EIGHT MILES HIGH,
AND WHEN YOU
TOUCH DOWN
YOU'LL FIND THAT
IT'S STRANGER THAN KNOWN
Fifth Dimension
is the third
studio album
by
the American
rock band
released on
July 18, 1966,
by Columbia Records.
Most of the album
was recorded
following
the February 1966
departure of the band's
principal songwriter
Gene Clark.
In an attempt to
compensate for
Clark's absence,
guitarists
Jim McGuinn
and
David Crosby
increased their
songwriting output.
In spite of this,
the loss of Clark
resulted in an
album with
four cover versions
and an instrumental,
which critics have
described as
"wildly uneven"
and
"awkward and scattered".
However,
it was the first
Byrds album
not to include
any songs
written by
Bob Dylan,
whose material had
previously been a
mainstay of the
band's repertoire.
The album peaked at
number 24
on the
Billboard Top
LPs chart
Upon release,
Fifth Dimension
was widely regarded as
the band's most
experimental album
to date
and is today
considered by critics
to be influential in
originating the
musical genre of
psychedelic rock
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