Farther Along (The Byrds Album)
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Farther Along (The Byrds Album)
Farther Along is the eleventh album by the American rock band the Byrds and was released in November 1971 on Columbia Records (see 1971 in music). For the most part, the album was recorded and produced by the Byrds themselves in London, England, over the course of five work-intensive days in July 1971. It was quickly released as a reaction to the commercial failure of the Byrds' previous album, Byrdmaniax, and as an attempt to stem the criticism that album was receiving in the music press.-Wikipedia
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Rolling Stone
1972- Beneath the old Byrds sound, and this new, quartered approach, there is a more fundamental commitment, and that is to survival.
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All Music
It's a strong and well-crafted set from a band that inarguably gave it their all right up to the finish line.
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Country Standard Time
2000- "Farther Along" is the sound of Byrds with the wildest wish to fly. The seeds of McGuinn's solo career were being planted here, and the band is in the same state of flux that marked "Byrdmaniax," but the album's saving grace is that the songs and tone are slightly more focused.
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Adrian's Album Reviews
It wasn't intended as a goodbye album but that's what it became as the group splintered shortly after this records release. A much hyped, but ultimately disappointing reunion album would follow, but never again would The Byrds fly high.
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George Starostin's Reviews
Irrelevant as heck, but hey, so were the Eagles, and they still sold millions of albums. This record, then, ranks about as high as the highest Eagles peak (eerie?), which is a bit funny considering how it's so often pegged as, if not exactly the Byrds at their worst, then at least the Byrds at their "trifling-est".
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Mark's Record Reviews
An understated (and underimpressive) late period Byrds release. Also features what I consider to be the most annoying song they ever recorded, "America's Great National Pastime."
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Rarebird's Rock and Roll Rarity Reviews
Although it is considered one of the worst Byrds albums, Farther Along might have been considered a classic if it were recorded by a different band with less to live up to. Not to say that it is a classic, because the material isn't consistent; . . . .
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Excatholic4Christ
2018- There’s very little to recommend about this album. In my opinion it’s the Byrds’ worst effort.
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John McFerrin Music Reviews
The opening "Tiffany Queen" actually gets the album off to an excellent start - the riff might be a Satisfaction ripoff, but at least it sounds drastically different from the Stones, and it's nice to hear it pop up between verses of Roger's attempts at singing 50's r'n'r.
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Wilson & Alroy's Record Reviews
Like the previous two albums, it features the Battin-Gene Parsons-White lineup, this time with no session players. The three of them and McGuinn split the songwriting roughly evenly, sometimes collaborating, although three of the tunes are covers.(JA)
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J Hendrix 110
Farther Along terminates the Byrds deep in roots music, along with a few nods to 50s rock and roll.
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Robert Christgau
On that downhill road--to Kim Fowley, to songs about Antique Sandy and Precious Kate, to the day when the agent man collects what you owe him.
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Memphis Flyer Music Reviews
Byrdmaniax and Farther Along, which have also been recently reissued. Both of these document a band in creative decline that suffered from inconsistent songwriting (among other faults) and are the weakest albums in the Byrds catalog.
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Don Ignacio's Music Reviews
It's an incredibly even album and possibly the best of the McGuinn-era works.
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