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This has been done quite a lot on the Beatles' Forum. So....what the heck....I'm into stealing ideas. What are your Top 10 Byrds Songs?
Here are mine:
The Obvious
1. MTM
2. TTT
3. 8 Mi. Hi
4. I'll Probably Feel A Whole Lot Better When You're Gone

OK, now that I have that out of the way...
5. The World Turns All Around Her
6. She Don't Care About Time
7. Positively 4th St.
8. You Ain't Goin' Nowhere
9. My Back Pages
10. Sing Me Back Home

OK...have at it.
JimK

In no particular order...

1. Mr. Tambourine Man
2. So You Want To Be A Rock-N-Roll Star
3. Feel A Whole Lot Better
4. Lady Friend
5. Tiffany Queen
6. Time Between
7. Drug Store Truck Drivin' Man
8. She Don't Care About Time
9. Chesnut Mare
10. Eight Miles High

All but MTM are Byrd originals! I like many of their Dylan covers but favor their self penned stuff more.

Mr. Tambourine Man
I'll Feel A Whole Lot Better
All I Really Want To Do
Chestnut Mare
Chimes Of Freedom
My Back Pages
Turn, Turn, Turn
8 Miles High
So You Wanna Be A Rock'n'Roll Star
He Was A Friend Of Mine

1. I'll Feel a Whole Lot Better
2. Mr. Tambourine Man
3. Turn, Turn, Turn
4. So You Want to Be a Rock and Roll Star
5. My Back Pages
6. Set You Free This Time
7. Lover of the Bayou
8. Eight Miles High
9. Have You Seen Her Face?
10. Chimes of Freedom

Here are my 10 Byrds favorites.

Mr. Tambourine Man
Turn, Turn, Turn
He was a friend of Mine
5 D
Get to You
Gunga Din
Feeling a whole lot Better
Going Back
Buglar
Draft Morning

..and this one by Roger: Now That Your Gone

TOP 10!?!?

Call me when we get a top 20 Poll, then I know you blokes are serious Byrds fans!

But Seriously:

1/ MTM
2/ Feel a Whole...
3/ Bells of R...
4/ Here without You
5/ TTT
6/ She Don't Care...
7/ 8 Miles...
8/ Renaissance Fair
9/ So You Want to be.......
10/ Chestnut Mare....finally the Rick 12 comes back!

Si...................

All above plus:
Old Blue
100 Years From Now
Nothing Was Delivered
Just A Season

All of the above...........WAIT.......that's more than 10. Is this a stranded on a desert island question or something?

Nah, I plead insanity. I must've been crazy to limit it to only 10.

JimK

Perhaps I should have stated:
any 6 of the above interchangably plus:

To me these two songs really stand out as, well, perfection:

1 Here Without You
2 One in a Hundred (this does qualify, right?)

also in top10 (in no particular order)

3 I Knew I'd Want You
4 If You're Gone
5 It's No Use
6 the inevitable MTM
7 Chimes of Freedom
8 My Back Pages
9 Have You Seen Her Face
10 (See the Sky) About to Rain

Lord help me...here goes.....

1. Tambourine Man
2. I'll Feel a Whole Lot Better
3. Bells of Rymney
4.If You're Gone
5. Set You Free This Time
6. World Turns All Around Her
7. John Riley
8. Draft Morning
9. Gathering of Tribes
10. Dolphin's Smile

WAIT!! ...I See You.... I Come and Stand.....He Was a Friend of Mine.....Wild Mountain Thyme....Artificial Energy...

sheeeesh.....

1. Bells of Rhymney
2. Feel a Whole lot Better
3. She Don't Care About Time
4. Old John Robertson
5. My Back Pages
6. He Was a Friend of Mine
7. Eight Miles High
8. This Wheel's on Fire
9. Lady Friend
10. CTA 102

10. Build It Up
9. Tulsa County
8. You Ain;t going nowhere
7.You're Still On my Mind
6. I Am A Pilgrim
5. One Hundred Years from Now
4.Hickory Wind
3. Set You Free Thus Tune
2. Nashville West
1. Wheels in fire [second disc Untitled]

These are real bryds pick not that weak sauce like mtm and most of those dylan covers whcih plae in comparsion the best byrds sre clarence white gene clark clark gram parsons and chris hillman not Roger

murphy12 wrote:...
10. CTA 102

Yay! I was hoping someone else would have that one in the top ten!

I'll have to think a bit on this one, although the first five for me are pretty much what's already been stated.