CSN were such great harmonizers and the vinyl sounds great. I wanted to group these how I want to listen to them and left out the Neil Young tracks from Deja Vu. The more I read about that guy, the more I despise him like how he was quietly strumming in the same room as Moby Grape signed away their name to a pimp producer that was lending them money destroying such a talented band or was it how Neil happened to leave off two other co-writers from Buffalo Springfield from his first sing going solo called 'The Loner'. I've talked about this before like when he went public with Joni on an issue.
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Someone who thinks the same way as I do about Neil Young... well said !!!
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So Neil coooks yer egg eh? No problem, I'll just add him back in. Reality doesn't go away just cuz you don't like it.
Thanks for the domment revB, it reminds me to give credit to this blog where others can find the files by clicking here: http://lagrimapsicodelica5.blogspot.com/2019/10/crosby-stills-nash-young.html I'm also going to but this great reference site on the blog roll. C'mon y'all you either side with me and Lynyrd Skynyrd or Neil baby. Remember the whole thing when Neil Young's song 'Southern Man' was out with it's dire warnings then Lynyrd Skynyrd answered "Well I hope Neil Young will remember, I said a man don't need him around anyhow" in 'Sweet Home Alabama' and then CSN in their first 80's album posted here does damage control to address this issue with their song 'Southern Cross'.
Llagrimapsicodelic is a great site. When they focus on a band, they do a DEEP dive, listing full official discographies and usually lots of additional material you may or may not know about. Easy to access and very much recommended.
I've never heard that The Loner had disputed credit before and having spent the past 10 minutes searching fruitlessly for a source, I'm going to ask where did you find this.
Certainly there's plenty of reasons to find Neil Young wanting. His Buffalo Springfield Box Set was a wasted opportunity. Many tracks omitted (eg. long version of Bluebird) and others duplicated for no reason. Cortez the Killer romanticises the Mesoamerican practice of human sacrifice. Nonetheless he is equal parts irritating and fascinating.
Years ago I was a teenager finding out that Jim Morrison was actually a bit of an arseh*le. I had the choice of never listening to the Doors again or accepting that the personalities of artists might not detract from their work.
Hi JohnM,
Here is where I read it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Loner_(Neil_Young_song) as well as reading about Moby Grape at Wiki under that band write-up. My older vinyl brother had Neil Young's triple album which included some Buffalo Springfield tunes as well as Crazy Horse so I listened to that one in grade school and got to know it well. I later bought the CD 'Everyone Here Knows It Is Nowhere' and even saw him headline at a festival with Primus, Ben Folds Five and Beck among others so I know his stuff well and felt a little like I was back in the '60's when we decided to finally sit down in grass and listen as he started to play. I took out those songs because I thought it detracted from whole CS&N list of songs I wanted and really wanted their stuff to stand out as it does. I had just read those articles and also how he was in and out of the band and just kind of wanted to reflect that too, that those guys knew he was an illuminati spawn of hell.
Thanks for the response.
As regards removing tracks - Your website, your rules.
On the Wikipedia page, it acknowledges he didn't give playing credit for The Loner but doesn't mention a failure to give writing credit. Perhaps that's what you had in mind?
As for CSN. I love "If I Could Only Remember My Name". A vastly underrated album where he is backed by PERRO (including Neil Young). Then I would rate the first CSN album (pre NY). After that they don't strike me as particularly essential. Pleasant laid back California.
I understand none of them talk to Crosby these days. On an interview with GN he hinted that DC insulted Darryl Hannah, Neil's wife, but it wasn't an outright statement so we'll probably never know what really happened. I've read biographies of the Byrds and CSNY, and if what they say is true then he makes Jim Morrison look entirely reasonable.
Neil is something of a curmudgeon these days and has always been oppositional. I can see how people would be annoyed. Love David Crosby’s music, never thought much of the big ego. As for the deleted Deja Vu tracks, to my ears Hopeless was always the weakest, Country Girl far and away the strongest.
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