Reviews (page 11 of 13)
Old sound, a welcome change. You don't quite get music like this anymore. Couple songs sounded a little familiar.
Solid bouncy sound - harmonies are something different from my standard musical taste, but make for an interesting vocal combination. Songs generally sound similar but I dig the uptempo folk. Feels of its time.
Nice chill music to listen to in the morning or backyard 3.3
Enjoyed the listen! Loved the vocal harmony and riffs. Solid 3 with the potential for a four after a second listen
not totally my vibe, but i understand why people like this one. i think i'd prefer their stuff with more neil young, tbh
Very talented artists and well crafted, just not quite my vibe
Kinda of a K Rose esperienze to me. Nothing special just not my thing.
Jaahas ja äijät taas musisoi.
nice pleasant album
No sé qué esperaba pero los bitles gringos fue una agradable sorpresa. Dudo volver a escucharlos fuera de una sola rola.
Yep solid folk rock album, worth a listen
Like eating a birthday cake without the icing
Illimitable, iconic vocal harmonies beckoning us back to a time of musical revolution, taking the public ear from 60s blues rock into a new decade of singer/songwriters. By the way, comparing your “m’lady” to Guinevere isn’t a good thing. If she’s also drawing pentagrams on your walls, run. Leave her before she leaves you for a guy who picks oranges just as well as he picks a guitar.
was all right
A solid debut. That opener is still fantastic. I've always liked Guinevere, Wooden Ships, and Helplessly Hoping. The rest of them impressed me less. Also, as famous as they are for their harmonies, Nash's shrill high notes have always grated. The bass playing by Stephen Stills is superb throughout, often stealing the show, especially on Suite: Judy Blue Eyes. Dude was just so damned talented, it's insane.
I LIKE it, but lovely harmonies can only take you so far, and CSN is missing a crucial ingredient without Neil Young.
Have listened to this once before. Very nice harmonies, very chill. But I find it a bit boring tbh.... CSNYs first album deja vu is actually better
It's missing Young. Ok album somewhat forgettable.
Enjoyed this, would listen again for chill 70s ish vibes. Don’t feel I got much of a handle on the lyrics
Its a chill folk album. I can see they're shtick is the harmonies and sometimes when they have some other element helping carry the song along, the harmonizing works. More often then not though, all we get is 3 dudes singing into a mic with minimalistic nothing going on in the background. It's just boring music where nothing all that interesting happens outside a few songs. Stand outs for me are Suite: Judy Blue Eyes, Wooden Ships (which I actually did find to be good songs that I may listen to again) and Long Time Gone.(which was only slightly better than the rest of the songs) I guess honorable mentions would be Marrakesh Express and 49 Bye-Byes because while still being kind of meh they at least woke me up a bit from the rest of this snoozer. Also, Im knocking a half star of my rating just because of Song with No Words. It epitomizes the issues I'm having with this thing. Its only a 3 because I can't give it a 2.5.
Genres: Folk rock Formed: 1968 Run time: 14 songs, 52 min, 51 sec The debut studio album by the folk rock supergroup. Musical supergroups can go one of two ways: they are short lived due to infighting and one upmanship or they nail it and become greater than the sum of the parts. CSN falls into the latter category. The general theme of the album is relationships: love, breakups and insecurities. Spotify: Least popular song: >1.8M Most popular song: >130M plays. “Suite: Judy Blue Eyes” is about Stephen Stills relationship with singer-songwriter Judy Collins. “Marrakesh Express” is about travelling by train, taking in the sights of Morocco. I was convinced the song was in some part drug related. I’m puzzled as to why it only has 6.3M plays. “Guinnevere” is about unrequited love. “You Don't Have to Cry” is about a breakup and the aftermath. “Pre‐Road Downs” is a love ballad. It discusses the problems of being on the road and hence away from a loved one. “Wooden Ships” is about escaping from the conflict in a dystopian future. (It’s a reality for many people here and now.) “Lady of the Island” is about a couple spending time together and never wanting it to end. “Helplessly Hoping” is about the complexities of a relationship. The two people, whilst in love, are struggling with their fears and insecurities. “Long Time Gone” is about problems in society and the fact someone needs to speak out and address the issue. “49 Bye-Byes” is initially about the ups and downs of a relationship. It then addresses anti-war protests. While it is a good album and contains some great material, I feel it could have been better. I suppose what the listener wants and expects is not the same as the wants and desires of the artist(s). Listen Again?: No. I’ll try other albums or a “Best Of”. My Rating: ***
6.5/10
Enjoyed a few of the songs, most of them were just good background music. Surprised that I haven't heard the entire album before.
Nothing crazy
3.5/5
Mellow.
I enjoyed it, I think I’ll like it even more with a few more listens.
Middle of the road soft folk rock. Not great, not shite. Won’t be rushing back to it.
It's good enough to have as an album for the day. But it lacks a certain Youngish quality that I've come to prefer over time. I don't know if I'd say it's truly an album I need to hear before I die since I'm also fairly certain there's some Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young on this list somewhere.
Nice chilled album. I always liked their harmonies, and the fact they feature frequently as backing singers on David Gilmour's later solo albums.
Hugely influential and for good reason. This album really set the stage for music of the 70s. On its own it's a really great release too. Lovely harmonies and guitar playing. My biggest complaint is the absolutely abysmal stereo panning. Oh and fuck David Crosby.
Suite: Judy Blue Eyes is a classic, but I’m not sure they had full ideas for some of these songs. All are pretty pleasant though.
honestly looking back it wasn't bad... I was just a bit bored 3/5
Harmonies to die for, and some solid songwriting prevent me from giving it the two that this bunch of complacent sixties survivors probably deserve.
Influencias vocales de Simon & Garfunkel, pero con más estilo country/rock.
Bit of a mixed bag, the harmonies are a little grating to be honest, but there's some good tracks on this album alongside the duller ones.
Es un albúm buenísimo pero que me costó calificar. Se nota la calidad musical pero tiene muchos temas que me parecieron de relleno, sobre todo los últimos 4/5, por eso les bajé 1pt.
Always chill, nostalgic music. Can’t go wrong with CSN playing in the background of your day to day life! Listen again: yes Purchase for my collection: probably Favourite Song:
3/5 i remember liking this album a lot more way back when. found myself skipping through songs. SJBE and WS are still great.
Soft spoken close to boring 2.9
This was OK. A bit boring at parts.
Folksy and catchy but all the songs are pretty similar.
Great vibe for a drive.
Talented fellas. Nice enough listen. Nothing I’d come back for though.
It's ok
Beetje gedateerd, maar hier en daar wel een leuk nummer
Very good. A little boring, but it's talented boring.
They really like harmonizing with one another. Some cool bluesy songs, lots of folk guitar, actual lyrics with meaning.
Chilled out vibes, enjoyed the majority of it although not my usual jam.
Yé où Young?
Folk.
I like this group. I do not like folk music, this is a bit much.
Progi rockia. Jotkut kappaleet hyviä toiset parempia. Vähän Yes meininkiä mutta ei ihan niin psykeä
на самом деле очень приятный альбомчик некоторые песни супер приятные моментами стерео дает о себе знать, правда
Звучит все очень приятно и просто хотелось слушать дальше альбом. Первый трек запоминается сильно( не только по длительности, кек) за счет интересной ритмики. Но не сказать что что-то выдающееся
А потом к ним присоединился Нил Янг. А пока что это обычная группа из 60-х: немного баллад, немного рок-н-ролльчика. Всё такое обычное, опять... Да, есть классные песни, одна из них (Helpless Hoping) можно назвать даже известным шлягером. Но если честно, я уже не в состоянии искать отличия между всеми этими группами. Условно, даже спотифай предлагает мне похожими исполнителями The Byrds и Flying Burritos, которых мы уже слушали. А я алгоритмам уже привык доверять...
Вайбсы приятные, но только на уровне "приятные". Не более Ну и музыкально это просто есть, база
Hasn't really stood the test of time. They needed the addition of Neil Young to work. Just like Buffalo Springfield where the songs that Neil Young wrote were brilliant and ones that Stephen Stills wrote were hot garbage.
When does the CS&N horde end?
This was OK.
Ok
Very Simon and Garfunkelesque. Present but also kind of boring.
Bored by the falsetto-folk of the first half of the album. Especially disliked Judy blue eyes and Marrakesh express. But when the album takes a darker turn beginning with pre-roads down I start to dig it. Wooden Ships and Long time gone are great.
When you can stack harmonies on every line in every track, well, you stacked harmonies on every line in every track.
ovo je dobar album, lagan
ok
A couple of nostalgic hits the other songs were ok
Songs are good by themselves but in an album experience they feel bland and all bend together. This bland has a special place in my heart though so 6/10
A couple of good sadboy tunes but pretty mid
This is my first time listening through this whole album. It's a little dated, but still pretty damn good.
You can hear '69 in this album. I can only imagine the atmosphere of the summer of 1969, but it surely was more chilled with the soothing voices of this group.
An atmospheric and perfectly pleasant album
CSN (&Y) was one of my father's favorite bands, so I've heard everything on here multiple times. Listening to the album as a whole, I'm really struck by how this plays more like a series of singles from three different artists who are using the other two as guest musicians. It doesn't have any kind of band cohesion other than the harmonizing on each track.
Not bad for a supergroup
Decent listen, felt some Simon and Garfunkel vibes
I was going to skip this one... but didn't. Pleasantly surprised
Pleasant but unremarkable, except maybe 49 Bye-Byes which I really liked, nice bop.
After the first track, it started on a pretty iffy note, but the second half won me over. The main thing to remember for anyone listening to this for the first time would be to let yourself *flow* with the compositions and enjoy the range/talent on display. Otherwise, it'll feel half-finished, and saying that about *this* album is a crime.
It’s fine - a bit downtempo and uneventful for my tastes, but the vocal harmonies and guitar are well done, and it actually throws some minor key into the mix instead of remaining in haply-go-lucky sunshine and rainbow mode the entire runtime (like other 60s-70s LPs are prone to do).
Pleasant enough but all merges into one. Needs more barn.
Not bad, pretty pleasant. I've been wanting to try out CS&N so it was good to do that today. No single song stood out to me and ultimately, this whole thing kind of blurred into one long song. I probably wouldn't listen to it again but it was fine nonetheless.
This is the debut album of Crosby, Still and Nash. For me, it is hard to believe that there was ever a time when they were unknowns. In 1969, I was two years old. I didn't know them until much later. I knew many of their songs growing up but didn't really know the group until the Album Daylight Again came out in the early 80s. THAT album I loved. Start to finish - it was a masterpiece to my teenage ears. So, for me to hear this album, now, for the first time probably is pretty wild. It starts with two iconic songs in classic rock: "Suite: Judy Blue Eyes" and "Marrakesh Express." The rest of the album is what you expect from their harmonies and the late 1960s. It's pretty good. Today not quite as good to hear as it would have been back in the time it was released. I really love the album cover too. Who were they at the time this photo was taken? I don't know much of their early years, but this photo looks like a real, honest photo of them before fame. Simple. and definitely not rich. Three dudes, hanging out, playing some music and dreaming of what could be. It's a real good album to listen to, I enjoyed it quite a bit. 3.5/5.
Molto allegro
Kinda ok
This album just sounded like the music from the 70s. Nothing extremely special about it, but I also didn’t hate it.
Du bon folk, fait un peu penser à du S&G par moment, d'autre plus typique du son que je connais de CSN&Y.
Pas pire! Commence en force, mais perds un peu de rythme. Ça m'a donné envie d'en écouter d'autres (et du YES en même temps!)
Folk. Ni fu ni fa.
Folky
Good stuff but missing Young! Deju vu is still the best album from these guys.
Mon dieu que c'est nul. Cet album ne comprend même pas la troupe des Stephen Stills, Stephen Stills ayant remplacé les Stephen Stills par Crosby et Nash. Un scandale absolu.
Not bad. Enjoyable listen on the whole. I don't really remember too much about it, though. Standouts: Suite: Judy Blue Eyes, Wooden Ships, Helplessly Hoping, Do for the Others
Un seul être vous manque
Lovely recordings, sweet harmonies, didn’t grab me like I hoped
Mumford like album
Very laid back intricate album, got better as it went on
To be honest I'm kind of disappointed, I feel this album should be better. It has all the ingredients to make it great, but comes off just a bit above mediocre. A lot of the songs sound the same, and you end up with a flat album.
Dacht dat het een boomer album zou zijn, valt mee. Prima muziek Fav: marrakesh expres, wooden ship
Historically this record was important. But it's honestly rather boring. All the songs are very similar and the instrumentation is identical in every song.
It's good, but I can't tell if they just needed to grow as songwriters and arrangers, or if that missing Mr. Young really weakens them this much. In any case this is streets behind Deja Vu, though certainly not a bad record; about as close you can get to 4 stars without crossing over.
incredible debut; best bits on the Greatest Hits
Honestly, haven’t really paid attention, but rather fun, just not exactly my vibe, too old.
This album wasn’t for me. It wasn’t bad but it wasn’t great. Only a couple songs were memorable while the rest all sounded the same. However, I did enjoy how chill it was.
Suite: Judy Blue Eyes is fun! generally a pleasant album, kind of forgettable.
A few good songs on here. the best was yet to come.
Not bad
Suite: Judy Blue Eyes, Lady of the Island y Teach Your Children
Young filled out this band nicely, but they were already doing well before him. It's a solid record, and everyone is in beautiful voice.
This is a tough nut to crack for me...everything sounds good, Judy Blue Eyes and Teach Your Children... all good, but overall it's something I will hear on the radio again before I go searching out.
Certainly an album for those really into boomer rock stuff just not in my personal wheelhouse
Will listen again. Give it a chance.
How can three such unpleasant people* people produce such lovely sounds? I guess that sums up rather a lot of the hippy movement, really! My first time listening to this album, and you can really hear the influence on 70s Fleetwood Mac, Yes, etc. Some of it hasn't aged particularly well - for example, Marrakesh Express is a bit twee; Lady of the Island is hopelessly pretentious... but Suite: Judy Blue Eyes and Guinnevere in particular are splendid. *OK, maybe Graham Nash isn't quite the arsehole the other two are.
Love these gringos ! didn’t know they were back on spotify .. - been falling off the wagon with these. too much going on to listen to a whole album 💔💔 HOWEVER i am going to try to do at least the rest of the week’s since i’m sick …
09/06/2022 Haven’t listened to this album in a very long time. Wooden ships reminds me of my freshman year of college bc I was obsessed with it and my high ass thought it was one of the best songs ever. This album is good, but tbh sometimes I can’t stand Graham Nash’s voice, the high parts at least. CSN is stronger when it’s CSNY, but maybe I’m just biased toward Neil young bc I think he fucking rocks. — Today was so so long. Woke up at 7:30 and drove back to Houston, went to class, and then spent a bunch of time in studio finishing my models for tomorrow. Went back to my apt and fell asleep for 11 hours. Otherwise, today was good. I am very in love and am excited and anxious for the future still. Lately, I’ve been taking everything one day at a time though and it’s been working out great.
slightly better than arcade fire but nothing impressive feels very much like an album of its time it had a gentle feel to it, but none of the songs stood out, and it didn't even gently nudge at any of my emotional buttons.
Has some good songs. Hard to listen as a full album, but could listen to individual songs
Feeling confused about this one as I feel I appreciated it but found it hard to get through at times. It was all very pleasant, but in that way it was quite one dimensional without variety
Pretty good but kind of all blended into itself
This feels like a proof-of-concept album more than a finished product. Best track: Helplessly Hoping
this album was soft rock to a T! it was actually a little too soft for me. of course, it was a calming, relaxing listen regardless. i had listened to the group's next album with neil young, déjà vu, earlier in this project, but their self-titled didn't have that same spark. i didn't even think there were any political songs, which must have been something young brought to the table. like with déjà vu, some songs were just misses for me: not bad but not exciting. "marrakesh express" and "pre-road downs" had a fun beat, and since they were livelier than the others, i enjoyed them more. i loved learning "suite: judy blue eyes" was about the wonderful judy collins!
I had never listened to this album all the way through before. I knew the single 'Marrakesh Express' but nothing else. I found it pleasant and a very chilled out listen. Nice in the background while I worked and the sun was flooding my room. The harmonies are wonderful, even if some of the songs I found fairly forgettable. I'm not sure I'd add it to my personal list of classic albums, but I could definitely put it back on again, maybe on a Summer Sunday morning. I wish I could give half points. It's not a 4 for me but better than a 3...
This kind of just skimmed past me - I didn't notice anything in particular.
Best Song: Suite: Helplessly Hoping. Here is where the layered vocals sound necessary, religious even, with muted background instruments and the voices on full display. Worst Song: Long Time Gone. Definitely feels like they're trying to mimic "harder" rock artists here. Overall: This might just be a me thing, but I find that this kind of music, where the vocalists sing everything in this perpetual vocal harmony, as cultish. Like you're being indoctrinated by a group wearing robes and they're trying to get you to join their collective consciousness. For that reason, no matter how pleasant the the harmonies might sound, it eventually just ends up grating my nerves, sounding unnatural.
S > C > N
Not my music, but it's not bad...
Very relaxing
very similar to Simon and Garfunkel
It’s a classic album but it could be so much better and they have better records, I’d give it like a 3.5
What an Inspiration album. You can pick up the beginnings of so many other bands after these guys.
Not my jam
Hippy butt rock 6/10
I can see why this is a classic. Amazing harmonies, some stellar (if sometimes dated - I'm looking at you, Marrakesh Express) songwriting, and really tasteful production from Stills that never overpowers the vocals. If you were a singer-songwriter, this would be the bible.
It's a nice, simple, and pleasant experience. It's got as much edge as a butter-knife. It's not bad enough to dislike, but it's a bit too calm and easy-going for me.
Fine songs, with very good harmonies. It's missing a certain something (or someone) though.
Pretty good
Eh. This felt like listening to a bag of cotton balls. Inoffensive and comforting, but a bit bland. I know it's a classic and whatnot but this really didn't do much for me. Fave track: the everybody's Talkin cover was pretty good. I wish you well, fellas, you just ain't for me.
The harmonies were perfect, but the songs really lacked something in the songwriting, such as memorable choruses, melodies, or drums/other instrumentation to differentiate the songs to prevent them sounding so monotone.
Country meets psychedelia.. Nice soft tunes with an edge here and there. Nice soundtrack for a quiet Sunday morning having a coffee at the down town Street café
Didn't really grab me immediately until 'Pre-Road Downs.' Although second half of the opener was good. Slower songs blended in to each other, the harmonies got a little bit tiring. Liked 'Long Time Gone.'
Not on Spotify, 3 stars
Pretty chill and interesting
I've heard a couple of tracks before, but this was my first time actively listening to CSN. It feels like this one must have been pretty good when it first came out, but it didn't age well. While they may have sounded fresh in 1969, it all sounds fairly "standard old rock" today. And I'm not sure if it's because of the Youtube upload quality, but the production sounds pretty terrible as well. That said, it was still a decent album, but not more than that.
Okay, if I'm not mistaken, this album introduced folk rock to the mainstream, steering away from the loud guitar driven blues rock of the decade. In 1969, bands like Led Zeppelin was storming the scene by pushing the loud blues rock aesthetic into its limits. While these guys formed a supergroup to chill around, look back to their folksy roots, and release this. Okay, I might get a lot of things wrong there, but I'm pretty sure that it's a compelling alternative. As a hard rock fan myself, I find the softer ballads, most notably, "Helplessly Hoping", enjoyable. The psychedelic rock and country sprinkled bits are generally a careful hit-and-miss. It's still very '60s sounding, even to the point that it sounded generic. Overall, it was an easy listen. Nice guitars, nice harmonies. But it's pretty unremarkable as a whole.
Pretty decent. I'm not a super fan of these singer-songwriter records from the 70s like the group vocals, but this one definitely has some elements that feel contemporary. It's pretty on the ears and I like the stories of freedom and love. I like the more quieter moments than the soft rock songs on here.
This is not exactly my favorite genre of music (this kind of pure countryish rock) but isn't possible to deny the influence of this album on modern music. This is not essential to listen to it, but it makes me understand some things much better.
Very good. 3.5
Pretty good! More fun 60s stuff!
It's a great album with some lovely harmonies and guitar playing, and a solid mix of folk and blues - Helplessly Hoping is a particularly gorgeous highlight. However it does feel like it's lacking a little something, especially after only recently hearing the more experimental approach by Crosby's other band on The Byrds' 'Younger Than Yesterday' which gave some really fascinating soundscapes
Better than Nsync.
Cosa linda de escuchar. Me llevó por varios artistas posteriores, fui entendiendo que escucharon esto antes.
Pleasant soft rock. Not on Spotify. 3/5
Buen disco de folk-rock suave con excelentes voces, ritmos y estilo definido. Me ha faltado que alguna canción me gustase especialmente más. Aun así, muy recomendable
Perfectly serviceable debut album from CSN but nothing to get the juices flowing, maybe Suite: Judy Blue Eyes aside. The competition shortcomings of Marrakesh Express and Guinevere, rendering them rather dull, will have you crying out for the later addition of Neil Young to the group.
If you’re into folk music this is a good album. Couldn’t listen to it on Spotify, but managed to find it on YouTube. Nice variety of easy going songs.
Not available on streaming services! So couldn't listen...
Was pleasant, 5/10
Ah, melodies, oh, another melody, aah, Marakesh Express, oh, more melodies, I wonder if? Ah yes, a melody. Is it heretical to say the world would have lost nothing if this has been released as an EP?
harmonies
My first listen from this debut album from one of the first big supergroups in rock. Sitting very comfortably amongst the mass exodus of late 60s artists returning to acoustic and folksy roots, "Crosby Stills & Nash" stands as one of the giants of its day. Much of it has stood the test of time, while some of it didn't grab me so much. The main draw has to come first: from beginning to end, the three part harmonies are the defining asset of this album (and the whole band). It's where the obvious comparisons to Simon and Garfunkel stem from in everything from the harmonic structure to the timbres of the vocals: however, the songwriting on this album rarely scales the same heights. "Suite: Judy Blue Eyes" is the clear standout, documenting the end of a relationship with simple and unflinching honesty. Even the bizarre transition into its last movement with Spanish vocals can be forgiven on the strength of its earlier movements, and the ambition involved stitching all of it together. It may be greater than the sum of its parts, but it's an accomplished feat of songwriting with great impassioned vocals and guitar work. Despite being a great fan of Crosby's work with the Byrds, for me it's Stephen Stills who is the MVP here. As well as contributing "Suite: Judy Blue Eyes", he turns in the single-ready "You Don't Have to Cry", another favourite for harmonies "Helplessly Hoping", and the lively, time-signature shifting closure "49 Bye Byes". These songs seem to encapsulate the best side of the band, feeling like a most complete vision of who they are: impeccable, close harmonies, ornamental trills and fills on acoustic guitar, soft brushed grooves. The bass is surprisingly melodic, too: worth a listen in several of the tracks to unpack. The other material here isn't quite at the same level, hop-scotching between light froth and mystic ballads. Graham Nash has fun with the inessential but catchy "Marrakesh Express" and also contributes some experimental reverse guitar in "Pre-Road Downs", sounding like he's coming from a different part of the 60s. Other than "Helplessly Hoping", the ballads here aren't my favourite. As much as I respect "Guinevere", it drags the pace down a little too much. "Lady of the Island" is even worse in all its saccharine declarations of love. It would have been nice to hear the band rock out and loosen up a little more, as in "Judy" and the decent "Wooden Ships", but at least they strike a good range of material that covers the leanings of each of the three members. On the whole this is a fun, light and breezy album by a promising group with nothing to prove. It could have benefited from being even breezier if some of the heavier ballads were cut back, and nothing else matches "Judy" for poignancy and musical expression. Looking forward to hearing more from them.
Weird how far back in the mix the music is. How many CSN(Y) albums are on this list? They harmonize (?) just fine. Weird/bad mixing aside, this was a fine album. Nothing changed my world here.
Only two songs on spotify but I liked them
The harmonies are beautiful but most of the songs are a bit boring.
De muziek en de zang klinken gewoon goed. Ik vind de melodie echter een beetje saai. Prima te luisteren maar ik krijg dat speciale gevoel niet. Mijn favoriet is "Marrakesh Express" ***
Classic
hey nash
3/5
En solid blanding af rock, pop og folk, gennemtrængende, tidsløst
Great album, lots of good tunes.
It's a nice little album with some good songs (e.g. Marrakesh Express), but I didn't find it spectacularly good otherwise. In my opinion they overdid the choir sound a bit.
Helplessly Hoping, Long Time Gone, You Don’t Have To Cry. Melty…
Underwhelming. Not bad but pretty boring.
Lovely sound, but maybe for me it's a little dated. Great musicianship is easy to recognize, and it's catchy, but yeah maybe for older people.
Inarguably some great songwriting here. The album starts strong and while it fell off for me after a while, I still love these voices and love this songwriting. Good stuff.
Could use some Young and maybe I was just tree-hugging my inner hippie, but I enjoyed this more than I expected.
Despite loathing Neil youngs singing Marrakesh express is one of my all time favourite bangers so it's already getting better than his customary 1 star and amazingly there were some songs that didn't have the trademark high pitched singing and they were really good. I know it's his USP but its fucking annoying. This album has now reduced the level of dread I get when I have to listen to an album with young on it.
decent album with nice harmonies, and some classic songs
solid 3 from me. Few songs that I didn't realize came from CS&N. Part of an era .
Mellow acoustic tunes.
it was fun to listen to and i love the trio so much more then all four of them together. I didn’t live it as much as other people do but I did enjoy listening to it.
Not bad not bad
Very chill. Nice harmonies.
Alright background music played quietly
Its a good album overall. Deserving of being on the list, but not a stand out for me
Enjoyable soft folky-rock. These three boys all up each others game
First time listening and enjoyed it thoroughly. Another album that had songs I’ve heard by never connected the artists. The group does a great job of being cohesive and mixing really well. This album has an excellent folk rock sound that can be replayed. 7.5/10
Good songwriting, interesting song structures, incredible harmonies, and Stephen Stills is a musical genius. Perhaps a little twee at times, but really enjoyable nonetheless. (3.3)
It was okay. Gave me a lot of Simon & Garfunkel folk vibes. But all in all just made me want to listen to S&G rather than this album again
I liked this album…. Enjoyable to listen to
This feels like all the other 1960's rock albums of that time. Very chill and easy to listen to but not much there in my opinion. Nothing in these songs stands out as unique but I'm sure at the time it was fun. I enjoyed listening to the album but won't again.
Really good album…nice melodies. Sound might have been enhanced by spatial audio but not sure.
Thought this was excellent.
Started poorly and was thinking it could use some Neil Young as all a little twee but got really good before tailing off
There is nothing particularly special or memorable about this, but there’s not much wrong with it either. A very enjoyable listen that I would happily return to
Started poorly but got really good before tailing off
Not bad, some of the songs are a little too long but well written and performed.
Helpless hoping made it to the playlist
nice relaxing kinda country
Solid acoustic album. Not exactly my type of music, but it is very well made. Leans more folk/country than rock.
Estoy empezando a ver un patrón con este subgénero al que quiero llamar grandpas folkrock ta bien, pero sinceramente lo mejor del disco el bigote de Nash, JEALOUS
Soft listening. Acoustic for days
Dont remember
Solid Folk rock. Got a solid listen, might get one or two more but I wasn't upset at it.
There's no doubt that it's good, but after a while I felt like I was listening to one big song, there was just no real variety to be seen in the first half. The greatest variety came from songs on the latter half of the album, starting with "Pre-Road Downs." The album feels its strongest when an individual member is showcasing their vocal talents, and not when they are all harmonizing with one another; though perhaps that's just because so many of their songs are harmonies.
Has some replay-ability, not really my tune though
some good songs but a lot of it is just alright, like some themes but others seemed unclear
It was a very relaxing album. I liked most of the songs, but I did get bored a bit of the way through it. 3/5 stars.
Middling but a great folksy tunes nonetheless. It came and went though.
Simon and Garfunkel, and Beatles vibes. Nice but not standout
a few jems
Was all right. You can hear how it paved the way for the psychedelic movements in the 70s, but even though there were a few good listens here it still failed to capture my full attention.
it was fine. good solo in pre-road downs.
Not into folk music, but it is pretty good for what it is
Good album, not enough to listen to it again all the way through
Beautiful harmonies but 'to show their [musicianship] is their whole endeavour' Best song: Wooden Ships
Quite rare to hear male vocal harmonies like this. This could start a deep dive into C, S & N.
liked it more than deja vu. Its a very nice album for on the background. fav. song: marrikash express
Decent but not a regular rotation album
A solid 3. I wouldn´t say that it´s something extraordinary, but there are some great parts, such as at the beginning and the middle of the album. Quite a good production as well, but still it did not hit me on an emotional level.
Alternates between some beautiful moments and musical wallpaper. Reminds me of fleet foxes a little
Nice enough
Pleasant enough
It was ok, but I prefer Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young.
Listened a lot to this album. Maybe better than Déjà Vu. Especially Guinnevere jumps out!
Lovely
A Lib Dem of an album
Kinda alright, I get that it was early mor countrified rock etc but not much sticks and it gets a bit meh.
Not as good as deja vu
Hmm 3.4 maybe had to have experienced it at the time
CSN. yep
Agradable durante un rato, luego se vuelve monotono
6.5
There's an admirable straightforwardness about this album. It's called Crosby, Stills & Nash, by Crosby, Stills & Nash and the cover features an image of Crosby, Stills & Nash. The last of whom looks a little bit like my mate Dave might if his razor was removed for two years or so. This is no doubt a great record. With some wonderful songs and an undeniable craftsmanship about the whole endeavour. But at the same time, it's also the kind of album that I can only admire from a distance. Dipping my toe in, rather than dive-bombing right in. Try as I might, I just couldn't get too deeply involved and gripped by it. It was more background listening that something that submerged the soul. Glad I listened to it though, and I particularly liked the track Guinnevere.
Listened only the first 8 (out of 16). Fairly good. Nice atmosphere but not really my thing
4 Good album, but Crosby is still a little bitch
Meh. I like Marakesh Express the most of these songs, but it does feel like a Simon & Garfunkel song.
quite enjoyable. good album
Extremely talented guys. Some great harmonies on here, but this isn't my favorite CSN/CSNY album, a bit too mellow. 3.5 stars, rounding to 3.
I thought it was nice, very earnest, so much so that at times I wanted to throw up in my mouth. The highlight for me was "Everybody's Talkin" and the lowlight was "Song with No Words."
Good album. Nothing really stands out to me, in terms of the songs but what truly makes this shine is the harmonies. When singing together the sound is amazing("Judy blue eyes" and "helplessly hoping" in particular)
Top tracks: .Wooden Ships .Helplessly Hoping .Long Time Gone
I'm a big fan of Graham Nash, especially his first two solo albums. But this album sounds more like a Stephen Stills album, who is my least favorite of the three. Prefer CSNY to CSN.
Chill, although some of it is a bit too clean/pure for my tastes. Guitar in tracks like Wooden Ships is more interesting to me, in some ways this sounds like Simon & Garfunkel, similar folks-y vocals. Very 70s. Long Time Gone is better sounding to my ears with the solo vocal parts. Song with No Words is actually pretty annoying to me.
Nice harmonies but pretty insipid overall - A Song With No Words is a primo example. Too perfect, not very interesting. I liked Marrakesh Express and Pre-Road Downs though. Guinevere is pretty spooky too
Love half of it. Hate half of it.
Cool harmony and decent guitar. Shrill at times
Enough already
2 good songs in album, already had hopelessly hoping one. Not bad
Easy listening, too twang
Slow. Good for just relaxing
You know, it's not bad. Good songwriting, great harmonies... It's definitely its own vibe and if you're feeling it, it's good stuff.
Hieno, aurinkoinen albumi ja etenkin bassot toimi
Pleasant to the ears, sometimes repetitive.
Favorites include "Helplessly Hoping", "Everybody's Talkin'", and "Teach Your Children". An interesting coincidence is that I watched the episode of The Office where Michael sings "Teach Your Children" to everyone's kids for "Take Your Daughter to Work Day" (S2, E18) today before I learned it was on the recommended album for today.
The production is gorgeous, the vocals a little less than, the arrangements classic or interesting at turns. I'm back and forth on how much of a wow factor it has. That's lost a bit in the gloss, while the less-well-aged bits stick out. Still, it's something that bears going back to: There are rough edges, but no splinters I can find.
Blues guitar. Key songs: Suite: Judy Blue Eyes, Marrakesh Express
More folksy classic rock. not bad, but not amazing
It was nice, very pleasant, good rhythm and songwriting. It faded a bit into the background, and I prefer some of their other albums TBH.
? rock? dann neilll young und der wichtig für grunge usw...c
A 2 feels harsh, but outside of track 1, this album feels extremely flat to me. If you want to hear what this band could do at their apex, check out Déjà vu, which of course includes Neil which gives the band the lyrical and general edge the self titled lacks. What really torpedoed this for me was the cover of everybody’s talkin. One of the greatest songs ever written, so many beautiful versions, it’s like that 3 dragon meme, CSN being the dumb one. Déjà vu also has the Jerry steal pedal Teach your children, the version here is nap enducing.
Mushy folk rock with decent singing but often paper-thin songs, the debut album by CS&N is a mildly inoffensive record that might be suitable as background music while you try to finish this week's assignment in the watercolor class you're taking through the adult education program down at the rec center.
Not the worst folk rock I’ve been force fed by this list
Büro, Heidenheim, Deutschland. Etwas langweilig.
This went in one ear and out the other without making any impression on me. This was inoffensive folk rock. Both "Suite: Judy Blue Eyes" and "Marrakesh Express" were released as singles, both neither stood out as memorable. I'd say that the pleasant "Helplessly Hoping" stuck out as the strongest song on here. The harmonies are nice and reminded me of Simon and Garfunkel, but they lack the memorable songs that duo had. I like this group much better when they had Neil Young with them. Without Young, it is hard to tell the members apart.
Only a few great songs in an album that's supposed to be hits back to back, considering the amount of talent invested. Instead, I feel the songs are a bit too abstract and experimental, more exploring musical directions than aiming to produce pleasing results. I can appreciate it intellectually, but it doesn't make for a cohesive emotional listening experience.
I thought I’d like it more. I was sadly underwhelmed. Loved the melodies most. Needed more magic though.
More of that 60s twangy, folksy, protest music. If you like it, you’ll love this. If not, you’ll probably be bored like I was. I’d really love to round up all of the Simon Garfunkel Crosby Stills Nash Young and others and mash them into one super acoustic folk music album and eliminate them from this list. ⭐️⭐️.5
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ja som sa uz od takejto hudby posunula
Beginning to suspect the '60s is not my decade.
unimpressed, just one nice acoustic tune for me
Very relaxing and great background music. I enjoyed listening; however, there was nothing about this album that was outstanding. favs: you don't have to cry, pre-road downs, helplessly hoping.
Boring
It's ok, somehow I expected something much more notable and ended up bored throughout
As much as I wanted to, I just didn’t like this much. I don’t like the voices and there is nothing here that would make me come back to listen again.
Meh.
Medio embolazo. Me gustaron solo un par de canciones
One thing the generator has taught me is that I have little love for folk-rock, or folk in general. This is no exception. Having 2 CSN albums (ok, other one was CSN&Y which was slightly better) in a week was too much folk for me to tolerate. It's not interesting to listen to and I don't care for the music, the singing or the songs.
Their voices are gorgeous together but once again I’m bored
Sonaban a America. Que se yo que sé cuanto.
Sounded like Crosby Stills and Nash. Great harmony’s. Boring songs.
It’s alright but i got a bit bored. Fav song: Guinnevere
Beautiful harmonies and nice groove at times, but maybe bit too hippish stuff to still be relevant.
Gotta respect singing harmonies of this gang. After few tracks I knew I have heard it all.
When I was about 12, we were on a domestic flight for a family holiday in New Zealand. Crosby, Stills and Nash were also on this flight, and my father went insane. They were sitting in “premium economy” of whatever flattering term they used to demarcate us from them. We were down the back. My father kept poking his head up over the seats and looking at them. “There’s Crosby!” he said. “And Nash has the window seat!” He ducked down as he said this, presumably just in case Nash looked back. My brothers and I just stared at him (our father, not Nash). “Who ARE these people?!” “Look at Stephen Stills! He’s doing the crossword!” “Did you say one was called Cosby?” My brother asked. “What kind of name is that?” “Crosby. Yes. He’s having black tea now.” This went on for about 45 minutes. We couldn’t have found it more dull. Listening to this album now, and realising that this was the music that got our father so giddy, makes the whole thing way funnier to me.
Сидни Кросби, это ты брат?
sounds great but not for me... I get the feeling the album gets going at 49 byes byes and honestly that far in I was already hoping it would end... but after is more of the same. Is Marrakesh express about getting high?
The very embodiment of "So what?". They can harmonize; I'll give them that. And I (obviously) know and do enjoy the first track. But the rest of this was a bowlful of broth without any bread. I'd rather be whipped soundly and put into bed.
I will give them credit for their ability to harmonize, but it stops there. This thing dragged on. I was over it after the first song which was too long in itself.
I'm really sick of folk rock from Laurel Canyon, WAY too much of that on this list. This sounds like all the rest and must of the songs sound pretty much the same. Pleasant enough, but boring and generic. No, thanks.
This is the first time I have ever listened to CSN, and it was about what I expected - folksy stuff that is pretty much indistinguishable from all the other folksy stuff from the time.
Found this pretty boring with no standout track. 5/10
The vocal harmonies are nice but they do it way too much. There are songs that are entirely sung in three part harmony. I find it distracting and hard to connect with what is being sung. Overall, middle of the road, kinda samey, background music. Pleasant enough to get a 2 from me.
idk bro
Lo prejuzgué creyendo que sería medio country o Creedence, y no. Igualmente no es tan mi estilo, pero debería darle una chance con más atención en la escucha, justo estaba haciendo cosas.
Boring
CSN without the Y. To be honest, I hardly noticed that absence, but I can hardly notice anything that happens in this style of music anyway. Not terrible, but mostly in one ear and out the other. Key tracks: Carried Away
I'm generally a big fan of all sorts of American country folk, but I just didn't get this album. It probably worked well given the context of the time — three vocalists from three big 60s bands teaming up to form a new band? Well, I'd give it a shot! However, the album ultimately felt very boring. That said, it's not bad, with pleasant acoustic strumming, an almost Beatlesque three-part harmonica. It's a normal, laid-back acoustic folk album from the hippie era. Alright, but boring. For me, David Crosby's solo album was much more interesting. Although, those who miss Woodstock 69 vibes should enjoy this album; however, such people have probably known it by heart for decades.
Thought the album started off very boring and repetitive. Picked up slightly at the end but still.. I didn’t think it was great
Ganz wenig davon finde ich wirklich gut
this mostly does not work for me. it has the foundations of a thing I like but not the other necessary elements. I am probably rounding up to a three because there are some nice moments and a couple pretty songs on here but it’s a low three if I do.