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pretextpretext Posts: 1,294
edited September 2009 in Other Music
Why didn't anyone tell me how fucking brilliant this album is?

Just dug it out of some old vinyl I'd taken from my relatives years ago. I never thought I could love a song called "A Man Needs A Maid."

It feels like the perfect companion to Joni Mitchell's Blue.
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  • j-bugj-bug Posts: 272
    it is a great album.and nice comparison. :mrgreen:
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  • Kilgore_TroutKilgore_Trout Posts: 7,334
    you needed someone to tell you???

    DEAR GOD ITS CLASSIC

    easily in my top 10 of all time... and my first taste of neil so many years ago
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  • HawkshoreHawkshore Posts: 2,161
    Its beautiful on vinyl! .................I'm looking forward to seeing old Neil for the first time in a couple of weeks from now!!!
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  • edvedderrocksedvedderrocks Posts: 1,001
    my 4 year old's favorite album... she knows almost all the words!
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  • iamsam_pjiamsam_pj Posts: 300
    this is my absolute, hands-down, all time favorite album!!!

    it was my mom's favorite album when she was growing up...and we would listen to it all the time on road trips when i was a kid. my sister and i would make fun of it...and then one day i fell in love :D

    i actually have my mom's original vinyl prominently displayed in my living room...i was excited when i found it...she was not!!
  • Evacuation RulesEvacuation Rules Posts: 2,162
    Fuck the vinyl...the new HDCD remaster kicks serious butt!
  • Cinnamon GirlCinnamon Girl Posts: 1,854
    She's a beauty of an album. 8-)
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  • intodeepintodeep Posts: 7,240
    Man needs a maid is a great song on a great album.

    I love the man needs a maid/heart of gold combo on the archives volume 1

    My fav song though from the album is Words. The first time i saw him back in 2000 he played that one and it was so awesome!
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  • dcfaithfuldcfaithful Posts: 13,076
    Harvest is an awesome album. Good memories associated with that one for me...and also my first jump into the glory which is known as Neil Young..
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  • El PapeEl Pape Posts: 81
    well thank you for the post, i don't know that album, but now, with all the goods reviews I'm gonna listen it.

    bye
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  • Pepe SilviaPepe Silvia Posts: 3,758
    Time Fades Away is really good, too
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  • mfc2006mfc2006 HTOWN Posts: 37,484
    great record...
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  • CHANGEinWAVESCHANGEinWAVES Posts: 10,169
    Have had this on repeat for a few days now!
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  • YefaYefa Posts: 1,133
    I agree that it's a terrific album. He's playing acoustic at the Vancouver benefit show on 9/12 & may well play something from it. Enjoy the show Hawkshore!
    The solo piano versions of A Man Needs A Maid paired with Heart of Gold from 1971 are superb.
    It was great to see him do Out On The Weekend during the 2007 tour - my first time seeing him do that song in person. Words was great in 2000 as well.
    The songs from Harvest that I haven't seen him do live yet are There's A World and Alabama. He hasn't done either one live since the 70s so I choose not to hold my breath. ;)
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  • pretextpretext Posts: 1,294
    CHANGEinWAVES wrote:
    Have had this on repeat for a few days now!

    I can't get it off the turntable. I knew so many songs from the album already, but as a whole, it's a masterpiece. I have Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere on the shelf too. Maybe my Neil Young renaissance has finally arrived. :)
  • WobbieWobbie Posts: 30,633
    pretext wrote:

    I never thought I could love a song called "A Man Needs A Maid."

    Check out the Massey Hall version...."a man feels afraid."
    If I had known then what I know now...

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  • merkinballmerkinball Posts: 2,262
    I've got the DVD-A he released of Harvest (before he switched to blu ray). Remixed in surround sound, it's really good. Makes you feel like you are in the middle of the studio.
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  • goldrushgoldrush everybody knows this is nowhere Posts: 7,633
    It's easily my favourite album of all time by any band. I first heard it in about 1979 or 1980 (I was 4 years old t the time) and I will never ever get tired of hearing it. I used to work for HMV and when they launched their new website in 2006 the staff were asked to write reviews for albums and films that they loved for customers to read on the site. I reviewed Harvest and even though I left HMV 3 years ago my review is still on their website:

    "Very rarely do you come across truly great albums. This is one of them. From the lazy harmonica and steel guitar of opener "Out On The Weekend," to the complex London Symphony Orchestra string arrangements on "A Man Needs A Maid," to electric guitar-led rockers such as "Alabama," 'Harvest' contains a little piece of every style that Neil Young is famous for and is still his most famous recording.

    A low-key collection of deceptively laid back country-rock tunes coupled with terse lyrics and lucid observations on everything from drug abuse to finding true love, it also features Young's only hit single "Heart Of Gold."

    In many ways the definitive Neil Young album, 'Harvest' is filled with songs that are as timeless today as when they were written nearly 35 years ago."
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  • Brisk.Brisk. Posts: 11,567
    Massey Hall 71, Man Needs A Maid > Heart Of Gold version is just beautiful, just neil and none of this over the top orchestra. Also this is the version where he says 'man feels afraid' which isn't on the studio.

    No youtube video :(
  • Thoughts_ArriveThoughts_Arrive Melbourne, Australia Posts: 15,165
    This thread has made me now listen to this great album.
    Listening to it as I type hehe.
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  • helplessdancerhelplessdancer Posts: 5,281
    heart of gold live, acoustic. one of neil's greatest songs ever.

    a++ /// neil young 1971 // this one's goooood

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  • hailhail82hailhail82 Posts: 330
    Just wanted to say that if you're on the fence about purchasing Archives Vol. 1,
    The North Country disc (Harvest era disc) on DVD or Blu-Ray is insane. Every album track minus Out on the Weekend and There's A World (though the latter is represented on video of Neil cutting it with the LSO) as well as outtakes (Bad Fog Of Loneliness, JTTP), studio session video (A Man Needs A Maid, Alabama, Gator Stomp, There's A World) and random hidden videos/interviews of Neil around that time. The perfect document of the era in Neil Young history.
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  • Thoughts_ArriveThoughts_Arrive Melbourne, Australia Posts: 15,165
    emptyglass wrote:
    heart of gold live, acoustic. one of neil's greatest songs ever.

    a++ /// neil young 1971 // this one's goooood

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eh44QPT1mPE

    Agree, one of the best live performances.
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  • pjfan021pjfan021 Posts: 684
    was my first neil album that i listened to front to back...i really can't think of an album that suites the fall better for me. All of his lyrics hit so damn close to home that you feel so much in it. Definitely gonna listen to it today.
  • dcfaithfuldcfaithful Posts: 13,076
    merkinball wrote:
    I've got the DVD-A he released of Harvest (before he switched to blu ray). Remixed in surround sound, it's really good. Makes you feel like you are in the middle of the studio.


    DVDA?! ;)
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  • intodeepintodeep Posts: 7,240
    hailhail82 wrote:
    Just wanted to say that if you're on the fence about purchasing Archives Vol. 1,
    The North Country disc (Harvest era disc) on DVD or Blu-Ray is insane. Every album track minus Out on the Weekend and There's A World (though the latter is represented on video of Neil cutting it with the LSO) as well as outtakes (Bad Fog Of Loneliness, JTTP), studio session video (A Man Needs A Maid, Alabama, Gator Stomp, There's A World) and random hidden videos/interviews of Neil around that time. The perfect document of the era in Neil Young history.

    that is a good disc. I'm also very partial to the one with the unreleased song Everybody's Alone... that song is pretty awesome.

    Harvest is such a brilliant album, but neil has so many of those
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