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Title: Great Disappointment
Review: No doubt about it, this is the weakest/worst of the Byrds' regular albums and was a huge disappointment to me when it was released. Obviously, there are some pretty good tracks here--Kathleen's Song (although swamped in strings), Pale Blue, Glory Glory--but there are also some absolute stinkers--Tunnel of Love, I Wanna Grow Up to be a Politician. What saved this album for me was Jamaica Say You Will, with a very evocative performance of a great song. This was my introduction to Jackson Browne (who wrote the song), which caused me to buy his first album when it finally came out. Regardless of the merits of the rest of the album, this alone justifies the existence of Byrdmaniax for me.
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