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Crosby Stills & Nash — Wooden Ships
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gillespp
(Portland, OR)
Posted: May 03, 2013 - 17:10
 
 ceviche wrote:
What a bunch of soft-headed hippie claptrap.
"Silver people on the shoreline let us be..."
Still, I love it, gave it an 8.

 
Not hippie claptrap. Listen close to the lyrics; the song is about a postnuclear apocalypse. "Silver people on the shoreline" have to be people in radiation suits checking out the radioactive areas.

That_SOB
(In at least 2 places at once)
Posted: Jan 29, 2013 - 19:06
 
I was 2 years out of high-school, and at the U of Wash. in "69"  My lady and I went to sleep 100 nights{#Kiss} listening to this sweet
sweet music. Every time I hear this song, the memories come flooding back, and they are as fine as the song. 10 !

On_The_Beach
(The Blue Planet)
Posted: Oct 27, 2012 - 17:49
 
 Stranglersfan wrote:

I agree, its amazing how times have changed. There was a remarkably small amount of bad music made in those days.
 
Actually there was TONS of bad music back then. Bobby Goldsboro, anyone?
Thankfully most of it has been forgotten and the good stuff (like this) lives on.

Stranglersfan
(Revelstoke, B.C.)
Posted: Oct 27, 2012 - 17:18
 
 martinc wrote:

Yep but 1969 was even better. Check date here. Led Zep I and II  ......
 
I agree, its amazing how times have changed. There was a remarkably small amount of bad music made in those days.

martinc
(Ottawa Canada)
Posted: Aug 14, 2012 - 08:52
 
 godspeed wrote:
The year of 1970 produced some of the greatest music ever heard!
Google that year and you'll be amazed by the number of timeless classics.
 
Yep but 1969 was even better. Check date here. Led Zep I and II  ......

max_p
Posted: Jul 25, 2012 - 07:34
 
 mcYammer wrote:
Buttery guitar solos. So many transfiguring autumn drives to this in HS, o thanks CSN
 
yes in contrast to CSN+Y

eswiley2
Posted: Jul 25, 2012 - 07:33
 
I listened to this album for a long time on just a crappy old record player — no stereo.  I didn't hear the "conversation" for years.  First time I did was a big "WOW" moment for me!

Not unlike when the Wizard of Oz goes from black and white to color!

{#Music}

funkyalfonso
(Vancouver Island)
Posted: Jul 22, 2012 - 02:21
 
 Hannio wrote:


Sez you.  It's every bit as good, sez I.
 
Sez me 2.

ScottishWillie
(The Scottish Lowlands)
Posted: May 23, 2012 - 01:08
 

I can’t hear this song without visualizing the footage from the Woodstock film.



fitzworld
(The Big A)
Posted: Mar 20, 2012 - 14:58
 
Does it get any better than this?

drfeeleygood
Posted: Mar 20, 2012 - 14:54
 
According to my parents....First song i ever heard. No wonder I'm such an audiophile.

mcYammer
(Beervana)
Posted: Dec 16, 2011 - 10:04
 
Buttery guitar solos. So many transfiguring autumn drives to this in HS, o thanks CSN

godspeed
(maui)
Posted: Nov 14, 2011 - 17:33
 
The year of 1970 produced some of the greatest music ever heard!
Google that year and you'll be amazed by the number of timeless classics.

ceviche
(Lima, Peru)
Posted: Sep 12, 2011 - 15:34
 
What a bunch of soft-headed hippie claptrap.
"Silver people on the shoreline let us be..."
Still, I love it, gave it an 8.

bluecshells
(EARTH)
Posted: Sep 12, 2011 - 15:25
 
Great great great!

d-don
(Oregon)
Posted: Sep 12, 2011 - 15:23
 
Say, can I have some of your purple berries?


eswiley2
Posted: Jun 10, 2011 - 05:54
 
The stereo system I first played this on didn't have good sound separation.  It was years before I heard the "dialog" at the beginning...

sunward
(British Columbia)
Posted: May 09, 2011 - 15:44
 
 dcjohnson77 wrote:


Thanks, Lemmoth, thought I lost my memory trying to link this to CSNY. Still a great tune though........
 


The credits are right, but the album photo is not. Wooden Ships was from CSN, before Neil joined Aug 17, (one day before they played at Woodstock). The cover shown is for Deja Vu - with Neil, but no Wooden Ships.

dcjohnson77
Posted: May 09, 2011 - 15:23
 
 lemmoth wrote:
Cmon Bill — Please update the album credits and photo.

No Neil on this great great record. 
 

Thanks, Lemmoth, thought I lost my memory trying to link this to CSNY. Still a great tune though........

bluecshells
(Texas)
Posted: May 09, 2011 - 15:19
 
Truly golden. Too bad I'm in a cube because I want to SING to this one! 


Krimptastic
Posted: Apr 27, 2011 - 22:03
 
Puts me in an absolutely fabulous mood anytime of the day or under any circumstances.  Flawless.  "Guess I'll set a course and go..."

linzie
Posted: Mar 07, 2011 - 12:44
 
See, I'm one of those who pretty much gushes over a lot of music here, but how do you avoid it?...This is another one I can hear over and over.....the whole album can be infectious..



Hannio
(Austin, TX)
Posted: Mar 07, 2011 - 12:36
 
 keller1 wrote:

OK.... 8.7 for the CSN verson, 5.9 for the Airplane's, sez the RP voting audience.

 

Yeah, the wisdom of the masses and all that.

lemmoth
(NYC)
Posted: Mar 07, 2011 - 12:35
 
Cmon Bill — Please update the album credits and photo.

No Neil on this great great record. 

GeneP59
(Home field advantage till Dalas.)
Posted: Jan 03, 2011 - 21:32
 
This is my favorite CSNY song evah!  {#Music}

spigolli
(Peachtree City, GA, USA)
Posted: Dec 03, 2010 - 07:00
 
Cool how the "enemies" are on opposite channels.

walk
(SF)
Posted: Nov 23, 2010 - 01:28
 
 rtrudeau wrote:
Bill, thanks for playing this song from one of the best albums of all time.

BTW, the links and album art are wrong. This song is from their first album:


 

yes

lemmoth
(NYC)
Posted: Nov 02, 2010 - 10:41
 
 Poolguy wrote:


I think you mean Canadian songwriter.
 
North American this is... with apologies to Leonard Cohen


BigIslandBlues
Posted: Nov 01, 2010 - 14:48
 
 rtrudeau wrote:
Bill, thanks for playing this song from one of the best albums of all time.

BTW, the links and album art are wrong. This song is from their first album:


 
Hello Bill....
Wooden Ships...CSN no Y
Sublime.


Poolguy
(Calgary)
Posted: Nov 01, 2010 - 14:47
 
 lemmoth wrote:

Maybe because, despite the fact that Steven was a great songwritier, and David and Graham pretty good ones, Neil Young is one of the two greatest American songwriters of the second half of the twentieth century —- so he gets to sing his own songs.

So there.

 

I think you mean Canadian songwriter.

lemmoth
(NYC)
Posted: Nov 01, 2010 - 14:44
 
 lewie221 wrote:
I still don't get the logic that allowed them to let Y sing. This gem seems a compelling argument against it.
 
Maybe because, despite the fact that Steven was a great songwritier, and David and Graham pretty good ones, Neil Young is one of the two greatest American songwriters of the second half of the twentieth century —- so he gets to sing his own songs.

So there.


lemmoth
(NYC)
Posted: Nov 01, 2010 - 14:40
 
Classic

helgigermany
(Germany)
Posted: Sep 30, 2010 - 23:28
 
Love SS voice, the music work is anway a classical!  Every time i hear this music, i love it!

Shesdifferent
(Just visiting this planet this is not my home)
Posted: Aug 29, 2010 - 23:35
 
Oh Yeah...I swear RP plays better stuff at night than in the daytime which is when I do the majority of my listening. Perfect timeing on this classic song.
Oh...and outstanding times too!

keller1
(In A Gadda Da Vida, Baby)
Posted: May 26, 2010 - 08:02
 
 Hannio wrote:


Sez you.  It's every bit as good, sez I.
 
OK.... 8.7 for the CSN verson, 5.9 for the Airplane's, sez the RP voting audience.


Hannio
(Austin, TX)
Posted: May 26, 2010 - 06:37
 
 keller1 wrote:

The Airplane version (since Paul Kantner co-wrote it, strictly speaking it's not a cover) is already playlisted, and it's awful.
 

Sez you.  It's every bit as good, sez I.

nalle
(Malmo, Sweden)
Posted: Apr 24, 2010 - 13:29
 
Love that B3 in the start, good song, love it.

cohifi
(Denver)
Posted: Mar 23, 2010 - 22:35
 
 On_The_Beach wrote:

Definitely. Those first 2 albums really hold up, all these decades later. (This song is from the first album of course, not DéJa Vu, pictured above.)

 
I got to see Mr. Stills recently.  He didn't get sick once!


On_The_Beach
(Vancouver BC, Bud)
Posted: Jan 19, 2010 - 22:47
 
 paulmack wrote:
Love Stephen Stills' guitar playing here, especially the first part of the solo. His guitar tone, to me, is at its finest here, too. Nice and fat which balances the twangy, country overall sense of that solo. Love it. The good ol' days of CSNY.
 
Definitely. Those first 2 albums really hold up, all these decades later. (This song is from the first album of course, not DéJa Vu, pictured above.)


Sloggydog
(UK)
Posted: Jan 19, 2010 - 22:41
 
I was hooked within about 5 secs.

HazzeSwede
(Vinyl Land)
Posted: Nov 18, 2009 - 02:54
 
 kaybee wrote:

Maybe on your planet.  If anything, the sense of hope people had in the late sixties is the only thing that has abated, to the point where many people have given up, believing human and planetary extinction to be inevitable.

     {#Yes}  ,,for me it went away with Gloria Gaynor,,I will survive,,,,


paulmack
(the hissing swamps)
Posted: Aug 15, 2009 - 14:14
 
Love Stephen Stills' guitar playing here, especially the first part of the solo. His guitar tone, to me, is at its finest here, too. Nice and fat which balances the twangy, country overall sense of that solo. Love it. The good ol' days of CSNY.

kaybee
(Lost in the Wilds of Toronto)
Posted: May 12, 2009 - 17:27
 
 bitbanger wrote:
 AliGator wrote:
I listened to several verses with my eyes closed. That made me listen harder. And I'll be damned if the lyrics aren't relevant roday.


Ms. AliGator, with all due respect, if you had to think hard to realize that the lyrics were still relevant than they aren't that relevant anymore. The apprehension of the imminence of the destruction of civilization and species was palpable, immediate, and formidable at the time this song was written. It has abated since then.
 
Maybe on your planet.  If anything, the sense of hope people had in the late sixties is the only thing that has abated, to the point where many people have given up, believing human and planetary extinction to be inevitable.


JoBo
(California)
Posted: May 12, 2009 - 09:39
 
I absolutely love this song !! .... it was on our set list when I and sang w/a band back in the 80s .... say hey to Art McCloud if you are out there!



lewie221
(Silicon Valley)
Posted: May 12, 2009 - 09:37
 
I still don't get the logic that allowed them to let Y sing. This gem seems a compelling argument against it.

p2h2d2
(On the Lake)
Posted: May 12, 2009 - 09:36
 
10...top of the heap; relevant and timeless

annersjen
(in the rolling hills of New York)
Posted: May 12, 2009 - 09:36
 
 bitbanger wrote:
 The apprehension of the imminence of the destruction of civilization and species was palpable, immediate, and formidable at the time this song was written. It has abated since then.
 
I don't know what ever makes you think that!!


On_The_Beach
(Vancouver, Canada)
Posted: Apr 10, 2009 - 23:45
 
From Wikipedia: ". . . Stills has stated at music festivals that the song is in fact about the Holocaust in Europe during World War II. Though the obscure lyrics do not refer specifically to the events of the war, the story of the song can be interpreted as the meeting of two deserters or non-Jewish individuals who are fleeing Europe to avoid starvation or participation in anti-Semitic violence. In this context, the "silver people on the shoreline" may refer to Nazi soldiers. The lyrics "Horror grips us as we watch you die / All we can do is echo your anguished cries, / Stare as all human feelings die" could indicate that the characters in the song are observing a horrific slaughter yet can do nothing to prevent it."


keller1
(In A Gadda Da Vida, Baby)
Posted: Apr 10, 2009 - 20:50
 
 westslope wrote:

A favourite from the period.  Two new members to the nuclear club since it was written.

Somebody should upload the Jefferson Airplane cover.


 
The Airplane version (since Paul Kantner co-wrote it, strictly speaking it's not a cover) is already playlisted, and it's awful.



bitbanger
(Upper West Side)
Posted: Apr 10, 2009 - 20:05
 
 AliGator wrote:
I listened to several verses with my eyes closed. That made me listen harder. And I'll be damned if the lyrics aren't relevant roday.


Ms. AliGator, with all due respect, if you had to think hard to realize that the lyrics were still relevant than they aren't that relevant anymore. The apprehension of the imminence of the destruction of civilization and species was palpable, immediate, and formidable at the time this song was written. It has abated since then.