Reviews (page 8 of 8)
I just can't hear the appeal.
I hate this.
Boring - I expected more from him
American 1970s folk with sugary melodies and vocals. Does not float my boat.
was it Prince? and were you funky?
Maybe it was because I was coming down off an Elton John high from the day before, but this was sooooo boring! It was painful to finish. Just soft and slow and every song is the same. It deserves to be played as background music in a spa, and that’s being generous.
Someone called this energizing in a review. To what, sloths? That review also called it ahead of its time. Thank goodness a bunch of musicians post-1971 never heard it.
1.5
🚮
Meh
Not really my thing. I kind of feel like i need to be high to listen to this album. It might make more sense to me. Crosby is a great musician...but this really is not in my wheel house.
Didn’t like this one.
Another boring album. This isn’t even good chill music to me. It’s just bland repetitive and slow. Feels like I’ve been listening to the same song for 30 minutes
Needs either the Byrds or Stills and Nash
If only I could remember anything about this boring dud. Actually I'm not upset at all that I don't remember anything about this album aside from it was boring and couldn't wait for it to end.
Would prefer swamp ass
Nope. Not my groove. I adore Joni Mitchell and even the treat of Joni didn’t keep me listening.
Crosby was fine in CSNY but his solo work is- unlike S/N/Y solo records - incredibly boring, no proper tunes, unlistenable.
Ok, but I'm a big fan of CSN, not Crosby by himself.
It says a lot that Crosby needs all this talent to make such a shit record. It is also telling why the super group he is famous for needed 9 grade A musicians to make a good record. This is boring dog shit. Nothing happens here. It's total trash.
not my favorite
If Only Anyone Else Could Remember My Name. The only reason you should listen to this album is for the features, and they all have much better songs. Very disappointed.
I just couldn't. Folksy jazzy blues, mostly acoustic singer-songwriter vibes. He's got a good voice but it's just not where I'm at musically. Nothing in here stood out to me and nothing made me want to keep listening. I gave each song a shot but... Welp.
Obviously not my pair of shoes. I just cannot distinguish it from other similar country/folk things.
Langweilig!
if i had a big boat i would go out sailing and get a big net and catch every crosby and nash and stills i could find and if i found any youngs i would set them back free into sea and nurse them back to health first if i hurt them a bit but the rest i would catch and bring home and fry them up in a pan or take them to the market and sell them for a tupence a pound
Pleasant and boring
God this doesn't all sound like everyone was coked out of their brains making this. Half the tracks have no lyrics. It's only 1970 and yet punk already had to happen.
So boring.
Not for me
Very boring and forgetable.
I wanted to kick my own ass for listening to this album.
Meh
Not sure what I was expecting with this one, but what we got was a pretty watered down version of Crosby, Stills, Nash, & Young. Unfortunately, I found that to be pretty boring. It eventually devolves into just repetitive soundscapes that did nothing for me at all.
John’s, Paul’s and George’s first solo albums after the Beatles broke up were included on the 1001 list. While John’s and George’s arguably get there on their own merits, Paul’s first solo album sucked but I understand why 1001 was compelled to put Paul’s album on the list. The Beatles were very influential and four of their albums are in the 1001 top 20. Deja vu was a fine album but not good enough to justify Crosby’s first offering getting a free pass to the 1001 club. This Crosby album sucks. The one song I like is Cowboy Movie but it sure sounds like Down By The River. Both heavily use Em / Em7 chords and both songs sound like they are in the same key (key of Em or key of D - I have a hard time figuring this stuff out). So the only song I sort of like sounds sort of borrowed.
Not my type of genre I guess.
Can’t.
Actually fuck this guy couldn’t stand this album
Well, is this a contender for the worst album cover of all time? Even the font is dumb. Or worst album title. Or perhaps just worst album. Lets see. Track 1 - sounds like a drunk guy singing around a campfire. Track 2 - oh god is that the most piercing guitar sound ever on the lead? Horrible tone. Track 3 - OK, this album only goes for 37 minutes, phew. I can survive this. Track 4. - Maybe I can survive this. I may have lost the will to live at this point. Some generally OK guitar noodling and some horrible scat jazz styled do wop rubbish. (Song with no words in particular). This one can go straight to the bargain bin.
Sounds like the death throes of the hippie dream. R.I.P. 🪦
Oppikirjaesimerkki ykkösestä. Teennäinen, mielikuvitukseton, omahyväisyydessään harhautunut.
Not for me
Didn't like it, didn't enjoy it
My first 1 rating, I couldn't get into this at all. Couldn't wait for it to end. Song writing is inconsistent, boring, and frankly it's not my taste. I'm sure Crosby has better albums out there than this.
David Crosby signed his name in the great anthology of Rock Music history as being part of Crosby Stills Nash&Young and the legendary Byrds. I loved their music from my Childhood and early Teenage days. In contrast to these memories my first encounter with hid solo album was disappointing. Boring, boring, boring I mumbled to my self. Cheesy chord progressions, slow rock at it’s worst and endless guitar solos- the stuff I deeply dislike. Sorry Dave!
First impression... what a crappy album cover. Okay, I can't claim to know the details of Crosby's life at the time of this recording, but if Rumours stands as the high-water mark of cocaine-induced genius, this album appears to exemplify how cocaine can derail genius into rambling nonsense. The songs meander — one after the next — the recorded tones are not great (the solo guitar tone is awful), Crosby doesn't sound so hot. A 1-star rating seems a bit harsh, but I couldn't find anything that salvaged this.
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No.
Pochette horrible. Outre le fait de savoir à quoi ressemble le premier album solo de David Crosby, c’est sans intérêt pour moi.
Ikke tilgængeligt
Really makes you FEEL like... I don't remember. 2 ... 1
at first i couldn’t decide whether to give a 1 or 2 but now i know it’s a 1 because it was just awful. the album felt so ling even though it was 40 minutes. and the songs were just so awkward, the song without words just had humming and it was un listenable.
Literally awful. Not a single redeeming feature about this absolutely shit album. 💯 % stonewall gash
Oh, no.
No
I don't think I got anything out of this album. Nothing was really identifiable or distinct or unique to me.
Despite a year into the new decade, David retains his grasp on the late-sixties sound.
Super textured and layered, it had a lot in it that I did not expect. Super psychedelic and moody and usually doesn't overstay. Kinda what I imagine the credits of a movie would sound like to a western or a heist movie. The 2nd half is more chill than the first half, album really isn't long just 37 minutes on 9 tracks and the last 2 tracks don't reach 2 minutes. So the album feels like it kinda runs on you. All in all, im glad i listened to this but its not my type of music. Highlights: Cowboy Movie, Traction in the rain.