Buffalo Springfield - Stampede (1967)

Side A:
1. For What It's Worth 

2. Down, Down, Down 

3. We’ll See 

4. Down to the Wire 

5. My Kind of Love 

6. Kahuna Sunset 

Side B:

7. Sell Out

8. No Sun Today

9. Pretty Girl Why

10. Neighbor Don’t You Worry 

11. Slowly Burning

12. Buffalo Stomp (Raga)

Buffalo Springfield released their first album in December 1966. Their first single called Nowadays Clancy Can’t Even Sing was released in August, but neither the single nor the album sold well. On the same day the album came out, they recorded the song For What It’s Worth and released it as a single a couple days later. It became the band’s first real hit, peaking in March 1967. The label wanted the band to put out a second album to capitalize on their success, but when the band didn’t have enough material to put out a second one, they re-released the first one with the single as the first track, cutting out another song called Baby Don’t Scold Me which resulted in it never getting a stereo mix. (Although a track called Burned also never got one.)

The label made plans to put out a second album called Stampede with material the band was working on at the time, but the band was never made aware of this and their real second album called Buffalo Springfield Again wasn’t released till November 1967, mostly made up of songs the members recorded solo. Also no track listing was made for the album, so fans are left to speculate about which songs would’ve made the cut. Some of the tracks though would be released on the 2001 Buffalo Springfield box set, so we can use some of those tracks. 

Unfortunately the band didn’t record a lot of material between January and March 1967, so some songs recorded for the first album that didn’t make the cut will have to be used instead. Also the box set included a lot of acoustic demos that I’d rather not include and some instrumentals that I’ll be forced to include. I wanna make this a counterpart album to Buffalo Springfield Again so that they don’t use the same tracks. But we’ll put the single as the first track.

Other notable songs include Pretty Girl Why which was originally released on their third album Last Time Around from 1968 but was recorded around this time, but this can be fixed by putting Whatever Happened to Saturday Night? from the box set in its place on the album. Also included is the song Sell Out from Neil Young’s Archives Vol. 1, but it was edited to fade out early.