Neil Young
Optimus Alive 2008. Lisboa, Portugal
12 de Julio 2008
El concierto de Neil Young en el festival Optimus Alive de Portugal tuvo todo lo que echamos en falta en su reciente actuación del Rock In Rio de Madrid: Una actitud inmejorable y esos temazos que han cimentado la leyenda del gran Buffalo canadiense a lo largo [...]
Number 479Neil Young"Rocking In A Free World"(1989). Genre:Rockart by EtherealGraphicI don't have too many hero's and I always think if you have more than 3 hero's who you look up to, then you will spend most of your time looking up rather than viewing life at an even eye level. But, Neil Young is one of mine and he sits quite comfortably with me as one of the trinity of hero's I admire, John Lenn
One of rock n' rolls greatest song-writers and performers has announced a date for Dublin this Summer. Neil Young will take over Malahide Castle, Dublin on the 29th June 2008 and tickets go on sale next Monday 10th March at 9am.
Neil Young
Rock In Rio, Madrid
27/06/2008
Por fin, después de 7 años (tras aquella actuación en el Esparrago Rock del 2001) Neil Young volvía a España, ofreciendo una única actuación en Madrid, dentro de ese esperpento mediático llamado Rock In Rio.
Lógicamente había bastante expectación desde hace bastante tiempo, y me consta que los fans del viejo Buffalo [...]
Neil Young 1978-ban megjelent szólólemeze visszatérés a folk/folkrock zenéhez. A lemez annak ellenére szólólemez, hogy a Crazy Horse teljes társulata is részt vett a felvételeken. A meglehetősen nagy létszámú csapatban J.J. Cale is pengetett.A számok:1. Goin' Back – 4:432. Comes a Time – 3:053. Look Out for My Love – 4:064. Lotta Love – 2:385. Peace of Mind – 4:116. Huma
O NEIL YOUNG É UM DAQUELES COMPOSITORES QUE MERECIAM UMA ESTÁTUA EM PRAÇA PÚBLICA POR SUA OBRA!!!O ALLTRIBES DIVULGA A CARREIRA SOLO DE NEIL YOUNG!!!Neil Percival Kenneth Robert Ragland Young, mais conhecido por Neil Young (12 de novembro de 1945) é um músico e compositor de origem canadense, que fez sua carreira nos Estados Unidos. Conhecido por sua voz anasalada e suas letras punge
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Neil Young, the rocker who provided some of the soundtrack to Vietnam-era protests, is trying to change the world again - with his car.
Young has teamed up with Johnathan Goodwin, a Wichita mechanic who has developed a national reputation for re-engineering the power units of big cars to get more horsepower [...]
From The Dallas Morning News : A biologist at East Carolina University, Jason Bond, has named a newly discovered spider species after rock icon Neil Young. The arachnid's official appellation is Myrmekiaphila neilyoungi. The scientist said Mr. Young merits the honor for his social and political activism.
O NEIL YOUNG É UM DAQUELES COMPOSITORES QUE MERECIAM UMA ESTÁTUA EM PRAÇA PÚBLICA POR SUA OBRA!!!O ALLTRIBES DIVULGA A CARREIRA SOLO DE NEIL YOUNG!!!Neil Percival Kenneth Robert Ragland Young, mais conhecido por Neil Young (12 de novembro de 1945) é um músico e compositor de origem canadense, que fez sua carreira nos Estados Unidos. Conhecido por sua voz anasalada e suas letras pungentes
Neil Young is currently mixing tracks recorded with his long time band Crazy Horse at the Toast studio, San Francisco in 2000.
Young is expected to release the material as part of his Archives series of work.
The album will be called Toast, after the recording studio and has been described as ‘bluesy’ and ‘jazz tinged’ by [...]
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Neil Young + Pegi Young
Hammersmit Apollo, Londres
14 de Marzo 2008
En cuanto tuve noticias de la gira europea de Neil Young y a medida que se confirmaba que no se pasaría por nuestro país, me puse manos a la obra para conseguir un par de entradas donde fuese para poder cumplir un sueño que se empezó [...]
1. Tell Me Why 2. After the Gold Rush 3. Only Love Can Break Your Heart 4. Southern Man 5. Till the Morning Comes 6. Oh, Lonesome Me 7. Don't Let It Bring You Down 8. Birds 9. When You Dance I Can Really Love 10. I Believe in You 11. Cripple Creek FerryIT'S ONLY CASTLES BURNING
Neil Young - Journey Through The Past(1972)1. For What It's Worth, Mr.Soul (3:52)2. Rock & Roll Woman (2:52)3. Find The Cost Of Freedom (2:10)4. Ohio (4:14)5. Southern Man (7:01)6. Are You Ready For The Country (1:56)7. Let Me Call You Sweetheart (1:06)8. Alabama, God Bless America (6:19)9. Words (15:55)10. Relativity Invitation (1:13)11. Handel's Messiah (2:43)12. King Of Kings (5:27)13. Soldier (3:46)14. Let's Go Away For A While (2:13)15. Needle And The Damage Done - Bonus Track (2:116. Ohio - Bonus Track (2:52)17. Don't Let It Bring You Down - Bonus Track (2:24)18. Cowgirl In The Sand - Bonus Track (3:37)19. Heart Of Gold - Bonus Track (1:50) http://massmirror.com/d70417ba607bd648d012130b7309e0ba.htmlPass : xxxrockrula.blogspot.comIf you want more visit my site: http://softeca.forumlive.org
Pues si, parece que la tan esperada noticia se confirma. Habrá gira europea de Neil Young en este 2008 que se nos viene encima, de momento hay confirmadas fechas en Gran Bretaña, Dinamarca, Francia y Bélgica y hay paginas que ya incluso ofrecen entradas a la venta.
Os dejo el enlace a la página de referencia [...]
Neil Young negyedik, 1972. februárjában megjelent albumára sem találok jobb kifejezést: zseniális. Néhányan az album készítésében közreműködő zenészek közül: James Taylor, David Crosby, Graham Nash, Stephen Stills, Linda Ronstadt, London Symphony Orchestra. A lemez szerepel valamennyi általam ismert, a minden idők legjobb albumait felsoroló százas listában.Heart Of GoldA számok:1. Out on the Weekend – 4:342. Harvest – 3:113. A Man Needs a Maid – 4:054. Heart of Gold – 3:075. Are You Ready for the Country? – 3:236. Old Man – 3:247. There's a World – 2:598. Alabama – 4:029. The Needle and the Damage Done – 2:0310. Words (Between the Lines of Age) – 6:40Tömörítés/Bitrate: 192 kb/sLetöltés/Download:[ Uploaded.to ][ ShareOnAll ]Jelszó/Password: levente
Aprovechando que hoy es su cumpleaños y que ya hace más de 2 semanas que ha salido el nuevo disco de Neil Young, con el nombre que lleva esta página sería imperdonable no mencionarlo. El título es “Chrome Dreams II”. A la espera de una reseña más completa me animo a comentar pequeños detalles.
En 1976 [...]
There is a town in north Ontario,With dream comfort memory to spare,and in my mind I still need a place to go,All my changes were there,Blue, blue windows behind the stars,Yellow moon on the rise,Big birds flying across the sky,Throwing shadows on our eyes.Helpless, helpless, helplessBaby can you hear me now?The chains are locked and tied across the door,Baby, sing with me some how.Blue, blue windows behind the stars,Yellow moon on the rise,Big birds flying across the sky,Throwing shadows on our eyes.(repeat and fade)Helpless, helpless, helpless
Neil Young - Chrome Dreams II (October 23, 2007)1. Beautiful Bluebird 3:302. Boxcar 3:153. Ordinary People 18:134. Shining Light 4:335. The Believer 2:386. Spirit Road 5:017. Dirty Old Man 2:528. Ever After 3:329. No Hidden Path 11:3110. The Way 5:15http://hosszrgso3up2ml1i474d.usercash.comIf you want more visit my site: http://softeca.forumlive.org
1970. szeptemberében került az üzletekbe Neil Young harmadik szólóalbuma. A lemez felvételeire nem sokkal a Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young csapat Deja Vu albumának elkészültét követően került sor. A zenészek: Neil Young – guitar, piano, harmonica, vibes, vocal; Nils Lofgren – piano, vocal; Greg Reeves – bass; Ralph Molina – drums, vocal; Danny Whitten – guitar, vocal; Jack Nitzsche – piano; Billy Talbot – bass; Bill Peterson – flugelhorn; Stephen Stills – vocal.Tell Me WhyA számok:1. Tell Me Why – 2:542. After the Gold Rush – 3:453. Only Love Can Break Your Heart – 3:054. Southern Man – 5:415. Till the Morning Comes – 1:176. Oh, Lonesome Me – 3:477. Don't Let It Bring You Down – 2:568. Birds – 2:349. When You Dance I Can Really Love – 3:4410.I Believe in You – 3:2411.Cripple Creek Ferry – 1:34Tömörítés/Bitrate: 192 kb/sLetöltés/Download:[ Webfilehosting ][ Mediafire ]Jelszó/Password: levente
This is a great rare recording from March 23, 1975. Bob Dylan, Neil Young and the Band played Kezar Stadium at San Francisco's Golden Gate Park for a benefit. Bill Graham created the SNACK benefit (Students Need Athletics Culture and Kicks) to help preserve school programming for youngsters. The concert was broadcast over the air by K101fm and can therefore be shared with all of you today!Of special interest - during "Knockin' On Heaven's Door" - somebody up on stage changes the lyric to "Knockin' on the Dragon's Door" in the first chorus. The change catches on. By the end, everybody's singing it that one! Unplanned and caught on tape!Enjoy and don't forget to drop me a line or leave a comment to let us know what you think.March 1975 a Benefit in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park:Bob Dylan and The Band's Rick Danko- The Snack Benefit 3/23/75 - Bob Dylan, Neil Young, The Bandadditional appearances byBen Keith and Tim Drummond01 - Are You Ready for the Country?02 - Ain't That A
Neil Young második szólóalbuma szokatlanul gyorsan, az első után alig négy hónappal jelent meg, és nem találok rá találóbb jelzőt, mint azt hogy elejétől a végéig egyszerűen zseniális.A Crazy Horse névvel jelzett kisérő trió tagjai: Danny Whitten gitár, ének; Ralph Molina dobok, ének és Billy Talbot basszusgitár. A lemezen hegedűn közreműködik még Bobby Notkoff is.Down By The RiverA számok:1. Cinnamon Girl 2. Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere 3. Round And Round 4. Down By The River 5. Losing End (When You're On) 6. Running Dry (Requiem For The Rockets) 7. Cowgirl In The SandTömörítés/Bitrate: 192 kb/sLetöltés/Download: [ Divshare ] [ Boost ]Jelszó/Password: levente
There are great musicians, great shows and great recording - here you have it all! Rarely do all of these elements come together and the material is still not available to enjoy. With Neil Young's recent release of the Massey Hall 1971 show there is a lot of love out there these days for his music - and especially tracks from this era. Presenting: Neil Young Live at the BBC 1971...NEIL YOUNGThe Concert of the MonthImage: Neil Young by Graham NashIt's damn hard to believe that this show (a collector's treasure for three decades now) has never been released. It was recorded at the old Sheperds Bush Empire Theatre (sold to the BBC in 1953 with some conversions for television broadcasts for years.) This session is crisp and clean - showcasing classic Neil Young during an important period in his professional development. The song selections are hard to beat! And that is why Neil Young's 1971 BBC show is the concert of the month!Out on the WeekendOld ManJourney Thru the PastHeart of Gold
Neil Young - Rock N' Roll Cowboy: A Life on the Road, (1966-1994-Box Set-4CD)(Repost)320kbpsIn the late '80s, Neil Young casually mentioned in an interview that he was planning a box set of rarities and outtakes (entitled The Neil Young Archives), which would be ready for release shortly. It never appeared, even though it's supposedly still being assembled and finalized to this day. To alleviate the fans' frustration, this bootleg four-CD Italian box set appeared, and it covers all the phases of Young's lengthy concert career. The first disc (1966-1973) proves to be the best. It's here that you'll find an early barnstorming guitar version of "Cowgirl in the Sand" (clocking in at 14-and-a-half minutes) and a harmonious Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young take of "Tell Me Why." A piano-laden medley of "A Man Needs a Maid/Heart of Gold" follows, and the beautiful unreleased acoustic nuggets "Everybody's Alone" and "Dance Dance Dance" comfort the listener. Disc two (1974-1978) contains m
Mirror Ball (1995)(Grabado junto con Pearl Jam)Tracks:1. Song X2. Act Of Love3. I'm The Ocean4. Big Green Country5. Truth Be Known6. Downtown7. What Happened Yesterday8. Peace and Love9. Throw Your Hatred Down10. Scenery[ DOWNLOAD Neil Young - Mirror Ball | 192kbps ]:. buy from Amazon.com .:Harvest (1972)Tracks:1. Out On The Weekend2. Harvest3. A Man Needs A Maid4. Heart Of Gold5. Are You Ready For The Country?6. Old Man7. There's A World8. Alabama9. Needle And The Damage Done10. Words (Between The Lines Of Age)[ DOWNLOAD Neil Young - Harvest | 320kbps ]:. buy from Amazon.com .:
Neil Young - Lucky Thirteen(1993)320kbpsGeffen Records seems to have intended a straightforward "best of" compilation containing the singles released from Neil Young's five albums with the label between 1982 and 1987. Then Young himself became involved, and his version of a Geffen sampler naturally turned out to be more unusual. There were four songs never before released on a Young album: "Depression Blues" had been recorded for the first, rejected version of the country-ish Old Ways; "Get Gone" (a soundalike to "Willie and the Hand Jive") and the bluesy "Don't Take Your Love Away From Me" were live recordings with the "Shocking Pinks" rockabilly band that made Everybody's Rockin'; and "Ain't It the Truth" was a live recording from the Bluenotes tour that came just as Young was leaving Geffen. There were also an alternate version of "Sample and Hold" from Trans that ran an extra few minutes and a live take of "This Note's for You," the title song from Young's 1988 return to Re
Neil Young - Where The Buffalo Roam(Soundtrack-1980)320kbpsNeil Young's score for this film about writer Hunter Thompson (played by Bill Murray) consists of several fragmentary instrumental and vocal performances of "Home on the Range" played by an orchestra with Young on vocals, harmonica, and distorted electric guitar (amounting to less than ten minutes of music), plus a series of rock evergreens: "All Along the Watchtower" and "Purple Haze" by Jimi Hendrix, "Papa Was a Rolling Stone" by the Temptations, "Highway 61" by Bob Dylan, "I Can't Help Myself (Sugar Pie Honey Bunch)" by the Four Tops, and "Keep On Chooglin'" by Creedence Clearwater Revival. Also, Murray strangles his way through a torturous "Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds," and there is some dialogue from the film.Review by William Ruhlmann(allmusic.com)1. Buffalo Stomp (3:24)2. Ode To Wild Bill #1 (0:34)3. All Along The Watch Tower (3:58)4. Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds (1:27)5. Ode To Wild Bill #2 (1:02)6. Papa Was A Rol
Neil Young - First Album(1969)(Re-Post)320kbpsOn 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
Neil Young - Mystery Train(2001)(Re-Post)320kbpsMystery Train draws tracks from Neil Young's Geffen years, including selections from Trans (1983), Everybody's Rockin' (1983), Old Ways (1985), and the late rarities CD that uses lost tracks from this time period, Lucky Thirteen (1993). This, of course, was the era in which Geffen sued Young for not putting out albums that sounded enough like Neil Young, a rather ridiculous premise given Young's oft-noted tendency to change stylistic directions at the drop of a guitar pick, sometimes even in mid-tour. What is immediately apparent upon listening to this amazingly cohesive compilation is how much it sounds like vintage Neil Young from start to finish, and all these years later it is a little hard to understand what all the fuss was about. True, the above albums were a bit inconsistent (but this is Neil Young, remember, and being consistent and doing what is expected have never exactly been his M.O.), so casual listeners may want to see
Neil Young - Road Rock, Vol. 1: Friends & Relatives(2000)320kbpsFor some reason, Neil Young decided that his 2000 tour was particularly hot, so he decided to record a live album and rush release it by the end of the year. So, that explains the appearance of Road Rock, Vol. 1, an eight-song collection recorded with an ensemble featuring Spooner Oldham on keyboards, Duck Dunn on bass, Jim Keltner on drums, and Astrid and Pegi Young on vocals -- thereby explaining the "Friends & Relatives" subtitle. This band is pretty good, even supple, but this doesn't feel necessary at any time and suffers from indulgence. And it doesn't shy away from this indulgence, either, opening with an 18-minute "Cowgirl in the Sand" that only diehards could sit through. And, in a sense, that summarizes this album, since only diehards will thrill to an 11-minute "Words," a previously unreleased "Fool for Your Love," a ten-minute "Tonight's the Night," or an "All Along the Watchtower" featuring opener Chrissie
Neil Young - Unplugged(1993)320kbpsThe virtue of the "unplugged" concept pioneered by MTV was that it provided a forum for rock musicians to reinterpret their work without using rock's favorite instrument, the electric guitar. But by 1993, the unplugged sessions were serving as another way of creating product without coming up with anything really new, thus joining live albums, greatest-hits albums, and covers albums. Neil Young, who has always alternated between rock and folk approaches to his music anyway, would not seem like an ideal candidate for an "unplugged" session, but in a few of the 14 selections in this 65-and-a-half-minute recording, he did give his audience new ways to listen to his repertoire. Particularly notable were a pump-organ and harmonica arrangement of his guitar rock classic "Like a Hurricane" and an acoustic guitar rendition of his Buffalo Springfield hit "Mr. Soul." For the most part, however, Young's Unplugged was simply an acoustic live album drawn from a
Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Weld (1991)320kbpsWeld, Neil Young's two-hour-plus double-CD chronicle of his 1991 Ragged Glory/Smell the Horse Tour with Crazy Horse, was received with only mild enthusiasm from Young's fans and rock critics, perhaps because it seemed redundant. Such warhorses as "Like a Hurricane" and "Cortez the Killer" were making their fourth appearances on a Young album, and the five songs from the Ragged Glory album were basically unchanged from their studio versions. Containing only 16 tracks, the album's songs averaged over seven and a half minutes in length, and that length was given over to extended guitar improvisations, which often were filled with feedback and distortion. Where Young's previous double live album, Live Rust, which bore some similarities to this one, was a career retrospective including some acoustic numbers, Weld was all electric rock with Crazy Horse. The one previously unreleased song was a Gulf War-era cover of Bob Dylan's "Blowin' in th
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Neil Young - Are You Passionate ?(2002)320kbpsNeil Young had been playing with Booker T. & the MG's since the mid-'90s, touring heavily with the Stax house band, but the soul grooves on 2002's Are You Passionate?, the first album he cut with the group as a backing band, still come as a surprise. It could be because that even when he assembled the Bluenotes for the proto-neo-swing This Note's for You, he never tried to be as warm, seductive, and romantic as he does here. That's right, the title is no joke -- this is a romantic album, grounded with tight Southern soul rhythms and dressed in Young's signature fuzz-tone Les Paul. No matter the topic of the song, the essential sound is the same: a lazy soul groove, built on what Booker T. & the MG's did in the late '60s, vamping over Neil's three chords as he croons, usually in a falsetto but sometimes in a gruff lower register, while kicking out a variation of "I Can't Turn You Loose" (most notably heard on the opener, "You'
Rating: 9/10
This is one of the best live cds that i've heard in a long time. That's because he's Neil Young.
On January 19th, 1971, Young returned to Toronto a star, showing off his rapidly matured songwriting in two solo concerts at Massey Hall. This album is the full second show, in such pin-drop fidelity that the noise of him adjusting his mike sounds like Crazy Horse-gig distortion.
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Neil Young - Decade(1977)320kbpsGiven the quirkiness of Neil Young's recording career, with its frequent cancellations of releases and last-minute rearrangements of material, it is a relief to report that this two-disc compilation is so conventional and so satisfying. A 35-track selection of the best of Young's work between 1966 and 1976, it includes songs performed by Buffalo Springfield, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, and the Stills-Young Band, as well as solo work. In addition to five unreleased songs, Decade offers such key tracks as the Springfield's "Mr. Soul," "Broken Arrow," and "I Am a Child"; "Sugar Mountain," a song that had appeared only as a single before; "Cinnamon Girl," "Down by the River," and "Cowgirl in the Sand" from Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere; "Southern Man" and the title track from After the Gold Rush; and "Old Man" and the chart-topping "Heart of Gold" from Harvest. This is the material that built Young's reputation between 1966 and 1972, although he is m
Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Ragged Glory(1990)(Re-Post)192kbpsHaving re-established his reputation with the musically varied, lyrically enraged Freedom, Neil Young returned to being the lead guitarist of Crazy Horse for the musically homogenous, lyrically hopeful Ragged Glory. The album's dominant sound was made by Young's noisy guitar, which bordered on and sometimes slipped over into distortion, while Crazy Horse kept up the songs' bright tempos. Despite the volume, the tunes were catchy, with strong melodies and good choruses, and they were given over to love, humor, and warm reminiscence. They were also platforms for often extended guitar excursions: "Love to Burn" and "Love and Only Love" ran over ten minutes each, and the album as a whole lasted nearly 63 minutes with only ten songs. Much about the record had a retrospective feel -- the first two tracks, "Country Home" and "White Line," were newly recorded versions of songs Young had played with Crazy Horse but never released i
Neil Young - Harvest Moon(1992)(Re-Post)320kbpsThe 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
Neil Young - Mystery Train(2001)320kbpsMystery Train draws tracks from Neil Young's Geffen years, including selections from Trans (1983), Everybody's Rockin' (1983), Old Ways (1985), and the late rarities CD that uses lost tracks from this time period, Lucky Thirteen (1993). This, of course, was the era in which Geffen sued Young for not putting out albums that sounded enough like Neil Young, a rather ridiculous premise given Young's oft-noted tendency to change stylistic directions at the drop of a guitar pick, sometimes even in mid-tour. What is immediately apparent upon listening to this amazingly cohesive compilation is how much it sounds like vintage Neil Young from start to finish, and all these years later it is a little hard to understand what all the fuss was about. True, the above albums were a bit inconsistent (but this is Neil Young, remember, and being consistent and doing what is expected have never exactly been his M.O.), so casual listeners may want to seek out thi
Neil Young - Prairie Wind(2005)320kbpsSince 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
Neil Young - Landing On Water(1986)320kbpsBacked 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. 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 s
Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Sleeps With Angels(1994)(Re-Post)320kbpsThough 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 dec
Neil Young - Live At Massey Hall 1971(2007)320kbpsThe second volume of Neil Young's long-promised, suddenly thriving Archives series is Live at Massey Hall, preserving a 1971 acoustic show at the Toronto venue. Where the first volume captured a portion of Neil's past that wasn't particularly well documented on record -- namely, the rampaging original Crazy Horse lineup in its 1970 prime -- this second installment may seem to cover familiar ground, at least to the outside observer who may assume that any solo acoustic Young must sound the same. That, of course, is not the case with an artist as mercurial and willful as Young, who was inarguably on a roll in 1971, coming off successes with Crazy Horse, Crosby, Stills & Nash, and his second solo record, 1970's After the Gold Rush. The concert chronicled on Live at Massey Hall finds Neil dipping into these recent successes for material, as he also airs material that would shortly find a home on 1972's Harvest in addition to playing so
Neil Young - Mirror Ball(1995)320kbpsNeil Young uses Pearl Jam on Mirror Ball much as he has used his perennial backup band Crazy Horse, looking for feel and spontaneity. At the start of the record, he can be heard instructing them: "No tuning, nothing," and the take of "I'm the Ocean" is an obvious run-through that became a master take. But Pearl Jam is not Crazy Horse; in place of the latter's primitive, nonswinging sound, the former boasts spirited rhythms and dense guitar interplay that Young makes excellent use of in a series of songs built out of simple, melodic rifts. Those songs come mostly in pairs: "Song X" and "Act of Love," the first two tracks, both seem to be about abortion, especially in its religious aspect, each containing a reference to "the holy war"; "What Happened to Yesterday" and "Fallen Angel" are song fragments on which Young plays the pump organ; and "Downtown" and "Peace and Love" find Young addressing the musical and philosophical concerns of hippies and c
Neil Young - Hawks & Doves(1980)320kbpsFollowing 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 contrac
Neil Young - Silver & Gold(2000)320kbpsSilver & 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 contributio
Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Sleeps With Angels(1994)320kbpsThough 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, "I
Neil Young - Harvest Moon(1992)320kbpsThe 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
Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Live Rust(1979)320kbpsAll the kudos Neil Young earned for Rust Never Sleeps he lost for Live Rust, the double-LP live album released four months later. Live Rust was the soundtrack to Young's concert film Rust Never Sleeps (he had wanted to give it that title, but Reprise vetoed the idea, fearing confusion with the earlier album), and likewise was recorded October 22, 1978, at the Cow Palace in San Francisco. But much of the Rust Never Sleeps album had been recorded on the same tour, and Live Rust repeated four songs from that disc; besides, since Young had released the career retrospective Decade in 1977, critics felt he was unfairly recycling his older material and repeating his new material. In retrospect, however, Live Rust, now a single 74-minute CD, comes off as an excellent Neil Young live album and career summary, starting with the early song "Sugar Mountain" and running through then-new songs like "My My, Hey Hey (Out of the Blue)" and "Powderfinger
Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Greendale(2003)320kbpsPrior to its release, Greendale received more attention than any Neil Young album in years, but it wasn't positive. Young hauled out his concept album -- about an extended family in a small town called Greendale, and how they're torn apart by a murder -- to unsuspecting audiences, who by and large were not happy about spending anywhere from 55 to 85 dollars to hear a dense convoluted song cycle, complete with rambling narrative from Young, for the first hour of the show and not hearing many hits in the remainder of the set. Early in the summer of 2003, there was a brief blast of stories about this quasi-scandal, setting the stage for the late-summer release of the album: it got Young some needed press, and announced that unlike his last several albums, Young was actually trying this time around. Frankly, he needed a change. Ever since 1994's Sleeps With Angels -- or, if you're less charitable, 1990's Ragged Glory -- he had been drif
Neil Young - This Note's For You(1988)320kbpsA collective groan from Neil Young fans could be heard when it was announced that, as his return to Reprise Records, Young was engaging in yet another genre experiment, this time recording blues and R&B with a six-piece horn section. If Landing on Water and Life had been lackluster, at least they hadn't been as embarrassing as Young's forays into rockabilly (Everybody's Rockin') and techno (Trans). And if you took This Note's for You on its own genre terms, it could be just as laughable. A song like "Sunny Inside," with its marching rhythm and charging horn charts, seemed to demand a forceful, gritty singer on the order of Wilson Pickett, and Young's watery tenor just didn't cut it. But the album was only half up-tempo numbers; the other half was bluesy ballads for which Young's singing was effective and on which he sounded more personally involved than he had in years. And even on the rockers, his sense of humor often carried the d
Neil Young - Old Ways (1985)320kbpsIn 1984, Geffen Records sued Neil Young on the grounds that he had submitted uncharacteristic, uncommercial records to the label. By the time a settlement had been reached, Young had been on the road with a country band called the International Harvesters for over a year and recorded a revamped version of Old Ways, a 1982 recording originally rejected by Geffen that was cut in the style of Harvest and Comes a Time, but with a stronger country leaning. Young depends heavily on friends, especially for vocals -- Waylon Jennings sings harmony on six out of the ten tracks, and one of the others is a duet with Willie Nelson. Though populated by cowboys and country references, Young's take on the genre is typically idiosyncratic, including a reworked version of his autobiography in "Get Back to the Country," a cover of the 1956 Gogi Grant hit "The Wayward Wind," and the uncategorizable "Misfits," which portrays astronauts watching Muhammad Ali fights on tel
Neil Young - Live At The Fillmore East(1970)320kbpsEver since he started rumbling about releasing his archives some 20, 30 years ago -- it's been so long, it's hard to keep track of the specifics -- Neil Young talked about it as a mammoth box set, or perhaps a series of box sets each chronicling a different era in his career, comprised entirely of unreleased recordings, some live, some studio. It was an eagerly anticipated set, since everybody knew that he had scores of unreleased recordings in his vaults. Not just songs, but full albums that were scrapped at the last minute. He regularly tested out new songs on tour, sometimes rewriting them later, sometimes never releasing them on album. Some of his peers had similar habits -- Bob Dylan had a similar treasure trove of unreleased recordings -- but unlike Dylan, Young took an active interest in archiving this material himself. Given the amount of unreleased tapes, some patience was in order, but as the years stretched into decades, w
Neil Young - Everybody's Rockin'(1983)320kbpsBy following the hi-tech Trans after only seven months with a rockabilly album, Neil Young baffled his audience. Just as he had followed the sales peak of Harvest in 1972 with a series of challenging, uncommercial albums, Young had now dissipated the commercial and critical acceptance he had enjoyed with 1979's Rust Never Sleeps with a series of mediocre albums and inexplicable genre exercises. Everybody's Rockin', credited to "Neil & the Shocking Pinks," represented the nadir of this attempted career suicide. Running less than 25 minutes, it found Young covering early rock evergreens like "Betty Lou's Got a New Pair of Shoes" and writing a few songs in the same vein ("Kinda Fonda Wanda"). If he had presented this as a mini-album at a discount price, it would have been easier to enjoy the joke Young seemed to intend. As it was, fans who already had their doubts about Young dropped off the radar screen; Everybody's Rockin' was his low
Neil Young - American Stars 'N Bars(1977)320kbpsNeil 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
Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Zuma(1975)320kbpsHaving apparently exorcised his demons by releasing the cathartic Tonight's the Night, Neil Young returned to his commercial strengths with Zuma (named after Zuma Beach in Los Angeles, where he now owned a house). Seven of the album's nine songs were recorded with the reunited Crazy Horse, in which rhythm guitarist Frank Sampedro had replaced the late Danny Whitten, but there were also nods to other popular Young styles in "Pardon My Heart," an acoustic song that would have fit on Harvest, his most popular album, and "Through My Sails," retrieved from one of Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young's abortive recording sessions. Young had abandoned the ragged, first-take approach of his previous three albums, but Crazy Horse would never be a polished act, and the music had a lively sound well-suited to the songs, which were some of the most melodic, pop-oriented tunes Young had crafted in years, though they were played with an electric-guitar-drenched
Neil Young - On the Beach(1974)320kbpsFollowing the 1973 Time Fades Away tour, Neil Young wrote and recorded an Irish wake of a record called Tonight's the Night and went on the road drunkenly playing its songs to uncomprehending listeners and hostile reviewers. Reprise rejected the record, and Young went right back and made On the Beach, which shares some of the ragged style of its two predecessors. But where Time was embattled and Tonight mournful, On the Beach was savage and, ultimately, triumphant. "I'm a vampire, babe," Young sang, and he proceeded to take bites out of various subjects: threatening the lives of the stars who lived in L.A.'s Laurel Canyon ("Revolution Blues"); answering back to Lynyrd Skynyrd, whose "Sweet Home Alabama" had taken him to task for his criticisms of the South in "Southern Man" and "Alabama" ("Walk On"); and rejecting the critics ("Ambulance Blues"). But the barbs were mixed with humor and even affection, as Young seemed to be emerging from the grie
Neil Young - Tonight's the Night(1975)320kbpsWritten 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), You
Neil Young - Harvest (1972)320kbpsNeil Young's most popular album, Harvest employs a number of jarringly different styles. Much of it is country-tinged, although there is also an acoustic track, a couple of electric guitar-drenched rock performances, and two songs on which Young is accompanied by the London Symphony Orchestra. But the album does have an overall mood and an overall lyric content, and they conflict with each other: the mood is melancholic, but the songs mostly describe the longing for and fulfillment of new love. Young's concerns are perhaps most explicit on the controversial "A Man Needs a Maid," which contrasts the fears of committing to a relationship with simply living alone and hiring help. Over and over, he sings of the need for love in such songs as "Out on the Weekend," "Heart of Gold," and "Old Man," and the songs are unusually melodic and accessible; the rock numbers "Are You Ready for the Country" and "Alabama" are in Young's familiar style and unremarkable
Neil Young - Rock N' Roll Cowboy: A Life on the Road, (1966-1994-Box Set-4CD)320kbpsIn the late '80s, Neil Young casually mentioned in an interview that he was planning a box set of rarities and outtakes (entitled The Neil Young Archives), which would be ready for release shortly. It never appeared, even though it's supposedly still being assembled and finalized to this day. To alleviate the fans' frustration, this bootleg four-CD Italian box set appeared, and it covers all the phases of Young's lengthy concert career. The first disc (1966-1973) proves to be the best. It's here that you'll find an early barnstorming guitar version of "Cowgirl in the Sand" (clocking in at 14-and-a-half minutes) and a harmonious Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young take of "Tell Me Why." A piano-laden medley of "A Man Needs a Maid/Heart of Gold" follows, and the beautiful unreleased acoustic nuggets "Everybody's Alone" and "Dance Dance Dance" comfort the listener. Disc two (1974-1978) contains material
Neil Young - Time Fades Away(1973)320kbpsAnyone who has followed Neil Young's career knows enough not to expect a simple evening of mellow good times when they see him in concert, but in 1973, when Young hit the road after Harvest had confirmed his status as a first-echelon rock star, that knowledge wasn't nearly as common as it is today. Young's natural inclinations to travel against the current of audience expectations were amplified by a stormy relationship between himself and his touring band, as well as the devastating death of guitarist Danny Whitten, who died of a drug overdose shortly after being given his pink slip during the first phase of tour rehearsals. The shows that followed turned into a nightly exorcism of Young's rage and guilt, as well as a battle between himself and an audience who, expecting to hear "Old Man" and "Heart of Gold," didn't know what to make of the electric assault they witnessed. All the more remarkably, Young brought along a mobile recording tru
Neil Young - Chrome Dreams(74-76)320kbpsChrome Dreams is a collection of demos and outtakes taken from Neil Young's American Stars and Bars sessions, and although this album never had an official release, it has made itself widespread through underground manufacturing and the like. Any fears as to sound defects should be laid aside, however: this release is remarkably close to official quality audio.Many tracks on Chrome Dreams are otherwise unavailable in studio form, noticeably including the live regulars "Pocahontas", "Sedan Delivery" and "Powderfinger". For Neil Young zealots, these alone would make Chrome Dreams^ a definite purchase. However, to add to that, Young's touching ode to Stephen Stills is present, "Stringman", as well as the emotional "Hold Back the Tears". As any Young fan could tell from this list, Chrome Dreams is quite an album.The fine track list together with the rarity value should make this album a high-priority on any Neil Young fans' or, indeed, any rock fa
Neil Young - First Album(1969)320kbpsOn 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 La
