So Far
Crosby Stills Nash & Young
Audio CD (September 20, 1994)
Original Release Date: August 1974
Number of Discs: 1
Format: Original recording remastered
Label: Atlantic / Wea
Track listing:
"Déjà Vu" (Crosby) – 4:10
"Helplessly Hoping" (Stills) – 2:38
"Wooden Ships" (Crosby, Stills, Kantner) – 5:26
"Teach Your Children" (Nash) – 2:53
"Ohio" (Young) – 3:00
"Find the Cost of Freedom" (Stills) – 2:01
"Woodstock" (Mitchell) – 3:52
"Our House" (Nash) – 2:58
"Helpless" (Young) – 3:34
"Guinnevere" (Crosby) – 4:38
"Suite: Judy Blue Eyes" (Stills) – 7:24
It's tempting to follow the post-Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young career of Neil Young and underestimate this early band as a lighter, commercial diversion. But their fourth album, a concise retrospective of highlights, remains a sweeping '60s document, full of pastoral optimism and the virtues of (even today) spectacular-sounding harmonies. These songs continue to dominate AOR radio, and the best--the searing "Ohio" (written after the Kent State massacre), the utopian "Woodstock," and the ominous, graceful "Wooden Ships," the band's best performance--have an artful, mystical sweetness. --Roy Francis Kasten
From Wikipedia:
"So Far" is the fourth album by Crosby, Stills & Nash (their third as Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young), and the first compilation album released by the group. Shipping as a gold record and peaking at #1 on the Billboard Top Pop Albums chart, it was the band's third chart-topping album in a row.
Compiled from a stand-alone single and two studio albums, Crosby, Stills & Nash and Déjà Vu, it is the only place where that single's flip "Find the Cost of Freedom" can be found on one compact disc. The A-side "Ohio" can also be found on Neil Young's 2004 Greatest Hits album, as well as his earlier Decade compilation.
Capitalizing on the highly publicized and anticipated reunion tour of CSNY in 1974, the album consisted of eleven studio tracks from a group that had only issued twenty-two to date. Five of the songs had been Top 40 hits, and such was the demand for any sign of activity from the quartet that So Far topped the charts. Graham Nash later insisted that the group was against the album's release, calling the concoction of a greatest-hits album from two LPs "absurd."
The cover art was painted by the group's friend and colleague Joni Mitchell, who also wrote "Woodstock". The album was reissued for CD on October 25, 1990, and again after being remastered at Ocean View Digital using the original master tapes on September 20, 1994.
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