Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young: C/D, S/D

OMG

'No Nukes: Muse Concert For a Non-Nuclear Future' publicity shot, NYC, 1979 (with David Crosby, Stephen Stills, Jackson Browne, Graham Nash, Jesse Colin Young, John Hall, Phoebe Snow, Carly Simon, Michael McDonald, James Taylor and Bonnie Raitt) pic.twitter.com/WpqJ7l7VXJ

— Barney Hurley (@barneyhurley1) April 18, 2021

Nuclear weapons: bad!
Now let’s party

JT not sure which one is his wife.

Carly's plaid jumpsuit is quite something.

Seeing Crosby, Stills and Nash & Cypress Hill in the same event sounds like a dream tbh.

— VIKKA/LILSATAN 👁👅 (@lil_satan_) April 21, 2021

(The event in question being Woodstock '94)

ALSO: Just noticing in that No Nukes pic that Crosby appears to be wondering why he's both at the side w/Stills, but also on the other end standing next to Nash.

"Marrakesh Express" is f-ing awful, so much that when I tried the first CS&N album without playing that track, the whole thing actually improved immensely - a more cohesive and unified album that managed to stay afloat and keep me engaged the whole time. I guess having it in the #2 slot always derailed the whole thing for me.

The LP still doesn't feel like a *great* album, but when I think of it as a one-off lark rather than the core music of any of those three (similar to the Traveling Wilburys later on), it at least feels like a commendable side project, as long as I ditch that awful track.

Agree
Wasn’t that the “single” to boot?

Not sure why I put that in quotes

Yup, the first single and peaked at #28. In retrospect, "Suite: Judy Blue Eyes" should've been the first (it was the second and peaked at #21), and they could've tossed "Marrakesh Express" on to the B-side as a non-LP release.

I like it, although I will concede it's easily the cheesiest hippie-dippy thing on the debut. IIRC, it--along with all the other Nash tracks on that album--was rejected by the Hollies in favor of their Dylan album. It probably was the first single because at that point Nash had the most hits to his name than the other guys.

what do y'all have against piffle?

it--along with all the other Nash tracks on that album--was rejected by the Hollies in favor of their Dylan album

You had taste, Hollies. You had taste.

I always disliked this song til I heard the latter-day Hollies records with Nash, and then I was at least able to see what he was going for. I find this similar, a lot better, quite charming:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OiflXrTsKLU

Hollies >>>>>>>>> Crosby, Stills & Nash

Nash is easily my least favorite member of CSN and sometimes Y. “Just a song before I go” from CSN is lovely, though.

That “black keys” song of his seems …lazy

Like yeah, anyone who’s ever played piano knows the sharps and flats have a nice harmonic resonance with other

I think he made it up on the spot, in his defence.

ok, recast csn - who would you replace graham nash with? for americans i'd probably go with someone like tandyn almer or curt boettcher. can't think of a britisher who would fit in the role tho!

John Sebastian?

how about a female singer? Oh, right -- these guys were pigs.

Mama Cass? She didn't write songs though. But how about Dave Mason?

how about a female singer? Oh, right -- these guys were pigs.

― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn)

right, i mean, we're assuming that they're basically pigs, also, we start getting women involved and crosby/stills are pretty quickly outclassed

mike patto might be interesting. dave mason! yeah, that's definitely gotta be it, it'd have to be dave mason in that role.

Duh, Mike Love.

Although in reality it would have been Stills' buddy Peter Tork.

Richie Furay would have fitted in pretty well but then it would just have been Buffalo Springfield.

Rick James

the thing is that Nash’s voice is a really vital component of their gorgeous awesome vocal harmonies… Dave mason sounds too much like stills, imo

Art Garfunkel actually substituted for Crosby on CSN albums for awhile.

Crosby, Stills, Parsons, and Garfunkel