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Neil Young
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CAREER SPAN:
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# Albums
1960s
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2
1970s
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12
1980s
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5
1990s
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16
2000s
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24
Ratings and rankings are based on all available critic reviews for each album.
Overall Band Score: 
3.5726
3.5726
Neil Young Album Rankings
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3.6952You would think that my admitting once that I was wrong about an album would be enough for our readers - butnoooo, they like me admitting I've made an ass of myself. ...more
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3.4773Neil Young has never made the same album twice. Try me, I checked. Thereâs always a distinct quality to each of his full-lengths, something that separates them from all the rest. ...more
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3.3991The album that spawned the legendary phrase "It's better to burn out than to fade away,"Rust Never Sleepsalso has the distinction of being the last great Neil Young album ever made, reac ...more
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5
3.2430Following the 1973Time Fades Awaytour, Neil Young wrote and recorded an Irish wake of a record calledTonight's the Nightand went on the road drunkenly playing its songs to uncomprehending listeners an ...more
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3.1932Quiet and sweetly melodic, Neil Young'sComes a Timefelt like folly in punk-drunk 1978 but has since become one of his most timeless and easy-to-love works, a brief but immaculate CD. ...more
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3.1768With the vastness of the Pierce Archives and my constant desire to feature different artists on these pages, often worthy artists and albums get shafted for no good reason. ...more
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3.1245While a live album can often capture the sonic ferociousness of the concert experience, the difficulty comes in if a show features strong visuals. ...more
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3.0768Neil Young is famous for scrapping completed albums and substituting hastily recorded ones in radically different styles. ...more
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11
3.0396Neil Young's most popular album,Harvestemploys a number of jarringly different styles. ...more
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12
3.0159Given the quirkiness of Neil Young's recording career, with its frequent cancellations of releases and last-minute rearrangements of material, it is a relief to report that this two-disc compilation i ...more
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3.0106An album hailed upon its release as Neils tribute to Kurt Cobain and also as one of the best records he'd ever put out. I don't know about all that myself. ...more
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14
2.9894Neil returns truly to a rough and ready sound, to a live sound. The opening 'Country Home' goes on for seemingly an eternity, but you can lose yourself in his guitar. ...more
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15
2.9799Harvest Moonsaved Neil Young from popular obscurity. (I'll now pause so Young's diehard fans can fire up Netscape mail to flame me. ...more
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2.8674Anyone who has followed Neil Young's career knows enough not to expect a simple evening of mellow good times when they see him in concert, but in 1973, when Young hit the road afterHarvesthad confirme ...more
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2.8308An album that was a record company executive's dream, an album easily pitched as a natural successor to Neil's famous and best-selling 'Harvest' some twenty years earlier. ...more
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2.7419If Bob Dylan has been for years our best guide to exploring the complexities of human experience, Young may be the songwriter who expresses most eloquently the simple ties that bind us all ...more
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2.6396On his songs forBuffalo Springfield, Neil Young had demonstrated an eclecticism that ranged from the rock of "Mr. Soul" to the complicated, multi-part arrangement of "Broken Arrow. ...more
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2.5722The album tracks, remixes and live recordings onLucky Thirteencome from Neil Young's trying affiliation through the Eighties with Geffen Records, a period that found him more slagged than celebrated. ...more
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2.5342Only Neil Young can explain why he named this set after his unreleased 1977 album. True, there is some recycling: the opening three songs date from the 1980s. ...more
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2.5336An addendum to 2000's "love, God, Murder," a theme-based career retrospective conceived and produced by Johnny Cash himself,Lifestands as the great man's final artistic statement: Frail and devastated ...more
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2.4974Yet as the first release of the long-promised purge of Youngs extensive archives, the format of Live at the Fillmore East is condescendingly slight, selecting only highlights from the bands two-night/ ...more
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2.4887Not only does Young accomplish his goal of creating a musical storyline that transcends the tedium and self-indulgence of your average concept album, but he's also crafted his finest set of songs sinc ...more
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2.4853This record demands a room full of quiet and your undivided attention. Listen to it any other way and you may be disappointed, even bored, by it. ...more
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2.4585Well, Mr. Weird is at it again" was one of the first reactions I heard to the synthesized sounds and Vocoderized vocals that typify a lot of the material on Neil Young's new album.Trans. ...more
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2.3972The Neil Young goldrush started late last year with a 1970 set from the Fillmore East, and will climax in the autumn with Archives Part One, an 8CD box. ...more
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30
2.3783A quietly retro mix of guitars and organ-fueled songs, the music simmers rather than boils over. ...more
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2.1711Track listing: 1) Big Time; 2) Loose Change ; 3) Slip Away; 4) Changing Highways; 5) Scattered (Let's Think About Livin'); 6) This Town; 7) Music Arcade; 8) Baby What You Want Me To Do . ...more
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1.9358Track listing: 1) When You Dance (You Can Really Love); 2) Barstool Blues; 3) When Your Lonely Heart Breaks; 4) Mr Soul; 5) Big Time; 6) Pocahontas; 7) Human Highway; 8) Slipaway; 9) Scattered; 10) Da ...more
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1.8241Track listing: 1) Ten Men Workin'; 2) This Note's For You; 3) Coupe De Ville; 4) Life In The City; 5) Twilight; 6) Married Man; 7) Sunny Inside; 8) Can't Believe Your Lyin'; 9) Hey Hey; 10) One Thing. ...more
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1.5572As much as the suits at Geffen would have disagreed with me at the time, it was almost natural for Neil Young to eventually record an album with more than just overtones of '50s doo-wop music. ...more
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1.4186Giving Neil Young a subtle rhythm section is like giving a gorilla a Palm Pilot. On his 273rd live album, naturally titledRoad Rock, V. ...more
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1.3571In 1984, Geffen Records sued Neil Young on the grounds that he had submitted uncharacteristic, uncommercial records to the label. ...more
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1.2338An album consisting of songs drawn from various sessions, thus 'American Stars N Bars' lacks the unified feeling of the best Neil Young albums. ...more
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1.1294Track listing: 1) Weight Of The World; 2) Violent Side; 3) Hippie Dream; 4) Bad News Beat; 5) Touch The Night ; 6) People On The Street ; 7) Hard Luck Stories; 8) I Got A Problem; 9) Pressure; 10) Dri ...more
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0.3321 Weld, Neil Young's two-hour-plus double-CD chronicle of his 1991 Ragged Glory/Smell the Horse Tour with Crazy Horse, was received with only mild enthusiasm from Young's fans and rock critics, perhaps ...more
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0.0000A 35-minute "compilation compositor" by Neil Young, Arc consists of a series of excerpts from 1991 concerts by Young & Crazy Horse strung together. ...more
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0.0000Neil Young has been involved in a lot of memorable rock music over the last seven years. ...more
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0.0000 This is a three-song maxi-single containing an edited version of the title track, the full-length version as it appears on the Ragged Glory album, and a non-album track called "Don't Spook the Horse. ...more
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