Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young-So Far (1974)
Artist: Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young
Title: So Far
Label: Atlantic
Format: LP
Cat #: SD 19119
Year of Release: 1974
Country and Year of Edition Issue: US 1977 reissue
Listed Condition: VG+/VG
Sell Date: 10/28/25
Sell Price: $4.57
Discogs Last Sold: 10/18/25 VG+/G+ $3.00
Low: $1.99
Median: $5.08
Average: $8.02
High: $24.95
Current low price: $4.99
Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 27
Have/Want: 3971/92
Where Sold: Denver, CO
Time it took to sell: 10 years
Where and When Bought: Worcester Al Bums used $3.99 early 80's
Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: A-
Sad To See It Go: No
I have a memory of this album where I was stuck on the Cape as a pre-teen and there was no radio to listen to but there was a tape player and my Aunt had a cassette of this album, the one thing that was there that I liked. "Suite: Judy Blue Eyes" was always an early childhood favorite somebody had and played that wasn't in my household, and I owned a warped 50 cent copy of Deja Vu by the early 80's from a yard sale up the street. For whatever reason over time, maybe because of the post-Neil years, I always instinctively DIDN'T want to hear CSNY. Particularly the hits.
There are some songs I gravitate to now: "Wooden Ships," "Helpless" and of course "Ohio" especially for the line "we're finally on our own." Joni Mitchell's "Woodstock" I'm a little burnt on except I always like to hear the line "and I dreamed I saw the bomber jet planes/riding shotgun in the sky/turning into butterflies/across our nation" which I forever thought was "and i dreamed i saw above, flying, a shotgun to the sky, turning into butterflies, upon the nation." Whether my lyric is better, well, hey, I guess it's my interpretation alone. By the way, Joni did the art for this cover even though the band thought it was ridiculous to release an 11-track record for a band that had 22 songs to date. However, there was a tour that needed new product, so new product won out.
Semantics be damned, it was a #1 Billboard record and immediately went Gold in the US although it wasn't certified 6 times Platinum until 1992.
I still like "Suite: Judy Blue Eyes" after all these years.
FOR FURTHER REVIEW:
The Byrds-Greatest Hits (1967)
Neil Young & Crazy Horse-Reactor (1981)
Neil Young-Harvest Moon (1992)
Joni Mitchell-Song To A Seagull (1968)
Jackson Browne-Jackson Browne (1972)
Public Enemy-He Got Game (1998)
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