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This feels like such a bummer of an album. It's sad in a way I can't quite describe. It also felt really samesy.
This is mostly background Neil for me, and the record I noticed that almost every song has the same tempo.
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Every track ended in feedback, and every track and pointless pinched harmonics but it was fun
Some quality rock ‘n’ roll. But I still don’t quite understand why he is the most heavily represented artist on this list.
This one was a 3.5, with a few rockin’ tunes, but some variations on previously recorded songs, too. Not unique or ragged enough for glory.
Yep thought this was pretty great really. I know some people dislike his voice but I like it and this album just rocks.
Few albums are so perfectly named. It is ragged. Meandering guitar lines, songs almost on the point of falling apart, cracked harmonies but that’s its imperfect glory. It’s easy to immerse yourself in the music, there’s a real sense of melody and of dynamics. A songwriter and a band taking its next step confidently
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I'm 3 songs in right now, but it was instant disappointment. This generator has made me a fan of Neil Young and Crazy Horse, and reading how this was the big comeback made for eager ears. It's got a bit of a canned sound, though, there's some pretty generic '90s production messing this up, but also it's like Neil's voice is already beyond the point of making new classics. I guess I can see it being on the list because of the historic comeback decades after his prime, but I think it got as far as it did because of fans that had been around for those peak early moments. Droning musical outros make the best of this project, so it's fun that that's basically how it ends. It has about the replay value of a father figure's vasectomy. 2.4/5
I'm not a Neil Young hater, but this is just not a good way to showcase his voice. He's really a lyrics guy, and I think he's most enjoyable with a folksy minimalist backdrop. There's also something about the backup vocals and long guitar solos that made my eyes glaze over. I will never listen to this again and I don't think it's innovative/influential/significant enough to belong here.
the vibe is kind of wholesome and all-american enough that i dig it in parts. ultimately not really my thing, runs so long it drags, and it's not so musically eventful. might've bumped it up a star or two if i was actively crusing down route 66. favorite song is Mansion on the Hill. strong 2
Rating: 6/10 Neil Young does some harder band rockin' instead of the country and folky stuff. It's well made and performed but I found it to be very average, and not my thing. I didn't really care for a lot of the standard length tracks that were more pop attuned, they were fine. The guitar playing here is an obvious strength, so the long tracks with the extended jams were really the highlights to me. It runs long but I wouldn't mind just having the long songs together as a collection. Good enough to be a 3 but it's not something I'm returning to I don't think
Day 397 Liked it a lot, that last song is a honker though. Highlights Fuckin up Mansion on the hill Over and over
I can't with his voice this morning.
Really good music and above average rock (none metal) good guitar reefs andvery enjoyable. I just cant pass his sucky voice.
I used to not like Neil Young, but obviously I like this album and maybe I too can love Neil Young like my hero's of the 80's/90's Alt music scene.
Album #1089 of 1089. Found more than a few hidden gems. Re-heard lots that I hadn't listened to in decades. Listened to lots of albums in their entirety for the first time. Definitely worth the effort. My top 10 all-time: Lucinda Williams - Car Wheels on a Gravel Road Tom Waits - Rain Dogs The Pogues - Rum, Sodomy and the Lash Uncle Tupelo - No Depression Paul Simon - Graceland John Prine - John Prine Van Morrison - Astral Weeks Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Rust Never Sleeps Rush - 2112 David Bowie - The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars
Once again a NY album let down by his whiny voice.
Not big on the country but could have been worse. A couple of crazy long songs tho...
I think I need a shower after this diarrhea.
Wikipedia says this is a grunge record?The first song (Country Home) is definitely not the grungiest... it feels like a Neil Young song. Wikipedia also says this song was written in the 70's, so that would make a lot of sense. Okay. Now we're on to Fuckin' Up. This sounds like a real grunge song. Huh. Who could have known that Neil Young had range (end sarcasm.) Gratuitous solos are here in some of the larger songs! There's a handful of really long tracks that I'm going to assume are similar with extended instrumentals. This was... not as good as I was expecting from the concept of "Neil Young + grunge". I'd rather listen to something else Young did, or an actual grunge act. The two together did not go as well as I'd have thought.
Love Neil Young, probably have all of his albums. While this one is not amongst my favorites, it is still very, very good.
Raw, ragged, extended rockers - excellent!
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certainly a respectable effort to do something different from a group who by this point had more than enough old material to coast on for the rest of their lives. however, it's not particularly a style for me - there's some good lyrics writing and some decent jamming but that's about it.
I kinda of like it. I sometimes hate it. Gotta be in the right mood for it. 3.0
I didn't think I knew this record, but it turns out a lot of the songs here appear on Weld (a live album I really like - which is rare). NY really is one of the all time greats - imagine realising an album this good 25ish years into your career?!
One for me to revisit but a lovely album. Enjoyed the mix of roughness and beauty. I'd not heard Mother Earth before but recognised the melody immediately from an old hymn. Very moving. Going to be generous I think with a 4 star rating.
A heresy I know but this is quite possibly my favourite Neil Young album, either way it’s a four star rating from me…thank you RGP. ❤️❤️❤️❤️ Tom.
I liked Mother Earth (Natural Anthem) a lot. I did not care for Farmer John. Overall I appreciate the skill but it didn't blow me away.
Way too long of an album, especially for someone who seems to struggle to carry a time on this album.
Really why does he have so many albums
Fine, not his or their best work. Just fine. It was kind of an unremarkable album overall.
Oh my word-I don’t care how many Neil Young albums are on here-still don’t care for his lyrics or vocals. And why so many super long tracks?? No, no, no
2.5 neil just shut up man, just shutttttt uppp and let the horse sing for a change
First two songs are kind of a let down for me. Did not expect to enjoy the album after these. Slow burner and a very good listen thereafter. Stand out tracks Fucking Up, Farmer John and Mansion on the Hill
3.5
Definitely not my favourite Neil album we've had this challenge, but it's still some rather solid hard rock stuff, especially after what was apparently a rather dreadful stretch for Neil in the 80s.
I still don't like Neil Young, but his songs with Crazy Horse are more enjoyable to me than his solo career. It's weird, cuz I feel like this album had a lot of elements that I would normally vibe with (some great guitar!) but no.
The music rips. My first impression was that Crazy Horse was carrying the shit out of Neil on this album, but then one element I repeatedly ended up enjoying is how the soft and tender themes in the lyrics contrast with the grungy/heavy instrumentation. Even if the vocals aren't always perfectly sung, I do think Neil is the right man for such a combination. Just don't talk to me about Farmer John. Standouts: Country Home • Over and Over • Love to Burn • Mansion on the Hill • Love and Only Love
I think i can tell that Neil was coming out of a bit of a rut here. Not bad by any measure and lots of songs to enjoy, but he's frequently using this weird vocal affectation that makes him sound deranged in a bad way. There is not a whole lot of variety on here either.
Apart from Farmer John, not a bad album at all.
Good songs, but Young's guitar tone has to be the worst in the history of the guitar!
Nailed the ragged part. The glory needs more work.
I was not expecting this grungey rock sound from Neil young but I was pleasantly surprised
Sounds like literally every other Neil Young album.
Another Neil Young day. I loved the longer jams on this one. Most songs were 40-60% guitar solos, but in a good way. Excellent
Neil strikes again! I tend to favor his stuff with a big dynamic range (Tonight's the Night wya), but this hits like TNT (can you imagine seeing Crazy Horse live in 1990?). The songs are solid, "White Line" is the perfect driving companion, Phil Elverum found dead after hearing "Mother Earth"? And as I texted Bill: I’d rather listen to 24 hours of Neil’s squealing guitar than 1 more hour of Dr Octagon.
Better than expected.
Some jammy Uncle Neil. Not bad 3.5 stars
7eme album avec NY, aussi inintéressant que les autres. Dans wikipedia cet album est classé en grunge, vaste blague ! Par contre c’est le dernier en ce qui me concerne !! Enfin fini avec cet artiste surreprésenté. =>2/5
mja.
Not Neil Young's best.
One of the few Neil Young albums I loved on first listen. Neil and the band are hold these jams out as long as they need to go and not a note longer.
Nearly a year into this and I still don't really understand why I like some things but not others. Maybe it is confirmation bias - but Neil Young just seems to care more than all the pop I've listened to recently? I enjoyed this on a rainy Saturday morning and it feels like it has more to give on subsequent listens.
It's OK but I prefer his non-Crazy Horse stuff.
Good rockin' country, and very self-indulgent at times - did any of those tracks need to be over 8 minutes long? Not my jam, but not offensive. Eh.
There’s an accidental beauty to Ragged Glory: Neil Young becomes completely Neil Young at almost exactly the moment being completely Neil Young becomes modern again. Coming straight after Freedom and “Rockin’ in the Free World”, this could have gone horribly wrong. Young suddenly had an audience of younger musicians taking distortion, abrasion and singer-songwriter material into places that owed quite a lot to him. The embarrassing response would have been to notice and start sounding a little more like them. Instead he gets Crazy Horse together and makes an album almost magnificently unconcerned with whether anybody still wants Neil Young and Crazy Horse to sound like Neil Young and Crazy Horse. Meanwhile, I can imagine younger bands putting this thing on for each other and going, “Yeah. This is cool, man.” He doesn’t move towards the moment. The moment moves towards him. Crazy Horse make perfect sense as a band built around somebody who essentially writes songs on an acoustic guitar. They don’t elaborate them. They give them mass. “Country Home” could probably be over in half the time with Neil and an acoustic, but Crazy Horse find a pocket and stay there, accreting dirt, abrasion and tiny variations until the sound itself becomes the action. The songs are loud without becoming punk, have attack without becoming metal, and breathe without becoming elaborate. These are rocked-up acoustic songs. There’s almost an anti-virtuosity to the whole recording. Each song sounds less like the definitive studio master than take X of however many: keep playing it until somebody says, yeah, that’s the one. The pauses, ragged entries and rough guitar edges remain because nobody is wasting time polishing away what made the performance worth keeping. That turns out to be important, because time is really what this album is about. Neil Young knows what time does to people, including himself. “Love to Burn” is Grumpy Pants Neil as relationship counsellor: if you’ve built something real, don’t fuck it up. You haven’t got forever to start the whole process again. “Days That Used to Be” is about the quieter danger: don’t rock the boat, settle for things, make a thousand little accommodations, then discover they’ve carried you a hundred thousand miles from the person you used to be. “Mansion on the Hill” even reaches back musically towards “Southern Man”, less swung and more planted but harmonically strikingly familiar, as though Young has wandered into his woodworking shop, picked up an old shape and thought, mm-hm, that’ll do. Appropriate for a song about ageing and wanting some connection with the person you used to be. This is learned veracity. Artists often begin simply, become sophisticated, then confuse complication with progress. If they last long enough, the good ones sometimes come back to simplicity because they’ve finally realised who they are is sufficient. Ragged Glory is Neil Young absolutely there. “Over and Over” needs remarkably little to express the sufficiency of another person. “White Line” is the simple pleasure of movement and American escape. “Farmer John” is gloriously boneheaded, loping along with something of the gait of the early Modern Lovers’ “Pablo Picasso”. Its boneheadedness is the point. Then there’s “Fuckin’ Up”, where the Godfather of Grunge title suddenly sounds less like retrospective journalism and more like a simple description. Young howls like a dog, Crazy Horse yell back, and the band don’t develop the song conventionally so much as keep turning up the pressure and accreting frenzy through dirt. The call and response reminds me of the way Bryan Ferry gets progressively more frantic in “Re-Make/Re-Model” while the rest of Roxy shout CPL 593H back at him. It sounds as if another mistake could happen at any second, which is precisely what a song called “Fuckin’ Up” ought to sound like. By “Love and Only Love”, the album has reduced its argument to almost embarrassing simplicity. You weren’t listening when Neil said it quietly, so he and Crazy Horse are going to say it again very, very loudly. Love gets you where you’re going. Hate is exactly what you think it is. Stop fucking about. The long, ragged performance doesn’t complicate the message; it makes evasion increasingly difficult. And then “Mother Earth (Natural Anthem)” widens the whole thing beyond individual lives and relationships to the ecosystem sustaining them. The sustained guitar chords behave almost like pedal notes on an organ, leading the voices through the changes, and the whole song becomes a hymn: praise for where we live and a warning about our folly. Its folk language feels ancient, sitting on the same broad family tree as songs like “Dirty Old Town”: melodies and drones that seem inherited rather than invented. You could imagine arranging it remarkably easily for bagpipes. The harmonic language feels as old as the hills that will remain after we’ve made them useless to us. Young was worrying at this territory as far back as After the Gold Rush. Again: you were told. You weren’t listening. That’s why the form and function of Ragged Glory match so completely. The lyrics keep saying that time is finite, that people drift, that love needs acting upon, that what sustains us shouldn’t be squandered. Crazy Horse make the record according to exactly the same principle. Get the songs down or spend a year fussing over overdubs. Don’t sand away the truth. This is what we have. Mean it while it’s here. For all its extraordinary timeliness in 1990, Ragged Glory hangs outside time. Young doesn’t adapt himself to a new generation of noisy American guitar bands. He simply becomes most completely himself at precisely the point his time comes round again. ★★★★★ — and one of those records that makes me want an imaginary sixth star simply for being so brilliantly itself.
Not my fave type of Neil Young album - bit too "dad rock" sorry!
remember that part in first reformed where the evil oil guy is like "you attended a funeral where they sang an environmental protest song by neil young??"
Country Home 3.8 White Line 3.7 Fuckin' Up 4 Over and Over 4 Love to Burn 4.1 Farmer John 4.1 Mansion on the Hill 3.6 Days That Used to Be 3.5 Love and Only Love 4.2 Mother Earth (Natural Anthem) 3.4 Score: 3.84
not my favorite Neil Young but overall enjoyed
3.5
this didn’t do anything for me, it felt really bland to me
I actually enjoy this more than Rocking in the Free World. It represents the best of Neil Young’s “grunge” era. And ya, it’s a Neil Young album so I’m giving it 5 stars
3.5/5
You gotta have an open mind. And the volume up. Ragged Glory isn’t trying to please you. It’s Neil Young + Crazy Horse locked in a barn, recording dirty rock with no tricks, no clock, no rules. There are 10-minute songs because they were having fun and nobody told them to stop. It’s distortion, it’s jams, it’s one line repeated until it becomes a mantra. "Love to Burn", "Fuckin' Up", "Over and Over" aren’t really songs — they’re group therapy with the guitars cranked to 11. Neil is iconic for exactly this: when everyone in the 80s was making perfect, polished records, he went back to the dirt. Imperfect, loud, and real. If you want easy melodies, skip it. If you want to feel 4 guys playing together in one room, this is one of the greatest rock albums of the 90s. Rating: 9/10. For those who get it.
A fantastic garage country(?) album, from, quite possibly the best people for the job. Crazy Horse were a band prior to collaborating with Neil Young, but it truly does feel like he completes them. His shaky voice, and damaged songs pair beautifully with Crazy Horse's looseness and paradoxical intensity. They play guitars that sound like burning sawdust while completely locked into some kind of groove that is *perpetually* falling apart. Ragged Glory is the album that galvanized Neil Young's comeback on Freedom into a string of several great albums which would define his '90s. On Ragged Glory, Neil Young's game was to get Crazy Horse sloppier, louder and perhaps even more cathartic than ever. I recall hearing a good old fashioned rock and roll myth that an earthquake struck during the last recording session for Ragged Glory, but they were playing with such volume and intensity that it could be neither heard nor felt. I have no idea if this is true; but it does prepare you for the attitude of this album. This is *really* rootsy country rock, played with building leveling force. I will say that I haven't clicked with every song here, but the overall quality is pretty incredible. Hearing Crazy Horse lock in on some improv on most of these songs is also a real treat, they have a soloing language all their own. One minor weird thing, I think the main riff on Over and Over got lifted (as tribute) by Sonic Youth for Diamond Sea. I can't prove this, but the two bands have played together, and if you listen to them, the resemblance is striking. Anyways, I love this as a true blue "Rock" record. Even if I haven't clicked with everything, the philosophy, sound, energy (and honestly most of the songs here) are pretty fantastic.
Wouldn't listen to this again
Look, I don't mind Neil Young. There's a lot of him on this list, which I don't get, but whatever. But could someone please reach out to him and let him know that songs don't always have to be 10 minutes long?
I fear I'm just not in the mood for this. No album needs multiple 10 minute long songs. It's not chill enough rock and its not heavy enough rock. DNF 4/10
Not a classic to me, but pretty solid.
Not a bad album but probably the least I've been interested in a Neil Young album so far. It blends together and gets quite samey. Maybe I wasn't in the right mood for it Highlights: Fuckin Up
Good rock record with some soul released at a time when that was hard to come by. I'll admit I'm not the biggest Neil Young fan but this is a good one.
Very good record. Not a 5 star classic but great album
Not a single syncopation to be found.
Okay, I'll write something. Heavy, dark, anthemic. A guitar feast. A seamless album. After Neil Young had broken free with the outstanding 1989 album Freedom and left the very difficult 80s behind, he rediscovered his true strength in 1990 with Crazy Horse. In a few square meters, heads together, just playing. Pure garage rock, recorded in a barn at the Broken Arrow Ranch. Loud, with lots of feedback and no later overdubs, mostly in one take. The old Fender amplifiers produced a warm, but very rough sound. The live effect was captured by the many microphones placed around the room. After Neil had written the song for the political change in the formerly socialist countries with "Rockin' in the Free World" on the 1989 album Freedom, he brought everyone on the planet down to earth with Ragged Glory. What is this all about on God's beautiful Earth? It's about friendship, trust, family, peace, and the nature that encompasses us all. He wrote most of the songs in just one week. I could discuss each song individually, but I'll use "Love and Only Love" as an example. This 10-minute song is an absolute smash hit and is often played even longer at concerts. In my memory of those concerts, the audience is always completely wild, and many sing along from the bottom of their hearts. If it were always like that, these damned wars wouldn't exist anymore! The song's core message is that hate is a dead end of suffering, while only love has the power to break down barriers and be strong. "Love and only love will endure/Hate is everything you think it is/Love and only love will break it down" Okay, one more very important song: "Mother Earth (Natural Anthem)" is a powerful environmental and protest song, played on the old pump organ. The song is a minimalist, anthemic plea for the protection of nature and warns of the destructive consequences of human greed. One of the central lines is: “Respect Mother Earth and her giving ways / Or trade away our children’s days.” The album is epic. The record became the epitome of the grunge movement. Many young musicians later hailed Neil as their hero, and the press coined the term "Godfather of Grunge."
Musically, I mostly enjoyed this, but I cannot stand Neil Young's voice. (3)
This one is interesting because I don't care for Neil Young's voice. I can see why he's known for his songwriting, but his voice is just too unrefined for me. Although I listened to an acoustic performance and liked it.
Rambly rock with a southern tinge
Incredible 10/5
Damn this was awesome, neil at it again. It sounded to me like Powderfinger but with more noise and crunchy guitar which was epic.......
kinda boring, i think i just don't like this kind of folk rock. the song lyrics also just aren't that interesting to me? some of the guitar playing is nice i guess
Here’s Neil Young album #4 - just two more to go. Sometimes this project feels like an endurance test. But that’s not fair - these guys are good musicians, and it’s enjoyable in that way that you’d enjoy a country rock band if you were several pints in at a noisy bar with some friends on a hot summer night. It does feel like a live band, with some buzziness and long instrumental jams. Sure, this is a great album. But I probably should be experiencing it with beer rather than coffee.
Not really a great effort from Neil, I'm afraid. It's fine but not at all essential listening.
I loved the opener “country home” but the jangly classic rock guitar wore on me after a while. This is era of Neil is listenable, but not my favorite.
At his best, Neil Young is as good as any of the political folk bards of his time. More frequently, he is old man grampa having a good time with his old guitar. This is one of those albums. That's not to say it's bad. It's just that the man has a lot of albums that exist purely because he can, and it's a weird choice to pull this one out and not the previous album, where we have some of his best late career songs, rocking in the free world and the absolutely lovely Wrecking Ball, or the next, which features his lovely Harvest Moon. Instead, we have this one, an album that i apparently heard in 2024 and completely forgot about except for adding “over and over” to my Playlist that year. To be fair, over and over -is- a solid Neil young song, some good guitar, not too stilted with the lyrics (the album starts with the most Old Man Neil Young verse possible in Country Home… it's a risk), and you don't really realize how long it is until its almost done. And Fuckin’ Up is a late career classic, if less so than the ones I mentioned. Or maybe I'm just too much of a Pearl Jam fan to not feel like it's iconic, having heard Eddie do a version in a few places. But it's the little things that make this feel grandad. The “oh-ah-oh” in Farmer John, for example, sounds like a drunk at an outdoor festival singing along (the song itself doesn't really redeem itself in general, a generic stomp). The incredibly simple rhymes. The songs here either sprawl out with the full Crazy Horse band or are so small as to feel goofy. It's a risk with Neil, sadly. Which is a shame, because weirdly, if we condensed this down to half-ish (side one, Over and Over/Love to Burn, side two, fuckin up and the final two tracks), this could be pretty strong. It's just too mixed a bag. ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Absolutely no need for this on the list
Lost count of how many Young albums I’ve now heard thanks to this list. This version of him from the 90s is new to me, and unsurprisingly it’s not a patch on the 70s one. The guitars are a little softer, the voice is a little weaker, and there’s none of the creativity I’ve heard in older stuff. Having said, it’s a perfectly pleasant listen, just not especially memorable.
6/10
This is... Fine dad rock, I guess. The music is fine, very good at times. Don't love the vocals too much.
I feel like I've listened to a lot of Neil Young through this generator. I never hate it particularly, but some of this did seem to go on a bit. Two tracks hitting 10 minutes was probably overkill. Despite the multiple listens, I'm still not sure if I'm sold on his voice, sometimes really impassioned and worthy of listening, often whiny.
I've had plenty of good experiences with Neil's other albums on this list, so I hope this one's equally good. Immediately, this strikes me as different from other Neil Young albums; it's his rawest and loudest record on this list. While After the Gold Rush was mostly folky and political, this album is a torrent of guitar noise linked with introspective lyrics on songs like "F*!$in' Up" and "Love to Burn". And it's a great album. Young has a surprising flexibility across genres from acoustic country- folk to garagey alt-rock- and his emotive songwriting shines through on all of them. I can't help but like his signature vocal delivery and lyricism in all its, well, "Ragged Glory". This is my favorite of all the electric Young albums(with Crazy Horse) on the list. This album is ranked #14 of 22 albums for 1990. Other 1990 albums rated by me: People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm(2/22)-5 Heaven or Las Vegas(3/22)-4 Bossanova(4/22)-5 Fear of a Black Planet(5/22)-5 Shake Your Money Maker(6/22)-2 I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got(7/22)-4 The La's(12/22)-3 En-Tact(22/22)-1
I enjoyed the energy on this album more than the actual music, but all in all not a bad album. 3 stars.
Favorite Track: Mansion on the Hill
This isnt a two in the sense that its a bad record, just doesn't stand up to the rest of his catalog.
Väldigt medel, känns som de försöker köra lite "hårdare" här utan att det tillför något till soundet
Tidvis lite märkligt men lika ofta bra.
Nordamerikas Lars Winnerbäck? Men inte riktigt lika bra.
Damn it! Somehow lost my comment on this. Ok, to make it short: can't stand his voice, music's ok, even if a bit simple.
Never listened to Ragged Glory, but listened to Weld a lot, where most of these songs are played live, with pretty much the same sound. Prefer Weld as an album for fantastic versions of "Cortez the Killer" and "Powderfinger" among others. But this is my favorite Neil Young sound: rough, bone-crunching guitars, Summer of Love harmonies. It's a really good album, but I'd rank a few others higher, and he's probably over represented on this list anyway.
I am a Neil Young enthusiast and I can acknowledge this album is not exactly "essential." But it is really fucking good. And well-timed; Ragged Glory came out right before the grunge explosion and it helped solidify Neil's status as the "godfather of grunge." This album also set the pace for the next few decades of what a Neil Young album would sound like -- fuzzed out guitars and warbly vocals backed by a killer rhythm section. There's not much else I really could ask for.
I listened to this album so much back when n it came out. I'd been a fan of his, but there was a period in the 80's where he was all over the place. Finally with Freedom, and then Ragged Glory, I felt he was back. It was fairly short lived though. I liked his next few albums but they weren't as amazing as these two. And I always preferred Ragged Glory to Freedom too. The only song I don't absolutely love on the album is Farmer John, but I also don't hate it. The album has amazing singing and playing and it's raw and rough throughout. And any album with the song Fuckin' Up is perfectly fine with me. I'm really glad this made the list.
Nothing special.
It does sound different from his other albums on this list so far.
The brief showed that this was his 20th album, and this was 36 years ago, which made me look more at his discography. Damn! Neil Young has 52 albums, releasing one at most every other year at most (except for a 3 year hiatus just before the turn of the millenium), and sometimes multiple albums a year! This one is billed as one of the original seeds of grunge, which tracks on listening to it.
buy on vinyl: No Standard Neil Young. It's perfectly fine, but doesn't really stand out as anything particularly special or different.
Metal country? Kinda hell yeah
I think I might be a Neil Young fan, but I'll say that hesitantly. I really liked his sound on this one, a slightly more bold, heavy output which really worked. Some great solos in there too, I'll come back to this one. Favourites: Over and Over Love to Burn
alright
The grandpappies of grunge
Man I hate his voice. This isn't as bad as his usually whiny BS but it's still not good. 2/5.
I fail to understand how this list justifies having 8 of this guys records on it. (Solo, & Crazy Horse, CSN&Y) I've listened to three of them and so far they all suck.
8/10
Was there not a single person in Neil's orbit who was like, "Neil, buddy, you're not a singer."
I swear the author of this list would put an album comprising of nothing but recordings of Neil Young taking a shit on here if such a thing existed.
good and enjoyable
I've got Neil Young fatigue. This is the 4th album I've had by him and they're all decent enough but nothing special. Some nice guitar work in this album and the vocals aren't too bad either. Another middle of the road album, though.
Very forgettable This failed to leave any kind of impression on me. The tracks were extremely skippable. The guitar solos lacked any kind of awe factor. This feels like an album trapped in a very particular genre and what it is it certainly isn't hard rock or alt rock as suggested above. The vocals are that typical country drawl that either indicates to me someone can't sing but should replace it with some kind of lyrical immersion, some storytelling, something. The Long songs are too long and the short songs fail to capture interest. Farmer John may just be the worst song I've every heard. Just Meh. So meh.
It's not Neil at his absolute best is it. At times it's fairly MOR rock, although it's nice to hear him move with the times with some proto-grunge on occasion. At other times, being Neil Young, it's still really excellent, and of course the lyrics and vocals remain one-of-a-kind. From anyone else, you'd be a touch dismissive of this, but I think it's fair to consider it alongside the rest of his catalogue and recognise its place.
Yea good as always. Nothing to rave about however
Correcto
gorgeous
Just good, clean classic rock.
I think I really don’t care about a Neil Young, this had no silver lining for me.
this feels very flat and I don't like his voice on these songs
3,5/5
Dismissed the album until yesterday. I love all of his 70s work but 70s bands still making music in the 90s reeked of aged out bands trying to stay relevant (see Rolling Stones). Well, I guess I was wrong because this album is great.
Not a huge Neil Young fan, so this one fell a little flat for me. No realy standout songs that grabbed me.
Det vise sæ at æ helt klart foretrekk tidlig folk-Neil Young mer enn garasjerock-Neil Young, for et bråk.
Heard Fuckin' Up before. I wasn't so thrilled about a random 90s Neil Young album being on the list. But I think I just enjoy Neil's music no matter what because I had a good time listening to the album. Also a very random statement: some songs sound almost British? Hard to explain. All that being said, I'm not giving it a very high score because does this list really need so many albums from Neil? And two 10 minute long songs are a bit too much 2/5
Man, "Love to Burn" sure sounds like is has the guitar riff to "Rockin' In the Free World" I could have sworn "Mansion on the Hill" came from the 70's... Crazy Horse is one of the few bands that makes a 10-minute long song, and I think "That could have gone on a while more". Easily my favorite era of Neil Young's career. This album is amazing.
After a decade of Shakey's shaky experiments, Neil Young and Crazy Horse take their sound from the '70s to the '90s - there's clarity as ever, only made more furious and sentimental (ragged, perhaps?) by a bit of age. A great, expansive, record. Favourite tracks: Fuckin' Up, Over And Over, Farmer John, Love And Only Love (Neil's best song not from the '70s), Mother Earth
I really have a poor response to youngs voice. The saving grace here is the material which is above par. Somehow a regression of form is an improvement.
Neil Young lowered the bar with this album
I’ve found when I like a Neil Young song, I really connect with it. Which is really just the one album I keep finding as I hear more Neil Young.
I think this was our second Neil Young album. I don’t remember anything from the first one, I’ve already forgotten everything about this one.
I like my Neil Young without Crazy Horse
4/5 https://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/neil-young-crazy-horse/ragged-glory/ Each time I listen to a Neil Young album in this list, I wonder why I didn't do it much earlier. This is cool! I really like heavier Neil.
Rock but boring except one song.
I like Neil Young in this mode - heavy and drone-y but not fully making ugly anti-music. Over and Over is awesome. Farmer John is unbearable. Mother Earth is both awesome and unbearable?
Some nice moments but oh my god Neil, these songs do not need to be 10 mins. Thought the final track was stellar tho!
Mr 21 here bought me these new shoes
Honestly, this shit rocked
4★/5 [07.15.2026] 07.17.2026
Not another Neil Young album! I can’t even remember how many I’ve had so far, but it’s at least 4. At this point, I would be happy to never listen to another Neil Young album again.
Parece que já ouvi centenas de álbuns de Young nessa lista. O autor realmente adora o seu trabalho. Não tenho nada contra, é só uma observação, e é inegável que a saturação afeta um pouco minha opinião do que vou ouvir. Primeiramente, preciso dizer que aprecio a variedade musical de Young. Mesmo com o excesso de discos dele na lista, eu não sinto necessariamente uma fadiga ao ouvi-lo. Até então, eu pelo menos gostei de todos seus álbuns. Esse não é exceção. Na verdade, ele talvez seja meu favorito dele até então. Gosto da atitude do disco. Sua garra, seu jeito sem remorso e sem desculpas. Pois há nele imperfeições, o próprio Neil não é reconhecido por sua proeza vocal, mas tudo isso adiciona uma camada esfumaçada e suja que casa muito bem com a estética do disco e da banda. Destaca-se também a espontaneidade das gravações aqui. É como se eu estivesse ouvindo eles na minha frente. Produção analógica e gravação ao vivo fazem toda a diferença em um disco como esse, que busca autenticidade e espírito. Tom de guitarra mais tesudo que já ouvi na vida. Parabéns Young e Cavalo. 5/5
I don't think I've ever listened to an album that has been so benign yet has made me so genuinely annoyed. And to top it off there's no Crazy Horse anywhere in this stupid album! or even anything that has the ENERGY of a Crazy Horse. Total disappointment
album #97 every song on this album is like a 7 year old's last place submission to a short story contest put to music. also, 4/10 songs being around 10 minutes long is diabolical for a neil young album. it's torture. the only reprieve was how much the song "father john" made me laugh. ꩜ average track rating: 0.0/5 ꩜ favourite track(s): N/A ꩜ least favourite track(s): love to burn ꩜ album rating: ★☆☆☆☆ ꩜ number of albums left to review: 992 ꩜ number of albums from the list that i agree with being on the list: 47 ꩜ albums from the list that I would consider on my list: 22 ꩜ albums from the list I won't include on my list: 75
What a fucking travesty. This album plays on some sort of nostalgia that does not exist. It is uninspired. It is boring. And it is just playing bad. Neil may have been prolific but the magic does not last forever I suppose.
Better than Coldplay
The rock and roll was nice, but the vocals were a bit unpolished in my personal onion.
The Godfather of Grunge proves once again why he’s one of the greats. The way Crazy Horse is able to extend these songs, some to over ten minutes, without them ever seeming stretched thin is impressive. Neil’s guitar absolutely shreds here. Favorites were Country Home, F*!#in Up, Over And Over, Love To Burn, and Days That Used To Be.
Boring and too country. 1.9
this is not grunge?
2 stars - at least Crazy Horse sounded pretty good
Neil Young garage rock grunge. This is an hour of Neil Young and Crazy Horse jamming on songs live with little engineering or production. The songs are long with relatively simple chord progressions and sections of verse, chorus solo...repeat. This is ok but nowhere as impressive as his earlier work.
The voice is a struggle. But just sounds like a group of old buddies having fun playing music together.
There is a distinctive sound and approach to this album that I do respect. It has a lot of alt-country in it, but it also has the distortion and some of the approach of grunge. Plus, it has lots of jamming and guitar solos. The latter of which I'm not a fan of, personally, but I can respect what Young was trying to do. Of course, he didn't know grunge music and the 90's would bring back a lot of rock, but he also wasn't wrong about where popular music was headed more generally.
This is a country album pretending to be a grunge album, in a very cringe-inducing way. The kind of album your friend's mom would listen to and think about how it's super heavy or edgy, when the "edge" it has feels incredibly fake and shallow. And that's before getting into the fact that half the songs are at least 2+ minutes too long with some of the least interesting guitar solos I've heard. Milquetoast and generally uninspiring
Just brilliant. There is no one like Neil. He has facets and this album happens to inhabit the noisy rocking edge of chaos one of those. It’s a glorious and exciting ride. More please.
I usually like Neil Young a lot but this one almost feels like he's sounding like REM at times. Not my favourite and could've been cut from the list.
Neil Young is great, and has many albums on this list. This one is unnecessary.
I always wish I like Neil young more than I do but find his albums a bit of a chore
Zuhause, Gerstetten, Deutschland. Tolle Platte!
I don't think I am ever going to love Neil Young, but this album was pretty good. A heavier sound than other Neil Young on this list, some head-nodding, foot-tapping rock and roll, although all the songs are basically the same. I absolutely couldn't tell which track was which if I had a sample of each.
Neil Young - the only man to beat Len Houmous at Monopoly. 4.2 4/10 Over and Over
Fuck yeah Neil Young, THIS is what I was waiting for, Godfather of Grunge in the era now, the distortion is fully here and its the best album on the list so far with Neil Young. Looking back at the ones I've gotten so far, its only with the Crazy Horse link up that I give higher than a 3. Together they got the sauce.
Really nice album, thank you!
I struggle with Neil Young. I definitely prefer rocking out Neil Young to singer-songwriter Neil Young, but his weedy vocals don't do justice to the music.
lange Jams, verzerrte Gitarren, viel Raum, wenig Überraschung. Genau darin liegt aber auch das Problem – es ist solide, aber unspektakulär, fast schon stoisch im eigenen Groove. Ein ehrliches, raues Album ohne besondere Höhepunkte.
**An ok album
I do like neil young especially with crazy horse
Hmm, so long. Not bad but nothing grabs you, until over and over. Not getting the grunge label either. Just lacks something, oddly maybe if his voice a bit more polished. 3 Heard before? No Owned: No, 88/337 (26%) Will I get: No
90s rock.
Good guitar, good vocals, good writing. I always like Neil.
I immediately connected with this album. I have not listened to much NY&CH, but it's clear that they were heavily influential on bands I like such as Son Volt.
F*!#in’ Up is my new favorite song. Ragged Glory is my new favorite grunge album.
not my fave neil young, but a worthwhile listen
Neil young sucks ass
🥱 bland
I didn’t like the opening track, Country Home, at all but after that I enjoyed every track but maybe a few of them went on a bit too long. Top Track - Mother Earth ( Natural Anthem)
The last song is great…
Never been a fan of Neil Young, but have I really given it a chance. OK. Open mind. Fairly generic rock. Boring. Neil's voice is pretty bad and whiny. I'm angry now. Bah.
I really like this until he starts singing 🙁
Probably a good thing David was on safari for this... Anyway, it's a great album, but arguably the least essential of the many of his we've had on the list.
classic from start to finish
4/10 not my style
I enjoyed this much more than I thought I would. As much as I like his more country/folky stuff, this harder edge/grungy stuff was very satisfying. I'd definitely listen to it again.
This album is... fine. It has some solid jams on it, but my god does this album really deserve to be on the list above so many other deserving records? I really like Neil Young, but he is already clearly over-represented in the book. Then to put on a late-career jam record without any major hits? Completely insane. I could see this as a must-listen specifically for Neil Young fans, it certainly represents and interesting return to form in his career, but it is absolutely NOT a must-listen for everyone. Musically this album is a 3/5, but in the context of being a "must hear before you die" it's a 1/5.
It’s a Neil Young album. Feels a little generic, tbh. None of the tracks is very different from any of the others or from any number of other Neil Young albums. It’s fine.
So my understanding is that this is like the founding father of grunge ? Or maybe the album that made grunge popular idk. I think the jam session on this album are the best part of it. By far. No lyric really sticked out to me but I also didn't do a lot of work on reading through them, so I'm willing to change my mind :) Good album over all, didn't revisite it super often but I still have a good opinion of it
Neil Young does not have a great voice but it works well with his songs and music. Songs sound like drinking beer at a dive bar. “Love and Only Love” is a bit long. Seems as though that could have been saved for a concert.
The aptly named Ragged Glory is “Farmer John” away from a 5. All the other songs are fantastic. The Horse is in peak form; loose but locked in. This kicked off Neil’s third act and he’s still kicking ass. So great.
I want to get off the Crazy Horse. Please.
I like this better than his other offerings. But why is there a Neil Young album from 1990 on here? And why does he have 9 entries on this list from his solo work and all his group albums. Thats absolutely crazy.
This is just ok. Classic folk I suppose - I can see why some people might like this, but not my cup of tea
A garage/grunge stomper that ranks with Young's very best work. Essential.
Bit of a let down
Another great effort by NY&CH. Really liked a lot of this one.
This is my favourite Neil Young effort so far. On paper the folk/country sound along with his weak vocals don’t make for a great album but somehow it all works. Loved the songs that rambled on.
Extended fuzzed out and distorted Neil Young solos you say, I’m in!
I have loved Neil Young as long as I can remember. Even Trans and The Shocking Pinks. Yet I somehow have never heard this album. I know most of the songs from the live album Weld. If you want to make the argument Neil is the godfather of grunge, this album would be a good choice to support that. Neil with Crazy Horse is some seriously great noise.
Best Song: Mansion on the hill I woke up this morning thinking, "you know what Canadian rocker I haven't listened to in awhile, mostly because his voice drives me crazy and his music are very milquetoast, that's right Neil Young." This is another Neil Young album. It's nothing special, nothing great, and does very little for me. I will never listen to it again. But, it's fine. I mean, it's pretty standard rock that has no place on this list as it does NOTHING special for music. In my opinion, like Elvis Costello, this is an example of the author losing their objectivity and putting in artists they enjoy over artists that made relevant contributions to music. Add into that not one, but two ten+ minute long songs - bleh. 3/5 for being someone's thing (the author for one) but not mine.
This rocks pretty hard, but I'm not sure how much I would revisit this album. The beats and chord progressions are pretty simple. Maybe a 3.5
I didn’t think I liked Neil Young, but this album hit differently. I love the guitar tones. I’ll bump it to a 4 because it surprised me.
El retorno del padrino del Grunge, aconpañado de los también esenciales Crazy Horse. Previamente había resucitado con Freedom, otro excelente disco, pero aquí rayó a una altura muy superior a la del resto de músicos coetáneos. Inició una racha que ha mantenido hasta hoy. En los 90 era simplemente imbatible. Country Home ya era un clásico antes de ver la luz. Hay muchos temas geniales más: Love to Burn, Mansion on the Hill, Fuckin´ up... en realidad cualquiera. Un álbum disfrutable de principio a final. Muy recomendable escuchar el directo Weld. Cuando te metes un tema de Neil y los Crazy que empieza a coger altura y supera los 5 minutos hasta los 10 o 15 es una experiencia inigualable. ¿Su mejor disco? Palabras mayores, pero este está siempre en su top-5.
Sure is a Neil Young album, all right. Solid 4 Stars.
I’m at a 4.5 that I’ll bump up to a 5. One’s enjoyment of this album will depend on how much you end up liking the pace / structure here, which leans less towards the lyricism Neil Young is typically known for (though it’s still quite well-written, just more simple), & leans more towards the atmosphere created by its extended jam session-style solos. These tracks are all pretty long as a result, creating an air around most tracks that could usually be trimmed down. However, I never found myself quite as bothered by it as I’d normally be. Part of it is trusting Neil Young from all the albums we’ve gotten from him so far, part of it is being 894 albums in & being much used to longer songs, & part of it is just from the joy / energy that seems to be present in those longer solos. The percussion could do a bit more, but the guitar work here is generally really strong, albeit slightly overreliant on reverb & holding onto certain notes & then panning around. The only track that really bothered me was “Farmer John”, as it just feels too plain without evolving in any way throughout the track to warrant its inclusion here. The only track that kinda broke me due to its length was “Love to Burn”, since the last third of the 10-minute track just kinda treads water & repeats verses in a way that doesn’t meaningfully add anything. Those two tracks are why I’m at a 4.5 – the rest of them are all good to great in my book, with my favorites probably being “Days That Used to Be” & “Love and Only Love”; the former is just a really good critique of letting your physical possessions define & drive your happiness compared to the simple life of the past, & the latter is just super fun to do air guitar to despite the full 10 minutes. It helps that the message feels a bit needed. Overall, I did enjoy this one. I do think it could’ve been trimmed down, especially on some of its more meandering moments, and I think the floor here is very easily a 3. I might go down to a 4 someday if some of these tracks just feel too long on future relistens in ways that dilute the actual experience, but for now, I feel like it warrants a bump up to a 5, if only because I liked a lot of the messaging here & the guitar work, while a bit of a two or three-trick pony, is just effective enough to vibe out to. Is it a grunge album? No, not really. It’s got grunge elements, but it’s very much a Neil Young album with a slightly more underground feel to it, and it’s a mixture that works well enough for me. Hence, a 4.5 bumped up to a 5.
He rocks out and he does it for over an hour, still jamming into the '90s, and it sounds pretty full and awesome to listen to for me
ебаная американщина с ебаными американскими гитарами с ебаными американскими фермерами и их дочерьми (вероятно тоже америкосы)
Good Canadiana
pretty good Neil Young. Not an album I'm familiar with at all, but I could leave this running without complaint
Country rock, ale nie dla mnie.
Нил Янг сюда чиназес
5/10
Unspectacular.
Can see the merits - the Godfather of Grunge releasing a Grunge-y album in '90 - but I don't think this is as strong as his 70s stuff.
I mean, it’s not bad as albums go, but it’s absolutely not stand out in anyway. I cannot work out why it deserves a place on this list as it brings nothing fresh or new to the table that the other 57 Neil Young inclusions to this list have brought.
Nah
I kinda loved this album. This is the first Crazy Horse album i've heard so far, and I know their output has been quite vast, but i'm glad I arrived at the true grunge stage of their discography. The jam band aspect of this album is great, love long winding droney songs that set the mood and take you on a trip. I wouldn't have guess that this band has over 20 years of experience by this time, they sound so fresh and energetic, specially for when this got released.
Maybe I'm just happy to not be listening to Chicago Transit Authority anymore, but I really enjoyed this listen, much more than I expected to from Neil Young. I was shocked to learn this was his twentieth studio album and released in the 1990s, as it carries the weight of a 70s classic rock album. Appropriately named.
Neil's fine, but some of the tracks are waaaaay too long.
Not a huge fan. Found it quite tiring to listen to..! Mother Earth was ok
A++!
classic!
I'm sick of Neil (stupid spelling BTW Neal is much better) and his timid fucking horse. Least crazy animal I've ever heard. Nearly bored to tears here. Make it stop.
An over indulgent use of a guitar served upon a platter of weak tracks barring 2 or 3. Was Neil young the guitar player? If he was it explains why the overindulgence. I personally found it overbearing and the tracks went on far too long. I’m very disappointed especially after the last Neil young album we had that I scored a 10. This however is back to the bleary uneasy to listen to over hyped guitar noises of Neil young I came to find with his first album off this list. Not for me despite it being ok to listen to in the end but listening on YouTube doesn’t help. Best track- ‘over and over’ Worst track- ‘country home’ possibly ‘love to burn’ both too long! ‘Love and only love’ potentially too… again… too bloody long! Maybe a slightly generous 5/10 (+1 in the hope it was the sound quality of YouTube that made me feel it was a 4)
bit boring
If it wasn't for Neil's voice, this would be an easy 5 stars. The band rocks the ever-living-fuck out of these tunes and Neil's playing is absolutely searing! But my man just ain't got the vocal chops..
I’m so totally blown away by this album. I thought I had an idea of what to expect from Neil Young because I know “keep on rocking in the freeworld” and “cinnamon girl”. So I was expecting a soft folksy rock album with a few stand out tracks surrounded by quality songs that are less memorable but still good, like the album “everybody knows this is nowhere”. But I was very wrong, this is like a southern hard rock album, like akin to a 38 special album but less cringey. This whole album was consistently great. Everything was quality interesting compositions coupled with poignant American pride and patriotism without leaning into the fascist nature of nationalism. Seriously this album made me feel so good about being American and that’s saying a lot with how humiliating and disgusting this country has been in recent memory. I don’t say this lightly but this is probably the best album on this list with the ugliest most underwhelming album cover. Don’t let that discourage you, this is now my favorite Neil Young album.
overall: 6/10. country rock vibes idk... not my style personally
Decent album, nothing special but nothing bad either. A couple of the songs are quite long though.
Typical
Good proto-grunge from the father of the genre. Just way too long. A few really good tracks do not make it earn its length
Jakiś gniewny ten Neil Young na tej płycie. Nie umiałam się zupełnie w nią wczuć. Zaskakująco słaba melodycznie. 5.5/10
Vanilla American rock and roll that just doesn't really move me. perfectly palatable but not at all moving.
Hmmmm not my style
This was dreadful. I don't get how Neil Young gets to be loved by some people. I don't really know where to start with criticism of this album. Just dreadful.
This didn’t do much for me. But as with the other Neil Young albums we’ve had so far on this list, I feel that it would be unjust to overly criticise the songwriting, instrumentation, performances, or the lyrics. All of these aspects of the music were admittedly solid. Where Neil’s work really loses me is his vocals. I just find his delivery so tedious to listen to and I still stand by my previous statement of him having an objectively bad voice.
Folk Rock, 1990 -> 3
It was average
Yeah I think we only needed one Neil Young & Crazy Horse album here, if that. This one ain't it.
Out of all the mediocre Neil young albums we’ve been given, this one still wasn’t it.
Oh boy another Neil Young album. The singing sucks, the lyrics still use lazy rhymes, the instruments play boring beats, the songs overstay their welcome by multiple minutes; this album stinks. Probably the worst of the 3 Neil Young albums gotten so far, this is a flaccid continuation of his mediocre discography. How people enjoy such overwhelmingly bland music is beyond me.
This album affirmed that I like Crazy Horse. I still dislike Neil Young. Much of the production sounds pretty raw, which makes Young's vocals sound worse, but makes the music played by Crazy Horse shine as more technically proficient and impressively performative for an album recording. Overall, the album sounds like a local band playing a live show at the town bar, except that the band is pretty good but the vocalist is terrible.
This one gets 2 stars just for the guitar tone alone. I really enjoyed that aspect of this album. Everything else was making me fairly frustrated. All of the vocals, from Neil Youngs normal vocals to the Eagle's style harmonies, were bothering me. I was also in the middle of a 40-minute long road-rage, 10 minutes of which was 'Over and Over' which is probably the worst song on here. I was absolutely seething by the end.
Despite my aversion to Neil Young, Crazy Horse, once again, brings out the best in him. This outing is more rock/alt-rock than I would've expected. I know many alt-rock/grunge artists of the period drew inspiration from Young, but it's nice that his style is evolving to match theirs. The songwriting is a little lackluster at times, but it's produced and presented in such a way that I find most of the songs pleasing. Young's nasal drawl isn't as apparent here as it is on his 'classic' albums, which I greatly appreciate. This may be the most passable Neil Young album so far.
I love Neil Young's voice and style of singing - a natural bias toward a higher score from that expectation. I did enjoy this album but it felt disorganized and less interesting in spots. Perhaps on further lessons I would give it a higher score but on 1.5 listens through I'm concluding it's pretty middle of the road. 3/5
Temp
It's okay, but I can't help but feel it lacks a distinct identity. Feels like a band trying to adapt to the evolving music forecast, but instead of innovating they just emulate what was popular at the time.
The music is very good, but Neil Young’s voice isn’t really the best fit for it.
I like the grungy sound on this. Real solid Neil Young in the best way the whole album long with none to stand out. 3,5
I love this album. This revitalized Neil and his on again, off again band, Crazy Horse and solidified his influence on the new generation. Recorded live in Neil’s barn, it does sound like a bunch of geezers jamming, but it’s the best band of geezers there is. I’m trying to be reasonable with my rating considering the quality and weight of Neil’s discography. As much as I’d like to give it a 5, I think a 4 is more reasonable, but it’s great.
BOOOOOOring guitar slop. These guys have FIFTEEN albums together and this is one of the BEST?
Some decent rock in here
Far from Neil's best, too long and pretty samey throughout. Regardless, it makes Dylan upset so it must mean it's a good album
This has songs
I don’t like no Young and I wasn’t going to listen to this album. It was much better than I expected, but I would call it grunge.
mid. some songs are just too long, but they aren't bad. could be better
This album grows on you. “Days That Used to Be” is one of his greatest songs.
It’s passable but I don’t get why this is on a list of 1001 albums one must hear. There are at least 11 other Neil Young albums that wildly outshine this.
They'd be a great R.E.M cover band.
Can be a bit meandering at times. I love Neil, prefer the acoustic stuff though. Don’t think the songs are his strongest, but the guitar work is good. 3/5.
I enjoyed it. I thought "Mother Earth" was quite nice to listen to.
Pretty good one from Neil. I do like most of Neil's albums, especially because he's willing to try a lot of different things. I love experimental folks that don't go all the way crazy and make insanity made sonically real. Obvs everyone has different ideas of what's Too much, but you get the idea. Neil Young is good Neil Young & Crazy Horse is always better! I prefer the rocking NY and this is one of those. I got to see him a few dozen years ago and sadly it was during one of his folksy Americana days and it was a little to country for me. Wish I had seen this tour! The only problem with this album is that it's a bit same-y throughout. "F*!#in' Up" is a great song with a good guitar solo. And haven't we all said that at least once? He has a bit of a whiny voice that I think is best when he's doing rocking songs and he gets a little more guttural or at least bass-ier. My wife can't stand him for 5 minutes in any context. It shows up whiniest in his folksy bits. As an example of the tone I hate, "Over and Over" is a poor vocal performance, especially in the opening stanzas. Its a shame because it's got great guitars in it. The harmonized chorus bits are fine, though. His voice works better on "Love to Burn" It's not 100% different or anything, but the annoying lilt is gone. I don't think it would be possible for "Days That Used to Be" to send any more like "Powderfinger"! So yeah. It's good! I'm usually quite annoyed by same-y-ness on an album, but while almost 90% of these songs sound like a sightly modified version of the same tune with some ups and downs, I still pretty much like it all. The rhythm parts are solid and the lead guitar tone is killer throughout. Can't be mad at it. I think this is a 4. Some of the score comes from Neil's staying power. The guy's got more than 45 albums! He's influential and a mainstay of rock music. Bonus: check out his video for "Stand for Peace " Trust me.
Decent record with a lot of Young's grungier stuff. I'm really fond of a few songs - but other are forgettable or slightly tired. Worth the listen either way.
I do not like Neil Young on a good day. I have a hard time getting through his classics. That makes this album a really tough venture. This album sounds very much like Neil and a bunch of guys got together on a Saturday afternoon in a garage, started hammering beers and noodling around with instruments and turned it into an album. Nothing within this album is a "classic" or even worthy of a repeated listen. It is just a collection of tracks that are OK, but terribly forgettable.
Good stuff here on an album that is overall longer than it needs to be. Mother Earth is amazing, though.
Rating: 4.7/5 Short Review: Raw, sprawling, and beautifully imperfect. Feels like a band chasing a feeling instead of a perfect take. Messy on the surface, but the emotion cuts through everything. Favorite Track: “Over and Over.” It just rides that groove into the ground in the best way. Repetition becomes the point.
A bit more punchy and grating than the usual Neil Young. Very nice jams in it ! 4.5 Already got the CD !
Not as much of a fan as the other Neil Young albums we have had. Seems like more of a jam session. 2.5
Thoughts before listening: I love Neil Young and I'm sure I love this album even though I can't remember what's on it. This is 90s Neil so it's when he's starting to embrace his role as elder statesman and influence on the alt rock and grunge scenes. That being said, not every Neil album needs to be on this list. I feel like this one probably could have been left off. Review: I really like this. Does it need to be on this list? Probably not, but it does act as a nice reminder that the 60s and 70s rockers could still hang with the 90s kids that were bringing this brand of hard rock back to the forefront after the excesses of hair metal and party rock in the 80s. "F'in Up" is a very good song that stands along side the earlier classics in Neil's catalog, and the album as a whole has a refreshing looseness to it courtesy of Crazy Horse. I'll give this 4-stars because I do personally really enjoy it, even if I feel like there probably could been a different album added, possbily by a band not already represented on this list.
Nope. Just don’t get Neil Young….voice is just so whiny. Waaaay too many of his albums on this list for my taste. 1
This made my teeth itch and was genuinely difficult to get through. Appalling
Rocks!
Awesome
I decided to go all the way through Neil Young's discography a few years ago and really dive into his music. I found a lot of fun, surprising albums (and also some crappy albums that appear to be made crappy intentionally) and Ragged Glory was one of them. I remember listening to Ragged Glory and thinking, "This is up there with some of Neil Young's best work. I feel like this album has been overlooked." Welp, here is the album on this list and Ragged Glory has not been overlooked. It's a different Neil Young because there is a lot of "jam band" feel here. I understand Young's voice can come off as grating to some people. There's not much to be done about this. The music is really great though and I'm glad Ragged Glory is getting some attention, because I was very surprised at how you could slip this in with his 70's output and probably never know this was made in 1990. White Line has strong Eagles vibes when it comes to the arrangement of the harmonies. What's funny is the album cover looks exactly like the album cover a grunge band would have used on an album, except this album came out almost two years before grunge became a thing. Even if the songs are longer, I still really like this album, mostly because it has the vibes of a great band getting together and jamming out to some songs. There isn't a lot of fluff present here, which is odd considering Ragged Glory clocks in at over 60 minutes and has two songs that break the 10 minute mark. Days That Used to Be is probably my favorite song on Ragged Glory. Come to find out, it was intended to be similar to My Back Pages, which is probably one of my favorite songs of all-time. It all makes sense now. My favorite tracks: Fuckin' Up Over and Over Love to Burn Mansion on the Hill Days That Used to Be Love and Only Love
oscillates between a kind of gleaming, alchemical highway of hillbilly krautrock and total boring twaddle - not from song to song, but more based on whatever's in the air for me. there are individual moments that work wonderfully but this bores more than it inspires me unforch :((
Not a bad Southern Rock album. Neil works with the band instead of standing out. Each song could be made shorter if they just cut off the tape instead of letting the final chord fade out for A MINUTE while the crowd screams and cheers for the song. Not that this is a live album, but that's what you'd do if you were actually performing. Which works for a concert, but not a studio album. My Rating: 3/5
God that was awful. But not unlistenable. But also if some guy facetimed me and starting singing any of these songs on the guitar for me, I would start taking my skin off because I would rather do that than listen to this on an acoustic guitar with amateur singing. Worse than coldplay, but I dont want to give this album the honour of being given just 1 star. Dont get me wrong though I did hate this
Breaking news - I don't like Neil Young's music. I was going to say I don't like Neil Young but then realised I don't actually know a single thing about the man.
Genuinely why are there so many Neil Young/ Neil Young related albums? There is no way in hell he deserves this much representation. I'm genuinely counting down the days till I'm through them all - at least he's not singing in that awful falsetto for this one
This would be a great album to experience live and in the moment. On an album though, the songs feel too long. Moments are very very good and it would be a great driving album, played loud. But to sit and listen, most songs feel a bit tedious by the end.
Not my favorite neil young album or vibe but dude is good
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Vždy v každom hudobnom časopise chvália N. Y., aj všetky jeho spolupráce ako CSN&Y a všetky možné inkarnacie týchto hudobníkov, ale ja to proste neviem počúvať. Asi preto, že nie som američan...
"Respect Mother Earth and her healing way Or trade away our children's days." Solid raw rock, often delivered with a good message. Liked Songs Added: Country Home Fuckin' Up Love To Burn Farmer John Days That Used To Be
Not one radio hit, all same note IMO. Rock n roll .
don’t mind Neil but this was too long
2 - not the best
Had the stuff I usually like but didn't vibe with it.
Fun times, scorching guitar solos, good songs and great chemistry, but an echo of an echo in terms of significance or impact.
its a solid meh. didn't save any song. I do not like his voice, I mean its not HORRIBLE, but it is definitely not good. wouldn't play it again
456/1089 - I like horses as animals but not in the form of a shitty garage band with a whiny singer. This music would be impressive for middle schoolers to do and kinda sad for high schoolers to do.
I know there's a lot of Neil on the list, and this is the first album I get from him about 90 albums in to this project. And honestly, this isn't one of the best ones from him and Crazy Horse. Not to say this is bad at all. It's an enjoyable album of Neil style garage rock that's very fitting for the upcoming decade of the 90s. I own this album, myself. But of all seven Neil albums that are on the list, this is in 7th place. But it's still good. 3.2/5.
Neil's songs would benefit from compression. Consistently too long. The interludes are not that interesting, especially in context of the era he put this out.
It's okay is about as complimentary as I can be
Definitely not as good as Neil Young in the 70s. But I still can't help but kinda like it. Also his voice is great, you all suck.