Broken Arrow (track)
by Buffalo Springfield
Year: 1967
From the album Buffalo Springfield Again (track #10)
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Broken Arrow appears on the following album(s) by Buffalo Springfield:
- Buffalo Springfield Again (track #10) (this album) (1967)
- Retrospective (track #8) (compilation) (1969)
- Buffalo Springfield (1973) (track #10) (compilation) (1973)
- Buffalo Springfield (2001) (track #52) (compilation) (2001)
- Buffalo Springfield (2001) (track #88) (compilation) (2001)
- The Best Of Buffalo Springfield (track #11) (compilation) (1969)
- What's That Sound? Complete Albums Collection (track #35) (compilation) (2018)
- What's That Sound? Complete Albums Collection (track #45) (compilation) (2018)
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Track ratings | Avg. track rating |
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| ! | 07/30/2026 01:27 |  AAL2014 | 40,913 | 76/100 |
| ! | 05/17/2026 23:26 | CjHubb117 | 1,328 | 97/100 |
| ! | 01/03/2026 22:56 | alexandermause | 17,953 | 85/100 |
| ! | 12/20/2025 01:06 | Exist-en-ciel | 169,579 | 71/100 |
| ! | 12/19/2025 20:37 | Arnio | 223 | 63/100 |
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This track is rated in the top 2% of all tracks on BestEverAlbums.com. This track has a Bayesian average rating of 85.8/100, a mean average of 85.2/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 86.7/100. The standard deviation for this track is 14.8.
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The band left one of the great songs of the 60’s until the final track on the album. Broken Arrow is a gem of a song and, unusually for Buffalo Springfield is a long track, coming on at over six minutes, and is still one of Neil Young’s greatest songs.
This song hints at what Neil would become and it’s the most complex track on the album taking over 100 hours to record. Was Young taking notes from the Beatles, either continuously or sub-continuously when recording this. Who knows. It certainly feels like some Beatles influences going on here
Neil wrote it after one of a number of break ups. After his return he recorded this song.
I get it if people find this song hard work but I adore it (Edited)
One of the greatest songs ever recorded. (Edited)
This song starts with Mr. Soul, before it becomes something completely different. (Edited)
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