Editorial Review:

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A newcomer to the musical progression and legacy of the Byrds could hardly expect to find a better crash course than this: four discs with 99 songs, a DVD of ten previously unissued television performances, extensive annotation. Yet longtime fans of the band might wonder what the point is. Any riches buried in the vaults have long ago been mined--first in 1990's definitive four-disc Byrds box, then on Columbia's series of extended editions of every Byrds album in the catalog, replete with previously unreleased bonus tracks. By this late date, all possible revelations have been revealed, with the five previously unissued performances here of interest mainly to completists. The familiar music is glorious, of course--the chiming guitars and soaring harmonies that brought Bob Dylan and folk-rock to the top of the charts and then soared into the stratosphere with 'Eight Miles High' and all but invented country-rock with Sweetheart of the Rodeo. Yet except for the DVD, anyone who wants this much Byrds probably already has most of it. --Don McLeese

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Disc 1:

1. The Only Girl I Adore - The Byrds, McGuinn, R.
2. Please Let Me Love You - The Byrds, McGuinn, R.
3. Don't Be Long - The Byrds, McGuinn, R.
4. The Airport Song - The Byrds, McGuinn, R.
5. You Movin' - The Byrds, Clark, G.
6. You Showed Me - The Byrds, McGuinn, R.
7. Mr. Tambourine Man - The Byrds, Dylan, B.
8. I'll Feel a Whole Lot Better - The Byrds, Clark, Gene [1]
9. You Won't Have to Cry - The Byrds, McGuinn, R.
10. Here Without You - The Byrds, Clark, G.
11. The Bells of Rhymney - The Byrds, Davies, I.
12. All I Really Want to Do - The Byrds, Dylan, B.
13. I Knew I'd Want You - The Byrds, Clark, G.
14. Chimes of Freedom - The Byrds, Dylan, B.
15. She Has a Way - The Byrds, Clark, G.
16. It's All Over Now, Baby Blue - The Byrds, Dylan, Bob
17. Turn! Turn! Turn! (To Everything There Is a Season) - The Byrds, Seeger, Pete
18. It Won't Be Wrong - The Byrds, McGuinn, R.
19. Set You Free This Time - The Byrds, Clark, G.
20. The World Turns All Around Her - The Byrds, Clark, G.
21. The Day Walk - The Byrds, Clark, G.
22. If You're Gone - The Byrds, Clark, G.
23. The Times They Are A-Changin' - The Byrds, Dylan, B.
24. She Don't Care About That - The Byrds, Clark, Gene
25. Stranger in a Strange Land - The Byrds, Crosby, D.

Disc 2:

1. Eight Miles High - The Byrds, McGuinn, Roger
2. Why - The Byrds, McGuinn, R.
3. 5D (Fifth Dimension) - The Byrds, McGuinn, R.
4. Wild Mountain Theme - The Byrds,
5. Mr. Spaceman - The Byrds, McGuinn, R.
6. I See You - The Byrds, McGuinn, R.
7. What's Happening?!?! - The Byrds, Crosby, D.
8. I Know My Rider - The Byrds,
9. So You Want to Be a Rock 'N' Roll Star - The Byrds, McGuinn, Roger
10. Have You Seen Her Face - The Byrds, Hillman, C.
11. Renaissance Fair - The Byrds, McGuinn, R.
12. Time Between - The Byrds, Hillman, C.
13. Everybody's Been Burned - The Byrds, Crosby, D.
14. My Back Pages - The Byrds, Dylan, B.
15. It Happens Each Day - The Byrds, Crosby, D.
16. He Was a Friend of Mine - The Byrds, McGuinn, R.
17. Lady Friend - The Byrds, Crosby, D.
18. Old John Robertson - The Byrds, McGuinn, R.
19. Goin' Back - The Byrds, Goffin, G.
20. Draft Morning - The Byrds, McGuinn, R.
21. Wasn't Born to Follow - The Byrds, Goffin, G.
22. Tribal Gathering - The Byrds, Crosby, D.
23. Dolphin's Smile - The Byrds, McGuinn, R.
24. Triad - The Byrds, Crosby, David
25. Universal Mind Decoder - The Byrds, McGuinn, R.

Disc 3:

1. You Ain't Goin' Nowhere - The Byrds, Dylan, B.
2. I Am a Pilgrim - The Byrds, Traditional
3. The Christian Life - The Byrds, Louvin, I.
4. You Don't Miss Your Water - The Byrds, Bell, W.
5. Hickory Wind - The Byrds, Parsons, G.
6. One Hundred Years from Now - The Byrds, Parsons, G.
7. Lazy Days - The Byrds, Parsons, Gram
8. Pretty Polly - The Byrds, Traditional
9. This Wheel's on Fire - The Byrds, Dylan, Bob
10. Drug Store Truck Drivin' Man - The Byrds, McGuinn, R.
11. Candy - The Byrds, McGuinn, R.
12. Child of the Universe - The Byrds, McGuinn, R.
13. Pretty Boy Floyd - The Byrds, Guthrie, W.
14. Buckaroo - The Byrds, Morris, B.
15. King Apathy III - The Byrds, McGuinn, R.
16. Sing Me Back Home - The Byrds, Haggard, M.
17. Lay Lady Lay - The Byrds, Dylan, B.
18. Oil in My Lamp - The Byrds, Traditional
19. Tulsa County - The Byrds, Polland, P.
20. Jesus Is Just Alright - The Byrds, Reynolds, A.
21. Chestnut Mare - The Byrds, McGuinn, Roger
22. Just a Season - The Byrds, McGuinn, R.
23. Kathleen's Song - The Byrds, McGuinn, R.
24. All the Things - The Byrds, McGuinn, R.

Disc 4:

1. Lover of the Bayou - The Byrds, McGuinn, R.
2. Positively 4th Street - The Byrds, Dylan, B.
3. Old Blue - The Byrds,
4. It's Alright Ma (I'm Only Bleeding) - The Byrds, Dylan, B.
5. Ballad of Easy Rider - The Byrds, McGuinn, Roger
6. You All Look Alike - The Byrds, Battin, S.
7. Nashville West - The Byrds, Parsons, G.
8. Willin' - The Byrds, George, L.
9. Black Mountain Rag - The Byrds, Traditional
10. Baby What You Want Me to Do - The Byrds, Reed, J.
11. I Trust - The Byrds, McGuinn, R.
12. Take a Whiff (On Me) - The Byrds, Lomax, A.
13. Glory, Glory - The Byrds, Reynolds, A.
14. Byrdgrass - The Byrds, Parsons, G.
15. Pale Blue - The Byrds, McGuinn, R.
16. I Wanna Grow Up to Be a Politician - The Byrds, McGuinn, Roger
17. Nothin' to It - The Byrds,
18. Tiffany Queen - The Byrds, McGuinn, R.
19. Farther Along - The Byrds, Traditional
20. Bugler - The Byrds, Murray, L.
21. Mr. Tambourine Man - The Byrds, Dylan, B.
22. Roll Over Beethoven - The Byrds, Berry, C.
23. Full Circle - The Byrds, Clark, G.
24. Changing Heart - The Byrds, Clark, G.
25. Paths of Victory - The Byrds, Dylan, Bob

Rating: - A Byrd Experience
If you are a Byrd's fan - this CD collection is a MUST. The music brings me back to my college days - and this is a good representative of their musical styles.

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Rating: - Absolutely Incredible!!!!
This box set is a "steal"!!!!! 4 full cds, a dvd AND a book for less than $30!!! We checked it out at Borders Books for $80...EVERY Byrds fan should have this!!! and if you're not a Byrds fan, this will make you one!!!!

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Rating: - The Byrds, a Jingle-Jangle Season
It was the summer of 1965 and I remember hearing that marvelous, jangling, chiming guitar, and those heretofore unheard harmonies coming out of little radio speakers dialed to the local AM top-40 stations. Pop music was dominated by the likes of the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, the Kinks, Gerry and the Pacemakers and many more such groups. The time has subsequently been dubbed as "The British Invasion." It seemed that Great Britain was the place to look toward for good rock'n'roll. Such an irony! An American form of music was being recreated, reinterpreted, and exported back to the land of its birth.

And here were the Byrds singing Bob Dylan's hobo anthem "Mr. Tambourine Man." No one hit wonders, they soon followed up with "Turn, Turn, Turn", and another Dylan cover "All I Really Want To Do." At last, it was America's answer to the Beatles. And the Byrds were no less a pioneering rock group, mining folk music, and later country music all with Roger McGuinn's signature Rickenbacker twelve string guitar. This boxed set "There Is A Season" documents their entire career from their formation and early recording sessions in 1964 to an attempted reunion in 1990. It's all here, folk-rock, country-rock, psychedelic-rock, raga-rock, and back again. Buy this record, you'll be glad you did.

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Rating: - There is a Season - Byrds
this is an excellent boxed set. brings back a lot of good times and memories.
better than the beatles. really cool!

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Rating: - They Put The Jingle-Jangle In Mr Tamborine Man
It's just about impossible to overstate the influence The Byrds had on contemporary pop music in the sixties and early seventies. After putting the tweleve string jingle-jangle into Bob Dylan's Mr Tamborine Man, one could hear that sound clear across the Atlantic as The Beatles, particularly George Harrison picked up on it on Rubber Soul. Listen to Harrison's composition If I Needed Someone and you can't help but think of The Byrds. The love affair continued on into Revolver. The Lennon/McCartney song And Your Bird Can Sing owes a debt to Roger McGuinn's It Won't Be Wrong. Listen to George Harrison's compostions I Want To Tell You and Taxman, both are indelibly stamped with The Byrds signature tweleve string sound.

The influence dosen't end with The Beatles. It continued to be felt and heard by everyone from Van Morrison on Brown Eyed Girl to Donovan's Sunshine Superman to The Kinks A Well Respected Man and The Turtles I Only Want To Be With You and eventually back to Dylan himself as he embarked on his classic Nashville Skyline album. And the most obvious Byrd devotee Tom Petty kicked off his career with An American Girl, a song that many thought actually was recorded by The Byrds.

This box set gives both first time listener and Byrd afficianado an in-depth overview of their vast and varied body of work. From their PreFlight orgins to their folk-rock emergance of Mr. Tamborine Man and Turn Turn Turn to the raga-rock thunder of Eight Miles High and Fifth Diminsion to the Nashville West incarnation of Sweetheart of The Rodeo and Dr Byrds & Mr Hyde. It's all here. Listen and think back to the days when McGuinn and company were blazing a new path and so many were born to follow.