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Sunday, March 22, 2026

Crosby Stills Nash Young: Top 100 Songs

Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young

Top 100 Songs

This page celebrates the 100 best works, collectively, from David Crosby, Stephen Stills, Graham, Nash, and Neil Young. Crosby, Stills, & Nash came together as a folk-rock trio in 1969. They were considered a supergroup given their pedegrees in previous groups. Crosby had been in the Byrds (1964-67, 1973, 1990), Stills in Buffalo Springfield (1966-68), and Nash in the Hollies (1962-68, 1981-83). On some of their albums, they were joined by Stills’ Buffalo Springfield bandmate Neil Young. Stills also formed the group Manassas (1971-73).

For a complete list of this act’s DMDB honors, check out the DMDB Music Maker Encyclopedia entry.

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Top 100 Songs

Dave’s Music Database lists are determined by song’s appearances on best-of lists, appearances on compilations and live albums by the featured act, and songs’ chart success, sales, radio airplay, streaming, and awards. This list includes songs from Crosby, Stills & Nash; Crosby, Still, Nash & Young; Buffalo Springfield (which included Stills and Young as members), and the solo work of David Crosby, Stephen Stills, Graham Nash, and Neil Young.

DMDB Top 1%:

1. For What It’s Worth (Buffalo Springfield, 1966)
2. Heart of Gold (Neil Young, 1972)
3. Suite: Judy Blue Eyes (CSN, 1969)

DMDB Top 2%:

4. Ohio (CSNY, 1970)
5. Rockin’ in the Free World (Young, 1989)
6. Teach Your Children (CSNY, 1970)
7. Cinnamon Girl (Young, 1969)
8. Love the One You’re With (Stills, 1970)
9. Our House (CSNY, 1970)

DMDB Top 5%:

10. Woodstock (CSNY, 1970)

11. Old Man (Young, 1972)
12. Harvest Moon (Young, 1992)
13. Marrakesh Express (CSN, 1969)
14. Southern Cross (CSN, 1982)
15. Southern Man (Young, 1970)
16. My My Hey Hey (Out of the Blue) (Young, 1979)
17. Helplessly Hoping (CSNY, 1969)
18. Mr. Soul (Buffalo Springfield, 1967)
19. Wooden Ships (CSN, 1969)

DMDB Top 10%:

20. The Needle and the Damage Done (Young, 1972)
21. Down by the River (Young, 1969)
22. Expecting to Fly (Buffalo Springfield, 1967)
23. Helpless (CSNY, 1970)
24. Just a Song Before I Go (CSN, 1977)
25. After the Gold Rush (Young, 1970)
26. Like a Hurricane (Young, 1977)
27. Wasted on the Way (CSN, 1982)
28. Only Love Can Break Your Heart (Young, 1970)
29. Cowgirl in the Sand (Young, 1969)
30. Hero (Crosby with Phil Collins, 1993)

31. Cortez the Killer (Young, 1975)

DMDB Top 20%:

32. Carry On (CSNY, 1970)
33. Hey Hey My My (Into the Black) (Young, 1979)
34. Long Time Gone (CSN, 1969)
35. Rock and Roll Woman (Buffalo Springfield, 1967)
36. War Games (CSN, 1983)
37. Bluebird (Buffalo Springfield, 1967)
38. Almost Cut My Hair (CSNY, 1970)
39. Philadelphia (Young, 1994)
40. American Dream (CSNY, 1988)

41. Sugar Mountain (Young, 1968)
42. Are You Ready for the Country? (Young, 1972)
43. Immigration Man (Crosby/Nash, 1972)
44. Got It Made (CSNY, 1988)
45. Broken Arrow (Buffalo Springfield, 1967)
46. Chicago (Nash, 1971)
47. Déjà Vu (CSNY, 1970)
48. Change Partners (Stills, 1971)
49. Carry Me (Crosby/Nash, 1975)
50. Guinnevere (CSN, 1969)

51. Long May You Run (Stills/Young, 1976)
52. Shadow Captain (CSN, 1977)
53. Blackbird (CSNY, 1969)
54. Fair Game (CSN, 1977)
55. You Don’t Have to Cry (CSN, 1969)
56. Dark Star (CSN, 1977)
57. Military Madness (Nash, 1971)
58. Find the Cost of Freedom (CSNY, 1970)
59. Tonight’s the Night (Young, 1973)
60. Southbound Train (Crosby & Nash, 1972)

61. No Tears Left (CSNY, 1999)
62. A Man Needs a Maid (Young, 1972)
63. War of Man (Young, 1992)
64. 4 + 20 (CSNY, 1970)
65. This Note’s for You (Young, 1988)
66. In My Life (CSNY, 1994)
67. Live It Up (CSN, 1990)
68. Powderfinger (Young, 1979)

DMDB Beyond the Top 20%:

69. Turn Back the Pages (Stills, 1975)
70. Music is Love (Crosby, 1971)

71. Drive My Car (Crosby, 1989)
72. Sit Yourself Down (Stills, 1970)
73. Four Strong Winds (Young, 1978)
74. Long Walk Home (Young, 1987)
75. Marianne (Stills, 1971)
76. Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere (Young, 1969)
77. Sit Yourself Down (Stills, 1970)
78. This Old House (CSNY, 1988)
79. When You Dance I Can Really Love (Young, 1970)
80. I Am a Child (Buffalo Springfield, 1968)

81. Southern Pacific (Young, 1981)
82. It Doesn’t Matter (Manassas, 1972)
83. Cathedral (CSN, 1977)
84. Innocent Eyes (Nash, 1986)
85. We Can Change the World (Nash, 1971)
86. War Song (Young/Nash, 1972)
87. Change Your Mind (Young, 1994)
88. Walk On (Young, 1974)
89. Isn’t It About Time (Manassas, 1973)
90. Ten Men Workin’ (Young, 1988)

91. Downtown (Young, 1995)
92. That Girl (CSNY, 1988)
93. Love is a Rose (Young, 1974)
94. Too Much Love to Hide (CSN, 1982)
95. Unknown Legend (Young, 1992)
96. Johnny’s Garden (Manassas, 1972)
97. No More (Young, 1989)
98. On the Way Home (Buffalo Springfield, 1968)
99. Dear Mr. Fantasy (Stills/Nash, 1980)
100. A Child’s Claim to Fame (Buffalo Springfield, 1967)

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First posted 1/20/2023; last updated 3/22/2026.

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Sunday, April 21, 2024

Laurel Canyon: Top 100 Songs

Laurel Canyon:

Top 100 Songs

Laurel Canyon is a mountainous neighborhood within the Hollywood Hills West district of Los Angeles, California. From the mid-‘60s to the mid-‘70s, it became “a nexus of counterculture activity and attitudes,” WK serving as a mecca for musicians including Jackson Browne, the Byrds, Buffalo Springfield, Canned Heat, Crosby Stills & Nash, Ned Doheny, members of the Eagles, Carole King, Love, members of the Mamas & the Papas, John Mayall, Joni Mitchell, the Monkees’ Micky Dolenz and Peter Tork, Jim Morrison (of the Doors), Harry Nilsson, Gram Parsons, Bonnie Raitt, Linda Ronstadt, Judee Sill, J.D. Souther, James Taylor, Brian Wilson (of the Beach Boys), Neil Young, and Frank Zappa.

18 lists focused on songs from Laurel Canyon were aggregated together. Those songs were narrowed down to those which were released between 1965 and 1975 and appeared on three or more lists. That left 149 songs. The top 50 songs were automatically in. For the next 50, I took the remaining songs and sorted them by overall status in Dave’s Music Database. Those top 50 were then added to the list, sorted by their points on the Laurel Canyon lists.

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1. Buffalo Springfield “For What It’s Worth” (1966)
2. Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young “Our House” (1970)
3. The Mamas & the Papas “California Dreamin’” (1965)
4. The Mamas & the Papas “Twelve Thirty (Young Girls Are Coming to the Canyon)” (1967)
5. The Doors “Love Street” (1968)
6. The Turtles “Happy Together” (1967)
7. The Byrds “Turn! Turn! Turn! (To Everything There Is a Season)” (1965)
8. Eagles “Take It Easy” (1972)
9. America “Ventura Highway” (1972)
10. Jackson Browne “Doctor My Eyes” (1972)

11. Joni Mitchell “Big Yellow Taxi” (1970)
12. Stephen Stills “Love the One You’re With” (1970)
13. The Byrds “Mr. Tambourine Man” (1965)
14. Crosby, Stills and Nash “Suite: Judy Blue Eyes” (1969)
15. The Mamas & the Papas “Monday Monday” (1966)
16. Linda Ronstadt “You’re No Good” (1974)
17. The Byrds “So You Wanna Be a Rock and Roll Star” (1967)
18. Joni Mitchell “The Circle Game” (1970)
19. Eagles “Witchy Woman” (1972)
20. Poco “Pickin’ Up the Pieces” (1969)

21. Linda Ronstadt “When Will I Be Loved” (1974)
22. Buffalo Springfield “Mr. Soul” (1967)
23. The Byrds “Eight Miles High” (1966)
24. Carly Simon “You’re So Vain” (1972)
25. Love “Alone Again Or” (1967)
26. James Taylor “Fire and Rain” (1970)
27. Joni Mitchell “A Case of You” (1971)
28. Carole King “You’ve Got a Friend” (1971)
29. Flying Burrito Brothers “Christine’s Tune (Devil in Disguise)” (1969)
30. Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young “Teach Your Children” (1970)

31. Carole King “I Feel the Earth Move” (1971)
32. Linda Ronstadt with the Stone Poneys “Different Drum” (1967)
33. Carole King “So Far Away” (1971)
34. Judee Sill “Crayon Angels” (1971)
35. The Byrds “You Ain’t Goin’ Nowhere” (1968)
36. James Taylor “Sweet Baby James” (1970)
37. The Byrds “My Back Pages” (1967)
38. Carole King “It’s Too Late” (1971)
39. The Monkees “She” (1967)
40. Neil Young “Heart of Gold” (1972)

41. Eagles “Desperado” (1973)
42. Eagles “Tequila Sunrise” (1973)
43. The Mamas & the Papas “Go Where You Wanna Go” (1965)
44. Jackson Brown “Jamaica Say You Will” (1972)
45. Eagles “Peaceful, Easy Feeling” (1972)
46. Eagles “Already Gone” (1974)
47. Poco “A Good Feelin’ to Know” (1972)
48. Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young “Helplessly Hoping” (1969)
49. Little Feat “Dixie Chicken” (1973)
50. Mama Cass Elliot (of the Mamas & the Papas) “Dream a Little Dream of Me” (1968)

51. Buffalo Springfield “Expecting to Fly” (1967)
52. Leon Russell “Tight Rope” (1972)
53. The Monkees “I’m a Believer” (1966)
54. The Beach Boys “Wouldn’t It Be Nice” (1966)
55. The Doors “L.A. Woman” (1971)
56. Neil Young “Cinnamon Girl” (1969)
57. The Monkees “Last Train to Clarksville” (1966)
58. Eagles “Lyin’ Eyes” (1975)
59. Crosby, Stills & Nash with Neil Young “Ohio” (1970)
60. The Mamas & the Papas “Creeque Alley” (1967)

61. Eagles “Best of My Love” (1974)
62. Joni Mitchell “River” (1971)
63. The Doors “Touch Me” (1968)
64. Linda Ronstadt “Long Long Time” (1970)
65. Three Dog Night “Mama Told Me Not to Come” (1970)
66. Eagles “Take It to the Limit” (1975)
67. Joni Mitchell “Help Me” (1974)
68. Joni Mitchell “Both Sides Now” (1969)
69. America “Lonely People” (1974)
70. Crosby, Stills & Nash “Marrakesh Express” (1969)

71. The Byrds “I’ll Feel a Whole Lot Better” (1965)
72. Crosby, Stills & Nash “Wooden Ships” (1969)
73. The Turtles “It Ain’t Me, Babe” (1965)
74. The Byrds “All I Really Want to Do” (1965)
75. The Association “Never My Love” (1967)
76. The Doors “Light My Fire” (1967)
77. The Monkees “Daydream Believer” (1967)
78. James Taylor “You’ve Got a Friend” (1971)
79. The Doors “Hello, I Love You” (1968)
80. Neil Young “Old Man” (1972)

81. Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young “Woodstock” (1970)
82. The Doors “Riders on the Storm” (1971)
83. Eagles “One of These Nights” (1975)
84. The Doors “Break on Through” (1967)
85. James Taylor “How Sweet It Is to Be Loved by You” (1975)
86. Love “My Little Red Book” (1966)
87. Sonny & Cher “I Got You Babe” (1965)
88. Canned Heat “On the Road Again” (1968)
89. The Doors “People Are Strange” (1967)
90. The Doors “Roadhouse Blues” (1970)

91. Joni Mitchell “Free Man in Paris” (1974)
92. Joni Mitchell “Carey” (1971)
93. The Doors “Love Her Madly” (1971)
94. Canned Heat “Going Up the Country” (1968)
95. The Doors “Love Me Two Times” (1967)
96. The Monkees “Pleasant Valley Sunday” (1967)
97. Neil Young “Southern Man” (1970)
98. Neil Young “The Needle and the Damage Done” (1972)
99. Linda Ronstadt “Heat Wave” (1975)
100. Linda Ronstadt “The Tracks of My Tears” (1975)

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Friday, December 23, 2016

Today in Music (1966): Buffalo Springfield released “For What It’s Worth”

For What It’s Worth

Buffalo Springfield

Writer(s): Stephen Stills (see lyrics here)

Released: December 23, 1966

First Charted: January 14, 1967

Peak: 7 US, 7 CB, 3 GR, 8 HR, 1 CL, 9 CN, 1 DF (Click for codes to charts.)

Sales (in millions): -- US, -- UK, -- world (includes US + UK)

Airplay/Streaming (in millions): 3.0 radio, 83.33 video, 590.23 streaming

Awards:

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About the Song:

While this has mistakenly been interpreted as “an anti-war protest song…[and] pretty much adopted as such” RC the origin of “For What It’s Worth “is “far more domestic than that.” DT “It sprang out of the civil war in miniature that [songwriter Stephen] Stills was witnessing on Los Angeles’s Sunset Strip at the time.” TB

Pandora’s Box, a nightclub on L.A.’s Sunset Strip, closed down and there were, as Stills said, “a bunch of kids having a funeral for a bar.” TC Another account, however, suggests it was a protest against the 10 p.m. curfew imposed after residents complained about traffic RC and fear that the “scruffy hippies were chasing away legitimate customers.” SJ Reports suggested the “crowds of longhairs” DM were “blocking sdewalks, smoking dope, spilling into the streets.” DM

In any event, “the LAPD decided to run a line-up across the street, like there was some kind of revolution going on.” TC They had been “called upon to rid the street of ‘undesirables,’ [and] they busted heads.” DM Stills had just visited Latin America “and was horrified at how similar the tensions in that region on the brink of revolution were to those in a developed democracy.” TB “The Summer of Love was unraveling before it even began.” RS500

“When song lyrics stick in our minds…the reason is not to be found in the lyrics alone, but in the combination fo lyrics and tune and beat and performance and, most of all, sound.” PW “The song is a call to awareness and, at least implicitly, resistance, but there is also a plea for brotherhood, a rejection of ‘us and them’ thinking.” WK That message is accompanied by “Neil Young’s guitar [which] tolled like a funeral bell;” RS500 it “had a beautiful ringing...basically one note…that sounded like heaven opening. The entire apocalypse was in that one note.” TC

The song served as a “microcosm of what was happening on the streets, and in the hearts and minds, of America during one of the most tumultuous times in our history.” SS It became “a defining sound of the time period, in which inter-generational discord was rampant and youth were attempting to assert themselves against authority figures.” KW It “established Stephen Stills as a spokesman for ‘60s youth.” SJ

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