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| From | "bryan" <munki100@pacbell.net> |
| Subject | Re: Gene Clark / No Other |
| Date | Tue, 12 Aug 2003 18:47:03 -0700 |
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I love Gene Clark's music...and by pure coincidence, I just
happened to listen to 'Younger Than Yesterday' in my car
on the way to work today...and didn't see these posts until
I got home tonight...
Bob wrote:
> a review in Uncut mag which said it was the best EVER album by a Byrd ....
> "Gram Parsons was great, but not this great", was the reviewer's opinion.
Was this review in the "new" issue, Bob, the one after the
Byrds issue? I know there was a full-page review of 'No
Other' in MOJO recently (the Radiohead issue)...and the
reviewer praised the album....
Richard wrote:
> I've always wondered what the best four songs off this
> album, knocking off the weakest four from YTY
> (especially "Mind Gardens" ) might have done to how
> YTY is remembered.
Well, you probably already know that Gene Clark had left
the Byrds by the time they recorded 'Younger Than Yesterday'
(he left in March '66, and they recorded YTY during late
November and early December in '66), which means he was
even even gone before they recorded '5D' (he participated in
the January '66 sessions for the "Eight Miles High"/"Why"
single, but no other tracks on the third album), so his songs
wouldn't have been included on YTY anyway...uh, unless that
was your point...so...let's see, what songs had Clark written by
then? "So You Say You Lost Your Baby," "Tried So Hard,"
"I Found You," "Echoes"....which 3 other Byrds songs do you
consider the weakest (given that you didn't like "Mind Gardens,"
and I don't care for it much either) on YTY??
So weird that I listened to this album *today*....
Bryan
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