YOU ARE BIDDING ON A LP BY GENE CLARK OF THE BYRDS CALLED "NO OTHER". IT WAS RELEASED ON THE ASYLUM LABEL (7E-1016) OUT OF THE U.S. IN 1974. THE COVER & THE LP ARE NEAR MINT

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Upon its release in 1974, 's was soundly reviled as an exercise in studio and financial excess, a critical and commercial failure -- it was pop music's Heaven's Gate. However, a scant year and a half later, 's self-titled album and its successor, , utilizing similar performance and production techniques, were adored by critics and the record-buying public, and have become cultural mainstays. The appearance of on CD in America some 26 years after its release offers the opportunity to hear this record for what it was: a solidly visionary recording that decided to use every available means to illustrate 's razor-sharp songwriting that lent itself to open-ended performance and production -- often in the same song (one listen to the title track bears this out in spades). and producer entered Village Recorders in L.A. having assembled a cast of players that included veterans such as and , ' , , , , , , , and . Backing vocalists such as , , and -- who would appear on 's two years later -- and including , , , , and ' were also in the house. What it adds up to is a sprawling, ambitious work that brought elements of country, folk, jazzed-out gospel, blues, and trippy rock to bear on a song cycle that reflects the mid-'70s better than anything from that time, yet sounds hauntingly timely even now.

There are no edges on , even in its rockier tracks such as "Strength of Strings," which echoes 's "Cowgirl in the Sand" melodically, but its bridge is pure mystic Eastern harmony, complete with slide guitar wizardry. The shimmering dark textures of "Silver Raven," where 's falsetto vocal is kissed by synth and muted basslines and extended by a chorus that could have come off 's , is one of the most heartbreakingly blissed-out country-folk songs in recorded music history. "From a Silver Phial," as haunting and beautiful as it is, is one of the strangest songs ever wrote, given its anti-drug references (especially considering this is one of the more coked-out records to come from L.A. during the era). The final two cuts, "The True One" and "Lady of the North" (co-written with ), are the only two pieces on the disc that mirror back with accuracy where had come from, but even these, as they wind around the listener, are far bigger than mere country-rock tunes, and they offer glissando passages of pedal steel and ostinato piano that create narrative movement in the lyrics. This is one of those recordings, one that is being rediscovered for the masterpiece it is

Tracklist

Life's Greatest Fool4:44 Silver Raven4:53 No Other5:08 Strength Of Strings6:30 From A Silver Phial3:40 Some Misunderstanding8:10 The True One4:57 Lady Of The North6:04