Why does /mu/ always hate on the Byrds? The Byrds ruled. Some of their original songs were really good, and their covers were the GOAT.
Top notch CIA band. All the good bands were CIA affiliated back then. Everyone else was just acid-slop for people to zonk out to for 6 hours.
Anonymous
10/20/2025, 5:49:02 AM
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>>128150257 (OP)
I like their stuff before Gram came in, but they were a bit lacking in edge
Anonymous
10/20/2025, 5:54:13 AM
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>implying the CIA wasn't funding the acid-slop
How do you think Ken Kesey fueled his Acid Tests?
Anonymous
10/20/2025, 6:04:47 AM
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>>128150257 (OP)
Most of their covers are great. However, their cover of Times Are a Changing is terrible.
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The version that was released on the album was weak. But they recorded a version a few months earlier that is actually miles better. It was supposed to be a single before they came up with Turn Turn Turn, so for some ungodly reason they canned it and just made another worse version from scratch.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFx66wibSoY
Anonymous
10/20/2025, 6:19:44 AM
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>>128151140
Never knew about this version. I agree it's definitely better than the album one.
Anonymous
10/20/2025, 2:24:05 PM
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For me, it’s “Goin’ Back”.
Anonymous
10/20/2025, 5:17:54 PM
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You can tell they put the care of a single into that one. The later version was very consciously a low effort album filler that was probably cut in one take.
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10/20/2025, 5:28:20 PM
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>no proof though
But anon some schizo wrote a book so it must be true
Anonymous
10/20/2025, 5:33:03 PM
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>Back in the mythic '60s, the Byrds got rich off Bob Dylan and made him richer in the bargain: "Mr Tambourine Man" was their first hit and his second, after Peter, Paul & Mary's "Blowin' in the Wind." The Byrds's world-turning folk-rock chime added trippy texture to "All I Really Want to Do" and "My Back Pages," and on 1968's Sweetheart of the Rodeo they deadpanned a definitive "You Ain't Goin' Nowhere." But no one has any need for Roger McGuinn's dull interpretations of "Just Like a Woman" and "Lay Lady Lay." Not for nothing is this man now plying the folk circuit. You want great Dylan covers, remember this title: Lo and Behold!, by forgotten folk-rockers Coulson, Dean, McGuinness, Flint, from the less mythic '70s.
