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"Goin Back" and "Triad" are the best but still at best decent. I like their sound and the genres they play. They're influential to music, but how do the albums themselves hold up? I like it. Note that nobody has ever done these rock fusion genres before, so congratulations to the Byrds. Now, folk rock was dominant in the first two albums, and psychedelic rock in the next two, but the country is definitely new, and points to where they head in their next albums. And here we see the Byrds at their most expressive, employing folk, pop, country, psychedelia, and jazz. The Byrds' experimentation used rock as a medium rather than a genre, instead playing other genres but with a rock twist. However, I do understand the great significance. I've listened to all the Byrds albums to Sweetheart of the Radio several times, but I honestly cannot see the acclaim they received from contemporary sources.
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(This only missed **** because “Moon Raga” totally took me out of it.) of course, everything before 1997 with a guitar is classic rock, right? )įinally, the Byrds are not brothers, so this album title is another case of false advertising. Perhaps classic rock even? But they were pioneers of folk rock, and were experimenting here with psychedelic rock. Tambourine Man” and “Turn, Turn, Turn” really well, but I found their harmonies and arrangements to be classic. What super-vanilla white dude name would you pick when you join some kind of zen cult?) (It was right before this album that their lead singer changed his first name, to Roger, as part of joining an Indonesian “spiritual movement.” The 60’s, man. “Draft Morning” devolves unexpectedly but interestly into noise and chaos briefly, clearly the mark of a band with a set style but also an yearning to experiment.
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The horns at the start were unexpected, but after that this settled in quickly as a cohesive album that comfortable and snuggly and warm. I was supposed to laugh out loud at the start of "Moon Raga," right?