Neil Young – This Note’s for You (1998/2019) [Official Digital Download 24bit/192kHz]

Neil Young – This Note’s for You (1998/2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 39:17 minutes | 1,23 GB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Reprise

The 16th studio album from Neil Young, This Note’s For You was released in 1988 and was originally credited to Young & The Bluenotes. The overall theme of the album relates to the commercialism of rock and roll. The video for the title track was basically a parody of corporate rock and advertising which featured a Michael Jackson look-alike whose hair catches fire. The video was nominated for a Grammy in the category of “Best Concept Video” in 1989.

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Neil Young – Sugar Mountain – Live At Canterbury House 1968 (2008/2016) [Official Digital Download 24bit/192kHz]

Neil Young – Sugar Mountain – Live At Canterbury House 1968 (2008/2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 01:10:12 minutes | 2,30 GB | Genre: Rock
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Sugar Mountain – Live at Canterbury House 1968 is a live album by Neil Young. On November 8–10, 1968, Young performed three shows at Canterbury House in Ann Arbor, Michigan. This album is compiled from the performances on the 9th and 10th.

This album is Volume 00 in the Archives Performance Series. Since volumes 2 and 3 had already been released, this album, though performed earlier chronologically, is the third release from the Series. The Riverboat 1969, released in The Archives Vol. 1 1963–1972 in 2009, is the fourth Archive Performance Series released but was performed earlier chronologically than volumes 2 and 3.

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Neil Young – Storytone (Deluxe Edition) (2014) [Official Digital Download 24bit/192kHz]

Neil Young – Storytone (Deluxe Edition) (2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 01:18:40 minutes | 2,98 GB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Reprise

Storytone was recorded with a 92-piece orchestra and choir, fulfilling Neil’s life-long dream to record with an orchestra that performed in the same room with him as he sang. The album is very personal for Young in terms of its lyrical content, as well as the mood and setting of the songs and the way they were recorded with particularly pristine sound quality. Storytone is available as a single-disc standard album or as a deluxe double-disc version, which contains the original album plus solo renditions of the same songs.

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Neil Young – Songs for Judy – Live (Remastered) (2018) [Official Digital Download 24bit/176,4kHz]

Neil Young – Songs for Judy – Live (Remastered) (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/176,4 kHz | Time – 01:19:23 minutes | 2,64 GB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Reprise

Neil Young’s archives are a bottomless treasure chest. The Loner has unearthed some hidden gems from 1976, the year when he was on tour both with his group, Crazy Horse, and as a solo acoustic artist, not forgetting his shows with Stephen Stills with whom he released the album Long May You Run in September. Songs for Judy focuses on his solo acoustic performances and comprises of around twenty tracks that he recorded in Boston, Atlanta, Fort Worth, Houston, Madison, Chicago and New York throughout November. They are mostly his classic hits (Heart of Gold, After the Gold Rush, The Needle and the Damage Done) but there are also some less well-known ones (No One Seems to Know). This was Neil Young when he was surfing an incredible wave of creativity, in just two years he composed three masterpieces: On the Beach, Tonight’s the Night and Zuma. The content of his compositions is truly impressive, and despite only being equipped with a guitar, piano, organ and harmonica, the recordings are flawless and deserving of being played on a loop. Even if these kinds of unpublished recordings are recommended first and foremost for Neil Young fans, for those who aren’t as familiar with his music this is a great place to begin.  – Marc Zisman

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Neil Young – Silver & Gold (2020/2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/192kHz]

Neil Young – Silver & Gold (2020/2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 39:12 minutes | 1,30 GB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Reprise

Silver & Gold is the 23rd studio album by Canadian / American musician Neil Young, released on April 25, 2000. Many of these songs were written in the late 1990s, though the title track was written in 1981; by his own estimation, he had been trying to get “the take” on this song for around ten years.

The album was a nominee for Roots & Traditional Album of the Year – Solo at the 2001 Juno Awards. The album art is a photo taken by Neil’s daughter Amber with the Game Boy Camera.

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Neil Young – ROXY: Tonight’s the Night Live (2018) [Official Digital Download 24bit/192kHz]

Neil Young – ROXY: Tonight’s the Night Live (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 53:09 minutes | 1,91 GB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Reprise

Roxy – Tonight’s The Night Live is one of the most sought-after recordings from his vast archives. This was the first public performance of many of the songs that would make up Young’s seminal album Tonight’s The Night, which would not be released until June 1975. The album’s final track “Walk On” would not appear until the release of On The Beach, in July 1974. Young would be the first artist to christen the stage at what would become one of the world’s great clubs, The Roxy Theater on the riotous Sunset Strip, right next door to the already infamous Rainbow Bar & Grille. The shows took place on September 20-22, 1973.

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Neil Young – Return To Greendale (Live) (2020) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Neil Young – Return To Greendale (Live) (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:20:40 minutes | 1,68 GB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Reprise

Neil Young’s 2003/04 Greendale tour with Crazy Horse will be chronicled on Return to Greendale, a live album and film coming out on November 6th. It will be available as a two-disc set or limited edition box set with two LPs, two CDs and a documentary, Inside Greendale, about the creation of the album.

Greendale is a rock opera about a fictional small town that is rocked by the death of a beloved police officer. Along the way, it addresses corporate greed, a scandal-obsessed media environment and Bush-era propaganda. It climaxes with one of the central figures, a teenage girl named Sun Green, heading off to Alaska to fight for the environment.

Two months before it came out, Young and Crazy Horse launched a tour of North American amphitheaters where they played all 10 songs from the album in sequence with a large cast of actors and dancers. Many fans bought tickets thinking they were seeing a traditional Neil Young and Crazy Horse concert and were none-too-thrilled with the show, even if it ended with a brief set of Crazy Horse classics.

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Neil Young & Crazy Horse – Return To Greendale (Live) (2020) [Official Digital Download 24bit/192kHz]

Neil Young & Crazy Horse – Return To Greendale (Live) (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 01:20:40 minutes | 3,03 GB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Reprise

Time Fades Away, Live Rust, Weld, Arc, Year of the Horse, MTV Unplugged, Earth – Neil Young has always been a proponent of recording his live concerts. So, in that same vein, he has kicked things up a notch with his Archives Series, comprising of a dozen, often previously unreleased, live performances recorded throughout his extensive career. Recorded in Toronto in September 2003, Return to Greendale is taken from his Greendale tour. It includes the complete, chronological track-list of the album, and nothing else, in a nutshell! It is slightly frustrating to only hear those ten songs, as captivating as they are. Although it does make sense seeing as the Greendale project is a concept-album – a kind of musical novel which tells the story of a family confronted with murder in the small town of Greendale. The studio version of this rock music with folk, blues and country elements becomes slightly more edgy on stage – just a little – but demands the same attention and concentration as any other decent concept-album. With his loyal musicians from Crazy Horse (drummer Ralph Molina, bassist Billy Talbot and guitarist Frank “Poncho” Sampedro), Neil Young paints a moving picture of his colourful characters to convey political and ecological messages that are important to him. – Max Dembo

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Neil Young – Prairie Wind (2005/2016) [Official Digital Download 24bit/192kHz]

Neil Young – Prairie Wind (2005/2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 52:10 minutes | 1,78 GB | Genre: Rock
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Prairie Wind is the 26th studio album by Canadian / American musician Neil Young, released on September 27, 2005. After dalliances with 1960s soul music (Are You Passionate?) and rock opera (Greendale, which spawned a Young-directed film of the same name), Prairie Wind featured an acoustic-based sound reminiscent of his earlier commercially successful albums Harvest and Harvest Moon. The album was in part inspired by the illness and recent death of his father, Canadian sportswriter and novelist Scott Young, and the album is dedicated in part to the elder Young.

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Neil Young – Peace Trail (2016) [Official Digital Download 24bit/192kHz]

Neil Young – Peace Trail (2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 38:22 minutes | 1,31 GB | Genre: Rock
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Peace Trail features all new songs that Young wrote since the release of his album EARTH, this past June. This new album is primarily acoustic and reflects an intimate, sparse approach to each of the ten songs within.

“Neil Young matches the fire in his belly to the poetry from his pen for one of the most gripping outings of his long career. This riveting collection, a spare acoustic-electric hybrid, seethes with righteous indignation over a plethora of social and political injustices, but also soothes with deeply felt empathy for those on the receiving end of iniquity.” – Los Angeles Times / Randy Lewis

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Neil Young – Old Ways (1985/2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/192kHz]

Neil Young – Old Ways (1985/2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 36:45 minutes | 1,27 GB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Geffen

In 1984, Geffen Records sued Neil Young on the grounds that he had submitted uncharacteristic, uncommercial records to the label. By the time a settlement had been reached, Young had been on the road with a country band called the International Harvesters for over a year and recorded a revamped version of Old Ways, a 1982 recording originally rejected by Geffen that was cut in the style of Harvest and Comes a Time, but with a stronger country leaning. Young depends heavily on friends, especially for vocals — Waylon Jennings sings harmony on six out of the ten tracks, and one of the others is a duet with Willie Nelson. Though populated by cowboys and country references, Young’s take on the genre is typically idiosyncratic, including a reworked version of his autobiography in “Get Back to the Country,” a cover of the 1956 Gogi Grant hit “The Wayward Wind,” and the uncategorizable “Misfits,” which portrays astronauts watching Muhammad Ali fights on television in space. Old Ways is not a great Neil Young album and at the time of its release served to alienate him even further from his audience, but it has its moments. – William Ruhlmann

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Neil Young – Neil Young (1968/2014) [Official Digital Download 24bit/192kHz]

Neil Young – Neil Young (1968/2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 36:25 minutes | 1,29 GB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Reprise Records

On his songs for Buffalo Springfield, Neil Young had demonstrated an eclecticism that ranged from the rock of “Mr. Soul” to the complicated, multi-part arrangement of “Broken Arrow.” On his debut solo album, he continued to work with composer/arranger Jack Nitzsche, with whom he had made “Expecting to Fly” on the Buffalo Springfield Again album, and together the two recorded a restrained effort on which the folk-rock instrumentation, most of which was by Young, overdubbing himself, was augmented by discreet string parts. The country & western elements that had tinged the Springfield’s sound were also present, notably on the leadoff track, “The Emperor of Wyoming,” an instrumental that recalled the Springfield song “A Child’s Claim to Fame.” Still unsure of his voice, Young sang in a becalmed high tenor that could be haunting as often as it was listless and whining. He was at his least appealing on the nine-and-a-half-minute closing track, “The Last Trip to Tulsa,” on which he accompanied himself with acoustic guitar, singing an impressionistic set of lyrics seemingly derived from Bob Dylan’s Highway 61 Revisited. But double-tracking and the addition of a female backup chorus improved the singing elsewhere, and on “The Loner,” the album’s most memorable track, Young displayed some of the noisy electric guitar work that would characterize his recordings with Crazy Horse and reminded listeners of his ability to turn a phrase. Still, Neil Young made for an uneven, low-key introduction to Young’s solo career, and when released it was a commercial flop, his only album not to make the charts. (Several months after the album’s release, Young remixed it to bring out his vocals more and added some overdubs. This second version replaced the first in the U.S. from then on, though the original mix remained available overseas.) –William Ruhlmann

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Neil Young – Living with War (2006) [Official Digital Download 24bit/192kHz]

Neil Young – Living with War (2006)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 41:52 minutes | 1,39 GB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Reprise

The main elements of Neil Young’s music are manageable and well-known: a few chords, distorted or acoustic guitars,a high, strained voice and lyrics that make you think. Since the songs from the Canadian are just so bubbling out, better albums line up with less good ones. Due to the appearance of his works in an annual rhythm, the different quality can only be managed with patience.

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Neil Young – Living with War – In the Beginning (2006/2015) [Official Digital Download 24bit/192kHz]

Neil Young – Living with War – In the Beginning (2006/2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 38:56 minutes | 1,28 GB | Genre:
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Living with War – In the Beginning is a studio album by Neil Young, released in 2006. It is a stripped-down version of Young’s 2006 album Living with War. The album includes first mixes of the live trio recordings, made the day of recording.

The album’s lyrics, titles, and conceptual style are highly critical of the policies of the George W. Bush administration. Written and recorded over the course of only nine days in March and April 2006, its lyrics are in line with the early 1960s albums of folk artists such as Phil Ochs and Bob Dylan.

On this version of the album, the sound is straight-from-the-source, captured live in the studio exactly the way it was recorded, without the backing instrumentation and choral accompaniment found on the original release.

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Neil Young – Live At The Cellar Door (2013/2016) [Official Digital Download 24bit/192kHz]

Neil Young – Live At The Cellar Door (2013/2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 45:05 minutes | 1,36 GB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Reprise

Live at the Cellar Door is a live album by Neil Young, featuring performances from his six 1970 concerts in Washington D.C. It was released on December 10, 2013. The album is volume 02.5 in Young’s Archives Performance Series. Live at the Cellar Door features songs from multiple early albums created by Young, as well as Buffalo Springfield which include: After the Gold Rush, Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere, Buffalo Springfield (album) and Buffalo Springfield Again.

Additionally, the album features the only known recording of Young performing his classic “Cinnamon Girl” on piano. As stated by his comment on the disc “That’s the first time I’ve ever performed that song on Piano!”

The album closes with the stunning piano track: “Flying on the Ground is Wrong” in which Young humoursly quips: “I had it put in my contracts that I would only play on a nine foot Steinway Grand Piano, just for a little eccentricity.

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