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Thread #148781 Message #3458009
Posted By: Ron Davies
28-Dec-12 - 06:00 AM
Thread Name: The Byrds... Your favorite songs
Subject: RE: The Byrds... Your favorite song...
This is cruel and unusual punishment--to make us pick just one.
Combining great harmonies with clanging guitars that just grab you from the first note, introducing an amazing array of just wonderful songs to those of us who only listened to rock---pretty sure I heard Farther Along for the first time done by the Byrds. Hard to imagine the 60's without them, and they broadened our horizons in so many ways--you didn't even have to dip into the drug culture to benefit. I thought--and think--their classic sound is a drug itself.
Loved every one of their hits--you may not like the fact that Mr. Tambourine Man left out a lot of the lyrics, but I could listen to their version over and over--and sing along. of course. And for some of us, the hit version pointed us to Dylan for that one--who of course was indispensable if you wanted to rail against any number of perceived problems--or just annoy adults.
I even just ran across a country song done by the Byrds on YouTube--in a better version than the country singer who's also there. But I can't remember the song.
Of course, as a hopeless harmony addict, they had me from the first chord.