Neil Young - Rock At The Beach (1989) (video)

Neil Young - Rock At The Beach (1989)

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NTSC/Region 0. Recorded live at the Jones Beach Theatre, Long Island, NY 1989 during his tour for the Freedom album, including a guest appearance from Bruce Springsteen on 'Down By The River'. On Rock At The Beach, Neil performs his classics ('Heart Of Gold', 'Hey Hey, My My', 'The Needle And The Damage Done', 'After The Goldrush') alongside then-recent material ('Rockin' In The Free World', 'This Notes For You'). 20 tracks total. EMI. 2009. * Please note the video quality has been said to be quite poor but the sound is OK.

Tracks:
-01. My My, Hey Hey
-02. Rockin' In The Free World
-03. Comes A Time
-04. Sugar Mountain
-05. Pocahontas
-06. Helpless
-07. Crime In The City
-08. For The Turnstiles
-09. This Old House
-10. Roll Another Number
-11. Too Far Gone
-12. This Note's For You
-13. The Needle And The Damage Done
-14. No More
-15. After The Gold Rush
-16. Heart Of Gold
-17. Ohio
-18. Rockin' In The Free World
-19. Powderfinger
-20. Down By The River

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Neil Young - American Stars 'N Bars (1977) DVD-audio

Neil Young - American Stars 'N Bars (1977) DVD-audio

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Neil Young made a point of listing the recording dates of the songs on American Stars 'n Bars; the dates even appeared on the LP labels. They revealed that the songs had been cut at four different sessions dating back to 1974. But even without such documentation, it would have been easy to tell that the album was a stylistic hodgepodge, its first side consisting of country-tinged material featuring steel guitar and fiddle, plus backup vocals from Linda Ronstadt and the then-unknown Nicolette Larson, while the four songs on the second side varied from acoustic solo numbers like "Will to Love" to raging rockers such as "Like a Hurricane." Just as apparent was the album's unevenness: side one consisted of lightweight compositions, while side two had more ambitious ones, with "Will to Love," for example, extending the romantic metaphor of a salmon swimming upstream across seven minutes. The album's saving grace was "Like a Hurricane," one of Young's classic hard rock songs and guitar workouts, and a perennial concert favorite. Without it, American Stars 'n Bars would have been one of Young's least memorable albums, and since it turned up the following year on the compilation Decade, the LP was rendered inessential.

Tracks:
1 ) The old country waltz
2 ) Saddle up the Palomino
3 ) Hey babe
4 ) Hold back the tears
5 ) Bite the bullet
6 ) Star of Bethlehem
7 ) Will to live
8 ) Like a hurricane
9 ) Homegrown

Recording sessions & personnel:
November 1974
* "Star of Bethlehem"
o Neil Young - acoustic guitar, harmonica, vocal
o Emmylou Harris - vocal
o Ben Keith - dobro, vocal
o Tim Drummond - bass
o Karl T. Himmel - drums
November 1975
* "Like a Hurricane" & "Homegrown"
o Neil Young & Crazy Horse:
+ Neil Young - lead guitar, vocal
+ Frank "Poncho" Sampedro - organ ("Like A Hurricane"), rhythm guitar ("Homegrown"), vocal
+ Billy Talbot - bass, vocal
+ Ralph Molina - drums, vocal
May 1976
* "Will to Love"
o Neil Young - all instruments, vocals
April 1977
* "The Old Country Waltz", "Saddle Up the Palomino", "Hey Babe", "Hold Back the Tears" & "Bite the Bullet"
o Neil Young, Crazy Horse & the Bullets:
+ Neil Young - acoustic & electric guitar, vocal
+ Frank "Poncho" Sampedro - acoustic & electric guitar
+ Billy Talbot - bass
+ Ralph Molina - drums
+ Ben Keith - pedal steel guitar
+ Carole Mayedo - violin
+ Linda Ronstadt - vocal
+ Nicolette Larson - vocal
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Neil Young - Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere (1969) (HDCD) (eac-log-cover)

 

Neil Young - Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere (1969)

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Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere (1969) is Neil Young's second solo album and his first with backing band Crazy Horse. The album was produced by Neil Young and David Briggs and contains three of his most memorable songs: "Cinnamon Girl", "Down by the River", and "Cowgirl in the Sand", all of which were written when Young had a 103 °F (39.5 °C) fever. In 2003, the album was ranked number 208 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time.

Tracks
1 "Cinnamon Girl" – 2:58
2 "Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere" – 2:26
3 "Round & Round (It Won't Be Long)" – 5:49
4 "Down by the River" – 9:13
5 "The Losing End (When You're On)" – 4:03
6 "Running Dry (Requiem for the Rockets)" – 5:30
7 "Cowgirl in the Sand" – 10:06

Personnel
* Neil Young – guitar, vocals
* Danny Whitten – guitar, vocals
* Billy Talbot – bass
* Ralph Molina – drums, backing vocal
* Robin Lane – guitar, vocal (Track 3)
* Bobby Notkoff – violin (Track 6)

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Neil Young - Re-Ac-Tor (1981) DVD-audio

 

Neil Young - Re-Ac-Tor (1981) DVD-audio

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Re-ac-tor is an album by Neil Young and Crazy Horse, released in 1981. The album married the electric guitar crunch of the late 70s Crazy Horse sound with early 80s New Wave rhythms. The simplistic, overdriven sound of the songs can be seen as a continuation of the punk-influenced numbers of Rust Never Sleeps such as "Sedan Delivery". Critical reception to the album was generally poor except for the accolades accorded to the album closer "Shots." The album marked the first use by Neil Young of the Synclavier which would be featured heavily on several of his later albums: Trans (1982) and Landing on Water (1986).

Track list:
1. "Opera Star" – 3:31
2. "Surfer Joe and Moe the Sleaze" – 4:15
3. "T-Bone" – 9:10
4. "Get Back on It" – 2:14
5. "Southern Pacific" – 4:07
6. "Motor City" – 3:11
7. "Rapid Transit" – 4:35
8. "Shots" – 7:42

Personnel:
* Neil Young – guitar, piano, vocal
* Frank Sampedro – guitar, stringman, vocal
* Billy Talbot – bass, vocal
* Ralph Molina – drums, percussion, vocal

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Neil Young - Living With War (In the Beginning) (2006) Limited edition CD+DVD (lossless)

Neil Young 2006 - Living With War (In the Beginning) Limited edition CD+DVD

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Living with War: "In the Beginning" is a stripped-down version of Neil Young's 2006 album Living with War. The original title of this particular CD/DVD release, according to a press release, was called Living with War - Raw. However, the title changed when the album was finally released.
In a special CD/DVD limited-edition package, available on Reprise Records in stores on December 19, 2006 the set included videos directed by Young of every song on the album. Using a wide range of visual sources, both from the Iraq War as well as demonstrations in the United States, and Al Gore's film An Inconvenient Truth the videos are a statement of not only what has happened during the past three years of war, but also how it has affected the entire world.
Living with War, which originally came out in early May 2006, immediately set off a firestorm of reaction from both sides of the political fence. With songs like "The Restless Consumer," "Shock and Awe," "Flags of Freedom" and "Let's Impeach the President," Living with War was quickly seen as a unique musical statement. On the "Raw" version of the album, the sound is straight-from-the-source, captured live in the studio exactly the way it was recorded, without the backing instrumentation and choral accompaniment found on the original release.

Track list:
1. "After the Garden" - 3:25
2. "Living with War" - 5:08
3. "The Restless Consumer" - 5:51
4. "Shock and Awe" - 4:56
5. "Families" - 2:33
6. "Flags of Freedom" - 3:45
7. "Let's Impeach the President" - 4:34
8. "Lookin' for a Leader" - 4:08
9. "Roger and Out" - 4:23

Personnel:
* Neil Young: guitars, vocal
* Rick Rosas: bass
* Chad Cromwell: drums
* Tom Bray: trumpet
* Neil Young & Niko Bolas: producer
* L.A. Johnson assistant producer

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Neil Young – Hawks & Doves (1980) DVD-audio

Neil Young – Hawks & Doves (1980) DVD-audio

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Following the triumph of Rust Never Sleeps, Hawks & Doves benefited from the enormous critical goodwill Neil Young had amassed, though fans and critics nevertheless were baffled by its set of obscure acoustic and country-tinged songs. The seven-plus-minute "The Old Homestead" (copyright 1974) was interpreted by some as an allegory for Young's relationship to CSNY, perhaps because that was the only way to make any sense of the most mysterious Young lyric since "The Last Trip to Tulsa." In retrospect, now that it's known Young was distracted by domestic medical concerns while working on the album, its theme of perseverance in the face of adversity, both in a personal context of family commitment ("Stayin' Power," "Coastline"), and in a national context of hard work and patriotism ("Union Man," "Comin' Apart at Every Nail," "Hawks & Doves") seems more apparent, as does the sense that Young may have been trying to fulfill his recording contract (even with the inclusion of trunk songs like "The Old Homestead," the album runs less than half an hour) while devoting a bare minimum of his time and attention to the effort. The result is correspondingly slight.

"Doves"
1. "Little Wing" – 2:10
2. "The Old Homestead" – 7:38
3. "Lost in Space" – 4:13
4. "Captain Kennedy" – 2:50

"Hawks"
5. "Stayin' Power" – 2:17
6. "Coastline" – 2:24
7. "Union Man" – 2:08
8. "Comin' Apart at Every Nail" – 2:33
9. "Hawks & Doves" – 3:27

Personnel
* Neil Young – guitar, harmonica, piano, vocals
* Greg Thomas – drums
* Dennis Belfield – bass
* Ben Keith – steel and dobro, harmony vocals
* Rufus Thibodeaux – fiddle
* Ann Hillary O'Brien – harmony vocals
* Levon Helm – drums on "The Old Homestead"
* Tim Drummond – bass on "The Old Homestead"
* Tom Scribner – saw player on "The Old Homestead"

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Neil Young - American Stars 'n Bars (1977) (HDCD) (eac-flac-cover)

 

Neil Young - American Stars 'n Bars (1977)
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American Stars 'n Bars is a studio album by Neil Young released in 1977. The album included "Like a Hurricane", one of Young's most well known songs.
The album was produced by Neil Young and David Briggs with Tim Mulligan except "Star of Bethlehem" by Elliot Mazer. The album cover was designed by Young's friend, actor Dean Stockwell, and features Connie Moskos keeled over with a bottle of Canadian whiskey in her hand and an intoxicated Young with his face pressed against the glass floor. Although initially receiving favorable reviews, the album was not released in digital format until 2003.[1] Its first CD release was a HDCD-encoded remastered version on August 19, 2003 as part of the Neil Young Archives Digital Masterpiece Series.

Tracks:
1 ) The old country waltz
2 ) Saddle up the Palomino
3 ) Hey babe
4 ) Hold back the tears
5 ) Bite the bullet
6 ) Star of Bethlehem
7 ) Will to live
8 ) Like a hurricane
9 ) Homegrown

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Neil Young - Rust Never Sleeps (1979)

Neil Young - Rust Never Sleeps (1979)
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Rust Never Sleeps is an album by Neil Young and Crazy Horse released in 1979. The bulk of the album was recorded live at San Francisco's Cow Palace, with overdubs added. Audience noise is removed as much as possible, although it is clearly audible at certain points, most noticeably on the opening and closing songs. The album is half acoustic and half electric, opening and closing with different versions of the same song.
Two songs from the album were not recorded live: "Sail Away" was recorded without Crazy Horse during or after the Comes a Time recording sessions, and "Pocahontas" had been recorded solo around 1975.
Young also released a film version of the album under the same title. Later on in 1979, Young and Crazy Horse released the album Live Rust, a compilation of older classics interweaving within the Rust Never Sleeps track list. The title is borrowed from the slogan for Rust-Oleum paint, and was suggested by Mark Mothersbaugh of the New Wave band Devo. The album won the 1979 Rolling Stone Critics Poll for Album of the Year [2]. In 2003, the album was ranked number 350 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time.

tracks
01. My My, Hey Hey (Out Of The Blue)
02. Thrasher
03. Ride My Llama
04. Pocahontas
05. Sail Away
06. Powderfinger
07. Welfare Mothers
08. Sedan Delivery
09. Hey Hey, My My (Into The Black)

Artists
* Neil Young – guitar, harmonica, vocals
* Frank "Pancho" Sampedro – guitar, vocals except on "Sail Away"
* Billy Talbot – bass, vocals except on "Sail Away"
* Ralph Molina – drums, vocals except on "Sail Away"
* Nicolette Larson – vocals on "Sail Away"
* Karl T. Himmel – drums on "Sail Away"
* Joe Osborn – bass on "Sail Away"

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Neil Young - Prairie Wind (HDCD) (2005)

Neil Young - Prairie Wind (HDCD) (2005)
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Since Prairie Wind is a return to the soft, lush country-rock sound of Harvest; since Neil Young suffered a brain aneurysm during its recording; since it finds the singer/songwriter reflecting on life and family in the wake of his father's death; and since it's his most cohesive album in a decade, it would seem that all these factors add up to a latter-day masterpiece for Young, but that's not quite the case. Prairie Wind manages to be less than the sum of its parts and the problem isn't a lack of good songs (although it does have a few more clunkers than it should) or a botched concept.Young's decision to revive the country-rock that brought him his greatest popularity never feels like a cynical move -- the music is too warm, comfortable, and friendly to feel like anything but Neil playing to his strengths. However, since he cut this in Nashville with a bunch of studio pros including legendary keyboardist Spooner Oldham, it feels just a tad slicker than perhaps it should, since the smooth sound inadvertently highlights the sentimentality of the project. It's hard to begrudge Young if he wants to indulge in rose-colored memories -- a brush with death coupled with a loss of a parent tends to bring out sentimentality -- but such backward-gazing songs as "Far from Home" feel just a hair too close to trite, and the easy-rolling nature of the record doesn't lend them much gravity. There a few other songs that tend toward too close to the simplistic, whether it's the specific invocations of 9/11 and Chris Rock on "No Wonder" or the supremely silly Elvis salute "He Was the King," which are just enough to undermine the flow of the album, even if they fit into the general autumnal, reflective mood of the record. But since they do fit the overall feel of the album, and since they're better, even with their flaws, than the best songs on, say, Silver & Gold or Broken Arrow or Are You Passionate?, they help elevate the whole of Prairie Wind, particularly because there are some genuinely strong Young songs here: the moody opener "The Painter," the gently sighing "Fallin' off the Face of the Earth," the ethereal "It's a Dream," the sweet, laid-back "Here for Your," the understated "This Old Guitar" (there's also the sweeping "When God Made Me," recorded complete with a gospel chorus, one that will either strike a listener as moving or maudlin -- a latter-day "A Man Needs a Maid," only not as strong). This set of songs does indeed make Prairie Wind a better album than anything Young has released in the past decade, which means that it's easy to overrate it. For despite all of its strengths, neither the recording nor the songs are as memorable or as fully realized as his late-'80s/early-'90s comeback records -- Freedom, Ragged Glory, and Harvest Moon -- let alone his classic '70s work. Nevertheless, it's the closest Young has come to making a record that could hold its own with those albums in well over a decade, which means it's worthwhile even if it's never quite as great as it seems like it could have been.

Tracklisting:
01 - The Painter
02 - No Wonder
03 - Falling Off The Face Of The Earth
04 - Far From Home
05 - It's A Dream
06 - Prairie Wind
07 - Here For You
09 - He Was The King
10 - When God Made Me

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Neil Young - Sleeps With Angels (1994)

 Neil Young - Sleeps With Angels (1994)
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Though it once again reunites him with Crazy Horse and includes such typical rock workouts as the lengthy "Change Your Mind" and the raucous "Piece of Crap," Sleeps With Angels is more musically varied than most of Neil Young's albums with his erstwhile backup group, ranging from piano-based ballads like the album opener, "My Heart," and closer, "A Dream That Can Last," which might have fit on After the Gold Rush, to the country-folk "Train of Love," which sounds like a leftover from Harvest Moon, and the hard-edged grunge of the title track. The Crazy Horse influence comes in the songs' structural simplicity and the unpolished playing. Though musically diverse, Sleeps With Angels is a song cycle in which Young repeats the same themes and images. To put it simply, the album is about death, presumably primarily the suicide of Nirvana's Kurt Cobain, which occurred while it was being recorded. From "My Heart," which declares, "It's not too late" and "Somehow, someone has a dream come true," to "A Dream That Can Last," which declares, "There's a better life for me someday," Young begins and ends with a shaky, uncertain optimism, even though his language is riddled with references to violence, especially gunfire, and desperation. As in the album's title, even the references to sleep and dreams are about death. Young repeats some of the same lines from song to song and sometimes the same music ("Western Hero" and "Train of Love" have the same tune). The album thus has a tired, mournful feel that is both compelling and off-putting. Young had not investigated such forbidding territory since the days of Tonight's the Night and On the Beach, and Sleeps With Angels is on a par with those often harrowing works.

Track list:
01. My Heart [2:46.97]
02. Prime Of Life [4:05.20]
03. Driveby [4:45.60]
04. Sleeps With Angels [2:46.06]
05. Western Hero [4:00.36]
06. Change Your Mind [0:14:39.64]
07. Blue Eden [6:24.96]
08. Safeway Cart [6:31.60]
09. Train Of Love [3:59.90]
10. Trans Am [4:07.09]
11. Piece Of Crap [3:15.93]
12. A Dream That Can Last [5:27.44]

Personnel:
Neil Young -vocals, harmonica, guitar, tack piano, accordion, flute
Frank Sampedro -guitar, bass marimba, Oberheim synthesizer, piano
Ralph Molina -drums and vocals
Billy Talbot -bass, vocals, bass marimba
Recorded at The Complex Studios, West Los Angeles, California.

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Neil Young - Neil Young (HDCD) (1968)

Neil Young - Neil Young (HDCD) (1968)
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On his songs for Buffalo Springfield, Neil Young had demonstrated an eclecticism that ranged from the rock of "Mr. Soul" to the complicated, multi-part arrangement of "Broken Arrow." On his debut solo album, he continued to work with composer/arranger Jack Nitzsche, with whom he had made "Expecting to Fly" on the Buffalo Springfield Again album, and together the two recorded a restrained effort on which the folk-rock instrumentation, most of which was by Young, overdubbing himself, was augmented by discreet string parts. The country & western elements that had tinged the Springfield's sound were also present, notably on the leadoff track, "The Emperor of Wyoming," an instrumental that recalled the Springfield song "A Child's Claim to Fame."Still unsure of his voice, Young sang in a becalmed high tenor that could be haunting as often as it was listless and whining. He was at his least appealing on the nine-and-a-half-minute closing track, "The Last Trip to Tulsa," on which he accompanied himself with acoustic guitar, singing an impressionistic set of lyrics seemingly derived from Bob Dylan's Highway 61 Revisited. But double-tracking and the addition of a female backup chorus improved the singing elsewhere, and on "The Loner," the album's most memorable track, Young displayed some of the noisy electric guitar work that would characterize his recordings with Crazy Horse and reminded listeners of his ability to turn a phrase. Still, Neil Young made for an uneven, low-key introduction to Young's solo career, and when released it was a commercial flop, his only album not to make the charts. (Several months after the album's release, Young remixed it to bring out his vocals more and added some overdubs. This second version replaced the first in the U.S. from then on, though the original mix remained available overseas.)

Track list:
1. "The Emperor of Wyoming"
2. "The Loner"
3. "If I Could Have Her Tonight"
4. "I've Been Waiting for You"
5. "The Old Laughing Lady"
6. "String Quartet from Whiskey Boot Hill"
7. "Here We Are in the Years"
8. "What Did You Do to My Life?"
9. "I've Loved Her So Long"
10. "The Last Trip to Tulsa"

Personnel
* Neil Young: guitars, piano, synthesizer, harpsichord, pipe organ, vocals
* Ry Cooder - guitar
* Jack Nitzsche - electric piano
* Jim Messina - bass
* Carol Kaye - bass
* George Grantham - drums
* Earl Palmer - drums
* Merry Clayton, Brenda Holloway, Patrice Holloway, Gloria Richetta Jones, Sherlie Matthews, Gracia Nitzsche - backing vocals

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Neil Young - Re-ac-tor (HDCD) (1981)

Neil Young - Re-ac-tor (HDCD) (1981)
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Re-ac-tor is an album by Neil Young and Crazy Horse, released in 1981. The album married the electric guitar crunch of the late 70s Crazy Horse sound with early 80s New Wave rhythms. The simplistic, overdriven sound of the songs can be seen as a continuation of the punk-influenced numbers of Rust Never Sleeps such as "Sedan Delivery". Critical reception to the album was generally poor except for the accolades accorded to the album closer "Shots." The album marked the first use by Neil Young of the Synclavier which would be featured heavily on several of his later albums: Trans (1982) and Landing on Water (1986).

It was unavailable on compact disc until it was released as a HDCD-encoded remastered version on August 19, 2003 as part of the Neil Young Archives Digital Masterpiece Series.

Track list:
1. "Opera Star" – 3:31
2. "Surfer Joe and Moe the Sleaze" – 4:15
3. "T-Bone" – 9:10
4. "Get Back on It" – 2:14
5. "Southern Pacific" – 4:07
6. "Motor City" – 3:11
7. "Rapid Transit" – 4:35
8. "Shots" – 7:42

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Neil Young - Tonight's the Night (1975)

Neil Young - Tonight's the Night (1975)
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Written and recorded in 1973 shortly after the death of roadie Bruce Berry, Neil Young's second close associate to die of a heroin overdose in six months (the first was Crazy Horse guitarist Danny Whitten), Tonight's the Night was Young's musical expression of grief, combined with his rejection of the stardom he had achieved in the late '60s and early '70s. The title track, performed twice, was a direct narrative about Berry: "Bruce Berry was a working man/He used to load that Econoline van." Whitten was heard singing "Come On Baby Let's Go Downtown," a live track recorded years earlier. Elsewhere, Young frequently referred to drug use and used phrases that might have described his friends, such as the chorus of "Tired Eyes," "He tried to do his best, but he could not." Performing with the remains of Crazy Horse, bassist Billy Talbot and drummer Ralph Molina, along with Nils Lofgren (guitar and piano) and Ben Keith (steel guitar), Young performed in the ragged manner familiar from Time Fades Away — his voice was often hoarse and he strained to reach high notes, while the playing was loose, with mistakes and shifting tempos.But the style worked perfectly for the material, emphasizing the emotional tone of Young's mourning and contrasting with the polished sound of CSNY and Harvest that Young also disparaged. He remained unimpressed with his commercial success, noting in "World on a String," "The world on a string/Doesn't mean anything." In "Roll Another Number," he said he was "a million miles away/From that helicopter day" when he and CSN had played Woodstock. And in "Albuquerque," he said he had been "starvin' to be alone/Independent from the scene that I've known" and spoke of his desire to "find somewhere where they don't care who I am." Songs like "Speakin' Out" and "New Mama" seemed to find some hope in family life, but Tonight's the Night did not offer solutions to the personal and professional problems it posed. It was the work of a man trying to turn his torment into art and doing so unflinchingly. Depending on which story you believe, Reprise Records rejected it or Young withdrew it from its scheduled release at the start of 1974 after touring with the material in the U.S. and Europe. In 1975, after a massive CSNY tour, Young at the last minute dumped a newly recorded album and finally put Tonight's the Night out instead. Though it did not become one of his bigger commercial successes, the album immediately was recognized as a unique masterpiece by critics, and it has continued to be ranked as one of the greatest rock & roll albums ever made.

Track list:
1 - Tonight's the Night
2 - Speakin' Out
3 - World On A String
4 - Borrowed Tune
5 - Come On Baby Let's Go Downtown
6 - Mellow My Mind
7 - Roll Another Number (For The Road)
8 - Albuqueque
9 - New Mama
10 - Lookout Joe
11 - Tired Eyes
12 - Tonight's the Night - Part II

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Neil Young - Silver & Gold (2000)

Neil Young - Silver & Gold (2000)
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Silver & Gold went through a number of incarnations before it was finally released in the spring of 2000. The endless delays raised hopes for the album, as did superstition -- dedicated Neil Young fans believed he was creatively reborn at the end of each decade. Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere, Rust Never Sleeps, and Freedom added credence to this theory, but those records were knocked out quickly, appearing a year after their predecessors. In contrast, Silver & Gold appeared four years after Broken Arrow. During those four years, all sorts of projects were in the works for Young, including a 1999 reunion with Crosby, Stills & Nash. His three songs on their comeback Looking Forward were pleasant acoustic numbers that often seemed a little slight. It was easy to assume that Young was saving the real treasures for his solo record, but Silver & Gold doesn't confirm that theory.Instead, it's a continuation of his Looking Forward contributions, performed with the warm, amiable ramble of Harvest Moon. A pleasant sound, to be sure, but not exactly what Young followers were expecting. They also may be a little dismayed to realize that two of its best songs, "Silver & Gold" and "Razor Love," date from 1982 and 1987, respectively, suggesting that Neil may not be at the top of his game. Still, there are no truly bad songs here, although the light-hearted, light-headed reminiscence "Buffalo Springfield Again" treads close to the borderline. It's a low-key, charming, comfortable record, which is hardly a bad thing at all -- it just doesn't quite live up to the abnormally high expectations. Fortunately, those expectations fade upon repeated plays, and Silver & Gold reveals itself as a nice Neil Young record. Nothing particularly special, but nice all the same.

Track listing
All songs composed by Neil Young

1. "Good to See You" – 2:49
2. "Silver & Gold" – 3:16
3. "Daddy Went Walkin'" – 4:01
4. "Buffalo Springfield Again" – 3:23
5. "The Great Divide" – 4:34
6. "Horseshoe Man" – 4:00
7. "Red Sun" – 2:48
8. "Distant Camera" – 4:07
9. "Razor Love" – 6:31
10. "Without Rings" – 3:41

Personnel
* Neil Young: guitar, piano, harmonica, vocal
* Ben Keith: pedal steel guitar, vocal
* Spooner Oldham: piano, organ
* Donald "Duck" Dunn: bass
* Jim Keltner: drums
* Oscar Butterworth: drums
* Linda Ronstadt: vocal
* Emmylou Harris: vocal

 

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Neil Young - Harvest Moon (1992)

Neil Young - Harvest Moon (1992)
rock | 1CD | EAC Rip | FLAC+CUE+LOG | cover | 305MB
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The year of the 20th anniversary of the release of his most popular album, Harvest, Neil Young released a new album that harked back to that recording, employing many of the same musicians, again dubbed the Stray Gators, as well as arranger Jack Nitzsche and background singers Linda Ronstadt and James Taylor. He also used a similar folk-country acoustic style and sang songs that often had a personal, confessional tone. But the similarities were more of form than of content because, while Harvest was the statement of a confused, if earnest, 26 year old, Harvest Moon embodied the ruminations of a somewhat regretful 46 year old. Indeed, the greatest comparison to be made between the two records was that Young tried to use the passage of time as a confirmation of continuity. In the first several songs, he seemed to be trying to reconcile with his wife and revive their love, though he was uncertain that was possible. In "One of These Days," he regretted the loss of friendships over the years. "War of Man" and the long and ponderous "Natural Beauty" concerned environmental preservation, and even the rollicking banjo tune "Old King" was a lament for the death of a faithful dog. "I never tried to burn any bridges," sang an artist whose contradictory instincts to move on and to return found him, by the time of his 27th solo album, trying to get back to the feel of his fourth. If the attempt was not completely successful, nevertheless it was well and honestly made, and Young wasn't alone in his desire. As Hollywood has long since learned, sequels have a built-in audience, and Harvest Moon became Young's best-selling album in 13 years.

01 - Unknown Legend
02 - From Hank To Hendrix
03 - You And Me
04 - Harvest Moon
05 - War Of Man
06 - One Of These Days
07 - Such A Woman
08 - Old King
09 - Dreamin' Man
10 - Natural Beauty

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Neil Young - Landing On Water (1986)

Neil Young - Landing On Water (1986)

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Backed only by co-producer Danny Kortchmar on guitar and Steve Jordan on drums, with all three playing synthesizers, Neil Young turns in an album that attempts to mix the raunchy rock thrust of his Crazy Horse-style music with contemporary trends in pop, especially the tendency to turn the drums way up in the mix. It's an uneasy combination in which Jordan's forceful drumming dominates the tracks, with Young's vocals nearly buried.[cut] But that only means that the production has ruined a group of songs few of which were any good anyway. The only one that offers the promise of being one of Young's better efforts is "Hippie Dream," a sober criticism of what became of '60s idealism in general and Young's erstwhile bandmate David Crosby in particular. But if Landing on Water was not a good album, at least it seemed to point Young away from the stylistic dabbling of his last three albums and back toward the kind of rock he did best, and at least some of his fans returned as a result, giving him a slight uptick in sales.

1. "Weight of the World" – 3:40

2. "Violent Side" – 4:22

3. "Hippie Dream" – 4:11

4. "Bad News Beat" – 3:18

5. "Touch the Night" – 4:30

6. "People on the Street" – 4:33

7. "Hard Luck Stories" – 4:06

8. "I Got a Problem" – 3:16

9. "Pressure" – 2:46

10. "Drifter" – 5:05

Personnel

* Neil Young – lead guitar, synthesizer, vocals

* Steve Jordan – drums, synthesizer, vocals

* Danny Kortchmar – guitar, synthesizer, vocals

* San Francisco Boys Chorus – vocals on tracks "Violent Side" and "Touch the Nigh

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Neil Young - Trans (1982)

Neil Young - Trans (1982)

rock | 1CD | EAC Rip | FLAC+CUE+LOG | cover |300MB

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Review (AMG)
When it was released, Trans was Neil Young's most baffling album. He had employed a vocoder to synthesize his voice on five of the album's nine tracks, resulting in disembodied singing, the lyrics nearly impossible to decipher without the lyric sheet.[cut]
And even when you read the words, "Computer Age," "We R in Control," "Transformer Man," "Computer Cowboy," and "Sample and Hold" seemed like a vague mishmash of high-tech jargon. Later, Young would reveal that some of the songs expressed a theme of attempted communication with his disabled son, and in that context, lines like "I stand by you" and "So many things still left to do/But we haven't made it yet" seemed clearer. But the vocoder, which robbed Young's voice of its dynamics and phrasing, still kept the songs from being as moving as they were intended to be. And despite the crisp dance beats and synthesizers, the music sounded less like new Kraftwerk than like old Devo. A few more conventional Young songs (left over from an earlier rejected album) seemed out of place. Trans had a few good songs, notably "Sample and Hold" (which seemed to be about a computer dating service for robots), a remake of "Mr. Soul," and "Like an Inca" (an intended cross between "Like a Hurricane" and "Cortez the Killer"?), but on the whole it was an idea that just didn't work.

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