THE BYRDS Greatest Hits MINT Columbia PC 9516 Mr Tambourine Man CROSBY MCGUINN
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Oct 28, 2022 Sold Date
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Vinyl:  MINT!  TOP COPY!  Appears to have never been played!  High Gloss vinyl.  Columbia Labels are Clean and Bright.  This is the Reissue of the 1967 Columbia Release PC 9516.  Enormously influential on almost everything that came after them, The Byrds should be in every home and here's 11 great reasons why.  At this time, their peers were very few, and in that select less are no less a group than The Beatles, who were friends of The Byrds at this time...This Collection spans the brief period of time from their beginning til their middle period, just after Gene Clark left and around when David Crosby was about to leave, so it is a True representation of the Byrds 1.0, showcasing their meteoric rise to the Top...Instant '60s Party!  all music gives it 4 1/2 stars!!!
See Review Below!
In the dead wax:  Matrices, etched.  Complete Dead Wax details cheerfully given upon request.

Cover: NM- (see photos)   Nice high gloss on cover.  Front and back of cover artwork and text are rich, clear and bright, with minimal wear at top middle of cover and a couple small, light creases on the back top left cover.  Seams and spine are solid and clean.  No splits.  No writing.  Spine print is crystal clear.   

Goldmine Standards.   I play grade every record that I sell on eBay as I have found you can't rate an LP accurately by just visually inspecting an album.  I wipe the dust off of every cover with clean, unscented baby wipes.  I professionally clean the vinyl.  (I also operate a Vinyl Record Cleaning business for your dusty/dirty records--if interested, send me a message).


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All records are packaged securely with the vinyl outside the jacket (to avoid seam split in transit). The vinyl and jacket are sandwiched between two cardboard stiffeners and shipped in a custom cardboard record mailer box. 
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Why buy a first or early pressing and not a re-issue or a ‘re-mastered’ vinyl album?  First and early pressings are pressed from the first generation lacquers and stampers. They usually sound vastly superior to later issues/re-issues (which, in recent times, are often pressed from whatever 'best' tapes or digital sources are currently available) - many so-called 'audiophile' new 180g pressings are cut from hi-res digital sources…essentially an expensive CD pressed on vinyl.  Why  experience the worse elements of both formats?  These are just High Maintenance CDs, with mid-ranges so cloaked with a veil as to sound smeared.  They are nearly always compressed with murky transients and a general lifelessness in the overall sound.  There are exceptions where re-masters/re-presses outshine the original issues, but they are exceptions and not the norm.  First or early pressings nearly always have more immediacy, presence and dynamics. The sound staging is wider.  Subtle instrument nuances are better placed with more spacious textures. Balances are firmer in the bottom end with a far-tighter bass. Upper-mid ranges shine without harshness, and the overall depth is more immersive.  Inner details are  clearer.   On first and early pressings, the music tends to sound more ‘alive’ and vibrant.  The physics of sound energy is hard to clarify and write about from a listening perspective, but the best we can describe it is to say that you can 'hear' what the mixing and mastering engineers wanted you to hear when they first recorded the music. 

The Byrds' Greatest Hits Review

by Stephen Thomas Erlewine

Without question, the Byrds were one of the great bands of the '60s and one of the few American bands of their time to continually turn out inventive, compelling albums. As they were recording a series of fine records, they turned out a number of classic singles that unquestionably defined their era. The Byrds' Greatest Hits does an excellent job of chronicling the peak years of their popularity before they went country-rock on 1968's Sweetheart Of The Rodeo. Apart from the minor hits "It Won't Be Wrong," "Set You Free This Time," and "Have You Seen Her Face," all of the group's hit singles -- from 1965's "Mr. Tambourine Man" to 1967's "My Back Pages" -- are included: "All I Really Want to Do," "Turn! Turn! Turn! (To Everything There Is a Season)," "Eight Miles High," "5D (Fifth Dimension)," "Mr. Spaceman," and "So You Want to Be a Rock N' Roll Star." Yes, some great songs were left behind on the albums, but important cuts like "I'll Feel a Whole Lot Better," "The Bells of Rhymney," and "Chimes of Freedom" are added, making this pretty close to a definitive single-disc summary of the Byrds' prime.



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