![]() ![]() As the title suggests, we’re back in old-timey country territory. Rarest 1981 Reprise £12-£15 Latest 2018 Reprise £15Ĭoming after the Brylcreemed folly of Everybody’s Rockin’, Old Ways is Young’s most consistent outing on Geffen, although it remains the lowest-seller of his career. Closing track Shots, Young’s first use on record of the Synclavier that he explored more fully on Trans, is an extraordinary assault on the senses. Get Back On It is a simplistic mid-tempo rock ’n’ roller and the MC5-lite Rapid Transit is throwaway fun. Punkish squalls abound, although the repeated refrain of “Got mashed potatoes, ain’t got no T-bone” that runs through the nine-minute T-Bone will test the patience of a saint. Rarest 1997 Reprise £95 Latest Out of Pressīrutal and uncompromising. The driving 11-minute Slip Away and 13-minute Danger Bird are more representative, showcasing Crazy Horse’s trance-inducing drone rock. Amidst the Gibson-drenched carnage, there’s a bluesy take on Mr Soul that holds up well and a tender Human Highway. For the most part, this live album with Crazy Horse dispenses with the mainstream big-hitters of Neil’s career, instead opting to underline his status as the Godfather of Grunge. From the late-night jazz of Coupe De Ville to the blues rock of Life In The City, this is an intriguing outlier. The anti-consumerism title track gave corporate sell-outs like Michael Jackson the middle finger (“Ain’t singing for Pepsi, ain’t singing for Coke. Backed by 10-piece band The Bluenotes, it’s worth reassessment. Sitting outside Young’s usual comfort zone, this is a horn-filled excursion into blues, jazz and soul. There are flashes of brilliance here, but they’re fleeting.Īnother 80s genre experiment on Geffen. While opener Beautiful Bluebird melodically evokes Harvest’s Out On The Weekend, this record is dominated by two epics, the 18-minute sprawl of the chugging Ordinary People and wriggling No Hidden Path. Young unearths songs from across his previous 30 years that were thought to have been put out to pasture. Rarest 2012 Reprise £35 (3LP) Latest Out of PressĪ sequel to the unreleased Chrome Dreams LP, the junked car on the cover here is apposite. If head-nodding mid-tempo Neil is your thing, then fill your boots. The title track is suitably woozy, while the nigh-on 17-minute Ramada Inn became a controversial live mainstay at gigs throughout 20. Driftin’ Back is indulgent after all, such sybaritic tendencies worked for the Grateful Dead. You’re welcome, your madge… Rarest 2013 Reprise £25 (single-sided) Latest Out of PressĮssentially the soundtrack to his autobiography Waging Heavy Peace, few songwriters would have the balls to open an album with a 27-minute song. Hats off, too, for the bizarre cover of God Save The Queen. Other highlights include Woody Guthrie’s This Land Is Your Land and a delicate Wayfarin’ Stranger. Oh Susannah is revisited in a Tim Rose style and Clementine rumbles darkly. Young reunited with Crazy Horse after a nine-year break to duff up a carefully selected bunch of campfire singalongs and return them to their protest-song roots. Long Live Vinyl delves into Neil Young’s estimable back catalogue and lists the top 40 Neil Young records on vinyl. Closely rivalling Bob Dylan as the most idiosyncratic singer-songwriter of his generation, Neil Young has pinballed between acoustic folk and all-out electrified assaults on the senses via Crazy Horse and more over the past half-century.
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