Album Summary
Déjà Vu is the second studio album by Crosby, Stills & Nash, and their first as a quartet with Neil Young. It was released in March 1970 by Atlantic Records. It topped the pop album chart for one week and generated three Top 40 singles: "Woodstock", "Teach Your Children", and "Our House". It was re-released in 1977 and an expanded edition was released in 2021 to mark its fiftieth anniversary. In 2003, the album was ranked No. 148 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time, and later was ranked No. 220 on the 2020 edition of the list. Certified 7× platinum by RIAA, the album's sales currently sit at over 8 million copies. It remains the highest-selling album of each member's career to date.
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Feb 19 2022
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My heart skipped a beat when I saw this photo. I had the original leather bound cover (remember?) purchased proudly with the earnings from my newspaper route down at our local Peaches Records and Tapes. I wanted nothing more than to grow my hair long and wear that beautiful fringe jacket that David Crosby often wore, but my parents had different ideas about how their children should look. They were Nixon supporters.
I haven’t listened to 'Déjà Vu' from beginning to end in a long time. But I played it so often it’s embedded in my memory. I was more curious if it still resonated with my heart. The answer is yes. Both for the glorious music but also for the spirit. Dylan prophesied a hard rain coming in 1963, and by 1970 he was already seeking shelter from the storm. CSNY filled the void, took up the mantle, like Elisha following Elijah. But this is another subject for another time. Back to the matter at hand.
There were a couple of new things that surfaced for me during this particular listen, the first being that Neil Young is not really so much an equal partner with CSN on 'Déjà Vu' as he is a special guest on a few tracks. I couldn’t detect any Neil at all on the first two tracks, finally some guitar playing on the third. And then, of course, his own composition, ‘Helpless,’ and ending side one with his searing guitar solo on ‘Woodstock.’ But when side two opened with the title track, seemingly Neil had again taken five, and didn’t come back until the second to last song, another of his own compositions, ‘Country Girl.’ And he’s heard clearly on guitar rockin it up on the finale, ‘Everybody I Love You.’ Perhaps this is revealing of Neil’s divided commitment between his own solo stuff (which would ultimately triumph) and this super group. Truthfully (and I say this as a fan who thinks Neil sits at the right hand of only the Beatles), I don’t think CSN really needed Y. He certainly didn’t them, and ‘After The Gold Rush,’ ‘Harvest,’ ‘On The Beach,’ and the rest of his couple of dozen LPs following are proof. Even the cover photo features CSN in a perfect triangle, and faces up and illuminated; whereas Neil is on the furthest fringe, head bowed and darkened. Too Sergeant Pepper?
And secondly, in addition to these songs being written mostly about the weal and woe of human relationships, might they also be referencing, if even subconsciously, the state of the baby boomer generation at that time, still very much in the midst of anti-war and civil rights demonstrations but losing the optimism that so permeated the summer of love three years before? Could not ‘Carry On,’ for example- an encouragement to keep struggling for love and not succumbing to despair following a breakup- also be heard as a call to the younger generation for the same resilience against the unjust, ruling status quo? ‘Teach Your Children’ becomes an appeal to both generations (young and old), both political parties, to learn to love one another. David Crosby pleading on ‘Almost Cut My Hair’ to not give in to fear as we figure out where to go from here as a country? Neil Young’s ‘place in north Ontario’ mirroring the distress of their American neighbors to the south? And ‘Woodstock’ speaks for itself, including the line ‘bomber death planes riding shotgun in the sky, turning into butterflies above the nation.’ I’ve always heard bomber jet planes, and had to stop the recording and listen again. In Joni Mitchell’s original lyrics, she just sing ‘bombers.’ I wonder which of the quartet added the word death?
Side two opens with Crosby’s ponderings about ‘what’s going on under the ground? The anti-war underground movement? ‘Our House,’ a delightful song about hearth and home, has a hint of melancholy because that innocence Graham Nash is so wanting to hold onto is, on a national level, rapidly slipping away. ‘4 + 20’ finds Stephen Stills in such despair over his loss (of a lover), or perhaps the loss of actual lives both abroad in southeast Asia and also in the embittered civil rights battlefields of America’s deep south, that he ends the song wishing that his ‘life would simply cease.’ Neil’s ‘Country Girl,’ an invitation to leave the city and the other guy, and come to the country and be with me… might the other guy be Uncle Sam? And in the grand finale, ‘Everybody I Love You,’ when the whole gang fervently sings ‘You expect for me to love you when you hate yourself, my friend,’ to whom are they addressing, one American or the whole country?
Again, I’ve been listening to this LP, off and on, for over 50 years, and am very familiar with the material. Or I thought I was. Funny how you can sometimes hear a song like ‘Teach Your Children Well,’ for years, and still, sometimes, hear something new. There’s no doubt it’s a good song. it’s just not one of my favorites, at least partly due to its popularity. I’ve simply heard it played too much. And so, by the time Nash begins the final verse I’ve already emotionally moved on to the next track with Crosby almost cutting his hair for cryin’ out loud! But on this particular listen for this review, I was reading the lyrics as if for the first time- Nash’s appeal at the end of the song to all Americans, young and old, hawks and doves, to trust in the power of love to affect reconciliation; or as the late Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr said so famously, ‘Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend’: ‘And you of the tender years can’t (possibly) know the fears that your elders grew by. And, so, please help (and not hurt) them with your youth. They seek the truth (like you/we do) before they can die.’ (Italics are mine)
Musically, what can I add? You’ve got Crosby singing both his heart and angelic voice out on ‘Almost Cut My Hair,’ Nash’s high register, and slightly British accent throughout, not to mention his underrated song writing talent, both Stills and Young’s unique lead guitar playing (two great tastes that go great together.) But please don’t let the famous quartet overshadow the workingman drumming of Dallas Taylor, and most especially, the incredible touch of Greg Reeves, playing bass parts that rival Paul McCartney’s own melodic, creative roaming. And of course, Jerry Garcia famously drops right in and sits right down at pedal steel on ‘Teach.’
Sure, CSNY are all old and fat (except for the fountain of youth Graham Nash), and sometimes cantankerous and crotchety and such, now. But if you just could have heard them then, if but for a brief moment… Ah, that’s a déjà vu I would welcome today ‘… with all of you.’
Aug 14 2024
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Corny, Stale, Naff, and Yawn
Apr 17 2022
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I get CSN&Y and CSI:NY confused way too often.
Aug 17 2021
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Classic songs, beautiful melodies, exquisite guitar playing - an album that seems to capture the mood of the moment as the folky, peaceful, acoustic sixties (Deja Vu, Our House) turns into the gritty, tribal, rocky seventies (Almost Cut My Hair, Woodstock). This is America.
Mar 14 2021
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what a weird juxtaposition this album is.
the music in the background is alright, some bits are quite enjoyable, but the singing grates.
for starters i can't really be arsed with neil youngs voice and then when they do that super 70s harmonised singing stuff it doubles the pain.
Jan 20 2021
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This one I struggled with. It is a technically well done album but most of the tracks just dont land for me. Songs that hit a more folk rock tone like Woodstock are generally enjoyable but tracks like Helpless just don't work for me. That said the harmonies are wonderful and there is something about the percussion that I do generally quite like.
Mar 04 2021
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Perfect inflection point between 60’s folk/rock and what was to come in the early 70’s for rock. Everybody was for a moment in that band totally together and making a near perfect album.
Feb 28 2023
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For a super group it didn't sound like the best of any of their offerings
Feb 01 2022
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The result of throwing four geniuses in a studio together. This is the very definition of a supergroup. A band of talented musicians whose names extend beyond the bands they were once a part of, where each member has major contributions in the album, and none of which is lacking. Stills and Young carried Buffalo Springfield... their songs were always the strongest. Crosby was always my favorite Byrd after McGuinn. And although I don't know much about Nash alone, I loved the hits of the Hollies so much I was once disappointed they never had a consistent album.
Here we have a collection of masterpieces, hit after the next. They're all very strong songwriters, vocalists, and instrumentalists. I love how this album rotates through all 4 of them. On both sides you have a song written and primarily sung by each member, highlighting their strengths and weaknesses. Nash writes the melodic pop hits you sing around the campfire. Young probably has the best written songs, they sound like solo material but with the ever pleasing harmonic back vocals. Yet, they're not out of place. Stills has the most colorful songs... strong forward vocalist, his composition skills in roots genres are best showcased in his later album Manassas. All three of his songs are amazing, and props to Mitchell for writing "Woodstock," I wouldn't have been able to tell without looking it up. Crosby has the most dramatic songs, the instrumentals are incredibly rich and ever-changing, like proggy folk.
All of these songs could be star tracks on their own. The only track I don't think is perfect is the closing "Everybody I Love You"... it's merely superb. Pop folk doesn't get much better that this. The harmonious vocals is something I always strive to find in other music, and only then could I only compare them to the standards of these guys.
Sep 26 2023
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I think Young outshines everyone here a bit too much, his contributions make the rest sound a little cheesy. You know all the good ones, slightly stingy 3*
Aug 06 2024
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These little groups are normally lovely. These guys were just winey af. Bet they were a nightmare to record with
Jul 20 2021
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You really think this laurel canyon roots folk is the shit. I get it. Truly, I do. Now how about we try something else?
Jun 24 2021
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This is what happens when CSN's brilliant harmonization with Neil Young's rocking guitar style.
Feb 02 2021
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All of this variety made Déjà Vu a rich musical banquet for the most serious and personal listeners, while mass audiences reveled in the glorious harmonies and the thundering electric guitars, which were presented in even more dramatic and expansive fashion on the tour that followed.
Feb 11 2022
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I'd rather be watching The Littlest Hobo
Oct 22 2021
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Just listened to the 50th anniversary of this record. Good lord is it good. Every song is a gem. The volitility of the personnel in this band is completely quelled when they are able to make the music they all love to make together. These songs are beautiful, heartfelt, and purely collaborative. One can listen and reflect and weep both out of sadness and happiness at the same time. A masterpiece.
Aug 31 2021
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CSNY are a super group I get behind. I saw these guys in April 2000, and they put on a 3.5 hour show! Impressive for a bunch of guys in their mid to upper 50s. I can’t find the specific set list, but the average set for that tour was 30 songs (includes 2 encores). That’s a lot of entertainment for $40.
This album is loaded with great songs! It’s starts off with one of my CSNY favorites, Carry On. I love the opening, pressing guitar part and the break of styles halfway through.
Our house is a beautiful song born out of one of life’s ordinary moments when Graham Nash and Joni Mitchell bought a vase one day. There’s even a song about a hippie almost cutting his hair.
Unfortunately track 9 is a stinker and track 10 is just OK. For all I care this album stops after track 8. And fuck are they an incredible 8 tracks!
It’s interesting to me that almost every song on this album was written by one member alone and not in collaboration. The final product is cohesive and seamlessly blends their instrumentals and voices together. It’s hard to believe they didn’t write together. In order of preference, I like the songs by Stills the most (Carry On and 4+ 20), then Nash (Our House and Teach Your Children), Crosby (Déjà Vu and Almost Cut My Hair), and Young (Helpless and Country Girl). Joni Mitchell’s Woodstock is quite good too. Young and Stills both wrote the closer, Everybody I Love You.
Jul 02 2024
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Seriously? Another Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young album? Or is that another Crosby, Stills and Nash album? I don't really care. I get how they were very influential and obviously a bit of a supergroup. But... They're not really that different to warrant having more than one entry here.
May 07 2021
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That's a hell of an opening track. Fav track is definetly Almost Cut My Hair. Deja Vu and Country Girl are strong contenders too. Just an overall solid album with a cohesive track order and stellar songs. 👌
Mar 09 2025
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This ruled
Mar 08 2025
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I know some of the songs, but first time listening to this front to back, I think?, and... to reiterate my review from the CSN without Y record from 141 albums ago: the US folk rock offerings in here have been clear hits or misses, hardly anything in between but when they hit, they really do. I love this. Oh god, I'm a hippie!
But seriously. Moving, gorgeous, beautiful. I may not like everything equally; "Teach the Children" was juuust saved by the vocal harmonies and lyrical content, "Country Girl" is rather meh and I might prefer Joni Mitchell's own "Woodstock" but those still contribute to an easy 36 minutes of a great, tight album. Gets an extra +1 in terms of AYMHBYD, so it's six out of five.
Mar 06 2025
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Great songs wall to wall.
Dec 25 2024
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This album is so good. If you didn't know better you'd think it was a greatest hits album.
Jul 24 2024
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To quote my father (a serious CSNY fan) “they just don’t make music like this any more.” This is a rare moment in which I agree with him. This album is perfect.
Jun 06 2024
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Always loved this album. A handful of great songs, and just a lovely feel to the whole thing.
Feb 05 2024
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Annoying that Spotify would not let me listen to half the tracks but this is a classic
Aug 03 2022
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Harmonies don’t get better than this
May 28 2022
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Beaucoup de talent sur un même album, et ca parait. Chacun y amène ca touche et ca nous donne un album très bien fait qui s'écoute bien du début à la fin. Almost Cut my Hair, Helpless, Our house, Woodstock, que du classique ! 5
Apr 15 2022
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Really really good. Love the harmonies, the melodies, and the instrumentation. My favorite songs are: Almost Cut My Hair, and Deja Vu. I still don't love Neil Young's voice, but I like it with the rest of the band. I much prefer Crosby's voice, and it turns out the two songs I like to most on the album were written by him too.
Aug 31 2021
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If ever there were a case for letting your freak flag fly, this album might be it. CSNY are in peak form here, with their signature tight harmonies, lyrics of protest & empowerment, virtuosic guitar playing, and all around 60s love.
Each member has a chance to shine, but it's when they all come together as a cohesive whole that this album transcends. "Carry On", the opener, is a prime example - the harmonies rarely more impressive, the organ & Young's guitar riffing off of each other, the message one of eternal love & peace. Jerry Garcia's pedal steel adds some nice twang to the soulful "Teach Your Children", and Young's "Helpless" aches with raw emotion.
"Our House" might be the weakest entry here, for my money, but it does boast a unique vocal from Nash, perhaps the most underrated of the "supergroup".
But for me, it's "Woodstock" that puts this album over the edge - an amalgam of music and vocal that encapsulates the 60s. This rockin' reinvention of a rather turgid Joni Mitchell tune puts us on an astral plane with CSNY, where we're all stardust. Perfection.
Aug 06 2021
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Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young's voices when they harmonize is the sound of the horns you hear at St. Peter's Pearly Gates. Yes, better than Van Halen. Yes, better than the Eagles. YES, better than The Beatles (sorry, I don't make the rules). There is not a single bad song on this album, and while it's distinctly a folk-rock record, there is so much sound that comes from it that nothing sounds the same. I can see why some think Our House is a little out of place, but to me it adds a lot more diversity to the sound this album represents. Modern folk and Americana artists owe a lot to this band, but specifically this album. This is a masterclass in guitar songwriting and playing. Absolutely one of my favorite records of all time.
Favorite Songs: Carry On, Helpless
Least Favorite: 4 + 20
Jan 29 2021
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Classic! Love this album. Wonderful vocal harmonies en great songs!
Feb 04 2021
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4-5
Feb 22 2021
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Always preferred this band with Young onboard. The vocal harmonies alone are mindblowing, but overall just a fantastic front to back album.
May 12 2021
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CSNY, yessirrrr
Mar 23 2025
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I’ve talked about The Best Show on WFMU before in my review of the album “Bad Company” (by the band Bad Company, which features the song “Bad Company”), but there was a segment on it many years ago, where the topic was “Who is the Dumbest Member of CSNY?”. Callers would call in with their choice and give their reasons as to why they thought that member was the dumbest member of the band.
Some thought David Crosby was the dumbest for the various legal problems he encountered (like getting arrested for possessing a gun in Texas - an impressive feat, given the abundance of guns being carried at any given time in the state of Texas - In fairness, he also had a ton of cocaine in his possession at the time.)
Others posited that Stills was the dumbest member for bringing Neil Young into the fold after butting heads with him in Buffalo Springfield - an action that would end up making Young the de facto leader of CSNY, at least to the point that the band was reliant upon him being involved to pull a big payday.
Some thought that Young was the dumbest member because he got involved with the other three in the first place.
…and a few thought Nash was the dumbest member, mostly because, well…he’s Graham Nash.
(The “Who is the dumbest member of CSNY?” Topic ran across three episodes of the Best Show starting on December 16, 2008 and continued throughout the next two episodes December 23 and December 30. You can find them here: https://wfmu.org/playlists/bs - there’s also an app, the WFMU Archive Bunker, for your mobile device, if you are so inclined)
Based solely off of this record, I’d have to cast my vote for David Crosby. “Almost Cut My Hair”, lyrically, is a pretty stupid song.
Looking at CSNY’s entire career, I’d have to say it’s probably Stills, because he brought in Neil Young after having a struggle with him over the control of Buffalo Springfield and then promptly lost control of CSNY to Young as well.
Regardless of who the dumbest member actually is, Deja Vu is a very solid record, even if I’m predisposed to prefer Neil Young’s contributions and agree that he was probably too good/unique to waste much time hanging out with these guys. “Helpless” is the highlight for me, with “Carry On” and “Woodstock” not far behind. Overall a solid record, but I prefer listening to Young as a solo artist/with Crazy Horse to the time he spent with CSN and I don’t really have much affection for the other three (outside of Crosby for his time in The Byrds and his latter-day, curmudgeonly twitter escapades).
Mar 08 2025
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Is this album on the list twice? I feel like I've heard it before...
Mar 08 2025
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THE hippy-folk supergroup of the late '60s—I mean, just listen to the words of songs like 'Almost Cut My Hair', 'Everybody I Love You', and the Joni Mitchell-penned 'Woodstock'. With this many musicians driving the show, this album was bound to be somewhat of a mess, but it's a mostly good mess. You'll get the opening folk harmonization, followed by the more country-rock pedal-steel driven 'Teach Your Children', a psychedelic leaning title-track, the poppier 'Our House', and straight-up Rock N' Roll closer with 'Everybody I Live You'. It was all very enjoyable, though. I really loved Neil Young's spotlight track with 'Helpless', a song detailing his very uncertain childhood. I also really enjoyed the song 'Country Girl', perhaps the grandest sounding thing here - despite it not being the most interesting song lyrically.
CSNY supergroup or not, I think this album is just very solid in its own right. While not doing much special for its time, it does what it does very well.
Mar 08 2025
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A beautiful piece of work, and having four songwriters (and singers) means that the tone and the sound shifts throughout.
Mar 08 2025
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The quintessential boomer album. You could be 14 years old for all I care, but if this is your favourite album, you're really just a boomer deep down. A chill kind of boomer with good taste, but a boomer all the same.
Mar 06 2025
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Love this album. Maybe I should grow my hair long
Mar 03 2025
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The Neil Young tracks are the strongest, but on the whole album is really good. Didn't love it as much as his album Harvest, but it's really good. 4 stars.
Mar 03 2025
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So good. So easy to listen to. Really solid album.
Mar 02 2025
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Oh hell yes. I love it when I get an album I already dig. You know that scene in the lord of the rings that goes like:
Aragorn: "you have my sword!"
Gimli: "you have my axe!"
Legolas: "you have my bow!"
I picture the formation of this band as follows:
Crosby: "you have my guitar!"
Stills: "you have my guitar!"
Nash: "you have my guitar!"
Young: "you have my guitar!"
Jan 29 2025
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'And so, become yourself / Because the past is just a goodbye' ('Teach Your Children'); 'In my mind, I still need a place to go / All my changes were there' ('Helpless); 'They stop by to die because / It's faster than sinking' ('Country Girl'). Moments like these show just how excellent this album can be, but it's mostly a vague excellence, fleeting, not fully realized. The four seem to know what they are doing but not quite where they are going. Emotionally, 'Helpless' has it, I do enjoy the parodic (or is it sincere?) 'Our House,' and the driving 'Carry On' is a superb entry. But I'm not all that proud to wear my 'freak flag' listening to 'Almost Cut My Hair,' and 'Woodstock' isn't nearly Joni's best. A very good record, but in love with it I am not.
Mar 10 2024
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Positive and pastoral.
Feb 12 2024
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What I imagine when I think of a 70s hippie concert. The music sounded pretty “feel-good.” Very chill and actually played on my mood.
Feb 06 2024
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Great (half the tracks missing on spotify, thanks neil young)
Sep 26 2023
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Deja Vu tuned in perfectly with this rainy Sunday evening, which surprised me, as I came here to bury CSNY. Their harmonies have made my ears itch, most irritatingly on Through My Sails, which manages to mar the otherwise perfect Zuma right at the death. The harmonies are here too, almost immediately with Carry On, but the music around it, moody, dense and put together with what feels like obsessive meticulousness, lit me up.
Started laughing when Almost Cut My Hair started, accepted I liked it by its end. Was scrubbing the dining room floor when Our House came on and was transported to a happy memories from hearing it close to forty years ago in the family car - perhaps trite to many, but immensely moving in my current circumstances.
Must be a great album if a couple of decent NY songs are alright inclusions rather than standouts?
Am writing this after a first listen. Will score it after a second or third tomorrow, making this a sort of anti-cliffhanger (only the writer remains in suspense at any point).
Monday update: my score reflects cowardice. David, I fear I did cut my hair.
Confidential to Simon: I must acknowledge your “Amazon Music is the home to angry Canadians” comment, which I returned to when remembering Joni’s track x
Jun 08 2022
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p201. 1970. 4 stars
Late 60s hippies wake up in a new decade and discover country. Fantastic harmonies, fine musicianship, great tunes - what's not to like? Still holds up after 50+ years, although you can argue that Country Girl is filler and that Our House is as weak as a kitten. Imagine what they could have done if they hadn't been perpetually wasted and/or soaked in booze.
Dec 21 2025
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first album here! not my usual jam but enjoyed a couple of songs like our house, everybody i love you and carry on
Mar 31 2025
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Our house +1, inoffensive music, tepid vocals
Mar 06 2025
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3/5. The album is decent background music. Helpless is a good track. No real bangers on this one though, no meat to chew.
Mar 04 2025
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Pretty good. Enjoyed it more than the Neil Young solo album. Personal favourites were Helpless, Woodstock, and Our House.
Jan 30 2025
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I really liked the more folk/ country inspired tracks on this one like Teach Your Children and the doing Our House is a classic! The production and instrumentation is excellent, the vocals are a bit hit and Miss and sometimes are a bit grating but the group harmonies are super sweet. Songwriting is pretty good for the most part outside of a couple of songs, least favourite would probably be the opener. Overall it’s a nice short sweet album but it doesn’t have too much I’d come back to. 3/5
Jan 30 2025
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"our house" è la mia canzone del cuore di questo periodo, ma non abbastanza cmq per salvare le altre
Jan 28 2025
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all filler around our house which is obviously very good
Aug 09 2024
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Only a single memorable hook on the whole album. Seems like they’re too preoccupied with the harmonies to actually write interesting melody.
Aug 21 2023
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I can see why this is a classic. Amazing harmonies, some stellar songwriting, and really tasteful production that never overpowers the vocals. If you were a singer-songwriter, this would be the bible. Young's contribution, both songwriting and guitar playing, lift things. His approach is little bit more rock and less polished than Stephen Stills' tendency towards perfectionism, which I prefer.
Mar 08 2025
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Better than CSN, not as good as Y.
Mar 03 2025
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I can’t deny their talent, or musicianship. But I still don’t like the style of music.
Jul 31 2024
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36mins, but felt like 136
Aug 11 2024
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What a load of shit
Jan 24 2026
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All Time Excellent Music by Legendary Musicians
Jan 24 2026
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This list is schizo
Jan 22 2026
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Almost cut my hair was my favorite
Jan 21 2026
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Very fun very relaxing
Jan 20 2026
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The guitar is something else, and the rhythms and vibes are much much better than I remember. It's just got so much going on with just a couple of instruments. Amazing.
Jan 20 2026
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Absolutely awesome CSNY at their prime. Great songs, playing, vocal harmonies. Lots of songs everyone knows, some deeper tracks that are also very cool. It's certainly a product of its times, but it definitely holds up despite that.
Also kind of cool stereo effects, try headphones.
Jan 19 2026
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Day 159
Had a few in the last week or so that have had me thinking ‘why the fuck have I never taken the time to listen to this before?’, this is another one.
Highlights
Carry on
Almost cut my hair
Deja vu
Jan 19 2026
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This album was great!
Jan 18 2026
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Love love love
Jan 16 2026
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I’ve been waiting for this one. Insane collection of songs here. I really love some of the guitar tones they got on this considering the time it was made. Some very special songwriting that was way ahead of its time. I love it
Jan 16 2026
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I should have been listening to these guys sooner. Mostly knowing of Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young as a collaboration between many famous solo artists, and only having listened to Our House, this blew me away. It is exactly the type of folk with blends of various other genres throughout, precisely up my alley. The harmonies are so rich and I honestly wish there were more.
Jan 16 2026
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One of my top 5 all time favorite albums. Every track has a lot of history with me. I know the critics often rate the first CSN album higher than this one and for good reason. That's yet another reason as to why I'm not a music critic. If this one doesn't deserve 5 stars then I can't think of which one would.
Jan 16 2026
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Brilliant album- just peak songwriting, singing, and production from some of the greatest to ever do it.
Jan 16 2026
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I bought a ticket to see Neil Young in Heaton Park in Manchester in the summer. I know he's renowned for playing whatever he fancies every night, but if he strummed his way through this album, I'd be more than satisfied.
Carry On is great, lovely harmonies, and I like the strumming, twiddly guitar.
Teach Your Children, a bit of a western-themed parable, goes down pretty well. Fairly twee, but hey-ho.
Almost Cut My Hair comes right back to modern rock. Super layered sound, Crosby kills it on vocals.
I watched a great documentary on Graham Nash and Our House. He wrote it about Joni Mitchell, and he was pretty wistful. Lovely song - I do enjoy those that tell a distinct story.
4+20 is lovely bluegrass pondering stuff, Stephen Stills uses the opportunity to slow down, and spin a bit of a mystical yarn.
Country Girl is a classic too, Neil Young at his most high-pitched and whiny. Lovely.
One of the best albums, with some of the best musicians and songwriters, ever made.
Jan 14 2026
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It sounds like something out of a nostalgic movie and I love it
Jan 13 2026
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This album is a straight up masterpiece. Every member is firing on all cylinders...you can really hear how strong the songwriting is across the board, and the vocal harmonies are incredible. Teach Your Children is a perfect example. It sounds like something Gram Parsons could have written just as easily as Graham Nash, and Jerry Garcia’s pedal steel on it is phenomenal. That song hits even harder since I've become a parent.
Nash’s writing really shines throughout the album and gives it a lot of its heart. David Crosby’s songs are great too and honestly feel like a continuation of Buffalo Springfield. Considering Neil Young dropped After the Gold Rush less than a year later, you can tell he might have been holding a little back. Still, Country Girl is strong, and that organ part is pretty badass
Jan 13 2026
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iconic, liebe die era
Jan 13 2026
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It’s easy to hear why people love this album so much. It feels good to listen to it. The harmonies and instrumentation are so locked in I was genuinely surprised to read how disconnected the recording was, and that the four of them were almost never in the same room together once.
Jan 11 2026
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Such a moment!
Jan 11 2026
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Альбом как зеркало проблем переходящих из десятилетия в десятилетие, сквозь века и эпохи. Альбом написанный в 1970 году настолько же, если не острее, актуален в 2026. Deja vu, которое будет преследовать людей, пока человечество существует.
Jan 10 2026
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One of the greatest albums ever made no filler at all. Almost cut my hair is one of the best songs ever and one of my favourite solos.
Jan 10 2026
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Beautiful harmonies, meaningful lyrics, some well known tunes.
Jan 09 2026
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Album 3/1001.
Listened 1/8/2026.
Just beautiful melodies and harmonies and guitar licks. Can't listen to Teach Your Children without tearing up.
Jan 07 2026
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YUUUUUUUPPPPP
Jan 06 2026
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4.5
Jan 06 2026
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This is a great album and so nostalgic.
Jan 06 2026
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That's a hell of the album
Jan 05 2026
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Her har vi Young igjen, men denne gangen sammen med Crosby, Stills og Nash. Er dette folk rockens The Beatles? Her er nesten samtlige låter hentet fra øverste hylle. Fantastisk!
Top 3: Almost Cut My Hair, Carry On, Our House
Jan 05 2026
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Such beautiful harmonies. Big Americana fan and this is right in that wheel house 👍👍
Jan 04 2026
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loved. it. i just love that layered harmonizing vocals so much. favorites were almost cut my hair, helpless, our house, and country girl.
Jan 03 2026
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I have come to especially appreciate albums that have a number of songs I am very familiar with (in this case, "Our House," "Woodstock," "Carry On," and "Teach Your Children")--songs that can be considered classics, but then it turns out the rest of the album is better. Maybe it's because those songs are fresher to me, but regardless in these cases really showcase the genius of the creators.
Dec 31 2025
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Great songwriting, production and vocals.
Dec 31 2025
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Nearly flawless. Perhaps the only 4-or-3 song is Almost Cut my Hair; some David Crosby nonsense. But I love it. Imagine Grateful Dead circa American Beauty, but with better singing: you get here. Imagine The Yes Album, but more restrained and focused: you get here. This record explodes from the 60s into the 70s, full of ideas, but also *taste*.
Dec 30 2025
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Me encantó, jamás había escuchado hablar del artista y me volví fan.
Dec 30 2025
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interessante
Dec 30 2025
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I was very surprised when I immediately liked it. It's clear from the sound that it's something around the 60s. The Beatles, the Kinks - the feeling of brit-pop right away. But then you hear the accent, the Americans.
I hear something akin to Bob Dylan in Helpless and Almost Cut My Hair.
Dec 29 2025
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big pink?