New Byrds box set?

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New Byrds box set?

Postby lukpac » Thu Mar 09, 2006 7:13 pm

Maybe this is what Roger McGuinn is talking about?

http://www.legacyrecordings.com/site_ar ... _9741.html

The Byrds: There Is A Season
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Release Date: June 28, 2005

Track listing for CD Album

1. The Only Girl I Adore
2. Please Let Me Love You
3. Don't Be Long
4. The Airport Song
5. You Movin'
6. You Showed Me
7. Mr. Tambourine Man
8. I'll Feel A Whole Lot Better
9. You Won't Have To Cry
10. Here Without You
11. The Bells Of Rhymney
12. All I Really Want To Do (Single Version)
13. I Knew I'd Want You
14. Chimes Of Freedom
15. She Has A Way
16. It's All Over Now, Baby Blue (version one)
17. Turn! Turn! Turn! (To Everything There Is A Season)
18. It Won't Be Wrong
19. Set You Free This Time
20. The World Turns All Around Her
21. The Day Walk (Never Before)
22. If You're Gone
23. The Times They Are A-Changin'
24. She Don't Care About Time (Single Verson)
25. Stranger In A Strange Land (Instrumental)

1. Eight Miles High
2. Why (Single Version)
3. 5D (Fifth Dimension)
4. Wild Mountain Thyme
5. Mr. Spaceman
6. I See You
7. What's Happening
8. I Know My Rider (I Know You Rider)
9. So You Want To Be A Rock 'N' Roll Star
10. Have You Seen Her Face
11. Renaissance Fair (Single Version)
12. Time Between
13. Everybody's Been Burned (Single Version)
14. My Back Pages
15. It Happens Each Day
16. He Was A Friend Of Mine (Live)
17. Lady Friend (Single Version)
18. Old John Robertson (Single Version)
19. Goin' Back
20. Draft Morning
21. Wasn't Born To Follow
22. Tribal Gathering
23. Dolphin's Smile
24. Triad
25. Universal Mind Decoder

1. You Ain't Goin' Nowhere
2. I Am A Pilgrim
3. The Christian Life
4. You Don't Miss Your Water
5. Hickory Wind
6. One Hundred Years From Now
7. Lazy Days (Alternate Verion)
8. Pretty Polly (Alternate Version)
9. This Wheel's On Fire (Version One)
10. Drug Store Truck Drivin' Man
11. Candy
12. Child Of The Universe (Soundtrack Version/Vinyl Source)
13. Pretty Boy Floyd (Live)
14. Buckaroo (Live)
15. King Apathy III (Live)
16. Sing Me Back Home (Live)
17. Lay Lady Lay
18. Oil In My Lamp
19. Tulsa County
20. Jesus Is Just Alright
21. Chestnut Mare
22. Just A Season
23. Kathleen's Song
24. All The Things

1. Lover Of The Bayou (Live)
2. Positively 4th Street (Live)
3. Old Blue (Live)
4. It's Alright Ma (I'm Only Bleeding) (Live)
5. Ballad Of Easy Rider (Live)
6. You All Look Alike (Live)
7. Nashville West (Live)
8. Willin' (Live)
9. Black Mountain Rag (Soldier's Joy) (Live)
10. Baby What You Want Me To Do (Live)
11. I Trust (Live)
12. Take A Whiff On Me (Live)
13. Glory, Glory
14. Byrdgrass
15. Pale Blue
16. I Wanna Grow Up To Be A Politician
17. Nothin' To It
18. Tiffany Queen
19. Farther Along
20. Bugler
21. Mr. Tambourine Man (Live)
22. Roll Over Beethoven (Live)
23. Full Circle
24. Changing Heart
25. Paths Of Victory
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Postby Xenu » Thu Mar 09, 2006 7:36 pm

Yay. A few random single versions. Can they just fucking release a singles comp, please?
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Postby Rspaight » Thu Mar 09, 2006 8:53 pm

I assume you have the Sundazed mono singles thing in some form or another.

That box isn't radically different from the current one, it doesn't seem.

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Postby Xenu » Thu Mar 09, 2006 8:58 pm

"In some form or other" means vinyl rip. I'm sick to death of vinyl rips.
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Postby Rspaight » Thu Mar 09, 2006 9:35 pm

But... but... REAL ANALOG SOUND WAVES... surface noise... poor frequency response...

Ah, screw it.

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Postby lukpac » Thu Mar 09, 2006 9:48 pm

Some odd choices. Stranger In A Strange Land? Wild Mountain Thyme and What's Happening (but no Psychodrama City)? Universal Mind Decoder instead of Change Is Now? No "Byrds" tracks from Gene Clark's Roadmaster?

And...some Preflyte tracks and two from the reunion.
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Postby czeskleba » Fri Mar 10, 2006 12:11 am

Rspaight wrote:That box isn't radically different from the current one, it doesn't seem.


The biggest difference is that they've righted the first box's anti-Gene Clark bias in terms of track selection from the first two albums.

It would have been nice if they'd thrown in Flight 713, the only track from the Never Before CD that is unavailable elsewhere.

Not enough new here to induce me to buy, for certain.

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Postby Andreas » Fri Mar 10, 2006 3:04 am

Xenu wrote:A few random single versions.


What does "single version" mean, in your opinion? Original single mix?

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Postby lukpac » Fri Mar 10, 2006 8:48 am

Andreas wrote:What does "single version" mean, in your opinion? Original single mix?


Either that or something that replicates it. I'm thinking of Why and Old John Robertson on the reissues - they are new stereo remixes, but they basically match the single mixes/versions. Both were different in LP form (Why was re-recorded, and Old John Robertson was a totally different mix).
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Postby Andreas » Fri Mar 10, 2006 8:53 am

lukpac wrote:Either that or something that replicates it.


That distinction was the point of my question. :) Which one will it be?

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Postby lukpac » Fri Mar 10, 2006 9:24 am

How should we know?!

If the reissues and first box set are any indication, stereo remix if the multis exist, original mono mix if they don't. Unless they decide to do something differently this time. It's all speculation at this point, though.
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Postby lukpac » Thu May 18, 2006 8:28 am

Not much for unreleased tracks, but you get a DVD.

http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/news/art ... 1002538163

Legacy Preps Expansive Byrds Box

May 17, 2006, 3:45 PM ET
'There Is A Season' Boasts 99 Tracks, Bonus DVD
Barry A. Jeckell, N.Y.

One of the most influential American-spawned bands will be celebrated with the five-disc box set, "The Byrds: There is a Season." Due Aug. 29 via Columbia/Legacy, the package compiles 99 studio and live tracks on four CDs and pairs them with a DVD featuring the band's appearances on U.S. and U.K. television shows in the 1960s.

Every participating member in the band's storied history is represented, from the original quintet of Roger McGuinn, David Crosby, Gene Clark, Chris Hillman and Michael Clarke and including Clarence White, Kevin Kelley, Gram Parsons, Gene Parsons, John York and Skip Battin. Fans will find every piece of the Byrds' flight on display, beginning with 1964 demos as Jet Set and both sides of a single released under the name Beefeaters, through to the final Byrds studio album in 1973 and a 1990 McGuinn/Crosby/Hillman recording session for Legacy's first Byrds box set.

Following the 1990 release of that collection, the label revamped the group's catalog with remastered and expanded editions. "There is a Season" includes most of the original and bonus material that was featured on those reissues and organizes them in chronological order to tell the band's story.

Still, the set adds five previously unreleased tracks, all of them capturing the band live. The second disc features an April 1967 Swedish radio broadcast of the band performing "He Was a Friend of Mine," while the rest stem from 1970 and appear on the fourth disc. Two were recorded at New York's Queens College ("You All Look Alike" and "Nashville West") and two at the city's Fillmore East (Jimmy Reed's "Baby What You Want Me To Do" and "I Trust").

Meanwhile, the DVD collects the band's appearances on various television shows performing such beloved songs as "Mr. Tambourine Man," "Turn! Turn! Turn! (To Everything There Is a Season)," "So You Want To Be a Rock 'N' Roll Star" and "Eight Miles High," among others."

A full-color book accompanying the music boasts liner notes by Rolling Stone scribe David Fricke, including exclusive interviews with McGuinn and Hillman and appreciations penned by Tom Petty and the Jayhawks' Gary Louris. The book also features exhaustive information for each track.

“No band -– with the exception of the Byrds' biggest fans and transatlantic rivals, the Beatles -– achieved so much in so short a time, even in the runaway Sixties," Fricke writes. "And no other band risked so much, and came so close to losing it all, for the sake of going forward. The hits brought riches and acclaim -– but also disappointment, argument, desertion and, with amazing regularity, rebirth."
"I know because it is impossible for a tape to hold the compression levels of these treble boosted MFSL's like Something/Anything. The metal particulate on the tape would shatter and all you'd hear is distortion if even that." - VD

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Postby Chris M » Thu May 18, 2006 4:27 pm

That's lame. I was hoping that at least some of the material unique to the Sundazed LP woud make the box. If that was the case I'd buy it.
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