Crosby Stills Nash & Young - Déjà Vu
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Free Music Review: The best but could be better
Hit: 5 Stars
This is undoubtedly the best CSNY album, but it would be better by the addition of Suite: Judy Blue Eyes, IMO CSNY's best song. Though this would make so far much weaker (because it would be taken off that album) but to the person who said Déjà vu has all the great songs, it is missing a few (eg suite:judy blue eyes and helplessly hoping)Free Music Review: "Deja vu" has been dissected and subjected to "breathless pretensions", but
Hit: 5 Stars
I am old enough to have bought this same recording, in LP, format...WAY back... My favorite "cut" is, and always will be, "Woodstock". It is "evergreen", with a driving sentiment that meant plenty at the time of the Woodstock concerts at Yasgur's farm, and still rings true today. Back then, this album was "bitchin'", and, like all timeless classics, still is!Free Music Review: One of the most successful super groups of all time
Hit: 5 Stars
Beginning with Cream, the sixties saw the beginning of a phenomenon that has persisted until today: the super group, where members from other highly successful bands group together to do an album of their own. For some reason, this remains somewhat unusual in rock, though it has been common in jazz. But even today one can almost count the super groups on the fingers of both hands, and even some of those considered super groups, like the New Pornographers, were formed of people whose bands weren't exactly household names. But by any standard, two of the most successful albums by a super group has to be the first two recorded by Stephen Stills from Buffalo Springfield, David Crosby from the Byrds, and Graham Nash from the Hollies, joined on their second album by Stills's former band mate from Buffalo Springfield, Neil Young. The resulting albums are among the most brilliant vocal albums in the history of rock. In a way, this is not at all surprising. The previous bands of all the members were notable for their vocal prowess, all of them employing tight harmonies rather than solos (though Buffalo Springfield features more solo singing than the Byrds or the Hollies).
The group's debut album, CROSBY, STILLS, AND NASH, had been a spectacular debut, but by the time the second album was being produced, internal conflicts were creating huge barriers to the completion of the project. Literally hundreds of hours were expended in the project, rarely with all of the members working together. In a way, it is one of the most unlikely masterpieces in recording history. The addition of Neil Young to the mix did add considerably to the talent involved, giving them a new songwriter (as time has shown, the most talented one of the bunch by a considerable margin), a unique vocalist, and a second strong guitar to complement Stephen Stills (Crosby and Nash can play guitar, but neither is on Stills or Young's level). Somehow they managed to pull together a set of ten remarkable songs, at least five of them classics. Numbers like "Woodstock" (written by Joni Mitchell but best known in CSNY's version), David Crosby's wonderful "I Almost Cut My Hair," Graham Nash's two lovely numbers "Our House" and "Teach Your Children," and Neil Young's "Helpless" have received extraordinary amounts of airplay over the decades, and rightfully so. But the lesser known cuts are just as interesting and often as strong. Stephen Stills's solo number "4 + 20" has long been one of my favorite numbers by the band and one of the more autobiographical songs in rock, with some wonderful lines (such as returning to his quilt covered bed and embracing "the many colored beast").
Although CSNY later produced the brilliant live album FOUR WAY STREET, there was too little interpersonal cohesion for the band to continue. Crosby, Stills, and Nash would all reunite for additional albums of declining quality, but for the most part all four pursued solo careers. Although Stephen Stills, David Crosby, and Graham Nash each managed one very good solo albums (all, interestingly, released in 1971 or 1972), the only member of the band to achieve ongoing success was Neil Young, who even today is still at the top of his game (and has this past week acknowledged that he is releasing an album of songs criticizing George Bush's invasion of Iraq to be entitled LIVING WITH WAR). In the end, what is remarkable is how short-lived the band stayed together. But the two studio albums and the one live album will assure that they will be around for ages to come.
Free Music Review: Classic Rock
Hit: 5 Stars
Crosby Stills and Nash still moves me with their instrumentation,harmonies and lyrics. It's easy to see why they are icons from the music of the 60's and onward.Free Music Review: Their very best
Hit: 5 Stars
Deja Vu is without a doubt, CSN&Y's BEST album. All of the songs are so great and when you've got this album, you really don't need any others, as this is the one with all of the great songs. This album is a masterpiece! Highly recommended.