Looking Forward Explained

Looking Forward
Type:studio
Artist:Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
Cover:CSNYlookingforward.jpg
Released:October 26, 1999
Recorded:November 3, 1996 – July 21, 1999
Studio:Broken Arrow Ranch
Genre:Folk rock
Length:53:17
Label:Reprise
Producer:
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Looking Forward is the eighth and final studio album by Crosby, Stills & Nash, and their third with Neil Young. It was released on Reprise Records in 1999 and peaked at number 26 on the Billboard 200, with total sales nearing 400,000.[1]

Background and recording

Crosby, Stills & Nash toured extensively through the 1990s, playing almost as many shows as they had in the previous decades combined.[2] [3] Since their previous album, no new solo albums were forthcoming from Stephen Stills or Graham Nash, but David Crosby had discovered his adult son James Raymond, the two starting a band with Jeff Pevar yielding an album CPR in 1998. However, the band's relationship with Atlantic Records had soured, partly over a lack of push for After the Storm, but mostly over the perception that the label now had very little interest in the group when they had made the company millions during the 1970s heyday.[4] They terminated their contract with Atlantic in 1997, and began to record CSN tracks out of pocket without a record deal.[5] [6] Working with Stills to compile the Buffalo Springfield retrospective box set, Neil Young became intrigued with these CSN sessions. Playing on some tracks in process, Young brought in three recordings he had earmarked for one of his own albums, "Looking Forward", "Slowpoke", and "Out of Control".[7] The possibility of a new CSNY album attracted the attention of Young's label Reprise Records, which duly released the album once completed.

"Faith in Me" and "No Tears Left" were recorded in Ga Ga's Room in Los Angeles early on in the recording process. "Stand and Be Counted", "Seen Enough", "Dream for Him" and "Sanibel" were recorded at Conway Recording Studios in Hollywood. "Heartland" was recorded at Ocean Studios in Burbank, California. The remainder of the album was recorded at Neil Young's facility, Redwood Digital, in Woodside, California.

Reception

Looking Forward has sold approximately 370,000 copies in the United States.[8] It received mixed critical reviews. In 2000, CSNY launched the CSNY2K Tour in support of the album, the quartet's first tour since the summer stadium tour of 1974.

Personnel

CSNY

Additional personnel

Production personnel

Charts

Chart performance for Looking Forward!Chart (1999)!Peakposition
US Billboard 20026
Canadian RPM 100 Albums[9] 17
Norwegian VG-lista Albums[10] 7
UK Album Charts[11] 54
Japanese Album Charts[12] 55
Dutch MegaCharts Albums[13] 15
French Album Charts[14] 60
West German Album Charts[15] 10
Swedish Album Charts[16] 26

Notes and References

  1. Web site: RIAA - Soundscan. Greasylakes. 23 December 2015.
  2. http://www.setlist.fm/stats/crosby-stills-nash-and-young-63d6b61b.html Setlist.fm CSNY show tally retrieved 23 August 2015
  3. http://www.setlist.fm/stats/albums/crosby-stills-and-nash-33d6f8a1.html Setlist.fm CSN show tally retrieved 23 August 2015
  4. Four Way Street The Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young Reader. Da Capo Press 2004,, p. 313. Article by Bill DeYoung, originally in Goldmine June 19, 1998.
  5. Zimmer, Dave. Crosby, Stills & Nash The Biography. Da Capo Press 2000,, p. 287.
  6. Four Way Street Reader, op. cit., p. 328. Article by Gary Graff, originally in Guitar World February 2000.
  7. Zimmer, op. cit., p. 291.
  8. http://www.greasylake.org/the-circuit/index.php?/topic/106260-neil-young-bob-seger-and-crosby-stills-nash-youngusa-album-sales/ Greasy Lake website CSNY album sales retrieved 23 August 2015
  9. Web site: Canada. Library and Archives. 2013-04-16. The RPM story. 2020-07-05. www.bac-lac.gc.ca.
  10. Web site: norwegiancharts.com - Norwegian charts portal. 2020-07-05. norwegiancharts.com.
  11. Book: Brown, Tony.. The Complete Book of the British Charts. Omnibus Press. 2000. 0-7119-7670-8. 200–201.
  12. Web site: クロスビー,スティルス,ナッシュ&ヤングの売上ランキング. 2020-10-11. ORICON NEWS.
  13. Web site: Dutch Charts - dutchcharts.nl. 2020-07-05. dutchcharts.nl.
  14. Web site: 2016-01-02. InfoDisc : Les Albums (CD) de 1970 par InfoDisc. 2020-12-11. https://web.archive.org/web/20160102034136/http://www.infodisc.fr/B-CD_1970.php. 2016-01-02.
  15. Web site: Suche - Offizielle Deutsche Charts. 2020-12-11. www.offiziellecharts.de.
  16. Web site: Sverigetopplistan. 2020-12-11. Sverigetopplistan. sv.

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