The Byrds were an American rock band that were formed in Los Angeles, California in 1964.Although the band were only able to attain the huge success of contemporaries like The Beatles or The Beach Boys for a short period of time (1965–1966), they are today considered one of the most influential bands of the 1960s. In particular, the band were pivotal in originating the musical styles of folk rock, psychedelic rock, raga rock, and country rock. The Byrds underwent several line-up changes throughout their career, with frontman Roger McGuinn remaining the sole consistent member of the group until their disbandment in 1973. Rare Studio Outtakes & Sessions 1965-1967 is a fan compilated bootleg of rarities and alternate takes & mixes. Disc 1 01 - Bound To Fall (Instrumental Bonus) 02 - Mae Jean Goes To Hollywood 03 - Goin' Back (Version One Bonus) 04 - Draft Morning (Alternate End Bonus) 05 - Fiddler A Dram (Moog Experiment) 06 - Ballad Of Easy Rider 07 - Build It Up 08 - It Happens Each Day 09 - Lay Lady Lay [Alternate Version] 10 - Don't Make Waves 11 - I'll Feel A Whole Lot Better [Alternate Version] 12 - Medley My Back Pages; B.J. Blues; Baby What You Want Me To Do [Alternate Version-Take I] 13 - It's No Use [Alternate Version] 14 - Mind Gardens [Alternate Version] 15 - Lady Friend 16 - All I Really Want To Do [Single Version] Disc2 01 - Moog Raga (Instrumental Bonus) 02 - Way Beyond The Sun 03 - Oil In My Lamp 04 - Triad (Bonus) 05 - Tulsa County 06 - Universal Mind Decoder (Instrumental Bonus) 07 - Stanley's Song 08 - She Has A Way [Previously Unissued Version] 09 - This Wheel's On Fire [Version One] 10 - My Back Pages [Alternate Version] 11 - You Won't Heave To Cry [Alternate Version] 12 - Old John Robertson [Single Version] 13 - You And Me [Instrumental] LINK
A studio-quality tape of the Byrds performing on Swedish radio in early 1967. Includes live-in-the-studio versions of "Mr. Tambourine Man," "He Was a Friend of Mine," "Hey Joe," "So You Want to Be a Rock'N'Roll Star," "My Back Pages," and "Roll Over Beethoven." It's decently done, though not too different from the studio versions.(101G) 01 - Introduction 02 - Hey Joe 03 - Introduction 04 - My Back Pages 05 - Introduction 06 - Mr. Tambourine Man 07 - Introduction 08 - He Was A Friend Of Mine 09 - Introduction 10 - So You Want To Be A Rock 11 - Introduction 12 - Roll Over Beethoven LINK
Fifth Dimension is the third album by The Byrds and was released in July 1966 on Columbia Records. Most of the album was recorded following the February 1966 departure of the band's principal songwriter Gene Clark. In an attempt to compensate for Clark's absence, guitarists Jim McGuinn and David Crosby stepped into the breach and increased their songwriting output. In spite of this, the loss of Clark resulted in an uneven album that included a total of four cover versions and an instrumental. However, the album is notable for being the first by The Byrds not to include any songs written by Bob Dylan, whose material had previously been a mainstay of the band's repertoire. 01 - 5D (Fifth Dimension) 02 - Wild Mountain Thyme 03 - Mr. Spaceman 04 - I See You 05 - What's Happening_!_! 06 - I Come And Stand At Every Door 07 - Eight Miles High 08 - Hey Joe (Where You Gonna Go) 09 - Captain Soul 10 - John Riley 11 - 2-4-2 Fox Trot LINK
Turn! Turn! Turn! is the second album by The Byrds and was released in December 1965 on Columbia Records. Like its predecessor, Mr. Tambourine Man, the album epitomized the folk rock genre and continued the band's successful mix of vocal harmony and jangly twelve-string Rickenbacker guitar. The album's lead single and title track, "Turn! Turn! Turn!", was a Pete Seeger adaptation of text from the Book of Ecclesiastes that had previously been arranged in a chamber-folk style by the band's lead guitarist Jim McGuinn, while working with folksinger Judy Collins. The arrangement that McGuinn used for The Byrds' version utilized the same strident folk rock style as the band's previous hit singles. 01 - Turn! Turn! Turn! 02 - It Won't Be Wrong 03 - Set You Free This Time 04 - Lay Down Your Weary Tune 05 - He Was A Friend Of Mine 06 - World Turns All Around Her (the) 07 - Satisfied Mind 08 - If You're Gone 09 - Times They Are A-Changin' (the) 10 - Wait And See 11 - Oh! Susannah LINK
Mr. Tambourine Man is the debut album by The Byrds and was released in June 1965 on Columbia Records. The album, along with the single of the same name, established the band as an internationally successful rock act and was also influential in originating the musical style known as folk rock. The term "folk rock" was, in fact, first coined by the U.S. music press to describe the band's sound in mid-1965, at around the same time that the "Mr. Tambourine Man" single reached the top of the Billboard chart. The single and album also represented the first effective American challenge to the dominance of The Beatles and the British Invasion during the mid-1960s. 01 - Mr. Tambourine Man 02 - I'll Feel A Whole Lot Better 03 - Spanish Harlem Incident 04 - You Won't Heave To Cry 05 - Here Without You 06 - Bells Of Rhymney (the) 07 - All I Really Want To Do 08 - I Knew I'd Want You 09 - It's No Use 10 - Don't Doubt Yourself Babe 11 - Chimes Of Freedom 12 - We'll Meet Again LINK
Preflyte is a compilation album by The Byrds and was released in July 1969 on Together Records. The album is a collection of demos recorded by The Byrds (then named The Jet Set) at World Pacific Studios in Los Angeles during 1964, before the band had signed to Columbia Records. As such, the music on the album predates the release of The Byrds' debut single for Columbia, a cover version of Bob Dylan's "Mr. Tambourine Man", which topped the charts in America and the United Kingdom during 1965. The album's title is a deliberate misspelling of pre-flight, meant to emulate the misspelling of "birds" that the band had used for their name. In 2001, Sundazed Records released an expanded, double CD compilation of tracks from the World Pacific era, titled The Preflyte Sessions. 01 - You Showed Me 02 - Here Without You 03 - She Has a Way 04 - The Reason Why 05 - For Me Again 06 - Boston 07 - You Movin' 08 - The Airport Song 09 - You Won't Have to Cry 10 - I Knew I'd Want You 11 - Mr Tambourine Man LINK
20/20 is the sole 1969 album release by The Beach Boys, and their last studio album to be released with Capitol Records for the next seventeen years. 20/20 got its name from its distinction of being The Beach Boys' 20th official album release (counting the three "Best of..." packages and Stack-O-Tracks). Brian Wilson poked fun at the title by hiding behind an eye examination chart inside the gatefold cover's photo. Otherwise, Wilson's involvement in the album was far less than perceived at the time. With increasing emotional problems, Brian Wilson began to withdraw from the band's recording sessions. He did participate on over half of the songs, but Wilson's only "new" contributions to 20/20 was a soothing waltz entitled (rather prophetically) "I Went to Sleep" and his and Mike Love's "Do It Again". It had been a hit in the summer of 1968, and was added on as commercial insurance, although a small snatch of the Smile-era "Workshop" session was hidden at the track's fade-out. 01 - Do It Again 02 - I Can Hear Music 03 - Bluebirds Over The Mountain 04 - Be With Me 05 - All I Want To Do 06 - The Nearest Faraway Place 07 - Cotton Fields (The Cotton Song) 08 - I Went To Sleep 09 - Time To Get Alone 10 - Never Learn Not To Love 11 - Our Prayer 12 - Cabin Essence LINK
Friends is the fourteenth studio album by The Beach Boys, released in 1968. As work on the album began in February 1968, Mike Love, a recent convert to transcendental meditation (TM), departed on a two week trip to India (alongside The Beatles and Donovan) to study TM further with his new master, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. In his absence, the remaining Beach Boys, Brian Wilson, Dennis Wilson, Carl Wilson, Al Jardine and, now an official member, Bruce Johnston recorded the bulk of Friends along with selected members of The Wrecking Crew. 01 - Meant For You 02 - Friends 03 - Wake The World 04 - Be Here In The Mornin' 05 - When A Man Needs A Woman 06 - Passing By 07 - Anna Lee, The Healer 08 - Little Bird 09 - Be Still 10 - Busy Doin' Nothin' 11 - Diamond Head 12 - Transcendental Meditation 13 - We're Together Again 14 - Walk On By 15 - Old Folks At Home-Ol' Man River LINK
Smiley Smile is the twelfth studio album by The Beach Boys, issued in 1967. Released in the place of the much-touted Smile, Smiley Smile is widely considered to be under-produced, and it was received with indifference and confusion upon its unveiling. However, Smiley Smile has managed to grow in stature over the years to become a cult favorite in The Beach Boys' recorded catalog. 01 - Heroes And Villains 02 - Vegetables 03 - Fall Breaks And Back To Winter 04 - She's Goin' Bald 05 - Little Pad 06 - Good Vibrations 07 - With Me Tonight 08 - Wind Chimes 09 - Gettin' Hungry 10 - Wonderful 11 - Whistle In LINK
Pet Sounds is the eleventh studio album by The Beach Boys, released May 16, 1966, on Capitol Records. It has been widely ranked as one of the most influential records ever released in popular music and has been ranked at #1 in several music magazines' lists of greatest albums of all time, including New Musical Express, The Times and Mojo Magazine. In 2003, it was ranked #2 in Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time list. Pet Sounds was created several months after Brian Wilson had quit touring with the band in order to focus his attention on writing and recording. In it, he wove elaborate layers of vocal harmonies, coupled with sound effects and unconventional instruments such as bicycle bells, buzzing organs, harpsichords, flutes, Electro-Theremin, dog whistles, Hawaiian-sounding string instruments, Coca-Cola cans and barking dogs, along with the more usual keyboards and guitars. 01 - Wouldn't It Be Nice 02 - You Still Believe In Me 03 - That's Not Me 04 - Don't Talk (put Your Head On My Shoulder) 05 - I'm Waiting For The Day 06 - Let's Go Away For Awhile 07 - Sloop John B. 08 - God Only Knows 09 - I Know There's An Answer 10 - Here Today 11 - I Just Wasn't Made For These Times 12 - Pet Sounds 13 - Caroline, No LINK
Beach Boys' Party! is an album of cover songs (featuring acoustic instruments) by The Beach Boys that was marketed during the lucrative Christmas season. The original album release included a sheet of photographs of the band 'appearing' to be at the party at hand. It was The Beach Boys' tenth album release, and their third in 1965. Although it was recorded in a music studio, it is presented as an impromptu live recording of a party. 01 - Hully Gully 02 - I Should Have Known Better 03 - Tell Me Why 04 - Papa-Oom-Mow-Mow 05 - Mountain Of Love 06 - You've Got To Hide Your Love Away 07 - Devoted To You 08 - Alley Oop 09 - There's No Other (Like My Baby) 10 - Medley - I Get Around - Little Deuce Coupe 11 - The Times They Are A-Changin' 12 - Barbara Ann LINK
Summer Days (And Summer Nights!!) is the ninth studio album by The Beach Boys and their second in 1965. Summer Days (And Summer Nights!!) hit #2 in the US during a chart stay of 33 weeks. It reached #4 in the UK in the summer of 1966. In the early 1980s, as part of Capitol Records' reissue series of their Beach Boys albums, Summer Days (And Summer Nights!!) was retitled California Girls and had two tracks removed: "Amusement Parks, USA" and "I'm Bugged at My Ol' Man". Brian has said on his facebook page recently that this is his favorite Beach Boys album. 01 - The Girl From New York City 02 - Amusement Parks U.S.A. 03 - Then I Kissed Her 04 - Salt Lake City 05 - Girl Don't Tell Me 06 - Help Me, Rhonda [Single Version] 07 - California Girls 08 - Let Him Run Wild 09 - You're So Good To Me 10 - Summer Means New Love 11 - I'm Bugged At My Ol' Man 12 - And Your Dream Comes True LINK
