Neil Young - Greatest Hits
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Free Music Review: Great Greatest Hits CD!!!!!
Hit: 5 Stars
While yes, Neil has put out a lot more songs that we all like, the songs on here are all excellent! The amazing thing to me is the clarity of the songs. The remastering and sound quality makes these songs sound new and fresh.
Many greatest hits CD's are knocked for not sequentially listing the songs...this one sequentially lists the songs...
Many greatest hits CD's are knocked for not filling up the CD...this one with 17 songs-many long, fills this CD....
I love some unusual Neil songs like "This Notes For You", "Farmer John", "Payola Blues", "Piece of Crap", etc...but it clearly states on the CD why the particular songs for this CD were chosen...they were the most requested, listened to Neil Young songs...
If you want a more powerful Greatest Hits CD from Neil with different live version of songs try "Live Rust"
If you want a more complete Greatest Hits CD buy "Decade" and a few more CD's...
I would have preferred less CSNY and even Crazy Horse and put on a couple more "pure" Neil songs...but anyone can nitpick...
This is a great, greatest hits CD...if you already have all the other CD's don't moan, just don't buy it...but you will be missing out on the crystal clear re-mastering effort that makes even thirty year old songs sound new...
Keith S. :{)>
Free Music Review: Canadian Content
Hit: 5 Stars
There as for as long as I can remember three distinctive groups of music. There was the heavier innovative British sound, the more commercial but good American sound and the unique Canadian sound. When I read from your Amazon reviewer that Neil Young only cracked the top ten once, that is a true statement. Or when one of your other reviewers states that "there aren't a lot of famous Canadian rock stars" that as far as he knows is also true. Only one problem. There are untold numbers of Canadian rock stars...in Canada that cracked the top ten over and over. One trouble was that most of them or their singles couldn't crack the lucrative American market. Neil Young had hits in Canada with almost all of the tunes on this compilation, most notably "Cinnamon Girl" and "Like a Hurricane" with his sometimes group Crazy Horse, "Only Love Can Break Your Heart, Old Man, Southern Man (rebuttal by Lynyrd Skynyrd on Sweet Home Alabama) Harvest Moon, Hey Hey My My" etc. etc. etc. And lets not forget the song that Neil, Dan Akroyd, Tom Green , Gordon Lightfoot and company closed out "Live 8 " in 2005, the mega hit "Rockin' in the Free World". There are a lot of good Canadian artists overlooked outside of Canada. Start with 70's icons Triumph, Trooper, Prism, April Wine, Aldo Nova to start. I think that you'll be pleasantly surprised.Free Music Review: I don't get it (and you probably don't either)
Hit: 5 Stars
Come on, any true Neil Young fan has Decade, and 80% of the songs on this "hits" CD are on Decade. Neil is testing us again, publishing a filler disc to make his contract happy. The first reviewer is on crack, some of Neil's best work was on his 80's experiments, including the classic Trans (no not "Terminator", did you vote for Arnold?) as well as "Neil and the Shocking Pinks" (no he wasn't wearing a white suit (it was _pink_ duh), are you color blind?). Not to mention Rust Never Sleeps, The Blue Notes, Freedom, Arc, Harvest Moon (one of his best selling albums, very emotional, not a "hawaiian druggie song" unless you're a soulless cretin) Sleeps with Angels, Silver and Gold, Are you Passionate, and probably his best work ever, Greendale. If you are new to Neil, you need to have a respect for irony, subtle double meanings, some patience, a strong sense of the eclectic, and alot of heart. Don't get me wrong, this is a great CD, but you ought to buy Decade and get 2 CD's and 3 times as much material (as well as most of the songs on this CD), for a little more money. Neil is a genius and the comic of the "Greatest Hits" DVD, with a movie of the album playing on a phonograph, is simply his sense of humour. How you choose to laugh, curse, shrug your shoulders, pretend you understand, or argue about it is up to you.Free Music Review: Great Single CD Collection of Neil Young's Hits
Hit: 5 Stars
Making a single disc of Neil Young's biggest hits is not an easy task. Back in 1977, he released a two disc career retrospective called Decade,which is still one of the greatest compilations in rock and roll history.
And 16 songs can hardly encapsulate the career of a musical maverick who has tried on a variety of melodic stylings.
But this colllection does a fairly decent job of putting together Neil's most well known stuff. All the biggies are here: Cinnamon Girl, Southern Man, Old Man, Heart of Gold,and the much later "Rockin' in the Free World."
Nevertheless, in a collection this limited, Neil's fans will find a whole host of their favorite album cuts missing.
But that misses the point because this album isn't for the established fan: This is for the neophyte, the person who is hearing Neil for the first time and only wants "the hits" on one tidy cd. This disc fills that gap in Neil's catalog.
One word of criticism: The remastering job isn't as good as it could have been: The songs don't sound as sharp and crisp and clean as one would expect from a remastered recording (maybe it's just my ITunes downloaded version that sounds that way). Still, if you are just getting into Neil, start here.
Free Music Review: Terrific Introduction for the Neophyte Fan
Hit: 5 Stars
It's hard to argue with the tracks included on this single disc collection, and it's really pointless to kvetch about which of your favorite Neil Young tracks got left off. Odds are you have them all anyway. I know I do. My only question is who was this CD compiled for? Obvioulsy his fans already have these songs. And with the most recent song on this disc dating from 1992 ("Harvest Moon"), it's unlikely that the casual fan was waiting twelve years for this to get released.
Longtime fans who bought 1977's DECADE already have all but five of these songs. You know what I'm waiting for? Where's DECADE II and III? [In fact, Young is only three years away from being able to release DECADE IV.]
And shouldn't this have been titled BEST OF instead of GREATEST HITS? Sure, it includes all three of his early-seventies top 40 hits, but it omits other singles that charted in the hot 100 like "When You Dance I Can Really Love," "Walk On" and "Four Strong Winds," among others.
Bottom line, this is a terrific collection of songs with some of Young's most powerful anthems. Five stars for the music, but I would think this is going to have limited appeal for anyone but the neophyte fan.