Is THIS the BEST NEIL YOUNG album...EVER?

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  • @bobace83
    @bobace83 16 днів тому +5

    I’d say Greendale is a tremendously overlooked gem- an absolute masterpiece

  • @petersuson7958
    @petersuson7958 20 днів тому +13

    In my opinion "After the Gold Rush album" is his magnum oppus. If I recall it right, Nils Lofgren said that for him the After the Gold Rush album is like a Greatest Hits album.

  • @urdad9853
    @urdad9853 18 днів тому +6

    I have always loved Neil Young and have played many of his songs...when I sing Youngs songs I don't feel like an imposter I feel his word are what's in my heart that I do not have the sensitivity or talent to articulate....thank you for ;you commentary on these songs.....it has rekindled my love of Youngs music......

  • @Baci302
    @Baci302 17 днів тому +4

    After The Gold Rush was my first Neil album. I bought it at 11 years of age and fell head over heels for it. Every song is a gem. Incredible.

  • @joncaes9211
    @joncaes9211 15 днів тому +5

    Absolutely loved the commentary and analysis!❤

  • @roald1911
    @roald1911 18 днів тому +4

    Thank you for your research and thoughts on this classic. I was familiar with the song 'Birds' in 1970. My wife died in 2015 after 40 years of marriage. When my wife left without me , this song took on a whole new meaning.
    When you see me fly away without you
    Shadows on the things you know
    Feathers fall around you and show you the way to go
    It;s over , It's over
    This song was therapeutic and helped me to Carry on.

  • @JohnPlessGuitar
    @JohnPlessGuitar 18 днів тому +3

    Fantastic evaluation.
    Even Neil may have forgotten the depth of meaning in his own clever lyrics.
    I lived near his ranch at the time and would drive my MG up Skyline hoping to meet Neil at Alice’s where he would drop in and play- My Gibson in the passenger seat- One of my favorite albums of all time with lyrics and melody of a young man’s fancy and reflection. Brings me back immediately, to all that life had to offer,,,
    And now, how it all unfolded After the Gold Rush~

  • @spikeafrican8797
    @spikeafrican8797 18 днів тому +3

    I got Harvest before ATGR in the mid 70's. It's probably the one i've listened to the most over the years but both are records I still play. They are both among the greatest records ever made.

  • @riffcodger
    @riffcodger 19 днів тому +6

    I bought it in 1970. I've been playing the songs for over 50 years. Every song is a 💎..good luck with your obsession

  • @timothyfranklin473
    @timothyfranklin473 19 днів тому +6

    Fantastic video again. Thank you, love these videos, very well done.

  • @chrisforbes
    @chrisforbes 14 днів тому +2

    My favorite is usually whatever album I happen to be listening to. “Freedom” is very high on the list, which is weird.

  • @grahamewebber4038
    @grahamewebber4038 19 днів тому +5

    Such an incredibly detailed and informative review of an NY classic. I wonder where did you located all this info. 👍✌🏾

  • @normanleach5427
    @normanleach5427 17 днів тому +1

    Played Gold Rush daily for months...but On the Beach drove me down that bleak tunnel of "Huh?", "Say 'Yes!' To Life." and "The time is Now..."

  • @TheBennie102103
    @TheBennie102103 17 днів тому +3

    "After The Gold Rush" is my 2nd favorite, "Harvest" is my favorite

  • @stephenhenion8304
    @stephenhenion8304 18 днів тому +2

    Mirror Ball was a very surprising CD!!! I bought it used, just because of the art woek!!! It took me 10 minutes to realise it was Neil.... its ELECTRIC!!

  • @paulperkins1615
    @paulperkins1615 8 днів тому

    This was one of the first record albums I bought and listened to over and over when it was new, and I still love it. In recent years Samantha FIsh has made her interpretation of "Don't Let It Bring You Down" a part of many performances, bringing a more energized and positive interpretation that works surprisingly well.

  • @gibaki-qz8cf
    @gibaki-qz8cf 19 днів тому +7

    It s on the beach for me, but there are so many good albums

  • @rogerfurer2273
    @rogerfurer2273 14 днів тому

    After The Goldrush has always been my favorite Neil Young album. When I was covering the song in the early 2000s I changed the lyric to: "Look at mother nature on the run in the twenty-first century..." So the song should last at least another 75 years. Thanks for your in-depth look at this wonderful example of Mr. Young's art.

  • @lawrencejhutchinson
    @lawrencejhutchinson 18 днів тому +1

    100% Yes! I have been listening to it since 1972, and I have never heard better!

  • @puravidadew7031
    @puravidadew7031 13 днів тому

    Thank you for this commentary. Since I turned 19 years old in 1974 and discovered Neil Young, I have always loved his music. But unfortunately, I was never smart enough or emotionally mature enough to understand what he was really saying. Thanks again.

  • @briandonnelly638
    @briandonnelly638 12 днів тому +1

    Decade is the best NY compilation.

  • @Baci302
    @Baci302 17 днів тому +2

    Excellent video. Very well researched. Thanks! New subscriber.

    • @tdo328
      @tdo328 16 днів тому

      Same!

  • @PennStacker
    @PennStacker 15 днів тому

    This is an amazing album. Recently got into vinyl and this is one of my favorites. Thanks!

  • @jeffspencer646
    @jeffspencer646 18 днів тому +2

    This is such a great essay on one of my favorite all time albums. I'm only sorry you couldn't use the real music, but I get it.

    • @rustforglory
      @rustforglory  18 днів тому

      Thanks man! Yeah, I didn't want to risk any portions of the video having to be muted or cut because of copyright.

    • @robertross4108
      @robertross4108 17 днів тому

      @@rustforgloryyou did great job. I loved all those recordings that were different than the originals. All those recordings are fun to listen to as much as they came out. My first time hearing Neil it was on the local FM radio station I pulled into the record store, Cowgirl was playing the same broadcast, I walk in listening asked the guy behind the counter, Who is this?
      I found out it’s NY the album Everybody Knows. Those albums were to me were so good Everybody & Gold Rush.

  • @bobr1066
    @bobr1066 19 днів тому +1

    The album that hooked me on NY when I was in high school

  • @stevelawrie9115
    @stevelawrie9115 18 днів тому +2

    Love the Cowboy Junkie's version of Powder Finger. Sorry on a tangent.

  • @alexnejako777
    @alexnejako777 19 днів тому +2

    Im going to go with mirror ball. Pearl jam and neil are fantastic together and the pace is fast

  • @stadtrade102
    @stadtrade102 15 днів тому

    Everytime I think about back home its cool and breezy ❤😊

  • @stevew.4176
    @stevew.4176 11 днів тому

    It’s certainly up there and probably the one I go back to more than any other

  • @paulcory8691
    @paulcory8691 17 днів тому +1

    Wow, I had no idea about what led to After the Gold Rush. I'm a huge fan of Dennis Hopper, Dean Stockwell AND Neil Young. For me though, and it's a personal thing, On The Beach is the best. Sometimes, especially when I'm down, nothing else will do. And don't get me started on the first side of Hawks and Doves. I have to say that there are some tracks on ATGR that are the equivalent of the sun breaking through the clouds. And some are the equivalent of having your heart cut out and handed to you.

  • @VinceWhitacre
    @VinceWhitacre 6 днів тому

    My second-favorite NY album is On the Beach.
    My favorite is Time Fades Away.
    You can probably tell where my head is. RIGHT IN THE DITCH, BABY.
    After the Gold Rush is definitely top-10 though; and for someone with as many great albums as Neil? That's pretty damn high praise.

  • @GoneButNotGone
    @GoneButNotGone 19 днів тому

    It’s a great album in a year of great albums. In the singer-songwriter genre alone, an embarrassment of riches that year. As for this album, great deep cuts. Love that short piano diddy, last song on side one. And I love the organic sound of this record.

  • @DJFarallon
    @DJFarallon 17 днів тому

    Great review. You need a pop screen on your mic.

  • @BellsCuriosityShop
    @BellsCuriosityShop 8 днів тому

    To be honest, i havent heard it in full in years. American Stars and Bars and Zuma are probably the only ones i have listened to in full in recent years.
    When i began to learn to play guitar in 85 i was using photocopies of a Young piano/vocal/guitar book containg songs from Goldrush and Harvest.

    • @BellsCuriosityShop
      @BellsCuriosityShop 8 днів тому

      Though what improved my strumming was playing along to Cowgirl in the Sand, Down by the River and Like a Hurricane. A better kind of musical loop is just a long track. LOL.

  • @colinu9209
    @colinu9209 17 днів тому

    This was the first NY album that I heard although I didn’t know what it was called for some time , it was on cassette tape with no label or case . For a while I thought it might be by the band America , things were quite primitive then , no internet in those days , hard to believe, I know 😂 went on to buy all of the vinyl but never seen him live, did see Nils though but not until the 90’s .

  • @gibaki-qz8cf
    @gibaki-qz8cf 19 днів тому +3

    but i have to saye after the gold rush is one of the best songs ever

  • @petersuson7958
    @petersuson7958 20 днів тому +3

    I far more like Neil's version on "Oh Lonesome me". Loggins and Messina also covered this song but Neil''s is far more better.

  • @jimmyhay47
    @jimmyhay47 14 днів тому

    It’s my favourite too.

  • @MrGreggerypeccary
    @MrGreggerypeccary 17 днів тому +1

    Believe it or not, Peru is in America

  • @bobsmoot8454
    @bobsmoot8454 14 днів тому

    I voted by the number of copies I needed by having to buy 4 After the Gold Rush albums, plus he had just released it before his appearance on the Johnny Cash show in Nashville where I saw him perform at the Ryman

  • @zoomankat
    @zoomankat 19 днів тому

    Wonderful album Those mix sound different .Where from?

  • @nilesdelta8636
    @nilesdelta8636 16 днів тому +2

    Zuma everyday ! Atg is close .

  • @chrisames2795
    @chrisames2795 18 днів тому

    you first heard it when? Cmon! 1999😮 I thought you were going to say Harvest Moon 🌙 again.
    Great back story. Great album. Dean Stockwell 🎉 Nils Lofgren ✌🏼
    Neil YoungBob Dylan Roger Waters 3 greatest poets in the past 50 years. Thanks
    i had a cassette with Harvest & After theGold Rush. I was 14 ❤

  • @Scottlp2
    @Scottlp2 18 днів тому

    Yes. Great album.

  • @teahilton
    @teahilton 19 днів тому

    Highway 61 Revisited and Blonde on Blonde welcomed After the Gold Rush as equal partners.

  • @Bdoc76
    @Bdoc76 20 днів тому +1

    Howdy, its certainly up there and I wouldnt argue with someone who said it was his best. I dont know about best but my own top three favourites from Neil are
    1- On the Beach.
    2- Tonight's the Night
    3- Sleeps awith Angels ( no really😂)

    • @rustforglory
      @rustforglory  20 днів тому +1

      Sleeps with angels is VERY underrated

    • @geej12
      @geej12 19 днів тому +2

      Hmmm... Sleeps With Angels?! Perhaps I'm missing something... I'll have to go back and listen to it again if you guys think it's so under-rated. 😁

    • @Bdoc76
      @Bdoc76 19 днів тому +1

      @geej12 Ah ha, didn't take long😂, have realized it divides the fan base but tunes like Trans Am, Change your Mind and Western Hero hold a special place for me. The album is locked into that time and all that was happening I suppose and the memories are all good.

    • @Bdoc76
      @Bdoc76 19 днів тому

      @@rustforglory Hugely so.

    • @Bdoc76
      @Bdoc76 19 днів тому +1

      @@geej12 He has better but it just resonates with me.

  • @govertvandelaar2504
    @govertvandelaar2504 19 днів тому +1

    Rages glorie
    Best guitar album ever

  • @jeffstewart4379
    @jeffstewart4379 17 днів тому

    I'm surprised that Neil didn't keep a copy of the script.

  • @bhhNC
    @bhhNC 18 днів тому

    Maybe 'Cripple Creek' also is a nod to healing waters/the Jordan and Appalachian religion.

  • @nealtircuit9373
    @nealtircuit9373 16 днів тому

    18:23 The needle and no damage done.

  • @benmeltzer
    @benmeltzer 20 днів тому

    Yes, ATGR is his best album (though I wouldn't argue with EKTIN).

  • @denniswinters2541
    @denniswinters2541 17 днів тому

    Hell, I always liked Time Fades Away.

    • @kitdewd329
      @kitdewd329 13 днів тому

      Time Fades Away is a fantastic album! I love it as well.

    • @denniswinters2541
      @denniswinters2541 13 днів тому

      @@kitdewd329 The"Ditch Trilogy" is my favorite Neil period.

  • @tonyguidry1388
    @tonyguidry1388 17 днів тому

    Rust Never Sleeps

  • @govertvandelaar2504
    @govertvandelaar2504 19 днів тому +1

    Raged glory

  • @ichirofakename
    @ichirofakename 17 днів тому +1

    It's fine, I guess, if you are into FOLK music.

  • @martintaylor8034
    @martintaylor8034 12 днів тому

    Aren't they all patchy?

    • @rustforglory
      @rustforglory  12 днів тому +1

      No

    • @etamommy
      @etamommy 8 днів тому

      Point is it is a perfect record. All the songs are excellent. Ragged Glory is very good but you have to be up for the long rock tunes.

  • @brianmoran1968
    @brianmoran1968 17 днів тому

    After the gold rush

  • @jonncockrell3606
    @jonncockrell3606 6 днів тому

    On the Beach. Everybody knows this is nowhere.

  • @kitdewd329
    @kitdewd329 13 днів тому

    Gold rush is indeed a masterpiece. But so are “Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere,“ “Tonight’s the Night,“ “On The Beach,“ “Zuma“ and “Comes A Time.”

  • @noneyabusiness4564
    @noneyabusiness4564 14 днів тому

    Some of the singing did not sound like Neil Young.

  • @MMM58.
    @MMM58. 19 днів тому

    It is his best.