Original Singles 1965-1967

The Byrds | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 25, 1990)
• Original Release Date: January 18, 1988
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Sony
• ASIN: B0000025N9
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #264,253 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Editorial Reviews

Includes such hits as Turn, Turn, Turn; Eight Miles High , and So You Want to Be a Rock and Roll Star . 16 tracks in all, including B-sides, offering an excellent taste of the Byrds history! --This text refers to an alternate Audio CD edition.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars A crying shame., February 25, 2001

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"unklejoe" (up in the sky) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Original Singles 1965-1967 (Audio CD)

I love the Byrds, but this cd is an embarassment. The lineup is great, especially "She Don't Care About Time", but the sound is atrocious, even for Columbia Records, who were notably careless with their early cd releases. The songs are in mono, which is fine for a singles collection, but the sound is reminiscent of a worn-out cassette. Also... the liner notes ramble on about how much better the single version of "Why" is, but the version here is the album one, from Younger Than Yesterday. Sony really needs to clean this mess up, or get it off the market.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Mono rules!, August 9, 2005

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Adrian Heathcote (Sydney,, N.S.W Australia) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Original Singles 1965-1967 (Audio CD)

Just to add to what others have said: if there are problems with this CD it is because of the digital transfer---it is not because of the original mono analogue tapes. I have the vinyl of this album and it is brilliant. The bass intro on Eight Miles High is full and deep, almost as deep as the original single---which I also have. Moreover that song does not have the treble on McGuinn's guitar dialled up to the max so that it completely dominates, as so many other recent issues of this song do. (I find this an annoying rewriting of history, making McGuinn disproportionately important in that song---as though Gene Clark and David Crosby were just there for the ride!)

And on the subject of Crosby: Everybody's Been Burned has to be one of his finest moments. Just a beautiful song!

What we really need is for CBS to do another transfer of this album and keep the whole thing as it was originally conceived---in glorious mono---but this time with the bass intact.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Play a song for me, April 9, 2004

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Johnny Heering "trivia buff" (Bethel, CT United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Original Singles 1965-1967 (Audio CD)

This CD features the a-sides and b-sides of The Byrds first eight singles. This is great stuff. Even the b-sides are good. The songs are in the original mono, but the sound quality is not the best, since this was released in the early days of CD technology. But it is listenable, so if you aren't that hung up on sound quality, it is a good buy. Oh, by the way, don't bother looking for "Volume 2", because they never released it.