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Music CD - Neil Young: Harvest
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Music CD: Harvest
Artist: Neil Young
List Price: $11.98
Our Price: $7.24
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Manufacturer: Reprise / Wea
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Tracks:
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1. Out On The Weekend
2. Harvest
3. A Man Needs A Maid
4. Heart Of Gold
5. Are You Ready For The Country?
6. Old Man
7. There's A World
8. Alabama
9. Needle And The Damage Done
10. Words (Between The Lines Of Age)
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0075992723923
Label: Reprise / Wea
Manufacturer: Reprise / Wea
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Reprise / Wea
Release Date: 1990-10-25
Studio: Reprise / Wea
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Customer Rating:
Summary: "Old man look at my life...
Comment: ...I'm a lot like you. I need someone to love me the whole day through."
Folk/Rock at it's best. Simple acoustic chords, haunting lyrics, and poignant stories. Arguably, this is Neil's masterpiece album. The Needle and the Damage Done, is a wonderful lament for friends lost to drugs. Old Man is an ode to the caretaker on a ranch that Neil bought some time ago. Heart of Gold is just that...Solid! As a lad I spun this LP every night when I hit the sack. I had a Hohner harmonica and played along. This disc belongs in the time capsule of my life. Enjoy it for years to come.
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Summary: Neil Young made History with Harvest.
Comment: "Dream up, dream up,
let me fill your cup
With the promise of a man."
This was one on the first albums I ever bought, and it remains a favorite. Harvest is Neil Young's signature album with his distinctive folk-esque acoustic guitar and harmonica, and his deeply personal lyrics. Backed by "The Stray Gators," a group of country session musicians including Ben Keith on pedal steel guitar, Kenny Buttrey on drums, Tim Drummond on bass, and Jack Nitzsche on piano and slide guitar, along with backing vocals by James Taylor, David Crosby, Graham Nash, Linda Ronstadt, and Stephen Stills, Neil made history with Harvest. The album resulted in three hit singles, "Heart of Gold," "Old Man," and "The Needle and the Damage Done." The complete album setlist includes:
1. Out On The Weekend (Album Version) (4:35)
2. Harvest (Album Version) (3:11)
3. A Man Needs A Maid (Album Version) (4:05)
4. Heart Of Gold (Album Version) (3:07)
5. Are You Ready For The Country (Album Version) (3:23)
6. Old Man (Album Version) (3:22)
7. There's A World (Album Version) (2:59)
8. Alabama (Album Version) (4:02)
9. The Needle And The Damage Done (Album Version) (2:10)
10. Words (Between The Lines Of Age) (Album Version) (6:40)
G. Merritt
Customer Rating:
Summary: oh yes
Comment: This is one of the best cd's I have ever bought. I was looking through some of my dads old vinyl and came across this masterpiece. I HAD to get the cd. It's timeless. Simply amazing. Every music lover should have this album. I could listen to it over and over again. BRILLIANT
Thank you Neil Young
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Summary: A Real Bumper Harvest!
Comment:
"Harvest", Neil Young's fourth album (1972), and commercial success at that. Still, for a supposedly commercial album it has some of the most harrowing, personal, and emotional lyrics I have heard to date (this is something that comes with much of Neil Young's work, and it's that side of him that I like best).
Perhaps the best example of this is "A Man Needs a Maid", a song of isolation and lonliness. In honesty, I didn't used to like this one- long, slow, and those long notes during the refrain really used to bug me for some reason. But now, the more I listen the more I dig; the orchestration is a masterpiece (and I don't care how many people say it's overproduced, saying that about ANY song is, in my opinion, idiotic, since it obvious pleased the artist enough for him to release it as it was), and the lyrics, if not his best, are so personal and touching that I hate to knock the song, even if it isn't one of his VERY best. It's just a wonderful piece of expressive work. Easily at 4/5 level on its own.
Other highlights, are Harvest (another one it took a me a little while to appreciate, but it really does have a poignant message about loneliness and love), Out on the Weekend, which, again, has grown amazingly on me, the classic Heart of Gold, Old Man, the fun Are You Ready for the Country?, and even Words (Between the Lines of Age). The rest: I like the tune and the political points in Alabama but I wasn't aroudn then, and I don't know enough to appreciate it fully; Needle... is great, just not at the same level as others,and There's a World, is one that, personally, I'm still attempting to penetrate (and I feel close), but either way, the biblical-sounding orchestra (did actually quote parts of this, or all for that matter, from the bible, say, one of the Old Testaent profits, just curious?) is, for once, just a tad much.
All in all, however, this is a great album, 4/5. Not necessarily his best, but great nonetheless. Enjoy; this sounds just as "Young" as it did years ago!
Customer Rating:
Summary: A Real Bumper Harvest!
Comment:
"Harvest", Neil Young's fourth album (1972), and commercial success at that. Still, for a supposedly commercial album it has some of the most harrowing, personal, and emotional lyrics I have heard to date (this is something that comes with much of Neil Young's work, and it's that side of him that I like best).
Perhaps the best example of this is "A Man Needs a Maid", a song of isolation and lonliness. In honesty, I didn't used to like this one- long, slow, and those long notes during the refrain really used to bug me for some reason. But now, the more I listen the more I dig; the orchestration is a masterpiece (and I don't care how many people say it's overproduced, saying that about ANY song is, in my opinion, idiotic, since it obvious pleased the artist enough for him to release it as it was), and the lyrics, if not his best, are so personal and touching that I hate to knock the song, even if it isn't one of his VERY best. It's just a wonderful piece of expressive work. Easily at 4/5 level on its own.
Other highlights, are Harvest (another one it took a me a little while to appreciate, but it really does have a poignant message about loneliness and love), Out on the Weekend, which, again, has grown amazingly on me, the classic Heart of Gold, Old Man, the fun Are You Ready for the Country?, and even Words (Between the Lines of Age). The rest: I like the tune and the political points in Alabama but I wasn't aroudn then, and I don't know enough to appreciate it fully; Needle... is great, just not at the same level as others,and There's a World, is one that, personally, I'm still attempting to penetrate (and I feel close), but either way, the biblical-sounding orchestra (did actually quote parts of this, or all for that matter, from the bible, say, one of the Old Testaent profits, just curious?) is, for once, just a tad much.
All in all, however, this is a great album, 4/5. Not necessarily his best, but great nonetheless. Enjoy; this sounds just as "Young" as it did years ago!
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Editorial Reviews:
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Proclaiming his intentions with "Are You Ready for the Country?" Young detoured briefly to the Nashville mainstream. On this No. 1 1972 album, even the singer's acquired-taste voice comes across smooth and beautiful--the smash "Heart of Gold," with steel guitars and Linda Ronstadt's backup vocals, is by far Young's most commercial-sounding song. His usual dissonant touches, like the otherworldly guitar in "Out on the Weekend," are less spooky in this new context. The last two tracks, the deceptively gentle "The Needle and the Damage Done" and the hypnotic rocker "Words (Between the Lines of Age)," predict "Tonight's the Night," Young's haunted 1975 classic. --Steve Knopper
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