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Tarfumes.com - Retrospective: The Best of Buffalo Springfield
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Manufacturer: Elektra / Wea
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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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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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Summary: 60's/70's music that brings you back just by listening
Comment: I purchased this album when it first came out, and just about wore it out playing it all the time. Say what you want about the ego's of the band members, but they really did write and play music for a generation. "I am a child", "Nowadays Clancy", "Expecting to fly", and "Sit down I think I love you", are in my book pieces of an era that sadly is gone by. It was music that you could sing along to, or sit and listen to quietly. The distinct sound of Buffalo Springfield was magic. I still play this CD and I can remember the memories of a time that life was easier, and people were kinder, without having to squeeze into my old patched bluejeans.
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Summary: One of the great Rock bands of the 60's
Comment: Buffalo Springfield will always have their place in Rock and Roll history.
Stephen Stills and Neil Young used the group as their launching pad for bigger and better things.
For what it's worth, Mr. Soul, Bluebird, Questions, Special care, Broken arrow and others remain classics.
Unfortunately the band had trouble getting along so we have only three albums to listen to. Neil Young infact had already left the group when "Last time around" which was their last album was released.
If you want the best of Buffalo Springfield, here it is.......
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Summary: retropesctive best of Buffalo springfiled
Comment: It's good old american rock and roll!!!
it doesn't get any better than neil young and david crosby now does it
it is for some of us ...our youth revisited- how cool is this- very cool!!
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Summary: When music was music.
Comment: Being 60 I sometimes forget what real,artistic music was. I have come through the years listening to the music scene change and my overview is that creativity,voice(of the people)and talent is or has spiraled downward. The Buffalo Springfield lets us hear what real musical talent accomplishes in song writting and musicianship. They were,along with many others of their generation, the beginning of the greatest musical phase of the century. All we get now are corporate teenage warblers and one beat rap "gangsta's". The "Great Society"?
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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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