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After The Gold Rush
: Many many beautiful songs here including Only Love Can Break Your Heart, I Believe In You, Birds, When You Dance I Can Really Love. Hard to believe that this was written by the Godfather of Grunge.
In the shadow of his crushing success with Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young, Neil Young released this solo album using some of his best studio friends to produce a landmark album that was a runaway best seller at about the same time as CSN& Y's "Dýjý Vu" was dominating the charts. There are a lot of memorable songs included in this album, all written by Young, and Neil's trademark guitar twang is audible everywhere. Also quite evident is his strange, eerie voice, which would be almost laughable were it not so memorable and also so effective a vehicle for his music. It drifts out at you like an echo in an alley, invading your private spaces as much as entertaining you. The album opens with "Tell Me Why", a plaintive ballad delivered in a mostly acoustical format. Next is "After The Goldrush", a dreamy, sometimes nightmarish reflection on the state of the country at the turn of the seventies. Also included are ""only Love Can Break Your Heart", a long and rocking version of his famous "Southern Man" effort, including the afterward of "Till The Morning Comes". He does a terrific cover of Don Gibson's classic country song "Oh, Lonesome Me", and depresses us all with "Don't Let It Bring You Down". I simply love his song "Birds", and also like the rock treatment of "When You Dance". Finally, he delivers what has become a standard folk-rock ballad, "I Believe In You", which with "Cripple Creek Ferry" rounds out the album. This is a classic Neil Young effort, and like his work with Crazy Horse, is essential for any serious sixties rock fan. Enjoy!
This is Neil Young's best album. Every song is a masterpiece. After The Gold Rush, Southern Man, and Only Love Can Break Your Heart are just a few of the classics on this album.
I just felt like correcting a previous review and providing my theory on the line "We've Got Mother Nature on the Run". First of all, Lynyrd Skynyrd's song "Sweet Home Alabama" was a song that was a retort to Neil's song "Alabama" which is on the "Harvest" album, which by the way is another classic must-have. As for the Mother Nature line... The song is called "After the Gold Rush", which refers to a time period of digging for gold, breaking up mountains and the like. Mother Nature was on the run because we continuously destroyed her creations in search of gold!
Neil Young has made tons of albums, most of them worth owning. But the one that stands above them all is After The Gold Rush. The worst song is actually "Southern Man", the one that most people are familiar with. "After the Gold Rush", "Tell Me Why" and "I Believe in You" all assert his softer side, while the heavier tunes ("Southern Man", "When you dance I can really love") rank among his best. The rest of the album is hardly filler. If you're not a fan of Neil Young, this album will undoubtedly convince you. His high and whiny voice only adds to the starkness of the title track and "Birds", and his guitar playing is at it's most consistent. After the Gold Rush stands as the work which all Neil Young product is based on, and is a real masterpiece.
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