Crosby Stills and Nash albums, solo projects, side collaborations

Hard to get past the first couple, and I like CSN a lot, kind of for its consistency (I mean it's consistent, not that it feels nice when I feel the record with my hands), but I voted for Graham Nash/David Crosby, partly because people probably don't know about it.

If you've got Spotify, this is Whole Cloth: http://open.spotify.com/track/3yDhTuk0q5kAIuXMAFsGr6

Um, Songs for Beginners soundtracked many car trips from 1994-1997

yeah also really dig Wind on the Water

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I like that, especially the one about saving the Whales.

carry me is such an amazing opener. those harmonies!

Manassas. That's a really good record.

If I Could Only Remember My Name of course, but I love the first CSN album and the first CSNY album. Here's hoping someone lays out the lols for CPR (although that's not fair, I've not heard it and maybe it's great).

I don't see the new CS&N Demos disc. It has a great version of "Music is Love," which wound up on Crsoby's solo debut.

To make this poll really interesting, every album released before '74 should be excluded.

if this was just about the covers, i'd vote for this beauty
http://image.maniadb.com/images/album/172/172705_1_f.jpg

oh man, i'd never seen that before. is it their rejected soundtrack to Dune or something?

no that's just what early 80s albums by hippies looked like. my parents had that when i was a kid and it's one of the records i remember always being interested in. one of my favorite covers.

Shoulda called it "Wooden Spaceships"

Still the CNY debut, which I see as a slightly better effort (if not by much) than "Deja Vu"

This is difficult--since I'm really digging Songs for Beginners right now. But I went with Deja Vu.

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songs for beginners is so fucking underrated

Totally OTM...

Has the drumbreak from Chicago ever been sampled anywhere, as everytime i hear it I think to myself it would make one hell of a loop...

songs for beginners is amazing. and wild tales is great too. more people need to hear them.

yeah, i've never heard Wild Tales -- i probably should! is that and songs for beginners pretty much all you need in terms of solo Nash? i've heard a later 70s record whose name escapes at the moment and it was dire.

yeah, shocked that songs for beginners didn't get any votes. i did not see this thread btw.

4-Way Street deserves some love too, aside from Stills' contributions. The "Chicago" on it is awesome. And each time Neil plays it's like a bonus, because the songs don't really fit into the rest of the set but the performances are fabulous (e.g. "Southern Man").

a friend was just extolling the virtues of Four Way Street -- bizarrely he thought the Stills contributions were great! So he is a little crazy, obviously. I can't stand Stills on that record. The other stuff is OK.

Better Days off Songs for Beginners is such the fucking jam

as a vinyl fan gotta say that wild tales also just sounds so amazing. this is true of the first two csn albums too. if you can find clean early pressings they are the way to go. i have a nice promo copy of the crosby solo album and likewise it sounds super. i think it's too bad that graham didn't focus more on solo stuff in the 70's after wild tales. though he certainly contributed good songs to various group albums. and he certainly knew where the money was.

been digging this lately. another one that people should hear if they haven't heard it:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/cb/Gnashdcrosby.jpg

^ amazing

"Frozen Smiles"! I think Nash really has the better songs on Nash / Crosby though I'm otherwise a total Crosby stan.

can I just post this again

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPvOTVVbMko

Has the drumbreak from Chicago ever been sampled anywhere, as everytime i hear it I think to myself it would make one hell of a loop...

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this song has reminded me of both Kanye West and Steely Dan

ok never knew Kanye actually sampled "chicago" on beanie sigel's "the truth"!!!!

new tune, what's broken, sounds really good

No votes for Stephen Stills? At least "Old Times Good Times" with Hendrix and "Think I'll Go Back Home" with Clapton (cool wah-wah groove) are keepers. Maybe more; check it out. Also surprised no love for Long May You Run--uneven, but def worth a listen.
Highlights of seeing them in '74: guitar wars of Stills and Young, incl. On the Beach material. Harmonies mostly pathetic, I thought, but Crosby did a couple nice solo voice & acoustic things. Nash seemed like the weak link. Listening to his Fresh Air interview now; I'll prob read the memoir, annoyingly enough. Crosby's was really enjoyable; he add friends chiming in, adding/disputing detail, like the Synoptic Gospels at times.
New solo alb from Crosby in '14---ditto CSNY '74, he claims:
http://www.davidcrosby.com/news/2013/11/david-crosby-gets-deep-new-lp-rolling-stone

Man, David Crosby's songs on the first two Crosby/Nash albums are just super excellent, heady, introspective, jazz-tinged mini-epics. They are songs that are totally sophisticated and overwrought —songs that, logically, should not go anywhere or work at all— but they work because of the humanity they convey. It's a very personal, niche-within-a-niche feeling in the songwriting that's entirely unique and wonderful.

Definitely. As an illustration, check out the 13 Afternoon blog compilation of solo and collab Croz material. Terrific and worth the, uh, google search.

New Crosby record not bad

https://open.spotify.com/album/2ZSGGdr6Y2ZdyTVozlu9al

I've never delved into these guys beyond the singles, except for some reason 10-11 years ago I bought a dollar copy of Graham Nash/David Crosby and I've always been really fond of it, especially "Immigration Man" and "Girl To Be On My Mind." That cheesy poetic one about piano keys or whatever is a real groaner though.

Yeah I've like Crosby's last few albums

there's an "Amelia" cover on the new one, very nice

I know they've got good stuff, but this track is the pits.

Disagree.

it's a hilarious song, plus it's got a good riff

"It was the most juvenile set of lyrics I've ever written, and it's certainly not great poetry, but it has a certain emotional impact, there's no question about that."