fourteen titles to follow the “loner” wherever it goes

Two albums published per year (including one of archives), a departure with Facas de Spotify … In addition, half a century after his triumphant “Harvest”, the artist continues to defray the chronicle. Moreover, Here are fourteen acoustic or electric nuggets of its abundant discography. – Fourteen titles follow “loner” wherever

“Ohio” (1970) – Fourteen titles follow “loner” wherever

Un 45-tours bought at 11 years old. In addition, A powerful, concise, as explosive, songeful song protest in his rage as a musically exciting. However, Neil Young wrote it in fifteen minutes in reaction to fourteen titles follow “loner” wherever the murder by the National Guard of four students. Consequently, demonstrating against the war in Vietnam at the Kent State University. Meanwhile, Crosby. Meanwhile, Stills and Nash have never seemed so united behind this CRI of the Canadian’s electric heart which, more than half a century after, has not lost an ounce of its virulence. Additionally, Meanwhile, The shear guitar, the song pierces, the rhythm, overwhelming, hammers the cadence. Consequently, In barely two minutes, including solo, everything is said. In addition, — H.C.

“Southern Man” in the album “4 Way Street” (1971) – Fourteen titles follow “loner” wherever

More than the studio version. Consequently, of this anti-racist song (to which Lynyrd Skynyrd will answer) of the album After The Gold Rushwe prefer the one (13 minutes 45!) Registered live a few months earlier and released in 1971 on 4 Way Street From CSN & Y. fourteen titles follow “loner” wherever Meanwhile, The duels of Six-Cordes engage in Neil Young. Consequently, Stephen Stills, supported by the crosby agreements, sumptuous vocal backing and a rhythmic section with dazzling feeling (Calvin Samuels à la bass, John Barbata on the battery) is the pure masterpiece. Moreover, We have rarely heard so brilliant tangle of guitars. Meanwhile, — F.Pe.

“On the Beach” (1974) – Fourteen titles follow “loner” wherever

A hippie in chick yellow blazer facing the empty horizon. Therefore, a « The world is turnin’, I hope it don’t turn away », thrown like a bottle in the sea… piece title of an album of his black trilogy, On the Beach is the complaint of a shipwrecked, 29 -year -old rocker not yet completely rose from the abyss where the recording of it Tonight’s the Night. In addition, The feet in the sand, the “loner” ruminates glory, addictions and loneliness. For fourteen titles follow “loner” wherever example, His tired and raised voice, his depressive guitar make us drift on the borders of a disenchanted lyricism. Therefore, — A.B.

“Albuquerque” (1973-1975) – Fourteen titles follow “loner” wherever

Recorded in 1973. Similarly, published two years later in the very depressed Tonight’s the Night, Albuquerque Could have been called “Rock Star Blues”. Nevertheless, Out of breath. Furthermore, Young only dreams of a moment of anonymity in the most anonymous of cities, a piece of ham and albucquerque eggs. Similarly, Beautiful. For example, poignant like a sunset over a great-road from New Mexico, this title confronts the personal sinking with the power of natural America, so vast that even a lost soul can still find its salvation. Moreover, — L.-JN

“My My Hey Hey” (1979)

Many times imitated, borrowed, and so often massacred … In addition, Exit in two versions (acoustics at the start. For example, electric at the end) on the album Rust Never Sleepsthis song – Out of the Blue de Dennis Hopper and quoted by Kurt Cobain in his farewell letter – did not usur his myth. Neil Young. in search of success at the time, preaches there for his parish (« Rock an roll can never die »), But difficult to make a better question of eternal refrain. I always preferred his acoustic side, brighter. And I have to admit: I too, on a badly granted six-hardware, I once massacred it. – J.-B.R.

“Thrasher” (1979)

Of a twelve-coordinates a crystal clear arpeggio filling a cathedral silence. The first fourteen titles follow “loner” wherever image brings back to Harvest from the sky, And the day is barely rising. As often at Neil, there is a road. It is taken under a sky where Eagles or Vultures hang. Phrases cascad their banal and incredible sounds (« When the aimless blade of science / Slashed the pearly gates »). Friends are lost on the way, frozen on benches that we go beyond, where the pavement becomes sand. The only one resists the bad wind and loneliness of childhood nostalgia. A tender Harmonica chorus closes this unassailable splendor. — F.G.

“Little Wing” (1980)

We know Hendrix’s toquked author but his “little wing” has hooked otherwise. The feathers have always inspired her, psychedelic ecstasy (Expecting to Fly) Break off (Birds). This miniature rubbed with harmonica. whispered at the opening of the album Hawks and Dovesis in fact very prior to fourteen titles follow “loner” wherever the publication of it. But she is perfectly in her place. with her fragile melody in echo at Sad Memory From Richie Furay, ex-colleague at Buffalo Springfield. With a breath she manages to hang time, which Neil Young also knew how to do in the electric crash. – F.G.

“Computer Age” (1982)

A nod to the famous Computer World Posted a year earlier by Kraftwerk? In any case. his synth and futuristic electronic beats sounds (for the time), of an emphasis a little stuffy, reminds of the pre -techno music of the four of Düsseldorf… Computer Age is not the most “barred” song of Trans, Part completely apart in the work of the Canadian. These encrypted songs. distorted by the mutant effects of the vocoder, had, according to him, the theme of the attempt to communication with his son fourteen titles follow “loner” wherever with cerebral infirmity. On this one, with her singing guitar, joy and confidence in the future are the message. – Epic

“Rockin’ in the Free World” dans “Freedom” (1989)

After a decade marked by chaotic inspiration. setbacks with his label, Neil Young finds his creative verve with Freedom. Like this anti-George Bush Father burning which will become the song celebrating the fall of the Berlin Wall. almost simultaneous at the exit of the album. Which offers two versions: an opening acoustics, an electric at the end. The gargantuan Riff of the guitar of the latter. its fiery refrain made it, rightly, one of the greatest successes of the Loner and especially one of the most powerful hymns on the planet rock. – F.Pe.

“Natural Beauty” (1992)

I was fourteen titles follow “loner” wherever 17 at the release of the album Harvest Moon. : not the age to give in to the romantic-ecolo sirens of a song like Natural Beauty. Or even to taste the return to the fundamentals roots (and the Stray Gators) of his rock country. I rediscover it with the tender ear of the forties. more sensitive to these emotional “roller coasters” which led Old Neil, twenty years after the benchmark Harvest, To watch himself age with so much wisdom. He is a peaceful survivor, who enhances his melancholy in a purity. — A.B.

“Change Your Mind” (1994)

Has this song been written before or after Kurt Cobain’s suicide? Doubt remains. But if it is before, its premonitory appearance is even more poignant. Summary of Sleeps With Angels. It is one of those long wanderings, delicately saturated, from Young fourteen titles follow “loner” wherever with Crazy Horse as we like them. Taking their time (fifteen minutes) without boring. the imploring versions (punctuated by a blowing choir “changes”) succeed the instrumental passages, mixing stumbling and brief rhythm gathered with guitar – these famous minimum solos and a rough sweetness, which fill the space without a note too much. — H.C.

“Throw Your Hatred Down” (1995)

Anyone who has already thrilled on a guitar solo from Neil Young can only acquire this remark of a fan: “Neil plays few notes. but they are always the right ones. »» Fire anti-armes song. taken from the underestimated Mirror Ball, Recorded with Pearl Jam (without his singer Eddie Vedder), this is a salient example. Between saturated cavalcade and cosmic flights, Neil Young has never deserved his title as godfather of the grunge so much. Only regret: never having fourteen titles follow “loner” wherever seen it play this feverish title on stage. — J.-B.R.

“Walk With Me” (2010)

“I feel your love […] I feel your faith in me / I will never let you fall. whatever you do. »» A love song. more broadly of friendship or, no doubt more surely, a trance dance dedicated to the telluric forces of nature? Against the backdrop of a electric gretsch distorted by subtle distortions and echo effects, here is Neil Young Grand Shaman! The kind of incantation. bordering on the cry, which overturns everything in its path, and whose apparent chaos is actually very constructed and mastered to the second. Everything is in everything, his guitar is pantheist. In the end, a Zen song. – Ep

“Tumbleweed” (2014)

There is the acoustic neil fourteen titles follow “loner” wherever Young. guitar and harmonica, and the electric neil Young, big sound, big battery, big solos. The Neil Young who drums, Man, and the Neil Young who Bourrine. And then, between the two, another type, capable of almost anything and anything. As to record with a large orchestra an ode to these bushes that we see riding in the ghost. cities of the West West. On the wire. Young, pierrot lunar in checkered jacket and hat of Plouc, reaches the improbable: to be at 69 years old the naivety of a child. -L.-JN