Neil Young - Comes A Time (1978) - Lp

Release:  1978
Genre:  Country Rock, Folk Rock
Format:  LP
Label:  Reprise Records
Catalog#  REP 54099
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The album originally started out as a solo record, but when Young played it for Reprise executives they asked him if he would consider adding rhythm tracks to what he already had. Young agreed, and the end product was Comes a Time. Two songs ("Look Out For My Love" and "Lotta Love") were backed by Crazy Horse.

"Human Highway" was written several years prior to the album's release, and originally presented to Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young in 1974 for a proposed studio album by the group which never came to be. Much of the album features harmony vocals from Nicolette Larson. She also shares lead vocals with Young on "Motorcycle Mama".

Six and a half years later, Comes a Time finally was the Neil Young album for the millions of fans who had loved Harvest, an acoustic-based record with country overtones and romantic, autobiographical lyrics, and many of those fans returned to the fold, enough to make Comes a Time Young's first Top Ten album since Harvest.

He signaled the album's direction with the leadoff track, "Goin' Back," and its retrospective theme augmented with an orchestral backup and the deliberate beat familiar from his number one hit "Heart of Gold." Of course, Young remained sly about this retrenchment. "I feel like goin' back," he sang, but added, "back where there's nowhere to stay."

Doubtless he had no intention of staying with this style, but for the length of the album, melodies, love lyrics, lush arrangements, and steel guitar solos dominated, and Young's vocals were made more accessible by being paired with Nicolette Larson's harmonies. Larson's own version of Young's "Lotta Love," released shortly after the one heard here, became a Top Ten hit single.

Other highlights included the reflective "Already One," which treats the unusual subject of the nature of a divorced family, the ironic "Field of Opportunity," and a cover of Ian Tyson's folk standard "Four Strong Winds" (a country Top Ten hit for Bobby Bare in 1965).


Side A
A1.  Goin’ Back - 4:43 
A2.  Comes A Time - 3:05 
A3.  Look Out For My Love - 4:06 
A4.  Lotta Love - 2:40 
A5.  Peace Of Mind - 4:06 

Side B
B1.  Human Highway - 3:09 
B2.  Already One - 4:53 
B3.  Field Of Opportunity - 3:10 
B4.  Motorcycle Mama - 3:08 
B5.  Four Strong Winds - 4:07

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Neil Young - Trans (1982) - Lp

Released:  1982
Genre:  Synth-pop, Experimental
Format:  LP
Label:  Geffen Records
Catalog#  GEF 25019
Prijs:  €10,00

Trans is the twelfth studio album by Canadian musician and singer-songwriter Neil Young, released on December 29, 1982. Recorded and released during his Geffen era in the 1980s, its electronic sound baffled many Neil Young fans upon its initial release—a Sennheiser vocoder VSM201 features prominently in six of the nine tracks.

When it was released, Trans was Neil Young's most baffling album. He had employed a vocoder to synthesize his voice on five of the album's nine tracks, resulting in disembodied singing, the lyrics nearly impossible to decipher without the lyric sheet. And even when you read the words, "Computer Age," "We R in Control," "Transformer Man," "Computer Cowboy," and "Sample and Hold" seemed like a vague mishmash of high-tech jargon. Later, Young would reveal that some of the songs expressed a theme of attempted communication with his disabled son, and in that context, lines like "I stand by you" and "So many things still left to do/But we haven't made it yet" seemed clearer.
But the vocoder, which robbed Young's voice of its dynamics and phrasing, still kept the songs from being as moving as they were intended to be. And despite the crisp dance beats and synthesizers, the music sounded less like new Kraftwerk than like old Devo.
A few more conventional Young songs (left over from an earlier rejected album) seemed out of place. Trans had a few good songs, notably "Sample and Hold" (which seemed to be about a computer dating service for robots), a remake of "Mr. Soul," and "Like an Inca" (an intended cross between "Like a Hurricane" and "Cortez the Killer"?), but on the whole it was an idea that just didn't work.


Side A
A1.  Little Thing Called Love   (3:13)
A2.  Computer Age   (5:25)
A3.  We R In Control   (3:32)
A4.  Transformer Man   (3:24)
A5.  Computer Cowboy (aka Syscrusher)   (4:14)

Side B
B1.  Hold On To Your Love   (3:28)
B2.  Sample And Hold   (8:04)
B3.  Mr. Soul  (3:19)
B4.  Like An Inca   (9:45)

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Neil Young - Harvest (1972)

“Harvest” is the fourth album by Canadian musician Neil Young, released on February 14, 1972 on Reprise Records. It featured the London Symphony Orchestra on two tracks, while noted guests David Crosby, Graham Nash, Linda Ronstadt, Stephen Stills, and James Taylor contributed vocals.
After Neil Young left Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, he recruited a group of country session musicians (whom he christened The Stray Gators) and recorded a country rock record in “Harvest”. The record was a massive hit, producing a US number one single in "Heart of Gold". Other songs returned to some usual Young themes: "Alabama" was "an unblushing rehash of 'Southern Man'" and "The Needle and the Damage Done" was a lament for great artists who had died of heroin addiction. The album's success caught Young off guard and his first instinct was to back away from stardom. He would later write that the record put me in the middle of the road. Traveling there soon became a bore so I headed for the ditch. A rougher ride but I saw more interesting people there.
The album spawned two hit singles, "Old Man" and "Heart of Gold".

Side A
A1.  Out On The Weekend  (4:34)  
A2.  Harvest  (3:11)  
A3.  A Man Needs A Maid  (4:05)   
A4.  Heart Of Gold  (3:07)  
A5.  Are You Ready For The Country?  (3:23)  

Side B
B1.  Old Man  (3:24)  
B2.  There's A World  (2:59)   
B3.  Alabama  (4:02)  
B4.  The Needle And The Damage Done  (2:03)  
B5.  Words  (6:40)

Released:  1972
Label:  Reprise Records
Genre:  Country Rock
Format:  LP
Catalog#  44131

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