Ragged Glory

I'm glad that these guys have each other to rock out with, but I don't think I should have to listen to it.

The 1st track is a 3/5, it's someone missing and being grateful for country (rural) roads. The 2nd track is a 3/5, not a bad track, just not something I would go out of my way to listen to again. The 3rd track is a 3/5, not a bad track, just not something I would go out of my way to listen to again. The 4th track is a 3/5, not a bad track, just not something I would go out of my way to listen to again. The 5th track is a 3/5, not a bad track, just not something I would go out of my way to listen to again. The 6th track is a 3/5, it's about telling a farmer that the singer is in love with his daughter. The 7th track is a 3/5, not a bad track, just not something I would go out of my way to listen to again. The 8th track is a 3/5, not a bad track, just not something I would go out of my way to listen to again. The 9th track is a 3/5, not a bad track, just not something I would go out of my way to listen to again. The 10th track is a 3/5, not a bad track, just not something I would go out of my way to listen to again. I would give the album a 3/5, it's not a bad album, it's just not one I plan on listening to again.

I'm sure Neil and the guys had fun making this but it's just not that good. We have six more to go so I have to leave some room for variation on the high end.

this is neil young? wdf this is so generic and uninteresting, he should stick to folk idk abt this one. also way too long why is there 3 almost 10 minute long songs on here?

This is the second Neil Young album I've gotten on this, and I'm sure I am going to get a bunch more before it's all done. I said it the last time and I'll say it again.... I'm just not a huge Neil Young fan. I respect him for the music he's written and put out there, but I'm personally just not a big fan of his style or his voice. This album is definitely more rock than his other stuff. Because I'm not a big fan and not super familiar with his catalog, I don't feel I can rate where this particular album should be among all of his other stuff. For me personally, it was fine to listen to, but nothing super exciting.

Me gustó esta faceta de Neil Young, pero no se me hace tan memorable al final del día.

bajó un escalón del otro álbum de Neil Young, está bueno, pero nada que me haya interesado demasiado.

I love Neil and this is a really good album…but I can admit it probably doesn’t need to be on this list. Still a 5 star for me tho.

I am just going to say it. I don't like Neil Young. I have tried time and time again. Just not for me. I am sure I am missing something, but I have finally said it out loud ( and in text).

Otro disco donde Neil Young me engancha desde el segundo 1 💜

Unskyld venner, men Country Neil er ikke for mig...

Farmer John er en kæmpe banger Jeg elsker jo Neil Young, denne er ingen undtagelse. Ham og hesten laver en rockmusik jeg kan forstå.

Det kan ikke siges at være mit yndlings Neil. Lidt for langtrukkent og kedeligt 2.6

Like me some good rock solos

Bland nothing music like this is so over represented on this list. Not everything these old yt musicians sh*t out is automatically good. Making a record of mostly 6+ minutes of the most generic music you’ve ever heard is the kind of hubris only someone of his demographic could have and could be celebrated for having lmao

I’m starting to discover that I really love Neil Young. The songwriting, warm sound of the music, the beautiful melodies, such great instrumental arrangements… everything is immaculate, spectacular, so moving, so touching, so enjoyable. It is such a fantastic record with so many great songs. I’ve loved every single second of this album. It is simply fabulous. Catchy and virtuous at the same time. So great.

Elvis Costello David Bowie The Guy from Blur Dexy's Midnight Runners Kings of Leon Morrissey The Byrds The Rolling Stones And Neil Young These are some of the bands that are over represented on the list. They all need to be cut down to a few and not all of their work. This album isn't even bad it's a fine album but it's not groundbreaking or notable. It's FAR better than Tonight's the Night. That album is terrible. Go listen to Rust Never Sleeps by him. It's probably his best album.

meh

I dont think i like NY with crazy horse as much as on his own. It’s still objectively good, j not 4 me

I would count myself as a Neil Young fan, and this was the album that got me into him at the time. Neil is a genuine institution, his music is just - real. Does whatever as he feels. Crazy horse aren’t the greatest muso band, and that’s the point - pure rock. And this album still kicks. If you don’t like his “pitchy” limited vocals then I get why you don’t get him, but it’s honest and nothing is fake and that gives you a reality, authentic and emotion. Gloriously sloppy, was going to be high 4 but let’s go all in 5 Star

Neil said that some of the impetus going into this album was that he wanted to play longer solos, have longer instrumental passages, because nobody was doing it at the time. Long instrumental passages is something I generally favor, but I wish the long instrumental passages on this album did more than just repeat the refrain from the album. He never really shreds or takes it anywhere that surprising. The big plus on this album is that the guitars sound great. The production is crisp, the mixing is good, it's fairly enjoyable if you want to listen to some good-sounding guitars. The downside is, I think these songs are all kind of bad, especially the early ones. They feel tossed off ("ragged," if you will) and some of the rather ramshackle vocals from the rest of Crazy Horse are a bit annoying. Because the instrumental passages don't really go anywhere, the longer songs don't really earn their time. Things clean up a little better on the second half of the album, but overall I was still left with a growing sense of exhaustion and wishing I was listening to something else.

Неплохая гитарная музыка. Но сам альбом прошел фоном. переслушивать не вижу смысла - результат будет тот же.

Great production. Super crisp.

Did not grab me

I'm biased having grown up with it, but I think this album has some of Young's best songs.

Oddly, I think I liked the last track the best.

Listening to this made me reread all of my previous Neil Young reviews, and I could just form a word cloud from those and it would accurately rate this album... Annoying vocals - check Musically very good - check Mostly good tracks with a couple of duds - check Enjoyable but not really my thing - check

He sounds tired. They sound tired. I’m tired

Fucking up is so real, but I love Farmer John. I actually laughed out loud

My favorite work of his from his later era. He sounds as good as he did 3 decades before he made this. It slots in really well in the Grunge era as well, with all the noise coming from it. I will say that it feels like a bit of an overindulgent album from him. Songs are all really long and there is a lot of room for solo's and feedback loops and the like. Not that I care or mind, I like Neil Young and artists their 20th-something work is almost always just made for the fans.

Just all pretty meh, didn't stick for me

Quite enjoyable but also quite samey. 3.5

Fairly middling, but fairly rocking. A 2.5 really, but rounding up for general love of Neil.

Long and shite

Muy buen rockcito, y la voz de Neil le da mucho carisma al disco Siempre se mantiene una nota algo cerca del country, probablemente va de la mano con lo lírico pero Crazy Horses de verdad que le mete componentes rock bien ejecutados Dicho eso, como álbum es una muy buena representación del talento del grupo, más no generan nada que llame poderosamente mi atención Mother Nature quiso salirse del molde de lo que en líneas generales aportaron por acá, así que le hago algo de highlight pero de nuevo, nada del otro mundo en mi humilde opinión, pero si lo disfruté y si me parece un álbum revisitable, y en lo que he podido apreciar de la carrera de Neil, me parece que es mi álbum favorito de el hasta ahora

Not the best of Neil Young but there is enough here to make this a worthwhile listen.

Got through the first five songs and basically got the idea. This album is so unremarkable, the songwriting is so boring and the songs seem to go nowhere.

So disappointing. I'd never heard a Neil Young album before but I know his singles and I know what he's capable of. This album is so tedious. It sounds like a high school jam band. There are guitars playing a melody for the intro, then Neil sings a verse in the same melody, then there's a musical interlude of the guitars playing the same melody. So boring. This is Neil's 18th album; he knows better! Why is this so tedious?

I never saw what the fuss was with Neil Young, and today’s album was no exception. This album was exceptionally lame. Think generic 90’s wuss rock mixed with country and western.

Enjoyed the garage sound but not sure how integral this one is for the list.

Neil Young album number 8 before I hit the halfway point. God, what did I do to deserve this? This is fine. Somewhat enjoyable rocking out, ruined only slightly by Neil's voice. Fuck Neil Young's voice. For the 8th time. All I'm saying is, I think there's a lot more inspired rock out there that I'd rather go to instead. Fave tracks: - F*!#in' Up - Over and Over - Love to Burn - Mansion on the Hill - Days That Used to Be - Love and Only Love

this dude does the most random, BAD, shit. way to try to tarnish your legacy, Neil!

It's a Neil Young album, you know exactly what to expect. Like yeah, it's good, but who cares

Generic country/dad rock hybrid album. I don't see how this is grunge. Mid. 2*

I really don’t understand the hate this album gets. Neil Young basically made a grunge album before that whole scene exploded, and Crazy Horse seems to bring out a completely different side of him. His solo stuff can be pretty restrained, but with these guys he gets to turn everything up, drown it in distortion, and live out his rock alter ego for a while. The first half does most of the heavy lifting for me. “Country Home” is a great opener, and maybe I’m a little partial to it because I live far enough out in the country to appreciate having some land and peace and quiet. From there through “Over and Over” is just a really strong run. “Love to Burn” feels more like the Neil Young I’m used to, just stretched out through that Crazy Horse wall of guitar. “Farmer John” sounds like a punk song written by the Beatles. It’s simple, catchy, and completely different from some of the longer guitar workouts around it. Then “Mother Earth” is a beautiful way to end the album. After all that fuzz and noise, suddenly everything settles down. Favorite song: "Over and Over"

I get it, it's classic Americana. Just something about this music that is kind of bland and boring. And I'm realizing I'm really not a fan of Neil's voice. Maybe it's this record in particular that really hits me this way, but this was just kind of meh overall. Reminds me of my friend's high school rock bands that just has the same repetitive sound and gets washed easily.

I don’t like to listen to Neil. The whiny voice is just overwhelming in its truly terrible nasally extreme. In prior musings on Neil (as he is on this list several times), I like the idea of Neil better than Neil. He’s Canadian. He can write some pretty darn fine tunes. He sings like shit. So, with that background, this record goes true to form - mostly. There are some pretty good tunes on this record although the back half suffers from Neil’s decision to include lengthy noodles to extend otherwise good songs unnecessarily. I know that some people like jamming but it’s not jamming when the lengthy jams are recorded mere repeating elements of a scale. There is no tension to be released which is theoretically the goal of the instrumental section in all rock songs. Insert orgasm joke here. Fucking Up is easily the best track on the album in my opinion. It has those Neil elements of a call and response and a pretty good groove. Most importantly it’s a less affected Neil vocal and the solo is mercifully shorter than it could have been. Can’t say the same for Days That Used To Be, but that’s where the album should have ended. Not a terrible record but, again, not an album that belongs on this list. 3/5

I loved this, I knew a couple of the tracks but the majority of it was new to me. Guitar was really brilliant in places.

The 5th Neil Young album?! At least they've been spread out. What is impressive is this sounds solidly like 90s rock before the 90s even really started. It's good, but not great. All starts to sound samey by the end. Some canny guitar. I'd like to drive to this one.

I've not been a huge fan of the Neil Young albums and there's a lot of them. This however, was good fun. The best of his 6 albums that I've heard so far.

As far as rocking Neil is concerned, I prefer Live Rust.

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It has a nice raw feeling, like they did portions of the album in an old-school style of studio recording, so you get a taste of how it would feel live. Love that. I missed this when it originally was released, this is an album I could have really loved at the time. Glad to hear it now. A couple of the jams went a bit long, but overall very good. Mother Earth was like a track from another time with great harmonies. It was like if Mitch Mitchell from the Jimi Hendrix Experience played a gig with CSNY to me.

Neil Young is real hit-or-miss for me. This is a surprise hit. I assumed 1990 Neil Young would be terrible and I'm glad to be wrong.

Another Neil young and Crazy Horse one. I’m not impressed. The singing is not very good on this album and there’s no reason it should be an hour and a half. At least I got some good bass practice out of this. Farmer John is the best tune I reckon.

Okayy

Some lovely songs and singing on this, Country Home and Days that Used to Be at the highlights that I remember. Lovely work. Some of the instrumental sections are nice, but I'd rather Neil be singing, and I can't be doing with the grunge-y guitar, does nout for me.

nothing worth listening to here 0/5

4 out of 5. Not as good as Rust Never Sleeps but I think Neil's albums with Crazy Horse are better than his solo albums.

Country rock not really my thing, but better than pure country!

A consistently good album. 4 stars or B+.

This sucks. I hate how his voice sounds in this. He is just so pitchy across-the-board. You know, the last neil young album I had I thought, actually, this is not that bad. Maybe I'm just being too hard on him. This album confirms exactly what I hate about neil young. It just pissed me off. Like, why the hell is this album even on this list? It's almost unlistenable at points from how bad he is. Like, he manages to be off pitch and off the beat at several points on this album. Thank god the band is at least playing to the tempo. But what else I meant to say about this. It's bad and it wasted my time. Fav Track: Love To Burn

Quite a few of these songs are on the "Weld" live album. I frankly like them better in that setting. It's fine - probably a better than average Neil album, but the live versions are the ones I prefer.

Not a huge fan of Neil Young, but this was ok.

I liked love to burn and the guitar riffs. That’s about it. But maybe this is made to be heard live.

I really hate the drumming, and it's the same on every track. It's like a barrel of vanilla ice cream. I like Farmer John, but the drumming is still shit. Fortunately it's masked by a lot of more interesting noises.

Feels like I found one of my new favorite Neil albums. And it has Fuckin Up. This is great.

Neil Young stays winning, imagine this being your 20th album, probably more than that many years into your career. Taking your sound and making it noisier (and a lot of his stuff is heavy on the distortion already) isn't much of a reach I admit, but it shows a willingness to move with the times and try new things Perfectly suited my being a parentally-responsible two beers deep on a Saturday night Weirdly this album of all of his stuff I've heard so far made me realise I must be a fan, and haters in the review sections just don’t get it

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Neil Young is a treasure and this record rocks. But curious about why this particular Neil Young and Crazyhorse was chosen. Maybe representative of a particular phase? I dunno. Really good, but not like his masterpieces of earlier years.

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Blah country

OK album, men ikke Neil Young på sitt beste

тоже не понял ничего не откликнулось во мне ни разу кто это? 2

Pretty good music. Three stars…

++*: Farmer John ++: Fuckin' Up, Love to Burn, Love and Only Love, Mother Earth (Natural Anthem) +: Country Home, Over and Over, Mansion on the Hill +-: White Line, Days That Used to Be 8,1/10

I don't like his sort of hard rock stuff makes me cringe

More than a couple of times I thought "Hey, this instrumental bit is really nice and interesting and well played and well produced - maybe I'm a Neil Young guy again!" Then those vocals come in like a teenage cat whose voice is breaking at the same as it is scratching its claws on a blackboard. Will take Country House over Country Home any day.

GRUNGE?! this album is grunge?! It sounds like every other Neil Young album. This album could have been written in the 70's 80's or 90's. it does not feel like a moment in time like a lot of grunge does. This feels like a very lazy album.

Not a big fan but there are a few good tunes. A good album.

This was a solid album. I felt more alt-country or southern rock in some spots than grunge, maybe it’s the style of singing or the lyrical content. But there is some range and those aren’t necessarily negatives.

I liked this a lot more than I expected!

Some great long loud jams

(5/7) one long grungy jam

It's always fun to listen to Neil young and crazy horse You can sense almost all the time their commitments to make loud music, that in the first interest- makes them feel good. Having said that, it's not an highlight of his career for me. Some moments are really great. 2, 3 , 7 and 8 are great tracks. But overall not many stands out in this project. While I don't see myself coming back to it soon, it's still worth a listen. Ill give it a 3 today.

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Øs/pøs Neil Young er ikke min favoritt.

I didn’t find any songs on here that I thought were indispensable Neil Young, but I enjoyed them all.

On some level, there may have been expectations set for my listening to this record. After all, I thoroughly enjoyed Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere over a year and a half ago, and Ragged Glory saw Neil and Crazy Horse revisit that record's heavy rock leanings. That comparison proved apt here, as Frank "Poncho" Sampedro's riff-heavy guitar playing and interplay with Neil were just as good as Danny Whitten's. Billy Talbot and Ralph Molina were still as tight a rhythm section as ever, as everyone came together for these exquisite extended jams. I had that feeling going in from checking out "Fuckin' Up" after hearing Pearl Jam cover it live, and the rest of the album was just as fun and infectious. Hell, they even get away with covering Don and Dewey's "Farmer John" and lifting the live guitar recording from a Farm Aid performance for "Mother Earth (Natural Anthem)". That latter track is an especially potent way to send off the record. All in all, I had as good a time with Ragged Glory as I did with Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere. It's another winning record from the iconic collaboration that is Neil Young and Crazy Horse.

The songs are overly long and the main vocals are awful, but I was going to give it some credit for the sometimes-interesting instrumentation and vocal harmonies. Then Farmer John came on, and that song is just irredeemable.

Has anybody coined the term “proto Pearl Jam”? It explains this album perfectly. Fascinating how Neil Young evolved decade after decade. Little to no filler.

On the one hand, Ragged Glory isn't one of the Neil Young albums that I ever really think of as being particularly great. But on the other hand, without Ragged Glory, we don't get Neil blowing Sonic Youth off the stage night after night on his Weld tour. Probably gets three stars in a vacuum, but I'm giving it extra credit for directly leading to my actual favorite Neil Young album, Weld.

Neils uppgörelse med 80talsrocken, här manifesterad genom det oprocesseserade soundet och nostalgi. Några mickar rakt in i studiorummet och sen bara kör allt live. Det funkar alldeles utmärkt. Sentida Neil är likt Lundell som bäst när han har nåt att slåss emot, ett motstånd att utöva. Crazy Horse hör till de få band jag gärna lyssnar till när de får bredda ut sig och mala på. På många sätt en logisk uppföljare till Everybody knows this is nowhere. Habila låtar där "Mansion on the hill" är bäst. Inte märkvärdigt men bra

Stelbent middle of the road-rock med Young. Det hjälper inte att han försöker skita till det med fuzz och feedback på gitarren.

Neil Young ränknas väl som grungens gudfader? Det väcker vissa tankar. Hur kunde detta leda till Pearl Jam? Vad gick snett? För till skillnad från det flesta klassiska grungeband (nämnda PJ i synnerhet) är ju detta riktigt trevligt. Det finns en replokalskänsla och samtidigt en mognad. Gitarrslingorna sitter som en truckerkeps. Outlaw-country-vobbarna är ofrånkomliga. Spår som förtjänar ett. extra omnämnande: Country Home, Over and over Spår som känns överflödiga: Love to burn, Mother earth (även om miljöaktivism alltid är välkommen). Landar i en fyra med lätt darr på ribban.

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Nice rock music while working

The worst Neil Young album yet. A proper nothing burger here

my favourite young effort so far. pushed a 4 but still dragged and needs singing lessons

Neil Young is an icon of rock. In the 80s he sort of lost his way. However, in the 90s Neil started making great music. This album is with his great band Crazy Horse. This album is really good. Neil doesn’t have a great voice but he has a perfect rock and roll voice. He is a great songwriter. In the music, there is an emphasis on guitars with lots of guitar solos. This is garage rock: guitars, bass and drums. Neil and Crazy Horse make a hell of a racket. Young still believes in the hippie dream of peace and love. There are long songs here but not boring songs. There are many very good songs on this album: fucking up, over and over, love to burn and mansion on the hill. This is a good album. It shows Neil Young in fine form. Four stars