on the beach
tonight's the night
everybody knows this is nowhere
reactor (typical contrarian pick)
time fades away (see previous comment)
zuma
after the gold rush
weld
comes a time

my god this is exhausting

good bootleg of current tour

http://thepiratebay.se/torrent/77410..._Center_Chicag

I know all of those except reactor and time fades away

fuck no way I can rank his albums

here are "must listen" albums in chrono order
(and just because it's not on this list doesn't mean it's not good, just not "must listen" status)

must listen tier 1
everybody knows this is nowhere
after the gold rush
harvest
on the beach
tonight's the night
time fades away
zuma
american stars and bars
comes a time
rust never sleeps
live rust
hawks and doves
reactor
freedom
ragged glory
weld
sleeps with angels
mirror ball
broken arrow
year of the horse
silver & gold
greendale
prarie wind
living with war
live at fillmore east
chrome dreams II
le noise
psychedelic pill

must listen tier 2
neil young (s/t)
arc
harvest moon
lucky 13 (mostly just for "depression blues")
unplugged
dead man soundtrack
road rock vol. 1
are you passionate
live at massey hall 1971
Sugar Mountain - Live At Canterbury House 1968
fork in the road
dreamin' man live 1992
archives vol. 1
a treasure
americana

curiosities with a few good tracks each
long may you run (title song is great)
decade (a few nice unreleased songs that are only on here I believe)
trans (some neat stuff but don't believe the hipster hype)
everybody's rockin (worth a spin..."wonderin" is the best song...no doubt cuz it was old)
old ways (so disappointing...neil doing country should be good)
landing on water (good stuff, painful stuff)
life (ditto...when you're lonely heart breaks and prisoners of rock and roll are great)

unfortunately I don't think I've ever been able to make it through "this note's for you"

and there are plenty other good soundtrack songs (philadelphia) and unreleased live tracks floating around

reactor is like viewed as the end of his "classic" era but i just gfound it completely awesome since first listen
its his loosest "punkiest" album and like t-bone is just the most awesome jam
like it gets bad notice cause he only sings one line over and over but it rocks harder than like anything anyones donea

everybody's rockin is the only album from the maligned reactor to life era that i really all out dislike

here's a gun-to-my-head top 10 list in chronological order:
everybody knows this is nowhere
after the gold rush
on the beach
tonight's the night
live rust
ragged glory
weld
mirror ball
broken arrow
year of the horse

most painful 5 I had to eliminate (i.e. if it were top 15)
zuma
time fades away
sleeps with angels
silver & gold
live at fillmore east



most glaring omission from these selections is probably "Harvest" and it was very close to replacing "fillmore" "sleeps" or "silver"...it's just that it has 7 classics, pulled down by 1 ok song and 2 stinkers. it's definitely a hardcore "must listen"

also I'm letting "live rust" rep "rust never sleeps" which would otherwise probably be top 15...props to "thrasher" and "ride my llama"

if you don't like this album you just don't get neil

is there really hipster hype about trans? i think it's absolutely good but i am not aware of any movement to rep it
i don't know what the hype would be about since it isn't even weird enough for its reputation. it's just not at all bad overall

I've definitely been exposed to some hipster hype

yeah it's not a bad album...the quality of the songs really aren't tied to them being electronic-influenced or whatever

i went to a zuma fitness class and was really confused when this brazillian booty music started playing

in all my internet travels i just have never encountered any love for that album outside of a couple individuals here and there who don't seem to get backing

playing dead man right now

there are a couple repeated musical motif's between dead man and mirrorball

"organ solo" on dead man is "fallen angel" and "i'm the ocean"

just had Zuma on in the car, it kicks ass for sure.

I've never heard any Trans hype. I've heard people describe it as his worst album.

it's quite better a few of his others

I also listened to Le Noise today for the first time in over a year. There are some real classics on here, but some of the songs seem to have already aged badly to me. Mostly the heaviest ones... they often seem to have good choruses, or good verse parts, but are weighed down by awkward, off-kilter feeling riffs that lose the momentum of the song without percussion. A good example is Angry World, which is a fairly dark, powerful brooder, until it gets to the part where he's like, "yeeeaaahh it's an angry wooorld yeeaah" with this kind of dumb sounding guitar line following the melody.

i would revisit le noise for when you're more acquainted with the rest of his catalog

le noise's solo electric stuff makes more sense as a "ghost" of some older crazy horse stuff, in a way...

peaceful valley is pretty lovely

yeah, I already know a lot of the crucial stuff. everybody knows, gold rush, harvest, on the beach, zuma, comes a time, rust never sleeps, tonight's the night, harvest moon, sleeps with angels, prairie wind, living with war and a few others too that I can't remember now as well as the decade collection, some buffalo springfield stuff, and deja vu.

I loved Le Noise when it came out, I listened to it high when I was going to sleep for like 2 months straight my senior year. Some of it falls a little flat now for me. Same with Living with War. I played it to death in high school but now half the songs seem like clunkers. Weirdly, my first real exposure to full neil young albums was prairie wind and living with war and I have grown to understand more of his older stuff as I aged.

based on the absences from your list above, i'd reccommend spending some time with:
broken arrow
year of the horse
weld
ragged glory
time fades away
mirror ball
silver & gold


also check out this monster from the otherwise just-ok are you passionate:

i need to finally listen to the crazy horse album

both of them! (that is the 1971 s/t as well as Crazy Moon from 1978) definitely some awesome stuff

i honestly haven't listened to "loose" "at crooked lake" or "left for dead"

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...azyHorseCD.jpg


http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ybQxTZnFAV...razy+Horse.jpg

relevant in terms of rocking your god damn face off

Crazy Moon is an incredible album, i was blown away by it when i first got it, but then again for some reason i'm partial to Poncho's voice. Check out the show from 1975 when they played a few songs from that album, and it also has the early version of White Line for anyone interested in that. the recording is terrible but it's a cool sense of the show.

though then again, back to Crazy Horse albums, i think one of, if not the best Crazy Horse songs is Lady Soul from at Crooked Lake.

make sure you listen to The "RAW" version of Living With War since you seem to like his rockers, and it's a cool stripped down album with some excellent bass lines up front.

Are You Passionate? is probably in my top 5 just because i absolutely love his vocals on that album, and it has some versions of songs that were likely on Toast, which Neil Young said will come out. fingers crossed

i like to think that Silver and Gold would now be considered one of his best if he had included "Out of Control" and "Slowpoke" which probably would have landed on it had it not been for the 1999 CSNY album. Silver and Gold, check it out redbreegull, you'll probably like the songs "The Great Divide" and "Red Sun"

Sleep sWith Angels is painful to you Turalyon? i dunno, it has "A Dream That Can Last" "Change Your Mind" and "Driveby" which made it one of his i listen to a lot.

Old Ways original version in Archives 2!

no sleeps with angels was painful to cut from the top 10...check out my post again. it'd be in my top 15