Title: In response to calliaume@aol.com
Product review: To the contrary, the original Byrds albums definitely ARE worth owning--specifically the first six: "Mr. Tambourine Man," "Turn! Turn! Turn!," "Fifth Dimension," "Younger Than Yesterday," "The Notorious Byrd Brothers" and "Sweetheart of the Rodeo." All of the above titles have been reissued by Columbia/Legacy with great booklet essays, photos, etc.; best of all, a generous number of bonus tracks (some of them utterly brilliant) have been appended to each CD. Moreover, many of the group's most enduring numbers have been left off the box set: the Gene Clark classics "Here Without You" and "Set You Free This Time"; their treatments of "Wild Mountain Thyme" and "Satisfied Mind"; "Change Is Now," etc. (Some of its inclusions are rather questionable too, specifically the later ones.) I highly recommended the original albums, especially in their expanded versions; they are essential listening.
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