Stephen Stills - Stephen Stills 2

Another Great Stills Collection

I found this album to be great. I just heard Steven Stills in Concert and had to get this album. Reminds me how much I enjoyed his music in my younger years~ October 21, 2007

Not a great record, perhaps . . .

. . . but a very good one nevertheless. "Change Partners" has proved to be a very durable song. "Fishes and Scorpions" is a nice acoustic number. The reason why I originally purchased the LP back in 1971, though, is the neglected single, "Marianne"--a highly enjoyeable, if somewhat slight, rocker, with Stills in the upper reaches of his vocal range. Despite the sometimes unwieldy arrangements, this is a very good set of Stills songs. July 19, 2007

Better Than His Self-Titled Debut

STEPHEN STILLS 2 is better than Stephen Stills' self-titled debut, which contained the godawful (and overplayed) "Love The One You're With", which is so annoying that even B-vitamins and omega-3 oils won't make it any less so. This CD includes wonderful songs such as "Change Partners" and several others that are complex enough lyrically and musically that a diet rich in the above nutrients is necessary to truly appreciate this masterpiece, and even then, it still takes repeated listening to fully "get" what Stills was up to here. This one is far superior to sometime bandmate David Crosby's concurrent solo CD IF ONLY I COULD REMEMBER MY NAME, which is so inscrutable that you'd need lots of fish and whole grains in your diet to get the nutrients that would help you to even make sense of it. Stills' belief that the young Australian tourist jailed in Indonesia since 2005 for drug-smuggling was falsely convicted makes STEPHEN STILLS 2 an essential purchase for both your ears AND your conscience. May 19, 2007

A solid album

While not his best effort, this is still a good album. It was a top 10 hit in the US and was certified GOLD. It produced two singles that just missed the Billboard Top 40, Change Partners (which peaked at 43) and Marianne (which hit 42). Stills departs from his accoustic folk-rock roots for a remake of his Buffalo Springfield classic Bluebird, which he probably would have been better off to leave off the album. He seems to try to redo it with a big band sound and it just does not work. But there is more than enough good material on the album to make-up for that miss. April 9, 2007

The very best!

This was better to my ears than Stills 1st album when it came out and it still is. Does it make my heart dance and leap for joy? Yes, it does...and that is about all the critiquing elements I enlist for doing a review. An album either sounds simply horrible and dead (1 star), about half of the album is good (3 stars), almost there (4 stars), or it is there (5 stars). This one is there. The first was only 3 stars to me. February 17, 2007

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