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Harvest | 
| Artist: Neil Young
Label: Warner
Category: Music
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Rating:  23 reviews
Sales Rank: 450
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 4.7 x 0.4
MPN: 2277
UPC: 075992723923
EAN: 0075992723923
ASIN: B000002KD1
Release Date: April 27, 1984
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| Tracks:
| • | Out On The Weekend | | • | Harvest | | • | Man Needs A Maid | | • | Heart Of Gold | | • | Are You Ready For The Country | | • | Old Man | | • | There's A World | | • | Alabama | | • | Needle And The Damage Done | | • | Words (Between The Lines Of Age) |
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Amazon.co.uk Review
Proclaiming his intentions with "Are You Ready for the Country?", Young detoured briefly to the Nashville mainstream. On this 1972 album, even the singer's acquired-taste voice comes across smooth and beautiful--the smash "Heart of Gold", with steel guitars and Linda Ronstadt's backup vocals, is by far Young's most commercial-sounding song. His usual dissonant touches, like the otherworldly guitar in "Out on the Weekend", are less spooky in this new context. The last two tracks, the deceptively gentle "The Needle and the Damage Done" and the hypnotic rocker "Words (Between the Lines of Age)", predict "Tonight's the Night", Young's haunted 1975 classic. --Steve Knopper
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| Customer Reviews: Read 18 more reviews...
 Harvest - cream of the crop. November 12, 2008
This is one of those classic albums that everyone has to own, and it is a very special record.
There are so many brilliant songs on this album; personal favourites are Out On The Weekend, Heart Of Gold and Old Man, but every track is just as brilliant as the previous and next.
The overall feel is just mellow and relaxed in terms of musical arrangement and vocal delivery, but the lyrics are intense in their depths of heartfelt emotion.
It sounds too simple to be this good, with very modest and unassuming instruments and a harmonica, which adds to the feel of the heart of the American countryside/prairies.
This album may be 36 years old but it still sounds so fresh and is still relevant now.
King Harvest (Has Surely Come) October 23, 2008
Like another reviewer in these pages, once upon a time I too was quick to dismiss Neil Young, but now I wear the sackcloth and ashes and berate myself for not picking up on his vibe sooner. This is a stunningly good and deceptively easy album to listen to. I bought it in a job lot, with several other albums by NY, and for weeks and weeks now I have woken up and gone to sleep listening to nothing else but 'Harvest' 'After The Goldrush' 'On The Beach' 'Tonight's The Night' 'Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere' and 'Greatest Hits', knowing that sooner or later the hook of 'Old Man' and 'Heart Of Gold' (songs I've always loved) would eventually place the key in my hand that would unlock the beauty and genius of this man. I love all these mentioned above, and I am buying more at the weekend: 'Zuma' and 'Comes A Time' and 'Harvest Moon'. I have to say, much as I love the others, this album goes way beyond praise: it is up there with (in my book) 'Astral Weeks' 'What's Going On' 'The Gilded Palace Of Sin' 'Blood On The Tracks' and several others I could name. Why didn't I get it all those years ago? Because Young is not a conventional songwriter in one sense; lyrically, all his albums seem to comprise of one never-ending travelogue through the dreams, aspirations and wreckage of the generations, which is all more grist to his mill, as he is able to sonically sculpt the most amazing and simple tunes and wrest the heart and soul from passing moments. I could not recommend this album higher.
And what a harvest! August 18, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
An astonishing work. Merely one of the many gems that are scattered throughout Young's career. Rather than waxing lyrical about this album, it is better just to say that I can't think of a single second on this ambum that isn't sheer quality. A couple of years ago I lived with a group of people that only listened to house music. I leant this to one of them, and before the end of the week our whole house had turned into Neil Young converts. Next to Bob Dylan, Young is one of the greatest artists of all time. A prolifically creative genius.
Enjoy.
Peerless Genius. April 14, 2008
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
Okay. Pub argument Number 120. Who is the greatest song-writer ever? Dylan, Lennon and McCartney are all in with a shout. Brian Wilson, Kurt Cobain, Roger Waters, the list goes on. But seriously, how could anyone take this title other than Neil Young. I mean it, this guy is so good, it defies belief.
I did try to collect a few Neil Young albums a few years back. In time they disappeared or got sold, and I continued to listen to all sorts of mindless rubbish (what the hell was I supposed to know, I was only a punk kid). But over the last few years i've come to the conclusion that not only is Neil Young far better than even people think he is, but even amongst the elite, he's virtually untouchable.
Don't believe me? Then listen again. Every single song on 'Harvest' is masterful. Honestly, not a single note is wasted anywhere. My favourites are probably 'A Man Needs A Maid', a touching ballad about then-girlfriend Carrie Snodgress, 'Needle And The Damage Done', concerning heroin addicted rock musicians and 'Old Man', a song about old and young lives being similar.
But whatever the merits of the rest of the album, it's 'Heart Of Gold' that remains Young's masterpiece. His only number one single and the fan's firm favourite, a beautifully soft ballad that for me, is endlessly re-listenable.
If there's one thing I hate, it's hyperbole. But for 'Harvest' i'll make an exception. And if William Blake was a rock star, he'd be Neil Young. He really is that good.
So to conclude, there are great song-writers, and then there's Neil Young. And anyone who wants to disagree had better step outside.
Golden Harvest April 11, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I'm sure many people waited eagerly for this release and I was certainly one of them. The fear was that it would be a huge disappointment after Goldrush - well it wasn't. Harvest has taken on almost a mythical feel over the years.
Many consider it his best work and certainly it met with critical acclaim and is still talked of today. When Young releases a low key, tuneful album it is always described as "The New Harvest" and the composer also references the album many times in his subsequent offerings.
It was more progressive than Goldrush. To me the songs aren't quite so effective but there is no denying the power and beauty of an album that once again contained some outstanding music with the likes of "Harvest", "A Man Needs a Maid" "Heart of Gold" (I can hear you singing it now and two songs with much stronger messages "Old Man" and a foray into drug culture "The Needle and the Damage Done."
The only question on the lips of Young fans were "where does he go from here and can he produce a trio of essential albums?"
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