5 keepers
keeper avg .454
Though arguably the last successful album the trio had, two of their best songs are right here, including Graham Nash's reflective country-folk "Wasted On The Way"*****, which made top ten on the charts. Although Steven Stills doesn't bring his best performance to his adaptation of "Seven League Boots", "Southern Cross"*****, by the pre-chorus a full cohort that also includes Nash, Timothy B. Schmit, and Art Garfunkel helps propel an otherwise good composition to greatness. Being augmented by David Crosby's presence only at the last minute, his contributions to the album are limited to singing lead on "Might As Well Have a Good Time," and the ethereal "Delta"****, but what a sublime contribution it is. Funny that the album's cover illustration features half-ass spaceships of all things, as a common theme of these three great songs is water, a familiar theme for this band. Considering the band's light rock image, "Turn Your Back On Love" and Nash's cautionary "Into The Darkness" are pretty moody, and they do rock it up pretty good for old folkies, especially on Stills's (and guitarist Gerry Tolman's) driving rocker "Too Much Love To Hide"****. Other than that the album's B side is lighter, filler material, but ends with the track which gives the album its name, Stills's eerie, droning "Daylight Again"****; though it reprises the old b-side "Find The Cost Of Freedom," it expands on it lyrically and is stripped-down instrumentally to (mostly) just Stills's guitar.
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