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Neil Young & Crazy Horse
Ragged Glory
Genres: Folk, Pop, Rock, Classic Rock, Metal

Track Listings (10) - Disc #1
1. Country Home
2. White Line
3. F*!#in' Up
4. Over and Over
5. Love to Burn
6. Farmer John - Neil Young, Harris, Don [1] Sug
7. Mansion on the Hill
8. Days That Used to Be
9. Love and Only Love
10. Mother Earth (Natural Anthem) - Neil Young, 511

No Description Available. Genre: Popular Music Media Format: Compact Disk Rating: Release Date: 11-SEP-1990

CD Details

All Artists: Neil Young & Crazy Horse
Title: Ragged Glory
Members Wishing: 1
Total Copies: 0
Label: Reprise Records
Original Release Date: 9/11/1990
Re-Release Date: 8/31/1990
Genres: Folk, Pop, Rock, Classic Rock, Metal
Styles: Singer-Songwriters, Vocal Pop, Folk Rock, Singer-Songwriters, Country Rock, Psychedelic Rock, Album-Oriented Rock (AOR)
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPCs: 075992631525, 075992631518, 075992631549, 081227800468, 759926315254

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Genre: Popular Music
Media Format: Compact Disk
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Release Date: 11-SEP-1990

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Member CD Reviews

Luke J. (Lukester) from PANAMA CITY, FL
Reviewed on 11/3/2006...

Rated 5 stars on by reviewers on Amazon..... here is a review by B.Lynch:
Neil Young stands as one of the great "anti-heroes" of rock. For over 3 decades, he's played pretty much what he wanted, with very little regard for whether or not it was "commerical". Despite their attitude, Neil Young and Crazy Horse managed to rack up a huge string of hits, and a large fan following anyhow. While Neil and his band are grateful for the support (and the 'counrty homes' and all that comes with success in rock and roll), they still refuse to "sell out" and do comfortable pop tunes. Instead, from time to time, they unleash a thunderbolt. This CD is one such thunderbolt.
This one captures Neil Young and Crazy Horse at what they do best-- grunge. Released almost a year before Nirvana's (equally stellar) major label debut CD, this CD makes the recent material from so called heavy rock bands like Aerosmith and Van Halen sound almost wimpy by comparison.*

Perhaps the reason Neil Young and Crazy horse don't do "battles of the bands" is that their firepower is so overwhelming, it would simply destroy most of the competition after they played the first few bars.

Suffice to say, this is an awesome piece of hard rock, done by one of that genre's true masters of the art. While Neil & Crazy Horse have done grungy metal for decades (on Everyone Knows This is Nowhere, Rust Never Sleeps, and several other CD's), they've never quite captured their live energy and intensity as well as they did here.

After you hear the new grunge guys (Alice in Chains, The Cult, and possibly Soundgarden), listen to the old man, and he'll teach you how this music should really be played. Except for Nirvana (who are tragically, gone) none of the newer grunge artists have equalled this CD for sheer songwriting, musicianship, intensity, and edginess.

* Just for the record, I like a lot of Aerosmith & Van Halen's works.

CD Reviews

THE original Grunge Artist Returns -- with a vengance

B. Lynch | USA | 02/15/2000

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Neil Young stands as one of the great "anti-heroes" of rock. For over 3 decades, he's played pretty much what he wanted, with very little regard for whether or not it was "commerical". Despite their attitude, Neil Young and Crazy Horse managed to rack up a huge string of hits, and a large fan following anyhow. While Neil and his band are grateful for the support (and the 'counrty homes' and all that comes with success in rock and roll), they still refuse to "sell out" and do comfortable pop tunes. Instead, from time to time, they unleash a thunderbolt. This CD is one such thunderbolt.This one captures Neil Young and Crazy Horse at what they do best-- grunge. Released almost a year before Nirvana's (equally stellar) major label debut CD, this CD makes the recent material from so called heavy rock bands like Aerosmith and Van Halen sound almost wimpy by comparison.* Perhaps the reason Neil Young and Crazy horse don't do "battles of the bands" is that their firepower is so overwhelming, it would simply destroy most of the competition after they played the first few bars.Suffice to say, this is an awesome piece of hard rock, done by one of that genre's true masters of the art. While Neil & Crazy Horse have done grungy metal for decades (on Everyone Knows This is Nowhere, Rust Never Sleeps, and several other CD's), they've never quite captured their live energy and intensity as well as they did here.After you hear the new grunge guys (Alice in Chains, The Cult, and possibly Soundgarden), listen to the old man, and he'll teach you how this music should really be played. Except for Nirvana (who are tragically, gone) none of the newer grunge artists have equalled this CD for sheer songwriting, musicianship, intensity, and edginess.* Just for the record, I like a lot of Aerosmith & Van Halen's works."

Amps are hot, recording is warm

Eric Guyer | Ashland, OR United States | 02/23/2005

(5 out of 5 stars)

"The songs on this album are outstanding, the writing is direct, the themes are the same ones Neil has always sung about, making relationships last over time, country living, the road. But the way this album was recorded is probably the main reason I keep coming back. Obviously the guitars are all melting and the amps are overdriven and the songs are free-form, but the vocals are right where I want them, and the guitars are so warm that the album never agitates me (and believe me, I've listened to some agitating music - Teengenerate anyone?). I guess the fifth star is gained by the fact that the songs and the band are still more important than the medium, this album isn't noteworthy for its use of feedback and hot guitars, but because everything fits, in a smooth and soulful way. Never gimmick. Always authentic. Neil transcends the genre again."

Full Circle With Crazy Horse

Matthew J. Bross | Northeast Ohio | 04/17/2005

(5 out of 5 stars)

"With Neil Young's 1989 solo effort Freedom, I like many others was warming up to his music again, after the numerous and sometimes alienating stylistic changes he was making in the 1980's. On Freedom, I tended to favor the harder cuts on the album such as "Don't Cry" "Rocking In The Free World" his driving cover of "On Broadway". At the same time I was heavily listening to some of his work with Crazy Horse; Live Rust and Rust Never Sleeps. All though this I was thinking, "Why doesn't he just make another kick-a**, all electric album from beginning to end?" "And at the same time why not just get back together With Crazy Horse?"

Well less than a year later in 1990, both prayers were answered. Neil Young finally reunited With Crazy horse for Ragged Glory. And the music matched my expectations and anticipation. I was totally blown away with their resulting effort. Raw, honest, intense and most importantly, excellent songs. Truckloads of guitars and solos. Short, terse rockers are mixed with their trademark eight to ten minute jams and loads of feedback in the right places. Most importantly this album matches all of his 70's work, with and without Crazy Horse.

Ragged Glory is also the essential album to listen to on a long country drive, disturbing the cattle and the small towns on the way! The leadoff track on the CD "Country Home" is obviously well-suited for the aforementioned type of drive. "White Line" has an excellent driving riff and is a very concise song, almost ending prematurely, kind of like Stone Temple Pilots "Interstate Love Song" four years later.

"F*!#in' UP" is my favorite track on Ragged Glory. It is the most aggressive song on the album lyrically and musically. It's an understatement, but this song kicks serious a**. The title itself prevented it from major airplay, but changing or editing that would be a grave injustice. "Over And Over" has a killer melody, a great chorus and the guitars keep on rocking.

"Love to Burn" is a ten-minute long opus that seriously rocks. It will hold your attention the entire duration and at the same time may cause to you look deep inside yourself on what you want and need out of love and out of life.

The bouncy "Farmer John" snaps you out of that, I think of a comely, natural, well built county girl almost every time I listen to it. "Mansion on the Hill" is the track that garnered the most radio airplay at the time. The second ten-minute opus is "Love And Only Love".

The only downer is "Mother Earth" I respect the message Neil is trying to make with this track, but it is completely subpar and totally out of place on the CD, unfortunately, it practically rescues the CD from near perfection. It is a totally expendible track.

This album may have prepared me somewhat for 1991-92 grunge explosion. I was beginning to gravitate towards rawer, grungier rock at the time, not to replace the more polished hard rock or progressive rock that I was listening to but to compliment it. While Neil Young's "Godfather Of Grunge" title is obvious and a little overused now, Ragged Glory helped me welcome the sounds of Nirvana, Soundgarden & Pearl Jam with open arms.

"

Young's Best Album of the 1990s

Brian D. Rubendall | Oakton, VA | 04/22/2000

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Ragged Glory is Neil Young's best album since "Rust Never Sleeps," and not coincidentially the most rockin'. That a bunch of forty-ish hippies who should have followed Young's advice and burned out long ago could produce a guitar dominated album of such intensity is simply astonishing. Most surprisingly, tucked amid the walls of guitar fury are some of the prettiest melodies Young has ever written. Standout tracks include "Over and Over," "Country Home," and "Days That Used to Be" An absolute classic."

Righteous man Righteous

tweedyfarrar | here | 08/21/2005

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Having gotten his magic songwriting touch back with Freedom, Neil finds the mystic of his avalanching guitar sound with Ragged Glory. The album is awesome and fits perfectly alongside Neil's best work with the Horse."