Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. Suite: Judy Blue Eyes
2. Helplessly Hoping
3. You Don't Have to Cry
4. Wooden Ships
5. Guinnevere - David Crosby
6. Marrakesh Express
7. Long Time Gone
8. Blackbird
9. Lady of the Island
10. Song With No Words (Tree With No Leaves) - Crosby & Nash
11. Almost Cut My Hair
12. Teach Your Children
13. Horses Through a Rainstorm
14. Déjà Vu
15. Helpless
16. 4 + 20
17. Laughing - David Crosby
18. Carry On/Questions

Disc 2:

1. Woodstock
2. Ohio
3. Love the One You're With - Stephen Stills
4. Our House
5. Old Times Good Times - Stephen Stills
6. Lee Shore
7. Music Is Love - David Crosby
8. I'd Swear There Was Somebody Here - David Crosby
9. Man in the Mirror
10. Black Queen
11. Military Madness - Graham Nash
12. Urge for Going - Crosby & Nash
13. I Used to Be a King - Graham Nash
14. Simple Man - Graham Nash
15. Southbound Train - Crosby & Nash
16. Change Partners - Stephen Stills
17. My Love Is a Gentle Thing - Stephen Stills
18. Word Game - Stephen Stills
19. Johnny's Garden - Manassas
20. So Begins the Task - Manassas
21. Turn Back the Pages - Stephen Stills

Disc 3:

1. To the Last Whale
2. See the Changes
3. It Doesn't Matter - Manassas
4. Immigration Man - Crosby & Nash
5. Chicago/We Can Change the World - Graham Nash
6. Homeward Through the Haze
7. Where Will I Be? - Crosby & Nash
8. Page 43 - Crosby & Nash
9. Carry Me - Crosby & Nash
10. Cowboy of Dreams - Crosby & Nash
11. Bittersweet - Crosby & Nash
12. To the Last Whale...A. Critical Mass B. Wind on the Water - Crosby & Nash
13. Critical Mass - Crosby & Nash
14. Wind on the Water - Crosby & Nash
15. Prison Song - Graham Nash
16. Another Sleep Song - Graham Nash
17. Taken at All
18. In My Dreams
19. Just a Song Before I Go
20. Shadow Captain
21. Dark Star
22. Cathedral

Disc 4:

1. Wasted on the Way
2. Barrel of Pain (Half-Life) - Graham Nash
3. Southern Cross
4. Daylight Again
5. Thoroughfare Gap - Stephen Stills
6. Wild Tales [Live][#] - Graham Nash
7. Dear Mr. Fantasy [#] - Graham Nash, Stephen Stills
8. Cold Rain
9. Got It Made [#]
10. Tracks in the Dust - David Crosby
11. As I Come of Age [#]
12. 50/50 - Stephen Stills
13. Drive My Car - David Crosby
14. Delta
15. Soldiers of Peace [#]
16. Yours and Mine
17. Haven't We Lost Enough?
18. After the Dolphin
19. Find the Cost of Freedom

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #9267 in Music
• Released on: 1991-12-01
• Number of discs: 4
• Format: Box set

Customer Reviews

Almost everything that should be here is
Crosby, Stills, and Nash are one of the best-loved bands in the world. They've done some great stuff. Unfortunately, as a group and as solo artists, they've also done a lot of very mediocre work. Over time, each new album has typically had less and less music worth buying.

After you've bought their first 2 albums ("Crosby, Stills, and Nash", and "Deja Vu"), it gets pretty difficult to decide whether to buy anything else. I like about half of the album Daylight Again (released in 1982), and maybe half of CSN (1977). The rest of their albums just aren't worth buying, even though there are a few excellent songs sprinkled among them.

This 4-disc collection is superb. Assuming that you already own the first 2 albums, you can buy this collection and own almost everything they've done as a group (and most or all of what they've done as solo artists) that's worth owning.

Almost the only song missing that I'd REALLY like to see on here is one David Crosby song ("Compass", if I remember correctly) from the album American Dream (the rest of which is dispensable). This set is also missing a few other good songs from the album Daylight Again (e.g. "Might As Well Have A Good Time", which has superb vocals), but the best ones ("Southern Cross" and "Delta") from that album are here.

This album contains several fine songs from Crosby-Nash collaborations ("To The Last Whale"), and a few of Stephen Stills better solo works ("Change Partners", "So Begins The Task"). Among the David Crosby solo numbers are "All Along The Lee Shore" and a wordless vocal performance that is beautiful and haunting.

There are a few songs on here that I don't care for, but not many.

Graham Nash deserves great credit for putting this set together. He has done an excellent job of selecting the best material. Frankly, this set is so good, and much of their other material is so mediocre, that this set and and their first 2 albums are about all that even ardent fans need to own. Nash probably risked killing sales of other albums when he put together this set. He deserves applause and great thanks for choosing this collection.

The set also comes with a booklet that contains interesting short anecdotes and explanations of the songs. Fans will enjoy it a lot.

RECOMMENDATION: If you like this band, I'd buy the following albums: Crosby, Stills, and Nash (first album); Deja Vu (with Neil Young); and this 4-CD set. This will give you almost everything these musicians have done that's worth owning, and will give you very little stuff that isn't worth owning. Yes, you'll have paid twice for several songs from the first 2 albums, but even that's not a complete waste because some of the versions on this 4-disc set are alternative takes.

If I could take only 20-30 discs to a "desert island" with me, each of these 4 discs would be among them. Great stuff.

The best box set...hands down!
There's a box set out for just about every classic rock artist. But, many of them are simply not worth the money (the new Eagles set comes to mind). However, the CSN Box truly delivers the goods.

There are basically 3 functions of a good box set: 1. To provide a career retrospective, gathering material from an artist's entire catalog of music 2. To offer the music in remastered form, in better quality sound 3. To unearth unreleased material

The CSN box set matches all the criteria. This collection shows how good they were together and apart, offering solo material from all three members, plus side projects like Manassas (Stills band with Chris Hillman of the Byrds).

Some box sets boast "unreleased material" that really should've been left UNRELEASED. Not true with this set, "Homeward Through the Haze" is far superior to the released Crosby-Nash version, "Suite: Judy Blue Eyes" including drums is staggering, and the unearthed CSN&Y recordings show us what could've been, had they not bickered among themselves so much.

The only unfortunate ommisions are from Neil Young, who is saving his goodies for his own box set, coming soon. Also, "War Games" from the now-deleted ALLIES album would've been nice.

All in all a fine collection for a true fan or casual listener.

Highly recommended
I've had this box for about 5 years and I STILL play it to death. No collection of CSN(Y) is satisfactory without it; it's a wonderful career summary (up to 1991) of all the various foursome/threesome/duo/solo configurations. True, it does skimp on Neil Young stuff (Pushed It Over The End or Through My Sails would have been welcome) but Neil's forthcoming Archives multi-CD set should take care of all that. More surprising omissions include all the rumoured Deja Vu out-takes not to mention more recent gems such as Crosby's Compass, but what you do get can't really be faulted (excepting variances of personal taste). Highlights include a CSNY version of The Leeshore (1969 with 1991 extra vocal harmonies); alternates of Helplessly Hoping and Suite: Judy Blue Eyes; a CNY live take of Man In The Mirror; Crosby & Hash's version of Joni Mitchell's Urge For Going; a stripped down live take on Got It Made; both sides of the Ohio single and an unedited Almost Cut My Hair plus many, many others. This could well be the best boxed set of them all.