Neil Young Albums Ranked From Worst to Best
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- Опубліковано 7 вер 2020
- A lot of you have asked for it, so we're giving the people what they want. The biggest video in channel history, both in number of albums and the length of the video. That's right...it was finally time to tackle Neil Young's massive discography. By our count, 43 albums! It was quite a task to put these lists together, but we made it. Let us know how our lists compare to yours.
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Neil Percival Young OC OM (born November 12, 1945) is a Canadian-American singer-songwriter and activist. After embarking on a music career in the 1960s, he moved to Los Angeles, joining Buffalo Springfield with Stephen Stills, Richie Furay and others. Since his early solo albums and those with his backing band Crazy Horse, Young has been prolific, recording a steady stream of studio and live albums.
Young has received several Grammy and Juno Awards. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inducted him twice: in 1995 as a solo artist and in 1997 as a member of Buffalo Springfield. In 2000, Rolling Stone named Young the 34th greatest rock 'n roll artist. His guitar work, deeply personal lyrics and signature tenor singing voice define his long career. He also plays piano and harmonica on many albums, which frequently combine folk, rock, country and other musical styles. His often distorted electric guitar playing, especially with Crazy Horse, earned him the nickname "Godfather of Grunge" and led to his 1995 album Mirror Ball with Pearl Jam. More recently he has been backed by Promise of the Real. His 22 albums and singles have been certified Gold and Platinum in U.S by RIAA certification with estimated worldwide sales of more than 75 million records.
Young directed (or co-directed) films using the pseudonym Bernard Shakey, including Journey Through the Past (1973), Rust Never Sleeps (1979), Human Highway (1982), Greendale (2003), and CSNY/Déjà Vu (2008). He also contributed to the soundtracks of the films Philadelphia (1993) and Dead Man (1995).
Young has lived in California since the 1960s but retains Canadian citizenship. He was awarded the Order of Manitoba on July 14, 2006, and was made an Officer of the Order of Canada on December 30, 2009. He became a United States citizen, taking dual citizenship, on January 22, 2020.
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Right after Neil’s first album was released I saw him and crazy horse play at the Troubadour in LA. They played most of the album and most of his second album which had not been released yet! The Troubadour was a very small club, maybe a hundred people. It was an amazing night.
WELD - so raw, so loud! Perfectly captures the rambling intensity of the Horse, a good live companion to Ragged Glory.
I love Weld...Ragged Glory... .Way Down in The Rust Bucket is fantastic! All three go well together
1. On The Beach
2. After The Gold Rush
Those are two of my favourite albums of all time. Top 20 no doubt.
HELL YEAH
YES!!! THANK YOU ! I'm sooo happy I'm not alone with these top 2 Neils! 3 is harvest moon and 4 is time fades away "after the first 3 things get switched around from time to time for me sorry people I have very particular taste
I grew a heart and After The Gold Rush clicked with me last night big time (first time not sure I finished it hence putting it to one side and wondering if the hype is real, it is)
Great to see "Trans" score so highly and recognised as one of his best albums. I can understood the backlash in 1983, but Neil had a real interest in technology and used it in a manner to adapt to his harder rock sound, like how Re-act-or used overdriven distorted guitar on songs like Motor City or Shots. I liked the 80's era Neil, I really like "Everybody's rockin'" too, right up to "Landing on Water" which had an edgy appeal.
Pretty much all of those 43 albums have made it into my top 5 at some stage. What's my favourite Neil Young album? The one that's playing :-)
40 year Neil Young fan from Canada. Seen him 11 times live. Applaud your efforts! Very well done guys. Well researched and good banter.
Thank you
"you're all just pissing in the wind... You don't know it but you are" by Neil Young
YES!! HAHAAHHA!! On the Beach baby!!
Three equally good lists. Everyone finds something in Neil that resonates with them, because there are so many facets to his discography.
Neil Young is one of my favorite artists of all time (everybody knows this is nowhere is my personal #1) but man, to rank over 40 albums is an insane undertaking. Nice video!
Weld has the best version of crime in the city and cortez the killer.
My favourite version of Crime In The City is on Bluenote Cafe
I'd say Weld has the definitive versions of all the songs on it.
Both version are great
Crime in the city YES but I can't help loving the studio version of Cortez more than any other. But great version nevertheless.
The versions on Live Rust and Rust Bucket are quite good as well.
I'm a huge fan of Neil Young and I really appreciate the effort you guys put into this. While I might have quibbles with a few placements, you guys provided excellent analysis and justification for your rankings Thanks for taking the time to do this!
I listen to 'Decade' every week . I don't think you can ignore this album. I understand it's a "greatest hits" album, but If someone asked me what Neil Young album they should buy, that's the album I was suggest.
I’d agree, but I’d call it more a collection than a greatest hits. Songs like Star of Bethlehem and For The Turnstiles are hardly “hits”.
Fantastic video. 43 albums is monumental, you guys did a wonderful job. I'm hoping for a ranking of Jackson Browne someday.
this was a fun to watch. I discovered Neil's cataloge a year ago, and I still can't get enough of his music. Amazing! thanks
Neil is one of the best singer songwriter ever. His approach to music was always so cristal, i saw a lot of people trying so hard to push the envelop, innovate blabla. Neil for most of his carrer was never in that path, simple, amazing lyrics, powerful guitar, loud, calm, active..I became a Neil fan long and will always love his art!!
for me Neil was a genius til mid/end 70th. The lyrics, the sound, the voice...."Rust never sleeps" was the endpoint. Then there came several nice songs, arrangements and ideas, but not comparable to former times. But I still adore his power and creativity! Always remains my musical hero. ❤
That's true. From Buffalo Springfield to Rust Never Sleep was Neil's best. Sure he's done good songs since but he will never regain the impact and what artist can do that after over 10 years. Lot like Dylan, Beatles .. creativity wans. Most good artist are able to do 3 good records and Neil has about 10. Living with War is not one of them ha. Sleeps with Angels is good but you can compared it to his 60s and 70s stuff. Most people overlook his first record with the great I've Been Waiting for You, Here we are in the Years, The Loner, Emperor of Wyoming, What did you do to my life?
till 1982
OK my top 5 before I listen just for fun:
1: Everybody Knows this is Nowhere
2: Zuma
3: After the Gold Rush
4: Tonight's the Night
5: Ragged Glory
This video is the best example of why I love your channel. I'm not a Neil Young fan. I respect him but I never really liked him. And yet I love this video and watched it in its entirety. The discussion is just that enjoyable.
After first hearing Neil with Buffalo Springfield in 1967, I was oddly hooked for all time. Gave up apologizing to the non-believers decades ago; plenty to listen to and many to avoid, but that's old weird Neil. He is always true to himself and doesn't suffer fools. Good on him and my hat's off to you guys for so deftly pulling off this countdown. Damn fine work. How about Elvis Presley's album catalogue next? JUST KIDDING.
We gotta get to Elvis eventually
Outstanding job - all 3 of you. And I liked the banter. Don't know if you guys know the Chicago band Eleventh Dream Day, but their guitarist Rick Rizzo said that he learned to play with the Zuma songbook
I loved watching this as a really big Neil Young Fan. For the most part I agree but would have to say that Neil Young has made so many gerat slbums in the 1990's and 2000's. I think you have to relook at that....lol.
I made my own top 43 and the reasons I like them. Enjoy......Sorry for the spelling:
1. On the Beach
This album to me is the best Neil album. The feel it gives from beginning to end is so real. The slow kinda Folk Rock Blues is the only way to describe the album. It may not have any of my favorite songs but the songs together make it amazing from front to back! The best song to me on this album is On the Beach.
2. Tonight’s the Night
To me Tonight’s the Night and On the Beach go hand and hand and are almost like a double album. They both have a similar feel however tonight’s the night has more of a slower sadder feel that works well. Love it. The best song to me is Lookout Joe
3. Harvest
What can I say about Harvest…it is a classic and hard not to put it close to the top of the list. It has some of the best songs that Neil has ever done on one album. My favorite on this album and one of my favorite Neil songs is Old Man. A hidden gem that should be on more live and greatest hit albums of Neil is On the Weekend.
4. Everyone Knows this is Nowhere
This is the first and in my mind the best Crazy Horse album. So many classic songs and I think the only full studio Neil Album with Danny Witten. The long jams mixed with folk rock and rock make this one of his best. The album Live at the Fillmore East is a great example of the long Jams during this time. The best song on this album in my mind and my favorite all time Neil song is Cowgirl in the Sand. Another real Jem is The Losing End (When You're On).
5. After the Gold Rush
Another Neil album full of some of his best songs! To me not as many as Harvest but pretty close. Again I would say that After the Gold Rush and Harvest are like a double album and work well back to back. Even more so the Harvest and Harvest Moon. A good mix of Folk and Rock. My favorite song is Southern Man and I would recommend the live versions from CSNY album 4 Way Street and soundtrack album: Living in the Past.
6. Zuma
Another great Crazy Horse album and has a great mix of Rock and Folk Rock. First crazy horse album after the death of Danny Witten. In my mind the best studio Crazy Horse Album of the 1970’s. Best song is Cortez the Killer and a real hidden gem is Barstool Blues. Lesson to Barstool Blues on the live Album Year of the Horse, the best!
7. Ragged Glory
What a way to start the 1990’s with this great Crazy Horse album after a strange time for Neil music in the 1980’s. From beginning to end this is such a fun rock album with some great Jams. You can hear a lot of these songs on his live album Weld but you would miss out on a few that don’t make it on Weld and they are key. The best to me is the short song White line and a real gem that has grown on me over the years is Love and Only Love. With the band Promise of the Real live on the album Earth, Love and Only Love really sounds good!
8. Sleeps with Angles
I love this album! So many different sounding songs that give it a real fun vibe. I was a teen in the 1990’s so I remember hearing this album a lot and it goes well with the rock sound of that time. I think Change Your Mind is the best song on this album with its long slow jams.
9. Freedom
During the 1980’s it took until 1989 for Neil to really make a great album that had both the 70’s and 80’s sound that worked will. Freedom has some of his best written songs and was the beginning of a long string of great albums from about 1989-1995. Besides his hit song Keep on Rockin in the Free World, No More is a real hidden gem.
10. Rust Never Sleeps
This album has some great classic Neil Crazy Horse songs that are a must. However the only real reason I can’t put it higher on my list is that I find myself going to the album Live Rust to or even better the concert film Rust Never Sleeps to hear better versions of the same songs from that same year. For that reason only it is at number 10. But the songs on the album are so good that it still makes the top ten. The best song to me is Hey Hey, My My (into the Black).
Revisiting this video. You guys are my heroes. I LOVE Neil Young. He's my 1 or 2 favorite solo artist EVER. I could NOT listen to his full discography. It's a real chore!!!!! It's really enjoyable to watch again. Thank you.
Great ranking video. Love me some Neil Young. Could you guys do a ranking of Scott Walker’s Discography? It’s not very big but has a lot of variety and quality.
1. After the Goldrush
2. Comes A Time
3. Zuma
4. Everybody Knows This is Nowhere
5. Harvest
6. On the Beach
7. Harvest Moon
8. Tonight’s the Night
9. Rust Never Sleeps
10. American Stars and Bars
11. Neil Young
12. Hawks and Doves
Would agree totally with this list...maybe swop Harvest with Goldrush though. Saw him in Ireland in 2019 where he shared the bill with Bob Dylan. Glad Dylan was on last as many of us just walked out on him after a few minutes....Zimmerman was awful
Tough job to do Neil's songs! Interesting choices for some of them😊
I have become a fan of you guys' channel. In between sessions here, so I have been watching a ton of these clips. The Neil Young clip e.g. - that is 129 fully formed paragraphs or essays. Everyone had a clear idea re each single album. IMO that is so impressive. I was also really surprised how low some of you had "Freedom", IMO one of his very best. Edit: a shout-out to one of the most beautiful NY songs :"Out on the Weekend". And re. what Joe said about the critics' response to "Harvest": I think that actually says something very good about those particular times. When we look at artists output from '68, to "72, '73 the quality, and amount of quality is staggering. So there must have been a very high bar set, and audience and critics had very high expectations from any A-Lister.
Love the lists, y'all. Would love to get your takes on Lou Reed, Tom Waits, Black Crowes, Funkadelic, King Crimson, Zappa.
What a great video guys! What a task listening to 43 Neil Young Albums. It makes me proud to be Canadian!
Nice job guys, but you'll see there's one album from each of you I felt should be higher. It's all fun!
Here's my top 15......
1 After the Gold Rush
2 Harvest
3 Comes a Time
4 Harvest Moon (Yes Joe, this is a great album!)
5 Everybody Knows this is Nowhere
6 Zuma
7 Tonight's The Night
8 Old Ways (Yes Krams, this is a great album!)
9 Freedom (Yes Jason, this is a great album!)
10 Rust Never Sleeps
11 On the Beach
12 Neil Young
13 American Stars and Bars
14 Ragged Glory
15 Re-ac-tor
Newish to you guys channel. Love the rankings. I watched this entire episode expecting (and hoping) after the gold rush would top the list. One of my all time favorite albums... And now I trust your tastes lol
Hello. I’m glad we could come through for you. - Joe
1. On the Beach
This album to me is the best Neil album. The feel it gives from beginning to end is so real. The slow kinda Folk Rock Blues is the only way to describe the album. It may not have any of my favorite songs but the songs together make it amazing from front to back! The best song to me on this album is On the Beach.
2. Tonight’s the Night
To me Tonight’s the Night and On the Beach go hand and hand and are almost like a double album. They both have a similar feel however tonight’s the night has more of a slower sadder feel that works well. Love it. The best song to me is Lookout Joe
3. Harvest
What can I say about Harvest…it is a classic and hard not to put it close to the top of the list. It has some of the best songs that Neil has ever done on one album. My favorite on this album and one of my favorite Neil songs is Old Man. A hidden gem that should be on more live and greatest hit albums of Neil is On the Weekend.
4. Everyone Knows this is Nowhere
This is the first and in my mind the best Crazy Horse album. So many classic songs and I think the only full studio Neil Album with Danny Witten. The long jams mixed with folk rock and rock make this one of his best. The album Live at the Fillmore East is a great example of the long Jams during this time. The best song on this album in my mind and my favorite all time Neil song is Cowgirl in the Sand. Another real Jem is The Losing End (When You're On).
5. After the Gold Rush
Another Neil album full of some of his best songs! To me not as many as Harvest but pretty close. Again I would say that After the Gold Rush and Harvest are like a double album and work well back to back. Even more so the Harvest and Harvest Moon. A good mix of Folk and Rock. My favorite song is Southern Man and I would recommend the live versions from CSNY album 4 Way Street and soundtrack album: Living in the Past.
6. Zuma
Another great Crazy Horse album and has a great mix of Rock and Folk Rock. First crazy horse album after the death of Danny Witten. In my mind the best studio Crazy Horse Album of the 1970’s. Best song is Cortez the Killer and a real hidden gem is Barstool Blues. Lesson to Barstool Blues on the live Album Year of the Horse, the best!
7. Ragged Glory
What a way to start the 1990’s with this great Crazy Horse album after a strange time for Neil music in the 1980’s. From beginning to end this is such a fun rock album with some great Jams. You can hear a lot of these songs on his live album Weld but you would miss out on a few that don’t make it on Weld and they are key. The best to me is the short song White line and a real gem that has grown on me over the years is Love and Only Love. With the band Promise of the Real live on the album Earth, Love and Only Love really sounds good!
8. Sleeps with Angles
I love this album! So many different sounding songs that give it a real fun vibe. I was a teen in the 1990’s so I remember hearing this album a lot and it goes well with the rock sound of that time. I think Change Your Mind is the best song on this album with its long slow jams.
9. Freedom
During the 1980’s it took until 1989 for Neil to really make a great album that had both the 70’s and 80’s sound that worked will. Freedom has some of his best written songs and was the beginning of a long string of great albums from about 1989-1995. Besides his hit song Keep on Rockin in the Free World, No More is a real hidden gem.
10. Rust Never Sleeps
This album has some great classic Neil Crazy Horse songs that are a must. However the only real reason I can’t put it higher on my list is that I find myself going to the album Live Rust to or even better the concert film Rust Never Sleeps to hear better versions of the same songs from that same year. For that reason only it is at number 10. But the songs on the album are so good that it still makes the top ten. The best song to me is Hey Hey, My My (into the Black).
11. Living with War
This is such a well done album with so many well written songs. You can feel and hear the anger Neil was feeling when he made it. I remember in 2006 when this came out I played it over and over for days. I think more than any other Neil album. It felt that Neil was feeling the same as me towards the world at that time. I love the song Shock and Awe.
12. American Stars and Bars
Another album that has grown on me over the years is this one. Some great folk Rock songs and is a very different sound for a typical Crazy Horse album to me with the exception of its best song Like a Hurricane. A real hidden gem is Bite the Bullet.
13. Mirror Ball
This is the first Neil Young album I ever bought and would make sense as I was a teen from the 1990’s. This album has both Neil and Pearl Jam and really a great “grunge” sound. Mostly rock songs I would say that Throw Your Hatred Down is my favorite song and is so well written. I would love to hear a live album from this tour one day!!
14. Harvest Moon
It shows you how great Neil Young really is when he can put out so many great rock albums in the 1990’s and is the called the Grandfather of Grunge and then releases his best known album since Harvest. A pour Folk Album. And then goes back to Crazy Horse! A lot of well written and catchy songs on this album but I really like from Hank to Hendrix.
15. Time Fades Away
This is a good album with a great mix of songs. However a lot of songs are on other live Neil albums that sound better than on this album. Yonder Stands the Sinner would be my favorite on this album.
16. Prairie Wind
Being Canadian I love the feel of this album. To me it can be double album with Harvest Moon. So many great Canadian songs and so well written. The Heart of Gold movie is a great live example of this album mixed with Harvest Moon and Harvest. I love the song I’s a Dream!
17. Psychedelic Pill
This is by far the best Neil Young Album in the last 10 Years. The longest Neil young Album as well and I feel that it is like being at a Crazy Horse live show on a studio album. Great Jams! Ramada Inn is my favorite song.
18. Hitchhiker
So many classic Neil Young songs that make it on other Neil albums that sound great on this album. It does sound a little like and Album of Demos…However it seems to work. I really like the song Hitchhiker and a hidden gem to me is Hawaii
19. Colorado
Another Great new Neil Young Crazy Horse album that you can feel the emotion Neil is feeling towards the state of the world when it comes to the environment. Most of his resent albums have been about saving the environment and to me this is his best one so far. A lot of great Crazy Horse jams mixed in with well written songs. Shut it Down is my favorite song on this album.
20. Silver and Gold
I love this album. A great pour folk album that could be placed as a 3rd in a trilogy with Harvest Moon and Prairie Wind. If you like those albums then you will like this one as it has a similar personal feel to it. I love the song Razor Love.
21. Le Noise
This is a very different sounding Neil album that people like it or hate it. I am on the like side but would have to say it is perhaps the only Neil album that works better in the studio then done live. The closest Neil album that comes close to the feel to this album is the Dead Man soundtrack but I prefer this album more. The song Hitchhiker is the best to me.
22. Homegrown
This is a solid album that has a sad feel to it. Full of mostly folk rock songs that make their way on other albums but I think work better on this one. It may grow on me more as time goes by as it is so new but for now it is 22. The best song to me is We don’t Smoke it Know more.
23. Are You Passionate
When this album first came out I did not like it much and only played it a few times. However about 5 years ago I got into Booker T and the MG’s and started to lesson to it again and it started to grow on me. It is a feel good album with a fantastic beat to it. Funny thing is that my favorite song on the album is the most not like the rest and is the song Going Home. I hear that a future unreleased album called Toast is the same album but done with Crazy Horse and think it will also be good.
24. Comes a Time
This album has many classic songs however I like most of them on other live albums that Neil has done. The second side to this album is on the ok side with exception of Motorcycle Mama. I also like the song Look Out for My Love however it sounds much better on the Live Unplugged album.
25. Greendale
Greendale is a one of a kind Neil Young Rock Play album that people like or dislike. Again I am on the Like side of things. However even with some of his best writing it is hard to lesson to the songs on their own or out of order. You lose the feel of the album if you only lesson to one or two. You have to be in for the whole story of the album. It has a few great songs but most are ok. Bandit is my favorite.
26. Reactor
This is a very different sounding Crazy Horse album. The beat of each song is much faster than most Crazy Horse songs and although the writing is not the best the feel and style of the album is fun. However the song Shots is well written and sounds amazing and is a must lesson!!
27. Neil Young
Neil Young first album seems like it is full of cast of songs from his Buffalo Springfield days and at times it is a little on the boring side. However it does have some outstanding songs like the classic The Loner. The Old Laughing Lady sounds better as a folk song on the Unplugged album. The hidden Gem to me is the song I’ve Been Waiting for You.
28. The Monsanto Years
The first Neil album with Promise of the Real feels like the Environmental version of Living with War. You can feel the anger Neil has to the state of the world and the environment. So many well written songs on this album however the last few songs are not his best. That being said Luke Nelson takes the lead guitar on some of the solos…I have only seen Steven Stills do that at a Neil show. The best song on this album is Big Box. This band live is amazing: ttps://ua-cam.com/video/m2l9v9UFJCM/v-deo.html
29. Storytone
This has some great folk songs. I feel it is more of a love album. The second version of the same album that has the orchestra is not as good as the striped back folk version with the exception of the big band songs. The best song to me is Tumbleweed.
30. Broken Arrow
This is a real Grunge sounding Crazy Horse album with some great slow jams that flow into each other well. Not a lot of songs that stand out and the ones that do sound better live on the Live Album Year of the Horse or even the Movie by the same Name Year of the Horse. My favorite song on this album is Big Time.
31. Americana
When I got this album full of old children songs I thought this was going to suck…but I was wrong. I never thought that Crazy Horse could make these songs sound good but the long jams mixed into songs that I learned as a child make it a fun Rock Album. I love their version of Tom Dula.
32. Fork in the Road
This album is a fun ride full of catchy songs about his electric car. Some of the songs are a little silly but it seems to work. I really like the song Johnny Magic.
33. Chrome Dreams 2
This album has some great well written songs but I feel that most don’t fit well together on the same album. That being said I really like the long jams on No Hidden Path. Great Song!
34. The Visitor
This Album has some amazing writing however the melody of songs on some make them sound a little cheesy. I really like the song carnival and the way Neil young sings it is so creepy and different.
35. Trans
This is the strangest album that Neil has by far. I put this on for people that only know Neil’s hits just for their reaction. I would have liked the whole album to be the Trans sound as the ones that don’t have that sound don’t fit in at all. It is not an album that I think to play on my own but it does have its place. The Live concert movie Live in Berlin is worth checking out and the lesser known Solo Trans and the even better A Rusted Out Garage done with Crazy Horse. The best song to me on the album is the non-Trans sounding song Like and Inca.
36. Life
The 80’s sound does not work will with the slow ballads at all on this album. However must of the songs are well written and I hear that the concert movie Rusted Out Garage will be coming out next year in movie form and Live album. If that happens then finally hearing 80’s Neil live with Crazy Horse. The best song is Mideast Vacation.
37. Hawks and Doves
This album has a great first side and an ok second side. Also most of the first side can be found on better albums. For that reason I don’t need to listen to this album often or at all. Caption Kennedy is the best song but can be heard on the much better album Hitchhiker.
38. Piece Trail
This album has some amazingly well written songs and the first side is fantastic but the second side has some of the worst melodies. Some of the best songs can also be found on the movie soundtrack Paradox. My favorite song on this album is Piece Trail.
39. Landing on Water
There are some really great songs but I am not big 80’s fan so it is not at the top of my list. Hippie Dream is the best song however sounds a lot better on the Live album Earth.
40. Everybody is Rocken
This album starts off with some silly not so well written songs done with a 50’s rock sound. However as the album goes on and by the second side I find myself in to it. The best song to me is the cover song Mystery Train
41. This Notes for You
This is a Big Band Neil Young album done with the band The Blue Notes. Songs are ok and the Highlight is the jazzy sounding song Coupe de Ville. The live Album Bluenote Café is much better and really lets you fully understand how good Neil Young and the Blue Notes really are.
42. A Letter Home
During the height of the Pono when Neil Young is really pushing the best quality sound possible he release this low-fi album? The songs are all classic covers that I love however it is hard to get by the sound quality. The only song that this sound works well is the cover Needle of Death. I heard this song was the inspiration for the Neil Song Needle and the Damage done
43. Old Ways
I thought I was starting to get into country music more….I guess not. I find most of this album really boring. Songs are all well written. I do like the song California Sunset. I much prefer to lesson to the live album with the same band called A Treasure.
I agree about On the Beach being his best album.
It ain’t the Voice,, it’s the delivery of the Feeling! Same with his Guitar!😊❤️
Neil Young and The Blue Notes played the Monarch Room in The Royal Hawaiian Hotel. An intimate room, only a couple hundred people. Neil and the band blew that room apart! Walking out after the performance, an old friend remarked she was disappointed none of the older hits were plkayed. I was amazed. We had just witnessed history!
He did two shows a night and I saw one the first night and then listened to both the next night from Waikiki beach. The sound outside wasn't too bad. I thought it was a great show too.
@@ShanghaiSteve
Cool.
As I recall, he did one show in the Monarch Room at Royal Hawaiian. Next night he performed somewhere close by but not in Royal Hawaiian.
But I could be wrong, been a while.
Glad you got to hear some amazing music live.
@@reddiver7293 He did two nights at the Royal Hawaiian and one at the Sheraton Waikiki. (I had to look it up on the sugar mountain site to refresh my memory). Great show.
@@ShanghaiSteve
Mahalo.
Appreciate the follow through.
I remember hearing After The Gold Rush come across the radio around 1971 I believe. It was so beautiful, almost ethereal to me and all I could do was stand there and stare at the radio.
Lads outstanding job, really enjoyed. That would have been hard work. Now I need to go away and consider my Top 10...
Awesome video. I love the podcast.
Thanks, Michael.
This is a great channel! 👏
Thanks!
I think it’s cool you all agreed on no. 1. Tonight’s the Night is widely considered one of the greatest albums of all time though, would’ve been top 3 for me.
I'm surprised there's not more love for Prairie Wind. That album would crack my top 10 for sure.
I liked it. But cracking the top 10 is a tough ask. - Joe
For sure 😄😅😆
It gets in my top 20. I listen to it quite a bit.
My top 15
1. Rust Never Sleeps
2. On the Beach
3. Tonight's the Night
4. Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere
5. Harvest
6. Sleeps with Angels
7. Harvest Moon
8. Zuma
9. Freedom
10. After the Gold Rush
11. Ragged Glory
12. Silver & Gold
13. Comes a Time
14. Time Fades Away
15. Neil Young debut
Great job guys!!! A daunting task, especially ( as Joe mentioned) because its tough to listen to all those albums back to back with the possibility of limited history with certain albums.
This is probably why Freedom ranks as my favourite. At 44 years old and having released albums in the 80s that alienated younger audiences, Freedom set in motion what would become a huge upheaval in popular culture: guitar-driven music that was loud and abrasive but wasn't Heavy Metal.
A lot of the bands and artists that came out in the upcoming decade used Neil's blueprint from this album and his 70's output to create their own niche. Feedback and volume delivered the energy for the socially conscious lyrics that touched on a personal level as well. They copied his flannel look, praised him as a beacon, and performed their third encores with their own rendition of Rockin in the Free World.
Freedom was the ripple that led to bigger waves that Ritual de lo Habitual and Nevermind would create in the coming 2 years.
BTW, the drop in the ocean that started that ripple was the song and video for "This Note's for You". But that's for another history lesson...... :)
As a graphic designer, and a Neil Young fan, what really kills me about Neil Young's discography, is the cover art for most of his albums lol
Haha, now that you say it, most of the cover art is really not that great.
@@K4neki_CNTPI know oplokokoo
You guys are spot on with your takes here. After the Goldrush is the one for me with a few others from the classic 70s period right there. And what defines a great vocalist is a musical thing, and his approach is so much an integral part of the delivery that I just hear it as another great instrument dominating the mix (when his guitar work is not tearing holes in hearts). One of my favourite artists of all time even though I think his ultimate musical achievements were mostly from the noted string of early solo work up to and including Rust Never Sleeps. Hell, the Beatles were only doing it prime for less than a decade, and their place in the annals of this music pretty is much cemented for eternity.
I have a geographic connection to Neil Young in that I was born in Ontario, moved to Winnipeg, as a result of a divorce and later moved to rural Manitoba not far from where Neil's father Scott was born. (where incidentally there is a nice little music festival in Neil's honor every year called Prairie Wind) I got back to Neil's catalog when I moved out to the country and realised it was a tribute to the N. American Prairie. You can't appreciate an album like Ragged Glory unless your running down a lonely prairie road fields of what and canola on either side.
Ok, im gonna relisten to Neil's entire catalog and do my own ranking. Thanks for the inspiration of how I will spend all next month. I love that Neil can put out more albums quicker than you can rank them. Love the new bootleg series.
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Nice work
My top 4 in no order:
Tonight's the Night
Everybody Knows This is Nowhere
On the Beach
Zuma
My number 5 is a duel at dawn between After the Goldrush and Harvest
This is a good list, thought Tonight's I hardly listen to. New momma? Speaking OUt? Nope. the best are the title song, Lookout Joe? So Tonights the Night and Tired Eyes and Come-on Baby let's go down time (whitten) are the best songs.
Albuquerque!
Well done guys!! To go through all 43 albums and rank them, is a monumental task. So thank you. Based upon your lists and others I am putting together my final list, without listening to most of them. Rather not buy dogs to find out they are dogs is to me the smartest thing to do. I will then concentrate to get the top 22 albums (halfway) not including live albums or stuff he did with Crosby, Stills and Nash.
KRAM hit the nail on the head with the Top 3, but like JASON I've never grown to like On The Beach. Fun video guys. Keep on keeping on!
Neil's 30 is like most artist top 5 . It is all relative.
Neil Young is one of the greatest artists ever with an insanely impressive body of work to prove it. Picking favourites is very hard, but I will say this: Broken Arrow is so underrated it hurts. It’s one of his greatest efforts.
I might have to give it (and Greendale) another listen. I could have just been burned out on Neil at that point. - Joe
I was buying cds when Greendale was released and I bought an edition with a complete live acoustic performance of the album and I remember liking that way better than the actual album, but still Greendale was never a favourite of mine. Broken Arrow on the other hand....
ya I idont understand Broken Arrow, that was the last of his great 90s records, but most underrated, ...apparently!
Bought it when it came out and tried hard to like the record ever since. Back then I even liked it a little bit more. The first song is great, the rest feels meh to me. Never liked endless jams of crazy horse, especially when the songs are not there.
Just listened to Harvest Moon for the first time in years and had to endorse Kramzer: it is a beautiful, truly gorgeous album.
Yes thank you, my favorite Neil young album too!
Great video. Brave men, you are. I could never rank that many records. Lots of masterpieces and lots of crap and lots of all levels in between. Monstrous catalog.
My Top Ten:
1. Harvest
2. Rust Never Sleeps
3. After the Gold Rush
4. Zuma
5. Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere
6. Sleeps with Angels
7. Freedom
8. Living With War
9. Homegrown
10. Harvest Moon
Neil is my second favorite artist(after Dylan),and it's certainly not for his consistency,but his incredible highs. I agree with Kramzer,he has about 20 great albums. Here's my top 10;
10.Sleeps With Angels-I was originally gonna have Freedom here but I think this edges it out. Touching tribute to Kurt Cobain in "change your mind","trans am" and "western hero" are great anf "piece of crap" is a really fun throwaway.
09.Harvest-I can't deny some of his best and most played songs,but "a man needs a maid" and "there's a world"really hurt the momentom of this.
08.On the Beach-His most conversational and claustrophobic album,this had to be a total shock coming after harvest. The bitterness of "walk on" and "revolution blues"is inescapable,the loneliness of the title track and "ambulance blues'is suffocating. A great mood piece.
07.Ragged Glory-This was so unlike anything in 1990,a breath of fresh air for those who remembered the older Neil. Great jams of great songs,and Oh yeah,it spawned a movement of crazy flannel wearing kids.
06.Time Fades Away-Neil's most hated album is one of my favorites. Great ballads and rockers performed live that are criminally neglected parts or his catalogue. The title track and "don't be denied" are two of his greatest songs,and you will never get the bass line of "L.A."out of your head.
05.Zuma-The guitar tone.... I can't describe how great it is on this album. I always thought of that 3 min intro to "cortez the killer"as an aural equivalent of a volcano oozing lava. Killer. "Barstool blues" is ridiculously good too.
04.Everybody Knows this is Nowhere-The two long tracks combine beauty and power,"cinammon girl"has a great riff and "round and round' and the "losing end" are gorgeous.
03.Rust Never Sleeps-I actually like the acoustic/electric side concept here. I think his best acoustic ballads are on this album,and then side 2 just rips from beginning to end.
02.After the Gold Rush-What more needs to be said? The album that proved the genius of Neil. My one tiny beef is that I wish he could've done a little more with "cripple creek ferry",which has a great melody.
01.Tonight's the Night-If On the Beach was confessional,than this album is an Irish wake. In the drunken,druggy ,ramshackle arrangement of these great songs,I find a silver lining of joy and a celebration of life bubbling underneath. It's a rare album that builds momentum from beginning to end,and it contains some of his greatest songs "albuquerque","mellow my mind","lookout Joe","tired eyes" and the fragile "new mama". Neil was always an artist who wore his heart on his sleeve and this is clearly his most passionate album.
After The Goldrush is without a doubt my favorite. Can't agree with you about Cripple Creek Ferry. It, and Til The Morning Comes are, in my opinion, perfect.
Agree on Tonight’s the Night for #1. The whole “ditch quadrilogy” (On the Beach, Tonight’s the Night, Zuma, and Time Fades, are my favourite Neil albums.
Damn this is a big discography not sure how you guys got through all this but congrats
Wow, I love after the goldrush too but I admit I did not see that coming that it would be number 1. The tension. What a great video for the best artist ever. Good job!!
Thanks, Matthew!
One line from After The Goldrush continues to haunt me to this day. Probably more so now than when I first heard it. "Thinkin' about what a friend had said, I was hopin' it was a lie"
The line that changed my life was, look at mother nature on the run n the 1970s I bought the album when I was 11 in 71.. Hello from england
Wow! Great job guys, what a daunting task. This is perfect example why you should always do just a top ten of albums with an artist with this many albums.
Thanks, but you’ll never see anything less than full discographies from us. Go big or go home. -Jason
Too many albums.
After i watched almost every album of the year video, i could guess that Jason would rank the debut pretty high. But i was a bit surprised that he ranked On the beach so low and his explanation surprised me even more. 1. On the Beach 2. Self Titled 3. Tonight`s the Night 4. Time Fades Away 5. Gold Rush.
Tonight's the night, time fades away. Neil young doesn't make bad albs
Landing on water.
@@oppothumbs1 a really goofy but cool hit or miss 80s record for Neil
I suppose it adds to the ‘drama’ of the videos, but you guys are really hard on each other sometimes! Music is subjective and what connects with you personally is testimony enough to whether something is ‘good’ etc.
You all have so many great ways of expressing your love for albums though, love these videos :)
Very happy to see Zuma ranked so highly, after two much better known albums. Surprised that Prairie Wind is ranked so low-it was a beautiful summation of his life. The songs on that album fit in very well with the Harvest songs in the movie Heart of Gold.
Mi top 10:
1. Everybody Knows This is Nowhere
2. Zuma
3. On the Beach
4. After the Gold Rush
5. Live Rush
6. Harvest
7. Tonight's the Night
8. Comes a Time
9. Times Fade Away
10. Old Ways
Kramzer, you seem to be the resident Neil Young fan, i was wondering if you had heard the new one Toast yet, i've been jamming it for 2 weeks straight now, its got a great vibe and the jam sessions are fantastic. Its a great listen!
This is very interesting. Thank you for taking the (lots of) time to do this. I love Neil, but this looks like a real slog. This video is very enjoyable.
On the Beach is number 1 for me.
It's good but all the songs with "Blues" in it don't compare to Turnstiles, See the SKy, Walk On. It's hard to pick between Live Rust, Zuma, Neil's first, Harvest, Everyone knows
It's just amazing that Ben Keith is the real glue to Neil's multiple style shifts - Ben is always there with cosmic pedal steel or guitar or sax...even backup vocals. 80% of Neil's records could have been subcredited on the covers as "Neil Young & Ben Keith". Ok, I am joking but Ben Keith is THE MAN. Neil says as much about him, and more.
Hell Yes !! Long Grain was a Jewel!! Sure miss his soul . 😔❤️
It took me a month to listen to the 43 albums and I watched and enjoyed your lists a couple of times. For me the worst three:
43- Landing on Water
42- Life
41- Living with War.
The best five:
1- Tonight's the night
2- Rust never sleeps
3- American Star's N' Bars
4- Harvest Moon
5- Everybody Knows this is Nowhere
43 albums in a month. Unless you only listen to them once that's damn impressive
8 months later. The best five:
5- Everybody knows this is Nowhere (5/5)
4- Zuma (5/5)
3- Harvest Moon (5/5)
2- Rust Never Sleeps (5/5)
1- After the Gold Rush (5/5)
Don`t think I can do a 43 album dive, but I applaud you guys making the sacrifice for the channel. Of the ones I know well enough:
1. After the Gold Rush
2. Harvest
3. Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere
4. Rust Never Sleeps
5. Zuma
6. Comes a Time
7. Tonight's the Night
8. Harvest Moon
9. On the Beach
10. Time Fades Away
11. Ragged Glory
12. Neil Young
13. American Stars 'n Bars
14. Freedom
15. Old Ways
1. On the Beach (my #1 by a huge margin)
2. Dead Man Soundtrack
3. Tonight's the Night
4. After the Goldrush
5. Everybody Knows this is Nowhere
Other than his stuff with Buffalo Springfield which I’m a HUGE fan of and the stuff from the Deja Vu album, this is all the solo studio stuff I know we’ll enough to rank
9. Harvest Moon
8. Neil Young
7. On The Beach
6. Tonight’s The Night
5. Harvest
4. Zuma
3. Time Fades Away
2. Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere
1. After The Gold Rush
1 On The Beach. 2 After The Goldrush. 3 Rust Never Sleeps. 4 Ragged Glory. 5 Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere
i love hearing you guys talking about the music i grew up with in Cambridge, England. when i was about 20 i lived in Santa Cruz Ca and saw Neil playing with a group called Ducks. sound familiar to anyone???
It was in 1977 and Neil was 'hanging out' in Santa Cruz, i think. he played a one day festival and i worked as an assistant first-aider. he was and always will be a true musical legend
Yeah I heard a recording of Neil Young doing his vastly ignored "Little Wing" (not Jimi's). The great version of Little Wing is soft and is on Hawks and Doves, maybe the best song on that record. They definitely had a "sound" not that far afield from Crazy Horse but not as good. There is a bootleg record with Neil and the Ducks.
that zooming effect on psychedelic pill was awesome you guys you really made me think I was high AF :D
Solid rankings, but I would have had “Silver and Gold” on the top 10 or maybe 5. That album blew me away and was such a return to form. It requires multiple listens as I think a first pass could make a person think it was a “lite” version of some of his 70s acoustic output. It’s so much more though.
Enjoyed this very much. Don’t disagree with much except for Living with War-love the raw emotion and raw guitar, top 10 for me. Here’s my top 20:
Best Neil Young Studio albums (20)
Harvest
Rust never sleeps
Harvest Moon
Everyone knows this is nowhere
Zuma
After the gold rush
Homegrown
Living with war
Chrome Dreams II
Freedom
American stars n bars
Ragged Glory
Sleeps with Angels
Psychedelic Pill
Tonight's the night
Trans
On the Beach
Comes a time
Americana
Time Fades Away
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Nicely made video guys! I became a believer in Neil Young several years back (I’m 29) and still love his music, though I disagree with his politics. I share the same criticism with him being too on the nose with his messages. He could have been more creative lyrics wise. But regardless I have amounted a huge collection, of his albums, but skipped the Geffen years entirely (though Trans was kinda cool). Anyways great job guys 👍🏻
I would greatly appreciate it if you could include the release year of the individual albums in your videos.
That is a good idea. - Joe
1. On the Beach
2. Rust Never Sleeps
3. Everybody Knows This is Nowhere
4. Zuma
5. Harvest
6. After the Gold Rush
7. Tonight's the Night
8. Ragged Glory
9. Time Fades Away
10. Freedom
11. Comes A Time
12. Harvest Moon
13. Sleeps With Angels
14. Chrome Dreams II
15. Hitchhiker
16. Psychedelic Pill
17. Silver and Gold
18. Trans
19. American Stars n Bars
20. Mirror Ball
When Neill is good, he is really great. But he really needs a filter, he's to messy most of the times, it became his trademark. From '69-79 he was in top form
1968 -79( I loved his first record with Waiting for you, the Loner, If i could have her tonight etc). And a shame they don't include Buffalo Springfield as On the Way Home, I am a child, Expecting to Fly, Mr Soul, Flying on the Ground is Wrong, etc are great songs)
@@oppothumbs1 the songs are great,arrangements not too much,i prefere live versions
Such a wide and deep catalog. I don't think any ranking is wrong. For me 6-15 could shuffle around alot of great work.... Zuma, Everybody Knows this is Nowhere, Freedom, Comes a Time, Tonights the Night, Harvest Moon, Broken Arrow, Neil Young, American Stars and Bars, Journey Through the Past, Sleeps With Angels, Chrome Dreams II, Le Noise, Prairie Wind, Mirrored Ball, etc.
#5 Ragged Glory
#4 Harvest
#3 Rust Never Sleeps
#2 On the Beach
#1 After the Gold Rush
Good ol' Neil Young tough me a lot from his music to become a great guitar player thank you Neil Young
Happy 75th Birthday, Neil!
Kudos to you for tackling NY's work all in one slug. I've been a fan since the mid-1970s and I wouldn't do that. I'm closer to 60 than I am 50, and I remember them as they came out [it helps having older sibling, too]. Not a fan of most of his output after 2000. The 1970s were very good to NY. My Top 10 - 10. Harvest [1972]; 9. Ragged Glory [1990]; 8. Freedom [1989]; 7. Comes a Time [1978]; 6. Zuma [1975]; 5. Tonight’s the Night [1975]; 4. On the Beach [1974]; 3. Rust Never Sleeps [1979]; 2. Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere [1969]; After the Gold Rush [1970].
My my, hey hey, full props to you guys for even considering looking at a catalog of 43 albums. The sheer amount of time spent listening to these albums just once is unfathomable for even the greatest Neil Young fan. You all chose your No. 1 pick wisely! Neil has has had some great albums over the years along with a few duds. Next lighten your load. CSNY (3 total albums) and you can even expand to include the other (5) CSN studio albums. Cheers gentlemen! Hey hey, my my!
Pretty good selection boys, After the Goldrush, Harvest, Everybody Knows this is Nowhere, Zuma, Tonight's the Night,
On the Beach, Comes a Time, Rust Never Sleeps, Ragged Glory ,Neil Young, Prairie Wind, Harvest Moon, Life, Freedom
pretty much do it for me, maybe with Sleeps with Angels, Psychedelic Pills as later albums for me. Thanks you gave a pretty good commentary for me and did the work and you must be all-Neiled out! He wasn't a genius, unlike Dylan,
but he was us magnified (if we had the talent).
His ditch trilogy Time Fates Away, Tonight's The Night and On The Beach in any order followed by Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere, Rust Never Sleeps, Zuma, Neil Young, Ragged Glory, After The Goldrush, Harvest and Comes A Time. As far as his 80s stuff I admire the fact he was amusing himself and pissing off his record company but not a fan.
Good conversation and can't argue with 1 & 2
1.on the beach
2 after the gold rush
3.harvest
4.e. knows this is nowhere
Great list
I hated Silver & Gold when I got it in 2000, but around 2002/2003 I listened to it again & appreciated it a lot more-Great Divide is a beautiful song, Distant Camera, Razor Love, the title track. Daddy Went Walkin' has some beautiful instrumentation, but I cannot forgive him singing Daddy's Gettin' Wood With The Barnyard Cat.
Yeah the same thing happened to me with Silver and Gold.
Great review appreciate it... You guys should give Marc Ford Neil Songs Ep a listen.... Then listen to the songs the vulture and smoke signals and tell me what you think
Definitely check out his version of lookout Joe...smokes
After The Goldrush is very close to the best album by any artist.
It’s a 5-star perfect 10 for me. - Joe
@@TastesLikeMusic I'm not all that surprised that you all chose After The Goldrush as your number 1.
RAGGED GLORY was my entrance in the Neil Young world and is still my favorite OUT OF his classic era. My no. 1 was always EVERYBODY KNOWS THIS IS NOWHERE, i love HARVEST and OLD WAYS, but i love him the most when he plays with CRAZY HORSE, it's a natural match
My best:
1. Live Rust 2. Hawks and Doves 3. Rust Never Sleeps 4. Comes a Time
Interesting lists - thanks for doing this! I really love Neil's run of albums from Everyone Knows This Is Nowhere through to Comes A Time.. after that it does get pretty sketchy personally speaking. However having said that I need to spend more time with Trans & Re*ac*tor clearly. I've not engaged with a Neil album since Sleeps With Angels which I think is a great release. It'd go in my top 20... maybe top 15 on a good day. There are at least 20 (maybe more..) albums that he's released that if I never heard again I'd be totally ok about that. Hearing After The Goldrush/Harvest and Freedom in quick succession in 1989 (Freedom being the first album bought by Neil, on release after reading a review in Melody Maker) was such an eye opener for me.. I think I'd bought the covers album 'The Bridge' first though (Loop, Flaming Lips, Sonic Youth, Soul Asylum, Bongwater etc - a selection of my favourite bands of that crazy year!) before I'd actually heard Neil Young himself! A few years before that the Mission (Mission UK for those in the US!) did a cover of Like A Hurricane which 14 year old me dug! Ha! I remember turning 18 in early 1990 and that spring just being totally immersed in After The Goldrush and Harvest. Then slowly over the next 4-5 years picking off key albums when I had the funds... Rust Never Sleeps, Tonight's The Night, etc... before FINALLY landing a copy of On The Beach when a friend bought one back for me from San Francisco. Mind blown. Seeing Neil live for the first time in 1994 @ Finsbury Park, London... again... woah! Thing is the more I read about Neil (the bios, the books etc) the less I kind of dig the man as a person. I'm with him on Trump, environmental issues etc etc. It's this dichotomy between his art and the kind of person he feels he needs to be to actually make that art... the ruthlessness. Hmm.. My issue I realize.
I love your guys faces when u silently disagree
Finally made my own Neil album ranking. Enjoyed it more than I thought. Not exactly what the boys have, but it's what I like.
1) Ragged Glory - 5*
2) Tonight's the Night - 5*
3) Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere - 5*
4) Harvest - 5*
5) Rust Never Sleeps - 5*
6) On the Beach - 5*
7) American Stars 'n Bars - 4.5*
8) Zuma - 4.5*
9) Comes a Time - 4.5*
10) Broken Arrow - 4.5*
11) After the Gold Rush - 4.5*
12) Le Noise - 4.5*
13) Harvest Moon - 4*
14) Reactor - 4*
15) Hitchhiker - 4*
16) Silver and Gold - 4*
17) Barn - 4*
18) Time Fades Away - 4*
19) Freedom - 4*
20) Mirror Ball - 4*
21) Greendale - 3.5*
22) Homegrown - 3.5*
23) Chrome Dreams II - 3.5*
24) Psychedelic Pill - 3.5*
25) Are You Passionate - 3.5*
26) Neil Young debut - 3*
27) Peace Trail - 3*
28) Hawks and Doves - 3*
29) This Notes for You - 3*
30) Life - 3*
31) Prairie Wind - 3*
32) Americana - 3*
33) Landing on Water - 2.5*
34) Storytone - 2.5*
35) Living with War - 2.5*
36) Colorado - 2*
37) Sleeps with Angels - 2*
38) The Monsanto Years - 2*
39) Fork in the Road - 2*
40) The Visitor - 2*
41) Everybody's Rockin - 1.5*
42) Trans - 1.5*
43) Old Ways - 1.5*
44) A Letter Home - 1.5*
Harvest is my favorite, nice lists guys.
My list -
1. After the Goldrush -
2. Rust Never Sleeps -
3. Everybody Knows This is Nowhere -
4. Zuma
5. Tonight’s the Night -
6. On the Beach -
7. Harvest -
8. Time Fades Away
9. American Stars and Bars
10. Ragged Glory -
Sleeps With Angels -
Freedom -
Psychedelic Pill -
Broken Arrow -
Chrome Dreams II -
Silver and Gold -
Greendale -
RE-AC-TOR -
Harvest Moon -
Neil Young -
Comes a Time -
Prairie Wind -
Colorado -
LeNoise -
Mirrorball -
Hawks and Doves -
Trans -
Homegrown
Hitchhiker
Are You Passionate -
Living With War -
Americana
Landing on Water
Life
Old Ways
Fork in the Road
Everybody’s Rockin’
This Note’s For You
Peace Trail
The Monsanto Years
The Visitor
Storytone
A Letter Home
Loved this video. Made me smile the whole through.
Of the 43 albums, I'd say 23 of them are wonderful, 11 are fun and/or interesting, and 9 are just awful... I'd have a really hard time ranking them, so I thank you for doing it for us.
(For the record, I really like On the beach, Re•ac•tor, and Comes a time a lot...)