Crazy Horse

Crazy Horse

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Track Listings
1. Cry Love 2. Silver and Gold 3. Wonderful 4. Crazy Horse 5. Machno 6. Too Hip, Too High 7. Nevada 8. Jorgelina in the Rain 9. Duele 10. Cult Song 11. I Remember Seeing You 12. Apalachicola 13. Miss Sweet Karma Jane 14. Raging Waters

Product Description
Atmospheric Folk- elements of folk, jazz, bluegrass, and classical, fused with poetry and storytelling.

Crazy Horse

Tracks:

Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere
Winterlong
Down By The River
Wonderin'
Come On Baby Let's Go Downtown
Cowgirl In The Sand

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For years, fans of Neil Young and Crazy Horse have been waiting for an official chance to hear Crazy Horse live with original leader Danny Whitten, the insanely talented guitarist who died of a heroin overdose in late 1972, inspiring Tonight's the Night. Tuned-in fans have been awaiting this very set for at least a dozen years, as it was originally to be tacked onto the end of a Decade-style triple CD of outtakes. Thankfully, this well-recorded live set from the infamous Fillmore East was well worth the wait. Here are scorching, extended takes of "Down by the River," "Winterlong," and "Cowgirl in the Sand," each propelled by guitar interplay so delightful you have to keep rewinding to hear it again. In fact, bits of it seem to prefigure the ways that Richard Lloyd and Tom Verlaine would feed off each other in the band Television, only with less of a sweet edge. But the world doesn't need any more arguments that Young was a proto-punk; what the world does need is at least a dozen more releases from Neil's archives! And hopefully, with this awesome live album, the floodgates have truly been opened and there are many more to come, in the vein of Dylan's Bootleg series. This disc is worth it alone for the version of "Wondering," a tune not officially recorded until many years later in Neil's weird '80s rockabilly phase. --Mike McGonigal

Album Description

The first release of Neil Young's archive performance series.

Customer Reviews:

Lower the price or finish the show!.......2007-06-09

I don't care how many times I've blasted "Everyone Knows This is Nowhere" and "Down By The River" from this CD and thoroughly enjoyed them or how it's such a great look into a critical period of so many critical periods of such an amazing aritist...it's either over priced or more profoundly too lacking in sheer length. As a Neil fan I had to get it but it's hard not to feel slightly ripped off. Makes me skeptical about buying further such releases.

Don't question the Master and buy it!.......2007-05-30

I also have the 2-10-70 bootleg and feel that a comparison is in order to appreciate this Fillmore show. Neil's very intimate with the crowd at the Cincinatti show, but frustrated at times, even asking two people to be quiet so he can "get into it" for the rest of the audience. Then, at the beginning of the electric set Neil complains about a shock that he's getting from the equipment, and in the middle of "Down by the River" (18 minutes long!) he clearly says "I quit" during the chorus. So, that show is not going to be one of his favorites even if the music is amazing. It is a shame that this Fillmore release is missing the acoustic set and the ubiquitous "Cinnamon Girl" closer, which I heard was not as well preserved. However, what is here is the best sounding live Neil you have ever heard! It's not just the quality of the recording, either, which is rich, but the band itself. Let's take the "River" as our vehicle of comparison. Neil's voice has more inflection, his solos are more varied and aggressive, and despite being 12 minutes long it is a superior version. Also, instead of "It Might Have Been" from Cincinatti we get "Cowgirl" which blows the studio version away. Obviously, Neil felt better at the Fillmore show, so don't question the Master and treat yourself.

Live at the Fillmore East - Classic Crazy Horse.......2007-05-13

If you want a piece of Neil Young and Crazy Horse History, this is the ticket. Sure it might not be the whole concert and it is short compared to most CDs today, but I'll take quality over quanity anyday! The sound quality is fantastic!

Neil Young and Crazy Horse Live at Fillmore East .......2007-05-06

Neil Young and Crazy Horse are brilliant. It is a live version of " Everybody Knows this is Knowhere" The version of "Winterlong" is superb" There is little crowd noise. I would have enjoyed more tracks on the CD. All in all well worth the purchase price

Long Lost Neil Young Live Returns and SHINES!.......2007-04-12

Amzing this collection is. A must have along with Live at Massey Hall. Neil sounds like you remember especially if you saw him with Crazy Horse at the late Bill Graham's Fillmore East a favorite with the hippies in New Yorks Greenwich Village in the late sixties time of flower and beads! . A young Neil Young voice, rather than the mature version that comes with age and mileage. An incredible collection of well produced and well performed live tracks that can only bring you back to thw Woodstock era. Well worth the listen!

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Old enough to change your name
sound quality not good
a suggestion
A Classic----Everybody Knows
an absolute rock and roll classic.

Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere
Neil Young & Crazy Horse
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Tracks:

Cinnamon Girl
Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere
Round And Round (It Won't Be Long)
Down By The River
The Losing (When You're On)
Running Dry (Requiem For The Rockets)
Cowgirl In The Sand

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Opening with the methodical, hard-rocking "Cinnamon Girl"--still one of the singer-songwriter's most-hollered requests in concert--Young's second solo album introduces the cockeyed harmonies and sloppy, chiming guitars of Crazy Horse. His wide swings from soft-spoken country-folk ("Round & Round [It Won't Be Long]") to menacing metal (the punch line to "Down by the River" is "I shot my baby") indicate the multiple personalities in Young's future. His second album of 1969 broadcasts a sincere passion for the peace-and-love '60s (dig the long guitar solos) but also predicts the dark introspection of "Tonight's the Night." --Steve Knopper

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Old enough to change your name.......2007-07-19

From the opening seconds of "Cinnamon Girl," it is quite apparent this is not the same young man who offered the searching, uncertain "Neil Young" only months prior. This, the second album from former Buffalo Springfield songwriter, is a dark masterpiece full of beautiful imagery, and lush guitar solos that are dripping with sheer emotion. The production quality is distinctly more loose on this album, allowing the interplay of Young and the newly-named Crazy Horse to shine through in a way that still sounds revolutionary today.

The fact that songs like "Round and Round" are present on this album serve as a bit of a legend for the rest of Young's career. On one hand, you have the dark, hard-rocking band frontman, and on the other you have a sensitive song-craftsmen who molds melodies the way a skilled carpenter does cabinets. This dichotomy will become more and more apparent (and more polarizing) on subsequent Young releases, but here, it simply shows two sides to one of the most deservingly celebrated artists in rock history.

sound quality not good.......2007-06-12

The sound quality did not sound as good as my old album.

a suggestion.......2007-05-30

You know what i think would be great?
If they gave this album one of those "Deluxe Edition" jobs like they've
done with so many others such as the first Weezer album and Blind Faith and on and on. Out-takes,demo's,alternate takes/mix's....it would all be catnip to the millions who love this album.
Actually, now that i think of it....if a "Deluxe Edition" job isn't possible, they could make a nice pairing of this along with the Neil and Crazy Horse at The Fillmore 1970 CD. That would be pretty deluxe!

A Classic----Everybody Knows.......2007-05-14

While sniffing around in the wine cellar, I looked into my considerable archive of music and this one, inexplicably, shuffled it's way off the shelf into my bony hands. Some people say that it's Universal Force and Enlightenment that did it. I suspect Guido from the empty bottles. In any event- it is an excellent choice.
What can one say about this album? Neil Young expanded beyond Buffalo Springfield with this one and, I think, came into his own as a considerable artist in his own right. With Crazy Horse, he examined and extended his creativity with pastoral landscapes, jagged-edged cliffs, outerworldly musings, and just plain country meets city sensibility. Not that it always makes sense, but that people is the magic of music. Interpretation is up to you, not the artist.
Even now, I am awed by the consistency Neil displays so early in his solo career. We are never relaxed, for one moment, that the sequence of songs will resemble sameness in any shape or form. It begins with "Cinnamon Girl" which, in some way, reveals the dilemma that many young people have a problem with. That is the in-between phase of being a child and adult. He wants to spend his life with her, but then again, "Ma, send me money". The need to be free but not quite there yet. This theme reveals itself in many of his tunes. It is a slow rocker but with such a memorable riff. Next up "Everybody Knows", a jumpy, sprightly groove that, again, reveals where he's at - between a dream and reality- essentially nowhere.
"Round and Round" is a slow acoustic sadness that, I feel at least, is about loss. A loss of yourself? Or perhaps someone close. "Down By the River", aside from allowing Neil to stretch his jagged lead guitar, proposes another dilemma for the astute listener. The protagonist is lead to possibilities with this woman - but is her non-compliance a reason to shoot her? Down by the River? An enigmatic song at best and I dare not ask Neil the meaning.
We then get to "The Losing End" which reveals an easy-going country groove with some electric guitars helping it along. The theme? Good ol' country heartache. A mainstay in that genre - now and always. The mood then changes, into some outerworldly, ethereal regret and deception. This song reveals a darkness of the mind, and this is brought forth so effectively with the inclusion of violins. An eerie offering, but so very different.
"Cowgirl in the Sand", I think, is one of Neil's most potent songs. It can be taken on many levels. It is hard drivin' (but, it takes on a whole new perspective if you heard him do the acoustic version). Neil pleads with her to stay in her company. But, her place of command is the desert. Desolation. And, this song tries, desperately, to make her see her worth. Neil knows she is a beauty. She feels she is "purple words on a gray background". I feel that this song is an aching plea. It also allows Neil to experiment with lead guitar breaks, gritty and rough and insistent on it's purpose. In all, a brilliant conclusion to a brilliant album.
This album (plus the next two- After the Gold Rush and Harvest) complete the superb triumvirate of Neil's early career. As we know now, he was to go on to more creative terrain. Some of it successful, some of it not so. In any event, plain and simple, he is an amazing artist and, I think, one of the greats in popular music.
This one is definitely a classic and well worth the investment.
Now - if only Guido would replenish my bottles!

Your personal roadmap to reflection and music of worth--Metamorpho

an absolute rock and roll classic........2007-03-30

"tonight's the night" is my favorite neil young album. what's number two, though? "on the beach," "after the gold rush," or "everybody knows this is nowhere." hard to choose from those three great albums. might be "everybody knows..." though. such great songs. such stunning performances. "down by the river" and "cowgirl in the sand" have some of the most originally stunning guitar jams in the history of rock and roll. and the first of those two songs is simply about as haunting a piece of work as you will find in all of the rock and roll canon. "cinnamon girl," with its power chords and great melody is another classic. the whole album is just outrageously fantastic. don't miss it.

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so good
Rust Never Sleeps
Captain Crunch
Picks up right where Zuma left off!
No rust on these songs

Rust Never Sleeps
Neil Young & Crazy Horse
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ASIN: B000002KDG
Release Date: 1990-10-25

Tracks:

My My, Hay Hay (Out Of The Blue)
Thrasher
Ride My Llama
Pocahontas
Sail Away
Powderfinger
Welfare Mothers
Sedan Delivery
Hey Hey, My My (Into The Black)

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Young has recorded many live albums, but none capture his two dominant musical personalities with as much power as 1979's Rust Never Sleeps. The acoustic side opens with "My, My, Hey, Hey (Out of the Blue)," a devastating anthem about the state of rock & roll. Comparing the Sex Pistols' Johnny Rotten to the late Elvis Presley, Young delivers perhaps his most famous line: "It's better to burn out than to fade away." Side 2 demonstrates the emotional power of Young's hard-rocking quartet, Crazy Horse, with the scathing political songs "Powderfinger," "Welfare Mothers," and the loud reprise of "My, My, Hey, Hey." --Steve Knopper

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so good.......2007-06-22

First let me mention that John Morgan's review below was an exciting read. I love those kind of reviews!

My review won't be as good, but I want to give a shout out to a very good rock artist- Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers. Whoops, I meant, Neil Young and Crazy Horse. hehe

Rust Never Sleeps was a very popular record for Neil Young back in the late 70's. My dad thinks it was Neil's most popular album, but I can't say whether there's any truth to that.

Anyway, everyone knows track one. It's great. A dark, creepy and interesting tune that one is. "Thrasher" is almost straight-up country, and it's very good. I enjoy it. "Pocahontas" almost brings me to tears with its amazing beauty, along with "Sail Away".

After that, the album starts rocking out. Funny how it's a gradual build. "Powderfinger" shows what's straight ahead- hard rock dominated by none other than guitars. "Welfare Mothers" is catchy and "Sedan Delivery" is an acquired taste, but numerous plays reveals a highly enjoyable song. It's strangely written, which might turn people off at first. "Hey Hey My My (Into the Black)" is like the first song but with heavy guitars thrown in, painting a darker image.

Neil at his best? Maybe.

Rust Never Sleeps.......2007-05-07

If you are a Neil Young fan, this is a must for your collection. Every song is great!

Captain Crunch.......2007-03-02

My wife and I were in the garage not too long ago and "we" decided that we would thin out my CD collection...actually, my wife decided and I just did the customary head nod, "Yes, dear...whatever you say, dear..." So she was going through it at breakneck speed and the "toss out" pile was growing increasingly larger than "keep" pile. I think I broke out of whatever hypnotic trance I was in when I saw her carelessly toss Neil Young's classic, Rust Never Sleeps in the discard pile.

"Hey, whaddaya think you're doing?"

"Oh, John, for God's sakes it's only Neil Young..."

The hackles on my neck immediately began to raise and my face got three shades redder, "Only Neil Young? I will have you know that this particular CD is a classic."

"Classic garbage..."

I grabbed the CD out of her hand and ripped out the Best of Abba (my wife's idea of classic music) out of the boom box and put this baby in. She sat there patiently listening to all the songs and after it was over all she could say was, "He's quite a whiner, isn't he?"

I took the CD out of the player and went inside and like a sulky teenager went in my room and put it in my CD player in the bedroom and put my headphones on and put on Hey Hey, My My on repeat and just let the King of the Fuzz guitar take me to deeper and deeper levels. Neil Young was crunching cords and distorting notes long before Nirvanna, Pearl Jam, or any other "grunge" group came on the scene. Neil Young needs his backup band Crazy Horse just like Crazy Horse needs him.

After the 12th listen my wife gently knocked on the bedroom door. "I want to apologize to you, John. I really didn't think you liked Neil Young that much. As a truce I made you a banana split."

I accepted the apology, the banana split and I got to keep my CD, but the next day I went looking for my Blue Oyster Cult CDs only to find out that they got tossed along with my favorite Hawaiin shirt...

Does anyone know of a good divorce lawyer?

Picks up right where Zuma left off! .......2007-01-30

The acoustic side contains his best folk song Thrasher, which is about CSN. The electric side has one of his best underrated rockers Welfare Mothers.

No rust on these songs.......2007-01-07

Rust never sleeps is a great accoustic electric mix.Mymy heyhey was a statement about rock at the time. Thrasher is one of Neils best. Ride my lima is clever good imagry. Pochahontas is abot the native american experence great song, Sailaway is pretty. Powderfinger is the best electric song. Wellfare mothers is good Sedan delivery is agreat fast rocker Heyhey mymy has real good electric guitar. Rust never sleeps is Neil young and Crazyhorse at their best.

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My Second Favorite Neil Young Album
strong neil young release.
There Comes A Time Neil will change again when you least expect it
Polished Young
It's a Classic

Comes a Time
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Tracks:

Goin Back
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Look Out For My Love
Lotta Love
Peace Of Mind
Human Highway
Already One
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Often overlooked as it comes between Young's career-defining 1977 three-LP set Decade and the decade-ending Rust Never Sleeps, Comes a Time is a gentle album that includes some of Young's most soft-spoken material. "Lotta Love" became a hit for Nicolette Larson, who adds harmonies throughout the album, and tracks such as "Look Out for My Love" and "Human Highway" are indicative of Young's divergent styles. With four producer credits, six studio listings, an orchestra, and Crazy Horse all on the same album, Comes a Time is an interesting pastiche of all the things that make Young tick. Lacking his usual conceptual thrust, you'll just have to settle for some great songs. --Rob O'Connor

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My Second Favorite Neil Young Album.......2007-07-06

Neil is amazing in how he succeeded in bands (Buffalo Springfield, CSNY) and as a solo act. Then, he can succeed as an electric rocker or a gentle acoustic folkie.

I like so much of his work, but Everybody Knows This is Nowhere remains my favorite. Close on its heels, though, is Comes A Time. Brilliant and thoughtful songs that establish a mood and a place, except for the odd "Motorcycle Mama" which is best omitted.

strong neil young release........2007-02-10

this is a somewhat neglected album from neil young that is among his strongest overall sets. except for the rocking "motorcycle mama," this is a gentle cycle of songs, laid-back and pleasing in its entirety. if you are a neil young fan and don't yet have this, get it quick. if you have no neil young cds (really?) this is a fine place to start digging his quieter side.

There Comes A Time Neil will change again when you least expect it.......2007-01-30

Good album. Plays like Harvest Part 2, but more polished. Contains a few leftover Crazy Horse tracks that sound out of place here.

Polished Young.......2006-11-22

Comes a Time is arguably Young's most polished and commercially astute album. It combines the dark, anarchic artistry that sets him apart from his talented colleagues Crosby, Stills, and Nash with the songcraft and production skills they possess, skills that Young shares, but which he only chooses to demonstrate on occasion. An example of this combination from the album is "Look Out for My Love," one of Young's finest compositions. Comes a Time appears almost effortless, but its value is highlighted when set beside his later "follow-ups" to Harvest, Old Ways and Harvest Moon, which, apart from significantly weaker songs and lyrics, appear forced in comparison.

It's a Classic .......2006-08-31

You can't go wrong with this classic Neil. Not to mention the very reasonable price for a cassette which works in my 1997 vehicle!

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Quintessential Neil Young...
Zuma my review
Don't cry no tears around Neil, this is his BEST!
Like Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere's little brother
cuando lo sencillo no deja de ser grandioso.....

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If Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere and Ragged Glory are the two finest studio albums Neil Young recorded with Crazy Horse, Zuma certainly qualifies as a close third. Recorded in 1975, Zuma exudes both a sense of focus and a tentative optimism, two qualities that were completely MIA from the bleak Time Fades Away/Tonight's the Night/On the Beach trilogy that preceded it. "Barstool Blues," "Don't Cry No Tears," and "Drive Back" are terse, punchy rockers, while "Danger Bird" and "Cortez the Killer" are extended guitar workouts in the grand Crazy Horse tradition. And the two acoustic entries--"Pardon My Heart" and "Through My Sails" (the latter was recorded with Crosby, Stills & Nash)--are absolutely gorgeous. Ignore the crappy cover art, and treat yourself to one of Young's most underrated records. --Dan Epstein

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Quintessential Neil Young..........2007-07-25

Heralded on its release in 1975 as a long awaited "return to form" by those yearning for another "Harvest", "Zuma" is a much richer and wilder album which, on the way, showcases Neil Young's music in all its mercurial, often brilliant but rambling glory. Veering from the heavy metal grunge of "Drive Back", through the searingly powerful, wonderfully controlled guitar-work on "Cortez the Killer", the bizarrely addled incantations of "Barstool Blues", the foot-tapping country of "Lookin' for a Love", to the perfect MOR harmonies of "Through My Sails", it exemplifies what's made him so good but so frustratingly difficult to follow. And, up there with any of his better recordings, it's not only essential for any Neil Young fan but an excellent "next step" for anyone wanting to explore beyond "After The Goldrush", "Harvest" or his "Greatest Hits" albums.

Four stars then? Well yes, but not enough, because in here is a hidden gem... an outstanding, perfectly formed track that sums up what makes Neil Young worth the effort. Rarely played and missing from virtually all of the "Best of" lists of his songs it is, for me at least, one of the most quietly beautiful, ecstatically reflective and unforgettable pieces of acoustic music ever made. "Pardon My Heart"... worth the price of the album on its own.

Zuma my review.......2007-02-14

Zuma is one of the best Neil Young and Crazy Horse discs. Danger Bird and Cortez the killer are two of the best electric songs for Neil Cortez is real impressive. Driveback dont cry no tears Barstool blues lookin for alove are good Both accoustic songs are great Pardon my heart and Through my sails both have good vocals and harmony.

Don't cry no tears around Neil, this is his BEST!.......2007-01-30

This is Neil's best album and the most underrated album in Rock!
Highlights are...
Danger Bird- epic guitar song, dark!
Barstool Blues- great song that no one has heard
Stupid Girl-About Joni Mitchell?
Drive Back- Punk attitude song
Cortez The Killer- The Best Neil song, period.
Through My Sails- druggy CSNY outake from the disaster 1974 Hawaii sessions, great.

Like Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere's little brother.......2006-10-21

It's funny, since Zuma is probably the closest thing to a traditional rock album Mr. Young's done (a TRULY traditional rock album would be impossible for this guy), you'd think I like it more than I do. Don't get me wrong, there's good stuff here. But too often the guy settles for mediocrity.
First, the good. Cortez the Killer is my favorite here, the song friggin' rocks, a lengthy guitar jam a la Down By the River, Cowgirl in the Sand and the then-upcoming Like a Hurricane. I've heard some people don't like Neil's guitar playing, I say listen to this one and you'll get blown away. If the three-and-a-half minute intro doesn't grab you, you're not a Neil Young fan. What else is good? My second favorite song is Barstool Blues, another great rock song. Plus I like Don't Cry No Tears and the other long guitar showpiece, Danger Bird.
But the rest isn't quite up to the Neil Young Standard. He often settles for generic love songs (a la Pardon My Heart and Lookin' for a Love). Either that, or he suddenly becomes immature (Stupid Girl, which is, well... stupid). Through My Sails has some nice harmonies, being CSN related, but it's not much outside of that, and Drive Back is a generic rocker saved only by Neil's guitar fireworks.
It's a respectable album, far better than the vastly overrated Harvest and spotty debut. But compared to On the Beach, After the Gold Rush, Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere or Tonight's the Night, it falls apart. I suppose you should buy it, just don't expect anything near a masterpiece.

cuando lo sencillo no deja de ser grandioso............2006-10-14

ONCE THERE WAS A FRIEND OF MINE / WHO DIED A THOUSAND DEATHS...AH, VIEJO NEIL...GUITARRAS QUE SE CRUZAN UNA Y MIL VECES, ENREDANDOSE CON PALABRAS SIMPLES, ANGUSTIA, SOLEDAD, ESPERA Y LAGRIMAS...its a sad communication with little reason to believe, when one isn't giving and pretends to receive...carente de mataforas y colmado de sencillez, desbordante de frescura y pletorico de verdades, este disco no puede esperar a que lo escuches!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Consider the DVD
Live rust my review
Awesome
Greatest Live Ever
fade away so young, with so much left undone

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Tonight's The Night

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Mere months passed between the release of Neil Young's mid-career milestone Rust Never Sleeps and this 1979 tour recording, which documents a late-'78 San Francisco performance. Indeed, Live Rust boasts four songs from the album that gave it its name. It's also sequenced in the same spirit as its studio sibling. As with Rust Never Sleeps, Live Rust opens with steady-flowing acoustic numbers before swirling into an electric vortex. What was side 4 off the original two-record version--"Like a Hurricane," "Hey, Hey, My, My," and "Tonight's the Night"--is arguably Young and Crazy Horse at their peak as a live unit, with all due respect to 1991's estimable Weld and 1997's desultory Year of the Horse. Few rock bands rank with Young and his stalwart electric trio, and Live Rust presents them in all their raging glory. --Steven Stolder

Customer Reviews:

Consider the DVD.......2007-02-26

After reading Garbageman's review, where he points out the butchering of "Cortez", I decided instead to pick up the DVD "Rust never sleeps". It is the same concert (Oct 22, 1978), and as I write this, costs exactly the same as this CD. It includes the complete Cortez, a few extra songs (Thrasher, Welfare Mothers, Tonight's The Night), and of course, visuals (which are sometimes tacky, it must be said). The audio of course uses a lossy codec, but I find it excellent -- with a 5.1 system it will probably be superior to the CD. And if you want the CD anyway, it is "fair use" in most countries to rip the audio and burn a CD for your own private use.

I haven't heard the CD: I give it 3 stars because Amazon requires some sort of rating, the DVD gets 5 stars, and the truncated Cortez would be sufficient to take away two stars for me.

Live rust my review.......2007-02-02

Live rust starts off great with Sugar mountain the best of the accoustc songs. Iam achild and After the goldrush are better than the studio versions. All the electric songs are great Like a hurricne Tonights the night and Cinnamon girl are better than the studio. I like Cortez the killer too The loner and when you dance are great to me every thing but Lotta love is great on here. This is like Neil Young and Crazyhorses greatest hits till 1979 with extra kick,

Awesome.......2006-07-20

Not going to comment on another reviewer's complaints about the sound quality compared to the vinyl - never heard it on vinyl and not qualified to compare.

But the music is awesome. It's pure angry beauty, Hurricane sounds better here than anywhere else, ever, except MAYBE Weld. (Weld's great too!) I Am A Child...Sugar Mountain...Needle and the Damage Done (his perf at the Grammies a while back of this was great)...all amazing songs.

Young is the genius.

Greatest Live Ever.......2006-04-28

MOst of the time I offer opinions in reviews. This time I am simply going to state a "fact." Live Rust is the GREATEST live record in existence. Nothing comes within 200 million lightyears of it. The songs chosen are perfect for the set, the performances stellar, and the music otherwordly. The last quarter of the album is the highlight of the divine Neil Young's career.

fade away so young, with so much left undone.......2006-04-14

This album is excellent. The opening of this CD is more acoustic and laid back and in the second half Young and Crazy Horse rock out. I have lots of memories listening to this album with friends either in the car or out drinking when we camped. My personal favorites are Powderfinger, Comes a Time, Needle and the damage done/Lotta love and Sedan Delivery. If you really love Neil Young though i'd buy "on the beach" if you don't already own it and you call yourself a Young fan you gotta buy that before this. Overall a solid album with Live Rust though.

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Distorted, deranged pulchritude
Ferocious...and better than "Live Rust"
Good, but not as good as Live Rust
I'm the guy who yells "POWDERFINGER!" at the beginning of Disc 2
A Showcase of Grunge

Weld (2 disc set)
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Arc

ASIN: B000002LQM
Release Date: 1991-10-22

Tracks:

Hey Hey, My My (Into The Black)
Crime In The City
Blowin' In The Wind
Welfare Mothers
Love To Burn
Cinnamon Girl
Mansion On The Hill
F*!#in' Up

Tracks:

Cortez The Killer
Powderfinger
Love And Only Love
Rockin' In The Free World
Like A Hurricane
Farmer John
Tonight's The Night
Roll Another Number

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Live Rust gets the most props, but if you're looking for a live document of Neil Young and Crazy Horse at their speaker-shredding, stage-scorching best, Weld is an absolute must-own. Fired up by the success of 1990's Ragged Glory, and outraged by the eruption of the Gulf War, Young and his cohorts attacked their 1991 tour like men on a suicide mission. An angry, gunshot-laced version of Dylan's "Blowin' in the Wind" is the closest thing here to an acoustic reverie; the rest of the album offers up staggeringly intense electric versions of Neil songs both current ("Crime in the City," "Love to Burn," "Rockin' in the Free World") and classic ("Cortez the Killer," "Cinnamon Girl," "Powderfinger"). The back-cover photo of a disheveled Young cradling a broken-stringed guitar pretty much says it all--no one could have unleashed a sonic onslaught this brutal, and emerged unscathed from the experience. --Dan Epstein

Customer Reviews:

Distorted, deranged pulchritude.......2007-06-29

"This is the story of Johnny Rotten" - no s#it; "Rockin' In The Free World" - nihilistic, sarcastic, unforgiving - could have oozed outta PiL's Album (remember "Home"). On Weld, classic NY&CH epics get nailed SHUT. And it's all done with wrists - no whammy bars on these abused Gibsons. All those gnarly Cheap Thrills' leads blast outta the crypt.

Urban dystopia inflicted. "Welfare Mothers" and "Crime In The City" (the latter among Young's most barbed, and lucid, storytelling) drag the listener into fierce noise and despairing nihilism. Then, the humanism erupts with "Blowin' In The Wind," a sure Hendrix phantasm. Hippie frisson abounds on "Cortez The Killer" and "Roll Another Number" - succumb.

It's also "grunge." Jad Fair might have written "Like A Hurricane" - if he possessed the endorphins. To the point, it's all about Crazy Horse; they can play Madison Square Garden like a St. Louis bowling alley. Every fuzztoned note is blood, telepathy, exorcism. A cluster of unfortunate observations, made euphoric.

Ferocious...and better than "Live Rust".......2007-05-05

Very few live albums are as angry and snarling as this live set. Crazy Horse never sounded better, and Young--angry at the outbreak of the Gulf War in '91--unleashes a set of songs, some old, some new (what an amazing cover of "Blowin' in the Wind"!!) that more or less define the grunge attitude in the early 90s. Coupled with the 30 minute feedback montage "Arc", this double disk set is positively breathtaking. You can just feel the energy and volume. Wish I coulda been there...

Good, but not as good as Live Rust.......2007-02-08

I don't understand how people think this is better than Live Rust. It's good, but not as good as reviews would lead me to believe. Some songs are great, but others kinda drag. Love the Album Ragged Glory, but the live versions of songs from that album aren't as good as the studio versions.

I'm the guy who yells "POWDERFINGER!" at the beginning of Disc 2.......2006-04-28

If you listen to this CD, my voice can be heard... When I saw Neil and Horse live in L.A., I yelled "Powderfinger", "Powderfinger", two times... I really wanted to hear that song. Then, right after, the song "Cortez the Killer" began... I turned to my friend and said: "Oh, cool... Powderfinger will be next because they always play those songs together". On this CD, which is partly recorded in L.A., right before the song CORTEZ THE KILLER you can hear a voice... that is me... yelling "Powderfinger" twice. And that, my friends, is my fifteen seconds of fame... Or rather, seven seconds. This CD, other than the stud yelling on disc 2, is very good, and is much better than YEAR OF THE HORSE that came out a few years later. I also like it better than RUST NEVER SLEEPS 'cept that that CD has acoustic stuff... I'll put it this way; WELD is my favorite live CD of Crazy horse electric tunes. And don't bother getting ARC or ARC/WELD because ARC is just a bunch of feedback and is kinda annoying, and I like feedback. Anyhow... "POWDERFINGER! POWDERFINGER!"

A Showcase of Grunge.......2006-02-12

There is just no other artist that sings like Neil Young, that plays a guitar like Neil Young, or that covers so many various styles as Neil Young -- from gentle country rock (exemplified by his latest film Heart of Gold) to the angriest and hardest grunge. Weld showcases Young & Crazy Horse at their hardest, loudest, and grungiest. Young's extended distortion drenched guitar solos are riveting and jaw-dropping. Young unleashed. But be forewarned, this album is not for the faint of heart. It must be played loud!

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It's Not Grunge
RAMshackle crASH!
solid listen
The title sums it up better than any words I can say
The best in an incredible career...

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Weld (2 disc set)

ASIN: B000002LMK
Release Date: 1990-08-31

Tracks:

Country Home
White Line
F*!#in' Up
Over and Over
Love To Burn
Farmer John
Mansion On The Hill
Days That Used To Be
Love and Only Love
Mother Earth (Natural Anthem)

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After a long period of unfocused weirdness, Young spotted grunge around the corner and declared unity with the loud, scruffy sounds coming from Seattle. The countryish ballads, such as the opening "Farmer John," get roaring Crazy Horse treatment, and the headbanging "F*!#in' Up" is the most self-effacing rock anthem since the Who recorded "I'm a Boy." Amid the clatter, though, there is beauty: Crazy Horse's sympathetic backup vocals turn "Mansion on the Hill" into a pretty pop song despite the electric guitars, and even the white noise that closes the 1990 album is soothing in a scream-therapy kind of way. --Steve Knopper

Customer Reviews:

It's Not Grunge.......2007-07-12

I am on board with so many of the reviewers here who love Neil, find this among his best work, and cite how hard it rocks.

All true.

But it's lyrical and melodic and powerful and adult and moody and wistful in ways that grunge can never approach. Grunge is little more than garage rock with better amps, and it does not do justice to Neil to call him grunge or compare him to grunge. Men and boys, what that is.

I need to listen a lot more to say that this surpasses Everybody Knows This is Nowhere, but I can mention it in the same breath. The playing is probably better, but I don't know if the tunes are.

No Neil Young fan should miss this collection.

RAMshackle crASH!.......2007-06-25

Cryptic, misanthropic, ascetic, solipsistic, deliver of bad news, indirectly romantic, slightly stoned and resilient as all hell, Neil Young, middle-aged hippiepunk, throws down with the "world's 3rd greatest garage band" and, David Briggs managing the sound (his blistering best mix), it all careens together loud and slouchy like a mythically cool afterschool basement jam. The guitar solos are merciless, the beat is tipsy, the bass is pus, the chords are melancholy, the lyrics are passive-aggressive and Young's singing is desperate. The overall vibe is utterly cathartic. So supersimple, it's amazing (any) grown men can do this sort of sensitive, disturbed BOY thing.

Beautiful - and nasty.

solid listen.......2007-04-09

Ragged Glory is perhaps Neil Young's best album, and that's really saying something considering I own and love Rust Never Sleeps.

I can't help it- the overall sound of Ragged Glory is that of hard rock and a distint, muddy rock sound buried in the mix. It really works. Sometimes you hear these muddy guitars playing behind a country-sounding song and Neil's vocal work, while other times they're playing behind melodic, lengthy jams. A really good album here, folks. Nothing else like it.

The title sums it up better than any words I can say.......2007-02-22

To me, this is Neil's best post-'70's album. It rocks, a glorious mess of feedback, dissonance, and pure friggin' noise. A bit I could've done without (White Line; Over and Over; Farmer John; Days That Used to Be), but so much of this blows my mind that's beside the point. As usual, there are the extended guitar pieces that are PERFECT for Neil's undescribable technique - Country Home, Love to Burn and Love & Only Love, the big bad guitar showpieces, easily blow away Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin and others in terms of both sheer volume and sheer virtuosity. I love how Neil's making use of the 80 minutes on CD to show off his guitar skills, rather than padding the record out. A couple of the shorter songs also prove the Grandfather of Grunge was still alive and kickin' back in '91 (and still is today!): Mansion on the Hill and F*!#in' Up, which along with Barstool BLues is one of his funniest songs ever. Then there's Mother Earth (Natural Anthem), closes the album on a rockin', feedback-happy note while copping the melody of the old standard The Water Is Wide. What can I say? This really is something, that's what. Be sure to have this.

The best in an incredible career..........2006-11-03

Just the best album Neil ever put out, and maybe the best Crazy Horse ever sounded. In listening to Neil for almost 40 years, this is one album I have never gotten sick of - it just brings a rush whenever I hear it. I recently bought the cd for the third time (lost one, last one started to skip)- and it never sounded better.
Love and Only Love, IMO, the best song Neil ever put out. Right behind it are Love to Burn, Over and Over Again. Saw two shows in the Weld tour, and these songs were even better live (I'd give Weld 5 stars too)

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Uninteresting
Good, but Lisa Gerrard repeats herself
very relaxing
Corny, fake sounding Native American music

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Beautiful album.......2007-03-08

i was pleasantly surprised! Beautiful songs and they are not stereotypical native american musc as on reviewer suggested. my toddler chills to the album before he goes to bed.

Uninteresting.......2007-01-07

Like another reviewer stated, it sounds corny and fake. I must agree. Some of it is ok, but it sounds like commercialized North American Indian music, which I suppose it is.

Good, but Lisa Gerrard repeats herself.......2006-05-19

Dead Can Dance's former singer, Lisa Gerrard, sounds good (like she always does) on this album, yet she repeats herself, coming accross a LOT like she did in "Whale Rider". The oceanic-like quality to her music plays a central role in this soundtrack, and makes me a bit doubtful about future efforts, unless she begins to experiment a little more, like she did in her DCD days.

very relaxing.......2006-02-24

i heard two cuts from this album on a recent 'music from the hearts of space' broadcast last december. needless to say, lisa gerrard's vocals, and here combined with various indigenous north american arrangements, are stellar. i recommend this for those who are looking for ambient sounds to wind the day down. a subtle, powerful, modern collection of soundtrack compositions that is rooted in tradition. quite nice and i do plan on catching the short film next time i'm in DC.

Corny, fake sounding Native American music.......2005-12-17

I am a soundtrack fan, love a good soundtrack, and found this to be incoherent...the music sounded stereotypical and unoriginal. I love Lisa Gerard's contributions to the Gladiator soundtrack but here, her voice is lost in the music. I find this cd to be kind of irritating to listen to, rather than beautiful. I'm trading it in at the local used cd store asap.

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Bottom line: DVD is a ripoff
A big Improvement
Great CD-DVD ???
Some people just don't get it!!!!!!!!!!!
A Pretty Good Run

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ASIN: B000IU3Y3W
Release Date: 2006-11-14

Tracks:

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Album Description

The first release of Neil Young's archive performance series. DVD version includes high-resolution audio of album plus a photo montage.

Customer Reviews:

Bottom line: DVD is a ripoff.......2007-06-20

C'mon, get real for a minute. How many of you bought the DVD for the better sound quality? Now, how many of you bought the DVD version simply thinking that it had concert footage (and I don't mean "still" pictures)?

A big Improvement.......2007-05-13

This release is a big improvement to what was already largely available in the bootleg arena. These dates didn't circulate heavy but there was material available from this era. The sounds quality is excellent. Much has been made of the DVD imagery lacking, and it does, its rolling B&W pics. The DVD is all about the sound. The playing is just as good and its really nice to have vintage version of Winterlong and Wonderin'.

Great CD-DVD ???.......2007-05-12

The music's fantastic-the dvd is not much-just the same few photos over & over & over-c'mon!

Some people just don't get it!!!!!!!!!!!.......2007-05-08

All of the people who have dissed the dvd in this set as not being worth it, don't understand what the intent is. it is not a bonus extra with photos on it. it is a higher resolution music version of the cd.
cd's are recorded at 16 bits resolution and at a sampling rate of 44.1khz. the dvd is recorded at 24 bits of resolution and sampling rate of 48 or 96 khz. it does sound better!!!. i understand some people wont care, but for those of us that want the utmost in fidelity will want this version (provided that you have a dvd player instead of a cd player in your "music" system.) neil has been releasing albums in this form since warner brothers dropped the "dvd-audio format"(i wont even go into what that is, suffice it to say another specialized audio format) that neil embraced as well

A Pretty Good Run.......2007-04-30

Neil Young has been having a pretty good run these past few years. First, in the shadow of a medical crisis, Young created PRAIRE WINDS--one of the finest records he ever made and a more fitting companion to HARVEST than the otherwise excellent HARVEST MOON. M.S. then put together a good film of Young and his friends performing and the Ryman in Nashville. (This comes from someone who rarely cares for music videos.) These accomplishments were then followed by the dreadful LIVING WITH WAR.

Whether you share Young's passion or politics, LIVING WITH WAR had all the artistic grace of a political commercial one week before an election. Yes, album was the critics darling and it ended up on several *best album lists* for 2006; but the whole album has none of the power and cogency of Young's 1970 single *Ohio*. The artist is perfectly entitled to act as Young the pamphleteer. Nonetheless there is little of interest that will draw new listeners in the future.

2006, however, also saw a brighter highlight with this release from Young's massive archives. Like much of the folklore surrounding him, these recordings are so behind the scenes, so personal, so promised and hopes unfilled that fans and critics alike have began to suspect they would have to await Young's demise before these recordings would be released to the public at large. Therefore, Young faced the prospect that the *real thing* could not measure up to expectations.

First, we have to get the negative out of the way. The DVD is a complete disappointment. I thought we were going to be treated so some archival video footage. What we get is a series of about a dozen black and white photographs looped to the same audio tracts found on the CD. Who actually thought this would make anyone happy? These photographs can be found from several available sources. Less than zero points here.

Like many, I also have a bootleg copy of same live performance. Sonically LIVE AT THE FILLMORE EAST is vastly superior. Bootlegs tend to be clear as mud--especially those from the early 1970's. Unlike others, I do not complain about the missing songs that can be found on the unauthorized releases. In all likelihood, we will see these missing performances one day. More significantly, the improved clarity and definition really are that important.

By design or accident, this particular selection of songs draws one to focus on the interplay between Young and Crazy Horse. Aside from the odd love/hate musical relationship with Steven Stills, Young has had few partnerships as powerful as that he had with Danny Whitten. It was Young's great misfortune that Whitten would die of an overdose soon after these performances. Young would go on to create HARVEST. He would gather for himself a short lived household name; but he blamed himself for Whitten's death. This resulted in a depression he would endure for much of the rest of the 1970's.

*Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere* is a striking beginning to this electric set. Originally a minor but important song from the album of the same name, it has been translated well into a lively reinvention. To my ears, it has a similar arrangement style that would be found on HARVEST.

*Winterlong * has never been a favorite of mine. The lyrics are something of a dud with no emotional resonance. The power interpretation here does little to make it better.

*Wonderin'* is a better song in a goofy sort of way. Not great; but fun. Strangely, it would be given a rockabilly treatment on 1982's EVERYBODIES ROCKIN'.

*Come On Baby Let's Go Downtown* is a jaunty song that I am ambivalent about. Given its subtext of searching for a heroin fix, there is much to hate about it. This song would resurface on Young's most difficult album TONIGHT'S THE NIGHT as a centerpiece. On TONIGHT'S THE NIGHT it would have more power in context of the rest album than it does here. The best thing about it here is Young's introduction of the members of the band.

The cream of this recording belongs to both *Down By The River* and *Cowgirl In The Sand*. Several hours of close listening and enjoyment are found on these two cuts alone. The intense interplay between Young and Whitten as they fire walk across their respective fletboards creates a musical wind shear in front of the bass and drums. We don't hear extensive guitar soloing much like this in our time. This kind of instrumental display in a traditional rock setting began with Cream about 1968 and tapered off around 1975--perhaps because that particular vein had been all mined out or because a newer rock audience sought something else. It was an oddity of its time that began with the British blues revival and ended with the passing of Southern/Country rock. Depending on your sensibilities, either you mourn its absence or relieved one doesn't have to endure one more guitar solo before you get to the good stuff.

Be that as it may, this recording finds Young at the dawn of the 1970's with the future of rock before him and the rock "kinship" at its most communal. In some ways he was at the peek of his creative powers and stood as a pioneer to what was to come. Young has been regarded these days as proto-punk and the godfather to grunge. These would be nice compliments if it wasn't for the fact that both punk and grunge could be found in their infancy in the garage bands in the 1960's. Never mind...another subject...another day. If your musical christening began with Nirvana or (God forbid!) Justin Timberland, you owe it to yourself take a bite from this feast. There really was a time when the battle cry of "sex, drugs and rock and roll" actually meant something more than sex, drugs, and rock and roll.

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