![]() ![]() Its country overtones and earthy, unplugged palette - acoustic guitars, pedal steel, banjo, harmonica, female backing vocals - barely distinguish it from a dozen others from the years. It’s easy to miss in the Shakey catalogue, I concede. But more than any other, I point to 1992’s Harvest Moon. So does Living with War, its no-nonsense bluntness (both lyrically and musically) enhancing rather than detracting from its impact. 1982’s Trans comes to mind, its cold electronic exterior belying the twisted yet honest pop record lurking beneath. A Best Noisy Efforts list, a Best Neil Solo list, Best of Each Decade…Īnd then, inevitably, there’s the Most Underrated Neil Young Albums list. There’s the obvious Best Overall Neil Records list (for my money, Tonight’s the Night, closely followed by Rust Never Sleeps, closely followed by After the Gold Rush, closely followed by…), and then there’s the Best Live Records list. (As manager Elliot Roberts puts it: “If he watches TV on the road and there’s a CNN special on Bosnia, Neil wants do a record and a benefit within two days.”) But it has also manifested itself in the form of a monstrously intimidating discography - 30-something studio albums, a dozen more live releases, sharp veers to the left ranging from straight-faced rockabilly (1983’s hilarious yet misunderstood Everybody’s Rocking) to a semi-coherent rock opera about… well, what the hell is Greendale about?įor me, that’s where obsessive list-making comes in - a way to forge order from chaos. True, the singer’s notoriously impulsive nature has always been an endearing trait. Worshipping Neil Young can be exhausting.
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