THIS NEIL YOUNG COLLECTION STARTS WITH A CLASSIC RECORDS COLLECTORS ONLY PRESSING EVER ON 200 GRAM VINYL  TREMENDOUSLY LIMITED LONG OUT OF PRINT PRESSING OF NEIL YOUNG & CRAZY HORSE AT FILLMORE 1970 - THESE MASTERPIECES HAVE OFFICIALLY GONE OUT OF PRINT FOREVER ON SEPTEMBER 1ST 2007

 COLLECTORS INFO ABOUT Classic Records TITLES  

Classic Records has proven to be an Audiophile Company second to none in the new millennium. But Classic Records - ALL CLASSIC RECORDS TITLES ARE NOW OUT OF PRINT SINCE THE COMPANY WENT OUT OF BUSINESS IN 2010. These Editions have become some of the rarest pressings in the Audiophile Collector's Market. Just try to find them at any Audiophile Retailer after the next few months. They are simply gone from the market and Mymusicfix has seen some these First Editions sell for over $300.

When you take that into consideration, what will this Editions Audiophile Pressing will be worth in the years ahead? It could be one of the most collectible pressings ever in 200 Gram Editions especially since Classic records is no longer in business.

How rare and valuable are each one of these 200 gram sets now still Factory Sealed Priceless!

Mymusicfix has a very limited amount of these now Rare Factory Sealed pressings. We're sure you may not have known about some of these titles existed. Have fun collecting these Masterpieces!

These are tremendous titles and artists that Mymusicfix still has in these 200 Gram Edition STICKERS but we have very few pieces left of each title and prices will continue to rise as inventory continues to dwindle.

Classic Quiex SV - Super Vinyl" is a new vinyl formulation noticeably superior to all previous vinyl formulas used. The music on records made using Classic Quiex SV is more detailed, has richer harmonics and a more precise soundstage presentation Quiex SV is used exclusively and will have a sticker that identifies them as such....

   

FILLMORE 1970 - Pressed on LIMITED EDITION 200 gram vinyl by CLASSIC RECORDS COLLECTORS EDITION! ONLY PRESSING EVER ON 200 GRAM VINYL OF THIS TITLE

The first release from Neil Young’s long awaited Archive Performance series is Live At The Fillmore East. In 2006, Neil Young delivered another hit album, Living With War, and toured with Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young. Thirty-six years earlier, in 1970, Young toured with CSN&Y and released his platinum album Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere, after which he performed a series of shows at New York City’s then-new Fillmore East with his band Crazy Horse. That concert finally made its official debut in the annals of rock history with Live At The Fillmore East, and the circle is unbroken for one of rock’s greatest singer-songwriters. The original release charted Top 15 and three Grammy® nominations, including for Best Rock Album, and the music is now available on vinyl.

Live At The Fillmore East includes an extended “Down By The River” and a 16-minute “Cowgirl In The Sand” (which has previously appeared only on a ’90s import). Country barnburner “Come On Baby Let’s Go Downtown” would later be heard on 1975’s Tonight’s The Night live album.

Mastered and cut by Chris Bellman at Bernie Grundman Mastering in Hollywood from analog master tapes prepared by John Nowland at Neil Young’s studio, this vinyl package features one 200g heavyweight black-vinyl disc in a Stoughton jacket.

Features:
• 200gm Vinyl LP
• Stoughton Gatefold Jacket

Selections:
1. Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere
2. Winterlong
3. Down By The River
4. Wonderin’
5. Come On Baby Let’s Go Downtown
6. Cowgirl In The Sand

 

OTHER 11 MOST AUDIOPHILE TITLES WITHIN THIS COLLECTION WITH 18 SIDES OF VINYL

Neil Young & Crazy Horse Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere LIMITED EDITION LP

Rolling Stone 500 Greatest Albums of All Time - Rated 210/500! 

Remastered and cut from the original master tapes directly under the supervision of Neil Young and his expert team! Pressed on High-Quality Vinyl! 

Neil Young's second solo album, 1969's Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere cracked the Top 40, went platinum and included three of his most beloved songs, "Cinnamon Girl" and the nearly 10-minute epics "Down By The River" and "Cowgirl In The Sand." The album also introduced his associated band, Crazy Horse. 

Whether as a singer, a songwriter or a guitarist, Neil Young has been one of the most influential and important artists of the rock era. Blending folk, country and rock, the acoustic and the electric, the melancholy and the hopeful, Young has been an icon for the uncompromising and unpredictable since the 1960s.

"Neil Young and Crazy Horse hadn't been together for more than eight weeks when they cut this album. It has the feel of a jam session conducted by master jammers, especially "Down by the River," "Cinnamon Girl" and "Cowgirl in the Sand."- www.rollingstone.com 

Features:
• HIGH QUALLITY Vinyl
• Remastered and cut from the original master tapes directly under the supervision of Neil Young and his expert team!
• Remastered by Chris Bellman at Bernie Grundman Mastering Studios in Hollywood, CA.
• Pressed on High-Quality Vinyl 
• Exact Reproduction of the Original Artwork featuring a High Quality, Extra-Thick Stoughton Paper-wrapped Gatefold Album Jacket!
 

Musicians:
Neil Young
Danny Whitten, electric guitar, vocal
Billy Talbot, bass
Ralph Molina, drums, backing vocal
Robin Lane, guitar vocal (3)
Bobby Notkoff, violin (6)

Selections:
1. Cinnamon Girl
2. Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere
3. Round & Round (It Won't Be Long)
4. Down By the River
5. The Losing End (When You're On)
6. Running Dry
7. Cowgirl In the Sand

Neil Young - A Letter Home BOX SET

2 180 GRAM LPS +  SEVEN 6 Inch Clear Vinyl + CD + DVD + Book

An album of covers recorded at Third Man Record's restored 1947 recording booth, Nashville

Beautifully made deluxe set includes two 180-gram black vinyl LPs — one standard 12" album LP and one "direct from the booth" audiophile 12" LP — CD, DVD, seven clear vinyl 6" singles, booklet

Old style tip-on jackets, printed inner sleeves

Seventh single features non-album version of Bob Dylan's "Blowin' in the Wind"

DVD includes footage of the recording sessions, 12" color booklet is 32 pages

Album download included

From Neil Young and Reprise Records comes a limited edition deluxe box set of his recent vinyl album A Letter Home, a collection of covers recorded in July 2013 with Jack White at White's Third Man Records in Nashville. The musicians recorded in White's refurbished 1947 Voice-O-Graph recording booth — imagine a simple recording studio about the size of a phone booth — to 1-track mono, giving the album an inherent warm, primitive feel of a vintage Folkways recording.

Young describes the album as "an unheard collection of rediscovered songs from the past recorded on ancient electro-mechanical technology that captures and unleashes the essence of something that could have been gone forever."

Young chose songs that have personal meaning for him, such as British folk artist Bert Jansch's "Needle of Death" (which inspired Young to write 1972's "Needle and the Damage Done"), Bob Dylan's "Girl from the North Country," Willie Nelson's "Crazy," Don Everly's "Wonder If I Care as Much," Bruce Springsteen's "My Home Town," and many others. The album begins with Neil recording a spoken letter to his late mother, informing her of his personal and present state of affairs, which sets the tone and atmosphere for the duration of the album.

Included in the package is a standard 12-inch album version as well as a "direct from the booth" audiophile 12-inch LP.

The included DVD captures scenes of the takes from the recording booth, along with comments from the producers and recording engineers.

 

 

 

1.   A Letter Home Intro 2.   Changes (Phil Ochs) 3.   Girl From The North Country (Bob Dylan) 4.   Needle of Death (Bert Jansch) 5.   Early Morning Rain (Gordon Lightfoot) 6.   Crazy (Willie Nelson) 7.   Reasons to Believe (Tim Hardin) 8.   On The Road Again Willie Nelson) 9.   If You Could Only Read My Mind (Gordon Lightfoot) 10.   Since I Met Your Baby (Ivory Joe Hunter) 11.   My Hometown (Bruce Springsteen) 12.   I Wonder If I Care As Much (Everly Brothers)

Neil Young - Sugar Mountain: Live at Canterbury House DOUBLE LP SET 1ST EDITION 200 GRAM AS STATED ON THE STICKER Japanese Pressing - limited to 3500 copies - TREMENDOUSLY RARE

GERMAN Pressing - limited  180 GRAM VINYL In early 2007, Neil Young's Live At Massey Hall 1971 flashback debuted on the Pop chart at No. 6, a stunning success for an archival release. Now greet the arrival of Sugar Mountain – Live At Canterbury House 1968, another singular installment in the continuing Neil Young Archives Performance Series. One of the greatest singer-songwriters in rock history is heard solo and acoustic at the height of one of the most tumultuous and creative periods ever experienced in both music and culture.

1.   Emcee Intro. 2.   On the Way Home 3.   Songwriting Rap 4.   Mr. Soul 5.   Recording Rap 6.   Expecting to Fly 7.   Last Trip to Tulsa 8.   Bookstore Rap 9.   Loner 10.   "I Used to..." Rap 11.   Birds 12.   Winterlong /Out of My Mind Intro [Excerpt] 13.   Out of My Mind 14.   If I Could Have Her Tonight 15.   Classical Gas Rap 16.   Sugar Mountain Intro 17.   Sugar Mountain 18.   I've Been Waiting for You 19.   Songs Rap 20.   Nowadays Clancy Can't Even Sing 21.   Tuning Rap & The Old Laughing Lady Intro 22.   Old Laughing Lady 23.   Broken Arrow

NEIL YOUNG S/T AUDIOPHILE 2009 USA PRESSED Sealed LP - Meticulously transferred from the original analog master tapes using the finest equipment. This is the world's introduction to bare, totally exposed Neil Young. Having left Buffalo Springfield, his collaboration with Stephen Stills, this 1969 solo debut is an album full of brooding but pretty songs including "The Loner." Neil Young was one of the first solo records by a rock and roll figure.

Though his only album not to chart - "The Loner" is the most memorable track - this is the record that bridged what was and what was to be. Neil Young marked the launching point of an illustrious solo career.

Produced by Young and his longtime associate David Briggs, Young's solo debut also continued his association with producer/composer/arranger Jack Nitzsche, with whom he had made "Expecting To Fly" on the Buffalo Springfield Again album. Young's folk-rock instrumentation is augmented by discreet string parts. Also onboard stylistically is the country and western overtones that were present in Buffalo Springfield's sound. Instrumentation includes a variety of guitars, pianos, organs and strings.

Hearing Neil Young's debut with the context of having heard 40 years worth of his material, it's exciting and revealing to literally hear him search for and at least partially settle on his voice on this record.

1.   The Emperor Of Wyoming 2.   The Loner 3.   If I Could Have Her Tonight 4.   I've Been Waiting For You 5.   The Old Laughing Lady 6.   String Quartet From Whiskey Boot Hill 7.   Here We Are In The Years 8.   What Did You Do To My Life? 9.   I've Loved Her So Long 10.   The Last Trip To Tulsa

NEIL YOUNG HARVEST AUDIOPHILE 180 GRAM  LIMITED EDITION PRESSING Sealed LP -

HUGE ANNOUNCEMENT
Neil Young's First Four Solo Albums
Remastered from the original tapes! They sound incredible!!

Not everything that crosses our desks is recommendable for everyone. These are! It's just that simple. We've heard the test pressings for these landmark titles, and we can say that without question you'll be blown away!

Higher price of Harvest due to meticulous recreation of original jacket.

A quadruple Platinum No. 1 smash and the best-selling album of 1972, Harvest was Neil Young's fourth solo effort. With the Gold No. 1 "Heart Of Gold," Top 40 "Old Man," powerful "The Needle And The Damage Done," controversial "A Man Needs A Maid" and "Southern Man" companion "Alabama," Harvest won inclusion in Rolling Stone's "100 Greatest Albums Of All Time."

Deceptively laid-back-sounding country-rock plaints like "Out On The Weekend" and the title cut caress the ear unassumingly, pulling you into the more ominous subtext that is present in the rollicking "Are You Ready For The Country." As always, Young has an ear for contrasts, laying down heavy rock ("Alabama") besides his balladry, and even employing the London Symphony Orchestra on the excellent confessional "A Man Needs A Maid." Due to back troubles, Young recorded much of this material while wearing a brace, a fact that seems audible in the tension and unease that underlies the friendly, acoustic surface of this superb release.

1.   Out On The Weekend (By Neil Young with The Stray Gators ) 2.   Harvest (By Neil Young with The Stray Gators ) 3.   A Man Needs A Maid (By Neil Young with The London Symphony Orchestra ) 4.   Heart Of Gold (By Neil Young with The Stray Gators ) 5.   Are You Ready For The Country? (By Neil Young with The Stray Gators ) 6.   Old Man (By Neil Young with The Stray Gators ) 7.   There's A World (By Neil Young with The London Symphony Orchestra ) 8.   Alabama (By Neil Young with The Stray Gators ) 9.   The Needle And The Damage Done 10.   Words [Between The Lines Of Age] (By Neil Young with The Stray Gators )

NEIL YOUNG After The Gold Rush UK PRESSED IN GERMANY OUT OF PRINT LIMITED EDITION LP -

  - OUT OF PRINT FOR A DECADE -  These FOREIGN pressings are sent with the vinyl outside of the jackets when being shipped to the U.S. to protect the covers from damage. Once inside the our wherehouse we then protectively seal the title in a loose re-sealable plastic cover to ensure the quality of the product. This title is brand new & never played condition.

In the 15 months between the release Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere and After the Gold Rush, Neil Young issued a series of recordings in different styles that could have prepared his listeners for the differences between the two LPs. His two compositions on the Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young album Deja Vu, Helpless and Country Girl, returned him to the folk and country styles he had pursued before delving into the hard rock of Everybody Knows; two other singles, Sugar Mountain and Oh, Lonesome Me, also emphasized those roots. But Ohio, a CSNY single, rocked as hard as anything on the second album. After the Gold Rush was recorded with the aid of Nils Lofgren, a 17-year-old unknown whose piano was a major instrument, turning one of the few real rockers, Southern Man (which had unsparing protest lyrics typical of Phil Ochs), into a more stately effort than anything on the previous album and giving a classic tone to the title track, a mystical ballad which featured some of Young's most imaginative lyrics and became one of his most memorable songs. But much of After the Gold Rush consisted of folk-country love songs, which consolidated the audience Young had earned through his tours and recordings with CSNY; its dark yet hopeful tone matched the tenor of the times in 1970, making it one of the definitive singer/songwriter albums, and it has remained among Young's major achievements.

 

Track Listings

1.   Tell Me Why 2.   After the Gold Rush 3.   Only Love Can Break Your Heart 4.   Southern Man 5.   Till the Morning Comes 6.   Oh, Lonesome Me 7.   Don't Let It Bring You Down 8.   Birds 9.   When You Dance You Can Really Love 10.   I Believe in You 11.   Cripple Creek Ferry

NEIL YOUNG'S Chrome Dreams II is Young's seventh studio album in as many years 2 LP SET. CURRENTLY OUT OF PRINT IN THIS ORIGINAL 1ST EDITION

Thirty years after Neil Young's original 1977 Chrome Dreams recording – an album that was surprisingly shelved by the record company – Young recaptures the fire and diversity of that period. Drawing from three songs written previously and seven new songs, the latest Neil Young includes a wide mix. Acoustic, electric, aggressive, melodic – it's all that and more. Young, with a backing band that includes Crazy Horse drummer Ralph Molina, bassist Rick Rosas and pedal steel guitarist Ben Keith, jams through 10 numbers, including two monster tracks that time out at 18:30 and 13:00. Chrome Dreams II is Young's seventh studio album in as many years.

1.   Beautiful Bluebird 2.   Boxcar 3.   Ordinary People 4.   Shining Light 5.   The Believer 6.   Spirit Road 7.   Dirty Old Man 8.   Ever After 9.   No Hidden Path 10.   The Way

  NEIL YOUNG A TREASURE 180g 2LP - Live Album Recorded during Neil Young's 1984 U.S. Tour!
180g Double LP, 3 Sides of Music and an Art Etching on Side 4!
Cut at Sterling Sound and Pressed on High-Quality Vinyl at Pallas in Germany!
Includes Six Previously Unreleased Tracks!

Experience this live, 12-track ablum which includes 6 previously unreleased track recorded with legendary band, The International Harvesters, while on tour in the US in 1984. This Limited-Edition Vinyl pressing is on 180 Gram Double-Disc Vinyl featuring special artwork etched into the fourth side.

Neil Young unearths this live country album recorded with the International Harvesters. The 12-track album includes songs recorded during their 1984-85 U.S. tour. Selections include "Grey Riders" and artists include the late Ben Keith on steel and slide guitar, Rufus Thibodeaux on fiddle, Spooner Oldham and Hargus Robbins on piano, Tim Drummond and Joe Allen on bass, Karl Himmel on drums, Anthony Crawford on guitar, banjo and mandolin among others!

The live album captures this iconic artist during a fascinating time in his career, when he was facing criticism and lawsuits from his then current record company for exploring a more traditionally country sound. “You can call me erratic,” Young said when asked at the time about his tendency toward musical shape-shifting, “but I’ve been consistent about it, consistently erratic.” Always celebrated for his musical versatility, A Treasure, is akin to a sonic time capsule, instantly transporting the listener to the time and place when it was made.

"I love this record. I hadn't heard these takes in 25 years, but when we unearthed them co-producer Ben Keith said, 'This is a treasure'." - Neil Young

Features:
• 180g Double Vinyl
• Cut at Sterling Sound
• Pressed on High-Quality Vinyl at Pallas in Germany
• Mixed and Mastered by Tim Mulligan
• Previously unreleased tracks
• Special artwork etched into the fourth side
• Includes Free Limited Time mp3 Digital Download of the entire album
• Gatefold Packaging

Selections:
LP1 - Side One:
1. Amber Jean
2. Are You Ready For the Country?
3. It Might Have Been
4. Bound For Glory
5. Let Your Fingers Do the Walking
LP1 - Side Two:
1. Flying On the Ground Is Wrong
2. Motor City
3. Soul of a Woman
4. Get Back to the Country

LP2 - Side Three:
1. Southern Pacific
2. Nothing Is Perfect
3. Grey Riders
LP2 - Side Four:
Etched Artwork

FACTORY SEALED NEIL YOUNG GREATEST HITS DOUBLE LP SET PLUS 7 INCH SINGLE SUGAR MOUNTAIN/THE LONER BONUS OUT OF PRINT RELEASE. NOW OUT OF PRINT AND ONE OF THE LAST SEALED COPIES LEFT IN THE WORLD

 Pressed on 180g vinyl at Pallas!

Neil Young's first ever greatest-hits collection, Greatest Hits is a long-awaited retrospective from one of rock's most influential and enduring singer-songwriters. With 16 selections spanning his career since 1969, Greatest Hits features some of the greatest hits of rock'n'roll, period.

A 16 song, 180 gram vinyl 2-LP greatest hits collection, compiled from the Reprise catalog and covers the years from 1969 to 1992. This package includes a 45rpm 2-song 7" single, which features a mono version of Sugar Mountain and a stereo version of The Loner.

This collection was assembled and prepared by John Knowland, at Neil Young's Redwood Ranch Studios. The meticulous studio work presented in this collection ensures that this is the very best these songs have ever sounded. For the collection, 30 IPS, flat tape copies of tracks 1-14, were assembled from the original analog masters. Tracks 15 and 16 were transferred from up-converted 176.4/24 bit digital masters created from the original lower res. digital masters.

The 45rpm 2-song 7" single is an exclusive bonus to this vinyl package and was cut from the original 2-track masters and is not available on the CD or DVD- Audio versions of this release.

Features:
• 180g Vinyl
• Double LP + 7" Vinyl Disc
• Pressed at Pallas
• Stoughton paper-wrapped jacket
• Bonus 7" disc in Jacket with special paper stock

Selections:
1. Down By The River - from Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere, 1969
2. Cowgirl In The Sand - from Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere, 1969
3. Cinnamon Girl - from Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere, 1969
4. Helpless - with Crosby, Stills and Nash, from Déjà Vu, 1970
5. After The Gold Rush - from After The Goldrush, 1970
6. Only Love Can Break Your Heart - from After The Goldrush, 1970)
7. Southern Man - from After The Goldrush, 1970)
8. Ohio - with Crosby, Stills and Nash, from Four Way Street, 1971
9. The Needle and the Damage Done - from Harvest, 1972
10. Old Man - from Harvest, 1972
11. Heart Of Gold - from Harvest, 1972
12. Like A Hurricane - from American Stars 'n' Bars, 1977
13. Comes A Time - from Comes A Time, 1978
14. Hey Hey, My My (Into The Black) - from Rust Never Sleeps, 1979
15. Rockin' In The Free World - from Freedom, 1989
16. Harvest Moon - from Harvest Moon, 1992

7" Vinyl Disc:
a. Sugar Mountain (mono)
b. The Loner (stereo)

 

 - NEIL YOUNG & CRAZYHORSE ZUMA RARE Analog Euro LIMITED EDITION LP

These FOREIGN pressings are sent with the vinyl outside of the jackets when being shipped to the U.S. to protect the covers from damage. Once inside the our wherehouse we then protectively seal the title in a loose re-sealable plastic cover to ensure the quality of the product. This title is brand new & never played condition.

Neil Young returned to his commercial strengths with this 1975 release, named after Zuma Beach in Los Angeles, where he owned a house at the time. This record featured his backing band Crazy Horse on seven of the nine tracks, but it was a much more polished approach than Young's previous three albums. All in all, this one qualifies as another of the many classic Neil Young records.

Don't Cry No TearsDanger BirdPardon My HeartLookin' For A LoveBarstool BluesStupid GirlDrive BackCortez The Killer

Through My Sails

                                                  

NEIL YOUNG FORK IN THE ROAD 180 GRAM LIMITED EDITION LP

Rock & Roll Hall of famer Neil Young is stirring things up again. This time he is rolling down the road not only with an auto-centric concept album but with his own electric ride. Fork In the Road, whose largely ecocar themed songs he has debuted in concert, will get a promotional push from the 1959 Lincoln Continental Young has converted to hybrid technology and which he plans to drive to Washington, D.C. With Fork In The Road as current as the headlines, the controversial and mad-as-hell Neil Young is still rockin' the free world and once more is taking the road less traveled.

Features:
• 180g Vinyl
• Pressed at Pallas
• Gatefold Stoughton Paper-Wrapped Jacket

Selections:
1. When Worlds Collide
2. Fuel Line
3. Just Singing A Song
4. Johnny Magic
5. Cough Up the Bucks
6. Get Behind the Wheel
7. Off the Road
8. Hit the Road
9. Light a Candle
10. Fork In the Road

 

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After Neil Young left the California folk-rock band Buffalo Springfield in 1968, he slowly established himself as one of the most influential and idiosyncratic singer/songwriters of his generation. Young's body of work ranks second only to Bob Dylan in terms of depth, and he was able to sustain his critical reputation, as well as record sales, for a longer period of time than Dylan, partially because of his willfully perverse work ethic. From the beginning of his solo career in the late '60s through to the 21st century, he never stopped writing, recording, and performing; his official catalog only represented a portion of his work, since he kept countless tapes of unreleased songs in his vaults.

Just as importantly, Young continually explored new musical territory, from rockabilly and the blues to electronic music. But these stylistic exercises only gained depth when compared to his two primary styles: gentle folk and country-rock, and crushingly loud electric guitar rock, which he frequently recorded with the Californian garage band Crazy Horse. Throughout his career, Young alternated between these two extremes, and both proved equally influential; there were just as many singer/songwriters as there were grunge and country-rock bands claiming to be influenced by Neil Young. Despite his enormous catalog and influence, Young continued to move forward, writing new songs and exploring new music. That restless spirit ensured that he was one of the few rock veterans as vital in his old age as he was in his youth.

Born in Toronto, Canada, Neil Young moved to Winnipeg with his mother following her divorce from his sports journalist father. Young began playing music in high school. Not only did he play in garage rock outfits like the Esquires, but he also played in local folk clubs and coffeehouses, where he eventually met Joni Mitchell and Stephen Stills. During the mid-'60s, he returned to Toronto, where he played as a solo folk act. By 1966, he joined the Mynah Birds, which also featured bassist Bruce Palmer and Rick James. The group recorded an album's worth of material for Motown, none of which was released at the time. Frustrated by his lack of success, Young moved to Los Angeles in his Pontiac hearse, taking Palmer along as support. Shortly after they arrived in L.A., they happened to meet Stills, and they formed Buffalo Springfield, who quickly became one of the leaders of the Californian folk-rock scene.

Despite the success of Buffalo Springfield, the group was plagued with tension, and Young quit the band several times before finally leaving to become a solo artist in May of 1968. Hiring Elliot Roberts as his manager, Young signed with Reprise Records and released his eponymous debut album in early 1969. By the time the album was released, he had begun playing with a local band called the Rockets, which featured guitarist Danny Whitten, bassist Billy Talbot, and drummer Ralph Molina. Young renamed the group Crazy Horse and had them support him on his second album, Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere, which was recorded in just two weeks. Featuring such Young staples as "Cinnamon Girl" and "Down by the River," the album went gold. Following the completion of the record, he began jamming with Crosby, Stills & Nash, eventually joining the group for their spring 1970 album, Déjà Vu. Although he was now part of Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, Young continued to record as a solo artist, releasing After the Gold Rush in August, 1970. After the Gold Rush, with its accompanying single "Only Love Can Break Your Heart," established Young as a solo star, and fame only increased through his association with CSN&Y.

Although Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young were a very successful act, they were also volatile, and they had split by the spring 1971 release of the live Four Way Street. The following year, Young had his first number one album with the mellow country-rock of Harvest, which also featured his first (and only) number one single, "Heart of Gold." Instead of embracing his success, he spurned it, following it with the noisy, bleak live film Journey Through the Past. Both the movie and its soundtrack received terrible reviews, as did the live Time Fades Away, an album recorded with the Stray Gators that was released in 1973.

Both Journey Through the Past and Time Fades Away signaled that Young was entering a dark period in his life, but they only scratched the surface of his anguish. Inspired by the overdose deaths of Danny Whitten in 1972 and his roadie Bruce Berry the following year, Young wrote and recorded the bleak, druggy Tonight's the Night late in 1973, but declined to release it at the time. Instead, he released On the Beach, which was nearly as harrowing, in 1974; Tonight's the Night finally appeared in the spring of 1975. By the time of its release, Young had recovered, as indicated by the record's hard-rocking follow-up, Zuma, an album recorded with Crazy Horse and released later that year.

Young's focus began to wander in 1976, as he recorded the duet album Long May You Run with Stephen Stills and then abandoned his partner midway through the supporting tour. The following year he recorded the country-rock-oriented American Stars 'n Bars, which featured vocals by Nicolette Larson, who was also prominent on 1978's Comes a Time. Prior to the release of Comes a Time, Young scrapped the country-rock album Homegrown and assembled the triple-album retrospective Decade. At the end of 1978, he embarked on an arena tour called Rust Never Sleeps, which was designed as a showcase for new songs. Half of the concert featured Young solo, the other half featured him with Crazy Horse. That was the pattern that Rust Never Sleeps, released in the summer of 1979, followed. The record was hailed as a comeback, proving that Young was one of the few rock veterans who attacked punk rock head-on. That fall he released the double album Live Rust and the live movie Rust Never Sleeps.

Rust Never Sleeps restored Young to his past glory, but he perversely decided to trash his goodwill in 1980 with Hawks & Doves, a collection of acoustic songs that bore the influence of conservative, right-wing politics. In 1981, Young released the heavy rock album Re*ac*tor, which received poor reviews. Following its release, he left Reprise for the fledgling Geffen Records, where he was promised lots of money and artistic freedom. Young decided to push his Geffen contract to the limit, releasing the electronic Trans in January 1983, where his voice was recorded through a computerized vocoder. The album and its accompanying technology-dependent tour were received with bewildered, negative reviews. The rockabilly of Everybody's Rockin' (1983) was equally scorned, and Young soon settled into a cult audience for the mid-'80s.

Over the course of the mid-'80s, Young released three albums that were all stylistic exercises. In 1985, he released the straight country Old Ways, which was followed by the new wave-tinged Landing on Water the following year. He returned to Crazy Horse for 1987's Life, but by that time, he and Geffen had grown sick of each other, and he returned to Reprise in 1988. His first album for Reprise was the bluesy, horn-driven This Note's for You, which was supported by an acclaimed video that satirized rock stars endorsing commercial products. At the end of the year, he recorded a reunion album with Crosby, Stills & Nash called American Dream, which was greeted with savagely negative reviews.

American Dream didn't prepare any observer for the critical and commercial success of 1989's Freedom, which found Young following the half-acoustic/half-electric blueprint of Rust Never Sleeps to fine results. Around the time of its release, Young became a hip name to drop in indie rock circles, and he was the subject of a tribute record titled The Bridge in 1989. The following year, Young reunited with Crazy Horse for Ragged Glory, a loud, feedback-drenched album that received his strongest reviews since the '70s. For the supporting tour, Young hired the avant rock band Sonic Youth as his opening group, providing them with needed exposure while earning him hip credibility within alternative rock scenes. On the advice of Sonic Youth, Young added the noise collage EP Arc as a bonus to his 1991 live album, Weld.

Weld and the Sonic Youth tour helped position Neil Young as an alternative and grunge rock forefather, but he decided to abandon loud music for its 1992 follow-up, Harvest Moon. An explicit sequel to his 1972 breakthrough, Harvest Moon became Young's biggest hit in years, and he supported the record with an appearance on MTV Unplugged, which was released the following year as an album. Also in 1993, Geffen released the rarities collection Lucky Thirteen. The following year, he released Sleeps with Angels, which was hailed as a masterpiece in some quarters. Following its release, Young began jamming with Pearl Jam, eventually recording an album with the Seattle band in early 1995. The resulting record, Mirror Ball, was released to positive reviews in the summer of 1995, but it wasn't the commercial blockbuster it was expected to be; due to legal reasons, Pearl Jam's name was not allowed to be featured on the cover.

In the summer of 1996, he reunited with Crazy Horse for Broken Arrow and supported it with a brief tour. That tour was documented in Jim Jarmusch's 1997 film The Year of the Horse, which was accompanied by a double-disc live album. In 1999, Young reunited with Crosby, Stills & Nash for the first time in a decade, supporting their Looking Forward LP with the supergroup's first tour in a quarter century. A new solo effort, Silver & Gold, followed in the spring of 2000. In recognition of his 2000 summer tour, Young released the live album Road Rock, Vol. 1 the following fall, showcasing a two-night account of Young's performance at the Red Rocks Amphitheater in Morrison, Colorado, in September 2000. A DVD version titled Red Rocks Live was issued that December, including 12 tracks initially unavailable on Road Rock, Vol. 1. His next studio project was his most ambitious yet, a concept album about small-town life titled Greendale that he also mounted as a live dramatic tour and indie film.

In early 2005, Young was diagnosed with a potentially deadly brain aneurysm. Undergoing treatment didn't slow him down, however, as he continued to write and record his next project. The acoustically based Prairie Wind appeared in the fall, with the concert film Heart of Gold, based around the album and directed by Jonathan Demme, released in 2006. That year also saw the release of the controversial CD/DVD Living with War, a collection of protest songs against the war in Iraq that featured titles such as "Let's Impeach the President," "Shock and Awe," and "Lookin' for a Leader." Restless, prolific, and increasingly self-referential, Young issued Chrome Dreams II late in 2007 and the car-themed Fork in the Road in 2009. Later in 2009, Young finally released the first installment in his long-rumored Archives series, Archives, Vol. 1, a massive first volume that combined over ten CD and DVD discs in a single box. As he was prepping Archives, Vol. 2, Young entered the studio with producer Daniel Lanois and recorded Le Noise, which appeared in the fall of 2010. Young continued going through his archives with the release of A Treasure in 2011, a single-disc set of live tracks recorded during his 1984-1985 tour with the International Harvesters that featured five previously unreleased Young songs mixed in with older songs like "Flying On the Ground Is Wrong" and "Are You Ready For the Country?," all done in the classic Harvest style.

 

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