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Free Music Review: Golden Heart
Hit: 5 Stars
A number of years ago I attended a Neil Young concert at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in which Young sang accompanied only by the guitar he himself played.
This, I thought at the time, was a pretty daring feat in that Young is not known for his voice, and his voice would certainly be front and center this night.
Any artist singing practically a capella is taking major risks because often it is the band that fills in the musical gaps, adds the musical exclamation points or is just loud enough to make the singer part of the overall sound rather the focal point. But this night, Young was alone with his childlike voice and his uncanny talent for writing songs that tear at your heart and sometimes even bring tears to your eyes.
That night was a transcendent experience: three thousand people enthralled, sitting in Red Velvet seats usually occupied by those who come to this hall to hear the Los Angeles Philharmonic or the Los Angeles Opera. We listened. We were moved. We left drained.
"Neil Young Greatest Hits" is a revelation in that every single song is a gem: no filler, no duets with Frank Sinatra, pure Neil Young...unadulterated and uncensored.
Like Joni Mitchell and Laura Nyro, to name a couple, Young is real, he is humble, he is truthful, and he only wants to tell his stories. Listening to these 16 songs you realize that in the process of writing and performing them, Young is not just singing lyrics and plucking at his guitar, he is laying out his heart and his soul on a table and is demanding that we carve off a small piece of each to cherish and keep with us forever.
Free Music Review: Calling all Classic Rock Fans...
Hit: 5 Stars
The moment I first heard of this album I realized I simply must own it.
How often in your life are you going to find a greatest hits album that encompasses the high points of an artist like Neil Young's whole career? The man has a library of something like 600 songs.
Not only that, but they're not just Neil's solo work. You also have some Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young and some Crazy Horse thrown in for good measure! How many artists incorperate their work with other bands in their own greatest hits album? I'll tell you: Only one that I know of, and that's Neil Young.
If you like classic rock, you'll like this album. If you like punk rock, you'll like this album. If you like hard rock, you'll like this album (Cinnamon Girl: one of the best head-banging songs every commited to tape). If you like country (the good stuff, rather than the commercial fluffery) you'll like this album. If you like Seatle rock, you'll like this album. If you like great guitar work, great accoustic guitar, meaningful lyrics, interesting vocals, or just really good music, YOU WILL LIKE THIS ALBUM.
And of course, if you're a Neil Young fan and have seen him repeatedly in concert and got excited each time because you were in the same room with him and breathing the same air as one of the greatest musicians ever to put the breath of life into rock and a guitar... you'll faint the first time you hold it in your hands, because you'll think you've died and gone to heaven.
AND it makes a great gift!
Free Music Review: A fine first Neil Young album
Hit: 5 Stars
First of all, I have always loved Neil Young's music. And strangely enough with that in mind, I have never bought one of his albums until this one. His work with CSNY was always the part of his career that I was most aware of, but until this album I didn't realize just how much depth the man really has.
I'm a sucker for gritty, real, smokey rock that sounds like it's being played in somebody's basement on old acoustic guitars with strum-holes worn in the front cases, on beat-up electric guitars that Pete Townshend whacked on a stage a few times and discarded, through amps with bashed corners and punched-in screens. Rock that sounds like a sip of cool moonshine whiskey and a drag on a roll-your-own cigarette taste together. Early Neil Young offers this texture in spades, but with so much talent, soul and spirit-power that he takes it to a higher plane.
The important thing to remember about Neil, is that he is the real thing. His music is a warm South Carolina night ride through a pine forest with the windows down, with a beautiful long-haired girl who smells like flowers and feels like warm silk sitting in the passenger seat of your '63 Impala letting her hair blow in the starlit night breeze while cradleing a can of Milwaukee's Best between her legs. Neil Young is edge, anger, love, revolution, heartbreak, shattered dreams and desire. He is not easy listening. He is not socially acceptable. He is not sanitized for our protection.
Thank God for him.
Free Music Review: A Rare "Greatest Hits" Worthy of the Title
Hit: 5 Stars
It is amazing to me how many times record companies and/or the artists themselves manage to screw up a "greatest hits" compilation. Too often are such compilations done to represent the entire career of the artist, regardless whether the artist's biggest hits stem from throughout that career. The "Elton John Greatest Hits 1970-2002" is a good example of that: too many latter day non-greatest hits take up space instead of overlooked real greatest hits.
Neil Young's "Greatest Hits" (16 tracks, 77 min.) thankfully is just that: his truly greatest hits, regardless of how recent or not so recent they are. This results then in a compilation on which only the last 2 songs are are post-1979 (1989's "Rockin' in the Free Workd" and 1992's "Harvest Moon"). In other words, 14 of the 16 songs on here are from 1969-1979. Although one can always argue whether this or that song should've been on here (I'd say that "Comes a Time" belongs on here), the truth is that, for the CASUAL Neil Young fan (if there is such a thing), this "Greatest Hits" CD truly represents his best known songs.
For the not-so-casual Neil Young fan, beware: there is significant overlap between this "Greatest Hits" and the 1977 "Decade" compilation: 10 of the 16 songs on "Greatest Hits" are also found on "Decade". That said, kudos for the audio quality of this CD, which sounds remarkedly better than the "Decade" compilation. "Neil Young Greatest Hits" is an essential CD for any music fan.
Free Music Review: The Perfect Collection For Beginning Or Casual Neil Young Fans
Hit: 5 Stars
I've never been a huge Neil Young fan (my father despises him), but I've always enjoyed his music. I needed one Neil Young cd for my collection, but I couldn't find one. Until I received "Neil Young - Greatest Hits" as a Christmas present from my parents yesterday. I listened to it yesterday. How does it hold up? Read on for the practically inevitable positives and negatives.
Positives:
-This collection is perfect for those who only want one Neil Young album in their collection. It has almost all of his best known songs, including "Cowgirl In The Sand", "Cinnamon Girl", "After The Gold Rush", "Only Love Can Break Your Heart" (my personal favorite), "Like A Hurricane", "Hey Hey, My, My" (Into The Black)", "Harvest Moon", "Ohio", "The Needle & The Damge Done", "Heart Of The Gold" and "Rockin' In The Free World".
-Underrated masterpieces have been included as well.
-The remastering job is excellent.
-Affordable and easy to find.
Negatives:
-Some underrated gems have been excluded, such as "Tell Me Why", "When You Dance I Can Really Love," "Walk On", and "Four Strong Winds".
-Nothing from his Buffalo Springfield days, which means "For What It's Worth" is not included.
-Nothing past "Harvest Moon".
-No liner notes, just track information. I expected something a lot better.
So, overall, this is an ideal Neil Young collection for beginners. Highly recommended.