(UNPOLLED) - Post-Sweetheart Era Byrds studio albums

I love Ballad of Easy Rider a ton; "Tulsa County" is great, the title track, even the sweet cover of "Deportee".

i think this is my fave of the Clarence White era
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or this (they were pretty awesome live!)
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sooooo i guess i'm voting Untitled.

Untitled, if not for 'Lover of the Bayou' and 'Chestnut Mare' alone ...

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One of my favorite Byrds records, period. The Clarence White-sung songs ("My Destiny," "Jamaica Say You Will") are awesome. "I Trust" is killer gospel and one of their best. I enjoy the Skip Battin/Kim Fowley tunes as well.

And fuck everyone who calls this record "Melcher's Folly" -- whether it's the piano on "My Destiny," the strings on "Pale Blue" or the background vocals on "I Trust," Byrdmaniax has an awesome production jobs.

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i feel you a bit on that, never heard the whole record but jamaica and pale blue are pretty

on a similar note, i will rep for dr. byrds as being unfairly maligned, esp. the heavy, acidy tunes

never heard that reunion LP -- is it as bad as they say?

the gene clark tunes and neil young covers on it are great

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I've never heard the reunion album either, can't believe it could be worse than "Farther Along". There are lots of good tracks on these albums but far too many bad ones as well. Voting "Untitled", the Skip Battin track on that isn't as hideous as his usual ones.

yeah, that "see the sky" ain't bad. is that record even on CD? I remember seeing it used on vinyl all the time when I was a kid. Strange -- did that album just get totally panned when it came out? It's pretty much written out of the Byrds' history. Or at least there's nothing from it on the box set.

Or at least there's nothing from it on the box set.

The Gene Clark songs Full Circle and Changing heart are on the 'There Is A Season' box.

I don't dislike any of the albums in the poll - I guess Untitled gets the vote for having some epic live stuff on it. I agree with the love for Byrdmaniax upthread, and I also have a soft spot for Farther Along.

ah, i only have that older box set ... but yeah, i agree, none of the Clarence White albums are bad, really -- I think they're just as good as any of the country rock stuff from the same era, for the most part. Not perfect albums by any means, but pretty good.

Pretty good is about as far as it goes, it's not much really

That's weird—ILX is eating my comments again.

I was just mentioning that the final album is more a David Crosby joint than anything else, and that it was a pretty decent buy for $6, but not anything to get excited about one way or another. The untitled album was pretty solid, and well worth the $8.

yeah, complaints were that crosby, who produced it, greatly diminished mcguinn's role and made the thing seem like a CSNY ripoff. some merit to that but in hindsight the record has some decent tunes and clark shines. weird to have a byrds record with only 2 mcguinn lead vocals. as many have noted, best reunion songs were actually one in a hundred/she's the kind of girl that appeared on roadmaster and featured the original lineup. also, i think "my new woman" from mcguinn's first solo joint also had the full byrds on it and is quite good.

I fuckin love anything with Gene Clark's hand in it. I can't pick one.

i think you might be able to pick one from that list though -- Gene Clark's only on the original lineup reunion LP, right? Or does he show up on co-writes on a few of these?

maybe he means Gene Parsons ? speaking of which, anybody ever heard the Gene Parsons or Skip Battin solo lps? I've been curious ... I always found it strange that those guys got to do solo albums, when the Byrds themselves couldn't have been moving too many units during that period

I'd have to pick 'Ballad' from this lot, the title track is beautiful, I love the country stuff like "Oil in My Lamp", Mcguinn was born to sing "Deportee", and "Fido" freakin rocks ... has nobody sampled the percussion breakdown? they beat the James Gang to the punch by a year ..

"Ballad Of Easy Rider".

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Ballad

cool version
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmcks4WU6K8&feature=related

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surprised dr byrds got more than my vote

listening to a rollicking bootleg from 1971 at the Ash Grove -- man, they were soooo much better live at this point. Clarence White + almost funky rhythm section = SWEET.

i love dr. byrds, and voted for it!