A flat and rather disappointing album especially when you consider the talent available on this album. A shame because there is some potential here but it's let down all around.
Mediocre songs, lacklustre playing and sloppy production.
My rule about these guys is to never expect much after Deja Vu. I think there are three reasons for their decline in quality:
1) Stephen Stills ran out of songs. His writing post Deja Vu has been on a steady tragic downhill trajectory. He and Crosby developed boring fixations on...sailing. Unless you're a pirate, good songs based on sailing are few and far between. On American Dream, Stills had writing credits on only 4 of the 14 songs...all as a co-writer.
2) Stills & Young never really got along. Crosby never really got along with anyone except for Nash.
3) They kept getting back together, which was half of the issue: they also never really were much of a group...it was always like a part time thing. All four of them had solo work they seemed to prefer doing. It always seemed they would get together, record or tour, and then they couldn't wait to get away from each other.
Interesting note: despite all of the problems this album had, it was still the best selling Neil Young album from the decade of the 80's. _________________ I'm leaning on the threshold
Of her mystery
And crashing through the walls
Of dying history
A flat and rather disappointing album especially when you consider the talent available on this album. A shame because there is some potential here but it's let down all around.
Mediocre songs, lacklustre playing and sloppy production.
My rule about these guys is to never expect much after Deja Vu. I think there are three reasons for their decline in quality:
1) Stephen Stills ran out of songs. His writing post Deja Vu has been on a steady tragic downhill trajectory. He and Crosby developed boring fixations on...sailing. Unless you're a pirate, good songs based on sailing are few and far between. On American Dream, Stills had writing credits on only 4 of the 14 songs...all as a co-writer.
2) Stills & Young never really got along. Crosby never really got along with anyone except for Nash.
3) They kept getting back together, which was half of the issue: they also never really were much of a group...it was always like a part time thing. All four of them had solo work they seemed to prefer doing. It always seemed they would get together, record or tour, and then they couldn't wait to get away from each other.
Interesting note: despite all of the problems this album had, it was still the best selling Neil Young album from the decade of the 80's.
I didn’t know that about this being neil young’s best selling album of the decade. Says a lot for his 80’s output.
Totally agree with your other points. I read shaky, one of Neil’s autobiographies a few years ago and his issues with Stephen come across load and clear.
This was a weird one to find in the crate. Not because it's not a good album, it is, it's just that I was talking to a mate at a gig a few days ago and the Del Fuegos have reformed so a bit of serendipity here.
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