Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere

mbrmetalhead

There are two sides of this album, as it is often the case with Young: side A, the electric tracks, side B, the folk/country ones. The electric titles are really good, with the good amount of distortion, nice instrumentals, and two of them are lenghty, but in a good way, letting enough time for the song to unfold. This side is a solid 4 or even a 5. And there's the calmer, folk/country songs, that are much less interesting and much more boring. The two sides are reasonably well intertwined, but if I love the electric Young & Crazy Horse, I'm much less sensitive to their unplugged side.

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1001albums-satsuma

I’ve always avoided Neil Young in the past, mainly because I’ve assumed that he was an earnest hippy dippy folk singer due to his association with various permutations of Crosby, Stills and Nash. To be fair, this collaboration with Crazy Horse (not sure if that counts as cultural appropriation or not) is pretty good, adding some much needed blues rock guitar to his songs. Not sure about some of the lyrics on Down to the River though. Cinnamon-tastic!