Mr. Tambourine Man

Definitely not my favorite style of music. The band is competent, just not my thing.

Folk-rock arrives on The Byrds' Mr. Tambourine Man, tho in a sense Dylan already managed that on Bringing It All Back Home. To be specific, this is the arrival of psychedelic folk-rock. The title-track, which is the best track here, is everything a cover ought to be: an homage & a creative deviation. The eleven tunes that follow (I'm going w/ the original 31 min release) are mostly excellent as well, tho some suffer from aimlessness & thinness, the essential issues of The Byrds as I see it. The group is responsible for two absolute classic records, The Notorious Byrd Brothers & Sweetheart of the Rodeo. The debut is still essential for its influence tho, the inauguration of that sweet & psychedelic sound synonymous w/ a counterculture vibration.

Mr. Tambourine Man - 91
I'll Feel A Whole Lot Better - 92
Spanish Harlem Incident - 84
You Won't Have To Cry - 88
Here Without You - 82
The Bells Of Rhymney - 86
All I Really Want To Do - 85
I Knew I'd Want You - 83
It's No Use - 84
Don't Doubt Yourself, Babe - 85
Chimes Of Freedom - 87
We'll Meet Again - 83

Mr. Tambourine Man - 87

2/5 - forgettable.

Byrd, as it turns out, is not the word.

Jangly

I had recognized a whole range of inspirations in the movie “This Is Spinal Tap,” but I wasn't sure where singer David St. Hubbins' sound came from. I was able to figure that out today by listening closely to Roger McGuinn. My research has shown that this is a “transatlantic accent". It arises when an American tries to sound British.
“Mr. Tambourine Man” actually sums this up quite well: a folk/bluegrass band wants to sound like The Beatles. They pull it off quite well in places, but other passages are just plain funny (“All I Really Want To Do", “It’s No Use”, “Don’t Doubt Yourself”). Of course, there’s also an absolute hit (in the form of the title track), and this one, after all, anticipated and defined the Bay Area sounds of the hippie era.

Не найгірший альбом з 60х, враховуючи що кожен раз я пишу як хейчу цю декаду. Десь на 2.5

I don't like The Byrds. I never did.

My third album from The Byrds and after two 2 stars previously this is by far my favourite that I’ve heard from them.

It didn’t ever get close to 5 star territory but I enjoyed it from start to finish. I think I have two more albums to come from them so hopefully they’re as good as this was.

Suk… det er simpelthen så dårligt

i was pleasantly surprised by this

It's alright.

The Good: We get to hang out with Mr. Tambourine!
The Bad: Finding out that his missus is called Mrs. Tambourine Missus…
The Ugly: After a while, the instrument turns into a tamboredine… see what I did there?

Of all the Byrds albums that I’ve had to listen to, this is the least offensive. Actually, there really isn’t anything wrong with this album. It actually is easy to listen to…

I can see those boomer youths just pransing around to these tunes, having a great time and then heading out for a milkshake.

Myself, I’d rather slam back a quart of Jack and a 12-pack of frothy cervecas while banging my head to some rock…

I give myself 4* that I am still in the game… but the album will be stuck at 3*

Meh. Not horrible to listen to but how can a cover band be in this list?

One of the all time great debut records, still influential today, arguably the progenitor of both jangle pop (Tambourine Man, All I Really Want To Do etc) AND power pop (Gene Clark’s brilliant Feel a Whole a lot Better). The originals are of a high standard, some of them near classics. A response to and not particularly derivative of The British Invasion. It doesn’t get much better in the mid 60’s. 5 stars !

Finally. Have had listen to a lot of Byrds albums to get to the one that has the beyond beautiful Mr Tambourine Man single. The template for jangly folk-rock.

When you've influenced bands like The Beatles, The Monkees, R.E.M., Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers and the Smith's as well as just about any other band that's played "Country-Rock" then obviously, you belong on this list.

Do they need FIVE albums on this list? Well......

Mr. Tambourine Man is a pretty solid album and definitely a groundbreaking one for the time it was released. This album was one of the earliest American psychedelic rock albums that hoped to challenge the popularity of the Beatles which is probably why i got a very American Beatles vibe from this album. The music itself is certainly pleasant and solid enough for 1965, sure it lacks a lot of the more interesting elements that the Byrds would later use in albums like Fifth Dimension and Younger Than Yesterday. It's not an album i have too much to say about so all i can say is that it's a solid and very important album.
Best Song: It's No Use
Worst Song: The Bells Of Rhymney

Really didn't feel like there was anything special here, it was pleasant enough I guess