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List Price: $11.98 | | Label: Reprise / Wea
Salesrank: 2993
Released: October 25, 1990 |
| Our Price: $5.74 |
| Used Price: $0.98 |
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| Media: Audio CD |
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Harvest Track Listing:
1. Out on the Weekend
2. Harvest
3. Man Needs a Maid - London Symphony Orchestra, Neil Young
4. Heart of Gold
5. Are You Ready for the Country?
6. Old Man
7. There's a World - London Symphony Orchestra, Neil Young
8. Alabama
9. Needle and the Damage Done [Live] - Neil Young
10. Words (Between the Lines of Age)
Editorial Review:
Japanese only SHM-CD (Super High Material CD - playable on all CD players) pressing. Warner.
Description of Harvest:
Proclaiming his intentions with "Are You Ready for the Country?" Young detoured briefly to the Nashville mainstream. On this No. 1 1972 album, even the singer's acquired-taste voice comes across smooth and beautiful--the smash "Heart of Gold," with steel guitars and Linda Ronstadt's backup vocals, is by far Young's most commercial-sounding song. His usual dissonant touches, like the otherworldly guitar in "Out on the Weekend," are less spooky in this new context. The last two tracks, the deceptively gentle "The Needle and the Damage Done" and the hypnotic rocker "Words (Between the Lines of Age)," predict "Tonight's the Night," Young's haunted 1975 classic. --Steve Knopper
Harvest Reviews:
Neil at his best 
2009-07-04 - If you think you didn't like Neil Young, listen to his "Harvest." It will grab you and hold you. Great folk rock!
Neil Young at his best
2009-06-17 - Back in time,long ago, there was a time without computers,X-Boxes,HDTV,CD and DVD players,I-Pods,cellphones,and answering machines.It was a simplier time,and now a more nostalgic time.Am I talking about 60 years ago?No... I'm speaking of the time of the 1970's.The time period when Neil Young's Harvest album(a black vinyl round platter with grooves) was introduced to the world.I was on my paper route( yes,we had jobs to earn money back then),collecting at night at an apartment with two bachelor dudes inside.They opened the door and against the wall was a large bookcase with a reel to reel tape machine.The large square reel case was Neil Young's Harvest by the tape player.I thought...'Wow,I want to have a place like this when I'm on my own',and had a smile from ear to ear.It wasn't playing then,and I didn't listen to the album until a few years later.But... I do remember that time.To paraphrase another reviewer..."Yes.It is that good." It made Neil Young a worldwide sensation.The songs are pure genius.It combines folksy and electric guitar songs-trademarks of Neil Young.It is on the level of Carole King's album-Tapestry-all within a year or so of each other.You need to purchase this CD.Enjoy the simplicity and pure genius of Neil.If I had to take 10 CDs on a deserted desert island,this would be one of them.Enjoy!!!
easily one of his best, regardless of what the critics say
2009-06-08 - Critics complain about this album's commercial leanings, and maybe in 1972, country flavored rock was mainstream, but, really, this is nothing like typical radio, chart music, possibly excepting "Heart Of Gold", which is still a good song even if they think he was pandering to the audience. "Heart of Gold" is arguably the slightest song on the album, yet it's the main reason "Harvest" gets pigeonholed as lightweight country-rock. I've heard "Old Man" dismissed with the same argument! That's crazy, "Old Man" is a heavy hitter, a great song, musically and lyrically. James Taylor plays and sings on "Heart OIf Gold" and "Old Man", and they're probably, "Fire and Rain" notwithstanding, the best songs he's associated with. This stuff, commercial or not, is tougher than Taylor's stuff. (Ironically, he's a perfect example of what was big at the time...and the type of artist the critics try to compare this lp to...). Look, what's so great about Neil's catalog is that it is so diverse. "Tonight's The Night" may be his greatest work. "On The Beach" may be his most underrated. And whatever your opinion on Neil's best album or albums, this one is in their league for sure. The whole thing doesn't work. For example, the orchestra doesn't work on "There's A World", but it adds greatly to "A Man Needs A Maid". "Words (Between The Lines Of Age)" is often disparaged as nonsense...but I love it. The guitars are great. "Out On The Weekend" is textbook Neil of that time...the deliberate beat, acoustic guitars... And speaking of guitars, "Alabama" is great, regardless of your politics. It's "Southern Man's" lesser known little brother...and it's as good a song, too. "Are You Ready For The Country?" is mysterious and interesting, exposing the harsh reality of life behind the gentle facade of the country. Do I even need to go into "The Needle And The Damage Done"? The way the applause at the end leads right into "Words" is one of those things that makes the album's dinstinctiveness... "Old Man" is just wonderful...I don't care how much you've heard it (and it's the second most played song, after "Heart Of Gold"). And "Harvest" is the best song on the album, a deceptively gentle song about the family of his love at the time (and how her mother screwed with her head as a child with threats of suicide...at which I believe she succeeded years later). Don't let the critics fool you. "Harvest" holds up...there's too much great and insightful life stuff in it to be dismissed as lightweight pop. Love, family (good and bad), racism, death...these are the themes of "Harvest". I WISH mainstream pop was like this. This is the one Neil album that appeals to casual fans as well as hardcore Neil fans. Go get it!
Peace & Love
2009-05-02 - The early 70s were a time when college students and/or hippies tried to create a time of peace and love. Our country watched images of suffering in Vietnam every night. We had to believe we would make our own new world. Music, marijuana, and torn up bell bottoms gave us an identity and the BEAUTIFUL harmonies drew you into the dream. Sweet music and lyrics talked about a "Heart of Gold", stirring the soul like music has never done since that time.A unique sound for a unique time.
A Little Part Of This In Everyone
2009-04-07 - The first time I listened to Harvest was on an 8-track player in a funky `ole green Gremlin while driving a lonely back road across the Santa Ynez Mountains. I felt every note, each torment and smile Neil Young offered. Thirty four years later the Harvest album is downloaded on the home computer, the IPOD and is regularly played on the car's CD. Sure enough the Gremlin died, but the era of Neil Young's Harvest has no time limit; evoking all the old pain and joy no matter the time, day or format. It is a classic that remains fresh.
