Hawks And Doves [Remastered] - Neil Young

Neil Young Produces A Masterpiece Before The Harvest Comes In

Advantages: Great Tracks Throughout With Some of The Best Lyrics Around
Disadvantages: There's A World Slackens The Pace A Bit

I am in all truth, no great fan of rock critics, many of whom either rely upon flattering their own ego to produce a piece of musical criticism that usually falls into simply stating faults and then adding a couple of lines relating to positives. This though can also be reversed, with the positives given and the negatives pushed under the rug, and yet even though I do admit that I would do much the same in many cases, the review that Rolling Stone Magazine, (previously) one of the most respected rock magazines around, gave for Harvest by Neil Young seems to me more self-indulgence than criticism. The rock critic who rated this review panned this album on far too many levels, when it is now, rightly, seen as a brilliant piece of rock history and now sitting as No.78 on the Rolling Stone Magazine 500 Greatest Albums, retribution if there ...

Robin_Hod12 19.08.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Harvest [Remastered] - Neil Young

The Next Neil Young Album To Buy After (The) Harvest

Advantages: Great Songs Throughout, That Stand Together As A Great Cohesive Piece Of Work
Disadvantages: Not Quite As Accessible As Harvest

After The Gold Rush was the first Neil Young album released after his foray with Cosby, Stills, Nash and Young, enabling him to be shot into the limelight and the album to become of greater significance and prominence in the public eye. The album combined many of the elements of his CSNY work with some of his earlier pieces with Buffalo Springfield, with Crazy Horse backing Neil Young on many of the album?s songs. This mixture of harder, grittier songs and country/folk acoustic pieces provides an interesting blend that helps to create a dynamic sound that can be different from one listen to the next. Although initially dismissed by some critics upon its release, again with Rolling Stone magazine dismissing it, as an unfinished piece of work, but this has slowly changed over time, and is now seen as a classic album, ranking 71st ...

Robin_Hod12 23.08.2009 · Read full review
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Review of After The Gold Rush [Remastered] - Neil Young

Harvest: My introduction to Neil Young

Advantages: Alternative country/rock classic
Disadvantages: none

From the delicate opening bars of "Out on the Weekend" till the closing sunrise of "Words", Harvest paints an emotional portrait of the post 60's world as seen through the eyes of Neil Young, godfather of alternative rock and grunge. Harvest is Neil Young's biggest selling album that still resonates today. It is a must have album for Neil Young fans and fans of alternative music across the world in this post grunge post britpop era. It is an unashamed alternative country album with contributions from notable country singers James Taylor and Linda Ronstadt, with further involvement of NY stalwarts David Crosby, Stephen Stills and Graham Nash. A gentle melancholia fills each song, and is one of the first things which strikes you about this record. Although this may have been due, in part, to the heavy medication which Neil was ...

Logan33 03.02.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Harvest - Neil Young