David Crosby's If I Could Only Remember My Name - C or D?

geir, good job reading AGAIN. there are two mentions only a couple of posts above yours that mention the remastered & expanded version

Madness, it's so-good-its-good!

so I'm looking to get a copy of this on vinyl - should I get the 180g reissue from a few years back (~$28 plus shipping online) or the original (~$15 plus shipping)?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/belief/2010/feb/15/pope-top-10-albums-vatican

just wait until you find an original in a store for $5-10?? it's not that expensive a record tbh and paying $20+ for it seems silly. cobo, where do you live? next time i see a copy I can mail it to for less than $15 ppd.

Everybody's saying music is love

I live in LA, but unfortunately since I ride the bus going store-hopping is a massive pain in the ass (especially since the best stores are out in either Long Beach or the Valley)

seems insane to pay that sort of price for this album (sorta like paying $20+ for Herb Alpert's Whipped Cream and other Delights) which i think by law you have to stock in the used vinyl section. patience is a virtue.

I see a copy of this every time I go to a record store, practically. And what Ian said.

Yeah, give it time - i see it frequently enough and often in the 3.99 - 8.99 range. When you do find it for that price it'll make your day

total classic, love the underlying paranoia

I've never seen one in the UK, they always seem to go for about £20 online

Eh? You've not been looking very hard. I doubt I paid more than 3 quid for my copy, and possibly 1 quid, but I suppose that was before it became a lost classic

i see it frequently enough and often in the 3.99 - 8.99 range

Doesn't sound very lost to me!

Lost in the sense that, for years, everybody thought it just was a load of half-baked coke-addled shit, hence it's bargain bin status

Yeah, I saw it in a street market in Woking, £2, but I only knew it as alohbcas, so left it. (about 10 years ago)

"laughing" is so chill on a day like this one, 100+ out

If I Could Only Remember My Name is the debut solo album by David Crosby, released in February of 1971 on Atlantic Records. One of four high-profile albums released by each member of Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young in the wake of their chart-topping Déjà Vu album, it peaked at #12 on the Billboard 200. It has been in print continuously since its initial release. The album gained new recognition in 2010 when it was listed second on the Vatican's "Top 10 Pop Albums of All Time" as published in the official newspaper of the Holy See, L'Osservatore Romano.

WTF

what was number 1, I wonder

1. "Revolver" — The Beatles

2. "If I Could Only Remember My Name" — David Crosby (his first solo album)

3. "Dark Side of the Moon" — Pink Floyd

4. "Rumors" — Fleetwood Mac

5. "The Nightfly" — Donald Fagen (of Steely Dan)

6. "Thriller" — Michael Jackson

7. "Graceland" — Paul Simon

8. "Achtung Baby" — U2

9. "(What's the Story) Morning Glory — Oasis

10. "Supernatural" — Carlos Santana

EVEN THE POPE LIKE THE DAN (or at least 1/2 the dan)

No Sinatra?!

that list is so insane I can't even begin...

I was amazed at how many copies of this I saw at the flea market the other week. At least ten in one shop alone.

vinyl??

for me, it's all about the last 3 tracks on side 2.

I was amazed at how many copies of this I saw at the flea market the other week. At least ten in one shop alone.

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vinyl??

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Yeah. Most of 'em were in the $5 bin, altough a few rougher copies were just $2.

Found this for 3 bucks on vinyl yesterday!

"...You know that indian girl?/She wasn't no indian/she was tha law..."

i tried, i really did,
but i don't like Cowboy Movie.
the guitar solo, the repetitive blues beat and atmosphere.
am i the only one?

the rest of the album is excellent.

but dude, jerry

http://www.davidcrosby.com/sites/default/files/crosby_feature-croz1.jpg

The Crozfather

desert island disc imo

Doesn't Cowboy Movie also have Phil Lesh and one of the Dead drummers?

But yeah, it could have done with some editing.

No way

So amazing this is 2nd after "Revolver" on that Vatican list. Are they secret ILXors?

"Cowboy Movie" = One of best fake Neil Young songs ever = Crozy Horse

I've still never heard this, but I see this record everywhere for a few dollars or less. Don't know why I've never picked it up. Aside from Wooden Ships I've never been crazy about CSN or any of their incarnations, although I love groups who wanted to sound like them. I do love the front and back of this record.

I just listened to it. Holy shit you need to buy that the next time you see it. It is incredible.

Also, I finally get the noise track from "Stereopathetic Soul Manure" is a parody of this!

I meant "I just listened to it for the first time". Wow this is so classic.

lol so Christgau was wrong about this one eh

I wonder who they are
The men who really run this land
And I wonder why they run it
With such a thoughtless hand

What are their names
And on what streets do they live
I'd like to ride right over
This afternoon and give
Them a piece of my mind
About peace for mankind
Peace is not an awful lot to ask

see why'd you have to do that

Been loving his debut and watched the documentary. There's some really good deleted scenes. He had a really extreme reaction to seeing Gilliam's Fisher King and it changed how he grieved his girlfriend who died in an accident.
In a Q&A he said Michael Hedges was the best acoustic guitarist ever. I see Crosby credited on two of his albums and Hedges is on some CSN albums. Anyone heard this stuff?

When I was in junior high/high school the theater dorks I was friends with were obsessed with Michael Hedges for some reason and we listened to his live record in various cars all the time...kind of "new age-y" acoustic guitar a ton of hammer-ons and tapping...it err, wasn't for me then or now

yep extremely new age-y - all his LPs are on Windham Hill which is basically the new age equivalent of ECM. not for everyone but i quite like his Aerial Boundaries lp - and you can definitely hear why there is a Crosby/CSN connection... there's a cover of After The Gold Rush on the aforementioned album