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Old Ways (1985)
Also A Treasure (recorded live in 1984-85, released 2011)
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Everybody's Rockin' (1983)
Classic Neil move: After Trans, he pivots again and offers Geffen a pure country album called Old Ways. Geffen is feeling burnt by the failure of Trans and demands a “rock ‘n’ roll” album. So Neil immediately goes into the studio with a new band called The Shocking Pinks and
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Trans (1982)
And so we arrive at the most infamous album in Neil Young’s catalog. This album and the next one (Everybody’s Rockin) got him sued by his record company for making music "not commercial" and "musically uncharacteristic of [his] previous recordings." Eventually the suit was
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VIDEO: Ohio (Official Live)
from 2018
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Re•ac•tor (1981)
I’ve never heard this album but remember seeing it in stores all the time, always wondering what it sounded like. When my Neil fandom began, there was the general feeling that the 80s were a wash for Neil (more on that next time…) and that probably contributed to me
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Hawks & Doves (1980)
When I take on a character and write from that perspective, many listeners feel I am writing from my own soul and cannot understand what happened to me. The subtlety of writing from another perspective in the first person is lost on many listeners. Such is life. (Hawks & Doves,
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Live Rust (1979)
The rust trilogy of releases concludes.
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FILM: Rust Never Sleeps (1979)
Released just two months after the album Rust Never Sleeps, this film documents the October 22, 1978 performance at Cow Palace, San Francisco during Neil Young and Crazy Horse’s fall 1978 tour. It’s probably one of the best representations of the Horse’s dynamic. I saw them described
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Rust Never Sleeps (1979)
This is a seminal moment in Neil’s discography that encompasses a few releases so I’m going to outline it a little for some perspective to start: 1976 - “Pocahontas” is recorded at the Hitchhiker sessions August 11, 1976. It will appear on Rust Never Sleeps with some overdubs
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Comes a Time (1978)
duets and fiddles and a couple horses
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American Stars 'n Bars (1977)
an underrated grab bag hiding a masterpiece or two
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Long May You Run (1976)
in which we agree this album only has one song on it