Ragged Glory

Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Ragged Glory
Critic Score
Based on 5 reviews
1990 Ratings: #32 / 370
User Score
Based on 116 ratings
1990 Rank: #103
Liked by 15 people
September 10, 1990 / Release Date
LP / Format
Reprise / Label
Hard Rock / Genre
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CRITIC REVIEWS

91
Entertainment Weekly

Life can be dangerous; Young owns up to the danger, and still dares wear his heart on his sleeve.

90
AllMusic
Young was not generally known as an artist who evoked the past this much, but if he could extend his creative rebirth with music this exhilarating, no one was likely to complain.
90
NME
It's a sound that's coarse and savage, funny and deranged, the sound of stumblebum drunks and moonshining fruitbats on a Powergen awayday. It's one of the great self-justifying cornerstones of electric rock 'n' roll. 'Ragged Glory' describes it perfectly.
90
Rolling Stone

It's loose and wild, and God knows it's loud, and it soars gloriously from one raving cut to the next..

JustSomeGuy
75

After a decade of failures, both critically and commercially, Young quickly went back to his roots in '89s Freedom, showing that he was still just as good a songwriter and musician as he was a decade prior. He then completely reinvented himself, changing up his sound and style completely and embracing his "Godfather of Grunge" title.

To newcomers, you likely wouldn't expect an album this heavy to be coming from someone like Neil Young. Aside from a few cuts on Rust Never Sleeps and ... read more

Flomink
35

Something about this album is so grating, and listening through it, it’s hard to put my finger exactly on what. It’s a Neil Young hard rock album for one, but between the terrible vocal delivery and jock lyrics, it’s hard to take this thing seriously or want to stay tuned in. This album just feels like a late career album of a 70s artist in every way, with songs like Mansion on a Hill that literally has the chorus “psychedelic music fills the air”. I really ... read more

pinio985
70

Neil Young is fucking it up in the best way!!!

pinio985
70

Neil Young is fucking it up in the best way!!!

NR

Ragged Glory comes at an important part in Neil’s career, as this succeeds his comeback with Freedom, boasting the hit song “Rockin’ In The Free World”. After a run of albums that didn’t do very well, Neil saw what he did right, which was adding some distortion to his guitars and adapting to the more modern sound of music at the time. This is the result of that, and not to give too much of a spoiler, but it fails.

Country Home (4/10)
A seven minute song should ... read more

luisxotwod
100

yeah

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Track List

1Country Home
7:05
90
2White Line
2:58
85
3Fuckin' Up
5:54
85
4Over and Over
8:28
78
5Love to Burn
10:00
87
6Farmer John
4:14
67
7Mansion on the Hill
4:48
83
8Days That Used to Be
3:42
83
9Love and Only Love
10:18
93
10Mother Earth (Natural Anthem)
5:11
83
Total Length: 1 hour, 2 minutes

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Added on: July 7, 2013