Negative Positive
Title: Not as heinous as "American Dream," but...
Review: The glorious career of CSN together seems determined to end with a whimper rather than a bang. There are a couple of surprises on this one: Stills' "Only Waiting for You" has a yearning quality that would have made it a decent cut on one of his middle-period solo albums; and CSN's acoustic cover of "In My Life" is so lovely, you wonder why they don't just dynamite the whole boatload of cheesy sythesizers, oppressive overdubs, tacky Vegas-lounge arrangements, and get back to the acoustic garden where they belong. Stills' "It Won't Go Away" was a ripping inheritor to litanies of righteous anger like "Word Game" sung live and acoustic, but here, he plays it on electric rockstar guitar that's so overamped it sounds like a rider mower running over burlap bags. Here's hoping the next CSNY album is less used-up and overwrought than this.
Is the review positive or negative? 