Product Description
Rare Actual 1971 Japanese First Pressing ~ High Quality Vinyl Still In Top Condition! Includes Insert With Lyrics, Labels Are Clean. The Superb Second Album From Buffalo Springfield, Featuring Stephen Stills & A Very Young Neil Young.
Buffalo Springfield: Stephen Stills (guitar, keyboards, vocals), Dewey Martin (drums, vocals), Bruce Palmer (electric bass), Richie Furay (guitar, vocals), and Neil Young (guitar, harmonica, piano, vocals)
Condition – Vinyl: NEAR MINT!
Condition – Cover: VERY GOOD PLUS! Some minor discolouring on edge and back.
Japanese vinyl pressings are highly sought after by audiophiles and collectors, due to their premium sound quality and beautifully presented packaging. The sonic quality of Japanese records is regarded as the best in the world. No wonder all the original Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab records were pressed in Japan! The covers are printed on better quality heavy stock paper too. Near Mint condition Japanese pressings are becoming scarcer ~ and therefore more collectable and valuable every year..
Side 1:
Mr. Soul
A Child’s Claim To Fame
Everydays
Expecting To Fly
Bluebird
Side 2:
Hung Upside Down
Sad Memory
Good Time Boy
Rock And Roll Woman
Broken Arrow
AMG –
Buffalo Springfield continued to make major strides in both their songwriting and arranging, and this record stands as their greatest triumph. Due in part to personnel problems which saw Bruce Palmer and Neil Young in and out of the group, Buffalo Springfield's second album did not have as unified an approach as their debut. Yet it doesn't suffer for that in the least -- indeed, the group continued to make major strides in both their songwriting and arranging, and this record stands as their greatest triumph. Stephen Stills' "Bluebird" and "Rock & Roll Woman" were masterful folk-rockers that should have been big hits (although they did manage to become small ones); his lesser-known contributions "Hung Upside Down" and the jazz-flavored "Everydays" were also first-rate. Young contributed the Rolling Stones-derived "Mr. Soul," as well as the brilliant "Expecting to Fly" and "Broken Arrow," both of which employed lush psychedelic textures and brooding, surrealistic lyrics that stretched rock conventions to their breaking point. Richie Furay (who had not written any of the songs on the debut) takes tentative songwriting steps with three compositions, although only "A Child's Claim to Fame," with its memorable dobro hooks by James Burton, meets the standards of the material by Stills and Young; the cut also anticipates the country-rock direction of Furay's post-Springfield band, Poco. Although a slightly uneven record that did not feature the entire band on several cuts, the high points were so high and plentiful that its classic status cannot be denied.