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2 Neil Young - “Love And War” 05:38
3 Neil Young - “16 - Dance Dance Dance” 05:49
4 Neil Young - “Red Sun” 02:49
5 Neil Young - “Deep Forbidden Lake” 03:42
6 Neil Young & Crazy Horse - “Sleeps With Angels” 02:47
7 Neil Young - “11 - Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young , Only… 04:17
8 Neil Young - “Out On The Weekend” 04:35
9 Neil Young - “03 - Only Love Can Break Your Heart” 03:12
10 Neil Young - “09 - Entry Tuning - Mics - Last Night” 01:21
11 Neil Young - “Weight Of The World ” 05:36
12 Neil Young - “Cinnamon Girl” 03:01
13 Neil Young & Crazy Horse - “A Dream That Can Last” 05:30
14 Neil Young - “Natural Beauty” 10:24
15 Neil Young - “06 - Love In Mind” 02:48
16 Neil Young - “Without Rings” 03:42
17 Neil Young - “Beautiful Bluebird” 04:31
18 Neil Young - “Revolution Blues” 04:04
19 Neil Young - “14 - The Rent Is Always Due” 02:55
20 Neil Young - “Lotta Love” 02:52
21 Neil Young - “Falling From Above” 07:28
22 Neil Young - “Mr Soul” 02:37
23 Neil Young - “Human Highway (CSNY, Unreleased Stud… 03:02
24 Neil Young with Crazy Horse - “Lookin’ For A Love” 03:17
25 Neil Young - “Neil Young - BBC - Don’t Let it Bring Yo… 02:32
26 Neil Young - “Captain Kennedy” 03:00
27 Neil Young - “The Last Trip To Tulsa” 04:19
28 Neil Young - “Will To Love” 07:08
29 Neil Young with Crazy Horse - “Drive Back” 03:34
30 Neil Young - “11 - Bad Fog Of Loneliness” 03:28
31 Neil Young - “02 - Winterlong” 03:41
32 Neil Young & Crazy Horse - “Cortez The Killer” 07:33
33 Neil Young - “01 - Tell Me Why” 03:01
33 Neil Young - “01 - Tell Me Why” 03:01
34 Neil Young - “Albuquerque” 04:02
35 Neil Young - “Pocahontas” 03:20
36 Neil Young with Crazy Horse - “Barstool Blues” 03:01
37 Young, Neil - “Look out for my love” 04:06
38 Neil Young - “Sign Of Love” 03:59
39 Neil Young - “New Mama” 02:14
40 Neil Young - “Stayin’ Power” 02:23
41 Neil Young - “Mansion On The Hill” 06:15
42 Neil Young & Crazy Horse - “Blue Eden” 06:24
43 Neil Young - “Long May You Run” 05:23
44 Neil Young - “03 - Down by the River” 12:25
45 Neil Young - “Radio Spot for Neil Young” 00:56
46 Neil Young & Crazy Horse - “Farmer John” 04:15
47 Neil Young with Crazy Horse - “Walk Like a Giant” 16:30
48 Neil Young - “Comes a Time” 03:16
49 Neil Young - “What Did You Do To My Life?” 02:29
50 Neil Young - “Cocaine eyes” 02:46
51 Neil Young - “After The Gold Rush” 03:47
52 Neil Young - “Sail Away” 03:49
53 Neil Young - “Ambulance Blues” 08:57
54 Neil Young - “F*!#In’ Up” 07:10
55 Neil Young - “Eldorado” 06:06
56 Neil Young - “11 - Neil Young , Alabama” 04:07
57 Neil Young - “When Your Lonely Heart Breaks” 05:18
58 Neil Young - “Harvest” 03:12
59 Neil Young - “23 - Down To The Wire” 02:32
60 Neil Young - “The Emperor Of Wyoming” 02:20
61 Neil Young - “04 - Oh Lonesome Me” 04:03
62 Neil Young & Crazy Horse - “Surfer Joe And Moe The S… 04:20
63 Neil Young with Crazy Horse - “Don’t Cry No Tears” 02:36
64 Neil Young - “Hangin’ On A Limb” 04:20
65 Neil Young - “Winterlong” 03:09
65 Neil Young - “Winterlong” 03:09
66 Neil Young - “This Note’s For You (Live Apr. 13, 1988,… 05:55
67 Neil Young - “14 - See The Sky About To Rain” 04:06
68 Neil Young - “04 - Wonderin’” 03:36
69 Neil Young - “Come On Baby Let’s Go Downtown” 03:37
70 Neil Young - “Homegrown” 02:22
71 Neil Young - “Little Wing” 02:16
72 Neil Young - “Touch The Night” 04:31
73 Neil Young - “Transformer Man” 03:37
74 Neil Young & Crazy Horse - “Slip Away” 10:53
75 Neil Young - “Sedan Delivery” 04:40
76 Neil Young - “Farmer John” 05:01
77 Neil Young - “One Of These Days” 04:58
78 Neil Young - “Are You Passionate?” 05:09
79 Neil Young - “Prarie Wind” 07:35
80 Neil Young - “Burned” 02:16
81 Neil Young - “Radio Spot for Everybody Knows This Is… 00:53
82 Neil Young - “01 - Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere” 03:37
83 Neil Young - “Birds” 02:34
84 Young, Neil - “Peace of mind” 04:11
85 Neil Young - “Someday” 05:43
86 Neil Young - “Carmichael” 10:21
87 Neil Young - “08 - On the Way Home” 02:42
88 Neil Young - “04 - Journey Through The Past” 04:16
89 Neil Young - “Home On The Range” 02:58
90 Neil Young - “Blowin’ In The Wind” 06:50
91 Neil Young & Crazy Horse - “Over And Over” 08:29
92 neil young - “Powderfinger (Studio Acoustic)” 03:25
93 Neil Young - “06 - Cripple Creek Ferry” 01:37
94 Neil Young - “Neil Young - Hit The Road” 03:37
95 Neil Young - “Razor Love” 06:32
96 Neil Young with Crazy Horse - “Danger Bird” 06:55
97 Neil Young - “On The Beach” 07:00
97 Neil Young - “On The Beach” 07:00
98 Neil Young & Crazy Horse - “When You Dance I Can Re… 06:20
99 Neil Young - “10 - Country Girl” 05:14
1… Neil Young - “13 - David Crosby, Graham Nash & Neil… 03:23
1… Neil Young - “10 - Neil Young , Are You Ready For Th… 03:26
1… Neil Young & Crazy Horse - “South-ern Pac-i-fic” 04:13
1… Neil Young - “Roll Another Number” 05:22
1… Neil Young & Crazy Horse - “Prime Of Life” 04:05
1… Neil Young - “Neil Young - Singing A Song” 03:32
1… Neil Young with Crazy Horse - “Born in Ontario” 03:50
1… Neil Young - “02 - The Loner” 03:54
1… Neil Young - “There’s A World” 03:00
1… Neil Young with Crazy Horse - “Through My Sails” 02:41
1… Neil Young - “Captain Kennedy” 03:00
1… Neil Young - “Harvest Moon” 05:21
1… Neil Young & Crazy Horse - “Piece Of Crap” 03:16
1… Neil Young - “Bandit” 05:14
1… Neil Young - “For The Turnstiles” 03:16
1… Young, Neil - “Peace of mind” 04:11
1… Neil Young - “05 - Audience - Dope Song - Band Names” 03:00
1… Neil Young - “06 - Flying on the Ground Is Wrong” 03:59
1… Neil Young - “01 - Cinnamon Girl” 03:03
1… Neil Young - “07 - A Man Needs A Maid,Heart Of Gold… 06:40
1… Neil Young - “My My, Hey Hey (Out Of The Blue)” 04:12
1… Neil Young - “Rockin’ In The Free World (Live Acoustic… 04:43
1… Neil Young - “War Of Man” 05:44
1… Neil Young - “13 - Cowgirl In The Sand” 10:09
1… Neil Young - “Falling Off The Face Of The Earth” 03:36
1… Neil Young - “07 - Southern Man” 05:34
1… Young, Neil - “Four strong winds” 04:06
1… Neil Young - “Mr. Soul” 03:20
1… Neil Young & Crazy Horse - “Change Your Mind” 14:40
1… Neil Young - “The Painter” 04:37
1… Neil Young - “The Painter” 04:37
1… Neil Young - “Hitchhiker” 05:33
1… Neil Young - “Campaigner (Unedited, Unreleased Studi… 04:20
1… Neil Young - “Tonight’s The Night” 07:13
1… Neil Young - “Wrecking Ball” 05:10
1… Neil Young - “Thrasher” 05:40
1… Neil Young - “Inca Queen” 08:02
1… Neil Young with Crazy Horse - “Barstool Blues” 03:01
1… Neil Young - “Words (Between The Lines Of Age)” 06:41
1… Neil Young - “If I Could Have Her Tonight” 02:23
1… Neil Young - “Vampire Blues” 04:15
1… Neil Young - “I Believe In You” 03:28
1… Neil Young - “Good To See You” 02:50
1… Neil Young - “Spirit Road” 06:36
1… Neil Young - “Cortez The Killer” 09:48
1… Neil Young - “Star Of Bethlehem” 02:43
1… Neil Young - “Radio Spot for After The Goldrush” 00:58
1… Neil Young - “Till The Morning Comes” 01:21
1… Neil Young - “Sugar Mountain” 05:03
1… Neil Young - “Walk On” 02:43
1… Neil Young with Crazy Horse - “Psychedelic Pill (Altern… 03:13
1… Neil Young - “11 - Nowadays Clancy Can’t Even Sing” 05:25
1… Neil Young - “03 - Round And Round (It Won’t Be Long)” 05:57
1… Neil Young - “Love And Only Love” 09:20
1… Neil Young - “I’m The Ocean” 07:07
1… Neil Young - “Powderfinger” 05:44
1… Neil Young - “Welfare Mothers” 07:05
1… Neil Young - “Don’t Spook The Horse ” 07:37
1… Neil Young - “Borrowed Tune” 03:27
1… Neil Young & The Shocking Pinks - “Cry, Cry, Cry” 02:40
1… Neil Young with Crazy Horse - “Pardon My Heart” 03:48
1… Neil Young & Crazy Horse - “Rap-id Tran-sit” 04:38
1… Neil Young - “Saddle Up The Palomino” 03:02
1… Neil Young - “Act Of Love” 04:55
1… Neil Young - “Act Of Love” 04:55
1… Neil Young - “Ride My Llama” 02:31
1… Neil Young - “Buffalo Spingfield Again” 03:24
1… Neil Young - “Ordinary People” 18:14
1… Neil Young - “I Am A Child” 03:01

8. Neil Young - After The Goldrush
So much has been written about After The Goldrush. It was Neil’s 3rd album to bear his name after his Self-Titled debut and Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere. It was followed by Harvest. The 1-2-3 punch of EKTIN -> After The Goldrush and Harvest pretty much solidified his career. No matter how good or bad he has been over the years, the trifecta of these albums will always rescue his credibility. Even without factoring in Tonight’s The Night, or Comes A Time, or Zuma, or Rust Never Sleeps, or Ragged Glory. or Sleeps With Angels. Each of these being better than most other bands’ best.

After The Goldrush started out as a movie script written by Herb Berman and Dean Stockwell (who has appeared in a million films from 1945 through the present including Blue Velvet, Paris, Texas, Dune, Air force One, as well as an equivalant number to TV shows up to Brother Cavil in the remake of Battlestar Galactica which I didn’t know until I started writing this). It was an apocalyptic movie which was never made but the songs for the album were inspired from it. Not a whole lot is known about it but it has something to do with Tidal Waves in California and Spaceships which would explain the references in the Title Track.

The album is one of the most popular of Neil’s career. Probably due to the fact that it straddles the all out sonic attack of Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere (on songs such as When You Dance and Southern Man) with the more gentle sounds of Harvest which followed (on songs such as Oh, Lonesome Me, Tell Me Why and I Believe In You). Every song here is a classic and the album as a whole is exactly as it should be which is something that can be a problem with many of his other albums. The real gem on this one is Birds which is a touching, beautiful piano ballad. It has a fragile quality which can be found on other songs scattered throughtout his catalogue such as Little Wing from Hawks And Doves, Alburquerque and Borrowed Tune from Tonight’s The Night, On The Beach from On The Beach, Razor Love from Silver And Gold and Bandit from Greendale.

Apart from playing like a greatest hits album, the players are like a Neil’s greatest collaborationists. Nils Lofgrin was brought in to play piano which he didn’t really know how to play, Ralph Molina, Danny Whitten, and Billy Talbot from Crazy Horse, Jack Nitzsche and Stephen Stills longtime partners and David Briggs producing. Actually David Briggs is probably the most important person here along with Nitzsche. Briggs was the producer on almost every classic Neil Young album from 1968 until his death in 1995, including his Debut, Everybody Knows, On The Beach, Tonight’s The Night, Zuma, American Stars ‘N Bars, Comes A Time, Rust Never Sleeps, Re-ac-tor, Trans, Old Ways, Life, Ragged Glory and Sleeps With Angels. Oh, he also produced Live Rust, Weld and Unplugged, the former two which are considered by many to be two of the best live albums around by anyone (apart from Double Live - See entry number 3 on my list of top 10). It seems like Neil hasn’t been able to quite reach those heights since Briggs died of lung cancer. He was 51.

Here is a video of After The Goldrush from the Rust Never Sleeps Movie

Here is Don’t Let It Bring You Down from 1971

Anyway tonight is the first night of 3 in which Neil is playing at Massey Hall on his Chrome Dreams II tour. I wasn’t able to get tickets. They were selling online for $3500.

After The Goldrush charted at number 3 in Bob Mersereau’s book The Top 100 Canadian Albums.

2. Neil Young - On The Beach
As I mentioned yesterday I could have easily put many Neil Young albums on this list. My fascination with him began with Live Rust when I was 13 and from there I got into Harvest, After The Goldrush, Rust Never Sleeps, Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere and on and on. I try to see him live whenever he plays as he is always great, whether he is alone or with Crazy Horse or any other incarnation. On The Beach was a late entry into my pantheon of great Neil Young albums but it quickly became my favorites. The title track is my favorite Neil Young song. I’m proud to own this one on vinyl and I have yet to hear a single song from this album played live.

Read more information about this album at http://www.thrasherswheat.org/tnfy/otb.htm

1. Walk On
2. See The Sky About To Rain
3. Revolution Blues
4. For The Turnstiles
5. Vampire Blues
6. On The Beach
7. Motion Pictures
8. Ambulance Blues

This album was ranked #40 in The Top 100 Canadian Albums book by Bob Mersereau

Neil Young released Chrome Dreams II this month.
Here is some information regarding the original planned album of Chrome Dreams from back in 1977. These are some of the notes which can be found along with the album here.

Neil Young was on a creative high in 1975. By the end of the summer, Zuma was finished, though still not released.
Yet Neil carried on recording his new songs. Sometimes he recorded solo and sometimes with Crazy Horse.
Lots of these songs would remain unheard by the public until quite a while later, but by late ‘75, Neil had already written and recorded versions of such future classics as Like A Hurricane, Powderfinger, Sedan Delivery, Pocahontas and Ride By Llama.

He carried on recording in 1976. More great songs were put down on tape, such as Will To Love, Stringman and Campaigner.
Some of us may feel that the Long May You Run album with Stephen Stills robbed us of the natural successor to Zuma, but Stills always suspected that Neil was holding back his best stuff for his solo album.
That solo album was a work in progress throughout this period. Titles were reported in the press: Ride My Llama, In My Neighborhood, American Stars ëN Bars, Chrome Dreams.

When American Stars ëN Bars was released in 1977, Neil had scrapped most of the material heíd been recording since late í75, replacing much of it with a series of rough hewn cowboy songs.
Fun stuff to be sure, but had Neil committed the latest in a series of difficult to explain career suicides? Who else, except maybe Bob Dylan, would sit on a stash of such quality songs and not let the public hear them?

Tracks 1 to 12 of this compilation are thought to be the unreleased Chrome Dreams album, readied for release weeks before Neil recorded those country hoedowns and rethought his strategy.
Some of these song titles will be more than familiar to you, but the actual performances may surprise you.

The tracklist is:

01. Pocahontas
02. Will To Love
03. Star Of Bethlehem
04. Like A Hurricane
05. Too Far Gone
06. Hold Back The Tears
07. Homegrown
08. Captain Kennedy
09. Stringman
10. Sedan Delivery
11. Powderfinger
12. Look Out For My Love

Bonus Tracks:

13. River Of Pride (’White Line’, Unreleased Studio Version, 27 NOV 75)
14. Campaigner (Unedited, Unreleased Studio Version, Summer 1976)
15. No One Seems To Know (Live, Tokyo, Japan, 10 Mar 76)
16. Give Me Strength (Live, Chicago, IL, 15 Nov 76)
17. Peace Of Mind (Live, Chicago, IL, 15 Nov 76)
18. Human Highway (CSNY, Unreleased Studio Version, April 76)