I agree!!! An underrated album because "it had no hits!" A really obtuse criticism. As far as the "pop sounding songs" gripe goes: That's what Buffalo Springfield WAS - a pop(ULAR) band!!!! They were trying to write popular songs from the start.
I was a diehard Buffalo Springfield fan growing up in LA...and I entered that KHJ lyric contest...multiple times haha. One of my "poems" was picked for the finals, but of course i never told my parents, and when I came back from summer camp the contracts sent by KHJ to my parents to sign for me to be eligible to win were sitting unopened on the kitchen table, long past the date to be sent in by... Still great to be a footnote of a footnote of a footnote in Springfield history. Love these 60s album reviews!
Sad thing about The Springfield is that they were never able to stand outside the thing and see the incredibly deep creative potential they had as a unit, they had flashes of it I am sure, but I think their ability to go in 7 different directions and then return to that gooy country/folk rock center made it hard to gel in any lasting way. They didn't know how great they were until it was over and they were great, if your throw away song is Carefree Country Day or Special Care then your doing pretty good in the composition dept. I think it's kinda cool, the sort of unresolved misty what might have been's, sort parallel's the '60's really. Thanks dude, good one
MATT: THE BEST SONGS ARE .. ON THE WAY HOME, I AM A CHILD, FOUR DAYS GONE, SPECIAL CARE , PRETTY GIRL WHY. FORGET 'BOUT RICHIE FURRAY,. WE KNOW YOU LOVE HIM. BUT HOURS OF NOT QUITE RAIN IS A WONDERFUL TRY BY RICHIE IN THE END IT WOULD HAVE BEEN BETTER IF NEIL YOUNG HELPED HIM .. SOUNDS MORE LIKE A NEIL SONG. SPEND NO TIME ON "UNO MUNDO" .. NEVER WAS GOING TO BE A HIT AND NOT A GOOD SONG. QUESTIONS IS NOT GOOD WITH THE SPRINGFIELD, HE DOES IT MUCH BETTER WITH CSN.
"Special Care" is a prototype for CSNY. Take a listen, it's all there: the CSNY harmonies, the guitar solos, the pumping organ CSNY used on their rockers... And on the record, it's all played and sung by Stills!
Led Zeppelin certainly didn't think "Special Care" was a throwaway song because I saw them play it as their encore on their 1970 Led Zeppelin III Tour. Jimmy Page was enthralled with how Stills was sustaining those notes on his guitar solo. Also, I read that it was Buddy Miles playing the hard-hitting drums on that track, not Dewey Martin. In a 1969 radio interview on CHUM-FM in Toronto, Neil Young said he felt the Springfield were not a band anymore like they were in the beginning. The fact that he went into the studio by himself and did all the instruments & vocals except for the drums (Dewey Martin) and some "studio bass player", on "I Am A Child", made him feel like he was already a solo artist detached from the band. Thank You for doing these shows, Matt. I really enjoy the records you review. Many of them are important ones in my life.
Always loved Buffalo Springfield, especially the Neil Young songs, like "On the Way Home." In late Jan. '69, I saw NY play Le Hibou, an Ottawa coffeehouse, all very acoustic. Only about 20 or so there on a frigid Saturday night. He did all my favourites, plus songs from his first solo album, and said he was would be soon joining his new band Crazy Horse, which I thought was a dumb name, but, what did I know because by September, I was playing the grooves off "Everybody Knows This is Nowhere," all that machine gun guitar in the high tension wires. Yeah!
I'm glad you brought up "Retrospective". Really one of the greats. It forced me to go back and get all three albums. And the other day I was listening to "The Loft" on Sirius XM and "Everydays" came on. I had to stop and listen. What a little gem.
I lived in Southern California during the mid-sixties and remember The Buffalo Springfield were a big thing there. One year one of the radio stations did there annual top 500 songs of all time thing that they did New Year's weekend and the Buffalo Springfield had more songs in it than anyone besides the Beatles and Stones, several in the top 30. When I moved to Indiana in the early 70's, I couldn't understand why no one had heard of a single song other than For What It's Worth.
1970, working class kid with a 54 chevy, a Kraco 12 track, [played both 4 and 8 track tapes], Buffalo Springfield Retrospective 8 track, at full volume through Craig speakers driving through the desert on my way to a new job. Thanks for the memories..
I remember hearing this album when I was about 15 or so… I was already familiar with the songs they pulled from this for the “retrospective” package, but the rest of it was revelatory… Although, I was baffled at songs like “merry go round” and “in the hour of not quite rain”… But I was thrilled by songs like “pretty girl why” , “four days gone” and “questions” (all Stephen Stills songs)…I’ve always felt it was a real shame that Buffalo Springfield didn’t last longer, one of the legendary greats
Great series! I love The Buffalo Springfield!! Just like the Association series, here's another great underrated band with some classic gem albums! BuffSpring...Again is probably my favorite album, but this one is my next favorite, and their second best IMO. "Kind Woman" for me is hands down the most jaw-dropping gorgeous song on here. Those beautiful guitar run phrases give me goosebumps every time, and that melody is achingly heartbreaking. Too bad they didn't make more records together, but at least we got all those future projects that came after!
Matt, thanks for the great triple-video on Buffalo Springfield. It’s difficult to find information on their short career (other than liner notes on albums). In that short time together they produced some truly unique material. A talented group of guys! Thanks and keep up the good work.
Matt, On an unrelated note: Have you done any investigations on the MOVE from England? One of the best British bands (from 1966-1973) that unfortunately never got a lot of airplay here in the USA. Thanks again for your fine work.
There is a nice book on them..probably a few. I read this one. For What It's Worth: The Story of Buffalo Springfield Paperback - May 17, 2004 by John Einarson (Author), Richie Furay (Author)
Over the decades I've tried to get friends and acquaintances to give this record a little credit...mostly to no avail. I've always loved it...Four Days Gone is probably my favorite Stills tune. Merry Go Round, Kind Woman, Questions, and the Neil songs all got me the first time I heard them. The rest grew on me quickly except Uno Mundo...never got that one. I consider Last Time an equal to the first two.
Ritchie Furay said he'd have stayed in the band as long as Stephen Stills wanted to keep it going, but that Neil Young was only interested in using the Springfield as a launching pad for his own career. Without Young and Bruce Campbell, Stills felt they weren't the same band anymore and started looking in other directions.
I know you posted this a long time ago, but thought I would comment. I saw the BF in 1967 when I was 14 - almost zero memory about it, but I do know that I saw them! Maybe with the Turtles, but I am not sure. I wish I had started saving my concert tickets from that period forward. I purchased their first album back in those days and their Retrospective album many years later. Just a few days before I learned of your channel, I saw a very reasonably priced 5 CD set (the first and second albums had both the mono and stereo included) by the BF that had been worked on by Neil Young. On a whim, I purchased the set. All CDs are good - the second is the best! I had never heard the last album until I received this set. It was good timing to buy that set and then see this 3 part review on your channel. Perfect Timing! I love your videos - I have watched most of them by now. I am a huge Beatles fan too.
The Springfield has a fascinating history and it took three videos just to hit the highlights! You are the only commenter that has mentioned seeing them back then - how fortunate! Thanks so much for the comment and for subscribing!
One of the great songs from this last Bufallo Springfield album, iit was composed by Neil.Ypung and is called "On the way home". Before to know the original interpretation, ,I heard this song in two different versions (both very good, in his own way). The first was recorded by "Heaven Bound" in 1972, in a "sunshine pop" style. The second was a live acoustic version by a famous brazilian rock band (from the eighties) called "Legião Urbana".
I’ve always liked this album. I think Pretty Girl Why is very well performed. My older brother said they played a Saturday night dance at his high school (Loyola HS) in LA.
Matt, thanks for this short retrospective on The Buffal Springfield. I bought all of these records as a kid, and probably still have them somewhere. My older brother was in the Marines, and saw them live on that '68 tour (Jacksonville maybe) Really enjoyed this sir.
I saw the Buffalo Springfield on the Beach Boys tour, November 19,1967 at DAR Constitution Hall, Washington, D.C. and 17 at the time. I was there for them, not the Beach Boys. I remember that the sound was horrible, really awful, but it was 1967, a large hall and just a distorted mess because there weren't any large, high powered, high fidelity sound systems; they hadn't been invented yet~! Retrospective is a tremendous album. Cheers.
I thought the first two albums had some great moments but this 3rd album is far and away my favourite. It would probably have been even better with a couple of extra Neil Young tracks but the rest of the group more than make up for his absence.
When you look at the album cover all the band members are looking one way. Neil Young is looking in a different direction. Almost like he was looking at his own future.
Wish you'd had time to review the box set I see on your desk as well, Matt. Though oddly organized, it featured so many great unreleased songs and demos and is a fine addition to their otherwise limited three-album catalogue. Btw, the Mojo Men, who had a hit with Stills' "Sit Down I Think I Love You," were an excellent group worth exploring.
Thank you for watching, Bruce. This was an early video of mine and I have always wanted to review the box set, which is troubling in spots and brilliant in others.
HOW GREAT IT IS.. a complete album despite the missing Neil efforts, the two records AGAIN AND LAST are a double album set of 24 songs that can stand up with ANY ever done, no question....COUNTRY ROCK was established here and then, a LANDMARK 67 SPECIAL CARE surely in every song, great production, all types of music infused and the entire history of ROCK was altered by this likely the best American band up STANDS UP against the BEATLES except even if only for the minimal output of 3 albums total...Stills Young and Furay all great, genius or spirited all ON the way HOME and I may add the next album that would have come would have been the combination of DEJA VU, HARVEST and POCO without QUESTIONS the best perhaps ever of its kind...A retrospective II could be most of this LAST TIME AROUND with one or 2 others not on RETROSPECTIVE one as a full on CLASSIC DOUBLE PLAY... I am hey paneaglesong LIVE FROM THE TREASURE TREE floriva blue springs and big shoals with 400 unheard song videos on youtube, only 100 subscribers but as my father promoted the greatest violin of 20th century Heifetz, this true BS inspired poet SONGWRITER wishes to share here freely, youtube commercialism or not, its FOUR DAYS GONE into running ON ...Beautiful is music.. .thanks BS boys...LOVE YOU ALL
Enjoying all of your videos, catching up with some of the older ones. I have a double album best stuff from the Buffalo Springfield. It is an extended version of rock ‘n’ roll woman? I’m not sure but you’re right I wish they would put out a 70+ minute CD of their best material.
@@mark9058 According to a friend who worked at Rhino at the time the box came out, it was Neil who jettisoned the extended 'Bluebird.' I presume that he knew what he was talking about as Neil did not allow some of the "last Time Around" tracks on the box as he was no longer in the band when they were recorded.
Retrospective is great. Last time Around uneven but better than most albums by a long shot. 1 On the Way Home - a great song, in my top 100 songs. 10 2 It's So Hard to Wait 5 It's hard to wait through .. pretty boring 3 Pretty Girl Why 9 Really fine Steve 4 Four Days Gone 9 Solid singing and guitar from Steve 5 Carefree Country Day 2 Jim Messina. Just remember hearing raves about this track. It's a cute but bland annoyance. 6 Special Care 9 Another fine one from Steve 7 The Hour of Not Quite Rain 2 and I love Psychedelia but this is no Nuggett. 8 Questions 8 9 I Am a Child 10 10 Merry-Go-Round 7.5 11 Uno Mundo 2 has embarrassing lyrics and a bouncy uptempo song that shows-off Steve's Latin influences but the song is pretty weak. 12 Kind Woman 6 Nice song from Richie. Neil Young should have sung it though.
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Always like these breakdowns Matt. What did you think of the box set that came out in 2001? The presentation was great and had many nuggets but as fans know, the duplication of some tracks on the 4th CD was just dumbfounded. The Monterrey set would have been a good inclusion but was that down to Neil's ego or licensing issues.... I had a look through the booklet this week and as great as the period media clippings are, it was also a major oversight not to have a bio in there. I have actually learnt more about their history through your vids here. Kudos!!!
Also. Some of the songs that you mentioned here were omissions from the set. "Carefree Country Day", "In The Hour" and "Four Days Gone". Never understood that. And the absence of the stereo versions of "Pretty Girl Why" and "On The Way Home" were annoying as those are two of the best songs on this record. And sound superior in stereo. That's why I sometimes feel the box set is flawed.
I will probably do a review on that box set. I was originally thrilled to get it and the unreleased stuff was all I was interested. The 4th cd was just plain stupid. The booklet was difficult to read with the small type and dark backgrounds so that was a big miss. The info within was good - especially the touring schedule and instrumental break downs. A single disc 'best of' of this box is in order. Thanks for the comment, Tyrone!
@@popgoesthe60s52 Thanks for the prompt reply! Yeh. The tour schedule is fascinating stuff. They played a lot and I was surprised to see they were still doing a lot of dates around the time of this record. Look forward to that vid. Best from Tokyo!
In the Hour of Not Quite Rain, the winner of that competition for the lyrics was Michaela Callen. (sometimes called Mikki). I kind of loosely know Richie through some friends and had the opportunity to talk to him a couple of times. It's a beautiful song and the lyrics are fantastic! Very eerie and melancholic song. Really enjoying your channel content
I entered that there contest, sending in SIX sets of lyrics. Those rodeo clowns don't know a talented writer when they see one! I shoulda' won that there contest, HANDS DOWN!! 😭
'In the hour of not quite rain' is more appropriate in the 2nd album as it fits well alongside with 'Broken Arrow' and 'Expecting to Fly'. 'Four Days Gone' and 'Questions' love it. The CSNY version of 'On the way home' is a lot better.
Got all their LP's. Personally although I like Stephen & Neil, especially their early LP's. {Neil's 1st 2 are his BEST to my mind.} I think they were too DIVERSE to be good album's... I think you said DISJOINTED, which is a good description.... Individual song's were Fantastic. It all fell apart when putting the album's together ! Worth having historically but I rarely play them. Unlike NRPS & BURRITO'S which are played a lot. Ditto, Steven Still's and less often now, all of Neil's although who can NOT play his first two, regular. Pretty much gone off Harvest & Gold Rush and skip to Tonight's the Night. I ENJOY'S the review's . Done any on NRPS ?
Last time Around is now, a very nostalgic LP/CD with some very good material....but also some not very good material.......and I suppose it's reflective of the instability that existed within the group during that period.......
That 1st Manassas album was great. Very tight band. I think Manassas was a much better vehicle for Stills than CSN or CSNY. Hillman was a Perfect Foil for Stills, while remaining an individual artist in his own right. Some of Stephen's best music on that album.
I don't know if you know the tv show Mannix it was about a private eye.One show he went into a night club and Buffalo Springfield were playing.In another show Neil Diamond was playing.Good way to get a younger audience
I'm looking at some of these photographs of the band without Bruce Palmer on base and it looks to me like Jim Fielder is in the pictures. Is this correct?
Talking about Bufallo Springfield's legacy, would be right to say that they were influence in future bands like Doobie Brothers; Bread;; Lynyrd Skynyrd and America?
This comment sounds really weird! You must mean "minor group" as its popularity related to, say, the Beatles or the Rolling Stones? Because the music created by the Springfield was fully as great as anything that those other, more well-known, bands created.
@@mrtriffid Minor in the sense that it is was shorter lived, and its musical scope was more limited than other groups. They tend to build more on what is already out there (The Beatles, Dylan...) then stand as great inatovors. I think the Zomies are more creatively groundbreaking that the Springfield. The Springfield were somting of the protoype for Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young. But the again the term 'minor' can be somewhat misleading. building on exisiting possibilities is important and can lead to great achievements. 'Mr. Soul' and 'For What It's Worth' are undisputably classics. Alfred Sisley is a 'minor' Impressionist. Brahms is a 'minor' Romantic. This does not mean that their work is of less value than Monet or Beethoven...
GREAT three part series. As good as the Springfield were, they should have been better, or at least have better luck: poorly produced first album, Bruce Palmer drug busts, Neil flitting in and out of the band which had affect the other players., and more. Much as I love all three albums, I still hear the flaws that a better producer or more band cohesion could have prodeuced. But when I first the beginning of "For What It's Worth" on Am radio, I knew that I would scrf up anything I could find by them. (Yes, even Bruce Palmer's solo album.)
Nice stuff man, I'll check out the rest of your videos. But I felt you aren't too keen on country, country and western are as important to rock and roll as blues and folk. Bakersfield is only a 2 hour drive from L.A after all 🤠
@@mark9058 the British had their scenes too, some would say the downliners sect's country sect may be the first country rock album. But then again every big country had their scenes and their firsts. The U.S invented rock and roll, and long before anyone from England came around, there was Ricky Nelson, Buddy Holly, Everly Brothers, and the most neglected person in the British scene and whom without beat music wouldn't be what it was Jackie Deshannon, they owe as much to her as they do to Everly Brothers. Personally I can't stand the beatles, I know they're not bad but far far far from the best, you can find a band that can play circles around them in almost any country, but that's as subjective as anyone saying beatles are the best band of all times. The only fact is that most 60's and early 70's music was good, specially the ones that they just called rock and roll because they had just invented that type of music and had no names.
Decent album, but mostly a collection of solo recordings. The version of On The Way Home on the box set, is much better without the horns. A couple real bombs on here, unfortunately as well, The Hour...and Carefree most notable.
My own opinion: the Buffaloes not overrated -- but under-appreciated, by some. Mostly, a combination of being just slightly ahead of their time and of being too short-lived (because of that "big break" tour being canceled).
Guess you gotta like false high pitched Mickey Mouse voices like Neil young to like this album. Neal was so over rated, screwed CSN when he joined them. Best song Something Happening Here,
I'm a huge fan of Richie Furay and Jim Messina - there's very little either have done that I didn't love. I'd really like to see you do something on Poco!
I just played the entire album. Haven't done that for years. I am reminded how good Buffalo Springfield was. Love this album
I believe Last Time Around was their best album. Thanks for the retrospective.
I agree!!! An underrated album because "it had no hits!" A really obtuse criticism. As far as the "pop sounding songs" gripe goes: That's what Buffalo Springfield WAS - a pop(ULAR) band!!!! They were trying to write popular songs from the start.
You can certainly make that argument.
Four Days Gone is a gem. Thank you for your channel.🎼
Thank you, Ann! More to come.
I was a diehard Buffalo Springfield fan growing up in LA...and I entered that KHJ lyric contest...multiple times haha. One of my "poems" was picked for the finals, but of course i never told my parents, and when I came back from summer camp the contracts sent by KHJ to my parents to sign for me to be eligible to win were sitting unopened on the kitchen table, long past the date to be sent in by... Still great to be a footnote of a footnote of a footnote in Springfield history. Love these 60s album reviews!
Thanks for watching, John - more to come!
Sad thing about The Springfield is that they were never able to stand outside the thing and see the incredibly deep creative potential they had as a unit, they had flashes of it I am sure, but I think their ability to go in 7 different directions and then return to that gooy country/folk rock center made it hard to gel in any lasting way. They didn't know how great they were until it was over and they were great, if your throw away song is Carefree Country Day or Special Care then your doing pretty good in the composition dept. I think it's kinda cool, the sort of unresolved misty what might have been's, sort parallel's the '60's really. Thanks dude, good one
MATT: THE BEST SONGS ARE .. ON THE WAY HOME, I AM A CHILD, FOUR DAYS GONE, SPECIAL CARE , PRETTY GIRL WHY.
FORGET 'BOUT RICHIE FURRAY,. WE KNOW YOU LOVE HIM. BUT HOURS OF NOT QUITE RAIN IS A WONDERFUL TRY BY RICHIE IN THE END IT WOULD HAVE BEEN BETTER IF NEIL YOUNG HELPED HIM .. SOUNDS MORE LIKE A NEIL SONG. SPEND NO TIME ON "UNO MUNDO" .. NEVER WAS GOING TO BE A HIT AND NOT A GOOD SONG. QUESTIONS IS NOT GOOD WITH THE SPRINGFIELD, HE DOES IT MUCH BETTER WITH CSN.
Not an usual trait in alot of bands
"Special Care" is a prototype for CSNY. Take a listen, it's all there: the CSNY harmonies, the guitar solos, the pumping organ CSNY used on their rockers... And on the record, it's all played and sung by Stills!
Led Zeppelin certainly didn't think "Special Care" was a throwaway song because I saw them play it as their encore on their 1970 Led Zeppelin III Tour. Jimmy Page was enthralled with how Stills was sustaining those notes on his guitar solo. Also, I read that it was Buddy Miles playing the hard-hitting drums on that track, not Dewey Martin.
In a 1969 radio interview on CHUM-FM in Toronto, Neil Young said he felt the Springfield were not a band anymore like they were in the beginning. The fact that he went into the studio by himself and did all the instruments & vocals except for the drums (Dewey Martin) and some "studio bass player", on "I Am A Child", made him feel like he was already a solo artist detached from the band.
Thank You for doing these shows, Matt. I really enjoy the records you review. Many of them are important ones in my life.
Always loved Buffalo Springfield, especially the Neil Young songs, like "On the Way Home." In late Jan. '69, I saw NY play Le Hibou, an Ottawa coffeehouse, all very acoustic. Only about 20 or so there on a frigid Saturday night. He did all my favourites, plus songs from his first solo album, and said he was would be soon joining his new band Crazy Horse, which I thought was a dumb name, but, what did I know because by September, I was playing the grooves off "Everybody Knows This is Nowhere," all that machine gun guitar in the high tension wires. Yeah!
Another great set of Band Histories on the Buffalo Springfield, Matt! Good job and great stuff.
I'm glad you brought up "Retrospective". Really one of the greats. It forced me to go back and get all three albums. And the other day I was listening to "The Loft" on Sirius XM and "Everydays" came on. I had to stop and listen. What a little gem.
Yes, Retrospective was the first album I bought of theirs. It wasn't long before I had the rest! Thanks for the comment, Eddie.
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Love "On the Way Home"..... Thanks for a great history lesson....
Thanks for the review. Buffalo Springfield is one of my fave bands as well
I lived in Southern California during the mid-sixties and remember The Buffalo Springfield were a big thing there. One year one of the radio stations did there annual top 500 songs of all time thing that they did New Year's weekend and the Buffalo Springfield had more songs in it than anyone besides the Beatles and Stones, several in the top 30. When I moved to Indiana in the early 70's, I couldn't understand why no one had heard of a single song other than For What It's Worth.
1970, working class kid with a 54 chevy, a Kraco 12 track, [played both 4 and 8 track tapes], Buffalo Springfield Retrospective 8 track, at full volume through Craig speakers driving through the desert on my way to a new job. Thanks for the memories..
I remember hearing this album when I was about 15 or so… I was already familiar with the songs they pulled from this for the “retrospective” package, but the rest of it was revelatory… Although, I was baffled at songs like “merry go round” and “in the hour of not quite rain”… But I was thrilled by songs like “pretty girl why” , “four days gone” and “questions” (all Stephen Stills songs)…I’ve always felt it was a real shame that Buffalo Springfield didn’t last longer, one of the legendary greats
Great series! I love The Buffalo Springfield!! Just like the Association series, here's another great underrated band with some classic gem albums! BuffSpring...Again is probably my favorite album, but this one is my next favorite, and their second best IMO. "Kind Woman" for me is hands down the most jaw-dropping gorgeous song on here. Those beautiful guitar run phrases give me goosebumps every time, and that melody is achingly heartbreaking. Too bad they didn't make more records together, but at least we got all those future projects that came after!
Excellent presentation friend, greatly enjoy your content. Do keep it up!😊
Thank you for a great series on one of the most important foundational bands for rock, folk rock and country rock.
the beauty of the springfield is in the honest chaos of great singers and writers and guitar players in one band. image that.
Great series Matt, enjoyed every episode of Buffalo Springfield as well as the Byrds so far
Matt, thanks for the great triple-video on Buffalo Springfield. It’s difficult to find information on their short career (other than liner notes on albums). In that short time together they produced some truly unique material. A talented group of guys! Thanks and keep up the good work.
Thank you, Scott!
Matt,
On an unrelated note:
Have you done any investigations on the MOVE from England?
One of the best British bands (from 1966-1973) that unfortunately never got a lot of airplay here in the USA.
Thanks again for your fine work.
There is a nice book on them..probably a few. I read this one. For What It's Worth: The Story of Buffalo Springfield Paperback - May 17, 2004
by John Einarson (Author), Richie Furay (Author)
Great 3-part series! As always… thanks!!
Over the decades I've tried to get friends and acquaintances to give this record a little credit...mostly to no avail. I've always loved it...Four Days Gone is probably my favorite Stills tune. Merry Go Round, Kind Woman, Questions, and the Neil songs all got me the first time I heard them. The rest grew on me quickly except Uno Mundo...never got that one. I consider Last Time an equal to the first two.
My favorite song on the album is "Pretty Girl Why". You can hear the Latin influence and some jazz chording.
you missed discussing the 2-LP Atco set that is the only place to get the full length version of "Bluebird"!
Thanks Matt! Outstanding job!!
Ritchie Furay said he'd have stayed in the band as long as Stephen Stills wanted to keep it going, but that Neil Young was only interested in using the Springfield as a launching pad for his own career. Without Young and Bruce Campbell, Stills felt they weren't the same band anymore and started looking in other directions.
Another nice 3 part series.
One of the more important ones in my music life
Saw them opening for the Beach Boys...Back Bay Theatre, 67
...my old gf graduated from Lincoln School, just outside San Jose, CR...as did SS
I know you posted this a long time ago, but thought I would comment. I saw the BF in 1967 when I was 14 - almost zero memory about it, but I do know that I saw them! Maybe with the Turtles, but I am not sure. I wish I had started saving my concert tickets from that period forward. I purchased their first album back in those days and their Retrospective album many years later. Just a few days before I learned of your channel, I saw a very reasonably priced 5 CD set (the first and second albums had both the mono and stereo included) by the BF that had been worked on by Neil Young. On a whim, I purchased the set. All CDs are good - the second is the best! I had never heard the last album until I received this set. It was good timing to buy that set and then see this 3 part review on your channel. Perfect Timing! I love your videos - I have watched most of them by now. I am a huge Beatles fan too.
The Springfield has a fascinating history and it took three videos just to hit the highlights! You are the only commenter that has mentioned seeing them back then - how fortunate! Thanks so much for the comment and for subscribing!
One of the great songs from this last Bufallo Springfield album, iit was composed by Neil.Ypung and is called "On the way home". Before to know the original interpretation, ,I heard this song in two different versions (both very good, in his own way). The first was recorded by "Heaven Bound" in 1972, in a "sunshine pop" style. The second was a live acoustic version by a famous brazilian rock band (from the eighties) called "Legião Urbana".
I’ve always liked this album. I think Pretty Girl Why is very well performed. My older brother said they played a Saturday night dance at his high school (Loyola HS) in LA.
Matt, thanks for this short retrospective on The Buffal Springfield. I bought all of these records as a kid, and probably still have them somewhere. My older brother was in the Marines, and saw them live on that '68 tour (Jacksonville maybe) Really enjoyed this sir.
Thank you for watching, Christopher!
Thanks for your presentations about bands I love against the backdrop of your enjoyable record collection.
Thank you, Martin. More to come!
I must say I absolutely love Uno Mundo, a standout for me when I first started listen. And I Am a Child of course! Good as a song gets!
I saw the Buffalo Springfield on the Beach Boys tour, November 19,1967 at DAR Constitution Hall, Washington, D.C. and 17 at the time. I was there for them, not the Beach Boys. I remember that the sound was horrible, really awful, but it was 1967, a large hall and just a distorted mess because there weren't any large, high powered, high fidelity sound systems; they hadn't been invented yet~! Retrospective is a tremendous album. Cheers.
I thought the first two albums had some great moments but this 3rd album is far and away my favourite. It would probably have been even better with a couple of extra Neil Young tracks but the rest of the group more than make up for his absence.
When you look at the album cover all the band members are looking one way. Neil Young is looking in a different direction. Almost like he was looking at his own future.
He wasn't even in the original photo (of the other four members). He was superimposed later.
The Byrds, BF, Flying Burritos and Mike Nesmith’s First National Band pretty much laid the template.
Fanny does an excellent version of Special Care on their 1971 Beat Club appearance
Yes, that is a great version. Thanks for the comment.
Excellent review and great production! I enjoyed this a great deal
Thank you for watching. More to come!
Retrospective's the one!
Loved the springfield. I do hope you do a video videos. From the byrds
Wish you'd had time to review the box set I see on your desk as well, Matt. Though oddly organized, it featured so many great unreleased songs and demos and is a fine addition to their otherwise limited three-album catalogue. Btw, the Mojo Men, who had a hit with Stills' "Sit Down I Think I Love You," were an excellent group worth exploring.
Thank you for watching, Bruce. This was an early video of mine and I have always wanted to review the box set, which is troubling in spots and brilliant in others.
Great album; Questions and Special Care are gems; Stills is the most underrated axeman
The cover image is a composite. Neil wasn't there for the band photo. 'I Am A Child' has Dewey Martin on drums.
Good stuff, Sir.
Thank you, Toney!
Watching all your vid's Matt. Good stuff, Thanks and greetings from Amsterdam.
Welcome! Thank you for the kind words. More to come!
HOW GREAT IT IS.. a complete album despite the missing Neil efforts, the two records AGAIN AND LAST are a double album set of 24 songs that can stand up with ANY ever done, no question....COUNTRY ROCK was established here and then, a LANDMARK 67 SPECIAL CARE surely in every song, great production, all types of music infused and the entire history of ROCK was altered by this likely the best American band up STANDS UP against the BEATLES except even if only for the minimal output of 3 albums total...Stills Young and Furay all great, genius or spirited all ON the way HOME and I may add the next album that would have come would have been the combination of DEJA VU, HARVEST and POCO without QUESTIONS the best perhaps ever of its kind...A retrospective II could be most of this LAST TIME AROUND with one or 2 others not on RETROSPECTIVE one as a full on CLASSIC DOUBLE PLAY... I am hey paneaglesong LIVE FROM THE TREASURE TREE floriva blue springs and big shoals with 400 unheard song videos on youtube, only 100 subscribers but as my father promoted the greatest violin of 20th century Heifetz, this true BS inspired poet SONGWRITER wishes to share here freely, youtube commercialism or not, its FOUR DAYS GONE into running ON ...Beautiful is music.. .thanks BS boys...LOVE YOU ALL
Enjoying all of your videos, catching up with some of the older ones. I have a double album best stuff from the Buffalo Springfield. It is an extended version of rock ‘n’ roll woman? I’m not sure but you’re right I wish they would put out a 70+ minute CD of their best material.
The extended version of Bluebird is on that double album. Thanks Vince!
@@mark9058 According to a friend who worked at Rhino at the time the box came out, it was Neil who jettisoned the extended 'Bluebird.' I presume that he knew what he was talking about as Neil did not allow some of the "last Time Around" tracks on the box as he was no longer in the band when they were recorded.
...and then came Poco!
Retrospective is great. Last time Around uneven but better than most albums by a long shot.
1 On the Way Home - a great song, in my top 100 songs. 10
2 It's So Hard to Wait 5 It's hard to wait through .. pretty boring
3 Pretty Girl Why 9 Really fine Steve
4 Four Days Gone 9 Solid singing and guitar from Steve
5 Carefree Country Day 2 Jim Messina. Just remember hearing raves about this track. It's a cute but bland annoyance.
6 Special Care 9 Another fine one from Steve
7 The Hour of Not Quite Rain 2 and I love Psychedelia but this is no Nuggett.
8 Questions 8
9 I Am a Child 10
10 Merry-Go-Round 7.5
11 Uno Mundo 2 has embarrassing lyrics and a bouncy uptempo song that shows-off Steve's Latin influences but the song is pretty weak.
12 Kind Woman 6 Nice song from Richie. Neil Young should have sung it though.
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Always like these breakdowns Matt. What did you think of the box set that came out in 2001? The presentation was great and had many nuggets but as fans know, the duplication of some tracks on the 4th CD was just dumbfounded. The Monterrey set would have been a good inclusion but was that down to Neil's ego or licensing issues.... I had a look through the booklet this week and as great as the period media clippings are, it was also a major oversight not to have a bio in there. I have actually learnt more about their history through your vids here. Kudos!!!
Also. Some of the songs that you mentioned here were omissions from the set. "Carefree Country Day", "In The Hour" and "Four Days Gone". Never understood that. And the absence of the stereo versions of "Pretty Girl Why" and "On The Way Home" were annoying as those are two of the best songs on this record. And sound superior in stereo. That's why I sometimes feel the box set is flawed.
I will probably do a review on that box set. I was originally thrilled to get it and the unreleased stuff was all I was interested. The 4th cd was just plain stupid. The booklet was difficult to read with the small type and dark backgrounds so that was a big miss. The info within was good - especially the touring schedule and instrumental break downs. A single disc 'best of' of this box is in order. Thanks for the comment, Tyrone!
@@popgoesthe60s52 Thanks for the prompt reply! Yeh. The tour schedule is fascinating stuff. They played a lot and I was surprised to see they were still doing a lot of dates around the time of this record. Look forward to that vid. Best from Tokyo!
My personal favourite. Maybe because it is the first one I heard. Still a great one though
Interesting information. I don’t know much about the band except For What It’s Worth. I’m also a big fan of Stills and Young when they joined CSNY.
Since they only had 3 albums, its easy to learn their catalog. Great stuff! More to come....
For me it’s all about the hits: Uno Mundo, On The Way Home, and Special Care
In the Hour of Not Quite Rain, the winner of that competition for the lyrics was Michaela Callen. (sometimes called Mikki). I kind of loosely know Richie through some friends and had the opportunity to talk to him a couple of times. It's a beautiful song and the lyrics are fantastic! Very eerie and melancholic song. Really enjoying your channel content
Thank you Chloe! I've always loved that song and thought it was very psychedelic. Thanks for watching!
I entered that there contest, sending in SIX sets of lyrics. Those rodeo clowns don't know a talented writer when they see one! I shoulda' won that there contest, HANDS DOWN!! 😭
'In the hour of not quite rain' is more appropriate in the 2nd album as it fits well alongside with 'Broken Arrow' and 'Expecting to Fly'. 'Four Days Gone' and 'Questions' love it. The CSNY version of 'On the way home' is a lot better.
I think their best song was For What it is Worth. Your thoughts?
Got all their LP's. Personally although I like Stephen & Neil, especially their early LP's. {Neil's 1st 2 are his BEST to my mind.} I think they were too DIVERSE to be good album's... I think you said DISJOINTED, which is a good description.... Individual song's were Fantastic. It all fell apart when putting the album's together ! Worth having historically but I rarely play them. Unlike NRPS & BURRITO'S which are played a lot. Ditto, Steven Still's and less often now, all of Neil's although who can NOT play his first two, regular. Pretty much gone off Harvest & Gold Rush and skip to Tonight's the Night. I ENJOY'S the review's . Done any on NRPS ?
Last time Around is now, a very nostalgic LP/CD with some very good material....but also some not very good material.......and I suppose it's reflective of the instability that existed within the group during that period.......
Manassas was another Stills project.
That 1st Manassas album was great. Very tight band. I think Manassas was a much better vehicle for Stills than CSN or CSNY. Hillman was a Perfect Foil for Stills, while remaining an individual artist in his own right. Some of Stephen's best music on that album.
I don't know if you know the tv show Mannix it was about a private eye.One show he went into a night club and Buffalo Springfield were playing.In another show Neil Diamond was playing.Good way to get a younger audience
I'm looking at some of these photographs of the band without Bruce Palmer on base and it looks to me like Jim Fielder is in the pictures. Is this correct?
You are correct, sir.
@@popgoesthe60s52 Oops bass not base! I like to call him "the white James Jamerson"
Nothing on their appearance at Monterey?
That would be in the previous video on them. The is a 3 part series.
Talking about Bufallo Springfield's legacy, would be right to say that they were influence in future bands like Doobie Brothers; Bread;; Lynyrd Skynyrd and America?
When "Horse With No Name" came out, a lot of folks thought that Neil was involved.
4:12 Fanny did a great cover of this one!
So Young left before doing the Tonight Show? And then returned?
Yeah, ol' Neil had a habit of coming back in when the water was warm!
He didnt play at Monterrey Pop either, he was replaced with David Crosby.
I was totally confused about the lineup. I always thought Messina was a guitarist singer, but now I know he replaced Bruce.
Also Neil and crazy hourse.
Eric Clapton later admitted he may have subconsciously "borrowed" the verse of Stlls's "Questions" for "Let It Rain." I can certainly hear it!
Yes! I guess they call that the 'folk process'.
It shows how powerful the era was musically when such a minor group stands as a major achievement historically!
This comment sounds really weird! You must mean "minor group" as its popularity related to, say, the Beatles or the Rolling Stones? Because the music created by the Springfield was fully as great as anything that those other, more well-known, bands created.
@@mrtriffid Minor in the sense that it is was shorter lived, and its musical scope was more limited than other groups. They tend to build more on what is already out there (The Beatles, Dylan...) then stand as great inatovors. I think the Zomies are more creatively groundbreaking that the Springfield. The Springfield were somting of the protoype for Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young.
But the again the term 'minor' can be somewhat misleading. building on exisiting possibilities is important and can lead to great achievements. 'Mr. Soul' and 'For What It's Worth' are undisputably classics. Alfred Sisley is a 'minor' Impressionist. Brahms is a 'minor' Romantic. This does not mean that their work is of less value than Monet or Beethoven...
GREAT three part series. As good as the Springfield were, they should have been better, or at least have better luck: poorly produced first album, Bruce Palmer drug busts, Neil flitting in and out of the band which had affect the other players., and more. Much as I love all three albums, I still hear the flaws that a better producer or more band cohesion could have prodeuced. But when I first the beginning of "For What It's Worth" on Am radio, I knew that I would scrf up anything I could find by them. (Yes, even Bruce Palmer's solo album.)
Nice stuff man, I'll check out the rest of your videos. But I felt you aren't too keen on country, country and western are as important to rock and roll as blues and folk. Bakersfield is only a 2 hour drive from L.A after all 🤠
Good point, Salvador. I will get into a little of country's influence when I get into the Byrds and Dillards, so stay tuned!
@@mark9058 the British had their scenes too, some would say the downliners sect's country sect may be the first country rock album. But then again every big country had their scenes and their firsts. The U.S invented rock and roll, and long before anyone from England came around, there was Ricky Nelson, Buddy Holly, Everly Brothers, and the most neglected person in the British scene and whom without beat music wouldn't be what it was Jackie Deshannon, they owe as much to her as they do to Everly Brothers. Personally I can't stand the beatles, I know they're not bad but far far far from the best, you can find a band that can play circles around them in almost any country, but that's as subjective as anyone saying beatles are the best band of all times. The only fact is that most 60's and early 70's music was good, specially the ones that they just called rock and roll because they had just invented that type of music and had no names.
Cool album cover. Typical Neil Young attitude. Everyone looking West; I'm going East.
Decent album, but mostly a collection of solo recordings. The version of On The Way Home on the box set, is much better without the horns. A couple real bombs on here, unfortunately as well, The Hour...and Carefree most notable.
I know they have many fans but they are overrated in my opinion
They are remembered because of the talent in the band but they never that successful.
My own opinion: the Buffaloes not overrated -- but under-appreciated, by some. Mostly, a combination of being just slightly ahead of their time and of being too short-lived (because of that "big break" tour being canceled).
Guess you gotta like false high pitched Mickey Mouse voices like Neil young to like this album. Neal was so over rated, screwed CSN when he joined them. Best song Something Happening Here,
I'm a huge fan of Richie Furay and Jim Messina - there's very little either have done that I didn't love. I'd really like to see you do something on Poco!