Harvest - Neil Young

The year was 1972. I was 9. My dad was a music nut. I knew all the Beatles albums, all the Stones. I learnt the lyrics to Sgt Pepper almost as soon as I could read. But this night he was playing something different on our gramophone (one of those that looked like a sideboard, that you could stack half a dozen LPs or singles on and it would - when it worked properly - let them drop down and play one at a time. Tonight I was hearing a voice like I’d ...
...crying. I’d never heard a grown man crying. I wasn’t sure what the lyrics meant, but I knew they were tortured, tragic, and utterly personal. “I've seen the needle and the damage done A little part of it in everyone But every junkie's like a settin' sun” I didn’t know what a junkie was, though I’d heard the term before. I guessed it was something I didn’t want to be. I didn’t like this LP. It made me feel sad. The man’s voice made my stomach twist ...

sandrabarber 11.07.2002 · Read full review
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...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 ...
...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 on at the time of recording. The heavy sense of loss and longing also hangs over this record like a calming breeze, particularly in the Needle and the Damage done, a heart-felt song written about Danny ...

Logan33 03.02.2009 · Read full review
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...the best folk\rock songs ever. Harvest is full of these songs, and is my personal favourite of Neil Young's albums. I have a lot of respect for Neil Young, mostly because of his attempts to piss off his record company by being as uncommercial as possible, but also because being one of the freakiest looking beasts that ever hatched on this planet (if it was on this planet) hasn't stopped him becoming a great songwriter. So, about those songs... ...
...The next track is Harvest itself. Light guitar combines perfectly with Young's high pitched voice, and you have what is possibly the best song on the album. The chorus is really what makes this song, as Neil croons "Did she wake you up, to tell you that, it was only a change of plan, dream up, dream up, let me fill your cup, with the promise of a man". Aside from this line, there are other excellent lyrics, something which I had never really associated ...

shanecahill 06.02.2002 · Read full review
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...Tailor and Linda Rondstat. In Harvest Neil Young broods on love like in “A Man Needs A Maid”. He says "I will go some where I don’t know when I was watching a movie with a friend I fell in love with the actress. She was playing a part that I could understand Maid, a man needs a maid When will I see you again?" Talking about Drug abuse in “The Needle And The Damage Is Done” Young ruminates "..I’ve seen the needle, and the damage is done ...
...setting sun…. " probably his grave concern on drug abuse from personal experiences. He is been quite unequivocal in raing his voice against racism as in “Alabama” he is philosophical about it and puts anger poetically saying.. "Oh Alabama Banjos playing through the broken glass Windows down in Alabama See the old folks tied in white ropes Hear the banjos.. Don’t it take you down home?" Throughout the album Neil Young is mellow or pensive ...

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Its absolutely beautiful, classic Neil Young, his fabulous rasping voice and inspired lyrics. Its a wonderful example of the folk/rock genre, and this album contains slightly softer songs than some others, so its a nice gentle way in to discovering Neil Young. ...

emi_nic 07.10.2007
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