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by Callun Beck

The Byrds are undoubtedly

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. first rose to fame on the

, strength of their superb'

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history of rock music. They

"Mr. Tambourine Man". Since then they have heal one of

. the few acts to consistent-

ly do Dylan better than Dylan does himself. But their main strength has always lain in the singing, songwriting, and lZ-strinq

guitar work of Roger (Jim) Mcquinn. As went, so usually went the Byrds. Fortunately Mcquim usually went pretty good, ‘ and most of the Byrds ' albums range from-decent to great. Unfortunately, he also occasionally was not going so good, and a couple of the Byrds' L.P.'s, most notably Ramion album, are pretty lack— lustre and boring.

'Iheir first four albums

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are uneven; reach the heights of brilliance but they also

~ fall to the depths of

obnoxious filler material. But their fifth album, glue Byrds' Greatest Hits, is excellent straight through. It is drawn from the best material off their first four albuns, and includes all of their bighits, like

Turn, Turn", "Eight Miles

High"; and "SD". like most Greatest Hits

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other. An excellent L.P.

recorded, The Notorious‘ '

the cowept alums: ~' it is not merely a' 37 collection of 12 Separate ' ' songs, but there is a from song. t song; both the lyrics and the nusic of ‘the different songs are held by' a central theme) that sixties. Itsl‘yrical . V there is basically that people should live in

’ hannony with the universe

and other people, but it's of minor significance;

it's the sound which makes \ the albun great. The

music is kind of weird and spacy, and quite canplex.

It is somewhat of a cross between Carole King and , Sgt° Pew.’ is really not much ‘f one of the is, along with side ‘one of Simon Garfunkel's Bookends, the " most excellent, solid, thematically together side of music I've ever heard.

It will probably take a while to get used to this type of music but it is likely worth the time.

The next album the

-Byrds recorded was Sweet-

heart of the Rodeo. As » its name implies, it is a Gram Parsons joined the group at this time, and this is reallyhis album. Parsons wrote "Hickory Wind", which is about the” finest country tune I've ever heard. This album is just high quality country nusic (there is such a thing), though it has a few weak/cuts. It is the third of the really good ' Byrds' L.P. 's, all of

which, I would worth paying mlL-_,priifié, far. ‘ (Notorious andgtheir Greatest Hits both . tenxfgéorite al-

rilhé‘fl'rest of their

albums, with the exception of their Reunion L.P. are excellent buys if found

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