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Tarfumes.com - Neil Young
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Manufacturer: Reprise / Wea
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0075992744423
Label: Reprise / Wea
Manufacturer: Reprise / Wea
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Reprise / Wea
Release Date: 1990-10-25
Studio: Reprise / Wea
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Released in early 1969, Neil Young's first solo album is essentially an extension of "Broken Arrow" and "Expecting to Fly," his two most inventive contributions to Buffalo Springfield. Jack Nitzsche arranged and produced several of the tracks, fusing haunting strings and even funky female backing vocals to acoustic-oriented songs like "Here We Are in the Years" and "The Old Laughing Lady." "The Loner" is the one song from Neil Young to achieve classic-rock immortality, but "I've Been Waiting for You" is almost as good, and the rambling "Last Trip to Tulsa" presages the dark acoustic epics of On the Beach. Though it's not an essential album, Neil Young-like the man himself-is rarely less than interesting. --Dan Epstein
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Summary: Neil Young's 1969 Album: "Neil Young"
Comment: I am a Neil Young fan and enjoy most everything he has put out. This album, like it's cover suggests, is a sort of dreamy, psychadelic sounding album with lyrics suggesting a pull between the country life and the city life. If you like Neil and have overlooked this album get it now. My favorites are "The Loner", "Here we are in the Years", and "The Last Trip to Tulsa". The whole album flows together into a cohesive whole and all the songs are excellent. Highly recommended!!
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Summary: An overlooked masterpiece of psychedelia.
Comment: Like some others, I prefer the original pressing. The lovely guitar work, some of Young's best, sounds somehow even better buried in the mix. It is an album of aching beauty. A young fragile voice singing visionary songs; the menace of 'The Loner', the interface between paradise and progress explored in 'Here We Are in the Years', different aspects of love expressed in 'I've Been Waiting For You' 'What Did You do to My Life' and 'I've Loved Her So Long', the lust of 'If I Could Have Her tonight' and the sheer trippiness of 'Last Trip to Tulsa'. And was there ever a more tender threnody to alcoholism than 'The Old Laughing Lady'? I guess Jack Nietzche is largely responsible for the dreamscape ambience which bathes the whole album in a psychedelic haze. This is one of my all-time top ten alongside Astral Weeks, Baxters, Forever Changes, Grace etc.
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Summary: A Fantastic Beginning
Comment: Some might find this recording archaic and dated. I could not disagree more. Personally, I think other words express it best--nostalgic, disillusioned, timeless.
I was a Buffalo Springfield fan during those incredible years, and because of where I lived, I found myself limited to what small record stores had to offer in the 60's. I did not have the chance to hear these songs until 1973.
The music reminds me of certain elements of Buffalo Springfield.
Combinations of keyboard and guitar achieve this on many of the recording's songs, but most importantly, the effect happens not because Neil is somehow imitating a sound like his former band, but it occurs because Neil artistically expresses key elements that were a part of that incredible band's sound.
Listening to the songs takes me back. It reminds me of my youth.
Are there dark elements? Personally, I think all great music and poetry have to have this, because the muse sometimes lurks in shadows. I guess I never liked music that didn't express passion, and that can not happen if a recording is a trite reproduction of any generation's "pop" inclinations. Neil's music has never been that. And that is why I will always be a fan.
Because the recordings on this album affect me like they do, I see it as timeless; I see it as a "must have" purchase.
There is not a single song on the CD that I would not want to hear. It is an incredible view of an icon's emergence into solo work.
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Summary: JAPAN REMASTERED VERSION AVAILABLE
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A while back, Warner Brothers Japan re-released 12 Neil Young titles. The surprise was that remastered content appeared for the first time on most of them.
The titles & WB-Japan catalog numbers are:
Neil Young WPCR-75086
Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere WPCR-75087
After The Gold Rush WPCR-75088
Harvest WPCR-75089
On The Beach WPCR-75090
Tonight's The Night WPCR-75091
Zuma WPCR-75092
Long May You Run WPCR-75093
American Stars n' Bars WPCR-75094
Comes A Time WPCR-75095
Rust Never Sleeps WPCR-75096
Live Rust WPCR-75097
I picked up most of these, A/B'd them, and found them to be superior to the domestics. However, having purchased the domestic 2002 remasters of "Beach" and "Stars n Bars", I declined the Japan versions of those two titles.
Unfortunately, while the Japan version is remastered, Live Rust is not restored to the original LP's running form, and remains still the bastardized version.
If you own the U.S. versions, and you're a NY fan, I would seriously consider replacing them with these.
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Summary: Sometimes the First isn't Always the Best..
Comment: and Sometimes you expect a little more from a solo debut recording from an elite,unique,artist like Neil Young. The problem was with more of the instrumental arrangements and production more than the ingenious writing of Young,also lacking the trademark Young acoustic sound,where as on this recording-sounds like everything is stuck in the middle of a whirlwind and drifting way out in the horizon causing and leaving a mass of confusion to the listener. Neil Young is too brilliant and talented for this first effort and compare to classic albums such as ,After the Goldrush,American Stars-n-Bars,Rust Never Sleeps,On The Beach, Harvest ,Harvest Moon, Zuma, and ,Live At Massey Hall - is a newborn classic. This first one folk's is no where near the usual Neil Young we're used to hearing,unless your into space odyssey.(keep it rollin' Neil.)
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