Ever have a secret shame? Something you're really into, but it's just too embarrasing to admit? Like listening to your parents have sex through your bedroom wall? That's how I feel about The Byrds. They're my secret shame. And I didn't even know it until now.

A band whose entire catalog seemed to come out in 1968, The Byrds have all sorts of different sides to them. Notorious shows us only one: Pot-smoking music. These guys had to be the biggest hippies in the entire nation. This whole damn album's like one big, universal, freeform get-together. Luckily for us, it's been remastered and reissued.

It starts off with "a devastating one-two punch" (as the liner notes so dramatically put it). You get some loud brass objects tooting and some pedal steel and a harpsichord. It translates roughly into "Artificial Energy," a beautiful song about, um, speed. It's all really a bit overboard.

In fact, the better songs on the record are the ones that could play soundtrack to cheesy stock footage of long-haired dope fiends running joyously through fields of daisies. "Goin' Back," "Change is Now," and the best song in the band's catalog, "Get to You."

The re-issue includes a few bonus tracks. Among them are unreleased versions of songs from the album, a horrible moog experiment called "Moog Raga" (that I presume was unreleased for a reason) and the surprisingly Doorsy "Triad," a tune about a menage-a-trois that the hipsters could have grooved on back in the day, but is just kind of goofy now.

-Ryan Schreiber