Preflyte (compilation album)
by The Byrds
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Preflyte track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 76 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
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| 2025 |  Repo | Top 81 Music Albums of 1969 | 74/81 | 0 |
| 2021 | Steppenwolf666 | Guinness All Time Top 1000 Albums by Guinness 1994 (901-1000) | 89/100 | - |
| 2020 | Rovers | Top 99 Music Albums of 1969 | 66/99 | 2 |
| 2016 | hahol | Top 98 Music Albums of 1969 | 89/98 | 1 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 4 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 3 | |||
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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75/100  | 07/21/2024 14:41 | spinout | | 81/100 |
75/100 | 07/09/2022 09:51 |  Tamthebam | | 69/100 |
70/100 | 03/24/2021 03:06 | thandall | | 79/100 |
90/100 | 12/24/2020 21:59 | DetectiveI | | 95/100 |
70/100 | 12/06/2020 22:44 |  adnielsen | | 76/100 |
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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 72.6/100, a mean average of 72.9/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 72.9/100. The standard deviation for this album is 9.6.
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This is a selection of demos that the Byrds recorded before their breakthrough in 1965 with "Mr Tambourine Man". Many of the were previously issued on the 1969 album, “Preflyte” The sound and the musical finish are fine on most tracks, but, of course, you can't compare them with the later Columbia releases. The tracks were recorded over half a year in 1964, and you can clearly feel that the group is at a crossroads between their folk roots and their fascination with English groups such as the Beatles and the Searchers.
The group had in Gene Clark a fantastic songwriter and which is already obvious on many of these early songs. Apart from "The Airport Song", "It Won't Be Wrong" and "Mr. Tambourine Man", Clark has a songwriting share on all songs; in many cases as sole songwriter.
Some tracks were later re-recorded and released on the first Columbia albums; "You Won't Have to Cry", "Here Without You", "I Knew I'd Want You" and "It's No Use", came out on the debut "Mr. Tambourine Man", while "It Won't Be Wrong" first appeared on "Turn! Turn! Turn!”. All of Clark's songs are so good that they deserved to be re-recorded and released; unfortunately, for reasons of group politics, it was decided that Clark would take up too much space. A strong track like "She Has a Way" was re-recorded, but was not released until many years later on the rarities album "Never Before". It's a really nice song with a nice little guitar riff. The Turtles discovered the potential of these early demos and had a big hit with "You Showed Me", in an arrangement almost identical to The Byrds'.
The fact that they failed to continue working with other strong tracks such as "Tomorrow is a Longs Ways Away", "You Movin'", "For Me Again", "Please Let Me Love You" etc. is a bit of an enigma. Firstly, the group's early albums were quite short with plenty of room for an extra track or two, and moreover, some of the tracks that were selected were fairly unremarkable cover versions such as "Don't Doubt Yourself, Babe", "We'll Meet Again", "Oh, Susannah" and "The Times are a'Changing".
In any case, it's a great pleasure to listen to these early tracks from one of the greatest groups in American rock. Actually a little gold mine of great songs.
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