Buffalo Springfield Again
Buffalo Springfield Again is the second album by Buffalo Springfield, released on Atco Records in October 1967. The album features some of the group's best-known songs, including "Mr. Soul", "Bluebird", "Expecting to Fly" and "Rock & Roll Woman", all of which were released as singles. In contrast to the band's hastily made debut album, recording for Again took place over a protracted nine-month span and was fraught with dysfunction, with each member eventually producing his own material largely independent of one another.
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Released | October 30, 1967 | |||
Recorded | January 9 – September 18, 1967 | |||
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Length | 34:07 | |||
Label | Atco | |||
Producer | Stephen Stills, Neil Young, Richie Furay, Dewey Martin, Jim Messina, Jack Nitzsche, Ahmet Ertegun, Brian Stone, Charles Greene | |||
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Rolling Stone | (favorable) |
The Village Voice | A− |
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The album was a moderate commercial success, peaking at number 44 on the Billboard Top LPs chart, and came to be regarded by many rock critics as a classic of the psychedelic era. In 2003, the album was ranked number 188 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time, maintaining the rating in a 2012 revised list. The album was included in Robert Christgau's "Basic Record Library" of 1950s and 1960s recordings—published in Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies (1981)—and in Robert Dimery's 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die. It was voted number 165 in Colin Larkin's All Time Top 1000 Albums in 2000.