[Closed] Neil Young

on the plus side you've got loads of great tunes to go and buy

may i recommend the "on the beach" album

Same here just discovered him "proper" aged 46. Difficult to know where to start.

Tonights the night for starters! Then maybe 'Rust' (with Crazy Horse)

Listening to Greatest Hits at the mo, which I got as a starter. Lots more to explore... 🙂

Better late than never!

Thing to remember with NY that some albums are brilliant, some are downright awful and some are a mixture of brilliance and awfulness.

HTH. 🙂

on the beach.

that is all

Weld was recommended on a previous NY post and rightly so its massive.

Oh yes, he's the shizzle. Saw him at the Hammersmith Apollo in '08 - best birthday present ever.

Manchester Apollo three or four years ago - row two, centre stage. Epic.

Oh, After The Goldrush by the way.

I would recommend Decade as a starter. Neil's catalogue is littered with albums that only the really obsessed would bother with. [i]Harvest, Harvest Moon, Tonight's The Night, On The Beach[/i] I would consider essential. [i]Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young[/i] would possibly be worth considering. [i]Mirrorball[/i] might also be worth a look at, he had Pearl Jam as his backing band and I saw him at Reading in '95 with that line-up. Great gig, not sure I could afford a ticket these days.

I have tried a few times to get into him - that many people whose opinion I value can't be wrong!

Bought Harvest Moon, and apart from the first song, I don't really get the rest.

Weld
Harvest
Ragged Glory
Sleeps With Angels

All different, all excellent - there are others but those are the ones I've been listening to most lately.

+ 1 for Decade. It's a stunning collection.

give Greendale a miss though.

Cinnamon Girl turned up to the max can't be beaten. . . .

Tonights the Night is one of my fave albums.

the csny live album "four way street" is incredible, a housemate at uni was a fan and it was my introduction to neil young.

I'd love to go to a gig like it, awesome banter among the band and with the crowd.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Way-Street-Crosby-Stills-Nash/dp/B000002ITW

Loner/Cinnamon Girl/Down By The River is just perfect.

In fact, seeing as it's Friday night it's going on the stereo now.

Go to his earlier stuff,once the nineties hit he got a bit patchy.Some of his CSNY stuffs good and even look at the Buffalo Springfield era.My personal favourite album is After the Goldrush followed by Comes a Time

there is some sweet singletrack behind his house too...

Old man take a look at your life...

I heard Rust Never Sleeps when it first came out. Still listen to it today, still love it.

...I'm a lot like you.
I need someone to love me....

For some reasons the Stereophonics have done loads of great neil young covers.

Heart Of Gold being the best!

If you have got Spotify, I've been listening to Archives Vol 1 today, not all of it, but a lot of the live stuff. Live Rust is a great album, almost like a live best of. Harvest, After The Goldrush, Unplugged all great. Of his more recent stuff I really like Chrome Dreams II, especially the epic Ordinary People.

Just the first 10 mins sadly.

The rest of it.

Stereophonics 😥 🙄 👿

Good isn't he?! My mates father used to listen to him on the shcool run so was indoctrinated early.

Saw him at the Edinburgh Playhouse when he last toured over here, 90 mins accoustic and then 90 mins electric (about 4 songs in the electric half :wink:) Blew us away, almost literally. Best £70 I've spent and only gig I've been to where the touts didn't have any tickets and couldn't buy any.

Cinnamon Girl turned up to the max can't be beaten. . . .

You better believe it darlin' 😉

Another recommendation for CSNY '4 Way Street'. Disc 2 has some terrific guitar playing from NY.

Also really like 'Mirror Ball' with Pearl Jam, stonking loud guitars. 8)

"Decade" and "Weld": Best live album ever.

And read Shakey the biography. I'm about 2/3s through it, what a superb book. If you don't know much about the man, it's amazing.

Oh, if you can find the soundtrack (or the DVD) of Dead Man with Johnny Depp, the solo guitar playing is wonderful.

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I only got into Neil Young last year, at the age of 35, and I have to agree that "Decade" is a great place to start.

The trouble though, is that he is not as good a guitar player as he thinks he is, so some of his stuff can be pretty hard work.

I tend to prefer the stuff where he concentrates on song-writing, such as After the Goldrush, the campaigner, a man needs a maid, cortez the killer, ohio etc the list goes on.

[i]The trouble though, is that he is not as good a guitar player as he thinks he is[/i]

Huh?? What a bloody weird thing to say!

Huh?? What a bloody weird thing to say!

Well some of the soloing is a bit pants, to be honest. I realise some of it may be Nils Lofgren, but even so...

Well, that kind of depends what you like in guitar playing.
I, personally would much rather listen to Neil Young playing badly than something like Rush, or I dunno... I just love the rawness of his playing.

It's all about emotion, not technicality.

Hey watch it!! I like Rush too 😉

I agree it's all about the emotion. I just think he's better at conveying emotion through song, rather than soloing.

There you go - another amazing aspect of Neil Young's music: He can appeal to people with such differing taste as us two! 🙂

How can guyz like dat stuff innit wen derz proper bo occorrin innit

We can't like both then?

Just don't buy [i]Landing on Water[/i], because it's crap. Tonight's the Night is a cracking album as is Old Ways.

His live stuff is best, not that I've ever seen him live. I have a fear of seeing my rock gods and being disappointed. Wimmins logic innit?

Crazy Horse are fantastic!

Mikey74: "Well some of the soloing is a bit pants, to be honest. I realise some of it may be Nils Lofgren, but even so..."

Erm... Are you trying to tell us Nil Lofgren is a bad guitarist?! Something is very wrong with you.

You obviously also have no understanding of what Neil Young's guitar playing is about if you think his solos are a bit pants.

Oh dear. Oh well.

some of us heard him first time round 🙂

I like "Freedom" his two finger salute to the record company that dropped him 😆