Replay (Crosby, Stills & Nash album)

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Replay
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Compilation album by
ReleasedDecember 8, 1980
Genre Rock
Length38:13
Label Atlantic
Producer Bill Halverson
David Crosby
Graham Nash
Stephen Stills
Crosby, Stills & Nash chronology
CSN
(1977)
Replay
(1980)
Daylight Again
(1982)
Professional ratings
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Replay is a compilation album by Crosby, Stills & Nash, appearing in 1980 on the Atlantic Records label. It contains no material with Neil Young, but does include CSN solo projects. It peaked at No. 122 on the Billboard 200, their first album not to chart in the top ten.

Contents

Background

In 1980, Stephen Stills invited Graham Nash to accompany him on a tour of Europe, both subsequently deciding to record songs together. 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]

Assembly

The compilation contains four album cuts taken from outside the parent CSN/Y 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 removing the "Questions" section, adding a new guitar solo along with overdubbed bass and drums, and ending the song with a repeat of the "Carry on, love is coming..." line instead of the guitar solo fade out. "I Give You Give Blind" was remixed to remove the strings heard on the original version. For "First Things First", the percussion intro that was taken off Stills was left on for this album.

Track listing

Side one

No.TitleWriter(s)NotesLength
1."Carry On" Stephen Stills 1980 edited version with overdubs; originally from Déjà Vu , 19703:17
2."Marrakesh Express" Graham Nash Crosby, Stills & Nash , 19692:36
3."Just a Song Before I Go"Nash CSN , 19772:12
4."First Things First"Stills, Joe Schermie, Jon SmithLonger Intro Stills (Stephen Stills), 19752:16
5."Shadow Captain" David Crosby, Craig Doerge CSN4:32
6."To the Last Whale..."Crosby, Nash Wind on the Water (Crosby & Nash), 19755:30

Side two

No.TitleWriter(s)NotesLength
1."Love the One You're With"Stills Stephen Stills (Stephen Stills), 19703:13
2."Pre-Road Downs"NashCrosby, Stills & Nash3:03
3."Change Partners"Stills Stephen Stills 2 (Stephen Stills), 19713:12
4."I Give You Give Blind"Stills1980 remix, originally from CSN3:21
5."Cathedral"NashCSN5:15

Personnel

Additional musicians

  • Joe Vitale – drums, percussion on "Cathedral" and "I Give You Give Blind"; organ on "Shadow Captain"; electric piano on "Just A Song Before I Go"; tympani on "Cathedral"
  • Craig Doerge – electric piano on "Shadow Captain" and "To the Last Whale..."; piano on "Shadow Captain"; synthesizer on "To the Last Whale..."
  • James Taylor – acoustic guitar on "To the Last Whale..."
  • Paul Harris – keyboards on "Change Partners"
  • George "Chocolate" Perry – bass on "Shadow Captain," "I Give You Give Blind," and "Cathedral"
  • Calvin "Fuzzy" Samuels – bass on "Love the One You're With" and "Change Partners"
  • Tim Drummond – bass on "Just A Song Before I Go"
  • Leland Sklar – bass on "To the Last Whale..."
  • Kenny Passarelli – bass on "First Things First"
  • Dallas Taylor – drums on "Carry On" "First Things First," "Pre-Road Downs," and "Change Partners"
  • Russ Kunkel – drums on "Just A Song Before I Go," "Shadow Captain," and "To the Last Whale..."; congas on "Shadow Captain"; percussion on "Just A Song Before I Go"
  • Jim Gordon – drums on "Marrakesh Express"
  • Jeff Whitaker – congas on "Love the One You're With"
  • Joe Lala – percussion on "First Things First"
  • Rita Coolidge, Priscilla Jones, John Sebastianbacking vocals on "Love the One You're With"
  • Fred Neil, Henry Diltz – backing vocals on "Change Partners"
  • Cass Elliot – backing vocals on "Pre-Road Downs"
  • Mike Lewis, Joel Bernstein – string arrangements on "Cathedral"
  • Jerry Garcia - pedal steel guitar on "Change Partners"

Charts

Chart performance for Replay
Chart (1980-1981)Peak

position

US Top LPs & Tape (Billboard)122
US Cash Box Top 100 Albums [4] 146

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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
  4. "CASH BOX MAGAZINE: Music and coin machine magazine 1942 to 1996". worldradiohistory.com. Retrieved 2020-07-05.

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