Reviews (page 8 of 8)
A gorgeous, layered soundscape. Perfect Sunday listen.
Wonderful stuff, ably supported by some other amazing musicians - the early seventies were a golden period for music like this
Quite liked that
I always think of David Crosby as some kind of Wilford Brimley type fat old guy. Like the quaker oats guy or something. This is really pretty good, and good to remember that he was a big deal back in the day, both solo and with Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young (or the variations thereof). Oh, I didn't realize Crosby as in the Byrds.
Classic
ok
Gave it a few listens but couldn't really focus on it coz was working. Folk-style stuff tends not to grab my attention, but hopefully I'll get more into it over time.
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Amazing. Ahead of its time, soothing and energizing
iets veel duh duh duh dutjes in de zang. Verder wel lekker
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that unmistakable CSNY sound
Very mellow, enjoyable ***
So so.
Net als zijn werk met die andere 3 lui; redelijk saai allemaal.
Atmospheric album. Didn't really know this one, besides from Deja Vu.
Niet slecht. Kende deze plaat niet maar onmiskenbaar de Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young sound.
Had ‘m misschien nog een keer moeten luisteren voor een beter punt.
Sixties Stones.Great
A fair album. Not really worth coming back to for another listen. Folk rock but just not that exceptionally good.
So lush and warm
A bit too ‘take loads of drugs’ this.
Enjoyed the Rockier side of this but the Psychedelic side (and more prevalent) of things not really to my taste. No unpleasant but not something I'll likely listen to again. Cowboy Movie the highlight for me. 2/5
Oh, no.
good album. Some very familiar sounds heard on other great albums.
Pretty good, a nice feel to it all the way through. Very California sounding
Bluesy. Sounds like improv. 3 instrumentals
Somewhat situational, but the western vibes are very enticing. Good road trip music
I generally like this album, there area few good guitar licks. though i cant say i will ever listen to it again
It's very nice to listen to something like Neil Young that is not Neil Young. I don't want to reduce Crosby's career to be some type of Young cover or anything like that, but I'm comparing their importance for USA's music. This album is good enough to show this importance but it's not the best work in my opinion.
Um álbum legal de música ambiente, mas bem ignorável.
Hmnja, schon, aber halt auch nicht so wirklich
no conocía nada de mi tocayo pero que barbaro chinago
Chill kitchen folky vibes
Great start, but trails away in the second half. Some very Led Zeppelin 12 string guitar sounds. A few more stars on the cards by void’n those later dull tracks
Some nice classic rock, solos were jamming.
Sounds like he was highly influenced by eastern mysticism and a fuck ton of drugs.
Enjoyed it, good album, hadn't heard any of his stuff before.
Well the GOATs are all here...what else can I say.
Wow - didn't know this album existed - but it underscores what a critical part of CSN sound Croz actually was - and likely an important foil to Stills.
Je reconnais bien david crosby. , certaines chanson be font penser a crosby still nash and young. Particulierement, almost cut my hair sur deja vu .3.5
Disco que demuestra que Crosby es el alma de lo que toque. Ya sean los Buffalo Springnfield o los CSN/Y) Pos 69, espíritu de Laurel Canyon, heroína...
Pretty good folk stuff. Not my kind of music, but certainly listenable.
Holy star studded cast, Batman! You've got, Neil Young, Joni Mitchell and The Grateful Dead all putting their fingers in the pie and it's wonderful. Moody, full throated and bluesy as all get out. Smooth as a drive on an empty interstate in the southwest. I figured out something that was bugging me, the vocals for "Cinder and Smoke" by Iron and Wine are clearly derived from "Tamalpais High (around 3)" and boy that's a good thing.
I've never been a big fan of Crosby, Still, and Nash. This album hasn't really changed my mind, it was somewhat dull and doesn't flow exceptionally well. The highlight of the album is "Cowboy Movie".
The album is really good, I like it a lot. "Music is Love" is great. "Cowboy Movie" sounds like a dead song (and is over 8 minutes long, lol). David Crosby was a member of the Byrds. In 68 he was asked to leave the band, and he formed a supergroup (Crosby, Stills, and Nash) with Stephen Stills and Graham Nash. Neil Young also joined them on and off. This is the debut album of Crosby as a solo act. He has a ton of guest appearances including Jerry Garcia, Nash, Young, Joni Mitchell, Jefferson Airplane, and Santana.
Not my cup of tea but I can see why people like it - makes me wonder about Laurel Canyon in the 70s. Some great guitar playing and fun to hear Neil Young in there - great album title.
Very good. Great harmonies. Not eternally memorable.
Not really my thing, but some lovely guitar work
It’s good background music but just lacks an engagement for me. Miss the harmonies that made CSNY so great. While talented, these quiet guitar licks don’t do it for me.
I thought this was a very good album. Fun picking out Neil Young's voice singing harmony. I liked the simplicity of the acoustic guitar and almost tinny recording quality in some places. Was reading about him, did not realize he was in The Byrds, and interesting to hear about him hanging with Buffalo Springfield, sitting in for Neil Young at least once. Seems like there was a lot of intermingling between bands that resulted in a lot of music.
not for me
It's fine.
ok, i guess. it's fine but i can't see myself coming back to it in the future
Production: 11/20 Songwriting: 8/20 Innovation: 7/20 Bangers: 0/20 Emotional response: 6/20 =32 tres boring I'm afraid
Very chill
I have an old used copy of this on vinyl so I do like it well enough, but listening to it in the context of 1001 greatest albums is kinda baffling to me. I like Cowboy Movie the most by far. It's basically a grateful dead track with a different singer when you look at the lineup. Other than that I like the strangely intense vocal harmony work on the last two tracks but honestly I feel like this is a fairly weak and very loosely constructed album. Kinda just sounds like high quality jam recordings on most of it.
First thought was "is this country?" "Oh it's more folk I suppose". I know the name David Crosby but don't know his music. I like Cowboy Movie, some nice energy here. Then I didn't enjoy the rest as much. Not bad, but nothing that jumped out for me.
Tttrriiiipppppyyyyy. "Decline of the hippy era" is becoming one of my favourite genres. Famous friends actually lift the album, when sometimes the opposite can happen. Lovely acoustic open string tone.
I found the album listenable, but unremarkable.
Not his strongest, lots of wavy stuff.
No
Tamalpais High and laughing
I don't think I got anything out of this album. Nothing was really identifiable or distinct or unique to me.
Nice, calming vibes.
Did Crosby and Stills have a falling out during this time? Everyone and their mothers are on this except Stephen Stills
Good album solid songs though some are a bit repetitive and annoying at times
Two and a half mustaches. Little two much pretentious guitar noodling that really just hides lack of strong song structure.
A few high points, but overall a little too mellow for me to really get into. Kept finding the album was over without really noticing it was on...
This was inoffensive enough, It sat in the background mkaing the world a little softer as it played. Nothing stoof out here though, it's just sound that it better than no sound. Sometimes sound is worse than no sound, so it has that going for it at least.
Good stuff!
"Music is love" was nice. But nothing too standout on a first listen.
Pretty nice background music.
Great Overall album, mystical and enjoyable songs, setting a great mood
Definitely missing Stills, Nash, and Young
It knows how to balance hard hitting lyrics and songs with calm tunes and vocals, switching it's tempo right as you're going at the right pace. A really well put together thought out album. I fucking love these kind of albums, everything comes together beautifully and comes to it's full fruition within the context of the album.
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.
Went on forever - big waste of time
Don't like that much
Loved this! Wish I had discovered this years ago!
3.5
This list of collaborators on this album is wild: multiple members of each of Jefferson Airplane, The Grateful Dead, and Santana, plus the entire CSNY crew, and of course Joni Mitchell. Three of the nine songs are instrumentals, one of them (Cowboy Movie) reads like it was written by a mental patient, and the rest offer little in the way of lyrical complexity. It sounds incredible, though, and not only is the sound enough to overcome all of that, it feels like a feature rather than a bug. One of my favorite albums so far. Best track: What Are Their Names
Wowww
It's alright
Pretty relaxing and lowkey. I liked biking to this one. 3.5 --> 4
The opening track is a great tool in homing in on my upper tolerance for hippie shenanigans. There are hints of interesting guitar work, but they are sadly overwhelmed by the tepidness of the idea. Cowboy Movie follows that up as the highlight of the album by far, and with the tone set we move into the rest. This seems to be a mixture of moderately interesting instrumental or instrumental-ish tracks, decent songs, and a couple more attempts at protest. Unfortunately, the instrumentals and chanting, the best bits, are subverted by a few lines of lyrics (What Are Their Names) or being directly subverted by parentheticals in their titles. Don't get me wrong, most of this would be very fun around a campfire with friends who were into it, and probably even at a show if you were. But it largely doesn't work on a recording. (Which is a shame given the harp non-sequitur, which would fit into the list of subversions above if I wasn't so charmed by it.)
1971. Key Songs: Music is Love, Tamalpais High ( At About 3)
6/12 A real groover. Standout Tracks: Cowboy Movie, Song With No Words (Tree with No Leaves), Tamalpais High (At About 3), What Are Their Names, Traction in the Rain
lol just what this list needed, more folk rock. There really is no excuse for the sheer number of albums in this genre and time period, let alone shit this idiot was personally involved in. If you believed this list, music as we know it wouldn't exist without David Crosby. Somehow, these boring, meandering half-country, half-psychedelic stoner jams are essential listening that I'm not allowed to die before I hear them. Fuckin' lol. 1 point grudgingly given for not being the absolute worst thing I've ever heard, 1 point for only running half an hour. 2/5.
it's fine. some cool parts, but nothing special
Hard one to rate. It sound so hazy and loose in places, its hard to tell if they were trying. But when they lock into a groove or a good vocal line, it's magic. One of those albums that invented a template many others copied, and that no doubt sounded mind blowing at the time it was released, but I'm not sure this is really an album someone who's not already a big CSNY fan really needs to hear in 2021.