The rhythms of ‘Question’ have a Latin flavour – Stills assimilated Latin music as a military kid in Latin America. After a beautiful a capella breakdown, the ‘Questions’ section is recycled from a song that Stills wrote for Buffalo Springfield, topped off by keening harmonies and Stills’ wah-wah guitar. The first part is driven by Stills’ urgent guitars. Like much of the trio’s first album, Stills plays almost all of the instruments. Stills’ opener wasn’t a radio hit, but it’s a great mini-epic. Crosby told Crawdaddy in 1974 that “There’s good art on Déjà Vu, but you can’t put it on and feel like it’s a sunny afternoon the way you can with Crosby, Stills, & Nash.” It’s a decision between the cohesive mood of Crosby, Stills, & Nash and the songwriting quality of Déjà Vu and I choose the latter. CSN and 1982’s Daylight Again are enjoyable records, with great tracks like Crosby’s ‘Shadow Captain’, Nash’s ‘Cathedral’, and Stills’ ‘Southern Cross’, but don’t carry the same cultural impetus or consistent quality as their first two records together.Īccordingly, for most fans, the competition for Crosby, Stills, and Nash’s best album together is between the 1969 debut and 1970’s Déjà Vu. Video can’t be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: David Crosby – Cowboy Movie ()īy the time Crosby, Stills, and Nash recorded another studio album, 1977’s CSN, the hippie zeitgeist that they headlined was long past. It took Crosby, Stills, and Nash a long time to follow up Déjà Vu – as well as the usual ego issues between band members, the group’s initial breakup was precipitated by Stills and Nash’s mutual romantic pursuit of Rita Coolidge, as documented in David Crosby’s ‘Cowboy Movie’. Déjà Vu is loaded with great tunes, even if it ends limply ‘Everybody I Love You’ is little more than a platform for the group’s harmonies.ĭéjà Vu was deservedly a commercial success – it’s sold more than any other album by any of the members. But the quality of the songs is so strong that the lack of continuity isn’t a problem. With multiple songwriters, Déjà Vu already feels like a compilation, but there’s also a clear contrast between meticulous studio creations like ‘Carry On’ and ‘Déjà Vu’, and live-in-the-studio takes on ‘Helpless’, ‘Woodstock’, and ‘Almost Cut My Hair’. Stills’ ‘4 + 20’ is bleak, while Crosby’s ‘Almost Cut My Hair’ is driven and paranoid. Déjà Vu reflects the personal circumstances of the members at the time – while Graham Nash celebrated domesticity with Joni Mitchell in ‘Our House’, David Crosby had lost his girlfriend Christine Hinton in a traffic accident and Stephen Stills had broken up with Judy Collins. Each of the band members contributed two songs, along with a cover of Joni Mitchell’s ‘Woodstock’ and the closing Stills/Young collaboration on ‘Everybody I Love You’. Drummer Dallas Taylor and bassist Greg Reeves also played on the record and are credited on the cover.Īfter the unified, acoustic sound of Crosby, Stills, and Nash, Déjà Vu is much more eclectic. After considering Jimi Hendrix and Steve Winwood, the group added Stills’ former Buffalo Springfield band-mate, Neil Young. The record company insisted that the trio add another member, after Stephen Stills had played most of the instruments on the debut. Their 1969 debut album was acclaimed, and their appearance at Woodstock only increased their profile. So do we! Let’s overanalyze them together.Expectations were high for Crosby, Stills, and Nash’s second album.

You love all the deets on Olivia Rodrigo. That I was the one who taught you Billy JoelĪ different girl now, but there’s nothing new You’re trading jackets like we used to do Now I bet you even tell her how you love herĭon’t act like we didn’t do that shit too

I hate to think that I was just your type ’Cause let’s be honest, we kinda do sound the same That we did that too? She thinks it’s special Laughing ’bout how small it looks on you (ha-ha-ha-ha) You’ll probably have the lyrics memorized in a couple of days hours, but here they are just in case: Importantly, the outlet notes the details of the song are often “completely made up,” so keep that in mind before applying them directly to Olivia’s IRL relationships. I think that’s a really relatable, universal thing.” I thought it’d be interesting to write a song, using déjà vu, about how sometimes when somebody moves on in a relationship and they get with a new partner, you watch it and you’re like, Oh my gosh, that was all of the stuff that I did. This is what Olivia herself told American Songwriterabout the track: “I get déjà vu all the time.

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