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Live Albums By Neil Young

Neil Young is a Canadian singer songwriter. He founded Buffalo Springfield with Stephen Still and Richie Furay and later joined Crosby, Stills & Nash to form Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young but he’s best known as a solo artist or supported by his band, Crazy Horse.

Because there are two distinct sides to his music – the acoustic country / folk songs and the raging guitar workouts – he is a difficult artist to buy without some guidance. Some albums are all one style, some albums are all the other and some have a mixture. Even worse, Neil Young went strange in the 1980s and started experimenting with alternative types of music.

Studio Albums By Neil Young

1968 – Neil Young
1969 – Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere (with Crazy Horse)
1970 – After the Gold Rush
1972 – Harvest
1974 – On the Beach
1975 – Tonight’s the Night
1975 – Zuma (with Crazy Horse)
1976 – Long May You Run (as the Still-Young Band)
1977 – American Stars ‘N Bars
1978 – Comes a Time
1979 – Rust Never Sleeps (with Crazy Horse)
1980 – Hawks & Doves
1981 – Re-ac-tor (with Crazy Horse)
1982 – Trans
1983 – Everybody’s Rockin’
1985 – Old Ways
1986 – Landing on Water
1987 – Life (with Crazy Horse)
1988 – This Note’s for You
1989 – Eldorado
1989 – Freedom
1990 – Ragged Glory (with Crazy Horse)
1992 – Harvest Moon
1994 – Sleeps with Angels (with Crazy Horse)
1995 – Mirror Ball (with Pearl Jam)
1996 – Broken Arrow
2000 – Silver & Gold
2002 – Are You Passionate?
2003 – Greendale (with Crazy Horse)
2005 – Prairie Wind
2006 – Living with War
2006 – Living with War: “In the Beginning”
2007 – Chrome Dreams II
2009 – Fork in the Road
2010 – Le Noise
2012 – Americana (with Crazy Horse)
2012 – Psychedelic Pill (with Crazy Horse)

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Live Albums By Neil Young

In recent years Neil Young has done a great job of releasing archive live recordings so that we can hear him develop as a live artist.

His development was clear with studio albums like After the Goldrush, Harvest, Tonight’s The Night, Rust Never Sleeps and Ragged Glory.

Of course this makes it harder to find the one or two best Neil Young live albums you must have in your music collection.

Crosby Stills Nash & Young Live Album

1970 – 4 Way Street
1974 – CSNY 1974

Live Albums By Neil Young

1968 – Sugar Mountain – Live at Canterbury House
1969 – Live at the Riverboat
1970 – Live at the Fillmore East
1971 – Live At Massey Hall
1973 – Time Fades Away
1978 – Live Rust
1984/85 – A Treasure
1991 – Weld – review rating 26/30
1992 – Dreamin’ Man
1993 – Unplugged – review rating 26/30
1996 – Year of the Horse
2000 – Road Rock Vol 1 Friends & Relatives

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Buying Albums By Neil Young

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The Best Live Albums Of All Time

Neil Young appears in a number of genre best live album polls with his album Weld even getting votes in the hard rock and heavy metal poll.

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Because there are so many excellent singer-songwriter albums with very different styles, I have split the poll into two and you may find some of your favourites in the second division. Albums will be promoted when they get enough votes.

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Please vote in the poll to find the best classic rock live albums.

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Please vote in the poll to find the best hard rock and heavy metal live albums. I see a vote as a recommendation to others that an album is well worth investigating.

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Crosby Stills Nash & Young 4 Way Street 1970

4 Way Street is the first live album by Crosby Stills Nash & Young. It was recorded in June/July 1970.

Tensions were running high on this tour and these four individual singer songwriters went their own separate ways.

The album is notable for featuring many individual compositions rather than songs released on the Crosby Stills & Nash and Deja Vu albums.

In 2014 after a wait of 40 years, a very comprehensive album of the 1974 tour was released called… CSNY 1974.

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Neil Young Live At Massey Hall 1971

Live At Massey Hall 1971 is a live album by Neil Young that thirty six years to appear. It catches Young in January 1971 previewing many songs that would appear on later studio albums.

It includes two songs – Love in Mind and Journey Through the Past that appear on Time Fades Away.

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Neil Young Live At The Fillmore East 1970

Live At The Fillmore East is a live album by Neil Young and Crazy Horse. It was recorded in March 1970 when he played concerts at the Fillmore in New York to promote the studio album Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere.

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Neil Young Time Fades Away 1973

Time Fades Away is the first live album to be released by Neil Young. It was recorded in 1973 and he was backed by The Stray Gators.

While Neil Young has issued many live albums since including historic performances from his early days, Time Fades Away is not available for sale. This is because the entire tour has too many bad memories and he’s unhappy with the sound.

However the unavailability of Time Fades Away has given this live album legendary status and many fans are eager to hear the new songs performed on it.

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Neil Young Live Rust 1978

Live Rust is a live album by Neil Young recorded in 1978 and some of the songs were used in the film Rust Never Sleeps.

I get confused with how Live Rust fits in with the Rust Never Sleeps album which was also partially recorded live at San Francisco’s Cow’s Palace and later had the audience noise removed.

Live Rust starts with an acoustic set and climaxes with an all-out electric rave. That worked particularly well on a double LP where you could choose which version of Neil Young you wanted.

Controversially the album was squeezed on to a single CD by editing out about 90 seconds of guitar from Cortez The Killer. This horrifies purists but I don’t think it is noticeable when you listen to it.

Neil Young Live Rust

My rating – 28 out of 30 (9 +10 +9)

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Neil Young Unplugged 1993

Neil Young Unplugged is an excellent live album contrast to loud, electric Weld album released two years earlier.

After the critical and commercial success of Weld, Young the notorious contrarian released the acoustic Harvest Moon, a follow-up to his biggest selling album, Harvest from 1972.

This album appeared quite late in the MTV Unplugged fad but Neil Young is a natural and it shows. This album confirms that it was such a shame that Young lost his way in the 1980s.

Neil Young Unplugged Overall Rating – 26/30

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What Are The Best Neil Young Live & Studio Albums?

This page has readers polls to find the best Neil Young live album and the best Neil Young studio album.

What is the best Neil Young live album?

The answer used to be easy… Live Rust. although some would say Time Fades Away.

The question got harder when Weld and Unplugged were released in the early 90s.

This gave people the choice of whether the best Neil Young live album was electric, acoustic or balanced. Continue reading What Are The Best Neil Young Live & Studio Albums?

Neil Young & Crazy Horse Weld 1991

Neil Young Weld was recorded in 1991 on the tour to promote the Ragged Glory album with Crazy Horse and it rocks hard.

If you’re a fan of hard rock and you’ve dismissed Neil Young as an acoustic folkie based on songs like After the Goldrush and Harvest Moon, you’re in for a big shock.

There’s nothing subtle or gentle in this album.

On the other hand, if you want Neil Young, the folk singer-songwriter playing live, then you’d better hurry along to Live At Massey Hall.

Neil Young Weld Overall Rating – 26/30

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