"Creative tension between Stephen Stills, the highly proficient craftsman, and Neil Young, the erratic, extreme genius, produced, in Buffalo Springfield, one of America's best '60s bands. Simultaneously more of a mainstream musical pro and more of an unexamined hippie than the idiosyncratic Young, Stills sang declamatory vocals and played tremolo guitar on 'For What It's Worth'.… Young's standout was the characteristically ambitious 'Nowadays Clancy Can't Even Sing' with its surreal poetry and keening vocals. Potentially nearly an American Beatles, the supergroup employed orchestral arrangements, four-part vocals, Wild West mythmaking, unrivaled instrumental prowess—and a fertile internal explosiveness along the lines of the Who's."—New Rolling Stone Album Guide