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The Byrds – Dr. Byrds & Mr. Hyde

October 31, 2014by Marshall Gu 1 Comment

I had the hardest time finding Dr. Byrds & Mr. Hyde through blogspots a year ago when I was first getting into the Byrds and decided that I needed my hands on […]

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1960s, Rock

The Byrds – Sweetheart of the Rodeo

October 31, 2014by Marshall Gu 4 Comments

As far as I’m concerned, Sweetheart of the Rodeo is the Byrds’ version of the Velvet Underground’s Squeeze. To wit: both are albums released by non-veteran (read: inconsequential) members of the band (Gram […]

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1960s, Country

The Byrds – Turn! Turn! Turn!

October 30, 2014by Marshall Gu Leave a comment

The Byrds appeared on the scene in 1965, and I guess because they were several albums behind that of the Beatles, they felt like they needed to pump out two […]

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1960s, Rock

Various Artists – The Best of the Girl Groups Volume 2

October 24, 2014by Marshall Gu Leave a comment

Completely destroyed my preconceived notions of what girl groups sounded like (I confess intimacy with only two of these eighteen songs before listening). I expected the handclaps, I expected the […]

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1960s, Pop

Sam Cooke – Ain’t That Good News

October 23, 2014by Marshall Gu 1 Comment

Problem #1: this album is rendered obsolete with the existence of compilation Portrait of a Man 1951-1964 which contains six of Ain’t That Good News’ twelve songs. Problem #2: like […]

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1960s, R&B

Herbie Hancock – Inventions & Dimensions

October 21, 2014by Marshall Gu Leave a comment

  Between the “sophomore slump” (which I hasten to modify with quotation marks because his debut wasn’t exactly that much better as people would have you believe) of My Point of View and Empyrean Isles (his […]

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1960s, Post-Bop

Herbie Hancock – Empyrean Isles

October 19, 2014by Marshall Gu 2 Comments

  The short, non-hyperbolic version of the review: four great songs comprising one great album that’s one of the greatest albums of the 60s and the undoubtedly the greatest album […]

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1960s, Post-Bop

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