Younger Than Yesterday

I'm more familiar with the best of album, this had some nice gems I wasn't aware of.

It was fine

What a surprise, another Byrd’s album. I think Sweetheart of the Rodeo is my sleeper favorite. This is better than the Fabulous Byrd Brothers and Mr Tamborine Man. I dug the horns and percussion on So You Wanna Be A Rock n Roll Star. Renaissance Fair was hilariously stupid. Would not likely revisit, but better than their other 2 albums I’ve listened to on this list (but not as good as Sweetheart…)

So You Want to Be a Rock 'n' Roll Star feels like a shot at The Monkeys and their rise to fame, C.T.A.-102 a pleaseant song about aliens that halfway trough is taken hostage by an alien talking trough. There's some experimentation in this album, but it wasn't good enough for me, sorry 2 byrds out of 5

not psychedelic enough! come back when you're at least this psychedelic [gestures towards a sign that says "you must be this psychedelic to call yourself psychedelic"]

6/10 byrd is the word

Weird but really catchy.

It was pretty solid and better than expected.

After the Fifth Dimension, I was not excited about this one. Boy did it whelm me. There's something interesting any the Byrds. When they hit they hit well, but I only saw that on Everybody's Been Burned. The rest of the songs were fine or outright boring. This band is the Beatles and the Beach Boys less interesting cousin.

That's some good Byrds.

Starting to feel like there's quite a lot of Byrds records on this list. Surprising to me but I guess they are more influential than I gave them credit for. This is a good listen, and there is a good mix of experimentalism and lyricism along with the jangly melodies. On the fence between a 3 and a 4 but this is solid so let's be generous. My Back Pages is a standout

the best Dylan cover band

I can hear and understand the importance of this album, but it still sounds dippy to me.

Pleasant, melodic music with fun vocals, and unlike a lot of 60s' rock, even well produced. Not really my thing, but I still enjoyed it. Nothing all that special as it's still pop rock–esque writing (with folk elements), but the execution is better than average, in my opinion. 7/10

It was ok

I’ve always been a fan of The Byrds, but Younger Than Yesterday wasn’t one I was super familiar with outside of “My Back Pages.” That said, it’s a solid album that shows the band branching out a bit. Chris Hillman really steps up here with multiple writing credits, and you can start to hear the early seeds of what would become the Flying Burrito Brothers. The country-rock influence is creeping in, blending nicely with their signature jangle-pop and psychedelic touches. It might not be their most iconic record, but it’s a strong, underrated piece of the Byrds’ evolution. Favorite Song: "So You Want To Be a Rock 'n' Roll Star"

The standout song on this is "My Back Pages"--a Bob Dylan cover. The original tunes, while surely innovative for their time, do nothing for me. I did appreciate the variety in the tracks, so each song was distinct, but overall this album did not capture me.

Un álbum que me resulta poco memorable, aunque sin embargo algunos temas me agradaron. Un estilo parecido al de los Beatles, pero con un toque más folk. Es interesante la forma en que decidieron experimentar en algunas de las grabaciones, sobre todo con el uso de tracks en reversa. El trabajo de voces es muy bueno. Sin embargo, no me resultó llamativo.

First time I fw a country artist this album is. Good 8.5/10 album was filled with songs that are relatable.

Ok music but not sure if this qualifies as must listen. Maybe it needs multiple listens but not sure if it is very remarkable compared to other 1960s music.

Jangly, high-quality 60s pop that really hits the spot for what you think the 60s sounds like. To that end, I think their act was a little derivative while at the same time being influential and meaningful. That's the 60s for ya.

Nice classic old tunes

I wanted to like this more. Just didn’t do a lot for me even though I like a lot of similar music.

Didn't like the Style of jt

Great harmonies, mediocre songs. Next....

Not my favorite from this era but still pretty good.

The Beach Boys may get more credit but The Byrds could definitely rival them for the title of the American answer to The Beatles in the late 60s. Though much of their work was overlooked at the time, "Younger Than Yesterday" is now held up as a classic of the era. As the first full album without lead singer Gene Clark, they proved that had enough talent among them to keep making classic albums. David Crosby kept incorporating psychedelic and innovative style featured on their previous album, while bass player Chris Hillman proved his songwriting abilities and introduced country elements which would become staples of their later work. This album seems like it's at a crossroads of different eras for The Byrds, and brings in the best of both. While it lacks any familiar singles, it's a great collection.

It's definitely The Byrds, just not definitely that good. But it still feels important somehow.

I think I hate the second half of this album. There are some good songs, but quite a few I just cannot get into.

I'd like to get into the 60's psychedelic rock stuff but I just can't find anything to inspire me. There is nothing bad about this album, but nothing that makes me want to revisit or say "hey, check out this/these songs". Thought So You Want to Be a Rock & Roll Star was the best song off the album, then just a a bunch a songs that were just OK. 17 songs in 46 minutes was impressive. Not sure I could have handles this for an hour. Right down the middle for me here. 2.5

3 Another Byrds album, and one that immediately follows one we previously had on this list. Did we really need both? Though, while not drastically different, I did like this one a bit more than Fifth Dimension. It’s a little less psychedelic and a little more straightforward classic rock, resulting in some perfectly listenable songs. Not great songs, mind you, but listenable. Well, except for Mind Gardens - seems like David Crosby was having a John Lennon moment there. I think my biggest problem with The Byrds so far has been that they really don’t seem to have an identity of their own. Like, everything I’ve heard from the group so far has felt like a very generic slice of the era, and in the rare instance they have an above-average song, it’s always a cover - My Back Pages in this album’s case (originally by Bob Dylan). Hell, the group’s biggest hit, Mr. Tambourine Man, is also a Dylan cover. Do these guys have nothing to say for themselves? On second thought, if stuff like Mind Gardens are the result of that, maybe sticking to covers is for the best. I’m being a bit harsh - most everything here is decent, but nothing is great. Outside of the Dylan cover, my favorite song was probably So You Want to Be a Rock ‘N’ Roll Star, even though it’s apparently a shot at the Monkees - sorry Byrds, manufactured or not, the Monkees had much better music than you guys ever did. Overall, this one didn’t annoy me as much as past outings, but it’s largely just as forgettable.

This is the 5th album from The Byrds on this list, and I do not think they need 5 albums, maybe 2 at most. That being said this was better than some of the others, but at the end of the day, just pretty middling.

A decent outing - starts of strong but dwindles

Younger than Yesterday was very much Len’s approach go selecting his wives! 3.6

I always know an album's good when I subconsciously become engaged and the production makes me stop and wanna rewind. Fire stuff here.

Meh.

*Gasp* an actually good Byrds album... and its the final one I got, this is all that good mid-to-late 60s shit before it all went off the rails and into cocaine mountain

Fairly unpenetrable

A couple of decent songs but average past that.

A good album, I liked So You Want To Be A Rock N Roll Star and The Girl With No Name of he most.

I remember enjoying this more but I felt it was a little overwrought in several areas. It's nice when a Byrd's song is around. A whole flock can be a bit much.

Mostly pop-folk music but there are moments where they try to experiment a bit. I appreciate that they didn’t sound like a Renaissance fair like so many other 60s folk groups.

It’s cute. But it’s pretty heavy handed. They had a lot of fun getting high in the recording studio. The harmonies are nice and the music is well written. But sometimes it sounds like folky, trippy Monkees.

My patience is wearing thin. There are too many Byrds entries on this goddamn list, and this SURELY has to be the least deserving.

Good solid 60s rock. Love the harmonies. Favorites: So You Want to Be a Rock'n'Roll Star, Have You Seen Her Face, Thoughts and Words, The Girl With No Name Would I listen to it again: Yes

My Rating: 3/5 It was a decent album for what it was. 60's rock. Nothing special to write home about. I favorited My Back Pages, because it struck a chord with me. Maybe a bit of nostalgia, I don't know.

Very 1967. But, Clarence White - yay!

Eventually

Ich bin böse gelangweilt

byrdsrightsactivist gives this album two talons up

Solid 60s rock. Could see myself revisiting this on occasion.

3.5. Short, sweet and to the point.

The thing about this album is that it’s completely fine, but I don’t see why it needs to be here. Calling it bad would be a lie, but it doesn’t really have any reason to be here when Mr. Tambourine Man, which is both more important and just plain better, is here.

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I've been enjoying The Byrds more and more with each album. They're a band that is, at the core, country-rock but with wide-reaching cross-genre sensibilities, an aspect that keeps me engaged on each new listen. They've always been quite poignant and politically conscious lyrically as well - it's something I've always appreciated about them. That and they can write some damn incredible songs - I mean 'Have You Seen Her Face' and, especially, 'My Back Pages' are two of some of the most gorgeous pop-rock songs I've heard out of the '60s. Those harmonies, melodies, and the bright guitar solo on the latter are to die for. It all sounds so good on the production end as well - I mean, you'll still get those classic '60s "experimental" studio post-production moments with songs like 'C.T.A' and the psychedelic 'Mind Gardens', but the closing 'Why' demonstrates the band's natural abilities with those jangly guitar leads. I was very lukewarm on these guys when I first heard them. But after this, 'The Notorious Byrd Brothers', and even Gene Clark's solo work, I feel comfortable labeling 'The Byrds' as one of the best out of the '60s.

might have missed something on this one reading other reviews. Will I listen to again: 25%

Enjoyed the middle section most, Everyone's Been Burned and My Back Pages in particular. Have changed from a 4star to 3star review on discovery that the later is a cover.

Love an album with a great opening riff and Rock n Roll Star more than delivers. Overall, enjoyed it more than their debut. I boosted that one to 4 stars because of the song about Merthyr - this one gets there without any artificial stimulus.

A not particularly cohesive mish-mash of styles and influences makes me question why this album features on a “must hear” list. Despite being released only 3 months before Sgt Peppers, this largely sounds like it’s from an earlier era with a few tracks such as “Everyone’s been burned” aside. Despite having liked The Byrds for decades, I’m struggling to justify giving this 3 stars as it’s just not a body of work I can ever see myself returning to.

Definitely recognizable. Would listen again.

Typical 60 sounding record, but it's extremely good in this case! The first song is a killer one, with that fast tempo, the winds section, the psychedelic vibes, etc. Then the rest of the album is not that impressive, but for the moment and kind of sound (beatles-like) this is more original than the average. Good one!

3/5

Another smash and grab from the Byrds in their short but sweet career.

that i was so much older than lyric is so bad it diminished the album for me

Not my piece of pie.

Surprisingly nice!

Younger Than Yesterday is the Byrds' fourth studio album, and is the last album recorded entirely with (most of) the original lineup. Gene Clark left the band the year before this album was recorded; David Crosby and Michael Clarke left in the year after. Some regard this album as the band's best work, as the most mature and enduring of the albums from the first lineup. The Byrds combined folk rock with a Beatles-esque pop song model. They played with the sound and skill of an acoustic-based folk rock band, and added rich harmonies to their melodic songs.

I did not listen to a lot of Byrds as I started to get into 60s music in my earlier 20s (I grew il in the 90s so grunge was my upbringing) so I was looking forward to this album. Some songs almost seemed unfinished, and while there were a few good standout songs, the rest was mediocre. Top 3 Tracks: 1. Thoughts and Words 2. My Back Pages 3. So You Want to be a Rock & Roll Star 6/10

2/5 not bad. aged.

a little overdone at times but good overall

Really interesting musically but don’t predict I’ll be back. Cool to think about where it is in relation to other music happening at the time

Solid record from the Byrds. Great version of My Back Pages

Like the Beatles but a little different which is not bad. Low 4

A lot of these late 60s psych rock albums have some really neat ideas that informed a lot of the music I enjoy today. Personally, I wouldn't put this album on just to listen to, but it was pleasant enough. Short too! More sub 30 minute albums please!

Fav: Have You Seen Her Face Least Fav: Mind Gardens Impressive for the 60s, but that’s it

Funky, upbeat. The Beatles vibes sometimes. I like the harmonies. Some odd instrumentals and sounds.

That was nice

I thought it was an interesting (but dated) album. There were a number of songs that definitely felt of the 60s. Partially that guitar sound, which they did so well. Having said that, there were some cool moments in there: the backwards guitar in "Mind Gardens" which took the song in a slightly unexpected turn for me. And their cover of "My Back Pages"... it's one of my favorite Dylan songs, so hearing them do it so well resonated with me. It was good to hear it as a part of history, and some of the songs resonated with me, but not enough to say I would listen to it again. Top tracks: "My Back Pages," "Mind Gardens," "The Girl With No Name"

I swear The Byrds must be the most ho-hum band of all the big influential bands that ever existed. I mean, I read so much about how they influenced this band and that one, this genre and that one. I skipped to this album because I just came off listening to a Big Star album. But to me, they're always just around average-sounding. Always at least average but I have to fight so hard to find a truly alluring song or aspect to what they do. So once again, 3 stars and moving on.

Some decent songs - nothing truly bad (although CTA-102 and the backwards guitar in Thoughts and Words come close). The Wikipedia entry talks a lot about bassist Chris Hillman contributing his first songs to the band, giving them a country turn. Unfortunately, I considered that a big negative for the album (and the band)! The Byrds also continued to dip into the Dylan well, turning My Back Pages from 3/4 to 4/4. While I'll say this version is marginally better than Dylan's original, I checked out some later Bob Dylan live versions and Bob does it better live than either the Byrds' version or his own original. Here's a great example: https://youtu.be/JWNaIXeHHzQ?si=02bGcukafuoCu5Z- Don't know if I'd revisit this album, but it wasn't bad to hear and I can see why it's on the list, at least from an historical perspective. Favorite tracks: So You Want to Be a Rock 'n' Roll Star (classic track), Have You Seen Her Face (that classic Byrds sound), Everybody's Been Burned (I like the guitar line - it's the 007 progression!), My Back Pages.

Meh

Fun 60s hippie music

Great package of music featuring clever production and a topical mix of styles.

trippy

I really liked the psychedelic rock here and had only heard a few of these songs. Very fun for me and a strong 4

I've always liked their vocal harmonies and it's interesting to hear so much 12-string guitar everywhere. The psychedelic elements are pretty cool for their time, even if they do sound quaint by today's standards. Their cover of Dylan's "My Back Pages" is yet another example of a cover that's better than the original. This is probably a 3.5 star album. It's not a 4 star album, so I'll have to round down to 3 stars.

Solid!

Good album, Mind Gardens took me by surprise

I like this album much better than Sweetheart Of The Rodeo. The Notorious Byrd Brothers is pretty impressive too.

The American Beatles! This is very similar. Great harmonies. Nice, mellow 60's music. Interesting layers of noise on some of the songs (CTA being one). That seems different than other songs around that time. Maybe ahead of their time on that. Good music and vocals. I dig this, and after hearing this and their country album earlier on the list, I'll be checking the rest of their catalog out. This is a 4.

The perfect soundtrack to the Summer of Love, where sunny pop optimism begins to seem cliche ("So You Want to Be a Rock ’n’ Roll Star"--love the girl-screaming layered in) and gives way to Eastern-tinged psychedelic experimentation (“Mind Gardens”). ✌️ ❤️ 🙂 3.5

The Byrds usually keep things interesting to me. I liked this album. Good melodies and absolutely killer harmonies. I don't know a lot about their background, but some of the harmonies made me wonder if these guys were ever in a choir together. Have You Seen Her Face has some complex stuff going on in it.

I liked it a good bit, especially Mind Gardens and Thoughts and Words.

De zon wint eindelijk terrein, en de generator haakt daar gepast op in. Alhoewel 'Younger Than Yesterday' subtiele psychedelische pop is, valt hij wel echt goed zo. Van het vorige album dat we van onze gevleugelde vrienden mochten beoordelen (Sweetheart of the Rodeo) had ik gehoopt én verwacht dat ik hem beter zou vinden dan dat ik hem vond. Deze daarentegen ging ik wat meer open-minded in, en had geen idee waar op het psychedelica-folk-country spectrum ze zich hier zouden bevinden. Ik kende wel wat losse songs, waaronder de wat mij betreft absolute underrated gem 'Everybody's Been Burned', misschien wel de beste song uit Crosby's carrière. Maar het album had ook naast de befaamde cover van 'My Back Pages' en de later door Patty Smith refurbishede rocker 'So You Want to Be a Rock 'n' Roll Star' wel echt wat verborgen parels in z'n mars. 'Why' en 'Thoughts and Words' zijn nieuw voor me, en zijn wel echt peak Byrds. Eigenlijk vind ik dit hele album wel peak Byrds, waar ze de perfecte balans weten te vinden tussen de verschillende eigenzinnige songwriters (zelfs zonder m'n favoriet Guy Clark), verpakt in een prettige mix aan psychedelia, folk en country, de drie stijlen waar ze hun hele loopbaan omheen hebben gemetseld. 8/10 Highlights: Have You Seen Her Face Everybody's Been Burned My Back Pages Why

Ik krijg de eerste helft van Younger Than Yesterday nog niet zo goed gefit. De nummertjes klikken niet helemaal. En dat komt door het psychedelische karakter. Want het folk element en de samenzang is mooi, maar de timing en muziek pakken we niet. Wellicht wat meer luisterbeurten nodig. Dat draait voor mijn gevoel volledig bij My Back Pages. Na twee psychedelische trips (Thoughts and Words en Mind Gardens) is dat nummer een soort reddende engel. Het is prachtig, en het klopt en past! Ook de tracks daarna zijn mooi, maar veel album resteert er niet meer helaas. Daardoor niet meer dan een... 7/10 Highlights My Back Pages

Solides Beat Album der mid 60er mit einigen Country Elementen ohne aber eine Faszinationsbogen aufzuspannen. Gute Songs waren „My Back Page“ und „Have Yoe Seen Her Face“.

No private Spotify session used. Very much of it's time. Mellow, hippie somewhat trippy, not bad, but not my thing.

It starts with my favorite topic, "being super successful actually sucks though, and making money means you're a sellout." I'm exaggerating a bit, but the rest of the album didn't improve much for me. I don't really like the sound they are going for.

As usual, the early Byrds are good at Dylan covers and not much else.

Meh

A nice album but quite boring sometimes when it sounds too much like the Beatles but it was the era !! My Back pages 3.5

Their finest, in my humble opinion. 4.5/5

I wasn't too excited about getting another album by The Byrds, but this was better than I was expecting. 1967 was a special year for music.

Why important? 2,5

quite like these guys

Liked it

Well well well... if it isn't my arch nemesis of this list the mf Byrds. These guys wouldn't be living rent free in my mind if they didn't have like 15 albums on this list (including solo and other related bands). If they only had 1-3 I would say "that was kind of bland" and then move on and forget about them. BUT THEY JUST KEEP COMING BACK. Ok time to talk about this album. This is by far thier best one yet (still not great), there is actual experimentation and some unique ideas. Overall it is still pretty boring, but atleast it isn't mindless country yet. Nevermind as soon as I typed that they started playing country... The second half of this album loses anything that made the first half interesting and becomes a slog that will never end. Mid 2.

Ok but not catchy enough

I've given the Byrds a lot of shit because this author saw fit to include seemingly every one of their albums on this list, but honestly this one wasn't so bad. Minimal country elements, and more psychedelic folk rock with lyrics, samples and instrumentals that subvert expectations. Still could be a bit more interesting by going much much further outside of the box, but much much better than I had expected. 3/5

This was a lot weaker than I was anticipating. Didn’t enjoy it at all other than the cover of My Back Pages. Listened to CSNY Four Way Street right after and I can confirm this is a poor effort.

Psychedelic sound Byrds are my least favorite I guess... preferring Dylan cover Byrds and Christian Country Byrds.

The inconsistency of this album was frustrating to me. There were some really innovative, unique sounding songs and then there were just throw away pop songs. But I give it a 3.55 which is a round up to 4.

Hey, at least this song's not too bad...oh, it's a Dylan cover...

Simply one of the greatest albums of the 1960’s. Perhaps a little overlooked among so many “Pantheon” releases from the 1966-1968 period, and even among Byrds’ albums themselves, but for me, doubtlessly their greatest synthesis of psychedelic rock, jazz-rock, folk-rock, early (and better than later) country rock, in pristine 2-4 minute songs. Post Gene Clark, it showcases the surprising emergence of Hillman and Crosby as major songwriters. The sonic landscape on the album is extraordinarily rich, and their guitars and harmonies never sounded better.

Pretty decent. I added “time between”

Not my jam.

A bit boring, some fine tracks.

Okay album. It started out as what I would expect from The Byrds with jangly guitars and lush harmonies. I was okay with the country western influences. With the more experimental, jazz and psychedelic cuts, I grew less enamored with the album.

Ihanaa

What a lame piece of crap. Folk pop that the Byrds can happily do without. If "so you want to be a rock 'n' roll star" is really meant to be a reference to the Monkeys, congratulations, they did it much better. For me this album is a boring waste of time. Perhaps the album had a certain significance at the time it was made, I can't see it today. The album is absolutely dispensable. Thank god they have a few other, much better works

Not bad. Nothing special

Great songwriting. This must be great for background listening too, but just as intriguing when you pay closer attention to it. Loved the alien voices lol. They were doing some interesting stuff and pushing the boat out in a few places to explore the concepts

My Back Pages

Good

Da taucht mer vom erschte Takt a id Boygroup-Zyt vo de 1960er-Jahr ii. Vo Mexiko, über Indie und Countrymusic häts ächli alles. Im Grosse erinnerets mi scho au a dBeatles. CTA 102 hät ja sonen strange Schluss und Mind Gardens laht vorusahne, was in Rock/Indie na choo wird.

rock n roll star kooomisch langwilig. have you seen her face isch cooler, chords mached chli sache. cta 102 weeird. wiso sind ihr so byrds. wow ok da ding am schluss tönt wie en star wars alien hobla. renaissance fair isch roootz 60er komisch. time between isch premium byrds so mue country rock töne hammer. de song isch en stern bonus. everybodys been burned und thoughts and words sind etz ehner dehiplätscheret. mind gardens macht psychedelische shit aber viel akustischi gitarre links und rechts dasch guet. ok ich ha irgendwie meeega möse am text zuelose. komisch aber sehr pink floyd the wall. my back pages isch en dylan song wow meega text.

vogul rocknroll star findi d trumpete na cool aber nüt crazy have you seen her face seeehr warm de stereo killt mich gad chli am 12i am aabig hahahaha ja cta 102 het das nöd besser gmacht aber sehr intressant ÜHHH DIE STIMM NEI ÄÄÄ NEI ahh aber younger than yesterday funny titel renaissance fair huere schön! und het auchli öppis verträumts he ja scho cool wenn sache hinderschiilaufed aber weniger ahstrengend machts s ganze nöd mindgardens ARRRSSSCHHH he das git vlt gad en stern abzug poah kei ahnig, entweder isches seicht oder so "kreativ", dass es doch ener nervig isch. han lang welle es 3 geh, aber bi mind gardens lupftsmer glaub de deckel

Ok

I like music of the 60s but I thought this was just alright.

That was pleasant but not especially memorable. The vocals were very soothing, and I liked the guitar work. Album cover: (B) Fun poses, but it looks like the used the grainiest, smallest photo they could find and enlarged it well past want looked good.

I could see why, as their Spotify bio says, "they only achieved the huge success of The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, and The Beach Boys for a brief period in the mid-1960s." They had a good sound and I enjoyed the album. What the fuck was going on with the end of the song "C.T.A. - 102?" It wasn't too hard to figure out which of the songs was written by Bob Dylan. Not only was it the best one but it was easy to imagine him singing it.

If there’s one thing this list has taught me it’s that I hate the fucking Byrds. How a band got so huge off of mediocre Dylan covers I’ll never know.

A few songs sucked, but they are great

Byrds guitar starting to sound way better on this one, held back by corny pop song structures and harmonies. They only do one Dylan cover! But OF COURSE the title is taken from the Dylan cover. The Byrds needed to go more country to get good. music: hated. (⌐■_■)

Musically I liked more of this than I expected to, but it’s so hard for me to get in to this style of vocals. Hearing the Everly Brothers recently helped me understand that a bit. Did a lot of these early psych-ish things take vocal inspiration from Everly Brothers? Before they realized you could just yell and scream and stuff and it would be better? I think they did.

Still too many Byrds albums. At least I'm done with them. My Back Pages is a good song but Neil Young's version is better.

I was skeptical bc im a Beatles number one fan but david Crosby does it again . the crosbinator

Great album by one of the most influential bands of the 60s. Thought I would like it a little more than I did, but need to re-listen Best songs: Have You Seen Her Face Everybody's Been Burned Thoughts and Words Mind Gardens My Back Pages (Dylan cover)

The center of the venn diagram made by Beatles/Dylan/CSNY with the twangle dialed up and some psych production flourishes. A bit of a transition between their jangle pop and country rock eras. Pretty sounds, an bright optimistic feel, hyperactive bass parts, cool harmonies, and very melodic - but nothing especially remarkable from the most over-represented band on the list. Not every 60s album with sitar is worthwhile!

Great harmonies with a dash of psychedelia and a sprinkle of country.

It's a great folk-rock and psychedelic rock album with hints of what was coming in 1968 when the line up changed and they started playing more country oriented music. The hits are great, and I think the cover of the Dylan song is the best on the album. I liked this more than Mr. Tambourine Man and it's on par with Sweetheart of the Rodeo, so I'm giving it a 4.

Yes, the original songs are very good, but that cover of Dylan’s “My Back Pages” is transcendent. Their harmonies almost never sounded better.

Bueno

всё не могу ухватить в чьём жанре они работают и насколько это нравилось современным подросткам. по срезам одного дня кажется чем-то очень усреднённым

Hard to stand out in this era

OK, a bit dated. Pretty forgettable really

This was a fine album overall. Reminded me through a decent amount of songs of The Beatles. There was a song or 2 that were bad enough to hit skip on, so can’t give it much higher than a 3. I don’t think its worth being on this list at all.

Great. Very typical of its day.

Bello questo riff! *Lo mette al contrario"

Non è funk sadge

I like it!

Two hits, one a Dylan cover and the other was just OK at best. The rest of the songs were pretty much awful to forgettable tyrds.

Giving this 4 for the very strong singles, really 3 or 3.5

jangle pop rules

A bit too on the lyrical soft rock side for my taste but I still enjoyed. Unsure if I'll be back

A little too much 60's silliness for me, but there's a couple of great songs on there.

Alguna que otra letra linda, algún que otro destello de psicodelia. Otro álbum que no es mi tipo pero no es terrible. Un 3 débil.

This was a nice enough listen, but I thought the only real standout was the Dylan cover (My Back Pages) so it's hard to give it a high score. 3.5 stars

Didn't need Younger Than Yesterday, would happily never listen to another Byrds album. Half an hour of nothingness, 2, next.

Another Byrds album, another album with little to write home about. This is probably the best of the bunch we've had though, it's much more psychedelic rock and roll than it is folk or country, and that's definitely a good thing. Just about squeaks a 3/5.

A nice album from the 60s.

a downright lovely psychedelic record, something for a rainy day indoors. i dunno, there's this part of me that feels as if i would really like this thing if i heard it as a kid, playing the CD on my boombox under my trundle bed. "Why" makes me wanna take the cushions off the couch and angle them on the frame before crawling in through the hole and hiding (i was a weird kid. i called this "playing tomb"). not everything's super uptempo, like "Everybody's Been Burned", but even that song appeals to the melancholic part of my childhood, days spent worried by trauma that i've taken care of just fine, thank you. Younger Than Yesterday is a definite recommend to anyone who likes 60's pop, which includes me. David Crosby was crazy when he put "Mind Gardens" on here, and i'm crazier for actually liking it a lot.

Imagine my curious bewilderment upon the opening track and having an odd recollection of something familiar. Where have I heard this before??? Well who else could have covered 'So You Want to Be...' and so on? Coincidentally I fanatically fixated on Patti Smith's 'Wave' this recently. She blasts out a blistering cover of a kind of scathing Byrds pop song along the way. Not that this is a Patti Smith review, but now I'm trying to recalibrate my assessment on The Byrds as a pleasant 60's folk/rock band. But this just makes me want to listen to 'Wave' again.

The last album with the more classic Byrds sound but with hints at what was to come. Very good album.

They’re not all great songs, but enough are to make this a worthy record. Highlight: My Back Pages

I was in the right mood to listen to this. Good harmonies and an easy style. Reminded me of that CSNY record.

There are a lot of Byrds albums on this list and they're all over the map for me in terms of how much I like them. This one? This one I liked. I'd listen to this again.

Another early psychadelic rock album. I actually found myself liking this one a lot- it had some hits and pushed the boundaries of where rock in the 60s was. There were also some elements that got stale (over-the-top trippy). Overall- decent album

I liked this! An album as ahead of its time as it is of its time. I expected some 60’s genericness and it wasn’t really there, it was truly a surprising listen.

This album is so magical. A little experimental but perfect harmonies and guitar and bass lines.

i love earnest early psy-rock albums like this; i feel like a whole lot of albums from around that time i've been a little critical to and this one is a lot more pleasant to hear. i swear it seemed like every rock band seemed to do drugs and create psychedelic albums, with reverse sitars, strings, vox and all. some of the more avantgarde soundscapes lose me, but the other tracks are phenomenal. seriously there's some really good tracks, and then there's a few that'll make you go "...huh? ...oh... okay".

There's some interesting musical and sonic experimentation scattered across this album that I appreciated. The Byrds play their instruments well, and the whole thing is listenable enough. After a while though, the songs all blur together for me, and there's not enough going on to encourage me to come back to it. I suspect they'll have at least one other album on here for me to listen to, so there's a chance yet they may win me over. Doubtful, though, given their 2 best known songs are covers, but I'm keeping an open mind about it.

I know who the Byrds are and that they're not the Yardbirds. I know very little about this album, but's a big dose of that folky/psychadelicy rock music from the mid to late 60's. Nice harmonies, which makes sense given the people involved. It had some things that definitely seemed Beatles-inspired, music looped backwards and the sitar in some songs. I'm sure I've heard a lot of these songs before but I didn't recognize any while I listened. I appreciate the people involved and the influence of the Byrds, and the Yardbirds for that matter, but found this one a little boring. If you're listening to this on Spotify the original album had just the first 11 songs. The additional 6 tracks are from the 1996 CD reissue, at least that's what Wikipedia says.

Bit of a difference starting this after Ringworm. "Have You Seen Her Face?" No, but I dig this song. "C.T.A. 102" - To review this song with one syllable: huh. I think I appreciate their branching out into the psych, but don't need it here.

Solid ‘60s psych. I can dig it.

Have You Seen Her Face // Renaissance Fair // Time Between // Thoughts and Words // My Back Pages //

Instantly forgettable

Very enjoyable but not memorable.

nice favorite track: my back pages

Standard psychedelic rock album--nice sound that takes you back to the 60's, but no standout tracks.

This one is for the Byrds.

Overall I enjoyed it. Nothing hit me as, "Wow this is so amazing, or different" but nothing was overtly offensive. It reminded me a lot of Beatles era music. I could have it on and enjoy it, but nothing about this album makes me want to seek it out again.

This album is VERY 60's. I especially liked So You Want To Be A Rock Star (great horns and bass). Also liked Time Between. My Back Pages is one of my favorite Dylan songs and they do a great job with it. It's a bit more rock'n than the original. I'm about a 3.5 with this album. It's good but not super great. They didn't need that part with the backward speaking aliens. And the song with the backward guitar was a bit too much of that.

This felt like pretty standard 60s fare. Nothing really grabbed me and made me love it. It was enjoyable enough in an average sort of way though.

Kind of forgettable but nothing is bad.

Chill album

Beginning to find all these Byrds albums jnsipidly similar

This is easily the best album by The Byrds on this list, although I hope it's also the last one. I think it's not a coincidence that this record is the most similar to The Beatles. Very nice pop/rock sounds with some heavy psychedelic influence, which was definitely too heavy at times, making it unbearable to listen to. But some of the guitar solos, riffs and melodies were top notch, surprisingly good. Even the vocalist was better than expected. Overall a very solid album, I would certainly listen to it again.

Was expecting some Beatles generic knockoff but was pleasantly surprised by the quality of the songs. Not half bad

The byrds are a tight band, and it's very interesting how far tastes/accepted wisdom on the history and importance have swung away from Mcguinn, hillman crosby et al. Anyway, I liked 5d better, but there are some fair bangers.

Enjoyable, but the Byrds have never successfully hooked me.

It’s cute. But it’s pretty heavy handed. They had a lot of fun getting high in the recording studio. The harmonies are nice and the music is well written. But sometimes it sounds like folky, trippy Monkees.

Ugh. Big year for this list. Explosion of mediocrity. Ok. Open mind... I listened all the way through despite protest from the household and comments such as "This must be your album of the day. I can tell because it's terrible". It's hard to argue. Read this list, there was a lot of music around in 1967. Keep looking. This is not one I'll ever come back to. Two stars.

Previously rated: Fifth Dimension (3/5) The Notorious Byrd Brothers (3/5) ************************************* Another mostly mediocre one. Some good harmonies of course, and that CTA 102 alien song was kind of wild for the time - wasn't expecting it. They leaned a little too heavy on the backwards stuff, copying the Beatles, no doubt. And the super psychedelic folk sound of Mind Gardens was off-putting to me.

Quite mediocre. There are one too many The Byrds albums on this list.

Light, Beatlesy, enjoyable for the most part. 6/10

I didn’t expect to like it but I did. Except for really pretty and catchy Melodie’s the album is filled with experimentation so typical for 1967. It stands out! Although I’d have to say the sequencing is a bit weird and I really don’t like the baby alien voice. Light 4

Liked it

Some of it I loved, some of it I didn’t. Overall, it gave me a pretty good feeling. 3

Liked it, didnt love it. 2.8

More folksy than I usually listen to but less folksy than I was expecting. This album makes interesting use of the stereo soundscape, and it's cool to hear their experimentation in instrumentation and sound recording develop throughout. I liked a few songs and will probably listen again.

As with any late-60s rock album, it’s definitely influenced by the Beatles, but doesn’t sound derivative. It’s a sweet record.

The Byrds’ second album of 1967, “Younger than Yesterday” is supposedly one of their all-out, summer-of-love, full-blown psychedelic efforts alongside “Fifth Dimension”. I’d never heard it before, but was really impressed on first listen. The trouble is, I’ve come back to it after a few weeks of putting off this review and realised very little of it has stuck with me. Where “Renaissance Fair” was gently hypnotic, it now feels rambling and aimless. Where “Mind Gardens” was intriguing, its overwrought lyrics and vocals (suggesting an inferior Tim Buckley) are now more annoying. I’d entirely forgotten “Everybody’s Been Burned”, a limp and toothless dirge. And then there’s “Why”: far too strait-laced and straight-faced a closing track. That said, there are a fair share of sterling moments here. Of course, we have the obligatory Dylan cover in “My Back Pages”, one of the band’s best and for me the definitive version of the song. “So You Want To Be A Rock ‘N’ Roll Star” is a great way to open, starting a through-line for power pop across the next sixty-plus years, and “Time Between” and “The Girl with No Name” see promising steps towards country. Sure, “CTA 102” may be a little dated nearly sixty years on, but it’s incredibly catchy and I was still taken aback by the sudden perspective switch, as we hear the band’s recording filter and a gang of “aliens” jibber and jabber over it. Interesting stuff. So “Younger than Yesterday” has some really intriguing moments, but it does feel like it doesn’t really land most of its diversions from The Byrds’ jangly formula. Having reviewed “Notorious Byrd Brothers”, and just revisited it, I think it represents a much more successful step forward for the band and their branch of music than this one.

Just the sound of the '60s - lil folky, lil poppy, lil country, lil psychedelic.

to me, this is THE byrds album. i know 'mr. tambourine man' gets all the attention, justifiably so, for its groundbreaking, but this album to me is the most authentically byrdsy. chris hillman has stepped into the void that was left by gene clark's depature and has stepped up brilliantly - providing some of the best songs on this record, but really what may be my favorite byrds song of all time, 'have you seen her face.' roger (jim?) mcguinn sort of takes the backseat here and it feels mostly like a david crosby and chris hillman record. and gary usher's production holds up really well in terms of albums that came out this year - a surprisingly important and underrated producer of the era. really what this album is is the byrds at a crossroads, halfway between folk rock bob dylan cover band and country rock. it's an album i adore and have adored and this listen was no exception.

Definitely a band of their era. I liked this album even though it's not unique or stands out particularly well, the vocals were better than decent and overall the sound is good. Give it a try.

Not bad at all - it went by quickly but it was all kind of interesting and boppy. 3.5/5 No real stand-out tracks as it's consistent and pretty cohesive, but Have You Seen Her Face and Everybody's Been Burned were catchy And something tells me that George Lucas got inspiration for the Ewok voices from CTA-102

Solid for me. Enjoyable listen

Seemed like radio friendly 60s pop and then it went a bit mental- kinda enjoyed it though

fucking wierd, did not like

Came in expecting a Beatles rip off and it started out that way but turned a lot better in the end, mostly because this was surprisingly experimental. After that, it became a weird mix of classic and experimental that was quite interesting. 7/10

Eh

3.5

Enjoyable, but not remarkable.

Jag trodde att jag inte hade hört the byrds förut. Sen kände jag igen flera låtar. Hippie rock. Är väl ok antar jag. Ingen musik som berör mig men det är bra skval

Classic

Meh not arousing at all

Chill music. Easy listening with a couple catchy songs.

als je het bekijkt vanuit de tijdsperiode, is dat geen slechte plaat

I would say it’s average byrds

Certainly a reference work for this timeframe, but it's only inspired in places.

I like this 4/5

Twangedelic.

Trippy, experimental, boundary pushing, and remains to be a super causal listening experience as well. Super fun and light and I want it on vinyl

Kinda fun and silly. Once we get into the goofy alien baby voices in "CTA," you know you're in for silliness. Not much real substance, but it's amusing.

Excited for this one. I know one song and we start with it. Weirdos with cool hats is always a good start. This song is remembered from movie montages. It’s fine, it has an interesting sound and nice vocals. I won’t be writing letters home about the Byrds just yet, but it’s fine. Beautiful song. Great melodies, well put together. This is great songwriting. This song is ok. Not terrible or anything but the meat of the song takes a backseat to the strange noises. The weird alien ending was actually pretty cool until the voices. This was pretty good. This one is boring. The songwriting is worse to me than the previous songs. Not horrid. This thing keeps moving. The songs are so short. Pretty good song. Nothing much springing to mind positive or negative. Cool, laid back song. The instruments are virtuosic and after the guitar centre plucking from Ryan Adams (no typo) yesterday, it’s very welcome. This almost has a torch singer vibe. Like some smoky 20s club. 1920’s for you young fellas. Another nice song with incredible effects that produce the psychedelia that we were promised. Folk influence big time. I’m such a sucker for Celtic folk influenced rock. Loved the fairport convention stuff, and this is reminiscent of that. This one is kind of insane. Reverse looped instrumentals. Of course I like it. It’s weird as hell and yet still highly competent. Man. This thing rips. The lyrics are fantastically interesting. Reading them like a book. If this melody was employed in the modern age, it would be driven into the ground and not nuanced as it is here. They weave in and out of the hook so tastefully. Probably one of the best ones here. The album remains nice. This one was fine. I’m still trying to pinpoint why certain songs appeal so greatly while others are mediocre to poor. Maybe I’ll do some musical theory course and ruin music for myself forever. OR, I’ll continue to produce low quality reviews on an internet database. This album was weird, slightly haunting, exciting and had a bunch of great tracks that employed excellent songwiritng and atmosphere. This album could’ve produced more emotional weight to bump up the score, but I really can’t ask for much more than what was produced here. Top tier listen. 4 HIGHLIGHTS: Have you Seen Her Face, Everybody’s Been Burned, Thoughts and Words, Mind Gardens, My Back Pages

Honestly better than I expected for another 60’s non-Beatles rock album

What's with the image quality on the cover? anyway there are three more albums of this on the list please just shoot me

Not for me

The psychedelic stuff is interesting but not really developed enough to withstand scrutiny, and some of it is annoying to listen to. And yet ironically most of the songs are too short to develop into anything. The big hit is ok, clearly they were already getting fed up with the music industry and being famous but it comes off as weirdly toothless. The guitar lines are interesting, but the 'Free Jazz'-inspired interplay seems to be a bit beyond their capacity at this point. The album is carried mostly by being one of the first to do it (even if George Harrison did it first), the harmony vocals, and especially the bassist working his backside off. But it's not enough. Tangent: I really wish they'd stopped covering Dylan. They strip away all the meaning and nuance from his stuff, and that's the entire reason I listen to that guy's music. Fave: Renaissance Fair Least Fave: Mind Gardens Strong Bad Demerit Counter: 1

Was it the law that every rock album had to have psychedelic tracks in 1967?

I always think I should like the Byrds more than I actually do. A little bit goes a long way with them. They've got a couple of good songs here but also a lot of mediocre songs that weren't that interesting.

Favorite Track: So You Want to Be a Rock N Roll Star

Actually had a decent time with this one, not the greatest but, the after the first few songs not doing it for me, it really picked up.

The Byrds two days in a row? I didn’t enjoy them that much the first damn time!

Sound like The Beatles. Sometimes I hear Bob Dylan, too. Their sound is a bit fuzzier than The Beatles, and I was surprised by the psych-elements. This must have been so innovative at the time. C.T.A, for example, sounds like an early Beach Boys song at first, and then devolves into this wild, Pet Sounds in a void type sound. 1967. I'm coming to understand more where a lot of new music stemmed from. Psych-rock can be traced back to bands like The Byrds. At the end of the day, I wasn't all too impressed with the instrumentation. Production is mint, granted, but I wasn't blown away by the rest of it all. Favorite Track: Thoughts & Words

fine

Interesting album in the earlier days of rock. "C.T.A.-102" such an odd ending to a song which I suspect might be the origins of the Minions voice.

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Standard

I felt that, when Eva articulated her love to Wall-e in that 3rd song

A cover band of Bob Dylan with a sound a bit more pop. A bit nostalgic but not bad

I liked the weird thing whispering in my right year at the end of one of the first songs, but that's about it

A bit tedious. Slow and ploddy

Very nice listen, but I like the more straightforward songs a lot more than the rambling hippie experimental ones. My Back Pages is a lovely all time great pop song. 3.5/4

1967. Experimental. 1/5

Gentle, lovely sound and great harmonies. Ultimately a song or two light.

Pleasant jangly 60's rock. A couple of nice songs but more background than life changing.

A notch below their best, including the of the records on this list, as evidenced by mediocre sales and tepid critical reception. It's not quite as fresh as Mr. Tam Man or as balanced as 5th Dimension or as accomplished as Sweethearts or Notorious Bros. The sour chippiness on "Rock and Roll" star doesnt' really suit them. The studio trickery on "CTA" isnt that impressive or interesting and disrupts an otherwise decent groove. And the psychedelic experimentation doesn't land very forcefully. "Thoughts and Words" is okay+ but with some generic '60s sound effects (a tricked out zither? a backward sitar?). "Mind Gardens" sounds like a '60s cliche – outdated as much of the hippie garb, man! "My Back Pages" is solid, further proof that these guys were best striaght-up interpreters of Dylan, but it does feel slightly tired compared to their other more energetic efforts in the Zim catalog. "Girl with No Name" and "Why" (though one prefers the previous B-side version) are solid ending and go a way to redeem things. Rounding up because it's the Byrds.

Enough with the Byrds already

This was probably super mind blowing back-in-the-day. Some good. Some bad. But they’re really trying things out which is cool. Respect ✊🏻

snoozefest... ike they felt obligated to make an album.

On one hand, I respect the experimentation on this album, but on the other, I can't see any of its value. It was annoying and unpleasant to listen to at times, but mostly, it just confused me. Don't get me wrong; there are some good songs on here, but I wish the experimenting that went on didn't feel so lackluster. Top 3 Fav: My Back Pages, So You Want To Be A Rock 'N' Roll Star, and Have You Seen Her Face Top 3 Worst: C.T.A. - 102, Thoughts And Words, and Mind Gardens 2.50/5

Pleasant with some experimentation

The most 60s album yet

Great

So I put this album on the same level as The Monkees. The San Fran hippie version of rock desperately trying to channel The Beatles. They were working off the already released Revolver and Rubber Soul albums. I can see how the release of Sgt Pepper in the same year as this album must have blown them away. Still its inventive, original, and enjoyable enough to make it worth a listen and be on the list. I enjoy the mix of psychedelia and folksy styles. In fact I can hear Jefferson Airplane in some of the tracks. This probably owes to a contemporaneous rather than a derivative creation. But The Airplane did it better IMHO. Mind Gardens exemplifies this most but they don't have the gravitas of the voice of Grace Slick to pull it off as well. 3.4

The Byrds are ok; I always feel like I've heard it all before. The (lofi) girls screaming in the opening track kinda took me out. 3*

It’s easy to see how at the time these guys may have been seen as America’s version of the Beatles. I can also see how they didn’t quite reach that level. There are a few really good songs on here, as well as the roots for better music to come.

Tried too hard with backwards tracks and Indian instruments, but the harmonies were spot on. Mostly good songs.

Nice variety of sounds. I would listen again.

It's fine. Another older album that I probably would have enjoyed more if I were of the same era.

The Bryds - Younger Than Yesterday 1967 7/10 I'll start off by saying I love how quick this album is - I love records that are crammed full of quick little ditties and over in like 25 minutes, it's really difficult to make a song memorable and do 'enough' in (often on this record) 2 minutes, which I really do commend. This is very much of its era with a Beatles/Monkees kinda vibe, but with a little bit of a country edge thrown in. They also seemed to experiment with backwards loops (both vocals and guitar) and other sound effects which is fun to hear on an album that's almost 60 years old. The band also cover Dylan's "My Back Pages" which is actually a real highlight, and overall the album sees itself in and out with catchy, foot tapping songs. 7/10

This was okay but not as good as the last album of theirs I heard on here.

For a 60s band, its cool to hear one that is of the era, but also not completely ripping off the Beatles. I liked this a lot, with my ear first catching on Renaissance Fair. Also liked Everybody's Been Burned. Good psych pop.

I find it hard to listen to mid 60s albums because they usually all sound the same. This one, however, does a good job of innovating in some weird places. I personally love the gremlin speaking in my ear during the third track. My favorites were Have you Seen Her Face and The Girl With No Name.

This is a concise set of songs where I think the individual songs are better than the album as a whole. I would not have a problem going back to this, but likely wouldn’t choose to do so on my own. The weird alien voice on C.T.A. -102 was kinda odd. Favorites here were So You Want To Be A Rock N Roll Star, Have You Seen Her Face, Thoughts And Words, and My Back Pages.

the byrds had those dylan covers - not sure they even play on those - and they have eight miles high - other than that…there’s an awful lot of the worst kind of pretentious 60s naïveté

I heard on another byrds album that they were interested in making alien contact and they definitely leaned into that here lol. Lost of buzzy whirring alien background noise paired with very airy flowy guitars and lyrics.

Interesting, as I’d never listened to this band other than incidentally. I read that they were meant to be as influential on subsequent music, particularly Alt Country, as another band of their era, the Beatles. I just didn’t hear it here. I think some of the issue was production, as the mix often sound wrong to my ears. But mostly I just don’t connect with their style nor with their songwriting. ‘My Back Pages’ is nice and my favorite (at least before it devolved into a meander on the sitar), wasn’t even on the main album, ‘Old John Robertson’.

This album struck me as something predictable and expected from the Byrds....but then the end of C.T.A.-102 and the song Mind Gardens interrupted my relatively passive listening stance and made me re-listen to the whole album again. Upon a second listening, it became apparent just how diverse this album is, how its psychedelic urges led to experimentations that were so bizarre at times that they preserved the odd freshness of the experience. The mixture of expected folk-rock sounds and these unexpected other growths suggests that this is either an album of transition, or--if we assume that all art is a footprint record of transition and transformation--then it's a record of exploration, of journeys familiar and unfamiliar. Not necessarily coherent as an album, but more like a party where there are many different and diverse people in attendance, but all share a few common denominators. I probably won't listen to this again, but it's added depth and texture to my understanding of the history of this band and the evolution of sound and music through the late 60s...

I found this a painful listen. It is stereotypical 60s psychedelic at its cheesiest. Never been a Byrds fan and I am definitely not one after this album.

Usually not my thing but there guys did it best. Some great tracks here.

I mean. It's fine.

Another album from them that's a bit too scattered for me. I do like a lot of the individual songs though. The sci-fi studio goofiness of C.T.A.-102 is very forward thinking.

I have been less than impressed with the works by The Byrds that I have reviewed so far (this will be my third, and I was also not a fan of Gene Clark's White Light), so I don't have high expectations for this album. But hey, it's less than thirty minutes long, so that's a plus! Let's get into it. This album wound up being much better than I anticipated. The sound drew upon a wide variety of influences, but the album still felt really cohesive. The blending of folk, psychedelic, and country elements created a unique sound that really set The Byrds apart from other artists of the sixties. I enjoyed this album the most when it was getting experimental and weird, like on "C.T.A.-102." The guitar playing was fantastic throughout the album, and there were some really good vocals too. I liked the second half of the album better than the first half; the guitars on "Thoughts and Words" created a really great sound, and the song went back and forth from a traditional sixties rock sound to something more experimental. "My Back Pages" was one of the best songs on the album too, and I really loved the vocals on the chorus. This was a really good album, and it definitely gives me more of an appreciation for The Byrds than their other albums that I've reviewed. The uniqueness of the sound and the guitar playing really set this album apart from other artists' experimental work at the same time.

I thoroughly enjoyed some songs, but some not much. I didn't listen all the way through.

Boring...

3.2/5 listened 1x

this is not a joke I will keep them safe every member of the byrds i am not joking i am serious i am stalking them I will do it to them I hate it NNN

I could never get into this band because they’re so bland

I have always found it hard to pinpoint a specific Byrds album that must be heard, as there is filler on some of their releases and it just never feels like there is just one album to listen to. Saying that, this could be the album I would point to. I would recommend the deluxe edition because Old John Robertson and Lady Friend should have been on the original album. My Back Pages is an excellent cover of the Dylan song and probably my favorite Byrds song (for some reason). The first five songs are really good, though there is no reason to have the weird ending to CTA-102. The country influence they would later explore when Gram Parsons took temporary control of the band can be heard on Old John Robertson, Time Between and pretty much anything else Chris Hillman is involved with on this album. If I could give this album a 4.5 then I would. I greatly dislike Mind Gardens though. It's just faux-hippie bullshit. I don't mind if you do drugs but please don't ask me to listen to the shitty results of your doing those drugs. It's not much to ask. The only redeeming part of that song is (a) it actually does end and (b) at some point I will die and never have to recall that I did once hear the song. The deluxe edition has two versions of the song and then David Crosby forces us to listen to an instrumental version at the end of Old John Robertson. I don't need an alternate version of this song, unless that alternate version is just dead air or an album without the song on it.

Realize I have a thing for twelve string guitars and harmony. 4/5

I think I've never heard any of these before, some were great some were so so

A lot of unique and interesting ideas here. Def a little too indulgent sometimes, but really interesting to hear them experiment.

Yep this was good - better than I thought it would be

A nice slice of 60s psychedelia

It's the sixties. Music was usually better then, if a little weedy

Several different styles, very good

It's fine. I do feel there are too many Byrds albums on the list.....and I can't remember rhe other ones

Nice to listen while cooking brekkie but prolly not again

I liked this. great vocal harmonies, singing and jangly guitars.

Period piece! Good bit of musical complexity.

no strong thoughts.

this was fine. i don't know any of these songs and i don't think i really needed to listen to this many byrds albums before i die but oh well. favorites: so you want to be a rock 'n' roll star, renaissance fair, everybody's been burned, my back pages

Very forgettable and uninspiring. Could be one of countless rock bands from the 60's.

Tried to go to sleep while listening to this one. no can do. it be a nightmare though? Maybe i WAS asleep? Edit listened twice just to make sure i truly was awake. I was

This was kind of dull, soon tired of listening to backwards stuff, or songs about garden walls.

A truly unerrated band, even if this album doesn't include the wonderful 'turn turn turn' and 'tambourine man' Toim Petty made the opening track here familiar to a moere modern audience but, in relaity, he simply dumbed down the original which is a perfect piece of pop.

If there’s any time in history I could instantly transport to it would be the late sixties. The music, the fashion, the (counter) culture. Love it all!