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The Byrds
The Notorious Byrd Brothers
(Columbia, 1968)
Possibly the finest Byrds album. Well, today’s finest Byrds album anyway.
This week has been 1968 week, and this is the last of out “themed” Discs Of The Day. Normal service resumes tomorrow with... Motörhead!
Squeezing into our virtual love-in by a whisper, The Byrds’ third album is if nothing else one of the greatest drugs albums ever. To hear on drugs, I mean. I know this because arch-psychedelicist Jon Savage confirms that for sheer “whooshy-ness” you cannot beat Chris Hillman’s Artificial Energy, which opens Notorious Byrds Brothers with an exhilarating two-minute speed rush that belies the teeth gnashing reality of its subject matter. That’s all for actual psychedelics I’m afraid (unless you count the terrific three-and-a-half minute instrumental in the bonus tracks of the Columbia Legacy edition, Mood Raga). The rest of the album mostly mirrors the socially turbulent mid-’60s in elegant, sonically adventurous pop - San Francisco’s Human Be I in Crosby’s Tribal Gathering and Vietnam dread in Draft Morning (that saw Crosby fired from the band shortly after its conception – McGuinn and Hillman later finishing the song themselves). As dysfunctional as they were ‘notorious’, relations between the Byrds brothers broke down completely by the time the album was finished (Michael Clarke leaving a month after Crosby’s dismissal) but the resulting sense of drama is palpable and still thrilling now (straight or otherwise).
Jenny Bulley
Posted by Danny_Eccleston at 6:00 AM GMT 09/03/2008
Further Listening
The Byrds - Younger Than Yesterday (Columbia)
Moby Grape – Moby Grape (Sundazed)
Spirit – Twelve Dreams of Doctor Sardonicus (Sony)
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NOTORIOUS BYRD BROTHERS is the Byrds'FIFTH album, their 3rd lp being FIFTH DIMENSION!!!
Posted by Jacques Légaré at 8:06 PM GMT 09/03/2008 Report Abuse
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RE: Jacques Légaré
YES AN WHAT A GREAT ONE TOO; HARMONY;DRUGS AN PURE GENIUS ; THATS THE BYRDS; BEST BAND EVER;
Posted by Will Grey at 4:07 PM GMT 12/03/2008 Report Abuse
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Should be the best Byrd's album, but not for me (Gershwin dixit).
Why? Because Gene Clark lsot himself in the way and he was, without any question, their best songwriter so far.
Posted by Carneham at 8:00 PM GMT 12/03/2008 Report Abuse
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