Crosby, Stills & Nash

There is some serious playing on this album. Really really really enjoyed it.

No like

Sounds like I’m at a war protest. Not a huge CSN fan. But that’s a great debut album. Just no way around it. Super solid album.

Excellent

Very good

3/5 - Good album. Surprised I knew a few tracks. It can sound a bit generic at times but I understand this was from 1969 so a lot of more recent music has borrowed this style. Favourite Tracks: - Helplessley Hoping - Teach Your Children

i liked it. not one i would put into rotation on a regular basis, but good.

This was a fun listen. Never gave more than their radio songs a listen. This was a mix of highs and lows. Suite Judy Blues Eyes, Marrakesh Express, and Long Time Gone, just absolute highlights, 5/5 each. Then the rest of the album, ehh, save for Pre-Road Blues which was good. The vocal harmonies are some of the best ever. But what honestly does it for me is the organ and bass. Beautiful beautiful tone for each. LOVE IT. Not a solid album, but contains some seriously solid songs.

Very good alblum with some classicsongs (ie, Wooden Ships, Marrakech Express, Guinevere, etc.). The non hit songs are worth the listen and are better than just filler songs. Well above average but not a 5. Young was like a cheery on a Sunday. Nice addition but not necessary.

Not every song is great so I cannot give this a five however it is a very solid four.

Great classic easy listening album. Very talented folks

This was a really good album. Very relaxing, this has a good chance of going into my rotation. Don’t really know what else to say.

Hey, where's the other one gone? Oh this is the debut. Ironic there's no young in that case. ------------ I can appreciate some of the proggier rocky tracks and indeed rate them quite highly. There's some lovely bass playing throughout, splashes of organ (my favourite!) and melodic guitar. Wooden ships was my particular highlight with a looming moodiness I can get behind. The fact this is followed by Island Woman or whatever it's called declaring: " The brownness of your body in the fire glow Except the places where the sun refused to go" is an absolute mood killer. This track epitomises everything I don't like here. Leery sentimental shite, ear grating harmonies and nothingy, half arsed do do, la la, lady lady, baby baby babbling. 2*

This is some of my favorite kind of Hippie Shit. No notes, I love these songs.

Ugh no.

Horrifically dull.

J'ai vraiment aimé ça! Félix avait raison, ça sonne comme du Simon & Garfunkel. Belle découverte.

Guinnevere est une petite perle de chanson. J'adore le blend des voix, qui m'a fait penser à Simon & Garfunkel, mais en plus riche. On a beaucoup de Byrds adjacent dans cette liste, et pour moi c'est une belle découverte !

decent album, a little bit sad songs, but overall, it's fine. like "guinnevere", "you don't have to cry", "pre-road downs", "wooden ships", "long time gone" and "49 bye-byes". The guitar in "long time gone" sounds really good. 3

Most of this album isn't my speed but I loved "Marrakesh Express"

Definitely one of the best albums of all time

Pretty sure my dad was in this band

warm, definitely worth getting lost to. something to drive to. fav: wooden ships

Sounds like 50% of the other albums on this list. I've had enough 70s folk/rock/pop for a lifetime 5/10

An interesting cabaret album. Feels like it was very inspiring to many other artists, but simultaneously also not that impressive.

Perhaps the greatest male harmonies in all of pop music.

Me costó mucho escucharlo, al principio, lo empecé a disfrutar, pero después lo sentí demasiado largo demasiado repetitivo. Se me hizo muy difícil terminarlo de escuchar. Honestamente no me gustó

very much my vibe i’m into it

Good, sentimental.

Ganska skönt att lyssna på. Inga spår sticker ut utan det känns snarare som ett långt spår. Bra och 60-tals flower powerigt? Inget jag lär slå på igen men inte heller dåligt. 3/5 som ej hamnar på iPoden

460/1089 quite liking this project so far, it’s felt easy to get into and i feel like i’m in the right mood for it. i especially liked the final couple mins of the suite, plus Guinnevere and You Don’t Have To Cry oh OUCH i know Helplessly Hoping from a film or something where it destroyed me emotionally, a stunning song. (Annihilation and The Last Of Us Part II are the culprits) This genre can be quite hit or miss for me (and tbh mostly it misses) but this one sounds pretty timeless for the most part, the way the vocals are layered or produced is so good and i think makes the biggest difference for whether i’ll like this type of sound faves: Helplessly Hoping, Guinnevere, You Don’t Have To Cry 70/100

very nice, but suffers from a very old-school album A-side B-side structure that frontloads all the best stuff

csúszik, de semmi több

Nem rossz. De van ilyen ezer.

Pretty good!

5/10

Kellemes, egy folkosabb Beatles.

Kicsit semmilyen. Pont azt a szamot ismertem/szeretem, ami itt csak bonus track. (Teach your children) 5/10 Fav: Marrakesh Express

fine

i actually enjoyed this much more than i remembered

Hard to find a better album from the era. Normally I’m a solid No when it comes to male harmonies. This album works for me, then and now. It is timeless, classic rock.

I wanted to like this. I gave it one and a half listens. But it didn’t really grab me.

Nice but found a bit boring.

Какая-то квинтэссенция 60х в плохом смысле

A few of the finest songs ever written. The rest of the album is ok.

Tykkään Crosbysta, Stillsista ja Nashista enemmän silloin kun Neil Young on mukana kokoonpanossa. Tällä levyllä kuullaan triolta hienoja lauluharmonioita ja pehmeää kitarointia, mutta onhan tämä vähän mummojen musiikkia.

An album you can put on and just vibe to. Does have that classic problem where the opening track is by far the best, so it is kinda downhill from the jump.

It’s a good enough album, but they really needed Neil Young to join to lift them to the next level.

lovely harmonies but the whole album feels extremely ominous. Not my thing, sorry guys.

Favourite songs: Suite, Wooden Ships. Stephen Stills is the secret sauce here. Least fav: Lady of the Island

I do enjoy some of their stuff, but it was a bit boring as well.

oh my gosh

exceptionally folksy

Nice vibes

Folk rock! I didn't like the Stephen Stills album that came earlier in this, nor did I really like the Neil Young grunge album; but I'm excited to listen to CSN. Guessing there will be more CSNY to come in the next ~1000 albums left. Judy Blue Eyes and Marrakesh Express are not my thing at all, but they're quite catchy. Guess there's a reason these guys are legendary musicians. Not my thing (feel like I've said that a lot so far) but it's excellent. I'm not a folk rock guy and never will be, so I won't come back to this much, but the songs are excellent. Would love to hear these reimagined at faster tempos...

Was surprised by this album. The song writing is strong and the harmonies are great. To my ear, there's a real musicality here.

I never give enough credit to this type of music. That’s usually because the tracks are all very similar throughout but this album had a pleasing amount of variety.

a favorite!

#117 Three already-accomplished artists came together to create an album which defined the "California Sound". It laid the foundation for their next album, Deja Vu, and the addition of Neil Young to the group. Nice and mellow, and full of great songwriting. Highlights: Helplessly Hoping, Wooden Ships, Suite: Judy Blue Eyes, Guinnevere

Another incredible debut. I don't hear people talk about CSN as a supergroup. Maybe because they're not virtuoso players, though Stills is quite an instrumentalist. The songwriting simply doesn't get any better, nor does the harmony arrangements. Indispensible music.

Some beautiful harmonies, although it doesn’t hit me in the way a lot of folk and folk rock does from this era. Helplessly Hoping the obvious standout.

Not bad, not great 3.5/5

Such a pretty album. Elite harmonies and guitar parts, very nice poetic lyrics, and a lot of catchy tunes. Altogether a great listen. Favorites include Guinnevire, Long Time Gone, and Song With No Words.

Amazing harmonies of course, but also very nice subtle production and comfortable grooves. A few very high highs and a lot of mediocre plateau. Judy Blue Eyes is in my top ten songs of all time. Highlights: "Suite: Judy Blue Eyes", "Pre-Road Downs", "Helplessly Hoping"

Good album overall, but the great songs make this a 4 for me. Favorite tracks: Wooden Ships, Helplessly Hoping, Suite: Judy Blue Eyes

i think i found my new fav

Fairly enjoyable, even for a genre I dont usually like.

realmente um disco de folk. nada muito a acrescentar.

7.5/10

Incredible songwriting and harmonies. I didn't think this album would take me back to my childhood when my dad drove the car, and I sat in the backseat on long trips. Thanks for the memory.

This is a fun listen and was clearly influential.

An album that I know all the lyrics to. Best tracks: all of them. Helplessly Hoping, Suite: Judy Blue Eyes, Long Time Gone, Teach Your Children, Wooden Ships Rating: 10

I like that album 😊 I'll rate it a 7/10 There is a lot of 60's album on this list or I have some kind of luck. Please algorithm give me something more modern

A classic I listened to thos way back and its still great the Daughter of Apollo approves

Objectively a good album but those harmonies started to drive me nuts after the 5th song they were so repetitive. I honestly thought the last two songs were the best on the album which is really rare!

I hadn't realised how much they were dominated by Stills, who played most of the non-drum instruments here. Nash leaves his sugary fingerprints a couple of times, while I actually like a lot of Crosby's songs and Wooden Ships is one of the best on this album. I quite liked You Don't Have to Cry too but overall this just sounded too smoothly polished. I prefer my folk rock to have a bit more spit and sawdust in it

2.5

A bit bland. They should have gone all in on those harmonies.

I just thought this was really boring. Feels of it’s time in a not positive way

Mega banger. I don’t think Judy want you tho my guy.

A couple tunes had me like "Oh yeah, I know this one!" Spins: 1 Playlist Additions - Suite: Judy Blue Eyes - Wooden Ships - Helplessly Hoping

Is there a sound more evocative of the 60s era than this? Hard to say.

I was 5 when this came out. My pops had this record. I heard it a lot. It was pleasant enough, but it wasn't mine. Then as the 80s came along and I started to have my own music, the rock canon was being laid out. We were told that records like this were the pinnacle and they weren't making music like this anymore. I remained skeptical. Now in 2026, I know the canon has great stuff, but it was and is super narrow. There is so much more out there! There is nothing wrong with C S & N, but it will never mean as much to me as Joy Division or Planet Rock or even The Meat Puppets. Impossible for me to be objective about it.

Actually top tier folk rock. I might put into regular rotation.

The songs the critics loves are the ones I disliked the most.

I like music a more indie or alternativ

There are not many perfect albums, this is one of them. There was, at times, better music after Neil Young joined. But this album holds together better.

Second time this album has come up for me and my review remains the same a little over a year later. “Love it”

I think I prefer the haunting CSN over the moody and rambling versions we also see on this album. The subtle instrumentations, the spooky harmonies.. this one bounces around a bit too much for me even if the ones that hit (Helplessly Hoping in particular) hit hard.

It's fine. I think this particular version of the 70s rock genre does not translate as well as others. It's not particularly my style, but it's at least well done.

Crosby, Stills and Nash With a strong focus on the harmonious vocals rather than the instrumental side of things I find this album peaks with the first song, Judy Blue Eye’s. Even the “song with no words” is all vocal do-do-do’s. The album overall is pleasant, but ultimately forgettable with nothing to differentiate it from being any folk album. Nothing controversial, nothing really bad but also nothing exciting. No Frisson here. Would I buy this album if I saw it in the $5 bargain bin - meh

Nice old school and gentle. Only thing I'd say is the singing is old school but I like it. 4 stars

Comforting, as always.

A legendary album, which I looked forward to, but such a disappointment. Yawn.

What a lovely little album. I’ve never been that inclined to listen to sixties music but this has piqued my interest.

CSN, no Y because neil young sucks feel like there were other good songs, but they all kind of sound the same and blur together definitely feels influential tho 💥suite judy blue eyes

Harmonies for days.

As you'd expect, you have to tolerate a fair amount of irritating naïveté, such as a rich kid who calls women "m'lady" telling you that the solution to dealing with your boss and the stress of your job is simply to stop working. Still, the harmonies are lovely and it has a fluidity and groove that has since been entirely lost. Even those with Hollywood and Wall Street money to buy them the time to search can't find their way back.

The vocal harmonies were fantastic. I thought this was one of the best Folk-rock 70’s albums I’ve heard.

It's fine as a Simon & Garfunkel/Beatles rip-off. These guys are yet to impress me. Feels largely masturbatory.