Amazon.com essential recording: 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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Rating: - JAPAN REMASTERED VERSION AVAILABLE
A while back, Warner Brothers Japan re-released 12 Neil Young titles. The surprise was that remastered content appeared for the first time on most of them.
Rating: - "Old man look at my life...
...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 ... Read More
Rating: - Neil Young made History with Harvest.
"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 ... Read More
Rating: - oh yes
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 ... Read More
Rating: - A Real Bumper Harvest!
"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 ... Read More
- JAPAN REMASTERED VERSION AVAILABLE
- A Real Bumper Harvest!