Crosby Stills Nash & Young - Deja Vu
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Free Music Notes for Deja Vu
Free Music Review: What fine company this band keeps, one top ten of all time
Hit: 5 Stars
1. beatles beatles 65 2. jethro tull benefit
3. jefferson starship baron von tollbooth
4. jimi hendrix jimi hendrix experience
5. pink floyd dark side of the moon
6. rolling stones through the past darkly
7. beatles the white album
8. csny deja vu 9. michael jackson thriller
10. temptations anthology
11. springsteen darkness on the edge of tow
12. supremes greates hits
I don't know how to display enough emotion about this album. thought they might be as good as the beatles, but realize as crosby put it. hey man, you must be really stoned, nobody is better than the beatles. end of quote. anyway, as a pot smoking hippie of the time, anti war, sex activist, the album, time, and harmonies as heavenly as the mamas and papas, with a little bit of hank williams thrown in, God was truly with all of us then. what a time, what a place, what an album. life could not possibly have gotten better than this, except maybe hearing joe cocker sing with a little help from my friends at woodstock.
Free Music Review: A Mutli-layered Masterpiece
Hit: 5 Stars
Four songwriters, four distinct voices, one uniquely touching sound. Although this album captures the lost innocence of sixties-into-seventies youth, the wide gap between the WWII generation and their hippie children, several types of songs populate this record. Without a doubt, Graham Nash writes his songs ("Teach Your Children" and "Our House") with the most emotional optimism of the band. On the other end is Stephen Stills whose songs ("Carry On" and "4 + 20") deal with the darker aspects of life which are rarely, if ever, resolved. David Crosby concerns himself with the how hippies are perceived by the outside world in "Almost Cut My Hair," but then delves right into a "trip" in "Deja Vu." Neil Young, who, in his own right, is very politically critical, puts forth songs on this album more emotionally stirring on an individual level.
This album is the definitive CSNY album; it's as if a perfect moment in time was captured in this album. Listen to it and look at the cover and the insert - it's all carefully put together to form one multi-layered masterpiece to be enjoyed at any age and at any time.
Free Music Review: In best form.
Hit: 5 Stars
This is one of the most beautiful album I ever heard. All songs are superb. All four members are in top form on this album. For me this is the best songs which they ever wrote.
Crosby:
Almost cut my hair - very intimate, with great hard vocal and super guitar
Deja vu - jazzy, free, great vocals and originality
Stills:
Carry on - unconventional 3 - parts title
4+20 - beautiful intimate folk style song
Nash:
Teach your children - his most popular song
Our house - my favourite song by Nash, with superb vocals
Young:
Helpless - in country style
Country girl - perfect noncommercial title with great vocals
and last title Everybody I love you - by Stills and Young with great Stills vocal in second part.
This album is must for all fans which like perfect music, perfect lyrics, for all fans which like art, no trasch(brak).
Note: Exist rare Czechoslovakian Lp of this album with great cover. Must for any Lp's collector.
Free Music Review: I will now proceed to untangle the entire area
Hit: 5 Stars
Many of the lyrics now seem rather naive and, sometimes, trite ("No pass out signs on the door set me thinking, are waitresses paying the price of their winking? While stars sit at bars and decide what they're drinking...") but then they were written by guys who were but 25 or so. They do, however, seem to capture a moment in time; especially Joni Mitchell's Woodstock.But beyond the lyrics, this album is full of the band's great vocal power--not only the harmonies (their trademark) but the solos. Stills, in particular, had such a wonderful, unique voice. And Crosby's "Almost Cut My Hair" is sung with such an attitude, it overcomes any sense that the song is dated.
As a guitar band, (yes, they were), CSNY was at their best on this one. It's fully of gritty, funky Stills-Young jams that embellish and spice songs such as Carry On, Woodstock, Almost Cut My Hair, and Everybody I Love You. Even more so than the lyrics, the music on this album reminds me of what I felt, as a 13-yr old, in 1970.
Free Music Review: Never trust an album over 30?
Hit: 5 Stars
Is the recent A&E biography on David Crosby the reason this CD is number 3 on the Amazon chart? Amazing indeed!CSN&sometimesY were never better than they were on Dejá Vù. This masterpiece will always be as solid as it was when those four incredible voices first jointed (sic) together in the 1960s. Let's hope their music never goes out of style. The keyword there is music...you can actually hum these tunes long after you listened to them. Try that with some of the newer stuff!
If you're into chills, turn up the volume for John Sebastian's harmonica solo on Neil Young's Country Girl "suite". The one piercing note near the end is worth the price of the CD.
One final note: when I first bought a CD player way back when, this is one of the first four CDs I bought to start off with. The others? Abbey Road - The Beatles; To Our Children's Children's Children - The Moody Blues; and Madman Across the Water - Elton John. Man, am I dating myself! Enjoy...