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Post by Sheriff John Stone on Apr 21, 2020 14:25:22 GMT
A thread for the group, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young - or as solo performers - David Crosby, Stephen Stills, Graham Nash, and Neil Young.
Here is an interview with David Crosby as he discusses the recent pandemic, the state of the country, the state of the music business, and his desire to reunite with Neil, Stephen, and Graham.
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Post by jk on Apr 21, 2020 21:54:04 GMT
Good call, Sheriff. I just love their debut as a foursome. "Carry On", the opening track, speaks louder than ever these days. Love that breakdown two minutes in--wow! Everything about this track is cool--a sensational start to a sensational album:
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Post by lonelysummer on Apr 23, 2020 1:19:35 GMT
i don't really differentiate between CSN and CSNY. The quartet made, what, 3 studio albums together? Deju Vu, American Dream, Looking Forward. Toss in 4 Way Street, and it's still a very small catalog. CSN, the trio - the 69 debut, the 77 album, Daylight Again, Live it Up...and after that I get lost. Actually, after Daylight Again or American Dream I get lost! American Dream didn't do much for me, but Daylight Again was a solid album. When I think of these guys, though, it is always the late 60's/early 70's stuff that comes to mind. They were everywhere for awhile - in addition to their hits together, they all had some success as solo artists - Love the One You're With, Sit Yourself Down, Change Partners from Stills; Chicago from Nash; Immigration Man and Wind on the Water from Crosby and Nash; and then there's Neil, possibly the most popular cult artist ever. I know that Crosby annoys a lot of people; he's liable to mouth off about anything. He's probably hurt a lot of people with the things he's said. On the other hand, you never have to wonder what he's thinking, he's always telling us. Nash these days just seems very angry. I don't know what Stills is thinking, don't hear much from him. Neil...Neil is, as Croz once said, "stranger than a snakes suspenders".
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Post by jk on Apr 23, 2020 10:29:57 GMT
Yes, the solo stuff. Good call, lonelysummer . One favourite by each member? Probably the following: Crosby: "Laughing" (from If I Could Only Remember My Name) Stills: "Old Times Good Times" (from Stephen Stills) Nash: "I Used To Be A King" (from Songs For Beginners) Young: "Cortez The Killer" (from Zuma)
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Post by Sheriff John Stone on Apr 23, 2020 13:14:35 GMT
Here's a nice version of a Neil song performed by CSN&Y:
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Post by Kapitan on Apr 23, 2020 19:27:46 GMT
It might surprise some of you, but this afternoon is the first time I've intentionally listened to CSN, and more specifically, to their 1969 debut album in full.
It might surprise you more that I'm pretty underwhelmed. I found it pleasant, but aside from the last minute or so of "Suite: Judy Blue Eyes" and "Marrakesh Express," I could take it or leave it.
At some point soonish, I plan to give Deja Vu a listen, too. (I know some of those songs by osmosis.) But I don't expect a whole lot, not liking Neil Young.
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Post by Sheriff John Stone on Apr 24, 2020 1:12:58 GMT
It might surprise some of you, but this afternoon is the first time I've intentionally listened to CSN, and more specifically, to their 1969 debut album in full.
It might surprise you more that I'm pretty underwhelmed. I found it pleasant, but aside from the last minute or so of "Suite: Judy Blue Eyes" and "Marrakesh Express," I could take it or leave it.
At some point soonish, I plan to give Deja Vu a listen, too. (I know some of those songs by osmosis.) But I don't expect a whole lot, not liking Neil Young. "Guinnevere", "Wooden Ships", "Helplessly Hoping", "Pre-Road Downs", or "Long Time Gone" doesn't do anything for you?
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Post by jk on Apr 24, 2020 9:54:42 GMT
It might surprise some of you, but this afternoon is the first time I've intentionally listened to CSN, and more specifically, to their 1969 debut album in full.
It might surprise you more that I'm pretty underwhelmed. I found it pleasant, but aside from the last minute or so of "Suite: Judy Blue Eyes" and "Marrakesh Express," I could take it or leave it.
At some point soonish, I plan to give Deja Vu a listen, too. (I know some of those songs by osmosis.) But I don't expect a whole lot, not liking Neil Young. "Guinnevere", "Wooden Ships", "Helplessly Hoping", "Pre-Road Downs", or "Long Time Gone" doesn't do anything for you? "Helplessly Hoping" is one of my wife's favourite songs. We once sang it (no easy task when there are only two of you) in a karaoke room at a pétanque club, of all crazy places. And I arranged it for piano and played it in a art gallery last summer.
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Post by Kapitan on Apr 24, 2020 11:41:39 GMT
It might surprise some of you, but this afternoon is the first time I've intentionally listened to CSN, and more specifically, to their 1969 debut album in full.
It might surprise you more that I'm pretty underwhelmed. I found it pleasant, but aside from the last minute or so of "Suite: Judy Blue Eyes" and "Marrakesh Express," I could take it or leave it.
At some point soonish, I plan to give Deja Vu a listen, too. (I know some of those songs by osmosis.) But I don't expect a whole lot, not liking Neil Young. "Guinnevere", "Wooden Ships", "Helplessly Hoping", "Pre-Road Downs", or "Long Time Gone" doesn't do anything for you? I don't think I actively disliked anything, but no, they just flowed past me. Occasionally I'd stop and really concentrate, realizing a song or two would be passing me by, just to really consider this classic album. But it all just struck me as ... well I don't want to say. It was one listen, and is one opinion.
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Post by jk on Apr 26, 2020 9:28:09 GMT
Graham Nash's "I Used To Be A King" was one of the songs that got me through a black period (different shade of black) in late 1973. Jerry Garcia's pedal steel was like a shaft of light in the darkness--and it still is.
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Post by Sheriff John Stone on May 16, 2020 15:45:36 GMT
Maybe the Beach Boys have got you now...with those waves singing "Caroline No"...Long may you run...
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Post by lonelysummer on May 17, 2020 3:19:20 GMT
Maybe the Beach Boys have got you now...with those waves singing "Caroline No"...Long may you run...
i wouldn't have caught that reference if it wasn't for a couple guys I grew up with that were HUGE Neil Young fans. Neil was always one of those guys I enjoyed hearing on the radio - Heart of Gold, Old Man, After the Gold Rush, Cinnamon Girl, Down by the River - but I hadn't gone out of my way to buy his albums. Well, when you are hanging out with a couple of Neil Young FREAKS, it moves on beyond the radio hits pretty quickly, onto stuff like Long May You Run, Tired Eyes, Cortez the Killer, I Am a Child... My friend Dave, the rare times he picks up an electric guitar, plays just like Neil. Seriously. Kind of sings like him, too. Unfortunately, he does not know how to sing harmony.
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Post by jk on May 17, 2020 9:11:30 GMT
Well, when you are hanging out with a couple of Neil Young FREAKS, it moves on beyond the radio hits pretty quickly, onto stuff like Long May You Run, Tired Eyes, Cortez the Killer, I Am a Child... That's the one for me! That said, I love a lot of Neil's earlier stuff but he's recorded so much that I soon lost track. My loss, possibly. One later album I did cotton onto way after the event was the extraordinary Trans, which fits into his oeuvre the way McCartney II fits into Paul's... For some reason I've always associated "Cortez The Killer" with the demise of Pompeii. There's that sense of impending doom, helped on by those two nasty guitar chords in the last verse--the fact that the tape ran out doesn't help matters.
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Post by B.E. on Sept 10, 2020 17:21:27 GMT
I've been meaning to contribute to this thread for a while, and I will, but in the meantime just take a few minutes to listen to this beautiful, soothing track. Not written by David Crosby, but sung extraordinarily. It was released on the 1982 CSN album, Daylight Again.
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Post by jk on Sept 16, 2020 19:27:05 GMT
From 1971 to 1973, Stephen Stills fronted a band called Manassas. Their gorgeous self-titled debut was the first album I heard on my first trip to NL. (This was a holiday; I would move there permanently a short while later.) This is side 3, track 5: "Move Around": en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manassas_(album)
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