Crosby Stills Nash & Young - Deja Vu
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Free Music Review: ESSENTIAL CLASSIC ROCK!! ONE OF THE BEST ALBUMS OF 1970!
Hit: 5 Stars
When Neil Young joined Crosby Stills & Nash around late 1969 the group immidiately began work on Deja Vu, the supergroup's second long player. Like Crosby Stills & Nash's awesome debut the album was a huge success charting at #1 on the billboard charts and becoming one of the finest albums in classic rock. Personally I find the album slightly weaker than the group's debut album but some may prefer Deja Vu more than the debut depending on your taste. Both albums are essential though no doubt about it.Stephen Stills has most of the better songs on this album the opener CARRY ON is one of the best songs in classic rock check out the wild guitar solo! WOODSTOCK is a classic both Stills lead vocal and the chorus vocals are gold! And the acoustic 4+20 is a beautiful love ballad. And the album closer EVERBODY I LOVE YOU is an underrated materpiece which he co-wrote with Neil Young. (If you haven't noticed yet I'm a big fan of Stephen Stills!)
David Crosby's songs are also quite good here. ALMOST CUT MY HAIR is another hippie anthem but has some great guitar playing on it. The title track DEJA VU is considered filler to some but if you listen to Crosby's words you realize it philoso-rock and a very good song.
Graham Nash has some nice songs here too. His acoustic TEACH YOUR CHILDREN is a wonderful tune. Now that is my kind of country music! OUR HOUSE is another good song. A very nice catchy love tune with the use of the harpsichord.
With all do respect to Neil Young I think his works featured are good but not great. Don't get me wrong Neil Young is wonderful and I like him and all but his songs here are not anywhere along the lines of what his later works would brings out. HELPLESS drags on and his voice just does not sound very good. His COUNTRY GIRL medley is pretty good but compared to Stills, Nash and Crosby material his just seems to be slightly weaker.
Despite the couple of weaker tracks the album is still an essential classic. Neil Young's addition to the supergroup give the band a rougher hard rocking edge that was not featured on their folk-rock debut. It is definetly one of the best records of 1970 and is an essential to any CSN&Y fan. However if you are just a fan of music this is definetly worth checking out. Highly recommended!
Free Music Review: The Single Biggest Album To Come Out Of The Sixties!
Hit: 5 Stars
From the ouset of their star-crossed collaboration, it was clear that this was to be the best of the new super-groups, composed of discontented refugees who either quit or were bounced from other monster groups like the Byrds, Buffalo Springfield, and the Hollies. When after an initial success with a first album the group decided to add Still's former partner in crime from the Buffalo Springfield group Neil Young to the line-up, the strange witches brew of creative energy and talent that resulted exploded onto the contemporary rock scene at Woodstock to an amazed audience with such power and originality. Of course, this number one album was the first result of their original collaboration, and it shot to the top of the charts, where it remained for years!This album is full of smash hits and breath-taking sounds, from the opening "Carry On" to the elegiac "Teach Your Children" to the faux-comical "Almost Cut My Hair". They don't make a single false step here, in what was then acclaimed to be the first technically "perfect" studio album. Indeed, everything is seemingly perfect, from the plaintive sounds of Young's piercing falsetto in "Helpless" to Nash's masterfully gentle ballad "Our House". Of course, their masterpiece on this album is the epic tribute to "Woodstock", a cover of Joni Mitchell's song that they rushed to include on the album after hearing her sing it to them on the phone right after the Woodstock festival, which she couldn't get to because of the traffic.
To see how well they transformed her folksy dirge into a rock classic is to understand their native talents and interpretive skills. Everything here is terrific, and my own favorites of "4 and 20" and "Everybody I Love You" are less played and appreciated than most of the other hits emanating from this classic album. This is easily one of the ten best albums from the sixties, and one everyone who calls himself (or herself) a rock fan must own and have on the shelf. In my humble opinion it is the single best effort from that era. Enjoy!
Free Music Review: Essential Cd and Great Songs
Hit: 5 Stars
I wasn't around when this cd came out in 1970. Even so, it has become one of my favorite albums. It contains several classic songs such as :Carry On," "Teach Your Children," and "Woodstock." Some of the others are ones that CSNY isn't as well known for, but they're still very popular.
The albums begins iwth "Carry On." This is a song I'vfe beena fan of for quite awhile. It's a very well written song ig. It contains great lyrics, great electric guitar work, and great harmonies. But those guys are known for their harmonies anyway. The next song, "Teach Your Children" was written by Graham Nash, and it's about how parents and their children should try to understand each other. Like "Carry On," "4 + 20" is another song writtten by Stephen Stills. It's aunacoustic, autobiagraphical song with a nice melody. Along with "Teach Your Children," "Our House" was another song on the album written by Graham Nash for Jonie Mitchell, . Since the album, the song has become a classic. David Crosby penned a couple songs on the album "Deja Vu," the title track, and "Almost Cut My Hair." For some reason, I crack up when I hear this song. "Almost Cut My Hair" is more of a rock song, while "Deja vu" is a song that also has great vocal harmonies. Neil Young wrote "Country Girl..." "Helpless" and he also co-wrote "Everybody I Love You" with Stephen Stills. The first song has a great melody, and good lyrics. "Helpless" is an acoustic number, and I'm a huge fan of this song. It's a very reflective song with a great melody and great lyrics. "Everybody I Love You" is a rock song with more good harmonies.
In the midst of all this, it's hard to believe that these guys had time to record someone elses song. "Woodstock" was originally written by Jonie Mitchell about the legendary music festival that took place in upstate New York. Her version is a piano-based piece, while CSNnY's is an up-tempo rock song. CSnY's is the most popular version. This album is a classic of it's era, and it's definitely worth buying. This album is fool of great songs, and it showcases lots of talent.
Free Music Review: David Crosby's voice, Stills, Nash and Young's harmonies
Hit: 5 Stars
A Truly lovely album however you are feeling at the time, because it is about the 'beautiful things, peace, love and harmony. When I first heard the song 'Carry On' I knew I was listening to a beautiful song just from the introduction, its amazing how wonderful the vocals are on this song, just listen and you will hear for yourself, its magical haunting and brilliantly sung, equally as good is 'Deja vu' with its incredibly haunting atmosphere, truly a masterpiece of perfection. When he sings, "We've all been here before" I can imagine the feeling because I have encountered Deja vu (won't go into that here). And what about "Almost Cut My Hair", gorgeous song with those wonderful hippy lyrics, he sings it with such raw emotions, that I can feel deep inside of me. Although there is a song that goes much deeper inside, really deep down inside, and that song is "4 + 20" sung by Stephen Stills, in his deep manly voice that is full of emotion, deep emotion, its about finding, losing, searching, and the sadness that is felt from within his heart, its so meaningful
Its more then a song, its a man opening up about the way he feels inside. 'Woodstock' is lovely, I think it is even better then the original one, by Mathews Southern Comfort (their version was also outstanding) its their harmonies, they are great. I love Neil Young's 'Helpless' its the way he sings, with that distinctive lilt in the voice, just makes me feel really good to hear someone who sings so loud and yet in total harmony. Songs 11. 12. 13 and 14, I do not have on my version of the CD, but I do know the song 'long time gone' its from their very first album
and its truly lovely, with David taking lead vocals, yes I like this song very much, he sings out loud and clear, just love it.
The songs I have not mentioned are also songs that I still like its just that they don't get so deep inside, hope you like this review, thank you for reading it, and hope you buy the album, because it really is on a higher plane.
Free Music Review: Always my favorite
Hit: 5 Stars
Deja Vu was the first CSNY record i recieved and the first of all of my records that I completely fell in love with. It was a gateway album into a whole new genre of music, and though it is not the first of the great rock super-group, it led me into exploring all the other albums of CSN, CSNY, all the individual members , groups that they came from and groups with similar sounds. But no matter what, this group of four incredibly talented musicians have a sound unlike any other that cannot be measured up to. First of all the group is perfect with just its mix of four able to be lead voices singing so strong alone and then together with beautiful and moving harmonies and sounds. But then take that and add groovy full fledged feeling guitars and keys, poetic and beautifully written lyrics, and drums and bass from greg reeves and dallas taylor, and its a group that is so solid and together and this is an incredibly solid and awesome album that i love and will never get tired of. If I had to have only one cd, this would be the one. Though some of the songs are mentioned more often than others, the greatest songs i feel are Carry On with its variety of sound and and changes and thier kick-ass version of Joni Mitchell's Woodstock. But this album just has such a variety of songs and sounds from the rockin guitar and vocals of Almost Cut My Hair, the songs with that sound that only Graham Nash has like Our House, Neil Youngs more mellow tunes with beautifullly written lyrics like Helpless, and the groovy and thoughtful Teach Your Children. The album ends on a great note with Nash and Stills' Everybody I Love You. The whole album is great from start to finish. All of the songs are perfectly written and the sounds just bring you right back to Woodstock and the music of the time. I love every single song on this album but I really can't give the ambum justice from writing a review, so all I can say is to get it! And then be sure to get the first(before Neil Young joined) and then get them all! Dig it