When The Byrds' second album hit the market at the end of 1965, it was a matter of consolidation and continuation rather than extension and experimentation. That's not, by the way, a criticism. At that point we were still in the era or the album as a collection of singles, B-sides and assorted tracks assembled to fill up enough space on a long player
Hughesy's assessment: From the opening chamber-folk adaption from the Book of Ecclesiastes to the Stephn Foster-penned closer, Turn! Turn! Turn! continued the band's successful mix of vocal harmonies and jangly twelve-string Rickenbacker guitar filtered through Dylan covers, Gene Clark and Jim McGuinn originals and McGuinn's excursions into the realms of traditional arranged.
There's also an indication of things to come. At Chris Hillman's suggestion, the album includes the band's take on Porter Wagoner's Satisfied Mind a good three years before Sweetheart of the Rpdeo,
While it may not have been groundbreaking, the album was, at least, Acceptable
Track listing:Turn! Turn! Turn! (To Everything There is a Season); It Won't Be Wrong; Set You Free This Time; Lay Down Your Weary Tune; He Was a Friend of Mine; The World Turns All Around Her; Satisfied Mind; If You're Gone; The Times They Are a-Changin'; Wait and See; Oh! Susannah
1996 CD reissue bonus tracks:The Day Walk (Never Before); She Don't Care About Time [Single Version]; The Times They Are A-Changin’ [First Version]; It's All Over Now, Baby Blue [Version 1]; She Don't Care About Time [Version 1]; The World Turns All Around Her [Alternate Mix]; Stranger in a Strange Land [Instrumental]
Classics: Turn! Turn! Turn! (To Everything There is a Season);
Not Far Off: Lay Down Your Weary Tune; The World Turns All Around Her; The Day Walk (Never Before);
Worthwhile: It Won't Be Wrong; Set You Free This Time; The Times They Are a-Changin'; It's All Over Now, Baby Blue
Solid:He Was a Friend of Mine; If You're Gone; Wait and See; Oh! Susannah; Stranger in a Strange Land
Could have been better:Satisfied Mind;