Replay (Crosby, Stills & Nash album)

Replay
Compilation album by Crosby, Stills & Nash
Released	December 8, 1980
Genre	Rock
Length	38:13
Label	Atlantic
Producer	Bill Halverson David Crosby Graham Nash Stephen Stills
Crosby, Stills & Nash chronology
CSN (1977) Replay (1980) Daylight Again (1982)

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Replay is the sixth album by Crosby, Stills & Nash and their second retrospective, appearing in 1980 on the Atlantic Records label. It contains no material with Neil Young, but does from CSN solo projects. It peaked at #122 on the Billboard 200, their first album not to chart in the top ten, and is currently out of print.

Background

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

A strange compilation, it contains four album cuts taken from outside the parent CSN 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 lopping off the "Questions" tag section and adding a new lead guitar solo along with overdubbed bass and drums; and the string arrangement was removed from "I Give You Give Blind."

Its out-of-print status allows copies on-line to fetch relatively high prices for a single disc as of June 2006.

Track listing

Side one

Side two

Personnel

• David Crosby — vocals; acoustic guitar on "Just A Song Before I Go"; string arrangements on "Cathedral"
• Stephen Stills — vocals all tracks except "To the Last Whale"; guitars all tracks except "To the Last Whale" and "Cathedral"; bass on "Carry On," "Marrakesh Express," and "Pre-Road Downs"; keyboards on "Carry On," "Marrakesh Express" "Pre-Road Downs," and "Change Partners" congas, overdubbed drums on "Carry On"; steel drum, percussion on "Love the One You're With"
• Graham Nash — vocals all tracks except "Change Partners"; rhythm guitar on "Marrakesh Express" and "Pre-Road Downs"; piano on "Just A Song Before I Go," "To the Last Whale...," and "Cathedral"; string arrangements on "Cathedral"; congas on "Carry On"

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