Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere

ні це не дуже

7.19.26 good album Favorite Song: Down by the River Rating: 4/5

Han kan bättre, känns som han växte efter den här skivan. Crazy Horse också. Spretigt. En stark trea

I like Neil young and this is a great album.

Good driving music. Very soulful and American folk feeling. I like it!

Peak

Ok yeah, one of the most influential albums on me. If it were my first time hearing it, maybe a four, but I have an emotional investment in all of these songs

It's just okay. Favorite song: Running Dry (Requiem for the Rockets)

overrated artist. This one is a real mixed bag of am album

It's pleasant enough to listen but I feel like it doesn't really do enough for me to move it over the the 4/5 territory.

I think this is fine but I'm irritated about getting three Neil Young albums in less than two weeks so I would like to use this review to recommend overrepresented artists (David Bowie, Neil Young, The Beatles, the other parts of CSNY, Elvis Costello, Elvis Costello, and Elvis Costello to name a few) have fewer entries on the list so we can make room for others. It's a shame that we don't have Silversun Pickups on here, or Veruca Salt, or a bunch of deserving country artists, or that some bands are on here but with the wrong album (Garbage should have Version 2.0), and in an attempt to be relevant to Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere I would specifically like to bring attention to Type O Negative. Type O Negative's cover of Cinnamon Girl is both a joke and a fantastic cover. The album it appeared on, October Rust, would probably be my pick for the album list but I think you could make an argument for Bloody Kisses too. If you are also irritated by the amount of Neil Young (an artist I like! there's just too much on the 1001 albums!) then please go check out October Rust. thank you.

Finally trying out Neil Young. Blind album though. Thought it was okay, but dang the CLOSING TRACK! So good. 3.

Cinnamon Girl is on this album. Otherwise not (in my mind) a great album from Neil Young. A few good songs, but mostly forgettable stuff. I generally like Neil Young, but I won't put this in rotation. Only a 2 star rating

3/5 good appreciate that its a good album just not my vibe

I really liked this album, it had a very nice rock folk vibe. Neil Young makes some very nice music. Ultimately, really nice sound, knows what it is. Nothing more nothing less.

-cinnamon girl sounds like a parody of a classic rock song -title track is forgettable -round & round is lovely -really goofy little riff/guitar solo on down by the river. like it's giving middle schooler's first guitar solo at the school talent show. i would be proud of that middle schooler but this is an adult professional musician. song is otherwise forgettable and goes on forever -the losing end is forgettable -running dry starts with nice strings but now why are you singing directly into my ear neil. back up from the mic a bit. recording quality is just weirdly quite bad on this track. maybe it's a streaming issue? the violin is still lovely though. -cowgirl in the sand sounds like a child wrote the lyrics but the music is good some people have always been old and neil young (ha) is one of them. he sounds about 74 years old on this record. not a negative or a positive just a fact. i guess neil young is a Culturally Important musician and i respect that but i dont know if i needed to listen to this album. i probably won't listen to it again. it's pleasant background music but there's a lot of that in the world. #first time listening

Super turgid hippie hangover music. I've heard this shtick done before, and done a lot better too, without Young's incessant bleating. Very early '70s, and not in a good way. It's a country rock album that's not good as either country or rock.

Masterpiece

Enjoyed this album alot. Was a first time listen, but definitely will come back.

Never thought I'd end up as a Neil Young fan

Look I like 70s rock, hence the default 3 stars. But this didn’t transcend the genre or anything.

Yeah. I have multiple of these projects going. This is the second time for this one in two days. Don’t like Neil. He’s not getting better with more listening. I’m just hating him more. Yeah. Sorry. Still not feeling Neil. 2 Boolean: true, I guess, yeah. I said false before because I was salty. I mean we SHOULD listen to Neil and Bob, right? Cause they’re IMPORTANT

OK

It's so country but so new (or maybe I don't know anything about it) but it feels like the song you'll find in warm movies or like coming to age movies. I like it overall, I'm not so good in describing songs in a technical way, if it makes me feel things, I'll consider it good. My personal fave might be Round and Round, I like when two voices that are so different sing but is still distinguishable:>

A solid album that I really enjoy. Cinnamon Girl has always been one of my all-time favorite songs, and it's easily the highlight for me. The rest of the album is consistently good with Neil Young's signature sound, making it one I'll happily come back to.

Neil Young's voice is somehow not insufferable here? Instrumentals and songs were great on this one

Solid! The slow jams are less memorable, but the rockers deliver.

Very good

It's just Neil Young.

epic car seat headrest the gun song reference

really like the last one a bit more melodical

God. Just don’t like Neil Young with or without backing band. Not really a fan of him with friends. Really the “earnest, folksy” 60’s make me feel like I need to get good and wasted and forget about all this bullshit. 2 Boolean: Nah, False, no one really needs to listen to Neil. He’s full of shit.

Rock clasico sesentero pero muy facil de escuchar, muy agradable así como de mañana de domingo. Me lo he pasado bien.

More Neil Young, more of the same mediocre music. As usual, some nice tracks and some forgettable tracks.

Certainly better than the last crazy horse offering we had though Neil still seems to be giving the guys too much room to work. Some classics like Cinnamon Girl and Cowgirl in the Sand. However, the songs tend to be a little self serving. Tangent: listening to Cinnamon Girl again reminded me of the days in my youth when I subscribed to multiple serious guitar focused magazines. Literally every other issue seemingly someone would call out the “one note solo” in this song. When you listen to the album you see that this one note approach is the preferred solo intro quite often.

Not bad for Young’s sophomore solo effort, but his songwriting would improve shortly.

Muito bom! O instrumental é ótimo, letras bonitas, tudo maravilhoso

It was fine. I find his vocal choices grating more often than not

need to re listen. i liked it.

I find that I oscillate in my opinion on Neil Young, but I was pretty into this album. Some really good country rock songs. Favorite Songs: Down By The River, Cowgirl In The Sand

Neil Young always tricks me into first impression of the music being ass, but the longer I listen the more I am enmeshed in the melody, the lyrics, etc etc. everyone knows this is nowhere and round and round are just wow

I'm pretty much at the midpoint of this project, and one of the biggest revelations has been discovering that I like Neil Young. I've had four albums by him so far and enjoyed them all - maybe there's an album lurking in the last 500 or so on the list that will remind me why I always thought I wasn't that keen on him.

Don't get it.

cool

Did not enjoy this album. The songs are long and not my vibe.

yeah, I just got 3 of my favorite albums in a row.

212. nice

- (quote discovered and taken from someone else's review:) "You go to a supermarket, and you see a faggot behind the fuckin’ cash register; you don’t want him to handle your potatoes.” - Neil Young. Yeah, you can F off Neil Young. - Other than Cinnamon Girl, nothing is really all that memorable to me. - For a short album, the songs really can feel like they go on forever, especially with a lot of boring guitar solos (and one song with shrill violin). - I think it's a 2.5, but I'm rounding down because of the casual misogyny and because nothing stuck after listening to it 3 times.

Quite nice

A fine album...love the longer cuts especially, and Neil is a cool dude. It's no "Harvest" or "Rust Never Sleeps" but still a solid listen. 3.5 rounded up for Canadian-ness.

country rock aint for me but the instrumentals are decent at best. "haunting" is what others and I would describe it in some songs but the lyrics are meh, not for me. conclusion: country rock not for me but the instrumentals are really good tho ngl.

Got annoyed by having a 3rd Neil Young album as I can't say that I enjoyed the first two. But to my.surprise I liked it quite a lot. I blame Stockholm syndrome

Nothing better than classic neil young. an expert songwriter and musician. one of the voices of the generation. absolute must listen.

Neil Young's voice is much less offensive when he's harmonizing with someone else.

Amazing folk with a bit of rock album! Amazing collab and i loved every second of it!

Not too bad. More accessible on first listen than some of the other Neil Young albums which have come up so far.

I knew I was in trouble when I felt like I’d been listening to Round & Round for ages when I was less than a third of the way through the song. Boring, overrated album with songs that go on way too long with not much going on in them. For a band called Crazy Horse, their music is pretty standard-sounding and even pretty sparse on some of these songs. The awful high pitched singing voice Young uses also isn’t doing the album any favors. I like Neil Young’s politics, but Spotify was genuinely a better place in the two years that his music was gone from the platform. I did like the guitar solo near the end of Down By The River, though.

I don't enjoy his brand of terrible singing, song arrangement, or audio production. This didn't do anything positive for me. Having said that, I do applaud him for taking risks. To each their own. Is it me, or does the background singing of the song "Everybody Knows This is Nowhere" sound like muppets? Was he ever on The Muppet Show? I'll take just about anyone else's murder ballad over Neil Young's. No, take that back, I don't want any of Nick Cave's either. Hey, any chance we could get him, Bob Dylan, Nick Cave, and Bruce Springsteen in a rusty old pickup and send them off a cliff, Thelma & Louise style?

8/10

2/9 Young albums and so far they’ve been in chronological order. 1969 was one hell of a year for music.

Meh

Dad approved

Not really like it

The legend of Crazy Horse is born.

The best part of this album is that the cover vaguely suggests that Crazy Horse is the name of the dog. If that were true, I’d be a lot more impressed

the long tracks are cool

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Loved this one, incredible instrumentals and vocals. very calm and soothing, perfect for a long drive. i will definitely buy a cd of the record if i can find it

Absolutely Great,

Loved it

Shaggy, raw, let the tape run. These are musicians in the flow, doing what they do best. A lot of the time Neil Young leaves me kind of cold. CSNY, doubly so. But Neil Young and Crazy Horse? I sincerely get what Crazy Horse is putting down.

Neil Young makes beautiful, sort of weird and sad music. This album is no different, but once you get past his voice it's quite wonderful.

Yep, that’s Neil.

Nicely encapsulates the duality of Neil Young sort of being raw, gritty and nasal but also melodious, gentle and lovely almost by turns. Sometimes overly loose and rambling, but it has a pleasingly ragged immediacy and there are no bad songs on it.

I only knew Cinnamon Girl but enjoyed most of the other tracks. Simple songs which sound ahead of their time. Would have preferred more shorter songs but may find the longer ones grow on me with further hearings. I will listen again. Once had his double "Live Rust" album which I'd forgotten. Hope that one shows up here at some point.

Extra star for the Winnipeg the dog on the cover! All album art featuring a real pet deserves bonus points. I enjoyed listening to the record, a little too much guitary blues wangling for me but wouldn’t turn it off. (4 stars if including Winnipeg bonus!)

if you took the best bits of this and ‘Harvest’ you would have one of the greatest records ever recorded. as it is, this is still very very good. ‘Cinammon Girl’ is one of those songs i could happily loop forever (and the one note guitar solo is SO good), ‘Down by the River’ is an ultimate earworm, and the open tuned guitars on ‘Round and Round’ are gorgeous. there are clunkers elsewhere, but overall it’s such a warm record, a very pleasant listen.

I just hate Neil Young

A solid album with some highlights in Down by the River and Cowgirl in the Sand.

I enjoyed this but am glad it wasn't longer

seems like we're never going to run out of neil young to listen to... this is neil young's second album, but the first album to be recorded with rock band crazy horse. many of the bigger songs on this album were written when young had a fever. i can never get mad at all when i listen to neil young. there's something about his voice, there's something about the way he performs that makes a lot of people, myself included hypnotized. you don't hear a lot of riffs and plucks that sound like neil's. this is arguably the first album where he'd started his trademark way of writing rock music. i'm not sure if this one sounds notable enough to me compared to his other work, especially some of the big albums from him i've heard in the past, but if you're longing for something simple, something singy-songy, something a little fluffy... i think you'd enjoy this album.

Enjoyed this. Cinnamon Girl is a standout. Will listen again in the future. 3.5/5

too much Neil Young

I didn’t love the last album by this Duo so hoping this one is better! I didn’t hate Cinnamon girl as an opener. The title track then definitely had some nice bits to it. It felt like it had a bit of urgency with its guitar and steady drums. Round and round (it won’t be long), was in fact very long. Jokes aside, I didn’t dislike it. I thought it was quite pretty, it just went on a bit. Down by the river was the perfect track to have on in the background while I was doing something else. The loosing end had a pretty decent groove to it. Running dry was pretty boring. I’ll give cowgirl in tbr sand a pass as a closer because there was some good guitar and a decent melody. 3/5 ⭐️ 173/1089

As a new Neil Young fan, thanks to this very generator, this was a pleasant surprise of a record. It's not exactly what I was expecting, but it does make sense. I'd say it's a little more Americana than I appreciate on a couple of songs, and right before I groan there's some musical work by Crazy Horse that just completely overshadows any potential negative impact. There's a lot of extended solos, a lot of melodic dialogue, and there's an energy that they're playing off on each track and it feels pretty to hear them build and release. 4.1/5

Round & Round (It Won't Be Long) - favorite so far i like parts of Down by the River as well Losing End sounds familiar Love the production and guitars throughout Liking the second half of Cowgirl a lot

j'aime trop neil young

Fine solid rock music with great guitar skill

pretty iffy on neil young, but i really liked this actually

Not his best

I don’t think I am ever going to feel the love for Neil Young that others seem to have, but he’s definitely one that the 1001 list has really opened up for me. There’s definitely some ironies in this for me in that a track titled Round & Round (It Won’t Be Long) was the one that really outstayed its welcome, yet the two longest tracks at the end of sides 1 and 2 were the ones I appreciated most. In both of those, I would have happily taken more of the winding solos and loose jamming feel. It’s always going to be the vocals that drag these down for me. I have definitely mellowed to them a bit, and I can’t imagine any other vocalist or style that could fit this better, but it’s telling that it’s the meandering soloing stretches that I like most on here.

Seven songs, all great; each one distinct: some long, some short, some electric, some acoustic, some hard, some soft. And still the album is incredibly cohesive. Not easily done.

Good stuff. Mr. Young earned his spot. 3.8

Some really great songs on here, Neil Young top class as usual, with crazy horse 🙌

langweilig

I like how it looks like the dog is pooping in the album art. Really nice easy listening.

Better variety than Harvest moon. More Western style because of Crazy Horse. Top songs Cinnamon girl, Everybody knows this is nowhere, The losing end. Least favourite: Running dry, Cowgirl in the sand

one of my biggest vinyl trade in regrets. I didn't care for Cinnamon Girl when I first heard it but this embodies a great rock n roll spirit. Maybe the biggest Neil Young record in terms of connecting with me personally outside of Rust Never Sleeps. May become a 5 star with time but hope to add it back to my collection someday

Cowgirl in the Sand

good

it was ok, liked the guitar soloing

Reckon this was when the taps turned on, classic albums released every year up to and including “Rust Never Sleeps”. I love the staccato, nervy guitar sting here that he moved on from, primitive and between Lou Reed and Link Wray, combo-ing fiercely with Danny Whitten’s similarly stabby playing. This is maybe Young’s toughest sound, and I remember Tom Verlaine hating on it before extolling “Cortez the Killer”, a much more romantic affair. Verlaine’s one of the greatest, but he never topped “Cinnamon Girl”’s one-note solo, which made me cry on a bus traversing Walworth Rd. Girl, Nowhere, River and Sand are immortal, possessing that thrown-off, Aphrodite-washed-up-on-the-beach quality that Young made matter-of-fact for his imperial decade. The hooks punch with a simplicity that makes them seem like they’ve been with you forever. His vocal lines have similar stick, anthemic without the pretension - “hello Cowgirl in the sand” carries no outright message and I yelled it along with a few thousand others when he played this last year, still fresh and weird.

"Cinnamon Girl" is my Platonic ideal of a rock song, great tune, tight harmonies, short, punchy, about a random ginger, perfect solo. Beyond that, the two long crunching guitar wig-outs represent this stable of Crazy Horse at their early best, the rest run the blues-rock-country gamut of the time in excellent fashion. If you're into rock music, you'll probably like this.

I really enjoyed this album, and love Neil Young. One thing I did not love was the lyrics to Down By the River. We e have too many murder suicides in society as it is, but the guitar work was sublime. Solid 4.

Neil Young клас. Цього альбому не чув. Down By the River подобається. Running Dry теж окей.

Nice chill vibe throughout. 4/5

Middle of the road for me

Fair folksy rock album that gets a bit too jammy in places for my tastes.

Amazing album. Loved the length and the music.

This is an album full of raw energy, a far cry from Neil's debut album which was poor compared to this.

9/10

Something about Neil Young's voice is always going to make me happy.

fine? kinda boring? kinda cool?

I'm not much of a Neil Young fan, but damn this was really good. It's got 'Cinnamon Girl' and 'Down By The River', but I actually liked the closing track 'Cowgirl in the Sand' the most. This had a much heavier sound and more of a rock and roll feel than the other two Neil Young albums I've listened to so far, which were more in the folk genre. If not for one bad track, this would have been a perfect score, but it's really good and I'll be listening to this one again. Strong 4/5

meh, pero estuvo lindo

Нормально, навіть доволі добре

There are people that hate Neil Young, I don’t necessarily count myself as one of that number, but I didn’t care for this. It started out fine, then I found myself getting more irritable as it went on. So many songs are repetitive and boring. His voice doesn’t bother me, but just repeating the same words and doing the same guitar stuff over and over for 10 minutes isn’t fun.

This is a Jett five for me. Leads me to believe that there actually is something to Neil Young that maybe I haven’t noticed before

4 sterne

Good artist, not fave album

Neil Young's voice is far less annoying on this album than I normally find it. "Cinnamon Girl" is the best song (though I'd rather listen to the Type O Negative version) but I also like "Running Dry."

Fav song: Cowgirl in the Sand

커버에서 예상할 수 있는 바로 그 분위기... 백인 할부지 느낌... 그러나 밴드사운드이기에 기본은 먹고 들어간다...3

Much like most of Neils work there usually 2 good to great songs and a bunch of filler. 3 stars. Cinnamon Girl is a great song and it sounds like the precursor to what was good in the garage/grunge movement.

Solid hits, Down By The River is one of my top 3 for Neil Young! Never heard a proper album outside of his greatest hits.

Big fan. Have listened to a lot of Neil young but hadn’t heard this one. It was great.

Guitar solos are insane. Sound so good. Neil goes crazy.

Neil was ahead of his time and these songs prove that. It’s not my favorite Neil album but either way it’s a fairly flawless album. Cinnamon Girl, Down by the River, these are all timers…

I think this one could be a grower for me, but I’m sort of torn between finding some of the ballads quite uninteresting (and part of this is absolutely not being adjusted to enjoying Neil Young’s voice properly because it’s my first time really listening to an album of his), finding some of the rockier tracks perfectly fine additions to the overall sound of the LA counterculture scene which has other bands doing other things I like more, and then moments where I can hear the seeds of a bunch of later alternative music I love in the sort of easy deconstructionist thing Neil Young wants to do with all this fuzzy jamming and pushing songs to 9 or 10 minutes and things. It’s cool for a debut, and it might be cooler if I come back for more over time, but for now, good solid middle. Edit: listened to it literally once more and bumped it up because, unsurprisingly, I was kinda with it a bit more

Not bad. Better than the last neil young album we listened to.

Second Neil young album if you count the first CSN album. I like that one and have high hopes for this one. Really good guitar on cinnamon road. Also really good vocals and writing. Everybody knows has another awesome guitar on it. Not as catchy but another good song. Awesome harmonies on round and round. Just good song writing all around. Very emotional song. Guitar on down by the river 🔥🔥. Dude just has a really good voice. Catchy chorus on this one. Solo is simple but so effective. And it just keeps on trucking along. What a song. I could listen to this guitar for the rest of my life. Losing end is good not great. The songwriting is really good it’s just missing something with the production. Good guitar solo tho. Just a little too cowboy for me. Really cool violin on running dry. This song is sick. Another awesome musical solo. Really nice opening to cowgirl. I like doing the solo first. Good songwriting again on this one. And the guitar is good from end to end on this album. And that’s with none of it being very complicated at all. With that being said he turns it up with the guitar after the 5 and half min mark. Again, what a song. Love when a record closes with a great song. What a fun listen all around. Again I come out thinking Neil young lives up to the hype. That’s hard to get me to believe. No obvious skips. Felt way faster than 40 mins. 4.4/stars.

Such a great record. Even the relatively straightforward country rock of EKTIN stands up. And tracks like Down by the River, Cowgirl in the Sand, and Cinnamon Girl are all still highlights. This was also a big leap forward from everything that he had done before and showed his ability I radically change direction, which became a feature of his later career

That’s a crazy fkn horse

legalzinho. passa uma vibe de viajando de caro nos anos 70, mas nao é algo que vou revisitar. nota 3,7

Down By the River slapped, the rest are forgettable

I'll go 4, though some of the songs dragging on got me edging towards a 3.

This guy Neil sure knows how to play the guitar.

Mixing was extremely impressive for the time. The song arrangement was beautiful at times and there are some really catchy riffs. There were times I thought a chord progression would be going somewhere and it would just end abruptly, the lyrics were mediocre but I can't tell if that's a genuine criticism or if it's me from the future retroactively criticizing something that was original for cliche lyrics that I only perceive as cliche because of their influence on the future. Nonetheless, I didn't enjoy the album massively but I didn't think it was bad by any means. I just don't think it's for me personally. It is a good introduction into country for me. I think a 2 star rating a bit harsh but I don't have a 2.5 option and I can't justify giving this a 3. Favorite song: Cowgirl in the sand. Least favorite: Everybody knows this is nowhere

9/10

an easy *****

Another one bites the dust.

Yep it's Neil Young

I only know a few of Neil Young's albums (Harvest, After the Gold Rush, and Deja Vu as CSNY), but what I've heard of him I really like. He's my kind of melancholy folk music. This one is another win for me. So far Young has not missed. He's prolific, though, so I'm sure there's some albums I'll dislike This ain't one. Consistently enjoyable throughout.

OK

So many songs I already knew from listen to Neil Young greatest hits etc.

Not my thing, but it's good music if you like the type

Everybody knows this is nowhere - me gustó, down by the river también. En general no es muy mi estilo

Perfectly average album. Nothing great, nothing bad.

i like it icl

Cinnamon girl - silly lyrics but at the same time they're good and easy to remember. Like the guitar with a little distortion. Loved the outro. Everybody knows this is nowhere- like how quickly it starts. Like the lyrics and love the little guitar riffs. Round and round- a nice intro, soft and relaxing and even more when the voices start singing feels very warm. Really nice song. Down by the river- good introduction loved the guitar and bass lines. Good lyrics, I love how the song moves, at first a little slow and then later it grows stronger but keeping the same "color". Love the riffs they give the song a nice twist. Anyways I think the song is too long due to the instrumental in the middle, which at first is very like the same over and over and later changes to something more interesting but I think it is way too long. At first I loved it but it got a little boring as it is really long. The loosing end- not a fan. Sounds more as if someone was telling me about their day other than listening to a song. Also the instrumental is always the same nothing changes that makes the song a little boring. Running dry- i like the violin, its something new. When he sings it sounds as if it weighted him. Not a song for everyone because it feels heavy listening to it. The cowgirl in the sand- the first silence after the intro feels odd, although then a better instrumental comes with a good guitar line even though a more than 5 minutes into feels very long.

(1000/100)

Probably the last insufferable Neil Young album I've heard so far

Yeah it's alright. This album has some solid instrumentals from Crazy Horse, but I don't think it's their best. Neil Young sounds fine too, so overall just fine.

typical Neil. not my genre

This was okay

Great! The sound created was so amazing and even though there were long songs they were sick

Just not for me

My god this guy sucks

I expected this to be better

Not terrible I guess but I couldn’t really get through it. Lot of longer songs, not really my vibe but it wasn’t bad

Pretty fun

i didn't get anything out of listening to this album, the same way i didn't the last 4 times i listened to neil young. 2 more times left! how exciting !

For how much I feel that there is too much Neil Young on this list, this was actually a fairly enjoyable listen for being a folk album. It's nothing particularly special, but it doesn't impose itself too much. idk what else to say, pretty good for him. I guess Cinnamon Girl is quite interesting.

ваууу кайф

I've had a lot of Neil Young on here already and I'm never sure how I'll feel about his albums as it's not totally my thing. This one is really good though, opens with Cinnamon Girl which I already knew and liked, then stays good.

he's a wackadoo, but great

I am biased, this is one of my favourite albums by one of my favourite artists.

This is my third Neil Young listen of the list. It's a good classic rock album, but doesn't really do much to transcend that. Young has written some great songs, but they aren't on this record. I feel like Young is usually at his best when he goes more introspective, and this record has some of that but not a whole lot. The guitar playing isn't particularly virtuosic, but it serves the songs as well as you'd expect. I actually quite like Young's voice, so that isn't the problem here. It was clear that his songwriting still needed some work, but this is still a good record if not a great one.

Not a fan of NY, don't really bother with any of his discography. This ain't bad, but not really for me. The guitars are raw and crunchy throughout which is great, but vocals aren't that impressive.

not my thing

I think Neil young likes to play and sing. Songs were unnecessarily long

I used to like the rockers more but now I like the slow long jams more.

Sindssyg debutplade at udgive. Gudsbenådet rocker, fra day 1. hvor mange soloer har down by the river? Der er god tid og bangers imellem. Der er også lidt lowlights, synes ikke rigtig round and round can så meget, og generelt er anden halvdel svagere. Men 4, det er det. Nok lidt over også, hvis man skal gå mere i detaljen.

Ja tak Men altså - langt fra hans bedste album 3.9

More like Neil Old-soul and Crazy Jams

Bolji album od prosjeka na koji sam navikla u svijetu Younga i srodne muzike, neke pjesme su mi skoro pa dobre.

Love me some Neil Young and this isn't even his best album

Well, it’s a Shakey classic right? I’m a big Neil Young fan. I’m particularly a Neil Young with Crazy Horse fan. We get some classics hare and the less well known material is a real treat too. Obviously, as a NY&CH fan, I love the grooving, the imperfections, the looseness, the guys-in-a-room-just-playing vibe. Unlike many though I don’t let myself go overboard on NY’s soloing. I get a bit uncomfortable when reviewers get poetic about no-one being able to do it like Neil Young. Don’t get me wrong, I enjoy hearing them stretching songs out longer than they know they should and Neil extracting as much filth out of Old Black and whatever amps he’s pushing to the edge that day. It’s just the limits of his playing are on full display, so eulogising in purple prose about them seems unnecessary. Anyway that’s just an aside. At the end of the day, this pushed things towards Neil’s future way more than his debut, but my (likely unpopular) take is that this is a strong stepping stone towards After The Gold Rush rather than his first bona fide solo classic. Still love it though.

doing this in the summer of '69 might have been impressive, but now.. well it didn't hit me at all, but it's a relaxing listen sure old review upwards. new review downwards. 1001 albums to hear before you neil the young in you 111# this is a cool joint, i don't hear nothing really special about it (on a second revisit) but this listen was a bit more pleasant, its a chill record with some long tracks that kind of deliver.

This is a step towards Neil’s ascent to brilliance— but not there yet. “Down by the River” is a great murder ballad… but does it need to be 10 min long?

Amazing start to me, but in the middle the quality dips, it feels redundant and when you have a 7 track album it better be all smashes, which it is not. I still like discovering his personality and writing, and he probably will receive all different kind of scores, but that one felt a bit lower

An old favorite!

This was just fine — apparently he wrote three of the songs while fighting a 102 fever and it does show Playlist add: "Cinnamon Girl"

Love it! There are so many classic songs here. I had no idea so many were on the same album. Liked Songs Added: Cinnamon Girl Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere Down By The River The Losing End (When You're On) Cowgirl In The Sand

I definitely need to revisit this album because there are so many interesting moments on here. I love the simplicity of the earlier songs in the tracklist and the more experimental sound of the later ones. Very creative and unique. Favorites: Cinnamon Girl, Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere, Running Dry (Requiem for the Rockets)

Neil is a huge blindspot for me. I need to do a deep dive on him one day. This is a very nice record that I think one listen doesn't quite do justice. My thoughts are similar to Christgau's review: I'm not all the way in to Neil yet but I certainly see the appeal.

Cinnamon Girl is a great opener. The rest of the tracks are okay. I’m not a Neil Young fan, I can appreciate his musical and songwriting talent. Not a bad listen.

I really liked this album. Not really a bad song on here. all listenable and holds up well since the last time I heard it at least 10-15 years ago. 4.4/5

No conocía este disco. Me gusta Neil Young. Es tan versátil y, sin embargo, reconocible. Creo que este disco tiene temas muy largos.

Surprised by how much I liked parts of this album. Cinnamon Girl is brilliant.

Neil Young, in my opinion, improved Crosby, Stills, & Nash, but I really don't get on with his solo work, I just can't get passed his voice. This album is slightly better because he has backing vocals from his group, but still I didn't enjoy.

At this point in the list of all but written off Neil Young. I like a song or two here and there but I’ve never enjoyed listening to a full album by him. This album isn’t amazing to me but I did enjoy it enough, I wasn’t sick of it by the end. Overall a pretty solid album.

This is one of those albums where the mythology initially gets in the way of the music. Neil Young arrives carrying so much cultural residue - the voice, the flannel, the harmonica, the “shambly hippie bloke” caricature - that I’d somehow missed the obvious point for years: the man can write. More than that, he can edit. These songs have a startling confidence in their own sufficiency. Even when the band stretches out, the album never feels flabby or overcooked. It feels written, then exposed to weather. The looseness is the key to the whole thing. Crazy Horse don’t behave like an elite backing band smoothing the songs into prestige Americana. They drag against them slightly. The guitars blur together. Harmonies wobble. Timing leans. Solos feel physically negotiated in real time. Yet all this “imperfection” creates extraordinary warmth because it preserves the sensation of human beings trying to maintain emotional contact with the song rather than demonstrating mastery over it. Neil’s lead playing in particular has this remarkable “heart moving faster than the hands” quality - phrases lunging toward feeling before technique fully catches up. The solos aren’t polished objects. They’re attempts. That’s why the long tracks work for me in a way that many jam-based records don’t. This isn’t formless wandering or virtuoso exhibitionism. The songs already exist before the expansion begins. The groove, melody and emotional centre are all firmly in place. The rambling comes afterwards, enlarging the atmosphere around the song rather than replacing it. “Down By The River” and “Cowgirl In The Sand” don’t sound like compositions being demonstrated. They sound like states being inhabited for a while longer. There’s a comfort about the playing because Neil never sounds like he’s trying to dominate the instrument. He sounds like somebody insisting the feeling through it. The album also feels unexpectedly close to later alternative music in spirit. Not because it predicts grunge in some crude “flannel and distortion” sense, but because it rejects polish as a moral virtue. The slightly out guitars, moving intonation and rough harmonies create thickness and emotional motion rather than “mistakes”. You can hear later indie, shoegaze and lo-fi ideas hiding in plain sight here - the understanding that blur can be more human than precision. A lot of records from this period want to present themselves as finished objects. This one leaves the pencil marks on the wall. Even the lyrics operate with the same confidence in plainness. Neil repeatedly reaches emotional depth through ordinary conversational phrasing rather than ornate poeticism. “But you were not home” lands with more force than pages of grand singer-songwriter symbolism because it sounds like a real human thought under pressure. The album constantly chooses sufficiency over display. The emotional truth arrives and Neil simply leaves it there. I think what finally won me over is that the record trusts wobble without collapsing into shapelessness. I hate flabby jamming and I hate overthinking. This somehow avoids both. The songs are strong enough to survive looseness, and the looseness stops the songs becoming over-managed. The result feels strangely restorative in 2026 because almost nothing now is allowed to remain this visibly human.

This was not for me. I have never been a NY fan. I am still not ever going to be a NY fan.

9/10 calling him

The opening riff made me feel this record was going to be more exciting but it turned into the same mediocre folk rock. I just don't get the hype around Neil Young. Maybe he was amazing because of the time

One of the stronger 2’s, but it’s far too samey and doesn’t grab the attention enough to push its way up to a 3.

kinda lame

love me some neil young

Yeah I really liked this. Middle song was too long but the finale definitely saved it.

A nice short album for once !! Such a calming, happy, summery vibe. I love the guitar. Fav song is ‘Cowgirl in the Sand’.

Good album

The first NY album I ever heard Hooked me straight away with the guitar sounds and lyrics - a dreamer of pictures, I run in the night This remains my go-to Neil Young collection Cinnamon / River / Cowgirl - regulars in my collection for over 40 years Sure, there are a couple of tracks to skip, but still a solid five stars

It's ok. I like Cinnamon Girl and the title track. The rest of the album is meh. Good rhythm section in the jam sections but Neil Young's jamming and guitar soloing doesn't do anything for me. I understand it's a very distinct style, with the liberal use of the whammy bar, but his playing is just too basic and sloppy for me. The slower songs, I found myself asking, who is this for? I picture old people slow dancing to it but they were young when it came out! And Neil Young was only 24 when he made it. I just couldn't imagine being in my 20's and liking this music. As a Canadian and Winnipegger it pains me to say, I'd rather listen to CCR.

It started out good. Niel is one of my favorite guitarists. It definitely fell off and could have been way better.

Probably the best one of the four Neil Young albums I've been served so far.

I like the title track :)

I quite liked Cinnamon Girl I thought it was quite a good song. Cowgirl in the Sand was also good even though it was like 400 minutes long.

Down by the river is fire. pretty good album.

Young showing finally to me his rock edge and song writing chops. This is great from start to finish.

This is pretty good. It is solid music but not the absolute greatest work from Neil Young. Favorite track: "Down by the River"

3.5+

Country / folk rock. Cinnamon Girl is pretty good but the rest seemed just ok. A bit too simple and slow for me.

Great album!

Pretty good

This album was a mix of country, rock, and folk. I got a breezy feeling as I was listening. Folk seems to be the most prevalent sound here, and Neil Young does that well. I thought "Round & Round (It Won't Be Long)" was the most beautiful song on the album. I also liked the long musical interludes, they were interesting to listen to.

Was ok. Some classic rock

This was amazing, definitely need to come back to this one.

Huge Neil Young fan so no surprise I loved this. Several of his all time best songs are on this album.

Cool

Very poetic. I like it. It gave me the same feeling when I stop flipping on my phone and detoxifying my body. It’s nothing “good or bad”, I also felt boring at first. If you can “switch off” you’d like it. It’s amazing.

no hate to Neil Young, but kinda some hate to the list. 7 of his albums are on here. you're telling me that all 7 of those need to be included on this 1,001 list? seriously? what sets this album apart from any of the 5 that we've already listened to. this isn't particularly memorable, nor do i think it really creates a ton of influence for later artist. i do think that NY isn't getting a fair shake in this, but thats because we've had almost all of his albums in a pretty close time together. make it make sense. am i missing something?

The Neil Young and Crazy Horse albums are so much easier to handle than Neil Young’s solo works. On its own, this album is fine, I let it play and parts caught my attention, and the guitar solos at the end were solid, it just wasn’t that memorable. I’m probably only giving this a two because I’m sick of Neil Young.

The seventh Neil Young album we've gotten....so far. Not his best. Not his worst. I never thought I'd be able to say that at the start of this list. Hard to be objective and I'm so tired of Neil Young.

I’ve always liked the music more than the voice

kinda fucking with this heavy actually. prefer type o's version of cinnamon girl but i'll be so real i had no idea it was even a cover. great song

This was SO nostalgic for me…we used to dance the night away to Southern Man and Neil Young’s left wing politics were in most of his lyrics …anti war and pro Civil Rights.1969 was a year of great optimism for young folk…the world was going to be so much better than what our parents had experienced. Neil Youngs music was a vital part of our times.

It was okay. Mostly boring. 2.7

Average.

There is way too much Neil Young on this list, but this is one of the better ones. Only 7 tracks and 3 are classics - and what a great 1-2 punch with the openers. Realistically, probably a 3, but just pushes to a 4 because Cinnamon Girl is that good.

Adored this. A beautiful mix of grunge and blues.

It’s quite nice, actually.

Decent. I prefer Neil without CrazyHorse for whatever reason. But this isn’t bad, but not great either

The best Neil Young album. He voice isn't whinny yet. Great song writing.

After opening with the banger that is Cinnamon Girl, the album itself is average. Down By The River is a great track as well but the other 5 tracks do nothing for me. As I was listening I thought to myself, at some point Neil Young just becomes noise.

It's a Neil Young album. It's got guitar twanging and great songwriting aplenty, but it did not wow me.

Did Neil Young create this list or something? I do like the albums but kind of crazy that he has so many on this list. Another cool classic rock album with some folkish elements. Some long sections of jamming but not too drawn out. Enjoyable listen overall

I liked some of the songs and I enjoyed the guitars a bunch, however it got repetitive quick and it fell kind of in the trap of 'hear me sound miserable' this genre can fall into sometimes.

I expected way more from this album going off of the ratings... Instead I was met with a very repetitive album that is just a "I'm so miserable" soup of words. Folk is truly not my genre, I fear.

lindo

it was an okay album, just not really the type of music i personally like !

great listen. no standout tracks. def a whole album experience

Found it to be not very interesting after cinnamon girl. The solos weren’t very inspired and thought they could have done a lot more for the how much runtime they had. Didn’t have time to look at the lyrics too deeply. Could’ve been missing something

============================================== ============================================== ============================================== ============================================== ------------------NEIL YOUNG------------------ -----------------------&---------------------- ------------------CRAZY HORSE----------------- ---------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------- -----------------EVERYBODY KNOWS-------------- -----------------THIS IS NOWHERE-------------- ---------------------------------------------- --------------------(1969)-------------------- ============================================== ============================================== -----------------CALIFICACIÓN----------------- --------------------★★★★☆------------------ --------------------(4,214)--------------------- ============================================== ============================================== ============================================== ============================================== CONTENIDO ORIGINAL Lado A 1. Cinnamon Girl (★★★★★) 2. Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere (★★★★☆) 3. Round & Round (It Won't Be Long) (★★★★☆) 4. Down by the river (★★★★★) - Mi favorita del álbum. 5. The Losing End (When You're On) (★★★★☆) 6. Running Dry (Requiem for the Rockets) (★★★⯨☆) 7. Cowgirl in the Sand (★★★★☆) ============================================== ============================================== ============================================== PUNTAJE TOTAL 5+4+4+5+4+3,5+4 = 29,5 ============================================== ============================================== PUNTAJE PROMEDIO 39,5 / 7 = 4,214 ============================================== ============================================== ============================================== ============================================== CALIFICACIÓN FINAL ★★★★☆ (4,214) ============================================== ============================================== ============================================== ============================================== ============================================== COMENTARIO - No me gustó que suene tanto a "country", pero es lo suficientemente bueno como para obviarlo. ============================================== ==============================================

Favourite Songs: Down By The River Cowgirl In The Sand

Raw, emotional, gritty, remorseful album. It was beautiful at times, extremely sad at others. Great album

Honestly… awesome

Never been much of a country fan, but this got better as it went along. Definitely got me on a bit of a Neil Young kick afterwards. Favourite track: Down By The River Least favourite track: Cinnamon Girl

There’s a warmth in the guitars that no doubt comes from a feeling of familiarity, despite this being my first listen, and that’s largely because I’m a big fan of Pearl Jam - I expect most Pearl Jam fans would instantly like this. Down By the River is long but worth every second, whilst Cowgirl In the Sand is another highlight, closing the album out expertly. Whilst the former has some outstanding guitar playing on display, I love the bass driving underneath. I’ve stopped short of giving 5 stars but I was close!

One of his best .Absolute classic record .

favs: down by the river

I can tell this is probably the only Neil Young album I will even remotely tolerate. There's nothing special here, very much something your dad puts on in the car and that's your cue to pop headphones on. I mean it isn't the worst, given that Young doesn't have his signature style of vocals yet and this is a very brisk album. I just have very little to comment on, none of the lyrics are very interesting but are clearly aiming to be somewhat profound. And the production of the album is really weak. Probably doesn't help this album has been virtually wiped off all streaming except yt playlists. The guitar sections are fine, again very mid. This is peak boomer era music. Fav Track: Cowgirl in the Sand

I don’t hate it but again, mediocre singing…

Ta bien, es de calidad pero no tanto.

hey I'm really tired but I just want y'all to know that Neil Young makes cool music. I liked this album. I feel like if anyone out there hates Bob Dylan, you might like Neil Young, because they accomplish the same things but like from different angles. It's cool. I need to go to bed

'Pa, send me money now / I'm gonna make it somehow.' I don't know why, but that lines makes me think of Barbra Streisand's rendition of Funny Girl, that '68 classic about oddball Fanny Brice's rise to self-deprecated fame. Anyhow, Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere is stunning, capturing that Neil Young ability to be absolutely commonplace, to be utterly rock 'n' roll, & to be seriously heartbreaking. A line such as the following essentially renders the entire project a rousing success, but there's really so much here that's luminous: 'How the hours will bend / Through the time that you spend / Til you turn to your eyes / & you see your best friend / Looking over the end.' As I've said before, Young is a one-off, someone we're still catching up w/.

Wow. Final Leonard Cohen album immediately followed by my final Neil Young album? Crazy. What are the odds of that happening? Anyways, we've reached the last of the Neil Young albums on this list. Though, funnily enough, this is actually the earliest of the bunch from a chronological standpoint. Funny how that works, isn't it? Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere is among the most important albums in Neil Young's discography. It was his second album ever, his first with Crazy Horse, and it's widely considered to be Neil's first truly great album and the point where he starts becoming the Neil Young you know and maybe love. This is basically his "The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan," in a sense. How good is it actually? Pretty good! I don't think it's his best, but it's certainly one of his best. Neil's voice is exactly as good as you think it is. What that means is entirely dependent on how you feel about Neil Young, but for me it's a good thing. His songwriting isn't quite at its peak, but it's still good stuff. I was kind of surprised to hear Neil doing longer songs like "Down By The River" and "Cowgirl in the Sand" this early on in his career. You know what? That paid off. Those are the two best songs on this album. "Down By The River" especially is excellent. But what about Crazy Horse? This was their first album with Neil after all. Well, they do great as well! This album has more of a rockin' attitude, which I'm not against. I do like his folkier stuff quite a bit, but Neil's a good rock star too. This album isn't quite as amazing as an album like Harvest or After the Gold Rush, but Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere is still a very impressive record and a must-listen for sure. It's Neil Young, okay? High 4/5.

**** Sunday, 3 May, 2026 Baltimore-Washington Airport terminal I am waiting for my flight back to Detroit after Maddie Purdy’s first communion, and sitting in a cafe, listening to Neil Young and Crazy Horse’s 1969 album *Everybody Knows This is Nowhere*. This album is both eternal and futuristic. I was lucky to see Neil Young with Crazy Horse two years ago. They played “Down by the River” and “Cinnamon Girl”. This is an incredible album. It sounds fantastic in all the ways Neil Young is fantastic.

Listened at work, enjoyed.

Rating:★★★★ Nice Classic Rock album. Easy listening. I enjoyed the guitar solos.

Individually each track is probably bearable, decent even, but as a collection, one after the other it becomes tedious and overstays it's welcome, much like this sentence.

An early example of Neil Young’s music and first album with Crazy Horse is a good one but maybe not easential. There are some classic songs on here but I think that in these early incarnations they might lack some fire of later live recordings. Most of the material here comes across a little tame and the recording sounds a little too dry but you can’t deny the distinct voice and guitar playing of Neil Young. So definitely check this out and keep going through his great discography.

скучная музыка норм если она на фоне играет в кафе или в путешествии на машине, когда все очень устали специально не стала бы слушать

this is how i imagine taylor swift male boomer version to be

меланхолично, на медленное выходное утро в пять часов дня первого мая самое то))) добавила заглавную песню но чет я не понимаю почему neil young так часто здесь появляется, не мое это.... возможно это просто для американцев что-то вроде нашей пугачевой и каких-нибудь наших разных ВИА running dry напомнило мне что-то между house of the rising sun и i need some sleep (песня из шрека 2🙏)

Если честно, я как-то сначала не понял, а потом очень сильно понял. Мне кажется, это отличный альбом, чтобы ехать из какого-нибудь Далласа в Париж, Техас. Очень классное смешение рока, кантри и что-то типа блюза, не уверен. Особенно понравились Вокруг и Вокруг, Внизу у реки и Ковгерл в песках.

Все на высоте, инетересное перекликание вокала, баса и гитары. ВИРТУОЗНО СЫГРАНО Я БЫ СКАЗАЛ. Я не завайбился. Running Dry больше всех понравился. Cowgirl in he Sand достойный трек, но типа занудно.

I listened to this album a ton when I was a kid. It is solid Neil young album of what looks like many more to come. 7.75/10 Top song The losing end

Cinnamon girl goated, I really like how this is mastered, good album to listen to, just a pleasant listen

This music style for me was awful , I wouldn’t listen again , but that’s my opinion

Like many other Neil Young albums, there are a handful of colossal songs ("Cinammon Girl", "Down By The River" and "Cowgirl In The Sand") intermingled with a lot of just-OK stuff. Even the good songs are burdened by way too much aimless soloing, also.

Neither lyrics, nor vocals were anything special. Best track: “Round & Round”. Low 3

3.5

This is the first in a stupidly long line of great records by Neil Young. Cinnamon Girl, Down By the River and Cowgirl in the Sand really map out the sound that makes me love Neil. Is this as good as On the Beach or Zuma? Probably not - but it sure as hell ain't hard to listen to and enjoy.

neil young knows where the clit is

From a previous Neil Young with Crazy Horse review: "I have never been a big Neil Young fan, despite Pearl Jam's worship of him (and my one-time worship of them.) I don't DISlike his music, and I like him in interviews, but his stuff just doesn't do much for me." This album was different for some reason. I think it didn't really sound like Neil Young to me, and that was a positive. For what I think is the first time for me with any album in this project, I played this again a second time when it finished.

while i love neil young, it didnt stand out to me. i liked cin girl tho

Spoiled a little by the last 2 tracks that run out of steam, the rest of the album I enjoyed. So what happened? 3½

Soft folksy/country rock. Parts of Everybody Knows sounds like proto-REM. It's not bad. But it does get old too. Best track - Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere 3 stars - probably quite important for 1969, but today it sounds a bit samey

He’s done it again folks

p157. 1969. 3 stars. Starts off with a banger, then falters badly with a succession of half-finished songs. Saved from 2 stars by some incendiary guitar work. Not his best work by any means.

“Cinnamon Girl” lights this album up with jangly, hard guitars—good morning! “Down By The River” is an all-timer. 4/5 rating for this one How did this generator know to give me an album from my birth year!? I guess it just proves I am a dirty hippie…

Liked this a lot more than I thought I would.

I never listen to albums like this so definetly new for me ,yet excited can't lie.Really remindsme of the song sweet o child of mine.I LOVED the everybody knows this is nowhere(2009 remaster).Runnin Drythe 6th song is so different from the rest ,really nice instrumental work.Done with it.

Normally I have a hate or like (not love) thing with Neil Young, but for some reason Cinnamon Girl hit different this time around... I blame the full moon on a spring evening.

Knew very little about Neil but thought this album was super great and lived up to the hype!!

me hizo acordar mucho a los Beatles muy bueno

I can empathise with anyone who doesn't like Neil's voice. I took quite a while to come around to it. I think this album gets extra points because it broke new ground at the time. The problem with that is if it was released today it would not stand out at all, but many later artists drew from this work. I liked him better in CSNY and I like some of his other work better. No 3's so a 4.

It's ok but not more.

I do like Neil Young and there's not much else to say. But I did only mildly enjoy this album.

Neil young io ti adoro, "everybody knows this is nowhere" e "down by the river" due pezzi da 90.

le canzoni mi piacciono molto, così come l’artista in generale ma l’unica pecca è che sono tutte molto lunghe e dopo un po’ le trovavo un po’ noiose, le ascolterei sicuramente come sottofondo musicale

Album incredibile. Atmosfere magiche, sospese. Arrangiamenti spaziosi, distesi, elettrici. Neil Young cantore dell'inquietudine.

I was mainly impressed with the talented guitar performances here. Favourite Track(s): Cinnamon Girl, Down By The River, Cowgirl in the Sand Least Favourite Track(s): Running Dry (Requiem for the Rockets)

Great album! It's been on repeat for the past couple of days.

The album is bookended by "girl" songs, ie, songs where the lyrics use the word girl to refer to a woman. It's become a bit of a pet peeve for me these past few years. I guess that's my main adjustment since me too. I'll still rape and plunder, but I will only refer to my of-age victims as women. It's funny to look back on the unenlightened ways of supposedly enlightened hippies. Littering at Woodstock, for example. Kind of like Thomas Jefferson declaring that all men are created equal. Anyway, Down By The River is possibly my single favorite Neil Young tune and singlehandedly lifts this otherwise 2 stars album into 3-4 stars territory. That tune could go on forever and it would still end too soon for me. His guitar playing, once perfectly described to me by a high school mate as "caveman style" is uniquely primitive and real. He never lets his fingers wander on their own - he is better than most at staying locked in mentally and only playing what he feels. He's not the best rock n roll guitar player by any means, but he is probably the most honest. That and the title track are my favorites here. Overall, I would describe this album as uneven - some great, some boring, some stupid. Not essential and I would not have added this album to my 1001 list. Neil pumped out a lot of albums and many of them have very interesting and unusual elements but Tonight's the Night is the only legitimately essential one that everyone in the world must hear before they die...if it doesn't kill them first...

I'm beginning to think that Neil Young gets the somewhat dubious prize for the most albums in this collection (nine total, including the two CSNY and Buffalo Springfield albums), but thankfully this is a well-deserved entry, and stands perhaps as his second best effort (behind "Harvest") in this collection. "Cinnamon girl" is an enduring classic and a powerful way to launch the album (and "Cowgirl in the sand" is an equally powerful way to end it), and so many of these tracks sound familiar enough to make me think I've probably heard them before, while the ones I haven't encountered before are nice discoveries (especially the haunting "Running dry"). "Round & round" is probably the weakest of the lot, but it seems it's a favorite of many (including Young), so that's probably on me. What a great launch for Crazy Horse and Neil Young, even if they get a little lost here and there in noodle land.

Everybody knows this is a great album: 7 classics no filler neil's killing it.

Really liked the first song Cinnamon Girl, but after that everything kind of melded together.

Now here is an album I can have on all day and not get sick of it. There’s something comforting about Neil Young and the longer it plays the more you fall for his vocals and the cadence of the songs. Not quite a banger, but a warm blanket when you need it.