White Light

I'm not a big fan of singer/songwriter music like this. To me this sounds exactly like several other albums I've listened to on this list. The lyrics might be interesting but the music itself wasn't. It also had two cover songs that were just worse versions of the original, which is a pet peeve of mine.

1001 albums... But 901 of them sound exactly like this god please make it stop.

He’s a poor man’s Bob Dylan. Unimaginative and stale, even when it was new. The Tears Of Rage cover is especially anemic.

Just dull. So very dull. Simple, to the point and lacking any depth or passion. Never once gets out of first gear. The harmonica adds nothing. Musically it's very plain. Country folk rock monotony. No innovation. Clark’s voice is timid though I will admit that on the final track '1975' the vocal lines are pretty catchy, but that's all I could pick out. I have no idea whatsoever how this album has ended up on this list. If I die today with this being the last album I listened to, I'd be severely disappointed.

I am sure I've said it before. I DON'T LIKE COUNTRY.

This is competent but bland and boring. Which would have gotten it 2 stars, until the absolutely horrible cover of Stand By Me. That took it down to 1 star.

It’s straight up singer-songwriter country-fried folk rock - a pale version of Dylan or Kristofferson. “Big in Holland” isn’t a huge reason for it to be on this list, methinks.

Finally my spirit has been broken. My God this is one awful dirge after another. Wish I could give a zero.

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The number of. Crosby Still Nash Young and adjacent albums on this thing is ridiculous. And none of them are particularly interesting. This bored me. Want to give it 1.5 but oh well

I found this album pretty boring. I didn't even like the Stand By Me cover. 1

Harmonica country BS

This list treats the Byrds like they are the avengers. Idk why this has any relevance besides being from a former member of the Byrds Rating: 1.3

Really nothing that stands out. Its a basic country album. All sound similar and if you tell me its another singer I would never know the diference. There are few country artists I can really recognize essily and this dude aint one of em

This is the most repetitive episode of boring possible. I barely made it through every track, and other than the opening track, it was enough to make me sleep. I've never been a fan of Country Music(although this one felt more like folk), but this Folk Rock didn't provoke my emotions like it normally does. Favorite Track: "The Virgin"

Goddamn fucking harmonica first thing. Ugh. This has too many of the things I don’t like to listen to. This is tedious.

Most boring thing ever.

Why am I on album number 1003?

Country music is just whiny trash.

Naff

Chuff

The byrds and their respective members were much more fun when taking LSD.

Kind of boring

Well that was something. If something was nothing and we're all living in a hopeless entity that will bring nothing but the end of time. Which I was hoping for after listening to this turd of an album. Awful.

Too bland for my tastes . never going to listen to it again on purpose . best track- the cover of tears of rage 1

Rating: 2/10 This album is impressive...impressively boring. Throw it in the bin.

Heading into this project, I was really excited that I'd get to hear some albums by bands like The Byrds, The Kinks, and Cream. There are a host of classic rock artists from the sixties and seventies whom I knew a few of their songs, but had never listened to one of their albums. I've reviewed three albums by The Byrds so far, and I've been really underwhelmed by them, so I don't have high hopes for this Gene Clark album, but I'm going into it with an open mind. Unfortunately, I didn't care for this album at all. The musical arrangements, while nice, were pretty bland. There were some nice organ parts, but that was all I really cared for. Gene Clark's vocals felt like he was trying to copy Bob Dylan's style of delivery, but it didn't work for me at all. Gene broke with that style on "Because Of You," which had the best vocals on the whole album in my opinion. I know the songwriting is supposed to be the shining star of this album, but I didn't care for that either. There was something about the structure of the lyrics that just drove me up a wall, and I felt like I couldn't make heads or tails out of the narratives of these songs. I'm really miffed as to why this album is on the list, when it's so bland and forgettable. It might be competently made, but I hardly think that criteria is enough to land an album on this list. I hate to be so critical, but this was a big miss for me.

Bored!!!!!

Не люблю это заунывное кантри

Well, it wasnt for me and why its a 1001 must hear is a mystery

Cowboy shit again!!!

Improved slightly after the intro to the first track (oh God no, not more country landfill?) but not enough to stir any interest.

This is another one of the albums to endure on this list.

Awww... that bloody harmonica strikes again! It's a shame I have such an issue with it, as Gene Clark's voice is quite soothing. Fecking harmonica! FWIW, I liked the album artwork photography.

little heat

Not something I'll listen to again

I don't like Bob Dylan, why would I like someone doing Dylan karaoke?

I found this unbearably twee.

Like a lot of these one off albums, did I need to hear this before I die?

Tämä Byrd on kuunnellut The Bandia ja tehnyt tämmöistä. Biisit koostuvat ikävä kyllä koukkujen muotoisista aukoista - ja tämä on tosiaan vähän ikävää, koska artisti herättää pientä sympatiaa.

Dreary country nonsense. Only decent track was One In A Hundred. The rest all sound the same.

How many singer-songwriter country folk albums do I have to listen to on this list? Just when you think this is over, it's only half done. This man has zero emotional range. See his completely flat version of Stand By Me.

Not good. It was short but that's the only good part. It's country and folk.

Hm, sounds countryish. Yeah sorry, can't get into this. 1 star.

Another lonely cowboy sings to his guitar by the campfire. I played the songs. None of them interested me. The piece For a Spanish Guitar promised to be interesting. If it was indeed written for a Spanish guitar, it lacked the virtuosity to play it. Boring.

Naaaah. Tråkigt helt enkelt

Jesus fucking Christ. No. This is like everything I can't stand in music wrapped in one package. I feel a headache coming on today and this certainly did not help. Oh, you've done it now Gene Clark. There's so many Byrds albums on this list, did we seriously need 2 Gene Clark solo albums as well?

This was not my thing at all.

Sooo boring and generic

Meh. I am not a huge fan of The Byrds and although Gene Clark is definitely talented, this album just isn't my thing.

The only interesting thing about this album is the riddle it invokes. As painful as it is to listen to Bob Dylan, do I dislike an imitator of his more for the lack of originality, or less for the efforts at actually singing? Truthfully, Gene Clark sounds, by turns, like he's imitating, on some songs, Dylan and, on others, Glenn Campbell. He touches neither's greatness.

Boring and hollow feeling.

Låter som han sitter och skiter och klämmer fram sången

1.5

Das langweiligste Cover aller Zeiten von "Stand By Me". Und der Rest der Platte ist genauso. Das Folk-Singer-Songwriter Genre ist, glaube ich, nichts für mich.

This sounds like half a glass of low fat milk left out on the counter too long.

too mellow

Everything I hate about country

Provinence be damned, this is a dull record.

My god, shut up with the damn harmonica

Not certain why this made the 1001 list….

Gene was praised for being a great song writer. Sad early death. This is too folk for me. When I was listening I was thinking that the bands he played in like 'The Byrds' may have been something my parents would have enjoyed.

Yawn

American wallpaper. Probably needs to be played on an 8-Track or reel to reel. Ironic title considering the cover, showing sunset which due to the increased amount of atmosphere the light has to travel through contains less light of shorter blue wavelengths due to Raleigh Scattering. So, not white light.

Het soort muziek dat je niet alleen gestolen kan worden, maar dat je ook nog eens blij bent als dat gebeurt. En alsjeblieft geen aangifte doen, stel toch dat ze deze depressie op vinyl vinden en bij je terugbrengen...

Not for me

Aliexpress Bob Dylan

the longest 51 minutes of my life jfc

Dull

It was not my thing, it's what I expect early 70's American stuff to sound like in my head. All Bob Dylan tinged and generally uninteresting. Way too much harmonica. However I did have a strange dream last night where I imagined I was listening to today's album, this project is obviously playing on my subconscious mind, in it some odd solo American Saxophonist playing The Joshua Tree in its entirety, so I suppose this album is actually better than what my dream/nightmare was by a small margin. 1

Find yourself someone who loves you, as much FIFA loves oil money, as much as Facebook loves your data, and as much as 1001 Albums loves all things The Byrds.

Is it just me or were there no choruses in these songs? B..............................oh, sorry, I just woke up. Boring.

This is just so bland. I'm sorry. Kinda country rock I guess but no spark here at all. I googled all the best albums of 1971 and boy are there some great albums. This is not one of them.

The first real part of the Nine Circles of Byrds (why nine? Gram Parsons is kind of his own thing that was on a Byrds album, and Mr. Tambourine Man, which I got 10 days ago, is a good album to ease me in). This album - why? No, just why? Why do we need an ex-Byrd shamelessly copping Dylan while having an ounce of the talent in this book? Not all good folk is Dylan rip-offs. This book knows that - they have five Leonard Cohen albums. And unlike the Byrds, Cohen actually DESERVES those albums. Instead of adding more different sounding folk albums, they add two of a Byrd ripping off Bob Dylan. Oh yeah, he has two. Why does this guy get two, especially when he was in a band that has five? But let’s look at the album itself. Every single song is forgettable, except ‘Tears of Rage’ - a Dylan-penned song. Of course. I’d just be repeating myself if I talked any longer. Just skip this one. (Side note: why am I always so much more interesting when hating on an album than praising it?)

With the exception of ‘One In A Hundred’ and ‘1975’, the rest of this is as dull as the album cover.

Springsteen ja Young perseilee tälläsellä ja kerää nii saatanasti tähtiä ihmisiltä heti kun nimi vaihtuu laitetaan alempaa tähtöstä häH mikä vikana budjetti soittaja laulantekijä heh eipäs juuri mitään vikaa ja hyvä tunnelma albumissa siis kolmosta pantaan protesti tähditystä taas...en laita.. objective.. kiva upbeat vika biisi.. heh eroaa sillä tavalla toka vika biisi.. muut biisit samanlaista laiskan lörpökkää.. NOH JUMALAUTA LAITETAANKO YKKÖSTÄ SAATANA... Ei tämmöset chilling&wibing paskat heh mitään kullan kimpaleita ole.. Tässä viisaus... Tunnelma chilli paska ei paljoa vaadi, vauvasta vaari.. saavista kaavi, kullan rippeet kaavi.. santa jätä... koiralla panta...vahtikoira turvaa kuljetuksen.... kullat pankkiin.. jalOA, on patsaat & kevyet mullat.. vaan kuunneltiinko albumit.. ennen ikuisuutta, pimeyden salOA.. sinne ei pääse valoa.. edes kajoa...

1971 werd ik enthousiast van, mijn meeste lievelings nummers komen uit 71-74. Deze hoort daar niet bij! Wel een vette cover, maar zeurmuziek

So boring, already forgot it

Put me to sleep

This album was really boring, and one of my favourite albums is To Be Kind by Swans.

Not really what I like. Sounds good but not doing anything for me.

1 not for me

Just not my thing....

New music but a huge meh

Sorry Gene it's not you it's me. Just not a fan of the genre. 1 star because I don't need to hear it again.

bleghhhhhh

wholly unremarkable.

Whit dad music

Didn't enjoy. Nothing new and interesting.

no country

Country is country. Bleh!

this is what i was most worried about on the list. cuntry music. i just can't get past it.

Boring country type stuff, it's not for me.

Aight

Not really my thing, sort of a light... Gordon Lightfoot in my mind. Not really significant.