Life can be dangerous; Young owns up to the danger, and still dares wear his heart on his sleeve.
It's loose and wild, and God knows it's loud, and it soars gloriously from one raving cut to the next..
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
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
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
1 | Country Home 7:05 | 90 |
2 | White Line 2:58 | 85 |
3 | Fuckin' Up 5:54 | 85 |
4 | Over and Over 8:28 | 78 |
5 | Love to Burn 10:00 | 87 |
6 | Farmer John 4:14 | 67 |
7 | Mansion on the Hill 4:48 | 83 |
8 | Days That Used to Be 3:42 | 83 |
9 | Love and Only Love 10:18 | 93 |
10 | Mother Earth (Natural Anthem) 5:11 | 83 |