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Music CD - Buffalo Springfield: Retrospective: The Best of Buffalo Springfield
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Music CD: Retrospective: The Best of Buffalo Springfield
Artist: Buffalo Springfield
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Manufacturer: Elektra / Wea
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1. For What It's Worth
2. Mr. Soul
3. Sit Down, I Think I Love You
4. Kind Woman
5. Bluebird
6. On The Way Home
7. Nowadays Clancy Can't Even Sing
8. Broken Arrow
9. Rock and Roll Woman
10. I Am A Child
11. Go and Say Goodbye
12. Expecting To Fly
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0075679041722
Label: Elektra / Wea
Manufacturer: Elektra / Wea
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Elektra / Wea
Release Date: 1990-10-25
Studio: Elektra / Wea
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Summary: Buffalo Springfield: A Beginning
Comment: Buffalo Springfield was neither the first vehicle for nor the first group to record and release works by founding members Richie Furay, Stephen Stills, and Neil Young. Rather, it was a sounding board and a starting point for a new direction in rock and the beginning of stardom for its aforementioned members (and even later, Jim Messina of Loggins and Messina fame). Stephen Stills would emerge as the group's main songwriter but, as with Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young, he would soon be surpassed for quality of work by peer and colleague Neil Young. The dynamics between the two are simultaneously famous and infamous, yet the mutual admiration and inspiration is evident on this and all future Stills-Young projects.
Emerging at a time when The Beatles had led the British rock brigade into America, and the US had replied with the Dylan-inspired folk rock of The Byrds and The Mamas and The Papas, The Buffalo Springfield would introduce more of a country flavor to the spectrum (a la The Band, latter-day Byrds, Creedence Clearwater Revival, and The Flying Burrito Brothers). Like The Band, Springfield would include both Americans and Canadians, just as CSNY would add an Englishman and former Hollie to the mix. Not necessarily making this a melting pot, it does bring to the fore different cultural elements and an innovative blend of ideas.
This release serves as an appropriate crash course to the form, both in its advantages and disadvantages, and as an excellent introduction to the musical careers of Stephen Stills and Neil Young (Furay's light not shining quite as brightly even though he would achieve some standard of success with Poco). As the saying goes, "the best is yet to come!"
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Summary: A Super Album By a Supergroup
Comment: "Retrospective" rates in my book as one of the seminal albums to come out of the sixties, and considering the groundbreaking music to come from that era, this is no mean feat. (Consider Cream's "Disraeli Gears or "Wheels of Fire" or Jimi Hendrix's "Are You Experienced" or "The Doors" or The Beatles "White Album & Rubber Soul...".) I could go on forever about the incredible music bursting on the horizon throughout that glorious musical decade. However, "Retrospective" never seems to get ranked in the top echelon of the sixties albums in polls and/or surveys. For What It's Worth (no pun intended,)"Retro" rates as one of my top ten albums of all time. Each song is a masterpiece in it's own right. This is a perfect album.
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Summary: 'For What It's Worth', this is really a great album......
Comment: I distinctly remember hearing Buffalo Springfield's "For What It's Worth," years ago, played in heavy rotation on the local oldies station. The message that song carried--that of the youth movement of the times, protesting war, social injustice and global intolerance--rang loud and clear in the ears of many when it was first released in 1967. The powerful and unflinching lyrics still ring true today, in the face of more violence and intolerance. It is hard to believe that such a powerful tune was played by a band that only stayed together for eighteen months, just when they were beginning to tap the surface of their talent and possibilities.
This album showcases Buffalo Springfield's best songs, including "Mr. Soul," a very clever, up tempo piece, "Sit Down, I Think I Love You," which juxtaposes the phrasing and delivery of the lyrics (particularly the word "you") to give it double meaning, and "Go and Say Goodbye," a very catchy song with a completely self-explanatory title.
It's amazing to think that Stephen Stills, Neil Young, and Richie Furay came together but for a brief period of time, composed so many great tunes and yet broke up so quickly! At least their legacy lives on in songs like the ones featured on this album, which truly is a retrospective and a tribute to rock and roll legends.
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Summary: Good Enough For The R&R Hall of Fame
Comment: One reviewer describes The Buffalo Springfield as "a lesser known" group from the 1960s. Lesser-knowns do not usually get into the R&R Hall of Fame [an exception would be The Velvet Underground], as this group did in 1997.
Anyone who knows anything at all about the quintet is well aware that group member Stephen Sills, after the 1968 break-up of Buffalo Springfield, helped form Crosby, Stills and Nash which, in 1969, had two Top 40 hits. In 1970 they were joined by Neil Young and that year added four more Top 40 hits. After seven years had passed the original trio returned to log six more hits, three of them Top 40, and in 1989 a reunion of the four scored with the minor hit Got It Made.
Meanwhile, Jim Messina, who had replaced original Buffalo Springfield member Bruce Palmer after their first two notable albums, along with Richie Furay, helped to form Poco in 1970, a group that registered 13 Top 100 hits from there until late 1989.
So this was, in every respect, a highly-influential group which, also included Dewey Martin and, in their short time together, contributed five songs to the Billboard Pop Hot 100 for Atlantic Records' Atco subsidiary. The best of which was, of course, their first - For What It's Worth (Stop, Hey What's That Sound) which reached # 7 early in 1967. All five hit singles are here, but just the one B-side, Mr. Soul, which backed Bluebird [# 58 in August 1967].
In keeping with the trend to re-release early 10- to 12-track CDs with bonus tracks [as was the case with some Elvis Presley volumes, and the Sarah Vaughan and Donovan "best of" compilations], this would make a nice 16-track collection with the addition of: Do I Have To Come Right Out And Say It? [the flip of their first hit]; A Child's Claim To Fame, which backed Rock 'N' Roll Woman [# 44 in October 1967]; Everydays, the B-side to Expecting To Fly [# 98 in January 1968]; and Four Days Gone. the flipside of On The Way Home [# 82 in October 1968].
And while they're at it they could add a page or two of liner notes to augment the sincere but meagre one brief paragraph contributed by Ahmet M. Ertegun. Now that would be an instant 5-star winner.
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Summary: GREATEST MUSIC EVER
Comment: WITH ALL THE GREAT VOCALS ON THIS, YOU CAN'T GO WRONG. IT IS JUST A CLASSIC.
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Editorial Reviews:
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Only a handful of bands have made a greater impact with fewer recordings than the short-lived Buffalo Springfield. Their history is told in the titles of their three albums: 1967's eponymous debut was followed by the peak-performance Again later that year, which was followed by 1968's Last Time Around. While their entire recorded career encompasses a mere two years, the Stephen Stills-Neil Young-Richie Furay-led quintet produced a number of '60s rock classics. Stills chipped in "For What It's Worth" and "Bluebird"; Furay's "Kind Woman" is one of the touchstones of country-rock; and Young fired off the likes of the raucous "Mr. Soul," the gentle "I Am a Child," the ambitious "Broken Arrow," and the breathtakingly pretty "Expecting to Fly." They're all on this 12-song overview, a suitable option for anyone who isn't up to stocking up on the entire catalog. --Steven Stolder
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