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Spin (12/91) - Highly Recommended "..unfurls like a big black parachute.."28.05958

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Rolling Stone (p.130) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "The guitar interplay between Young and original Crazy Horse guitarist Danny Whitten is breathtakingly sharp..."Rolling Stone (p.110) - Ranked #2 in Rolling Stone's "The Top 10 Reissues Of 2006" -- "'Cowgirl in the Sand' is stuttering fuzz-guitar ecstasy."Spin (p.83) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "[O]n the 14-minute 'Cowgirl in the Sand,' everyone is immortal."Entertainment Weekly (p.109) - "[The album] finds him in March 1970, transforming the twang of his second solo LP into a string-scraping squall." -- Grade: B+Q (p.146) - "Live At The Fillmore East finds Young and Crazy Horse in fine form. As ever, Young's plaintive voice is set against the band's rolling thunder..."CMJ (p.43) - "[T]his backwards glance features original Crazy Horse guitarist Danny Whitten....[A] significant piece of history..."Dirty Linen (p.43) - "[The album] rocks hard, and after almost 36 years still sounds fresh and contemporary."25.29806

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Rolling Stone (4/29/71, p.42) - "...This album, if you've even the tiniest place in your heart for bouncy tunefulness, will make you feel as good as MEET THE BEATLES and THE HOLLIES: HEAR! HERE! Things are looking up..."Mojo (Publisher) (3/01/04, p.53) - Included in Mojo's The 67 Lost Albums You Must Own! - "[A]n improbably brilliant, multi-faceted gem."Mojo (Publisher) (6/96, pp.116-7) - "...Sans Neil Young but with auxiliary members Jack Nitzsche and Nils Lofgren, they (Danny Whitten, Billy Talbot and Ralph Molina) recorded this two-fisted collection of exemplary songs..."22.70792

Spin (p.92) - "[Young] is a cracked angel with an endless stream of brilliant songs."Down Beat (p.59) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "[Disc 4 balances] powerful songs of sadness and loneliness with upbeat, stirring melodies and lush harmonies."Pitchfork (Website) - "For Neil Young, the years of 1963 to 1972 were marked by a rapid maturation and a series of successful stylistic reinventions that rivaled the Beatles."21.62745

Billboard (p.60) - "[T]he eight songs are layered in sustained distortion and electronic effects and feature heavy delays on Young's recognizable tenor."Mojo (Publisher) (p.52) - Ranked #31 in Mojo's "The 50 Best Albums Of 2010" -- "[M]ostly electric, always raging, LE NOISE delivers ghostly resonance and cathartic thrills..."Uncut (magazine) (p.78) - 5 stars out of 5 -- "[T]he guitar sounds engineered here by Young and Lanois are astonishing, almost terrifying at times in their elemental beauty..."Uncut (magazine) (p.37) - Ranked #2 in Uncut's "The 50 Best Albums Of 2010" -- "[A] solo guitar album, recorded intimately but given reverberant scale by Daniel Lanois."16.33221

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Rolling Stone (4/29/93, pp.62-63) - 4 Stars - Excellent - "...Young tries to show how the emotional impulses behind his songwriting, performing and recording methods remain constant as his styles vary....lays out the crucial reasons why Neil Young perseveres and triumphs..." Village Voice (3/9/93, p.80) - "...just about every one of these 13 selections is a good song..." - Rating: A-Entertainment Weekly (1/15/93, p.52) - "...This sampling from Neil Young's mid-'80s Geffen stint reminds us how many of his experiments actually worked....Young ricochets from style to style like a crazed cue ball, but more often than not he finds his pocket..." - Rating: B+Q (2/93, p.94) - 3 Stars - GoodDown Beat (4/93, p.52) - 3.5 Stars - Good Plus - "...[an] ambitious project..."8.53526

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Rolling Stone (1/25/96, p.41) - Ranked #6 in the 1996 Critics' Poll.Spin (9/95, p.109) - 8 - Very Good - "...Young, like today's grunge kids, has always seen anomie as sufficient unto itself....MIRROR BALL...suggests another parallel: Sometimes it's easier to string together some...power chords and a few forlorn references to religion, fame and suicide than to actually write songs. And sometimes that's just fine..."Entertainment Weekly (6/30-7/7/95, pp.96-97) - "...mostly three-chord stompers, and Pearl Jam seems content to kick out the jams behind him....aims for that anthemic mode of the Neil Young of old, and despite a few muddled chords and even more muddled lyrics, the collaborative magic works..." - Rating: A-Q (8/95, p.128) - 3 Stars - Good - "...a rough and ready collection of Young songs, alive with studio ambience and, well, grungy..."Melody Maker (6/17/95, p.37) - Recommended - "...VS. meets ON THE BEACH at ARC/WELD volume....What gets you first is the throb--the mantra-like whack of the hooks and the circular propulsion of the chord progressions....these aren't conventional songs, they're thunderclap soliloquies, raw grooves set to telegraphic narratives..."Musician (9/95, pp.85-86) - "...Part of what makes MIRROR BALL so moving is [a] sense of being unstuck in time, not so much musically--though the combination of Pearl Jam's uncompromised attack with Young's folk melodicism...suggests the spanning of generations--but by Young's vision..."Village Voice (2/20/96) - Ranked #5 in Village Voice's 1995 Pazz & Jop Critics' Poll.NME (Magazine) (12/23-30/95, pp.22-23) - Ranked #41 in NME's 'Top 50 Albums Of The Year' for 1995.NME (Magazine) (6/24/95, p.56) - 9 (out of 10) - "...as shabby, as unrehearsed, as rugged and raw as anything he's released. But it is another fine Neil Young album....the record's sound is...big, woolly, live and booming..."8.508755

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Rolling Stone (11/26/92, p.71) - 4 Stars - Excellent - "...sounds like the calm after the storm, with a hushed musical landscape at times populated only by a ghostly harmonica, a few spooky bass lines and Young's cracked tenor...within these spare settings, Young's search for shelter from the storm resonates like a heartbeat..."Spin (12/92, p.89) - Highly Recommended - "...HARVEST MOON is all strummed acoustic chords, scenic choral overdubs, melodies cruising smooth as an air-conditioned limo on a two-lane blacktop. Underneath the tranquility and cosmic platitudes, there's a human highway..."Entertainment Weekly (11/13/92, p.78) - "...In both music and tone, HARVEST MOON is wistful and elegiac....it's the classic-rock equivalent of a late-period Sinatra saloon-song album....comfortable, reassuring, and proudly old wave..." - Rating: B+Q (12/99, p.74) - Included in Q Magazine's "90 Best Albums Of The 1990s."Q (1/93, p.69) - Included in Q's list of the 50 Best Albums Of 1992.Q (12/92, p.141) - 4 Stars - Excellent - "...he has surrounded his meditations in some of his simplest, most gorgeous melodies in years..."Musician (12/92, p.93) - "...this unadorned folk music exudes real weight....Young at his best..."Village Voice (3/2/93, p.5) - Ranked #17 in the Village Voice's list of the 40 Best Albums Of 1992.Audio Magazine (2/93, p.92) - Sound: B / Performance: A- - "...simple and subtle..."Vox (12/92, p.62) - 10 - Classic - "...Though essentially a warm, emotional album, it doesn't flinch from a realization that innocent idealism is no longer a viable commodity on mankind's futures market...HARVEST MOON may be the best work he's ever done..."(3/93, p.52) - "...HARVEST MOON has the same haunted sound as its predecessor....vintage Neil Young..."Mojo (Publisher) (11/01, p.151) - "...It's a more mature, contented record, with a good deal of gentle nostalgia..."8.498013

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Rolling Stone (12/11/03, p.114) - Ranked #78 in Rolling Stone's "500 Greatest Albums Of All Time" - "...Americana - steel, guitar, slide guitar, banjo - stripped down and rebuilt with every jagged edge exposed..."Q (7/00, p.141) - Included in Q's "The Best Male Angst Albums Of All Time" - "...The showcase for [his] most affecting artistic devices..."Mojo (Publisher) (11/01, p.150) - "...If he was laid-back at this time it was simply because spinal surgery had made him literally so..."NME (Magazine) (10/2/93, p.29) - Ranked #60 in NME's list of the 'Greatest Albums Of All Time.'NME (Magazine) (9/18/93, p.19) - Ranked #22 in NME's list of the 'Greatest Albums Of The '70s.'8.462954

Q (4/02, p.142) - "...It's definitely the sound of an artist struggling to find his way..."8.462954

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Rolling Stone (p.84) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "[T]here is a striking vigor to Young's high, eccentric singing -- and a surprising nostalgia in the fond references to his homeland in 'Helpless'..."Entertainment Weekly (p.68) - "[Some tracks] benefit from the simplicity of the setting: 'A Man Needs a Maid', for one, comes to life without all of the studio version's orchestral gloop."No Depression (p.104) - "The brief but pointed renditions of 'Cowgirl In The Sand' and 'Down By The River' included here have more emotional heft than the amped up, anthemic renditions on the Fillmore set."7.860999

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3 stars out of 4 -- "[D]irector Jonathan Demme showcases Neil Young's blazing guitar and bruised wonder of a voice....Essential Neil Young."Rolling Stone "The set list, a mix of old and new, is a rarefied collection reflecting the rocker's eclectic stylistic range. Young is always a singular force onstage..."Los Angeles Times 3 stars out of 5 -- "Young is a true master of the six-string cri de coeur and the Massey Hall concert shows us the grizzled singer at his angry and plaintive best."Box Office "Thunder rumbling up from the center of the earth with scraggly flashes of lightning amid fire and flood: that describes the sound of Neil Youngs amplified guitar in Jonathan Demmes compelling new concert film, NEIL YOUNG JOURNEYS."New York Times "[A] spare and intriguing film....The folk-rocker's modest storytelling style never gets lost in minutiae or sentimental reveries -- like his songwriting, it's succinct and poignant."USA Today 3 stars out of 4 -- "It's an intimate performance portrait, divided among new material from his 2010 album LE NOISE and many of his classics."Chicago Sun-Times "[An] engrossing combination of road-trip documentary and concert film."Movieline "[R]evelatory, precisely because it feels less like a message in a time capsule than like lightning in a bottle." -- Grade: A-A.V. Club6.892566

Uncut (p.98) - 5 stars out of 5 - "Deep, warm, fully rounded and with no slack, PRAIRIE WIND is Neil at his best."Mojo (Publisher) (p.61) - Ranked #31 in Mojo's "The 50 Best Albums Of 2005" - "Young's twilight masterpiece..."Mojo (Publisher) (p.97) - 3 stars out of 5 - "[With] Young often immersed in reflections on his family relationships....Strong and tremulous. The core of Neil Young's neilyoungness..."6.866976

Uncut (p.98) - 5 stars out of 5 - "Deep, warm, fully rounded and with no slack, PRAIRIE WIND is Neil at his best."Mojo (Publisher) (p.61) - Ranked #31 in Mojo's "The 50 Best Albums Of 2005" - "Young's twilight masterpiece..."Mojo (Publisher) (p.97) - 3 stars out of 5 - "[With] Young often immersed in reflections on his family relationships....Strong and tremulous. The core of Neil Young's neilyoungness..."6.866976

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Rolling Stone (8/19/93, p.76) - 3 Stars - Good - "...Young flashes both sides of his musical personality: the earnest folkie and the edgy heretic....the music has the relaxed aura of a friendly folkside folk sing..."Entertainment Weekly (6/18/93, p.57) - "...while many of these songs sound like earlier versions, there are thrilling exceptions: 'Helpless' takes on a gospel longing, and 'Mr. Soul' becomes a despondent dirge..." - Rating: BQ (1/94, p.83) - Included in Q's list of 'The 50 Best Albums Of 1993' - "...a spellbinding hour's music...."Q (7/93, p.98) - 5 Stars - Indispensible - "...Just when Unplugged ought to be running out of steam, Neil Young has taken the measure of its possibilities, picked exactly the right balance of material and put one over on everybody who's been there before, including Clapton and Springsteen..."Q (8/93, p.131) - 4 Stars - Excellent - "...[a] willingness to re-mold songs by means of unusual instrumentation...marks out this show as probably the best in MTV's UNPLUGGED series..."Mojo (Publisher) (11/01, p.151) - "...Young confidently recasts 'Transformer Man', 'Like a Hurricane' and other classics. The nearest thing to a career-spanning retrospective, and probably the best place for a novice to start."NME (Magazine) (12/25/93, p.67) - Ranked #26 in New Musical Express' list of 'The Top 50 LPs Of 1993' - "...old faves and obscurities from as far back as '69, made quietly reflective with guitar, harmonium and Neil's prarie dog howl. A negative image of the stormy ARC WELD...."6.818669

Rolling Stone (11/89) - 5 Stars - Ranked #85 in Rolling Stone's 100 Best Albums Of The 80's survey.Q (4/02, p.141) - "...FREEDOM hit harder than anything Young had recorded in a decade [the '80s]..."6.800288

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Rolling Stone (12/11/03, p.114) - Ranked #71 in Rolling Stone's "500 Greatest Albums Of All Time" - "...An album of heartbreaking ballads....The music is gentle..."Spin (p.101) - "His most plaintively pretty and mournfully pissed-off folk album."Q (4/02, p.141) - "...Subdued, intimate, largely acoustic: the sound of the post-'60s comedown pressed into vinyl. Packed with fine songs..."Mojo (Publisher) (11/01, p.150) - "...With the singular exception of 'Southern Man', the songs here sound gentler but are still about confusion and disillusion..."NME (Magazine) (9/18/93, p.19) - Ranked #19 among The Greatest Albums Of The '70s.NME (Magazine) (10/2/93, p.29) - Ranked #66 in NME's list of the 'Greatest Albums Of All Time.'6.770362

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