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Neil Young - Silver & Gold Audio CD

A fair review of the Neil Young "Silver & Gold" 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: Silver & Gold
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Release Date: 2000-04-25
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Good To See You 2: Silver & Gold 3: Daddy Went Walkin' 4: Buffalo Springfield Again 5: The Great Divide 6: Horseshoe Man 7: Red Sun 8: Distant Camera 9: Razor Love 10: Without Rings

MY FREINDS A RE RIGHT/THIS IS A GENTLE MASTERPIECE
when this record came out i thought is was nice but somewhat disspointingly lightweight. Two songs-red sun and without rings being the exception and obvious masterpeices. . then some freinds told me it was an absolute masterpiece,,then someone else told me the same thing. . i then took this album and a bunch of others to a womens refuge to someone i knew in the depthes of depression and drug addiction. . she later told me how so many of the ladies in the refuge simply loved the compassion and beauty of this album. . i then replayed it. . and now i love it. . i love it as much as i love any other neil album. . beautiful. . his most gentle, inrtrospective, inward looking album. . a criminally underatted,brilliant album. . today i took this cd with a bunch of others with me on a drive in the car. . and i loved it so much i thought id write up a recommendation. . neils greatest accoustic/country album.


Harvest Moon it ain't...
Several songs ("Good to See You"; "Daddy Went Walkin'"; "Red Sun") sound like campfire singalongs. Okay, what a boring record this is! And given how good Neil's work with country-folk can get, that's not good at all. You know, the kind of things most people cut from their albums, and leave in the vaults until they put out an odds-and-sods album: he also embarrasses himself with the nauseating "Buffalo Springfield Again", a tribute to his old '60s group. Another song with embarrassing lyrics is "Distant Camera", a metaphor about life being a photograph. Entertainment here sadly comes in bits and pieces, unlike Harvest, Harvest Moon or Prairie Wind: the simple beauty of "Horseshoe Man"; the modest, unpretentious title track and "The Great Divide". When you take everything into account, though, this is clearly one of Young's lesser albums.


Mellow, But Unmoving
On one hand, his work is lauded and he creates a following of devoted fans. When an artist creates a masterpiece, he creates a double-edged sword for himself. On the other hand, he's set the bar so high for himself, that all of his subsequent work will be compared to his previous excellence.
That's what faces Neil Young in the twilight of his career. Every time I hear of a mellow, folky release from Young, I get excited. I want to hear timeless classics like "Old Man", "Harvest", "Harvest Moon", "Natural Beauty", "From Hank to Hendrix", and "Unknown Legend".
Unfortunately, nothing on this album measures up to that. The tunes are mellow, but there's just nothing dark, powerful, or moving. Most of these are more like throwaway tunes he wrote tinkering around on his front porch. "Good to See You", the title track, "The Great Divide", and "Razor Love" are pleasant enough. They're just not GREAT. Even "Red Sun", with Emmylou Harris' nice harmonies, falls short. Meanwhile, "Daddy Went Walkin'" and "Buffalo Springfield Again" should've seen the cutting room.
I love Neil Young, but this one is strictly for diehards. .


Entre lo mejor de Mr. Young
Sin ninguna duda es de lo mejor que hizo Neil Young en los últimos años. En mi opinión, no entiendo porque este disco está tan poco valorado. Canciones como "Distant camera", "Buffalo Sgringfield again", "The great divide" merecen ser escuchadas con atención. Una canción que nadie tiene en cuenta y que está entre mis favoritas es "Horseshoe man".
Sin ningún lugar a dudas este album merece ser escuchado.


Watershed moment for our favorite artist
There are different sides to Neil Young, some best appreciate his hard rock anthems (This Note's For You, Southern Pacific, Like a Hurricane) and some the solopsistic and introveted works, (such as Campaigner, Last trip to Tulsa and Deep Forbidden Lake). Well, I just listened to Prairie Wind again, another great album which reminds me of Silver and Gold, and I cant say enough about how this great man has helped to guide me and help me find insight into my own life through his heartfealt albums. But Neil can surprise us with works that can go either way, like a candle lit at both ends, like his acoustic and electric versions of "The Losing End". This album is filled with songs like that, which would be equally at home in either genre. Many reviewers agree that "Distant Camera" is one of the most beautiful songs on the album, a sort of Coda to "Old Man" with a familiar acousitic guitar riff as it's signature. But the album is a total work that bounds from "feel good" type anthems celebrating days with the Buffalo Springfield into the maturity of Neil Young as the seasoned artist and father: "Without Rings", a song for his son Ben, always brings me to tears, and acheives what he tried to do so hard in attempts like "Transformer Man". I truly wish that Neil Young would command the respect of his contemporaries; if there is a postumous Travelling Wilburys" being composed in another dimension with folks like Jerry Garcia added to the Harrison/Orbison mix, they are truly envious and anxious for Neil to join in (but we would rather have him here as long as we can keep him with us). .


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