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Artist:
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Album:
Turn! Turn! Turn! [Remaster]
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Track:
She Don't Care About Time - (original mono single version, bonus track)
Of the many songs by the Byrds that I love, this is the one that has played hard-to-get for some 40 years. Written by Gene Clark, "She Don't Care About Time", it was the flip side to the single "Turn Turn Turn" and was just as good as, if not even better than, the A-side.
Yet, it did not make the album of the same name, which instead included puzzlers like "Oh Susannah".So a decade or two ago, when that first box set of 4 CDs came out by the Byrds, I was thrilled. For a bit.
The booklet was nice, but the CD covers were ugly, featured no pictures of the band, just crappy paintings and trite titles. And, when I finally got to "She Don't Care About Time", they had NOT included the single B-side version, but replaced it with some crappy, unreleased, clearly inferior version.It was not until a few years ago, when the album "Turn Turn Turn" was re-mastered and released with bonus tracks, that the original B-side made its appearance again. Maybe there was some other compilation it made it onto, I don't know. Anyway, among all of my Byrds faves, this has to be in the top 6. If you care at ALL for the Byrds and have not heard this, please press play. If you've heard it before, then HEAR IT AGAIN! And, by the way, what the hell happened to Chris Hillman's hair, which was a wavy, curly mess on album #1, then suddenly became straight as an arrow for album #2? Wig? Process? Later it became curly again. WTF?
Comments (15)
Your post prompted a question regarding B-sides. What would a B-side be today with singles released through downloads and CDs? If the former is to replace any hard-copy release where will an amateur and collector like you go, Dermahrk?
It's been awhile since hearing this song. Scratchy vinyl in fact. Good to know that it's finally out there on CD.
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