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List Price: $25.49 | | Label: WEA Japan
Salesrank: 249694
Released: April 17, 2006 |
| Our Price: $25.24 |
| Used Price: $12.50 |
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| Media: Audio CD |
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After the Gold Rush Track Listing:
1. Tell Me Why
2. After the Gold Rush
3. Only Love Can Break Your Heart
4. Southern Man
5. Till the Morning Comes
6. Oh, Lonesome Me
7. Don't Let It Bring You Down
8. Birds
9. When You Dance You Can Really Love
10. I Believe in You
11. Cripple Creek Ferry
Editorial Review:
Japanese reissue pressing features the 11 original tracks. Reprise. 2005.
After the Gold Rush Reviews:
A solid effort 
2009-03-12 - While this is not one of my favorite Neil Young albums, it is a solid effort. It was a top ten hit on the US album charts and produced his first solo top 40 hit "Only Love Can Break Your Heart" and the minor follow-up hit "When You Dance You Can Really Love". It includes probably his most overrated song, the cliché ridden "Southern Man", which is really just a remake of his excellent "Cowgirl in the Sand". It was popular primarily because it helped perpetuate anti-southern and anti-Christian stereotypes (the only two groups that it is still politically correct to stereotype). "Tell Me Why" is a very good song as is "After The Gold Rush", though Young's vocal limitations are very apparent on this song as he struggles to hit the notes. "Till The Morning Comes" is good but sounds like a song that he started but could never finish. All-in-all, a good album but not a great one.
Get this Remaster! 
2008-11-18 - The sound quality is much better than the 1990 Cd pressing. Buy these now before they are discontinued.
REMASTERED!
2008-06-16 -
A while back, Warner Brothers Japan re-released 12 Neil Young titles. The surprise was that remastered content appeared for the first time on most of them.
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.
"Till The Morning Comes" is all you have to wait for the CD
2007-08-31 - As the author of the Jefferson Airplane book "Take Me To A Circus Tent" and a former radio disc-jockey, I am often asked to write and or discuss various music supplies and recordings from the 60's and 70's.
August of 1970 Neil Young's "After The Gold Rush" arrives in the record shops with heavy anticipation. Over thirty-five years removed none of the luster has left the finished product. The title track is mesmerizing as Neil gives a vocal for the ages "I was lying in a burnt out basement." "Only Love Can Break Your Heart" has a similarity to the previous mention but stands on its own merits. "Southern Man" creates such intense emotions it will be put in the Rock Time Capsule. Neil shows tunes aren't about shouting or the need for four letter words, his descriptions paint such vivid imagery that a movie is created in five and one half minutes. "Till The Morning Comes" throws us a curve. We land on the shortest track on the record (1:17) but this is anything but a throwaway. It's catchy upbeat phrasing makes this a must for a repeat listen. "Birds" is not a song that immediately comes to mind when naming tracks from the album but Neil's vocals are superlative. "When You Dance You Can Really Love" is a shot of rock and roll that hits you between the eyes. Ending the festivities is another stellar track "Cripple Creek Ferry." The composition sounds as if a few friends are sitting around playing music. The only downfall of the tune is it ends a wonderful journey.
To solidify what this record meant to rock radio in the 1970's, After The Gold Rush, Only Love Can Break Your Heart, Southern Man, and When You Dance You Can Really Love were all frequently getting spins. In 2007 Southern Man still remains in heavy rotation on the Classic Rockers and After The Gold Rush sees the light of day as well.
If you are curious if there was a misprint over the years regarding Nils Lofgren (Grin, and Bruce Springsteen E Street Band) playing piano on the recording and not guitar, it is correct. Although known for his play on the six string he did indeed play the piano.
Enjoy the music and be well,
Craig Fenton
Author of the Jefferson Airplane book "Take Me To A Circus Tent"
