Buffalo Springfield Again

Buffalo Springfield是一支由牛人组成的乡村民谣乐队，Stephen Stills, Neil Young和Richie Furay后来都成了声名显赫的创作人，但牛人之间想要长期合作近乎奇迹，因此他们在出这第二张专辑的时候就已经快要闹翻了。不到一年以后，乐队就宣告散伙，这个短命的乐队成为他们各自辉煌的开始。 不过，一个乐队因为成员理念不同而面临散伙之前的专辑往往是非常优秀的，因为在这张专辑里，他们各自的实力都到了可以单飞的程度，而他们又将各自不同的理念注入到专辑之中，使专辑的风格更加多元化。三个牛人在这张专辑里尝试了包括管弦乐在内的许多对于当时的乡村摇滚乐来说十分新颖的形式。 本专辑在滚石杂志评出的500张历代最强专辑中排名第188位。 Due in part to personnel problems which saw Bruce Palmer and Neil Young in and out of the group, Buffalo Springfield\'s second album did not have as unified an approach as their debut. Yet it doesn\'t suffer for that in the least -- indeed, the group continued to make major strides in both their songwriting and arranging, and this record stands as their greatest triumph. Stephen Stills\' "Bluebird" and "Rock & Roll Woman" were masterful folk-rockers that should have been big hits (although they did manage to become small ones); his lesser-known contributions "Hung Upside Down" and the jazz-flavored "Everydays" were also first-rate. Young contributed the Rolling Stones-derived "Mr. Soul," as well as the brilliant "Expecting to Fly" and "Broken Arrow," both of which employed lush psychedelic textures and brooding, surrealistic lyrics that stretched rock conventions to their breaking point. Richie Furay (who had not written any of the songs on the debut) takes tentative songwriting steps with three compositions, although only "A Child\'s Claim to Fame," with its memorable dobro hooks by James Burton, meets the standards of the material by Stills and Young; the cut also anticipates the country-rock direction of Furay\'s post-Springfield band, Poco. Although a slightly uneven record that did not feature the entire band on several cuts, the high points were so high and plentiful that its classic status cannot be denied.