Greatest Hits

Crosby Stills & Nash - Greatest Hits

Greatest Hits
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Artist: Crosby Stills & Nash
Brand: CROSBY,STILLS & NAS
Edition: Music CD
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Original recording remastered
Published: 2005
CD Release Date: 2005-03-15
Music Label: Atlantic
Product features:
  • CROSBY,STILLS & NASH GREATEST HITS
Soundtracks:
  1. Suite: Judy Blue Eyes
  2. Shadow Captain
  3. Helplessly Hoping
  4. Long Time Gone
  5. Our House
  6. Southern Cross
  7. Marrakesh Express
  8. Guinnevere
  9. See the Changes
  10. Teach Your Children
  11. Wooden Ships
  12. Just A Song Before I Go
  13. Delta
  14. 49 Bye-Byes
  15. Wasted on the Way
  16. Carry On/Questions
  17. In My Dreams
  18. Cathedral
  19. Daylight Again

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Free Music Review: Rhino Does It Best
Hit: 5 Stars

I never cease to be amazed at the quality of 'Greatest Hits' packages produced by Rhino (as well as Rhino's re-issues albums). Invariably, they sound better than comparable collections produced by the original record companies, and the Rhino song selections are almost always better, the more difference the better the Rhino collection. Rhino, unlike many record companies that I shall refrain from naming, actually seems to care about the music and its fans, as opposed to caring about profits virtually 100%. It shows in the quality of Rhino products.

This Crosby, Stills, and Nash Greatest Hits is no exception.

David Crosby, Stephen Stills, and Graham Nash, collectively as a band and individually, are pristine exemplars of 1960s Hippie music. It constantly made use of old Country vocal harmonies and picking, putting them to use against much of their cultural source: traditional, rural, morally conservative, family-based life. Hippie folk-rock or country-rock, or whatever you choose to call it, was thus a contradiction destined to implode, just as the Hippie culture, which had an interesting critique of Modern American materialism and of the Protestant Work Ethic that seems to have served as its chief source, was destined to wither ingloriously. The lives of Crosby (most especially), Stills, and Nash, as well as their remarkably uneven careers defined largely by failed promise and work best left unreleased, which tended to be forgotten by fans (especially fans of the Hippie dream as well as the music), because of the stunning high spots, represent the subgenre much as Dwayne Allman, Ronnie Van Zant, and Charlie Daniels represent Southern Rock. Simply put, Crosby, Stills, and Nash perfectly sum Hippie music and culture: naivete; wonderful harmony that soothes and draws us in (falsely suggesting something as deep and rich as the Everly Brothers or the Louvin Brothers); uneven song crafting leaning toward the trite and cliched (but with great exceptions that rightly dazzle); and childish self-indulgence made into something of a personal religion.

As this is a collection titled Crosby, Stills, and Nash - with Young not mentioned - it makes sense that no Young song is included. After all, Young has issued songs recorded with CSN on his various solo collections. Those who rightly want 'Helpless' can find it on 'Decade' or 'Deja Vu.'

Young aside, I love the selections made by Rhino because I see the CSN&Y album 'Deja Vu' as the group's only masterpiece. Unless all its ten songs are on a Greatest Hits, even the most casual fan would be obliged to buy 'Deja Vu.' On this Greatest Hits there are but three songs from that 1970 album, and that should force all who buy this to buy 'Deja Vu.'

The self-titled 1969 debut, which many see as the group's masterpiece, is represented by an amazing seven songs. As I consider that album tiresome after a couple of hearings in any nine-month period but love its highlights almost as much as the 'Deja Vu' album, I favor Rhino's decision to over-represent the first album and under-represent the second. Thanks to this collection, I never again have to listen to the entire debut album.

Then there are the selections from the 'CSN' and 'Daylight Again' albums, which each had great high spots and terrible low spots. 'Wasted on the Way' and 'Southern Cross may be the group's two best songs, but I have never bought 'Daylight Again' because the album is so uneven that it never comes close to the top of my To Get list. Now I get those great songs with the added benefits of 'Just a Song Before I Go' without having to listen to all of CSN and 'Suite: Judy Blue Eyes' and '49 Bye-Byes' without having to plop in all of the debut album.

My big complaint is that I prefer two of the debut album's three songs that are left off this Greatest Hits ('You Don't Have To Cry' and 'Pre-Road Downs") to 'Guinnevere' from the same album that made the cut. And that aint much of a complaint.
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Greatest Hits Poster

One of the most enduring musical partnerships of our time, Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Famers Crosby, Stills & Nash (CSN) are beloved worldwide for their peerless three-part harmonies, inspired songwriting, and brilliant musicianship. Rightfully claiming a singular place among the artistically and culturally influential acts of the original Woodstock era, CSN has been called "the voice of an entire generation."
When David Crosby, Stephen Stills and Graham Nash created this pop super trio in 1968 after their splits from the Byrds, Buffalo Springfield and The Hollies, respectively, it would have been a pipedream that a hits package released 37 years later would sound as eternal and essential as this one. The 19 songs straddle the four-album, landscape-altered timeframe between 1969?s post-Woodstock debut Crosby, Stills & Nash and 1982?s Daylight Again, which helped inaugurate the MTV era. Unbalanced sequencing--which randomly bounces 12 years ahead and five years back--is rescued by the superb harmonies, unique songwriting and divergent personalities of the three members. With politics and culture always at the forefront, Stills bookends the band?s trademark canon with "Suite: Judy Blue Eyes" and "Southern Cross," Nash incorporates Eastern influences to "Marrakesh Express" and folk timber to "Just a Song Before I Go" and "Teach Your Children," and the ever-capricious Crosby leads the way lyrically with the lingering "Delta" to the Robert Kennedy tribute "Long Time Gone." Sure, the collection is missing any songs by ("Ohio") or contributions from ("Woodstock") the fourth name on the marquee (Neil Young). Here?s hoping that?s for another Greatest Hits. --Scott Holter

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