Young Neil

Young Neil: On the beach 1974 (Rem) [CD]

1972 gjorde Neil Young det lägmälda mästerverket "Harvest". 20 år senare återvände han till känslan på detta album med "Harvest moon". 20 år... kunde det vara möjligt att han fortfarande hade samma fruktsamma känsla kvar? Visst, Neil Young har gång på gång visat att han inte stelnat i sin form. Han traskar stilla fram över åkrarna med sin gitarr och sitt munspel, och mediterar i texterna över tillvaron. Han samlade flera av musikerna och bakgrundssångarna som var med på "Harvest" för att få tillbaka så mycket som möjligt av atmosfären. Och han lyckades verkligen göra ännu ett mästerverk.

Young Neil: Rust never sleeps 1979 [CD]

Neil Young skrev och spelade in "Tonight's the night 1973, kort efter att hans roadie Bruce Berry avlidit av en överdos heroin. Det var den andra personen i Neil Young's närhet på ett halvår som dog av en överdos, den första var Crazy Horse-gitarristen Danny Whitten. Detta satte tydliga spår på albumet. Titelspåret vänder sig direkt till Berry och man kan höra Whitten sjunga på "Come on Baby Let's Go Downtown", som var inspelad live några år tidigare. Antingen vägrade Reprise Records ge ut albumet, eller också drog Neil Young in det själv i början av 1974, men 1975 kom det alltså ut. Det blev genast klassat som ett unikt mästerverk av kritiker och har sedan dess rankats som ett av de bästa albumen inom rockmusiken som någonsin sett dagens ljus.

Young Neil: Everybody knows this is nowhere 1969 [CD]

Young Neil: Greatest hits 1969-91 [CD]

Neil Young continues his Official Release Series (ORS) with the next installment of four classic titles from the 1990s. ORS Vol 6: Discs 26, 27, 28 & 29 collects HARVEST MOON, UNPLUGGED, SLEEPS WITH ANGELS and MIRROR BALL in the ongoing reissue series. <br/><br/>Each disc in the limited edition, numbered box sets will contain 4 albums with the original, historically accurate artwork and will be reissued on double vinyl LPs, while the CD box contains single CD sets per title. MIRROR BALL is an analog recording and the album has been remastered from the original analog masters by John Hanlon and Chris Bellman at Bernie Grundman Mastering. Additionally, four of the tracks have been remixed by John Hanlon and Chris Bellman at Bernie Grundman Mastering. ("I'm The Ocean", "Big Green Country", "Truth Be Known", "Throw Your Hatred Down"<br/> <br/>HARVEST MOON (ORS Disc 26), originally released in 1992, helped open a new decade of Young's music with what would become instant new classics like the title track "Harvest Moon," "From Hank to Hendrix," and "One of These Days." It included originals written in the 1980s as well as brand new songs, which quickly became fan favorites and one of the most beloved albums in Young's recorded output. <br/> <br/>UNPLUGGED (ORS Disc 27), originally released in 1993, was first recorded for an MTV Unplugged concert, along with additional live recordings. Young thoughtfully assembled a group of musicians he had recorded with over the years for this special aggregation that quickly became a collector's item as tapes were first shared from the show among his fans. The official live album is considered an acoustic one-of-a-kind release from Young's 90's cannon. <br/> <br/>SLEEPS WITH ANGELS (ORS Disc 28), originally released in 1994, is an album that wrote its own legend when released. Including the 14-minute song "Change Your Mind" and "Unknown Legend," it had a distinctiveness with Crazy Horse that Young achieved by keeping the sessions as spontaneous and immediate as possible allowing the tracks to breathe and come to life in real time. SLEEPS WITH ANGELS was the last album to be produced by Neil's long-time collaborator David Briggs, who passed away in 1995 at age 51, which also brings a special meaning to these recordings. <br/> <br/>MIRROR BALL (ORS Disc 29), is a double-album originally released in 1995 and recorded with Pearl Jam. Considering the Seattle band was one of the prime movers of rock bands in the 1990s, it was an event immediately upon its release, and found a rabid, younger audience and inspired long-time fans alike with its inherent high energy. Songs like "I Am The Ocean," "Throw Your Hatred Down" helped impact so much of the second half of the 1990s. <br/> <br/>The OFFICIAL RELEASE SERIES VOLUME 6 - DISCS 26, 27, 28 & 29 (ORS Vol 6) captures a large visceral part of the era, when Young was continuing his exploration of music with an unrelenting edge, in ways that he hadn't really done before. These four releases took him towards a new century, and anticipated some of the musical places he would soon explore. The songs also capture some of the massive changes that the 2000s would bring, and ways that music would take on challenges that are still very much being met.