Neil Young - Greatest Hits
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Free Music Notes for Greatest Hits
Free Music Review: Beautiful Music
Hit: 5 Stars
The sound on this is exceptional. It is HDCD encoded. HDCD is effectively 20 bit encoding, not 16 bit, which is the CD standard. DVD-A is true 24 bit. DVD-A seems to add a touch of depth over HDCD, but frankly, I can hardly tell the difference between the HDCD and DVD-A layers of this set. Both are a welcome improvement over the origial CD versions, in part because of the advanced technology, but also because the tracks were impeccably remastered thanks to Neil Young's commitment to getting as close to true analog sound as possible with a digital medium. Neil Young is apparently a supporter of HDCD and DVD-A, and has personally supervised the remastering of the Buffalo Springfield recordings in HDCD. The beauty of HDCD is that it is fully compatible with all CD and all DVD players; DVD-A will play satisfactorily in almost all DVD players, but will play in full 24-bit hi-res only on DVD-A enabled players. Because the Pacific Microsonics chip used to master in HDCD is so good, almost everything recorded in HDCD sounds better. However, technically, to get the extra bits that HDCD offers you need a player with an HDCD encoder. Denon makes one for about $299 (DCM 380). SACD is Sony's one-bit approach to high def mastering and is equal in quality to DVD-A. However, all of Sony's affordable players are SACD/CD only, apparently because it doesn't want to support the competing DVD-A technology. Since there is still so little hi-def stuff out there in any format, my advice is don't saddle yourself with an SACD only machine. Toshiba and Pioneer both make inexpensive machines <$150 that play both SACD and DVD-A (but alas, do not include and HDCD decoder). I wonder if the commenter who claims to have compared the HDCD sound with the DVD-A sound using a Sony player was really listening to the DVD-A layer. The reason I wonder is that, as I said above, Sony does not support DVD-A. However, it's possible that high-end Sony's might have both. I know the low-end ones that I can afford do not.Free Music Review: Powerfully profound and profoundly powerful
Hit: 5 Stars
While I cannot profess to be an expert on all things Neil Young, perhaps I am the kind of "casual fan" that Reprise was aiming at when they released this compilation. For me, this CD perfectly captures so many amazing Neil Young performances and memorable songs...songs that are monumental in the great modern music soundscape.
Neil Young is something of an enigma...all at once a bit of a cranky prophet and also a tender hearted romantic. He is the angry young man that never mellowed, but never lost his idealistic streak either. In other words, a man and musician of great integrity. His voice is a little creaky, and his guitar playing is definitely unique, sort of like Jimi Hendrix meeting Willie Nelson. There's something very plaintive about Neil Young's sound...but it's great pathos swathed in steely resolve.
Some reviewers here simply need to get over the fact that only so many songs will fit on one disc. And, for a great bargain, the listener here can get, on one disc, 16 landmark songs. You want more songs? You're going to need more discs. Does Neil Young deserve a sprawling, comprehensive, exhaustive box set to compile all of his great tunes? Sure. But that's not what this disc is for.
And, I've got to say, the track selection and ordering here is impeccable. From the languid groovy jams of "Down By River" and "Cowgirl in the Sand," to the feedback drenched epics "Hurricane" and "Rockin' in the Free World" to the heartbrakingly gorgeous "Harvest Moon" and "Comes a Time" to the breathtaking "Needle and the Damage Done," this is Hall of Fame stuff here.
Frankly, this disc will cause me to go back and invest more in Neil's catalog (solo and with CSN&Y and Buffalo Springfield). Who knows? Maybe I'll check out his work with the Mynah Birds (with Rick James, of all people). At any rate, this compilation has done it's work on me...I love it.
Free Music Review: Rockin in the Free World
Hit: 5 Stars
Along with the Allman Bros at Fillmore East, "Everybody Knows this is Nowhere" were the two LP's that I played over and over when I was 12 years old. I "borrowed" them from my big brother's LP collection when he was out doing the drugs & that VietNam revolution thing while I had to stay home. I later received my brothers whole collection when he passed away in a car accident when he was 23 and I was 14. Man I used to crank these songs up to 9 and a half on an old Kenwood stereo that my stepdad always played Willie and Johnny Cash on. "I proceeded to buy every Neil Young solo album and this is a great compilation if you want a Neil Young primer without hearing all the regular songs he wrote, I was suprised "Tonight's the Night" wasn't on here but every other great song Neil ever did is here in a clean sounding CD. " Like a Hurricane" makes me think of my 1st wife because it describes my relationship with her perfectly. In the Katrina and Rita aftermath it could have been written in Sept.of 2005. I would recommend this set to everyone like me that has all their Neil songs on LP and just want to hear him at his very best on every song. "Southern Man","After the Gold Rush", and "Ohio"(I read it was done in 2 takes) still hit me in the chest like they did the first time I heard them in the early seventies. I even learned to play "Needle and the Damage Done" on guitar and I'm a drummer. That's the song he wrote about Danny Whiten's heroin addiction and subsequent deathe which scared Neil straight. Just to hear that song evokes emotions that'll trounce your emotional buttons every time you hear it. Especially if you've lived it. "Rockin in the Free World" is near the end and a fitting send off of a great Neil Young set. Even if you're just a casual Neil Young listener this is the CD to have.Free Music Review: Exactly what it should have been
Hit: 5 Stars
This is exactly what it should have been. Its called a greatest hits not a best of so it only features Neil Youngs biggest selling singles. This isnt like other Greatest Hits that feature every single, no this one only has the big hits, really the songs that every one and their brother knows. This covers everything from Neils first hit single in 1969 all the way to his last in 1992. Some people complain about how their is nothing from Buffaloe Springfield well none of their songs were an actual hit single. While yes they were a great band and made some amazing songs, none of them sold. And then some complain about nothing after 1992, well Harvest Moon was the mans last hit single so even though he made albums after that those non-hits dont have a place on a GREATEST HITS compalation!
From start to end. From the amazingly killer 'Down By The River' to the close of 'Harvest Moon' this cd rocks harder then most do today even though all the songs are at least 12 years old.
As I always say in my reviews for greatest hits, (well almost always because some bands make bad albums some all you want is a greatest hits) but as I usually say, this is something I would recomend to some one just getting into Neil Young. It shows all the sides of him Grunge/country rock/country/folk/hard rock/classic rock, its all here and for a new fan I think this even more then Decade is a great way to lead someone down the path of being a Neil Young and Crazy Horse fan.
This covers most of his carear and it certainly highlights most if not all of the highlights, so for those of you who dont give this five stars remember this, this cd did exactly what it promised to do so for that you have to give it five stars, highly recomended!
Free Music Review: KEEP ON JOAQUIN PHOENIX IN THE FREE WORLD!!!!
Hit: 5 Stars
There's colors on the street
Red, white and blue
People shufflin' their feet
People sleepin' in their shoes
But there's a warnin' sign
on the road ahead
There's a lot of people sayin'
we'd be better off dead
Don't feel like Satan,
but I am to them
So I try to forget it,
any way I can.
Keep on Joaquin Phoenix in the free world!
Keep on Joaquin Phoenix in the free world!
Keep on Joaquin Phoenix in the free world!
Keep on Joaquin Phoenix in the free world!
I see a woman in the night
With a baby in her hand
Under an old street light
Near a garbage can
Now she puts the kid away,
and she's gone to get a hit
She hates her life,
and what she's done to it
There's one more kid
that will never go to school
Never get to fall in love,
never get to be cool.
Keep on Joaquin Phoenix in the free world!
Keep on Joaquin Phoenix in the free world!
Keep on Joaquin Phoenix in the free world!
Keep on Joaquin Phoenix in the free world!
We got a thousand points of light
For the homeless man
We got a kinder, gentler,
Machine gun hand
We got department stores
and toilet paper
Got styrofoam boxes
for the ozone layer
Got a man of the people,
says keep hope alive
Got fuel to burn,
got roads to drive.
Keep on Joaquin Phoenix in the free world!
Keep on Joaquin Phoenix in the free world!
Keep on Joaquin Phoenix in the free world!
Keep on Joaquin Phoenix in the free world!