JOESEDDIT’S CRATES FULL OF VINYL - CSNY

I’ve got a couple of crates full of old vinyl albums that I haven’t listened to in years due to lack of equipment to play them. Over a period of about a year and a half I revisited each album on the internet or bought the CD and ranked the songs. I also recorded some brief thoughts, rated the album, and posted the results on Rolling Stone’s 100 Greatest Artists comment section. I’m recycling and categorizing/grouping the posts on this website.

Déjà vu

There were later “reunion” albums and a live album, but really this is the only CSNY album. Absolute classic- one of my all-time favorites. Every song, with the exception of the last two on my list, is excellent. Which usually makes ranking difficult, but I like my list. 3 thru 5 are interchangeable and maybe 6 and 7 could be reversed. (My man Jerry makes a cameo)

Scale of 1 to 10:  A +

1- Country Girl

2- Déjà vu

3- Almost Cut My Hair

4- Woodstock

5- Carry On

6- Our House

7- Teach Your Children

8- Helpless

9- Everybody I Love You

10- 4+20

Four Way Street

I’m not planning on covering all of the “live” albums in the crate, but I am planning on making some exceptions, starting with Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young. Some of these songs are better than the studio version, some are not. I used to listen to this version of “Southern Man” often. One of the all-time great “multiple” guitar jams.

Scale of 1 to 10:  B +

1- Southern Man

2- Find the Cost of Freedom

3- Ohio

4- Don’t Let it Bring You Down

5- Cowgirl in the Sand

6- Long Time Gone

7- The Lee Shore

8- On the Way Home

9- Carry On

10- Pre Road Downs

11- Triad

12- Love the One You’re With

13- Teach Your Children

14- Right Between the Eyes

15- Chicago

16- 49- Bye Byes