![]() ![]() “The energy, that’s youth rising out of this,” Young said, adding, “This period is the biggest breeding ground for revolution in this country since the mid-Sixties. “Don’t care what the governments say/They’re all bought and paid for anyway,” he shouts. Leading a chorus in a call-and-response while hollering through what sounds like a megaphone, Young declares the need to “save Mother Earth” against Big Oil and corporate farms that are dumping toxic waste into rivers. That’s what Greendale is about.” Greendale’s finale and highlight is a latter-day combination of a socially aware CSNY homily and a wailing Crazy Horse guitar jam. “I don’t think Americans felt holier-than-thou in the 20th century,” Young told Rolling Stone during the 2003 tour with Crazy Horse to support the album. It told the story of a fictional American town and a family struggling there. In 2003, at the height of America’s mood of blinkered Iraq War–era jingoism, Young released Greendale, a politically charged concept album he also spun into a graphic novel and film. ![]() Instead, he’s built one of rock’s great careers by doing whatever he wanted, whenever he wanted. Our list draws from every point in his career, proving, among other things, that Young is part of an elite group of Sixties rockers who’ve kept making great music long after their supposed glory days.Īll these years later, Neil Young has neither burned out nor faded away. We’ve narrowed that down to his 100 greatest songs, and tell the inside stories behind each one. Some of them are beloved folk-rock hits some sound like the work of a cult artist with little interest in hooks or high fidelity some are just really fucking loud. We’ve covered his music for decades - hundreds and hundreds of songs spread over studio LPs, live albums, bootlegs, and tapes that Young has only recently begun to release on his Archives website. He’s been a regular in our pages ever since. Young first hit the scene with Buffalo Springfield in 1966, not long before Rolling Stone first hit newsstands. But whether he’s the tender soul singing “Heart of Gold” or the rangy crusader giving us a concept album about his awesome new electric car in 2009, Neil Young is always Neil Young – same creaky voice, same searching lyrics, placing him among the greatest songwriters in rock history. He’s been a folk-rock superstar and a synth-rock pioneer, a country singer and a rockabilly revivalist, a left-leaning environmental activist and a Reagan supporter, a guy who’s been filling arenas since the Seventies even as he drives his fans nuts with his maverick musical detours. Rufus Wainwright covers the Neil Young song 'Harvest' live in concert at the Mountain Winery in Saratoga, California on September 12, 2021. I don’t give a shit if my audience is a hundred or a hundred million.” Over the years, Young has turned that unapologetic sentiment into one of rock’s most durable credos, following his ornery muse wherever it leads him. The 50th anniversary of Harvest will be released on 2 December 2022 via Reprise Records.“I’d rather keep changing and lose a lot of people along the way,” Neil Young told Rolling Stone in 1975. Both sets come with a poster and a hardcover book which includes never-before-seen photos along with extensive sleeve notes by photographer Joel Bernstein. To clarify, the vinyl box is 2LP+7″+2DVD, while the CD box is 3CD+2DVD. This should be amazing as it captures the making of the album from start to finish and was directed by Neil Young and his film crew in 1971. The first of the two DVDs is the video performance of BBC In Concert, while the second is the previously unreleased two-hour documentary called Harvest Time. These are on CD 3 in the CD box and on a seven-inch single in the vinyl set. They are: ‘Bad Fog of Loneliness’, ‘Journey Through the Past’ and ‘Dance Dance Dance’. In terms of bonus audio, Young’s much-bootlegged February 23 BBC In Concert is included on CD and vinyl in the respective packages and three Harvest outtakes are also made available in physical form for the first time. The 50th anniversary reissue comes in either vinyl or CD box set form, with both including two DVDs. The vinyl box set edition of the Harvest 50th anniversary includes two DVDs (click image to enlarge) ![]()
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