Talk:Woodstock (song)

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An infobox was requested for the 1971 Matthews' Southern Comfort recording of "Woodstock" at WikiProject_Missing_encyclopedic_articles/List_of_notable_songs/14.

instrumentation on CSNY version
anyone know who plays the intro riff (as well as the solo) on CSNY's version? I assume it's Neil Young, but i've listened to it so many times, i can't objectively analyze the style. --Alcuin 21:52, 21 September 2006 (UTC)

Is the origin story correct?
Is the story of the song's genesis correct? I don't doubt that Mitchell was not at Woodstock, but my perhaps imperfect recollection is that she performed the song - stunningly - on the Cavett Show in question. (I am more certain that Cavett devoted an entire show to examining the phenomenon of Woodstock, more or less immmediately after it happened - for much if not all of the program, Cavett and his guests sat directly on the set platforms, rather than on the customary chairs.) So perhaps the chronology, or the key detail of what Mitchell was watching, is incorrect? MIchael 09:56, 12 July 2007 (UTC)

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Other Covers
Eva Cassidy — Preceding unsigned comment added by 50.187.41.187 (talk) 18:12, 10 September 2016 (UTC)

Stardust - Star Stuff
Don't see the relevance of the Carl Sagan reference - he calls us "Star Stuff", Mitchell calls us "stardust". Both are perfectly correct but different ways of putting across the same (apparently poetic but literally true) fact, but what is the connection supposed to be? Sagan did not learn his cosmology from Mitchell; she might have learnt hers from him but, even if so, so what? 88.104.31.128 (talk) 12:44, 29 March 2013 (UTC)

Evolution
Isn't the song notable for both using religious imagery *AND* references to natural science/evolution with the carbon thing? --46.93.158.170 (talk) 14:48, 10 January 2019 (UTC)

CSN&Y released prior to Mitchell
The section on Releases and cover versions appears to be in error regarding the sequence. The articles on their albums show that CSN&Y's Deja Vu was released on March 11, 1970, with Mitchell's Ladies of the Canyon being released the following month in April. The first paragraph in this section presents contrary info:
 * "Released on Mitchell's third album Ladies of the Canyon in March 1970..."

So it is clear that errors need to be fixed. The change I am recommending is to find the exact day of release for Mitchell's album, and swap CSN&Y as being the first paragraph of this section, followed by Mitchell's. The info about her having performed the song live at the Big Sur Folk Festival is not sufficient to give her primacy over CSN&Y in a section that is about official release of various version of the song. -- Lexi sioz (talk) 11:18, 23 August 2019 (UTC)

Hard rock ?!
The CSN&Y version is described as having an “upbeat hard rock arrangement” -- it's definitely “upbeat”, but it's nowhere near what could have been called “hard rock” even at the time (1970 was the year of Deep Purple's In Rock or the Stooges' Fun House).--Abolibibelot (talk) 07:12, 7 August 2020 (UTC)
 * That guitar intro riff is quite deceptive. Even for such a bunch of hippies. But I tend to agree. Martinevans123 (talk) 09:39, 7 August 2020 (UTC)

Seems someone has a hard crush on Matthews Southern Comfort
Looking back through older versions that had a variety of tidbits since removed. At what point did two thirds of the article become MSC-centric? :D -rudyard (talk) 05:46, 29 August 2020 (UTC)


 * I'm with you. I remember when The MSC version was on the charts. It was a decidedly minor hit. Bob Caldwell CSL (talk) 15:40, 11 July 2022 (UTC)
 * I have to disagree. A #23 hit (and inside the Top 20 for adult contemporary and Cashbox) is hardly a "minor hit."  In my city, they only played the MSC version--I didn't hear the CSN&Y version until much later.  It's my opinion that the opening sentence declaring the CSN&Y version to be the "best known" in the US should be revised due to the close chart performance of the two versions. Historydude58 (talk) 12:44, 20 December 2022 (UTC)
 * It may have been a strong local hit but not as big nationally. Further, the "close" peak positions (CSNY #11 on Hot 100 vs Matthews #23) is not an indication of lasting impact. Not owning any MSC albums, I can't tell you how many years it's been since I've heard that version. I've heard CSNY's version on the radio within the past two months. Bob Caldwell CSL (talk) 17:23, 20 December 2022 (UTC)

MSC US Year End
Hey, I would've done this myself but I hate when chart data is put in this weird template that makes it so much more complicated to edit than just a collection of tables. Matthews Southern Comfort's cover reached number 79 on the Billboard Year-End Hot 100 singles of 1971, but it is not listed here. Could someone fix this?

TDmile567 (talk) 16:00, 3 April 2023 (UTC)