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

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

I kind of think of this as the Dead's best studio album.

"Cowboy Movie" isn't really like a Crazy Horse song, or a Dead song for that matter, because the vocals get increasingly agitated as the song goes on. much love to the dead but I don't think they ever pulled that off themselves. the playing, of course, but not the singing. & the closest Neil song in that way is "Ohio", where again it's the Croz losing it

love cowboy movie, tho crosby's performance does make me lol.
the live show w/ garcia/lesh/kreutzmann from this period is rad (perhaps mainly for Garcia's killer solos).

There is so much on this album to hate, I imagine it is ground zero of bloated hippie dinosaur rock for many original punks.

"I kind of think of this as the Dead's best studio album."

i kinda think youre otm, even though The Dead play only a few songs here.

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

― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Sunday, January 5, 2014 9:00 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Wait what?

I mean the beginning, which is Beck with a bunch of delayed vocals exploring experimental vibrations. It was the first thing the end of the Crosby album brought to mind.

I had forgotten it goes into harsh noise after the first few minutes.

There is so much on this album to hate, I imagine it is ground zero of bloated hippie dinosaur rock for many original punks.

Not sure about that, who actually knew about it? It's not the Eagles (in so many ways)! Nobody bought it hence its perennial bargain bin status... or maybe it sold in the US, I don't know. Anyway it was dismissed out of hand as bloated coke-addled nonsense long before punks arrived on the scene.

anyway, this record is much better than most of the "hippie rock" at the time. (including the Dead imo), so a punk with an ear for a more "artisic" record would've appreciate it i think.

Exactly, Neil Young survived pretty unscathed

i mean, fuck, even Music Is Love is awesome! reminds me of George Harrison.

xxxp i never see it in the bargain bin in the uk, wish i did, i could do with a better copy

Not now you don't, I'm talking back in the day before its critical rehabilitation

Really love this album, can remember buying the CD at the same time as VU's Loaded - it was a really hot day and I had a long wait for my bus home; it sounded absolutely amazing on my discman. I just got the vinyl reissue for Christmas but haven't played it yet.

yes this album is wonderful. bought my copy for $2 maybe 3 or 4 years ago? what a great deal.

Nobody bought it hence its perennial bargain bin status

usually this is the other way around, right? the records i see in the bargain bin sold like fucking crazy in their day. CSNY were huge by any measure, this record always sits next to deja vu, harvest, etc., if you're paying more than $5 bucks for any of these records, you're getting robbed imo. not because they aren't good but because they are ubiquitous; they sold a shit load of copies.

also cowboy movie has so much more of a crazy horse vibe than a dead vibe

and can i just say how fucking gorgeous crosby's voice is? one of the all time great rock singers, for sure, his voice is magnificent. there's some dylan comment somewhere where bob talks about how much he loved crosby's voice.

if y'all dig this record then you must all love "almost cut my hair"

if CSN irritate me will I like this album?

no Stills!

if CSN irritate me will I like this album?

It depends what you don't like about CSN - I find them hit and miss myself but it's mainly the Nash songs I have problems with.

a good CSN gauge for liking this album is "Guinnevere"

also, a good gauge for liking this albom is to listen it

I've never taken the plunge mostly cuz I hate Crosby so much - always the worst thing about the Byrds, and CSN is unlistenable

I hate CSN but I love this. It sounds wasted rather than smug.

i'm ok with CSN but i love this

Without the trippy arrangement "Traction in the Rain" would be a bit too close to singer-songwriter book store dreck poetry night open mic blue eyed easy funk. The production saves it for me, which is the case for most of this album. Though the rhythm track on song 02 is BANGIN'.

I kind of think of this as the Dead's best studio album.

Crazy. Workingman's Dead/American Beauty are both miles better than this.

^otm

Yeah that was a bit of hyperbole, I agree, but many things I like about this record are because of its Dead-ness, even on the tracks w/ out the Dead, similar headspace for me. And Jerry plays incredibly on this record.

new album is surprisingly ok
streaming here:

http://albumstreams.com/s/david-crosby/croz

first he sells his sailboat, now he's trying to score some $$ with a new album, times must be tough these days for the croz

for those who didn't see this - http://www.yachtworld.com/boats/1947/Alden-356-B-CENTERBOARD-SCHOONER-2007887/Santa-Barbara/CA/United-States

wooden ships

on the water, but not exactly free.

"Many of David's songs have been created on board this spiritual platform"

those must be the songs from Oh Yes I Can and Thousands Roads. maybe he should ask for a lower price..

Hey, does anyone know if "What Are Their Names" was recorded live in studio or via overdubs? I ask because the very idea of Neil and Garcia and Lesh in the same room with guitars is pretty exciting. I don't have the 2xCD reissue of this (how are the liner notes, btw?), nor have I read Crosby's bio--is this info in either of these places?

I think this pic is from the sessions
http://31.media.tumblr.com/ab35b1e56e3f8afeaa02e20eba50e916/tumblr_mg3mwmD25A1qabpu5o1_1280.png

Well, that's gonna be my desktop wallpaper from here on out. Thanks, Tyler!

Just tried to make an inroad into this album but a few tracks along I turned back to safety of No Other . Sorry, guys.

i cab't see the resemblance between those 2 albums but ok

Both Made by guys who in the Byrds prob