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Mobile Fidelity - UDSACD 2015 - SACD Hybrid Stereo 

Numbered Limited  Edition - Plays On All CD Players + 6 Bonus Tracks

Mastered on the Mobile Fidelity GAIN 2™ Mastering Technology for Ultradisc UHR SACD   

Mastered From the Original Analog Master Tapes for Incredible Sound

 

Includes Six Stereo Bonus Tracks

 

The Notorious Byrd Brothers was originally released on January 3, 1968, and remains the Byrds' most interesting album, the songs among the best in the band's catalog. Although the group was in turmoil at this point, the album that emerged was cohesive, consistently challenging, and thematically unified.

 

Mobile Fidelity has done an amazing job with the mastering from the original analog mono master tape. This edition also includes 6 bonus tracks in stereo, of which David Crosby’s "Triad" is a standout; one of the reasons Crosby left the band is because of its omission from the original record. Ten minutes of hidden studio chatter at the end also proves illuminating, the Byrds' fierce battling in the studio a mirror into to their serious problems.

 

While not filled with hits, this set marks the last time any Byrds album captured the magical alchemy of the band's trademark guitar jangle and emotionally evocative harmonies. Now, experience it all like never before.

 

"While recording their fifth album, Byrds guitarist David Crosby was fired and drummer Michael Clarke quit. According to legend, for the album-cover photo, the band erased Crosby's face — and replaced him with a horse. But despite the internal drama, the Byrds made Notorious a warm, gentle comedown for Sixties children facing up to the morning after the Summer of Love. The sound is melancholic but friendly, blending spacey studio effects and Moog synthesizers with guitars, strings and horns to build the elegiac mood of "Draft Morning" and "Goin' Back" as well as the optimistic surge of "Dolphin's Smile" and "Natural Harmony." - www.rollingstone.com

 

The recording sessions for the Byrds' fifth album, The Notorious Byrd Brothers, were conducted in the midst of internal turmoil that found them reduced to a duo by the time the record was completed. That wasn't evident from listening to the results, which showed the group continuing to expand the parameters of their eclecticism while retaining their hallmark guitar jangle and harmonies. With assistance from producer Gary Usher, they took more chances in the studio, enhancing the spacy quality of tracks like "Natural Harmony" and Goffin & King's "Wasn't Born to Follow" with electronic phasing. Washes of Moog synthesizer formed the eerie backdrop for "Space Odyssey," and the songs were craftily and unobtrusively linked with segues and fades. But the Byrds did not bury the essential strengths of their tunes in effects: "Goin' Back" (also written by Goffin & King) was a magnificent and melodic cover with the expected tasteful 12-string guitar runs that should have been a big hit. "Tribal Gathering" has some of the band's most effervescent harmonies; "Draft Morning" is a subtle and effective reflection of the horrors of the Vietnam War; and "Old John Robertson" looks forward to the country-rock that would soon dominate their repertoire.

 

Engineer – Don Thompson, Roy Halee
Performers– Chris Hillman, Michael Clarke, Roger McGuinn
Producer – Gary Usher

 

The Byrds The Notorious Byrd Brothers Track Listing:

 

1. Artificial Energy (2:18)

2. Goin’ Back (3:26)

3. Natural Harmony (2:11)

4. Draft Morning (2:42)

5. Wasn’t Born To Follow (2:04)

6. Get To You (2:39)

7. Change Is Now (3:21)

8. Old John Robertson (1:49)

9. Tribal Gathering (2:03)

10. Dolphin’s Smile (2:00)

11. Space Odyssey (3:52)

 

BONUS TRACKS

12. Moog Raga (3:24) (instrumental)

13. Bound To Fall (2:08) (instrumental)

14. Triad (3:29)

15. Goin’ Back  (3:55) (version one)

16. Draft Morning (2:55)  (alternate end) 

17. Universal Mind Decoder (3:33) (instrumental)

 

TRACKS 1 - 11 MONO

TRACKS 12 - 17 STEREO