Trivia / Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young

• Creator Backlash: None of the members have positive things to say about their reunion album, American Dream. Stephen Stills said that while they physically were in the same room while recording, they weren't exactly "united." Young bailed on the tour and almost none of the songs have been re-visited by the other members since.
• Creator Killer: American Dream. Neil Young's relationship with the rest of the band (credited as just Crosby, Stills, and Nash on albums without Young) quickly grew tenuous the moment his solo career took off, but as Young fell into a deep Audience-Alienating Era in The '80s while CSN had a Career Resurrection with their 1982 album Daylight Again, Young decided that he would finally rejoin the band provided that David Crosby kicked his drug habit. However, given Young's mercurial tendencies, he wound up directing most of the project in order to keep him from walking out. American Dream was heavily hyped as their long-awaited reunion and comeback, but while initial sales were excellent, the album itself, a disjointed mess leaden with awful lyrics and production that lacked any sense of sonic cohesion, was later described by Young's own biographer as "the most wretched album [he] has ever lent his name to... a digital nightmare completely ill-suited to the folk-pop quartet." Critics blasted the record, and the band members themselves hated the album. Young would subsequently ditch the band, turn his own career around in the late '80s and '90s, and emerge as an elder statesman of rock, while the rest of the band spent its days playing the nostalgia circuit (sometimes with Neil Young, sometimes without) until their official breakup in 2015.
• Denial of Digital Distribution: In 2022, David Crosby, Stephen Stills, and Graham Nash issued a statement that they would be removing the group's music from Spotify as well as their solo projects in solidarity with bandmate Neil Young, who had previously pulled his catalogue from Spotify in protest against their hosting of Joe Rogan's podcast The Joe Rogan Experience, which Young and the members of CSN claimed promoted vaccine misinformation.^note Crosby, Stills and Nash would eventually reverse their stance, with their catalogue being returned to Spotify (though, as of February 2023, Neil Young's songs from his tenure with the band are still missing).

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