'The Needle and The Damage Done' is totally in your face - you have to check that Young's not in the room with you! It's like hearing the record all over again, and in my mind (it's such a fine line), 'Harvest now resides as a total classic - one of Neil Young's (and anyone else's) finest. Also, the orchestrations - especially on 'A Man Needs A Maid', are amazingly rich and vivid. The hit single, 'Heart of Gold' sounds so full and dynamic - you can hear the individual beats on the hi-hat, and the rhythm section - especially the loping bass line - have real depth. The guitars on 'Alabama' are brittle and sharp around the edges, and you can actually hear the room in the recording - and the bits where the instruments leak over into one another. 'Harvest' sounds wonderful in this new, remastered incarnation. I always felt ambivalent about 'Harvest' on the one hand, it was a massive commercial success internationally, but its success seemed to cause moments of self-doubt, and Young then set about, if not actually sabotaging his career, embarked upon a series of recordings culminating in 'Tonight's the Night' and 'On The Beach' (and when is 'Time Fades Away' gonna make it (Legitimately) to the digital format?), two of the darkest records in the rock genre.Īnyway, I digress. Anyway, having finally got his finger out, the first batch of Neil Young reissues eventually came out, and, casting cynicism aside, I can honestly state that they are fantastic. Neil Young has constantly frustrated his long standing fanbase by simulataneously whipping the horses and stamping on the brakes - threatening to release stuff then stepping back when some other format (5.1, Blu-Ray) came into view. So, when me and a few million other mugs bought CDs of albums we'd loved to death on vinyl, why was the listening experience so underwhelming? The record labels then realised that they had to be properly remastered using original tapes with a cutting engineer who knew their stuff. We were told back then that they represented the pinnacle of recorded sound. Okay, so CDs have been with us getting on for thirty years now. To learn more about how and for what purposes Amazon uses personal information (such as Amazon Store order history), please visit our Privacy Notice. 4-panel lyric sheet and inner sleeve are rough-finish unrefined paper. LP jacket constructed of rough finish cardstock paper. Another Santa Maria pressing Neil Young - Harvest with 'NEIL YOUNG / HARVEST / MS 2032' centered and printed on spine without the additional text. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie Preferences, as described in the Cookie Notice. RECORDS INC.PRINTED IN U.S.A.' printed on spine. Click ‘Customise Cookies’ to decline these cookies, make more detailed choices, or learn more. Third parties use cookies for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalised ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. This includes using first- and third-party cookies, which store or access standard device information such as a unique identifier. If you agree, we’ll also use cookies to complement your shopping experience across the Amazon stores as described in our Cookie Notice. We also use these cookies to understand how customers use our services (for example, by measuring site visits) so we can make improvements. See the full list here, and find a list of participating record stores here.We use cookies and similar tools that are necessary to enable you to make purchases, to enhance your shopping experiences and to provide our services, as detailed in our Cookie Notice. Other releases include a new EP by At the Drive-In, a vinyl reissue of Y Kant Tori Read’s self-titled debut, a Grateful Dead box set, and a 12" single of Danger Mouse, Run the Jewels, and Big Boi’s song “Chase Me” for the Baby Driver soundtrack. Fleet Foxes recently announced a new EP, The Electric Lady Session, collecting live performances of songs from their recent album Crack-Up. Neil Young’s Harvest Moon reissue is one of many notable new releases for Record Store Black Friday. Revisit Pitchfork’s Sunday Reviews of Tonight’s the Night and Trans. Earlier this year, Neil Young released the lost album Hitchhiker, originally recorded in 1976, and announced a new online archive to run in conjunction with his high-fidelity streaming service, XStream Music. The newly remastered 2xLP release is limited to 5000 copies and marks the album’s first pressing on vinyl in North America. Neil Young’s 1992 album Harvest Moon will receive its first official vinyl reissue for this year’s Record Store Black Friday on November 24.
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