Notorious Byrd Brothers

The Byrds | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (February 1, 2008)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Sbme Special Mkts.
• ASIN: B0012GMW3Y
• Also Available in: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #9,543 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Artificial Energy

2. Goin' Back

3. Natural Harmony

4. Draft Morning

5. Wasn't Born to Follow

6. Get to You

7. Change Is Now

8. Old John Robertson

9. Tribal Gathering

10. Dolphins' Smile

11. Space Odyssey

Editorial Reviews

This CD can be considered somewhat rare now.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Original Byrd Brothers' Last Great Hurrah, March 13, 2009

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J. Romano (Boulder, CO) - See all my reviews
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Amazing. The moog synthesizer is prevelent throughout the album. Instead of being too aggressive they use it to creates a gentle background buzz which allows you to focus on the beautiful songwriting and heavenly harmonies. Songs 2 through 6 especially blend together into one large canvas for the artists to work their magic. I would suggest this album to anyone that likes to listen to an album from start to finish. The bonus tracks at the end add some alternate takes, moog weirdness, and a few other unreleased songs (Crosby's "Triad", for one, that should have been on the album), and the "secret" song at the end of the disc with mostly David Crosby & drummer Clarke agruing in the studio about a riff in a song is hilarious. You can hear the Byrds falling apart, but it turned out to spark McGuinn's creative fire in just the right way. This is thelast ablum Crosby was a part of and it showed it subsequent showings.

13 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The best byrds CD ever made, February 6, 2009

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R. M. Anderson (Littleton, CO, USA) - See all my reviews
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This Byrds CD is so harmonic that one can not listen to it without being mesmerized by the lyrical simplicity and beauty. Caught in the midst of the 60's musical revolution and was sumwhat over looked. This is simply spectacular.
One of the best musical pieces ever made period. If you like harmony & poetic lyrics. Superb. Unmatched and unrivaled excellance!

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Classic, May 22, 2010

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Bill Your 'Free Form FM Handi Cyber Print DJ ... (Mahwah, NJ USA) - See all my reviews
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There were hundreds of pale Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band xeroxes after the Beatles brought brought out that album, and the notion that all things in rock were possible, in 1967. But only a band as great as the Byrds could properly ride on the fabs coat tails.

And in a way, Nortorious Byrd Brother's is even more the surprise. The Beatles had been experimenting and expanding their reference frame from day one, and had added octane to the process on Revolver. The Byrds were the best American folk rock bands, and literally invented the concept of open breeze rock, based on a sharp chime guitar sound, and aural economy.

Yet here is the album, full bore with diversity and maximum sound. "Artifical Energy," is full royal horns that is head to head with the best chamber rock. It is also, almost, funky."Goin' Back" is lush balladry for FM radio. The eletro lab of "Draft Morning" deals with Vietnam, while Crosby's "Tribal Gathering," with its bullet circular riff has the drive of rock and the challenging edge of jazz. Even a bonus track here, a moog experiment, shows how big the Byrds' ambition was beyond folk rock.

It never happened, as rock went back to the roots, and the Byrds tore down musical and cultural lines with Rock and Roll's first pure country album, Sweetheart of the Rodeo, a suicide move for any rock band in 1968, and one of the most brilliant coups in the music, ever.