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I'll Feel a Whole Lot Better
"I'll Feel a Whole Lot Better" is a song by the Los Angeles folk rock band The Byrds that was first released in June 1965 on the B-side of the band's second single, "All I Really Want to Do". It was also included on The Byrds' debut album, ''Mr. Tambourine Man''.〔 Written by Gene Clark, who also sings the lead vocal, "I'll Feel a Whole Lot Better" features some of The Byrds' early musical trademarks, including Jim McGuinn's jangling 12-string Rickenbacker guitar; Clark's pounding tambourine; McGuinn, Clark and David Crosby's complex harmony singing; and a country-influenced guitar solo.〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=ByrdWatcher: A Field Guide to the Byrds of Los Angeles )〕
Although it was initially released as a B-side, "I'll Feel a Whole Lot Better" was itself heavily promoted by Columbia Records during the time that "All I Really Want to Do" spent on the ''Billboard'' charts.〔 As a result, the song actually managed to chart in its own right at number 103.〔 Since its release, the song has become a rock music standard, inspiring a number of cover versions over the years.〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=Allmusic ) 〕 It is also considered by many critics to be one of the band's, as well as Clark's, best and most popular songs, with ''Rolling Stone'' magazine ranking it at number 234 on their list of ''The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time''.〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=Rolling Stone )〕
==Background and content==
Music critic Mark Deming has noted that lyrically, "I'll Feel a Whole Lot Better" takes a sardonic view of romance, with Clark undecided about whether to break off a relationship with a woman who hasn't been entirely honest with him.〔 The song dates from The Byrds' pre-fame residency at Ciro's nightclub in Los Angeles, as Clark explained during an interview: "There was a girlfriend I had known at the time, when we were playing at Ciro's. It was a weird time in my life because everything was changing so fast and I knew we were becoming popular. This girl was a funny girl, she was kind of a strange little girl and she started bothering me a lot. And I just wrote the song, 'I'm gonna feel a whole lot better when you're gone,' and that's all it was, but I wrote the whole song within a few minutes."〔
The song is built around a pounding riff that Clark later admitted was based on "Needles and Pins" by The Searchers.〔 The song's refrain of "I'll probably feel a whole lot better when you're gone" betrays Clark's uncertainty about ending the relationship and whether such an act would be the answer to his problems or not.〔〔 Mark Deming has pointed out that the use of the word "probably" in this refrain is key and lends the track a depth of subtext that was unusual for a pop song in the mid-1960s.〔 Jim Dickson, The Byrds' manager, has noted that this level of subtext was not unusual in Clark's songs of the period. Said Dickson, "There was always something to unravel in those songs, the non-explanation of the complex feeling. For instance, if you remember I'll Feel a Whole Lot Better, it doesn't say: "I'll feel a whole lot better", but "I'll ''probably'' feel a whole lot better." For me, that makes the song. There's a statement followed by a hesitation."〔 Dickson would later work as a producer on Clark's 1984 album ''Firebyrd'', which featured a re-recorded version of "I'll Feel a Whole Lot Better".〔
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