What a good Neil Young Album?
roymcd
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Hey guys and dolls,
Just got a few Neil young albums off a friend in work. He was saying if i like PJ i should like Young. I need to burn some to a disk to listen to so was wondering where i should start. He gave me : -
After the Gold Rush
Comes a Time
Dead Man Soundtrack
Decade Disc 1 & 2
Greendale
Harvest
On the Beach
Prarie Wind
Rust Never Sleeps
Silver & Gold
Just got a few Neil young albums off a friend in work. He was saying if i like PJ i should like Young. I need to burn some to a disk to listen to so was wondering where i should start. He gave me : -
After the Gold Rush
Comes a Time
Dead Man Soundtrack
Decade Disc 1 & 2
Greendale
Harvest
On the Beach
Prarie Wind
Rust Never Sleeps
Silver & Gold
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Start with Decade 1 & 2
After the Goldrush
Harvest
On the Beach
and
Rust Never Sleeps
then work your way from there
Have fun!
Mirrorball
Sha la la la i'm in love with a jersey girl
I love you forever and forever
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And I don't feel right when you're gone away
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I'd also like to suggest Neil Young's unplugged album. It's incredible. It has a good mix of his songs like my my hey hey, helpless, from hank to hendrix, pocahontas, comes a time, like a hurricane and more. It's my favourite unplugged album.
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Tell Me Why, When You Dance, Southern Man, Birds,
Comes a Time:
Comes A Time, Look Out For My Love, Lotta Love
Decade:
Old Laughing Lady, Cinnamon Girl, Down By The River, Cowgirl in The Sand, Ohio, Loner, Long May You Run
Harvest:
Harvest, Heart Of Gold, Old Man
On the Beach:
Ambulance Blues, Vampire Blues, For The Turnstiles, On The Beach
Rust Never Sleeps:
all of it.
Silver & Gold:
Razor Love, Silver and Gold, Buffalo Springfield Again
i'll be getting that one for sure!!!!!
as far as recommending a good neil cd...well if you don't like gw bush...get "living with war"
you have some good stuff here.
Here are the ones i would rank as the best place to start off of that list:
Harvest
After the Gold Rush
Rust Never Sleeps
Then
Comes a Time
On the Beach (generally a fan favorite but maybe not the best to start)
Next in line are the newer albums I rank them as follows
Greendale
Prairie Wind
Silver & Gold
Decade is a greatest hits disc i prefer albums but that might be cool for you.
Dead Man is okay.
Hell if you can i would burn them all but if you can't make sure you get the first 5 i listened to. Then you'll be hooked.
Charlotte 03
Asheville 04
Atlanta 12
Greenville 16, Columbia 16
Seattle 18
Nashville 22
After the gold rush and Harvest are both classics. Take them!
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And the DVD of the actual film with some performance footage from the Greenale tour.
Nobody mention Mirrorball yet? I'm the Ocean, Big Green Country, Peace & Love, Song X are all classic Neil songs, plus one hell of a backing band.
I'm in the minority, but I really don't like too much off Harvest Moon, except Natural Beauty. If I'm in the mood for quiet/acoustic Neil, I usually reach for Silver & Gold.
(Edited to add: Zoso has Mirrorball listed, I missed it!)
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after the goldrush (is it hard to make arrangements with yourself?)
harvest (see the lonely boy, out on the weekend)
sleeps with angels (western hero is amazing)
harvest moon is a classic!
neil young and bob dylan are the two best rock/pop/folk songwriters EVER!
As she slams the door in his drunken face
And now he stands outside
And all the neighbours start to gossip and drool
He cries oh, girl you must be mad,
What happened to the sweet love you and me had?
Against the door he leans and starts a scene,
And his tears fall and burn the garden green
had forgotten about the dead man soundtrack, Is it just the film score straight? nothing else?? what about dialogue?
I'm shocked that Ragged Glory isn't on the list. This is probably Uncle Neil's closest work to grunge, and with some serious feedback on every song.
My other faves of his aren't on the list either...
Everybody Knows This is Nowhere, with Cowgirl in the Sand, Down by the River, and Cinnamon Girl.
Live Rust, His best live album, IMO.
Havest Moon I just can't believe this one was left out. Great low-key album.
On the Beach
Tonights The Night
Zuma
But one missing on this list is one of my all time favorite albums, Zuma. I love that album from start to finish, Joni Mitchell and Neil art work, perfect album start to finish. Studio version of Cortez the Killer is pretty sweet too. I think that is one you can probably pick up for cheap money, whether it be ebay or a local shop.
Nah... Ragged Glory is nowhere close to grunge. Besides heavily distorted guitars, it's completely different from any grunge album. I say this because Ragged Glory was my first Neil album that wasn't a greatest hits comp, and I was initially put off by it because it was nothing like the grunge album that people told me it was that I was expecting.
But that aside, it is a good album. Not even close to one of my favorites, though.
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Oh my, they dropped the leash.
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You're really about to discover neil for the first time? cool, it just doesn't get any better than neil young's music on so many different levels. some of the most passionate, relavent, smart, without boundry music. all by one of the best and most consistent(check out all the youtubes) performers in our time. and a 40 year catalog of it. well, thats my opinion. i'm excited about the new release, still don't know exactly what is getting released.