covers. What cause they wrote this one (mostly) themselves?
Nothing wrong with it musically from a critical perspective. Liked the guitar, just not very interesting to me overall as a collective set of tracks.
It's not a bad album, but it has no personality. They need to decide if they are a Beatleesque band, a copy of Dylan's style, or somehow a psychedelic band. Without decision, it looks much more like a Spotify playlist from 70/80 rock rather than an album.
This is pure 60’s rock? Or whatever the genre was called that sums up the 60’s. It’s hippy, it’s simple, it’s occasionally oddly structured verses. It’s not groundbreaking but it’s what I thought the Byrds would sound like if I listened to an album. I will say, “I come and stand at every door” is a terrible song. Choice cut: Hey Joe
Not for me
Boring
Country Beatles yuck
It was ok, a couple of tracks were marginally better than the rest. It wasn't so bad I needed to turn it off, but I won't be listening again.
i. O. aber nicht überzeugend
I tried a couple times to get into this and just couldn’t. I’m sure it’s influential but for me…a big meh
Possibly the most generic the Byrds ever became. Fifth Dimension didn't add much to my knowledge of the Byrds, or of the sixties' music scene in general. I noticed the Byrds suffered without Gene Clark, but I didn't need to listen to this album. Compared to other albums I've heard of theirs, Fifth Dimension falls squarely into place in the middle of their sixties' journey with folk and rock. What does this album offer that Mr. Tambourine Man or Younger Than Yesterday didn't already offer?
I think FIVE albums by The Byrds on this project is way too damn much. At this point, I'm really quite tired of it. This album doesn't bring anything to the table that the other four did not bring. It's the same ol', same ol', and average at best. My reviews have slowly begun to taper in a direction supporting my above statement too, as they have gotten increasingly shorter, less patient, and lower rated. Again, this album and the majority of the other four are just fine, bordering on simply okay, but ultimately such a big Byrds footprint is unnecessary. If sources can be trusted, this is the last of their albums on here, and I am not upset about that.
Couldn't find this album on Amazon music but the byrds have so many compilation albums I was able to find every song except the last one. Impressive dedication to milking the back catalogue. It's all fairly nice psychedelic 60s rock, a lot better than the country we stuff we had by them earlier but not particularly exciting.
Not as good as Younger than Yesterday, but still pleasant. Ends really strongly, Why and 2-4-2 Fox Trot were solid tracks. Nice enough, a bit uninspiring. A real 2.5 album. Inoffensive.
Not sure why someone is just strangling a guitar over half of these songs?
Below average, even for the 60s.
It's OK but not for me. I tolerated it, I did not enjoy it.
3/10
Would agree with other reviewers, this is really a transitional album, and is not very strong in its own right. Shouldn’t have taken up a space on this list when the truly classic Byrds albums are already here.
long time ago
pretty meh psych folk album 2/5
2,5
Niet boeiend
I guess it's okay. Hard to get excited about it in the 21st century.
Early in it’s genre and comes across that way, not bad in any way but not very memorable to me for either, and so I likely won’t be coming back to this one! Favourite track: Eight miles high
ei huonoa musiikkia ollenkaan..
This album is a little more folksy than I was expecting. Overall I felt is was pretty forgettable. Added I See You to my playlist but none of the rest struck me as good enough to listen to again. This is a 2.
I'm so very, very, very tired of anything related to The Byrds on this list. I think I said it before but, NO MORE, PLEASE.
High 2. Very drug induced
I keep getting the Byrds so I'm giving the bird right back. 2 stars
I expected more. They've got some good stuff, but most of it isn't here. And to be fair, most of their good stuff is just covers of Bob Dylan. Without the Bob Dylan covers, I doubt many people (in 2024) would have heard much of this band. This is so average, I'm giving it 2 stars. On a scale of 1 to 10, it might warrant a 5, but after conversion to a 5 point scale, I'm rounding down because this is just not remotely significant.
Today's album is basically "our list compiler has a boner for David Crosby, so this middling shit discus is mandatory listening"
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
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
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
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.
2.5
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.
Not their best effort.
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.
Hey Joe ;D
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
Most of this just sounded like noise, with no comprehensible rhythm or melody
Was probably better received when it was first released but doesn't really hold up today
Watered down Beatles. If country is the American stereotype, this is the British stereotype, therefore… same treatment.
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.
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.
A bit James Bond sounding, psychedelic tones and some wild lyrics. Par for the time...
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.
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.
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?
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.
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
Whatever this was. 2
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One or two really good songs, but its not enough
Psych groovy rock
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.
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
meh. Never really listened to The Byrds before, and this didn't entice me to start.
Pretty lame Byrds offering. Nothing special at all. 2/5
Gives me nothing.
Eight Miles High, the rest goes in one ear and out the other.
Strong 2
Not for me. Inclusions like the Lear jet song add nothing, poor covers too
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.
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.
Had quite a nice feel to it, need to listen again
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
"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.
Most of it drifted through me like typical 60's stuff
HAIKU REVIEW - The Byrds - Fifth Dimension Hey mister spaceman Beam me up to somewhere else It is boring here
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
Presumably very important historically but not exactly a thrill to listen to with modern ears
Like a couple of songs but not great tbh
Meh
Meh think there is enough Byrds albums in the list we don’t need this one.
I liked the folk-y stuff more than the psychodelic stuff.
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
They somehow remind me of the beatles, I find them charming. Liked mr. Spaceman
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.
Another Byrds album? Wiki says it was influential for psychedelic rock, but I found it forgettable.
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
Not my cup of tea.
Mitigé. Comment écouter encore aujourd'hui tous ces solos de guitares approximatifs, de trip sous LSD ou autre... Quelques titres cools, mais des titres vraiment pénibles quand le guitariste semble pris de spasmes et jouer un morceau différent des autres membres du groupe (genre psychodrama city). Les trois premières chansons s'enchaînent bien.