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Buffalo Springfield was a rock band formed in Los Angeles by Canadian and American musicians in 1966. They combined folk, country and psychedelic influences and had hits like "For What It's Worth" and "Mr. Soul".
Aug 12, 2024 · Buffalo Springfield, Canadian-American band that combined inventive songwriting, skillful instrumental interplay, and harmony vocals into a stunning folk rock signature sound, which laid the groundwork for southern California country rock.
Aug 26, 2010 · There's something happening hereWhat it is ain't exactly clearThere's a man with a gun over thereTelling me I got to bewareI think it's time we stop, childre...
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- On The Way Home
- Rock & Roll Woman
- Kind Woman
- Sad Memory
- Flying on The Ground Is Wrong
- Down to The Wire
- Bluebird
- Expecting to Fly
- Mr. Soul
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Last Time Around was the anti-climactic end to a brief but glorious career. The band’s final album was a hodgepodge collection of songs salvaged from their last recording sessions. It lacked coherence and some of the material is at best uneven and at worst disappointing. But still, there are enough nuggets to be mined to make it listenable. On the ...
Rock & Roll Woman might not be the best song Stephen Stills ever wrote with Buffalo Springfield, but it’s still sublime. Although the band sometimes got labeled as folk-rock, they never really were. Young had too much vitriol running in his veins to allow it, and the entire bunch of them were far too clever to be so easily defined. They knew when t...
The band’s final album was divisive. Even their most loyal fans struggled to get their heads around its bloated dynamics. But the worst Buffalo Springfield album is still better than most band’s best albums, and Last Time Around was by no means without its delights. Its standout track is Kind Woman, a gorgeous ballad with an irresistibly tender hea...
It may be one of their lesser-known gems, but Sad Memory still ranks among Buffalo Springfield’s best pieces. In fairness, Furay isn’t exactly pushing himself lyrically (as Billboard points out, with lyrics like “Did you ever love a girl/ Who walked right on you?/ You should know just how I feel, then” competing for attention on the same album as Y...
Ranked asone of the best ever Buffalo Springfield songs by Classic Rock History, Flying On The Ground Is Wrong is a thing of beauty. Richie Furay interprets Neil Young’s lyrics with a warmth and wisdom that even Neil’s live solo renditions couldn’t better. The elegant, restrained arrangement only serves to improve matters. From start to finish, it’...
Down to the Wire is a puzzler. The first time even the most ardent Buffalo Springfield fan heard it was on the 2001 compilation album, Buffalo Springfield Box. Why Buffalo Springfield elected not to release it when they were active is a mystery. It’s also a travesty. With Neil singing his heart out, Stills being his godlike best on guitar, and the ...
When David Crosby raised the possibility of inviting Neil Young to join CSN with Graham Nash, Nash was initially hesitant. He eventually agreed to a meeting, during which he asked Young why he should agree to the idea. Young’s answer was swift and to the point. Had, he asked, Nash ever heard Young and Stills play together? Nash had, so that was tha...
Penned by Neil Young, Expecting to Fly has it all… oblique lyrics, soaring vocals, and a sublime orchestral arrangement provided by Phil Spector sideman Jack Nitzsche. As Wikipedia notes, the song marks the transition from the band’s group-oriented compositions toward more individualized performances. In another band, the shift might not have worke...
Written by Neil Young, Mr. Soul is rock and roll to its core. It’s got the rock, the roll, and the riffs. Most of all, it’s got Young, who totally dominates the song with his wonderfully obscure lyrics, his fuzzy guitar, and his soaring vocals. When he left the band, he took the song with him. No matter how often he unleashes it at live shows, it n...
By 1966, the Vietnam War had been gobbling up too many lives for too long, and Steven Stills, for one, had had enough. So he wrote For What It’s Worth, one of the most incendiary protest songs of the era. Except it’s not. Well, it is a protest song, but it’s not the war Stills is raging against, it’s the rough-handed treatment the police had been d...
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Listen to songs and albums by Buffalo Springfield, a rock band formed in 1966 by Neil Young, Stephen Stills and others. Explore their folk rock, psychedelic and hard rock influences and watch videos of their hits.
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Buffalo Springfield were the short-lived yet influential band that united such superstars as Neil Young and Stephen Stills. Aptly named for a steamroller, they charged through their two-year tenure with such enduring, politically-charged songs as “For What It’s Worth.”