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Retrospective: The Best of Buffalo Springfield

Buffalo SpringfieldAudio CD
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Biography by Richie Unterberger

Apart from the Byrds, no other American band had as great an impact on folk-rock and country-rock -- really, the entire Californian rock sound -- than Buffalo Springfield. The group's formation is the stuff of legend: driving on Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles, Stephen Stills and Richie Furay spotted a hearse that Stills was sure belonged to Neil ... Read more in Amazon's Buffalo Springfield Store

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  • Audio CD (October 25, 1990)
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Label: Atco / Atlantic
  • ASIN: B000002IAZ
  • Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Music
  • Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (90 customer reviews)
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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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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

Product Description

A dozen of their best songs, including Stephen Stills' great Bluebird and Rock and Roll Woman; For What It's Worth; Broken Arrow; Nowadays Clancy Can't Even Sing; Kind Woman, and more.

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No joke--they could've been GREAT, and they just about managed to be GOOD. Artie Fisk  |  6 reviewers made a similar statement
One of the all-time great, great albums. DRF  |  6 reviewers made a similar statement
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137 of 143 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars TOO MUCH TALENT FOR ONE BAND April 23, 2001
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Buffalo Springfield was a band more known for what it's members did after they left, than the great music they made as this short lived group. Although only together 18 months, they were the blueprint for some of the most successful country rock bands to come, such as CSN, Poco, and the Eagles, along with about every other west coast rock group. The songs on this retrospective, which originally came out in 1969, just after their breakup, were written by either Steven Stills or Neil Young. The lone exception being "Kind Woman", which was penned by Richie Furay, who later recorded it again with his band Poco. The first song here, and probably their most famous single "For What It's Worth", established Steven Stills as a great songwriter. It also had that catchphrase in it, "There's something happening here/what it is ain't exactly clear", which was a popular line in 60's counterculture at the time. Another great Stills song is "Bluebird", which features some nice guitar work. It starts out as an all out rock song, then comes that famous guitar interlude, and then switches gears and becomes a banjo driven country song. Absolutely brilliant! Not to be outdone is Neil Young. He pens 3 great tunes in a row, starting with "On The Way Home". I love this song. With it's horn arrangements, it's different than any other Buffalo song. "Nowadays Clancy Can't Even Sing" is a beautiful folk rock song with CSN type harmonies. His masterpiece here is "Broken Arrow". A unique song that has a bit of everything in it, from full orchestration with a bolero type of drumbeat, mixed with a countryrock sound with numerous rhythm changes. This song rivals anything those boys from Liverpool were doing at the time. There may not have been a better songwriter around than Neil Young during the Springfield period leading up to his first 2 brilliant albums "Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere", and "After The Goldrush". Although this is a relatively small retrospective, every song here is a gem. Buffalo Springfield was one of the most creative bands of the 60's, but because of their strong individual writing and performing talents, this was also the reason for their breakup. This is an excellent historical document of the band that started the whole folk, country rock movement. Highly recommended!
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49 of 49 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars How about an easy-to-read track list? April 4, 2011
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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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75 of 80 people found the following review helpful
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Now that we've stopped guffawing over the Limp Bizkit remark, let's get serious :-). Buffalo Springfield was a great mid-sixties band from Los Angeles that embodied the tendency of talented rock groups to provide listeners with a taste of greatness, only to end up splitting apart into offspring bands that in most cases are not as musically satisfying. Buffalo Springfield included some of the truly creative artists of sixties rock: Steven Stills, Neil Young, Richie Furay, and Jim Messina. The tension between their distinctive talents and styles led the band to achieve a fresh, original sound that today, over thirty years later, is still incredible to hear. The progeny of this highly original group, which included Poco, Crosby, Stills, and Nash, and Neil Young With Crazy Horse, all produced great recordings in their time, but I still wonder longingly what Buffalo Springfield might have achieved musically had the band been able to stay together longer.

Fortunately, Buffalo Springfield did leave us with three terrific albums, which provide the basis for this "best of" collection, which includes twelve selected tracks. It's likely that most Buffalo Springfield fans will have at least one objection to the track selection here. That's nearly always the case with "best of" albums. However, I think that whoever made the choices did about as well as anyone could do. Any album that includes sixties political classic "For What It's Worth," hot rockers like "Mr. Soul" and "Rock and Roll Woman," gorgeous pop compositions like "On the Way Home," and the short Neil Young composition that is nearly perfect in its heartfelt simplicity, "I Am A Child," has got to be considered a winner.

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Most Recent Customer Reviews
5.0 out of 5 stars Fantastic CD
I always liked Buffalo Springfield and revisiting this CD was a great experience. They do not make records like this anymore with just old fashioned playing and singing. Read more
Published 9 days ago by Bigangbo
5.0 out of 5 stars Great CD!
After hearing a song I liked on Pandora, I looked to see who the band was and found out it was Buffalo Springfield. Read more
Published 1 month ago by jjenningsfamily
5.0 out of 5 stars One of my all-time favorites!
Others have written more eloquent reviews here than I ever could, the only thing I can contribute is that this music takes me RIGHT back to my early teen years in the mid-to-late... Read more
Published 2 months ago by Rudolph J Hubert
5.0 out of 5 stars killer, killer
I bought 16 CDs make this simple ,one word should be enough to rate them .i i i i i
Published 2 months ago by mike jackson
4.0 out of 5 stars Buffalo Springfield hits
This band spawned a bunch of bands...they were together as a unit far to short a time...Stills Young and Messina all had success with later groups... Read more
Published 2 months ago by the bear
4.0 out of 5 stars WHERE THE BUFFALO ROAM
BUFFALO SPRINGFIELD-RETROSPECTIVE: L.A. based country rock pioneers BUFFALO SPRINGFIELD contained far too much raw singing/songwriting/guitar picking talent... Read more
Published 2 months ago by Jukebox Dave
5.0 out of 5 stars Great music
This album brought back so many memories, I forgot how much I loved this band. What a shame that they could not stay together and make more great music.
Published 3 months ago by Charles F Portillo
5.0 out of 5 stars i am a child i last a while
this was the music that drove me as a young man. i adored neal young. i was never the dylan type. neal didn't choose to do that and i choose to do what neal did back then anyway. Read more
Published 4 months ago by Stanley Lippman
5.0 out of 5 stars This is a classic for sure!
Just good solid music from some pioneers. It is great to hear a little Country mixed in to the sound. Within a year or so of this album's release that would have been distained.
Published 4 months ago by Dan4d
5.0 out of 5 stars Classic 60's Rock
What else is there to say? The springboard for CSN and CSNY. The best of this group's best. Buy it.
Published 5 months ago by Frequent Reader
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