Manassas

This definitely didn't need to be a double album. I guess he felt trapped by CSN(Y). I think we know why they didn't use his music. It wasn't good enough. Even the tune "Colorado" fell flat for me. Ok, I'm being harsh. This is alright background music for the patio but this is not an engaging album. I won't be going back to Manassas.

Ein Doppelalbum aus den rockigen 70ern. Na wenn das nix ist. Hendrix (ok 68), The Who, Allman Bros, Stones, Deep Purple, Elton John, Led Zep, Neil Young, Pink Floyd. Doppelalbum musste sein, wenn man Rockgeschichte schreiben wollte. Meine Erwartungen waren entsprechend groß. Aber entweder war die Messlatte zu hoch oder Manassas zu klein.

Too long and boring. There were some good songs but it should be half the length. I really like longer movies but I feel like I might be biased against longer albums in general. I don’t think we’ve listened to a single album that I felt was too short. More often than not I feel like the albums are too long.

Twangy twangy twangy twang

This isn't an album that anyone has to hear. This is an album that would be playing as background music in a bar in Kentucky in the 80s. 2/5

Its nice enough but pretty average in its genre

long winded and by times boring

Side one – The Raven is good, the rest can go

Great musicianship but just not my cup of tea.

amazing playing- just started to feel like he was showing off eventually.

folk, s.s., 1972 -> 2

I never want to hear steel guitar again. 1.5/5.0: Bad

- entspanntes Album, bei dem mir allerdings nichts besonders im Kopf hängen geblieben ist

Started mediocre and got worse. Side 2 was among the worst things I've put myself through recently. Far too much twang, some offkey singing, endless guitar noodlings and fiddler's fiddling. Only think of interest for me was the moog on 'Move Around' but by that time I was almost dead of boredom.

As far as I'm concerned Stephen stills is the talent from Scott Pilgrim, so disappointing that he's putting out country music. The rockier side of country is more palatable, so when this was closer to lynyrd skynyrd it was slightly more enjoyable. Really though it was a bit bland, still undeniably country and very, very long. Hard to pick out a song so that suggests it was very samey, I'm sure the first two tracks were the same chords at a different tempo. I was never going to like this and I think for the genre it's middle of the road so I won't give it a 1.

Pretty generic southern rock. I'm sure it's fine if that's your jam, but it isn't mine.

I enjoy the CSNY albums quite a bit but their solo works are just... eh... did Stills really think he needed to make a double album? Not really. Too long and too boring.

CSN&Y have great appeal to me. There are moments of that appeal on this solo adventure, but I just can't keep with it through out the album. The recording quality struggles at times. There is an identifiable stylistic nostalgia here, but it's not cohesive enough to keep my attention or peak my interest.

Boring with a capital B. also 1 hour and 12 minutes? be so fr

И блюзец, и кантри, и рок-н-ролл - все тут есть. Только с южным оттенком, который отдаëт ковбоями и навозом. Может быть и пропустил бы мимо ушей это, если бы не сравнил какие ковбои были тогда и какие ковбои сейчас (лил нас, ты че пидарас?)

I listened to the first 9 or so songs. Not my jam.

honestly not really my thing. i think i don’t have the knowledge to appreciate why this is good, but i can’t do anything about that

meh, nice enough but didn't get going

I'd never heard of them, can't understand why one name covers seven people. The music gets a bit Country twangy the rest of the album is alright. The next song on YTM I recognise the title by the same band.

Bored me silly

If I'm being completely honest with myself, I just do not like this kind of music at all. American Country music just isn't in my wheelhouse, and the few albums I do like from that genre tend to deviate a little outside it. This however is one of the most meat and potatoes country albums I ever heard in my god dang life. A few highlights here and there but nothing that would genuinely keep me coming back to it.

Bluesrock-Ge“gniedel“, mir fällt kein anderes Wort ein. Schon auch irgendwie ganz geil. Lässt sich wohl in vier Teile einteilen. 1. Teil (Lieder 1-5) gefällt mir, zweiter (6-11) ist gar nicht meins, langsamer, langweiliger Countryscheiß. Teil 3 dann wieder ein bisschen besser (12-17), aber auch nicht richtig geil. Teil 3 sind die Lieder 18-21. Joah am Ende reicht mir das erste Viertel.

Jesus, Stephen, did you really have to wake me up at 4 a.m. and make me listen to this?

I didn't love this. Reasonably well produced, but I found it really quite boring.

Nothing resonating with me.

It tries to recapture the spirit of CSN, but comes up short. A lot of songs with a fairly monotonous sound across the album. I can't quite come up with it, but the album is missing enough elements, that it doesn't rise to significance for me personally.

I met David in college, he was from Manassas. Like you, I had no idea where 'Manassas' was. So he offered reference for me. "It's where the penis was thrown..." That's all I can think about. Lorena, cut John Wayne Bobbit's dong off while he was sleeping and threw it in a field in Manassas. It was a big story in the 90's and that reference was suitable. Ahhh, Manassas...

Alexa: "Find me an album which showcases everything that was truly naff about the '70's"

Wasnt he in Scott Pilgrim?

Kinda country rock, similar to ccr but more country

LISTEN 1 2 tracks in - I like the vibe so far. I love Neil Young's famous albums - "Harvest" and "After The Gold Rush" buy have never got through his whole discography, let alone the family tree of bands like Crosby Stills Nash and Young and Buffalo Springfield. I think I've listened to both bands a little but not really got into it. 4 tracks in - I've started to lose interest a bit - background music. 21 tracks in - I've reached the end! It's a very long album to take in, being a double album. There were a couple of songs with a spacey electonic bass under the country and western twang which gave an interesting feeling / juxtaposition. Overall, it seemed a nice enough album but nothing leapt out at me. LISTEN 2 I skipped about a bit trying to find songs I particularly liked and I couldn't find any. Some were better than others, some worse. But generally I felt a bit "Meh" about it all. I don't particularly like his voice. It sounds like the sort of band you might hear in a pub - except of course, they would probably sound amazing in a pub with all the harmonies and all. I guess a better comparison is - They sound like the sort of band I would hear in the soundtrack of an old film or detective show that I've never heard of and doesn't stand out. It's of it's time. It's alright. But it doesn't strike me as particularly interesting or move me in particular. It's FINE.

Started fine. Decent 70s rock, I thought. Then it went very—and increasingly more so—country. Give me English folk rock / psych, or blues-folk infused rock, but I do so struggle with country. Maybe a dank, dark walk to Lidl wasn't the best of listening conditions. I listened to half of the album. Might finish it in the coming days, but I'm not excited about the prospect.

Generically fine. One of my tests is whether or not I remember the days album but the end of the day. I did not.

Would have been a 3 but lost one star for being too long

器用だとしか思わない。

One Stephen Stills album in a week is tolerable; two feels like malice.

This one was really long and I just could not get into it.

Perfectly fine without any stand out features. Nothing to remember

Some 70's dudes singing very boring 70's songs that all sound just the same. Ass.

Very talented, the guitar playing was excellent, but not something I'd want to listen to again.

Musicality: 2 - mostly sounded like one man and a guitar, nothing stood out, predictable Production & Sound: 3 - basic, clear Artistic Expression: 2 - sounds like standard country to me Performance: 3 - nothing spectacular Engagement & Enjoyment: 2 - just not my thing Sounded good for what it was but I can't say I get it

It wasn't a bad listen, but it wasn't really memorable either. I liked the different styles of music that all managed to sound like Stephen Stills throughout. I'm sure that this was a lot of fun to play and record, but was a so-so listen. And a double album was way too much. This was the equivalent of casually asking someone about their weekend and getting every damn detail of every damn minute.

I was expecting something more similar to Deja Vu, but this feels more bluesy and rock-n-roll like. None of the tracks really stood out on first listen. Might revisit at some point, but I'm not counting on it.

It's fine

Someone tell Stephen to step closer to the mic.

Oli tällä hetkensä ja sit ei ollu

Dreary, boring, somewhere between country and rock, nothing to recommend it really. A handful of passable tracks, the best you can say about the rest is that it's not actively unpleasant. 2/5.

this was ok

Stick with Crosy, Nash and sometimes Young.

Good

Another bunch of crappy country songs

zzzzzzzzzzzz

Schon wieder Stills? 71 Minuten? Puh, das kann ja was werden. - Gefällt mir um Längen besser als sein Solodebüt-Album, dümpelt aber am Anfang vor sich hin und wird erst im letzten Drittel interessant. Viel zu lang. Fast drei Sterne.

Set the scene well and I liked a couple of songs but it’s always going to get marked down for being stupidly long.

Much bluegrassier than the other Stills, couldn't get into it very much

Wasn’t really good. felt really long and no stand out songs. needed more “love the one your with” esq songs

Not quite my cup of tea, it gets kinda gospel-y. It definitely feels very 70s, which is kinda fun, but I’m not a fan of this particular style. 2/5

Some good moments scattered on this inexcusably long album.

Folk music has so much more to offer than this.

Here are the nice folk songs you can find on this album : Both Of Us, So Begins The Task, It Doesn't Matter, Johnny's Garden, Move Around. The other songs are Claptoncore generic blues shit you don't need.

Too long. I gave up after 17 tracks. Made it longer than I thought I would but not particularly memorable for me. It's fine enough music just not for me I guess

Too long not horrible but just meh

Funny, just last week I gave Stills’ recently released Live at Berkeley 1971 album a try, and gave up 4-5 tracks in on account of irrelevance. That conclusion still applies. Yes, credit should go to the mixing of genres, but still: We’ve moved on in the fifty plus years since this album.

I didn't hate it and it was actually quite pleasant listening in parts, but it didn't give me any reason to ever listen to this again. I think my main issue with this album is that the songs don't really have any relevance to me. The lyrics all seem to be about things I couldn't care less about, hippy concepts and lovey dovey stuff. I hovered between 2 and 3 stars for this.

I don't know if I'm just in a phase or what, but I'm having a hard time with all this classic rock. I used to consider myself a classic rock fan, but it's been wearing on me lately. I know Stephen Stills is hugely talented and all that, but how much classic rock does a person really need to hear before they die? The dominance of white boomer male taste on this list is really starting to grate.

Another slightly bland 70s country folk thing

Played well, sang well, just not my taste. The more psychedelic songs are OK, I hate the more Americana songs. Favorite song: it doesn't matter

Journée de merde, le mood tracker tout ça

does it have to be that way ??? (1h15)

3/10. no es pq sea country pero es cmo el pico. tiene algunas canciones q se salvan un poco pero en general son todas malas y fomes y las q no son tan malas musicalmente las arruinan la letra q es pesima en todas.

Man Asses.

Too damn long. Stephen Stillsinging more like. AMIRITE

I was quite enjoying this until "fallen eagle", which sounds like it's enjoyed by someone called Jeb who sits on his porch in a swing chair with a shotgun on his lap. There's a few tracks in this album that are genuinely decent southern rock fayre. The out-and-out county distracts from them, which is unfortunate.

boring

The type of rock that makes me want to die

A bit on the dull side

who gave this mediocre band the confidence to debut with a double album 4/10

4/10. We don't need a spinoff album for every single member of Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young…

Just drags on and on. 4/10

Meh. This was like an even more country Eagles album. Pleasant easy listening but nothing memorable.

The last song, Blues man, was good. The rest not so much. Fallen Eagle felt like a Disney style country song

Nice 70 music. But not a classic like Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young. The music sounds kind of too country.

Just plain boring, overlong, and stale. Only gets two stars for the level of musicianship at play, plus some enjoyable guitar runs mixed into the hour of dull twang.

Don’t need to hear it again.

didn't finish very honky tonk jesus

not my taste, not into it

I can't put my finger on why I just didn't like this album, I liked all the pieces individually (the music, the vocals, the lyrics, etc) but there's just something about them all coming together that just felt bland... Best tracks were Bound to Fall and Move Around.

It’s good. Definitely hear the CS+N in this album a couple times. Overstays it’s welcome, though some of the instrumental jams make up for that.

not for me

2.5 it's fine

Outdated album, in my opinion. Couple of interesting country/southern style rock, but otherwise nothing special. Really forgettable experience.

Early-70s Blues-/Southern Rock without any redeeming qualities. 2/5

Started okay but dragged by half way through.

Good but a bit boring, even though there's quite a few different styles on here.

Not sure why this is on here. There’s nothing glaringly awful about this album but it just sounds like stock 70s music to me. I was pretty bored by the end of this one

This felt like an album of b sides.

cool

Gezellig ma beetje te traag voor mij. Ma zitten wel een paar goeie schijfkes tussen.

got bored

I've never been into the work of Mr. Stills. This doesn't change that. It's not exactly awful but it's just long and very unexciting. It just goes on and on, never being dreadful but never really sparking joy either. I guess I can understand why others would like this, but I'm just not into it at all.

And on today's episode of "Double Albums That Should Have Been EPs"...

I think this album started on a relatively forgetful note, and then picked up speed throughout. I was quite dissatisfied considering the other Solo acts from CSNY I did really enjoy. But the bloat was too heavy (I know it is a double album, I don't care) and I was tempted to tune out a few times, which is really quite rare for me.

Really long and mostly good. 2.5/5

Eh, country/folk rock from the period just after its "heyday" - I wasn't there but it feels like a transition period, where these sorts of artists realised folk music was fucking cringey and distanced themselves slightly from it. Not so much as to be unrecognisable, but enough. Lots of bluesy feel going on here. Over an hour though, that's pretty unnecessary. 2.5/5.

Well made songs.

Sounds like Paul Weller has been transported back to the start of the 70s

Why we have quite so much of this bland shite in this list still escapes me, the ads on youtube were better then the songs

Sort of boring and monotonous when Stills takes a chance it goes far better then when he doesn’t. This was all very meh.

2 1/2

Too much American folk fiddle

There's nothing too bad on this album. It goes for diversity, bit everything seems to revert to a general 'West Coast' mean in the end. There's some good variety of instrumentation, you get some Neil Young folk, some blues, some Latin, some C&W but none of it is great. I didn't hate any of it, but I'll probably never listen to it again.

Meh

There were a couple of tracks I didn't mind but overall a long trek...a single album would have sufficed for me...it wasn't bad, it wasn't great...reminded me a lot of CSNY, without the extra initials.

Didn’t have to skip the songs, ok for background grocery store music but nothing I would choose.

Next.

Just blues

It was an ok country rock album, perhaps those late nights/multiple days of recording hindered the overall quality of the album. Best: It Doesn't Matter Worst: Hide it So Deep

Might be a good album. I dunno. All tracks unavailable. Have a 2 for wasting my time.

Better than expected guitar work.

Country fair. Not something I’d bother listening to, but don’t actively hate it.

Very cliche 70s though based on the inclusion, I assume this was the start of it

I liked it more towards the start rather than towards the end. It just went on forever with its 21 songs and 72 minutes. Further evidence that most double albums shouldn't be.

really really boring

"both of us" and "it doesn't matter" were bangers, but that's only 2 bangers out of 21 songs, or approximately 1/10th banger. that math adds up to NO MORE than 2 stars. sorry stephen </3

Regularsón tirándole a de hueva.

Eagle sobg ok, 70s jam sessions mostly

Rating: 5/10

Right...shit

the first artist to come up that i have genuinely never heard of and know nothing about. how exciting - no preconceptions and no biases. it started off promisingly with some strong swamp rock, but fuck me did the wheels came off when the neil young vibe reared its head. fucking long slog after that.

Some of the songs were alright but this was too long, didn't enjoy it much for its length

It was ok, I enjoyed some of the songs but largely had nothing significant to offer me

Fully forgettable and too long. Not bad though just meh

Hmm well...

Quite liked a couple of tracks. The blues track at the end was cool. But generally a bit boring and nondescript. A high 2

vast weer een prrrrrrima album, maar niks voor mij.

Ze hebben nu allemaal wel voldoende aandacht gekregen toch, die Crosby, Stills en Nash?

Deed me soms aan Eric Clapton denken. Maar allemachtig, kunnen we in dit project een keer verlost worden van alles wat met Crosby, Stills & Nash te maken heeft?

Some of this album was okay, but I was looking forward to it finishing.

Very middle of the road and generic. I get that Stills is a big deal, but this isn't for me and I don't really get what is so good/significant about this album. 5/10

I like some of Stills' other work but this wasn't as good as some of that.

I think if I gave this 3/4 listens it might grow on me. But it’s too big a risk

note my style

Started off really well, then plummeted to awful country rubbish. First 2- 3 songs were nice rock

meh, not really my thing

Nothing special

Not my kind of music but of course it’s great

"Johnny's Garden" caught my attention, the rest sounding really blah to me. Lost points for album being too long, lost points for lame album cover.

Blah classic rock

A couple songs that I like (Colorado, Jimmy's Garden, etc.) and probably a good album, just not for my taste

2.5

OK, but nothing great and quite dated.

Oldschool country?

unfortunately nothing on this stood out to me, kind of muddied in the mix of '70s rock'

The Hippy sound from the 70's embodied the Baby Jesus movement.

Holy fucking double album SNOOZE FEST. There was maybe 5 total minutes of this hour plus slog-a-palooza that my ears found interesting at all. I never want to hear this again.

I was very much enjoying this long streak free of early 70's Blues-y Folk Rock. But alas, all good things come to an end. I just can't with this Laurel Canyon scene or whatever you want to call it. They all sound the same! This time we got one of the less important of the Corsby, Stills, Nash & Young crew with a double(!) album. Lord have mercy! Key tracks: Fallen Eagle

Not objectionable in anyway but really did nothing for me at all

Yeah, no.

"Alright Robert, we need a list of the best/most influential albums of all time. What do you have for us?" "I found this album called Man Asses" "Good enough let's put it in there"

Unfeasibly even less listenable than CSN, not to mention Elton John, Cat Stevens and Deep Purple - towards the rock bottom of the one stars albeit that “Colorado” keeps it above AC/DC, Alanis, Tears For Fears et al…

Did not like this at all - but enjoyed the use of cowbells. How far was a song I enjoyed but that was literally it out of the whole thing

Really did not like this.

Felt like something was was missing the whole time. Couldn't get through it all :(

Huh

No one ever asked for a Stephen Stills double record. Ever.

Didn’t blow my mind. I had no affection for it

ya çok generic gibi geliyor bana böyleleri glb çok duyduğum için

1. zong - 1.5 2. rock - 1 3. jet - 2 4. anyuuay - 1.5 5. both - 1.5 6. eagle - 1.5 7. Free - 1.5 8. Colorado - 1.5 9. Task -1 10. hide -1.5 11. zhadouu - 1.5 12. matter - 2 13. Garden - 1 14. Bound -1 15. Far -1.5 16. Move -1 17. Gangster - 1 18. What - 1 19. Now - 1 20. Treasure -1 21. Blues -1.5

It's well made music but not for me. Maybe my dad would like it...

Don’t do drugs kids, they make you think double albums are cool

Gjort för amerikaner

1/5, rubbish

easy to listen to but it wasn’t very much memorable. the instrumentals were nice though

1972 I've had a day... This isn't going to complete it Heard before ❌️ Listened this time ✅️ Stone of it Revisit ❌️ Not for me ★☆☆☆☆

This was awful. Turns out you can be a rock legend and still need others to produce actually listenable music. In the bottom five albums I've heard via this challenge. And I LIKE both Buffalo Springfield and CSNY.

Meh.

Psychedelic Rock I wished would end a lot sooner than the album actually does.

There is no better word to describe "Manassas" than "meh". That's all I have to say about it.

This is the second Stephen stills album in a row for me. I really hope there are no more. This was duller than the other one

So so lame. Imagining people jamming to this, bobbing their head to the beat makes me laugh Rating: 1.4

kuravelliä rockkisoittoa kuravelliä. Yleinen käymälä

1 stern

Not for me. 1/5

No me gustó, no es mi estilo de música, pero no es necesariamente malo

Managed to get about halfway through this. Formulaic Seventies 12 bar blues with a sprinkling of old-timey Americana just to interrupt the flow a bit.

I quite liked CSNY but this is fairly forgettable.

Jos levy on suuri niin ehkä siitä tulee myös Suuri. Ehkä ei.

rapaz que trem sem tempero. Que Picolé de XUXU. SEm graça pra cacete! Um creedence, que já é ruim, mil vezes pior. Ainda bem que conheci pra não mais ouvir. Músicas todas iguais, que não marcam nada, sem emoção...sem nada. Sentaram e fizeram sem amor essas músicas. Grande abraço, tchau e bença!

Sooooo long. Sooooo boring. I'd rather be listening to any of these people's main bands. The best parts sound like The Flying Burrito Brothers. The other 60 minutes plod on to nowhere.

This is the album that a guy who refers to himself as a pitmaster listens to first when he buys a Harley

70’s

Nope

3.66 rym country folk quindi 1/5

1 hour and 12 minutes of boomer bullshit.

Terrible

Not for me 1/5

Nicht meins

Bland.

Like playing two hands before flipping the table

Another bland "classic/alt/psychedelic rock with a touch of country" albums to throw on the pile.

Zzzzzz

blues wtf

Boring as fuck

aaaa f

The blues rock part had some interesting ideas but everything was really mis. Than the album got to country rock and was the embodiment of everything I hate about it. Than some other genres passed but I was already done with the album. Did not finish it.

Boring

Not for me at all.

Meh. Felt like every song sounded exactly the same, which made this a slog to get through.

did not enjoy this, as it sounds like someone asked AI to make a 70s rock album

ughhh enough already i hate this shit

Never trust a hippy. This is a fabulously self-indulgent, self-important and cringeworthy album. The nadir is surely Jonathans Garden in which we have to consider the following: With his love And his carin' He puts his life Into beauty sharin' And his children Are his flowers There to give us peace In quiet hours I have considered it enough. One star.

Double album. Oh no. Stephen Stills. Oh no. Country rock. Oh no. Early 70s. Oh no. A fuckular concoction of elements most foul. My man ass did not enjoy this and I will certainly not be "spreading them cheeks".

I had a really hard time listening to this one. I like CSNY but I guess S on his own is just not an interesting enough lead voice. There are some nice harmonies on the folky/ bluegrassy tunes. I got a few tunes in and it all just sounds like generic classic rock to me. Way too many songs. Not a bad album but I’d definitely be fine dying without hearing it.

Another album unable to listen to as it’s not available online

No pude

So this guy, Stephen Mills, apparently gathered a bunch of people together to restlessly record an album. After a lot of sleepless nights and restless days, his newly formed band created the self-titled album. A considerably huge 70-minute album that tries to touch every realm of the country genre. It has 4 parts, each for every subgenre, rock, bluegrass, folk, and... experimental? I dunno, it doesn't change the fact that none of those parts impressed me. It's pretty boring. One good thing about the tracks is that the length seems to be perfect. At the very moment I decided to push the "next" button, I would see that there are 2 seconds left on the track. But is the album's length perfect? Er... no.

I have never heard of this before.

Only got to track 4!

Bad

I am not really a fan of Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young, and they (collectively) have like 17 albums on this list. This album is no exception to this rule. I'm not really looking forward to any of the 16 others. Highlights: 8, and 9.

Its a tad too Christian/southern rock for my taste. I dont think it's bad, just not what I wanted to listen to this morning

Big swing and a miss IMO

Dull.

Too hippy dippy for me

I don’t care for Crosby, Stills, and Nash. I most definitely don’t care for just one of them.