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List Price: $11.98 | | Label: Reprise / Wea
Salesrank: 62002
Released: October 25, 1990 |
| Our Price: $5.62 |
| Used Price: $3.93 |
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| Media: Audio CD |
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Neil Young Track Listing:
1. Emperor of Wyoming
2. Loner
3. If I Could Have Her Tonight
4. I've Been Waiting for You
5. Old Laughing Lady
6. String Quartet from Whiskey Boot Hill
7. Here We Are in the Years
8. What Did You Do to My Life?
9. I've Loved Her So Long
10. Last Trip to Tulsa
Editorial Review:
Released in early 1969, Neil Young's first solo album is essentially an extension of "Broken Arrow" and "Expecting to Fly," his two most inventive contributions to Buffalo Springfield. Jack Nitzsche arranged and produced several of the tracks, fusing haunting strings and even funky female backing vocals to acoustic-oriented songs like "Here We Are in the Years" and "The Old Laughing Lady." "The Loner" is the one song from Neil Young to achieve classic-rock immortality, but "I've Been Waiting for You" is almost as good, and the rambling "Last Trip to Tulsa" presages the dark acoustic epics of On the Beach. Though it's not an essential album, Neil Young-like the man himself-is rarely less than interesting. --Dan Epstein
Neil Young Reviews:
Trippy 
2009-08-01 - I'd put this in the upper third of his albums and found it to be very different than what I'd expected since I'd heard Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere before this one. I found it to be a very beautiful album though and enjoyed the soft synthesizers, strings and the unusual lyrics. It was like a mellow acid trip where the mind wanders but never is quite sure where it's going but enjoys getting there anyway. I found some of it to be like his stuff with Buffalo Springfield that had that erry edge to it. I don't know why exactly but my favorite song was The Last Trip to Tulsa - it was just so weird you can't forget it and was sort of fitting since the psychodelic rock scene was at it's peak around then. My favorite songs beside that were The Loner (Neil is a loner too) , I've Been Waiting For You which I sort of thought was about a guy who'd done a lot of drugs looking for salvation ( I've been looking for a woman to SAVE my life...a woman with the feeling of losing once or twice (well I'm looking for this woman too) ) and finally the beautiful and jazzy The Old Laughing Lady.
There sure was a lot of great music and great acts back then and everything seemed so fresh unlike today but this was one of the more solid debut albums from the era I thought. Since I'd heard the very different sounding Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere before this one as I mentioned at the beginning, I was just wondering what he'd have in store for his third LP but was certain it'd be great. As we all know I was right about that :)
Well gotta go back to chopping down my palm tree now
Cheers
Different than I thought it'd be 
2009-04-06 - Now in 2009 after hearing so much from Neil, here's his first baby, with David Briggs at the wheel going back 40 years. Ruunning aroound the ship with your life jacket on, here comes the all emcompassing strings and poly phoonic textures. watered down to make it do somethhng. I can't find the edge. Got caught on Spring Break.It definitely weres thewrong pants. Seems like the muffled flaume waits on the cue. The ol laughin lady is rally screaming her balls off........Whens It gonna start?
Neil Young's first album
2009-02-12 - Neil Young is one of the best singers, songwriters, musicians and producers of albums and videos of all time, His consistant excellence is what I admire about him the most.
which mix is whix?
2009-01-11 - As mentioned previously, the first edition of this album on vinyl was completely different from the soon remixed vinyl lp with the big white Neil Young banner across the top. If you ever see one with the painting full and no banner, pay whatever it takes. The overdubs and effects are very different than any version released since. Very layered, with none of the mixed-to-the-top guitars of version b. 1a all makes better sense. A couple of songs are ruined by bringing background rhythm guitar to the top. Jack Nitzche's oversight was meant to be as originally mixed and is also one of his best, if not his best production(s).
Very much an extension of the experimentaion on Buffalo Springfield Again, Neil Young 1a is very psychedelic and makes a very trippy adventure completely unlike anything since.
I love raw Neil, and Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere is fabulous in a whole different way. But this first mix of Neil Young needs to see CD release. Please Neil.
This fact has pretty much disappeared and most people, even avid fans aren't aware. I just happened to buy a first issue release, the only one in town. I loved it so much I bought one for my girlfriend a year later. I was shocked by what are in some places, drastic changes. Very briefly on one of the old Warner/Reprise 2 dollar 2 record samplers, there is a line about Neil not liking his vocals on his first record and insisting on remixing them.
Don't know what you can do to hear it, even my copy got worn a good bit, so my attempts to digitize result in emphasize the surface noise, but I wouldn't sell it for any amount.
So now you know. That said this is still a great album in any mix. Coupled now with the new Sugar Mountain live set, done to prepare for the release of this album, it illuminates a period of prolific and top of his game Young.
Neil Young's 1969 Album: "Neil Young"
2008-12-24 - I am a Neil Young fan and enjoy most everything he has put out. This album, like it's cover suggests, is a sort of dreamy, psychadelic sounding album with lyrics suggesting a pull between the country life and the city life. If you like Neil and have overlooked this album get it now. My favorites are "The Loner", "Here we are in the Years", and "The Last Trip to Tulsa". The whole album flows together into a cohesive whole and all the songs are excellent. Highly recommended!!
