The Byrds (Untitled)  MFSL Gold CD Neu OVP Sealed UDCD 722 mit J-Card

Erscheinungsdatum:  18. Mai 1998
Label: Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab
Import aus: USA
Format: Audio CD

     Tracks


1. Lover Of The Bayou  
2. Positively 4th Street  
3. Nashville West  
4. So You Want To Be A Rock 'N Roll Star  
5. Mr. Tambourine Man  
6. Mr. Spaceman  
7. Eight Miles High  
8. Chestnut Mare  
9. Truck Stop Girl  
10. All The Things  
11. Yesterday's Train  
12. Hungry Planet  
13. Just A Season  
14. Take A Whiff On Me  
15. You All Look Alike  
16. Well Come Back Home  


Produktbeschreibungen

Stereoplay
Dieses Mischwerk der Byrds aus dem Jahre 1960 trägt seinen Namen nicht ganz zu Unrecht: Eine saft- und kraftlose Live-Performance ließ den Charme von "Mr. Tambourine Man" in aufnahmetechnischen Mängeln und dumpfem Baß-Brei entschwinden, und auch im Studio konnten Roger McGuinn und seine Mannschaft aus Ersatzspielern den Enthusiasmus der Vor-Woodstock-Ära nicht mehr wieder- finden. So gehört denn der Titel "Chestnut Mare" schon zum Besten auf diesem Album, das die Sound-Restauratoren glücklicherweise auf nur einer CD unter- brachten. ** Interpret.: 05-07 Klang.: 03-05
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Review by Bruce Eder
Among the later Byrds albums, Untitled was always the one to own, even if you weren't a huge fan. Issued back in 1970 as a two-priced-as-one LP, Untitled was one of the few modest commercial successes for the latter-day group. "Eight Miles High" is the high point, a 15-minute jam that showcases this band's prowess. The studio sides aren't to be overlooked, however — the group by this time was modifying its established sound into more of a '70s mode, and the influence of new members Gene Parsons and Skip Battin was showing up, pushing aside the familiar timbre of Roger McGuinn's 12-string Rickenbacker in favor of a leaner country-rock orientation. On some of this material (especially the Parsons-Battin "Yesterday's Train" and Battin's "Well Come Back Home"), they sound more like Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young. The only song on the album to get heard by people other than serious Byrds fanatics was McGuinn's "Chestnut Mare," but "Truck Stop Girl," "All the Things," the group's version of Leadbelly's "Take a Whiff on Me," and, especially, "Just a Season" (maybe the prettiest song McGuinn has ever written) also hold up very well. Other numbers, like the environmental ode "Hungry Planet," are more of an acquired taste.