Neil Young  
Album by Album
Author(s): Chris White
Published by Pen and Sword
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ISBN: 9781399068208
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Neil Young, a prolific musician with a career spanning six decades and nearly 50 solo albums, remains a pivotal figure in music, known for his activism and enduring creativity.

With an illustrious career stretching back almost six decades and encompassing nearly 50 solo studio albums alone, Neil Young is one of the most prolific, compelling figures in the history of popular music, equally revered as both an acoustic singer-songwriter and as the force of nature frontman of rock legends Crazy Horse. As he enters his late seventies, Young remains as energetic and relevant as ever, locking horns with streaming giant Spotify in protest against their alleged promotion of COVID-19 misinformation and continuing to release new music when many of his contemporaries have long since faded away into comfortable retirement.

Neil Young: Album by Album is the most complete retrospective of the great Canadian’s discography ever written. Covering his entire solo career from his 1968 debut to 2022’s World Record, the book offers in-depth, track-by-track reviews of every Young studio album, providing an engaging insight into the restless creativity that gave the world classics like After the Goldrush, Harvest and Rust Never Sleeps.

Also including detailed timelines covering the different phases of Young’s life, sections on the artist’s early years and his live and archive releases, and an entertaining essay ranking his solo albums from worst to best, this comprehensive book is equally indispensable for both diehard Young fans and those listeners seeking to discover more of his formidable body of work.
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Neil Young, a prolific musician with a career spanning six decades and nearly 50 solo albums, remains a pivotal figure in music, known for his activism and enduring creativity.

With an illustrious career stretching back almost six decades and encompassing nearly 50 solo studio albums alone, Neil Young is one of the most prolific, compelling figures in the history of popular music, equally revered as both an acoustic singer-songwriter and as the force of nature frontman of rock legends Crazy Horse. As he enters his late seventies, Young remains as energetic and relevant as ever, locking horns with streaming giant Spotify in protest against their alleged promotion of COVID-19 misinformation and continuing to release new music when many of his contemporaries have long since faded away into comfortable retirement.

Neil Young: Album by Album is the most complete retrospective of the great Canadian’s discography ever written. Covering his entire solo career from his 1968 debut to 2022’s World Record, the book offers in-depth, track-by-track reviews of every Young studio album, providing an engaging insight into the restless creativity that gave the world classics like After the Goldrush, Harvest and Rust Never Sleeps.

Also including detailed timelines covering the different phases of Young’s life, sections on the artist’s early years and his live and archive releases, and an entertaining essay ranking his solo albums from worst to best, this comprehensive book is equally indispensable for both diehard Young fans and those listeners seeking to discover more of his formidable body of work.
Table of contents
  • Cover
  • Title
  • Copyright
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • My approach to the content in this book
  • PART 1: Setting the scene - Young’s early years (1945-68)
    • Neil Young
    • Timeline - Young’s early years (1945-68)
  • PART 2: The Classic Era (1969-79)
    • Neil Young with Crazy Horse - Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere
    • Neil Young - After The Gold Rush
    • Neil Young - Harvest
    • Neil Young - Time Fades Away
    • Neil Young - On The Beach
    • Neil Young - Tonight’s The Night
    • Neil Young - Homegrown
    • Neil Young - Zuma
    • Neil Young - Hitchhiker
    • Neil Young - Chrome Dreams
    • Neil Young - American Stars ‘n Bars
    • Neil Young - Comes A Time
    • Neil Young - Rust Never Sleeps
    • Timeline - The Classic Era (1968–79)
  • PART 3: The Wilderness Years (1980-1988)
    • Neil Young - Hawks and Doves
    • Neil Young - Re.ac.tor
    • Neil Young - Trans
    • Neil Young and the Shocking Pinks - Everybody’s Rockin’
    • Neil Young - Old Ways
    • Neil Young - Landing On Water
    • Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Life
    • Neil Young & The Bluenotes - This Note’s For You
    • Timeline - The Wilderness Years (1980 - 88)
  • PART 4: Rebirth (1989-2000)
    • Neil Young - Freedom
    • Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Ragged Glory
    • Neil Young - Harvest Moon
    • Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Sleeps With Angels
    • Neil Young featuring Pearl Jam - Mirror Ball
    • Neil Young - Dead Man
    • Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Broken Arrow
    • Neil Young - Silver and Gold
    • Timeline - Rebirth (1989 - 2000)
  • PART 5: 21st century maverick (2001-2023)
    • Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Toast
    • Neil Young - Are You Passionate?
    • Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Greendale
    • Neil Young - Prairie Wind
    • Neil Young - Living With War
    • Neil Young - Chrome Dreams II
    • Neil Young - Fork in the Road
    • Neil Young - Le Noise
    • Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Americana
    • Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Psychedelic Pill
    • Neil Young - A Letter Home
    • Neil Young - Storytone
    • Neil Young & Promise of the Real - The Monsanto Years
    • Neil Young - Peace Trail
    • Neil Young & Promise of the Real - The Visitor
    • Neil Young & Promise of the Real - Paradox OST
    • Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Colorado
    • Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Barn
    • Neil Young & Crazy Horse - World Record
    • Neil Young - Before and After
    • Timeline - 21st century maverick (2001-2023)
  • PART 6: Off the Beaten Track - live albums, compilations and archives
  • PART 7: Ranking Young’s albums
    • Neil Young - the albums ranked!
  • Bibliography and Resources
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