CSN&Y "Deja Vu" [1970]

No band in history more single-handedly killed the hippie aesthetic than Crosby, Stills & Nash -- three 60s side-men from the era of forgettable singles the baby boomers won't allow anyone to forget. Shit, you can blame David Crosby's mustache alone for the downfall of the hippie generation; the man had to be by-far the most annoying combination of drug-moocher/groupie fucker that ever lived, and the fact that you can almost never hear him singing on "Deja Vu" is the only redeeming thing that guy ever did in his whole fat self-satisfied life. Elsewhere, high-singing Bee Gees reject Graham Nash pens "Teach Your Children" and "Our House," the two most cloying long-hair Brady Bunch tunes on this album and in existence. On "Deja Vu" these guys bring in Neil Young for the first time, for what I can only guess is to make Stephen Stills sound like a somewhat competent guitarist. And when the band takes on Joni Mitchell's ode to the great unwashed in "Woodstock," you can tell these guys know the movement is on borrowed time, and they're just looking to cash-in. Suitcases full of drugs don't buy themselves, you know.