Through all the seismic changes of the '60s, the Byrds were at the forefront of several. They were pioneers in the burgeoning folk-rock movement in the middle of the decade, then swerved into psychedelic music just as that music was starting to take hold of the culture only a few years later. And by the end of the decade, they were one of the first groups to adapt to country music, in turn becoming one of the first country rock acts. There were other stops in between, as outlined in the list below of the Byrds Albums Ranked. By then, though, the Byrds had already rewritten the popular music rule book with psychedelic shadings ("Eight Miles High") and country ventures (Sweetheart of the Rodeo, instigated by the short-tenured Gram Parsons).