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Just heard "old Man" pretty cool.
what else?
I think Cinnamon Girl is the authority round these parts....
I love Harvest, but it took me a while. Reading this has made me realise that I need to look into more of his stuff.
Just go buy decade of amazon for £8 and take it from there ,bagrain.
Virtually everything ! Needle and the damage done, powderfinger.....
The albums: Harvest, After the gold rush, Live Rust, Ragged Glory, Freedom. Etc Etc.........
Everybody knows this is nowhere is an awesome album
Best intro to Neil Young is to buy/steal/download/borrow/otherwise obtain Greatest hits by the chap.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greatest_Hits_(Neil_Young_album)
Then play it in the background to some inane activity like bicycle cleaning, or cooking or cushion ninjing.
It gets into your soul.
Buy a copy of Harvest and After the Goldrush, then think about getting some CSN&Y... search the forum for this thread started by a particularly Awesome!!! forumite.
He's done a couple of nice tunes, but I hate him 'cos he destroys guitars.
nah, Get WELD. Incredible live versions of all his best songs, with the most wonderful, original guitar playing you'll ever hear.
It will make you want to discover his studio stuff. Unfortunately some of the production on his studio albums is badly dated, Weld gets around this.
Start with harvest. Great album.
Weld is awesome, as is Rust Never Sleeps. Studio-wise, Harvest is pretty much essential.
...but I hate him 'cos he destroys guitars.
But he does it very well!! Stupidly, stupidly good guitar player. Check out the Merkinball/Mirrorball stuff he did with Pearl Jam...
You could love him just for....
Keep On Rocking In A Free World
Awesome.
Neil Young [url= http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2002/05/10/1021002387905.html ]recalls[/url] that in 1971 he invited Graham Nash to Broken Arrow, his sprawling ranch in northern California. Nash, one quarter of America's biggest-selling group, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young (CSNY), had asked to hear his friend's recently completed Harvest record. Broken Arrow, spread over 56 hectares, has peacocks, cattle, llamas, corrals, barns and a mountain-top swimming pool. Harvest had been conceived in a studio on the estate.
Young rowed Nash to the middle of his lake. His roadies, meanwhile, set up a pair of concert-sized speakers, hauling one into a barn on the far shore. They placed another by a window inside the house. As the opening bars of Out On The Weekend began to filter across the water, Young busied himself with co-ordinating the volume levels from the boat, yelling, "I need more barn!" one way, then "I need more house!" another.
More barn!
he pissed of the boys in Lynard Skynard somewhat
and Shakey is a brilliant book.
"Harvest" soundtrack to backbacking around Oz in the 90's. Still does it 20 years later.
Ohio is a cracking song.
His house is in the woods between the bay area and Santa Cruz and a nice trail goes past his back yard. This I know to be true.
(Gran)dad rock. Careful, or you could find yourself sucked in the whole morass of country rock 😉
One of those people whose back catalogue you look at, and it seems to span whole worlds of music.
Harvest Moon for me.
Avoid the 1980's albums, try the 70's stuff first. Harvest, After the Gold Rush, On the Beach etc.
blimey, haven't listened to Harvest for ages. Dug it out and stuck it on. quality!
Ha! I was reading this and getting all confused with Paul Young. 😳
*hums Wherever I lay my hat...*
you had to spoil it didn't you Rickos lol!
As Raindog said, avoid the 80's album, the story goes they were done to fulfill his contract. The other 30 or so (!) albums are all good, the problem is where to start!
Harvest
Harvest Moon
Rust Never Sleeps
would be my recommendations.
A friend of his,another musician,was in the shop this morning before heading back home to Tennessee.
Phil Lee.
Mirror Ball is worth a listen
Neil Young - My My Hey Hey - I just adore this song, like it more acoustic but the original is still good.
In addition to what Three Fish said, the other track from the Merkinball single (Neil on something, not necessarily guitar)
I've enjoyed Neil Young for years, saw him live around 93/94 I think with Crazy Horse.
Even though i've got most of his stuff I bought this one for a fiver to have something to take in the car, it does the job and a good introduction:
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As the guys above have said re decade, harvest, after the goldrush, the unplugged album is also worth checking out especially as an intro/compilation of his stuff.
Not to be confused with neil diamond who I cannot bear!
Weld like the others as said. Neil Young at his best Also 'live at Filmore East 1970' for a comp Decade and listen to 'hurricane' 'Cortez the killer'
Saw him in the early eighties on his 'Trans' tour with Nils Lofgren
Well, where to start?
He can make some amazing music, write some brilliant songs. He can also make some terrible stuff. With an NY album, you never know what you're gonna get!
For me, I really enjoy it when Crazy Horse are involved. Love those brash guitars! A couple of my favourites that spring to mind are 'Rust Never Sleeps' which is a live album and also 'Mirror Ball' with Pearl Jam. Nah, scrub that, there's lots!
Check out Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young '4 Way Street' - some terrific NY stuff on there. Live album and it's brilliant. 8)
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Neil Young is the best. He always brings back good memories of when my parents first split up and I would stay with my dad. He would blast out Harvest or After the Goldrush to try and wake me up. Never worked as I would stay in bed and listen to the whole album.
As mentioned above, start with 70's. The obvious ones Harvest and Goldrush. My favourite albums are the ones that were slagged off on release-Tonights the Night, Times Fades Away and On the Beach(my wife got me a vinyl copy for my 30th)
The best bit about Neil is that he does exactly what he wants.
The record company says "stop making country records", he moves to Nashville and makes a straight country record.
[b]Harvest[/b] and [b]Unplugged[/b] are good introductions but you really need some rock as well. [b]Everyone knows this is nowhere[/b] from the older stuff or maybe [b]Sleeps with angels[/b].
Or [b]Weld[/b] where he invents grunge.
Not so keen on his more 'trad' country-ish stuff myself, but love Ragged Glory and Weld (even quite like Arc).
This version reduces me to jelly nearly every time I hear it.
If you're getting into Neil Young, check out Sparklehorse too if you don't already know them.
slainte 8) rob
good call on the Sparklehorse sir.
+1good call on the Sparklehorse sir.
Zuma's very good too - easiest to list albums not to get though: Avoid Landing on Water and Everybody's Rockin'
All of the above.
"Heart of Gold" may well be my all-time favourite song.
Also:
"Tell Me Why"
"Campaigner"
"My My Hey Hey"
"Comes a Time"
"Four Strong Winds"
"Powderfinger"
"Rockin' in the Free World"
Not heard much of the newer stuff but i read band interviews and Prairie Wind and Chrome Dreams get namechecked a lot
saw him at pilton a few years ago, just brilliant, springsteen was on the next night which i thought seemed a naff performance after seeing young. bought some ny and crazy horse since. ragged glory and harvest. will checkout some of these other suggestions.
After the Goldrush is an amazing album, and the title track is one of my fave tunes.
As someone who got into him via this route, I can strongly recommend the 'Decades' compilation as an excellent starting point.
Used to sing Cortez the Killer to my little girl as her bed time song... when my little boy came along... thats what i named him.
On 'Sample and Hold'
Hair : Blond
Mood -: Rotary Adjustable.
Some good stuff on Greendale too... Be the Rain.
I started with Cortez the Killer and Hey, Hey, My, My. An alternative sounding but awesome album by Neil Young is 'On The Beach'.
All rounds lead to Neil Young, so many artists pay credit to him, a real original.