Buffalo Springfield Again

Buffalo Springfield Again
Studio album by
Buffalo Springfield
ReleasedOctober 30, 1967[1]
RecordedJanuary 9 – September 18, 1967[2]
Studio
Genre
Length34:07
LabelAtco
Producer
Buffalo Springfield chronology
Buffalo Springfield
(1966) 		Buffalo Springfield Again
(1967) 		Last Time Around
(1968)
Singles from Buffalo Springfield Again
  1. "Bluebird" / "Mr. Soul"
    Released: June 1967
  2. "Rock & Roll Woman" / "A Child's Claim to Fame"
    Released: September 1967
  3. "Expecting to Fly" / "Everydays"
    Released: December 1967
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[9]
Rolling Stone(favorable)[10]
The Village VoiceA−[11]
Encyclopedia of Popular Music[12]

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.

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,[13] maintaining the rating in a 2012 revised list.[14] 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)[15]—and in Robert Dimery's 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die.[16] It was voted number 165 in Colin Larkin's All Time Top 1000 Albums in 2000.[17]

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  9. ^ "Richie Unterberger review of Buffalo Springfield Again". Allmusic.
  10. ^ Rolling Stone: Vol 1. No. 3, December 14, 1967, p. 19
  11. ^ Christgau, Robert (December 20, 1976). "Christgau's Consumer Guide to 1967". The Village Voice. New York. p. 69. Retrieved June 22, 2013.
  12. ^ Larkin, Colin (2007). Encyclopedia of Popular Music (5th ed.). Omnibus Press. ISBN 978-0857125958.
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  14. ^ "500 Greatest Albums of All Time Rolling Stone's definitive list of the 500 greatest albums of all time". Rolling Stone. 2012. Retrieved September 18, 2019.
  15. ^ Christgau, Robert (1981). "A Basic Record Library: The Fifties and Sixties". Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies. Ticknor & Fields. ISBN 0899190251. Retrieved March 16, 2019 – via robertchristgau.com.
  16. ^ ^ Robert Dimery; Michael Lydon (23 March 2010). 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die: Revised and Updated Edition. Universe. ISBN 978-0-7893-2074-2.
  17. ^ Colin Larkin, ed. (2000). All Time Top 1000 Albums (3rd ed.). Virgin Books. p. 92. ISBN 0-7535-0493-6.