Da Boids Is Da Woid Part Deux

Check out this seemingly unexceptional cover. Hard to see now what was so unusual about it at the time, but it was the use of empty space above their heads, with the bodies "bleeding off" the bottom edge. This was almost a Blue Note approach to design - almost, because a jazz album would never have featured the musicians sitting on their asses sulking and pouting (probably). And that typography is sensational.

Once again, this is a swell fan-compiled collection of (allegedly) all the tracks associated with the recording of this album. Thirty-eight of 'em. I haven't forensically examined this, and I'm not a Byrds archivist, so if there are omissions and errors, I apologise.

This was the last album Gene Clark was wholly involved in, because the rest of the girls bitched about his greater earnings from his more successful songwriting. David Crosby was throwing hissy fits that his own material and selections weren't being used. And everyone was simply livid about Jim-Roger McGuinn's close relationship with Terry Melcher. Show-biz kids, huh?