Replay (Crosby, Stills & Nash album)

Replay
Compilation album by Crosby, Stills & Nash
Released December 8, 1980
Genre Rock
Length 38:13
Label Atlantic
Producer Bill Halverson
David Crosby
Graham Nash
Stephen Stills
Crosby, Stills & Nash chronology

CSN
(1977)		 Replay
(1980)		 Daylight Again
(1982)
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Replay is the sixth album by Crosby, Stills & Nash and their second retrospective, appearing in 1980 on the Atlantic Records label. It contains no material with Neil Young, but does from CSN solo projects. It peaked at #122 on the Billboard 200, their first album not to chart in the top ten, and is currently out of print.

Background

In 1980, Stephen Stills invited Graham Nash to accompany him on a tour of Europe, both subsequently deciding to record songs together in this unexplored permutation of CSNY. The label however, wanted more CSN product, and with the pair still in process, released this package for the Christmas sales season.[2] The pair continued to work in the studio together, but again Atlantic Records insisted on the inclusion of David Crosby as the CSN brand increased sales potential greatly, which would result in their next album, Daylight Again. Apparently given his minimal number of writing credits and therefore low royalties, Crosby had no hand in the selection for Replay, dismissing the album as "an obvious money trip, nothing more."[3]

A strange compilation, it contains four album cuts taken from outside the parent CSN discography, and misses charting singles in "Teach Your Children," "Suite: Judy Blue Eyes," and "Woodstock." This may have been deliberate, however, to avoid duplication with songs on the still available So Far. All songs were previously released, with four having appeared on non-CSN albums. "Love the One You're With" and "First Things First" include Crosby and Nash on vocals; those as well as "Change Partners" derive from solo albums by Stills, the third of which entitled Stills had been released not on Atlantic but on Columbia. "To the Last Whale...," comprising the songs "Critical Mass" by Crosby and "Wind on the Water" by Nash, comes from their duo album on ABC Records. Two other songs were altered: Stills edited "Carry On" by lopping off the "Questions" tag section and adding a new lead guitar solo along with overdubbed bass and drums; and the string arrangement was removed from "I Give You Give Blind."

Its out of print status allows copies on-line to fetch relatively high prices for a single disc as of June 2006.

Track listing

Side one

No. TitleWriter(s)Notes Length
1. "Carry On"  Stephen Stills1980 edit with overdubs 3:17
2. "Marrakesh Express"  Graham Nashfrom Crosby, Stills & Nash 2:36
3. "Just A Song Before I Go"  Graham Nashfrom CSN 2:12
4. "First Things First"  Stephen Stills, Joe Schermie, Jon Smithfrom Stills 2:16
5. "Shadow Captain"  David Crosby, Craig Doergefrom CSN 4:32
6. "To the Last Whale..."  David Crosby, Graham Nashfrom Wind on the Water 5:30

Side two

No. TitleWriter(s)Notes Length
1. "Love the One You're With"  Stephen Stillsfrom Stephen Stills 3:13
2. "Pre-Road Downs"  Graham Nashfrom Crosby, Stills & Nash 3:03
3. "Change Partners"  Stephen Stillsfrom Stephen Stills 2 2:12
4. "I Give You Give Blind"  Stephen Stills1980 remix 3:21
5. "Cathedral"  Graham Nashfrom CSN 5:15

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References

  1. ↑ Planer, L. (2011). "Replay - Crosby, Stills & Nash | AllMusic". allmusic.com. Retrieved 26 July 2011.
  2. ↑ Zimmer and Diltz, p. 219
  3. ↑ Zimmer and Diltz, pp. 219-20
  • Zimmer, Dave, and Diltz, Henry. Crosby Stills & Nash: The Authorized Biography (First edition), St. Martin’s Press, 1984. ISBN 0-312-17660-0