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Neil Young - Comes a Time Audio CD

A fair review of the Neil Young "Comes a Time" Audio CD. Please note that the below review is the views of the authors, and authors only. You can get a complete list of all Neil Young reviews here, or go back to the Neil Young tabs.

Neil Young Band: Neil Young
Title: Comes a Time
Rating:
Release Date: 1990-10-25
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Goin' Back 2: Comes a Time 3: Look Out for My Love 4: Lotta Love 5: Peace of Mind 6: Human Highway 7: Already One 8: Field of Opportunity 9: Motorcycle Mama 10: Four Strong Winds

JAPAN REMASTERED VERSION AVAILABLE
The surprise was that remastered content appeared for the first time on most of them.
A while back, Warner Brothers Japan re-released 12 Neil Young titles.

The titles & WB-Japan catalog numbers are:

Neil Young WPCR-75086
Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere WPCR-75087
After The Gold Rush WPCR-75088
Harvest WPCR-75089
On The Beach WPCR-75090
Tonight's The Night WPCR-75091
Zuma WPCR-75092
Long May You Run WPCR-75093
American Stars n' Bars WPCR-75094
Comes A Time WPCR-75095
Rust Never Sleeps WPCR-75096
Live Rust WPCR-75097

I picked up most of these, A/B'd them, and found them to be superior to the domestics. However, having purchased the domestic 2002 remasters of "Beach" and "Stars n Bars", I declined the Japan versions of those two titles.

Unfortunately, while the Japan version is remastered, Live Rust is not restored to the original LP's running form, and remains still the bastardized version.

If you own the U. S. versions, and you're a NY fan, I would seriously consider replacing them with these.


Back to Great Folk-Country sounds
" Comes a Time " was it, and I was surprised how fast the delivery was, even out here in Australia. Having recently purchased the DVD " Heart of Gold " I wanted something that had my favorite songs off that DVD on a CD. The title song is perhaps my favorite Neil Young number, and I play the CD all the time now. It's great to be able to listen to some great music, and especially with a great backing vocalist in Nicolette Larson. I'm one very satisfied customer.


Phenomenal album
One of the perfect elements is Nicolette Larson; no one besides Emmylou Harris has been able to sing harmony with Neil like Nicolette (RIP)). I have difficulty expressing how good this album is. "Comes A Time" and "Lotta Love" alone make this one of the greatest albums out of the '70's. I am unable to understand how a musician can put so much emotion into a single song. . . it breaks and mends the heart in a matter of seconds. Phenomenal.


A Personal Favorite
However, this one is a personal favorite of mine. I can't say anything bad about a Neil Young Album, so this is no different. In these songs Neil shows a more mellow easy-going contented side. This music just makes you feel good. It has an "americana" feel to it that takes you back to better and less confusing times. The title song "Comes a Time" conveys the message of how Neil was feeling at the time of this album. If when the world all around you is crazy, you have to think about the basics like the love of a woman and children, and a realization that there is a time for doing what comes naturally. Some people have even tagged this one as a kind of sellout or safe album for Neil, and I can understand why, but when Neil has covered so much ground in his career, it seems only fitting that he would cover the good times with good time music. This one is worth having especially for the real fans. .


(3.5 stars) Strong effort, but Neil's done better.
Not as much as I do Neil's classic albums, though - there is a lot of cheese, other than that title track ("Field of Opportunity"; "Human Highway"; "Already One"). Okay, so I still don't like the syrupy title track, popular as it is, but I still get a lot out of this album. Still, it's a lot of fun, and it's a lot more consistent than the last one: nothing rises to the level of "Like a Hurricane", but there are more good songs here: the country-rocker "Motorcycle Mama" is one of Neil's best ever; I also really like the gentle folk "Look Out for My Love"; the soothing, romantic "Lotta Love" (okay, maybe "romantic" isn't quite the sentiment Neil's got in mind. . . but I still like the song a lot); the nostalgic "Goin' Back"; and the emotional cover of "Four Strong Winds". So, right, it's a pretty good album. But I'd hesitate to put it in the ranks of Neil's country-folk holy trinity: Harvest, Harvest Moon and Prairie Wind. It's a heck of a lot better than Silver and Gold (bad) and Old Ways (uneven). There are better Young discs (the aforementioned; After the Gold Rush; Rust Never Sleeps; Tonight's the Night; On the Beach; Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere; Freedom; Ragged Glory; the extremely underrated Broken Arrow, and that's just scratching the surface), but I like Comes a Time just fine. .


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