The Best of The Byrds: Greatest Hits, Volume II

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The Best of The Byrds: Greatest Hits, Volume II
Greatest hits album by
the Byrds
ReleasedNovember 10, 1972
RecordedNovember 1, 1965, November 29, 1967 – August 27, 1971
Genre
Length31:11
LabelColumbia
ProducerTerry Melcher, Gary Usher, Bob Johnston, The Byrds
The Byrds chronology
Farther Along
(1971) 		The Best of The Byrds: Greatest Hits, Volume II
(1972) 		Byrds
(1973)

The Best of The Byrds: Greatest Hits, Volume II is the third

greatest hits album by the American rock band the Byrds, but only the second to be released in the United States, since the earlier The Byrds' Greatest Hits Volume II had only been issued in the UK.[1][2][3] The album was released in the U.S. by Columbia Records on November 10, 1972 (see 1972 in music) in lieu of any new Byrds' product during that year.[1] It spent a total of thirteen weeks on the Billboard Top LPs & Tapes chart and peaked at number 114.[2][4]

Contents

The Best of The Byrds: Greatest Hits, Volume II was released just prior to the highly publicized reunion of the five original members of the Byrds.[2] The album was compiled with input from the band's guitarist and leader Roger McGuinn, although rock historian Christopher Hjort has suggested that it offered a somewhat erratic survey of the band's later years.[2]

The bulk of the album's songs are drawn from the years 1969 through to 1971, with the 1968 albums

hits
.

The Best of The Byrds: Greatest Hits, Volume II was re-issued on

CD in 1990, but is currently out of print. The album's cover photograph was later reused for a UK double album compilation named History of The Byrds.[2]

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Christgau's Record GuideB[10]

Press reaction to the compilation was largely lukewarm, with Bud Scoppa, writing for

Allmusic website as "not a bad sampling of the Byrds' final years, but Sweetheart of the Rodeo itself offers a better summation of the musical direction the Byrds took after 1967."[9]

Track listing

Side 1

  1. "Ballad of Easy Rider" (Roger McGuinn, Bob Dylan) – 2:03
    • NOTE: Bob Dylan is not officially credited as a songwriter on "Ballad of Easy Rider".[12]
  2. "Wasn't Born to Follow" (Gerry Goffin, Carole King) – 2:00
  3. "Jesus Is Just Alright" (Arthur Reynolds) – 2:09
  4. "
    traditional
    , new words and arrangement Roger McGuinn) – 2:32
  5. "Chestnut Mare" (Roger McGuinn, Jacques Levy) – 5:09

Side 2

  1. "Tiffany Queen" (Roger McGuinn) – 2:42
  2. "Drug Store Truck Drivin' Man" (Roger McGuinn, Gram Parsons) – 3:52
  3. "You Ain't Goin' Nowhere" (Bob Dylan) – 2:35
  4. "Citizen Kane" (Skip Battin, Kim Fowley) – 2:33
  5. "I Wanna Grow Up to Be a Politician" (Roger McGuinn, Jacques Levy) – 2:03
  6. "America's Great National Pastime" (Skip Battin, Kim Fowley) – 3:00

References

  1. ^
    ISBN 0-9529540-1-X
    .
  2. ^
    ISBN 1-906002-15-0
    .
  3. ISBN 1-906002-15-0
    .
  4. ISBN 0-89820-147-0
    .
  5. Allmusic
    . Retrieved 2010-05-28.
  6. Allmusic
    . Retrieved 2011-01-27.
  7. ISBN 0-89820-172-1
    .
  8. ISBN 1-906002-15-0
    .
  9. ^
    Allmusic
    . Retrieved 2009-10-06.
  10. ISBN 089919026X
    . Retrieved February 22, 2019 – via robertchristgau.com.
  11. ^ "The Best of the Byrds: Greatest Hits, Volume II album reviews". Superseventies.com. Retrieved 2010-06-05.
  12. ^ Rogan, Johnny (1997). Ballad of Easy Rider (CD booklet). The Byrds. Columbia/Legacy.
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