Stephen Stills

I think that he was clearly the beast writer in CSNY. I'll look forward to hearing it.

@bigtwin 

Yes, Neil has produced a lot of music, but quite a bit of it has been sub-par too.

I probably wasn't clear in what I said. I don't look at talent or art in the "American" way, where everything has to have a "best" this or that. I do prefer and enjoy the songwriting of Stephen Stills to Neil Young, but that said, Neil has written many fine songs. Graham and David also had some fine songs individually as well as together.

@mwinkc I feel the same way about 4 + 20. It's a simple masterpiece. 

@ricmci 

I just looked up Last Train to Tulsa on youtube because I don't have that disc, and I didn't know the song. To me, it's a great example of how different music moves different people. I had a hard time even getting through it, with his horrible guitar strumming and the lyrics that sounded "poetic" but didn't really seem to make sense.

We all find meaning in different things, and that's good. There is something for everyone.

@stuartk 

I agree with you on that. I said that the lyrics of that Neil Young song meant nothing to me, but I love the lyrics of other songs by early REM, Duran Duran and Roxy Music which are also obscure and don't necessarily have a clear meaning, and yet I find those words very evocative as you said, and they have deep meaning for me.

"Relatively speaking, Stills isn't much more than a footnote.”

@waltersalas 

I have rarely read a more ignorant comment.

@waltersalas 

Oh, I read plenty, but that comment was ridiculous. Stephen Stills is a great talent, much more than a footnote. What does reading have to do with it anyway?

I am very serious.