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Deja Vu: Live | 
| Artist: Crosby Stills Nash & Young
Label: Reprise
Category: Music
List Price: £15.99
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Rating:  5 reviews
Sales Rank: 1685
Format: Live, Cd
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.4 x 4.9 x 0.4
MPN: 512606
UPC: 093624983910
EAN: 0093624983910
ASIN: B001AW9DKK
Release Date: August 25, 2008
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| Tracks:
| • | What Are Their Names | | • | Living With War | | • | After The Garden | | • | Military Madness | | • | Let's Impeach The President | | • | Deja Vu | | • | Shock And Awe | | • | Families | | • | Wooden Ships | | • | Looking For A Leader | | • | For What It's Worth | | • | Living With War | | • | Roger And Out | | • | Find The Cost Of Freedom | | • | Teach Your Children | | • | Living With War |
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| Customer Reviews:
 Neils 'Living With War' Live October 3, 2008
I'm a little surprised by some of the negative reviews of tis soundtrack to the movie album.Sure its a lot different to Neil's excellent Heart Of Gold movie,but to say its irrelevant is not too fair.Neils none too happy about the current situation he finds his adopted country in,so he expresses it in the best way he knows through his music.This CD recording wise is not as crisp a sound as I would have liked but CSN & Y are still in top form on a tour that would be controversial but many agreed with it.Sharing ones feelings has always come through music,and these guys have never avoided putting them into song.This is a challenging,at times hard album but surely within the film context it will be easier to follow.For all that,sound apart is an album all fans of the band and its individual members fans will buy and keep,and there are some very good songs as well...do give it a listen,its worth it.
 Preaching and sermonizing September 24, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
A lot of Neil Young's work has been is very interesting and evocative. Not this cd. A recent convert from Reaganism, Neil has become preachy and political in the other direction. Apparently he is giving equal time to experience all kinds of political thought. Is he now a kind of descendent of Woody Guthrie and Pete Seeger? The songs do not connect to common people. Neil is trying on the role of a political demagogue now. There is no art here. He writes and sings slogans, which are not very interesting or evocative. I can think politically for myself and do not need this guy--who is pretty much locked in his own world---to tell me what to think. He drowns poor CSN; apparently their self esteem is so low they allow themselves to be less than sidemen. Maybe CSN should compose some songs of independence from Neil; his control certainly does them no favors. That said, the first song on the cd, the retake of What are their Names is done a acapella by all four and is evocative (Neil's voice actually blends in with the others!)
 SAD August 27, 2008
7 out of 19 found this review helpful
It's sad to see once-great musicians in this state, but that's no reason to spend good money on a travesty of a performance. I've you haven't already got "4 Way Street" (one of the best live rock recordings ever), spend your money on that instead.
vapid and completely irrelevant August 27, 2008
7 out of 19 found this review helpful
seeing as how my last review has mysteriously vanished...
Unless you want to hear the sound of a bunch of over-the-hill sixty-plussers doing their level best to pound that final nail into their communal coffin...avoid this ghastly release. With the exception of Graham Nash [who's 'Military Madness' provides one of the low points here...of many it must be said]; not one of the other three can claim to be up to much in the vocals dept. As for the guitar playing....come on Neil, don't you think there's more to it than just relying on the old distortion pedal to hide your inadequate soloing???
'Living With Bore[dom]' would have been a more apt title chaps.
Neil Young's CSNY August 4, 2008
23 out of 25 found this review helpful
Ever since this legendary band reformed in 1999 it has very much been with Neil Young at the steering wheel. He has chosen the backing bands and he has vetoed any official releases from their prevoius, highly succesful tours, in 2000 and '02.
This isn't a proper livealbum either, but the soundtrack to his film about the band's "Freedom Of Speech" tour in '06, promoting Neil's "Living With War" album.
Where the tour was a mix of new and old songs, and the 30+ songlist somewhat equally shared between the four great songwriters, here it's all Neil, with 9 out of 16 songs being from "Living..", while the other three have to share the remaining 7. That Neil is by far the most succesful through the years, commercially and mediawise, hardly justify such a malproportion. And although I can wholeheratedly agree with Neil's poignant lyrics about War, Iraq and Mr. Bush, the musical qualities of his new tunes are more dubious.
The highlights of the CD is undoubtly the fine versions of the classics "Deja Vu" and "Wooden Ships", where it sounds like a band and where we get some of the famous twin leadguitar interplay between Neil and Stephen Stills.Whereas CSN is hardly audible through the new Neil songs. It's also on the classic tracks that the impeccable backing musicians really gel, not least the fine bassplayer Rick Rosas and drummer Chad Cromwell.
As evidenced by their recent collaborations with David Gilmour ("Island" and the live-DVD) David Crosby and Graham Nash are in topform vocally, whereas Stephen isn't, he doesn't even sing on his own "Find The Cost Of Freedom", but plays some fine guitar - when he's allowed to step out that is.
But else it's all Neil, and he's certainly in great form through out.
A fine release by one of the all-time greatest bands, though I personally would have preferred a whole show.
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