Neil Young Summary

Critical Essay by Alan Lewis Let the buyer beware: "Journey Through The Past" is not The New Neil Young Album in any meaningful sense. It's a ragbag collection of old Buffalo ... Read more

Critical Essay by Michael Watts [The title track which opens "Time Fades Away" is Young's] own approximation of Dylan's "Subterranean Homesick Blues."…... Read more

Critical Essay by Bud Scoppa Time Fades Away has its virtues when taken on its own terms and not as the latest major work of a major artist. Here, Young seems to have consciously avoided the sober se... Read more

Critical Essay by Dennis Fine On the Beach is so uneven in both concept and delivery that it is more than just disappointing, it is, in many ways, disgraceful. For an artist as stimulating as Young t... Read more

Critical Essay by Dave Marsh The successes [on Tonight's the Night]—the ironic "Tired Eyes," the deceptively sweet "Albuquerque," the thunderous "Look... Read more

Critical Essay by Bruce Miroff In several respects [Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere] falls short of [Neil Young]. Young's new material is a little disappointing…. [The] lyricism of the ... Read more

Critical Essay by Kris Nicholson Ever since Time Fades Away, Neil Young has been expressing himself with a personally spontaneous and haphazard simplicity. He abandoned structure and perfection for a... Read more

Critical Essay by Ken Tucker Long May You Run is like an old World's Finest comic book: the team-up of Superman and Batman always drained each of his most interesting characteristics. Like Sup... Read more

Critical Essay by Fred Schruers Neil Young's category has often been "painful-listening," but most of American Stars 'n Bars has the kind of easy-beat accessibility that c... Read more

Critical Essay by Allan Jones Let's make one thing immediately clear, amigo: "Decade" is certainly no mercenary enterprise intended to exploit the dedication of Neil Young'... Read more

Critical Essay by Mitch Cohen A 1988 undergraduate seminar—American Rock Romanticism 202. The midterm exam question: "Music historian Antoine Ferrand describes the music of Neil Young a... Read more

Critical Essay by Steve Simels Neil remains the only Sixties artist nobody calls burnt-out or irrelevant. "Decade," his remarkably comprehensive new greatest-hits collection, demonst... Read more

Critical Essay by Daisann Mclane Comes a Time is Neil Young's gentlest record since After the Gold Rush…. At first listening, the simplicity of the music makes Comes a Time seem wimp... Read more

Critical Essay by Patrick Carr Decade, while being eventful in that it did once and for all establish [Neil Young] as a Major Artist of impressive proportions, also illustrated the fact that his is a... Read more

Critical Essay by Allan Jones Young is always trying to catch up with himself, to keep pace with his own prolific, quixotic imagination. His albums are often attempts to document his changing moods a... Read more

Critical Essay by Kit Rachlis Young's songs often come down to a single moment, a gesture that crystallizes and then breaks the tension, because they depend so much on the vagaries of mood. Th... Read more

Critical Essay by Alan Lewis [Buffalo Springfield] produced some of the most distinctive and thoroughly enjoyable sounds to come out of [the West Coast rock revolution of 1966/7]…. [The] Sp... Read more

Critical Essay by Ellen Sander Neil Young … joined Crosby, Stills and Nash just about the time when their first album was completed…. Young has added a dark side to the group's s... Read more

Critical Essay by Bruce Harris If [After the Goldrush] had been anybody's album but Neil Young's, it would have been an achievement. Indeed, it may seem to be an achievement to that unf... Read more

Critical Essay by John Mendelsohn On the basis of the vast inferiority relative to his altogether spectacular Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere of the two albums he's made since teaming up with ... Read more