Neil Young and Crazy Horse - Everybody Knows This is Nowhere｜Vinyl Monday.
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- Welcome (or welcome back) to Vinyl Monday! This is my weekly series where I chat about albums in my collection and the ’60s/’70s music I love. My thoughts on Neil Young’s first record with Crazy Horse, Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere (released 1969) Subscribe for Vinyl Monday and more vinyl/vintage fashion content!
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Timestamps:
intro - 0:00
Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere - 1:09
my thoughts - 11:59
thanks for watching! - 23:14
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Intro Music: Yeah Yeah Yeah (Long) by Audionautix is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (creativecommons.org/licenses/...) Artist: audionautix.com/
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My girlfriend bought me this album for my 18th birthday. She also cooked me a steak and salad. Her mother and family were not at home that night and I spent the night at her house. It's a warm memory.
Shakey, written by Jimmy McDonough, is one of the best rock biographies I’ve ever read, highly recommended
To me this is a perfect album. Not a bad song on the entire album. My friend and I use to play tunes on our guitars from this album. Losing end was our favorite. My friend passed away at a young age. When I play this album fond memories pass through. Thanks for that.
through music, people live forever. i'm glad you have those memories with everybody knows and your friend, that's something really special
This is my favorite Neil Young album.
Love this record. It's the beginning of that stretch he had in the 70s where he was one of the most important musical artists in the world. Like Dylan, I love that Neil was archived so well and that he's willing to share so much of that with the fans. I also really love that first Crazy Horse album (self-titled, if I remember correctly). It's a shame that Danny Whitten died so young. With Whitten, I believe that Crazy Horse could have carved their own path, independently of Neil.
man the NYA came in clutch for a lot of people when neil pulled his stuff from spotify. it's interesting to think about a version of history where crazy horse did a the band kind of thing, would've liked to see that too now that i think of it
silly me self titled was RECORDED in ‘68. don’t listen to me when numbers are involved lol
No you were right! The original mix came out in November 1968. Neil had it pulled and remixed it and that version came out in January 1969.
Now that you’ve a Cowgirl fan, check out the version on 1970 Live at the Fillmore.
@@leamanc Yes, that was when Danny Whitten was still alive. RIP
Amazing earrings Abigail. Watching from London UK.
@@tudormiller887 thanks! hello to the UK from the US
@@leamanc so discogs was right!! thanks for confirming
Good job! My friend in high school and I bonded over this record jamming on Cowgirl in the sand and Down by the river. I have great memories of that. 30 years later we formed a group called 4 way Neil, with everyone taking turns playing his songs. When the 4th guy didn’t show up to our recording session, we became 3 way Neil. That name kinda killed the band but at least we have the recordings!
nice!! keep those recordings forever!
You know your stuff Abby! Love your passion and all the research you do.
I’m not the biggest Neil Young fan, but your sheer enthusiasm for the albums you feature always makes for a really interesting and engrossing watch. I also love the way you go into the minutiae surrounding each release. Your channel is a real breath of fresh air, and one I look forward to every Monday.
Great job on the video. That has always been in my top 5 of Neil albums. I also love the live versions of Cowgirl and Down By The River that he was doing with CSNY then.
One of the best albums there is. Neil marked a turning point in music with it.
Thanks for the broadcast! My sister recently gifted me her near immaculate copies of After The Gold Rush and Comes A Time. Great stuff. I gifted her a couple of trips to see Rush at Maple Leaf Gardens, so I think everything washes out even in the long run. Enjoy the Music 🎶
enjoy those copies!
Nice. Big Neil fan. I came to this album kinda late (although “Cowgirl”, “River” and “Cinnamon Girl” - my favorite - were all great FM radio fodder back in the day). My older sister had “After the Gold Rush” and I started with “Harvest”. Neil does tend to follow his muse, wherever it takes him - even if it gets him sued by his own record company for not sounding enough like Neil Young. Gotta admire that. And he’s still out there doing it. Between archival releases, live albums, and new studio stuff it seems he’s got a new album coming out every few months.
I appreciate your passion for what you do.
You do a great job on these videos. I enjoy your insights even if I don't always agree. Keep up the good work.
I love your videos. The are so concise and positive. Keep it up and you will keep growing in audience, subscribers and fans.
Love this album. It's one of his best. Cinnamon Girl is probably my favorite Neil Young song. I remember buying a vinyl copy of this at a flea market in the early 90s, and it still plays great. I also have the CD too.
Love Cinnamon girl! Great review Abby!
Neil was a total rockstar at my high school in 69. Every kid on the quad with a guitar was playing every song on Nowhere.
Great video this is my favorite Neil Young album
GREAT ALBUM! I love "Down By The River" along with many other songs on the album! 😁💖🎶
Thank you. I really like your way of doing things. 🎶✨🕯️
An album with a perfect open and ending.
This is still my favorite album in my collection. Thank you for spotlighting it! Peace and love!
Oh yeah, I must say I'm also 63 years old. So I've been a fan of this record ever since the day it came out.
you're so lucky that you've gotten to have this album in your life for so long!
@@abigaildevoe and we are all lucky that Neil is still alive after all these years! And still making it good old rock and roll!
I love this album mainly because we were introduced to crazy horse. Flannel shirt on, headphones ready, bass up high.
crazy horse was/is one hell of a dynamic with neil that's for sure. imagine sounding like a cohesive unit for years after just one album! then doing it again 12 times!
@@abigaildevoe The Crazy Horse album that came out around that time or just after, while Danny Whitten was still alive, was not bad at all and contained a hit covered by another singer who I forget, but it was a good song. "I don't want to talk about it..." It went something like that. "How you broke my heart. If I could stay a little longer..." Nice tune. IIRC Danny wrote it. If he'd lived Neil's back up players for the 70s and beyond would have been a different trajectory, though he had many long-term side-players through the years on his many albums and appearances. Crazy Horse no doubt would have been different if Danny had not died...
This record gave hope to anyone who 1st picked up a guitar. With just 3 chords, you too could jam and maybe someday make a record! It won't be as good as Neil, but there's a lot you can do with just 3 chords!
everybody knows is rough around the edges and that's what makes it so special! someone in my instagram comments said of neil's guitar playing: "neil young doesn't need a band." his sound is so dramatic and BIG that it washes away any "flaws"
Neil is the Joker of popular music. He brings total chaos in his guitar solos.
As a huge fan of Buffalo Springfield, Young’s ‘Burned’ is a gem.
I happen to own a copy of that album.Great record.I'm glad You enjoyed every track.
Great video as always. I just bought this record like 2 weeks ago!
sweet, enjoy your copy!
Don’t worry Ab! You could never let us down!✌🏻
I really dig how you connect to this time and era. I, myself, have been told that I was born later than I should have as I connect to this era and earlier. I am forty nine but when I was young as you are now I was not the cool kid because I liked stuff like this. They used to call me a hippie in a derogatory way. I'm glad to know I was ahead of my time. Come to think of it, I used to date real hippie chicks when I was 19. I couldn't really relate to girls my age.
Anyway I'm on my second pot of coffee so I'm going to stop rambling but I really dig your channel very much
Thanks for all you do. 🌞
First time here; loving this series! Great album and amazing artist! Such a unique voice. Hones in on that autumn sound.
The title track is probably my favorite on the album, though I do like Cowgirl in the Sand.
Are you familiar with the CSN&Y Four-Way Street Live double album? That is one of my favorite albums, PERIOD! The electric guitar and harmony are the best that CSN&Y has to offer. I love playing that album LOUD! Southern Man and Carry On long versions are spectacular in every way. Cinnamon Girl, Cowgirl in The Sand and Down By The River are on the acoustic sides. I was lucky enough to see them on their live tour, on August 31, 1974, at the old Cleveland Stadium, along with Santana, The Band and Jesse Colin Young. The entire stadium was jam packed with 88,000 fans, including people on the infield/outfield! I'll never forget all of the colors glistening under the bright sun. A day I'll never forget. I still have my ticket stub ($10.00) and Cleveland Palin Dealer article.
I admire a lot of Neil Young and I'm a big fan as he is my personal favourite Canadian musician besides Joni Mitchell. After The Gold Rush is my favourite and one of my top ten alums of all time. Awesome episode and do keep up the passion for doing these videos. Love a lot of the other ones you did as well.
This is 'n always has been my favorite Neil Young album. I bought it when it first came out 'n still love every song. What a marvelous introduction!
a perfect introduction to crazy horse too, i wish this lineup of the group had lasted longer
Got my copy in 1971. Same cover design as yours
Another great video Abby 🙂. Great album. I found my copy sometime in the mid 80's.I also found a copy of the Cinnamon Girl 45 around the same time. Faves include " Cinnamon" " Down By The River" and "Cowgirl."
i'm not much of a singles collector but now that you say you have cinnamon girl, i might have to find one for myself
Perfect album and a perfect girl
I just discovered you with this analysis of Everybody Knows. So much great information about a musically profound record. Have you heard Love's Forever Changes?
✊😃You alwsys have great inside info on all these albums😃😀Liove the great humour- these are great go to reviews
thanks so much!
Pulled out my copy for a re-listen and realized I don’t know side 2 that well either. I must have been skipping right to Cowgirl in the Sand, because the first two songs sounded like I heard them for the first time. Great point about Everybody Knows as a starting point to understanding the 3 albums that followed it. Outstanding video!
like deja vu is key to understanding how if i could only remember my name/stills I/songs for beginners/gold rush happened, everybody knows is key to understanding how we got to deja vu in the first place. thanks so much, glad you liked the video!
Great job. Neil wrote 3 songs on that record in one day in bed with a fever! Buffalo Springfield was great too. Nice job with all the minutia. The movie Almost Famous played the title song along with Neil's Cortez the Killer (but as muzak - boo).
My favorite album
Hello woman of my dreams!!!
All Neil's albums from that era are awesome. Regarding this one, Cowgirl in the sand is the real deal! Nice review, you have expressed most of my thoughts on the album! Greetings from Athens, GR!
wow hello to greece from the united states!
I've travelled so far back Georges Seurat painted an album cover!
I like the descent from the abrasive sounds of the opener, the ease of the title track, to the gentle Round. Showing a songwriter with a full range. Neil is one the greats: songs that shift.
Both his voice and guitar playing have identity. Cinnamon, Down by and Cowgirl come across as similar but strong, like a triptych.
Greater albums would come but it's essential.
If you're of the opinion greater Vinyl Monday's would come (I'm enjoying every minute of my retro trawl) I reckon all the insight and generosity of response is there from the start. People were seeing that, getting the humour in the mix too. I got here and got there eventually, like the donkeys tail.
This album is one of the few and rare cases of albums you talk about which I neither have nor know. But I have CSNY's "Deja Vu" and Neil's "On the Beach" and I like this artist in general. Maybe it is another album for me to discover. Thanks!
Oh, and I'm glad there's gonna be the episode about "Cheap Thrills", this was the first album with JJ on vocal I've heard at all. I saw a documentary about her back in the late 80s and loved it. So when I bought my 1st CD player in first half of 90s, I bought this album on CD, because there were "Summertime", "Piece of My Heart" and "Ball and Chain" on it. Then came "Pearl" because of "Move Over" and some others. And then "Kozmic Blues", then "In Concert", then "Farewell Song"). I have none of them on vinyl, but the old CD issues sound quite good either. :) In the end I finally got "BBatHC" (sadly re-mustarded, from 1999, but listenable). Now you can guess JJ means someting to me. So I'm waiting what you'll say about "Cheap Thrills" . I have listened to it i do'n't know how many times, I have read a little about it in "Janis. Her Life and Music" by Holly George-Warren, but I guess you'll help me to look at this album from a different angle. :)
"Everybody Knows" was glued to my turntable in college too, but that was 1989, when the album was twenty years old, in contrast to 2019 when the album was fifty years old. We didn't listen to much fifty year old music back then. I had a couple of Robert Johnson records and some Louis Armstrong, so I guess those count, and some Gershwin too, I forgot. Recording technology made great strides from the thirties to the eighties. Today the amount of music available is astounding in comparison. At any rate, I was a little kid when "Heart of Gold" was a hit and I remember hearing it on the radio station my parents listened to. "Cinnamon Girl" was in the air back then too, but mostly around people younger than my parents. I sought out "Everybody Knows" as a teenager to fill in the blanks from my childhood, but it wasn't until I got to college that I really dug into it. Great record.
Good one, Abby. You should have been there in the late ‘60s....or travel back in time. There were maybe 3 or 4 or 5 absolutely essential albums released every week. Most of my 600 album collection is from that era.....and it all still seems fresh to me, and listening now takes me back. Thanks for this.
I use to put on headphones and walk through the Fall leaves in my.local.park while listening to "Round and Round"
Love it. Growing up in the mountains of Maine, this album got a lot of play with the old hippies and I always loved the crunch of "Cinnamon Girl". I like weird Neil, the "I Do What I Want!" Neil of Trans, Re•ac•tor, ARC Weld, Le Noise and Psychedelic Pill!
An aside: David Briggs last production job? Royal Trux - Thank You 1995!
this isn't the first time someone's mentioned le noise in these comments, i might have to go seek it out now! neil is uncompromising in ALL aspects, but it's cool he's uncompromising in his integrity as an artist.
@@abigaildevoe It's an acquired taste!
@@abigaildevoeCan you imagine Crosby, Stills OR Nash taking Social Distortion and Sonic Youth on tour as their opening bands? Neil did, in 1991. 😊
Magnificent album and a Magnificent review 👏 Love ❤ Neil Young's Laurel Canyon ❤ period. I'm a fan of plain grapefruit juice 😋 love ❤ the bittersweet taste. Nice one 👍 Danny Whitten was seriously one of the best collaborator. Love ❤ the vocal harmonies and Gretsch guitar 🎸 😍 sounds.
hi abigal. how are u my friend.
good review on neil 2nd album. i love the 2nd album. 7 tracks but a great album.
mike
friend from canada eh!!
i love this neil young album
My favorite Neil Young album, which is saying something. BTW, Whitten, Molina, Talbot, and Notkoff weren't the only members of the Rockets -- George Whitsell and Leon Whitsell were also in the band on their only album, The Rockets, from 1968.
In my opinion, his greatest album! Really wish i had this on vinyl. Can't find it anywhere.
i was very lucky to have inherited this album but from experience looking for rust never sleeps and after the gold rush, yes, neil can be hard to find in the wild!
I got more history re. this l.p. and Crazy Horse in 20 minutes here just now than in a half century since 1st hearing this great record, so thanks for that!
The band and Neil played really well together on this 1st joint effort, tight like a veteran band but fresh like a newly formed combo,, which I suppose makes sense in their case. Danny Whitten strikes me as a secret weapon hidden in the open, a foil for Neil's leads, the perfect guitar component of that great Rockets rhythm section that originally caught Neil's ear.
Weirdly for me, my introduction to "Cowgirl In The Sand" was the acoustic version on the 4-Way Street l.p., which is great also, but of course very different.
Anyway, reminded once more of my appreciation for your appreciation of what it takes to make great records.
Thanks Abbie, rock on! And remember: "Let them eat hype". 😎
i do wish danny and this lineup of crazy horse had stuck around a little longer. they worked exceptionally well as a unit - but when you start out damn near perfect, hitting the speed bump is all the more painful. it's always cool when someone points out all the ground i cover in these videos, thank you so much
One of my favorite albums. Fever dream is the perfect way to describe it.
Everybody knows this is a great album (or should know).
You’re absolutely adorable!
"Is this place at your command?".... Again earth tones and "Everybody Knows This is Nowhere" go well together.
Hi Abigail. Great commentary. I could especially relate to how the album is "front loaded" but now at a later age completely appreciate side 2 now, especially Cowgirl in the Sand...in fact its my favorite song on the album. After the Gold Rush (in my top 5 albums of all time by any artist) is not as aggression filled as this album which so my mood dictates what I need to listen to. I highly recommend listening to the album "Comes a Time" as I believe it to be underrated. Also, check out Neil's live performance from MTV unplugged of "Tonight's the Night" solo on the piano. Breathtaking and haunting. Thanks once again for your joyful videos. :)
Niel young one of my heroes growing up
if i'd heard neil's music when i first tried to learn guitar age at age 10 (there were many false starts...) i'd be one hell of a musician now!! sadly i didn't, so now i just talk about the music!
Hey it's something good to talk about !
Hi Abigail, I totally get Neil Young. I've been a fan pre CSNY
I have it. One of his best.
Ah. Big Brother was watching there at the end. Everybody Knows....not bad but my favorite is Mirror Ball. Love that album. Second would be 89's Freedom. That is an album chock-full of poetry.
Omg you'll never guess what just happened down by the river! Yep, that's right: Dead.
i LOVE mirrorball, i played the hell out of "i'm the ocean" in college as well. that's the album i was thinking of when i said i love '90s neil!
as for next week's album: as always, good eye.
Yes. Freedom was I think the first album to get Five stars in Rolling Stone mag..
I didn't use to be a Neil Young fan when I was younger and even through my twenties. I liked some of his songs but I just didn't really explore or seem to care too much about a lot of the ones I was hearing. But that changed and I have really started getting more interested in him even in the last few years.
Back in the days when FM radio actually played more than a few songs over and over from an artist, it still seemed like I was constantly hearing the same Neil Young songs. And a lot of what was on FM radio through the 1980s was bad news and stories DJs would spread about him at least down in the Houston area.
But as I said, my opinion did change later as I started hearing more of his music that wasn't normally played on the radio. I started to hear some of the older CDs that others had and his music started to grow on me a little.
You mentioned that you like the 1990s Neil Young and I do too. I think my turning point for starting to pay attention to him, And buy some of his music, was 1995 when he played on stage with Led Zeppelin, Aerosmith, and I can't remember who else as the bands were being inducted into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame. He was up on stage jamming on a song or two, and maybe even more But what really caught me was when he was on stage with Led Zeppelin doing a song or two as part of their set. He was rocking out and man did he sound great playing! And I don't remember what year the song Keep on Rockin' in the Free World came out, but I do remember that was one I really liked also in the 1990s. I really liked that song And it made me wonder how the rest of the album sounded. It got me to start looking back on a lot of his older releases as well and I realized I liked a lot of it. I just had not been buying anything of his through the years and really was only hearing what was played on the radio. So I had not given him a chance to truly judge his music until the 1990s.
One other thing I really like about Neil Young is his commitment to audiophile recordings. He hates lossy formats like mp3 files and he's a proponent of lossless musical formats if they are digitized. I've always been that way myself and he went as far as to make some sort of lossless media player when the portable mp3 players were the big thing in the early 2000s. He really spoke out and explained, I think in a way that most people could understand, how bad it was to crunch music down by 95% compression and ruin it. I saw him on a program showing the waveform for a song before and after the compression and he spoke about it in a way that I think most anyone could have understood. He didn't get all technical with it where the common person might get confused or not understand what he was trying to get across. Now I don't think it reached or got through to a lot of people but at least he tried. Sure, it doesn't matter if you are listening to music on your cell phone or something like that. But if you listen on a good sounding system, or even a decent one, you can definitely tell the difference and hear just how that compression cuts out a lot of things like the highs in music to name just one thing. I think he got a little overly zealous during that period of time as he was trying to educate people on the topic and I believe at some point he started insulting some people that didn't understand it? At least that's the way it sounded in some of the articles I had read back then. But he was a headstrong guy and that was just something he felt strongly about. I personally say let people do whatever they want to with their music but I agree with what he was trying to get across in educating people regarding the modern destruction of high quality music back then.
I had a notification on my phone the other day from a Zeppelin collector with a CZcams channel that had uploaded the performance from 1995s Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame induction. I didn't really watch it all on my phone because I have it on a high quality, lossless haha, DVD and on a hard drive in a lossless format too. But it is really a great performance and they are doing Led Zeppelin songs when he is up there playing near the end of their set. Just the whole performance was great and I can't remember if it was We're Gonna Groove or what song it was that he had a big part in and sounded so incredibly rocking in? But I had not seen him playing like that before and it really showed his talent I thought and what he could do.
Just in the last year, I've been looking for some first pressings of Neil Young LPs. I really haven't found a first pressing that was priced well or affordable to me yet. I really like his music but he's not one of my favorite artists where I would pay a very high price for a first pressing of this music. But of course I have gotten some of the repressings, like Harvest, and I still have a ways to go to catch up on some of his early albums.
While I've always liked the music I started out liking when I was young, I also feel like I've matured musically through the years and started liking other music that I either didn't care for early on or just never really gave a chance to see how I might like it. I know our musial tastes change and I believe we become more accepting of some things we didn't used to even care about. That's one thing I like in the vinyl community. It seems to make you want to reach out and try some music you haven't really listened to or heard often as we are looking for good music and grow older. And I think that is probably what happened in my case with Neil Young. I definitely like him today and I really would enjoy seeing him live at some point. I know he is 76 years old now and I haven't heard of him touring in a long, long time. I also haven't been looking to see what he's doing and I really haven't been opening up to his old '60s and '70s music until more recently once again. But if he was to come through the Dallas/Fort Worth area again touring, I definitely go see him.
One last comment I wanted to make had to do with the CSNY Deja Vu LP. I had liked a lot of those songs for a long time, and after your video recently, I went ahead and bought the new remastered pressing and I really have loved that LP. I probably would have eventually gotten it anyway but I wasn't in any hurry at the time. Thankfully, after seeing your video and then seeing it being re-released, I'm glad that all came together and led to me buying that album. I didn't realize that I kind of did know most of the songs on the album. Had I known that vinyl was going to sound so good, I would have bought a repressing, or a first pressing if I could have found one, much earlier. It can be a lot of fun going back and trying out some music you never fully explored oftentimes.
Brian in Fort Worth 🎶
neil has always been a VERY headstrong guy, uncompromising in all aspects truly. but it's very cool that he's been uncompromising in his integrity as an artist: whether it's audio formats, accessibility of the archives, or streaming services. the most fun part of this series is going back into my collection and pulling stuff i used to love but haven't revisited in a while. glad you're enjoying your copy of deja vu!
@@abigaildevoe Exactly Abby! Very true and very good points. I love doing the same thing with you the music I have too. It's interesting how we can often change your minds or opinions hearing something later that didn't grab hold of us at first also. Thanks for the reply :-)
I have come around to the debut album, but this really was a huge leap forward. Neil is my #1. Hoping for a Tonight's the Night review sometime!
Great video. "Cinnamon Girl" is my fave on it and "Round & Round (It Won't Be Long)" is beautiful. You may want to check out Young's album Le Noise if you haven't yet. It's just NY and an electric guitar and I think some bass is in it as well. "Sign of Love" and "Angry World" are great songs from it.
gotta admit i'm STILL getting through the extensive neil young discography haha, i'll remember le noise though
I also felt as if Neil Young completed Crosby, Stills, and Nash. Neil was the ultimate final piece to that band. 😀💖🎶
CSNY is the ultimate case of what happens when there's too many big personalities in one group, but that permanent underlying tension made deja vu work so well. that's an album that only happens once! you can't have CSNY without the Y. well, you can...but you know what i mean
Hi Abby lotsa records, hope you and yours are well. 😊
"Can't snap my fingers."? Practice makes perfect Abby!
You know, when I started listening to your vids (last wk!), I was amused about "the kid stuck in '60s counterculture tropes"... However, I have been converted to the fact that you actually grok a whole hell've'a lot about my teen yrs between the mid-60s and early '70s.
Thanx for giving me more than a few "flashbacks" to that amazing time I was lucky to live through!!!
haha thank you so much. i break out in hives when people say i was "born in the wrong generation" and whatnot - looking at all this music in retrospect is really special and shouldn't be counted out so easy.
re. the snapping: see that's what people say but 2 decades of trying hasn't helped!!
Only 2 decades, @@abigaildevoe?!? I'm about to break 7!
BUT, can you whistle?
Young says he was in a pretty bad fever when he came up with some of the songs on this classic album !
Fantastic review, Abby! I appreciate all the research that goes into your videos. I purchased Neil's first two albums when they first came out. The first album was seriously flawed because of the horrible mix, leaving me deeply disappointed. With later, improved reissues, I find the album to be a quaint, early relic that often evokes fond memories. It is unlike anything in Neil's vast discography. I wasn't expecting much from Everybody Knows because of the the letdown from his solo debut, but boy was I blown away. As you so ably describe, this is a fantastic album that demonstrated the full potential of Neil's musicality and set the stage for all that was to come. And kudos to Crazy Horse/The Rockets. They were the perfect bandmates for NY. CH has never sounded better.
Abby Abby, Abby.... This record was one of many NY albums that i invested in buying. In designschool actually and that was that.
Abi, this was in 1996. As you know it invokes some deep emotion. Love how you share your experience with it.
Neil Top 5 all time Rock N Roller.
Dynamic
Of course it's raw. It's by design. That garage band feel which I believe is his true signature. Also, he was the grunge man long before it became a genre..
Robin Lane was briefly married to Andy Summers of The Police fame. Robin did move to the New England area and is still around making great music of her own. She even had a video from her debut lp, Robin Lane & The Chartbuster's, When Things Go Wrong which actually got some airing on the original MTV network.
hey that's super cool! i love her contribution on this album, good to know she's still doing music
@@abigaildevoe Try to find the Robin Lane & The Chartbuster's 1st album on Warner Brothers. A 1979 release. I use to see her play often in my area. She was electric & rocking! I think she may have gone solo acoustic for a decade or so. I may even have that lp at my shop. You are welcome to it if you want it. I also remember a documentary film she made about being in music and the abuse she had to endore from a former lover.
Nice tribute to Neil's second album, plus putting it into context. He could tell The Rockets were going to jam well with him as Crazy Horse. His lyrics are very unique, stripped-down to essentials, but so often full of imagery that makes me want to hear it again. The cantankerous Crosby once said Neil was very shrewd for having decided to join CSN for Deja Vu, knowing it was a great career move, because CSN's 1st album had been so popular. He brought the tapes of his two songs for CSN to add vocal harmonies. After the Gold Rush sold quite a bit better than Everybody Knows... He didn't really need CSN after that.
not gonna lie i had to google what cantankerous meant but yeah, that word totally tracks for crosby
I saw a listing on discogs of this album 500.00..I love mine as it is still graded at very good ++ but media is mint to me. I don't play it often in my rotation. I have to force myself to spin it maybe every three months or so.
Just went to see Neil's "Harvest Time" film. It's like the Beatles "Let It Be" sessions, a document of him making music with the Stray Gators in his barn, plus overdubs with CSN, and an interesting look at his sessions with the London Symphony Orchestra. I can't recommend it highly enough. You really get to know the 24 year old Neil, blissfully engaged at his ranch--and oh, Glyn Johns makes an appearance. ;)
i’ve seen previews, it looks great! and if glyn is in it i’m sold. i’m but a simple woman.
@Abigail Devoe I figured Glyn’s appearance might get your attention, albeit brief during the LSO sessions. 😉😂
Neil has a house in Topanga Canyon, East of Malibu. Oddly enough I've never met him - some of his guest players I have met, like David Lindley.
My personal fave on EKTIN is “Losing End” - oh, the pathos of the opening line: “I came into town to see you yesterday, but you were not home.”
1:49 yup feels like a fall record
You said ‘palpable…’😅😂. This’s really the template for Neil’s career. Cinnamon Girl’s still 1 of my favorite jams
When I was a kid, I used to say about my old little and very boring town, "Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere." Recently, I drove out to that townsville. I had a look around. It's still "nowhere." I liked Neil with Rick James when they were with The Mynah Birds and Neil with Buffalo Springfield. "Cinnamon Girl" reminds me of the days and nights with my old band. I knew a guy who used to work for Reprise records. Thanks a million, Abigail Devoe, for an exacting review of a truly classic LP! czcams.com/video/tQTE8hKvaaI/video.html -- Rick, Neil, Bruce (Palmer) and the rest of The Mynah Birds (circa early 1966).
10:30 it’s an amazing record ❤
Another great video! Great look today too btw. When I was in high school in the 90s, every singer adopted that awful Scott Weyland/Eddie Vedder style of singing which drove me up the wall. At parties though, undoubtedly, somewhere among the alcohol, ciggarettes, marijuana, pills, acid, and cocaine, someone would always finally put on Neil Young. This album quite often. It was like being able to breathe while under water.
HAHA yeah even the ladies adopted that voice (as much as i dig jagged little pill, alanis was the worst offender!) neil's '69-'72 stuff has that wonderful effect you described, and even after - like my my hey hey (or is it the other way around? i never know)
@@abigaildevoe I think it's "My my, rock and roll will never die?" 4 Non Blondes with that excruciating earache 'What's Going On' was the first Female Vedder one I can remember? You really have a good way of putting these artists in perspective that people can relate with.
Jack's name is pronounced "Knee-Chee". Jack is a superb producer because he doesn't suck the soul out of a song.
Holy cow, I actually have this LP. Someone gave it to me long, long ago when they got rid of their records. That makes like three Vinyl Monday albums that I own. There's still hope that someday you'll cover Megadeth's "Killing Is My Business...And Business Is Good".
listen someday i'll cover megadeath, if nothing but vindication for high school-aged me!
@@abigaildevoe Haha, a faint glimmer of hope. That'll work.
10:20 maybe it took some time for the general public to become aware of Everybody Knows... but within the counterculture Neil's first album was well known, as was Everybody Knows... when it was first released. That said, the counterculture was only a small part of the Boomer generation and most Boomers were unaware of what was going on within the counterculture. It wasn't until after the Woodstock documentary was released that the counterculture became absorbed by the mainstream culture and the magic was gone.
as a younger person listening to this stuff i often forget that the counterculture was exactly that: the counterculture. it was all so readily absorbed into the mainstream post-'69 that in retrospect, it feels like it was always so readily embraced by the masses
@@abigaildevoe So true Abigail. Even in '68 things were starting to change within the counterculture. The lineage from the Beat generation to the freaks (hippies) was becoming less apparent. The reasons, ritual and heritage were unknown to the newer members and things spiraled into a drug free-for-all. Older freaks remembered though and at least for a while, it was a very special time!
@@abigaildevoe Here's a quiz for you Abigail: In David Crosby's song, Almost Cut My Hair, what did he mean by, "... separate the wheat from the chaff"?
The Guess Who in 1968 (Pink Wine Sparkles In The Glass): "...NY no longer means New York city, cos he once said hello to me". |That was the impact Young had on Burton Cummings (a much under-rated Canadian artist). He has that effect on many. Great review, realistic (as Neil liked) as it owns up to the album "warts and all". Thanks, lovely lady.
Well, bravo....now i need to listen to Sparklehorse and Radiohead performing WISH YOU WERE HERE!
The first time I saw mr young was with buffalo spring filed in Holleywood if remember correctly it was at pandora box
man that must've been a great show!
Hi Abigail, great album but I slightly prefer After the gold rush and Harvest, this could fight Vs On the beach and tonight's the night for 3rd position. Great review as usual
Dobrze ,że kobieta też jest fascynatką Neila !🤠👍🎸🗽✌️
Great and really interesting review! You probably already know this, but I didn't see it come up in the video or comments, so if not I'm excited to tell you. You know that unconventional coda to Cinnamon Girl, where Neil tacks on a series of single-string distorted guitar licks? I've read (sorry but I can’t remember where) that that coda was what inspired Clapton to compose the main riff to Layla. As in, Clapton listened to the album, and thought the end of Cinnamon Girl sounded so cool he decided to expand on the basic idea and composed Layla around it. I can definitely hear the similarities… Neil’s licks sound like scattered parts of the full Layla riff (they both play similar series of blues scale 'hammer-on' 16th notes).
Yikes, pardon my ill-advised exuberance. As you know (shoulda watched your Layla episode earlier) that's NOT the consensus A. King / Allman origin story for the riff. I obviously filed the C Girl source under 'credible', but have been searching for it and found nothing. I'm truly mystified. Maybe I dreamt it? Anyway... sorry!
I Absolutely Love this album!! Released in may 1969! In all likelihood the first grunge album in history! After the brilliant commercial first album by Neil young in late 68 this was a masterpiece of a second album!
see i always hear that neil contributed to the grunge canon but i'll admit, don't quite see it! that might be how others see my take on paul & linda's Ram being the first "indie rock" album. (not by indie principles really, but sonically? it tracks) might need someone else's deep dive to explain neil and grunge to me and vice versa!
@@abigaildevoeThe only resemblance between Neil Young and grunge I can see is volume, angst, and pretty melodies. And also Kurt Cobain's suicide note featuring a Neil Young quote
NEIL YOUNG was the darling song writer of the ''hippie band'' era 1968-1972 roughly. Wonderful song writer, pain in the ass band member. ( And thats why Crosby, Still, Nash & YOUNG didn't put out more of their classic albums! ) Theres a great bio movie of him, can't remember the title, and his history of being there from the mid sixties L.A. scene is legend. Terrific talent, arrogant song of a gun..... LOL
CSNY was a perfect supergroup: all equally talented guys but just not sustainable! too many big personalities at the table, both crosby and young were/are stubborn as hell
@@abigaildevoe WELL SAID LOVE!
This is a fine run down of this album. As a young man, I fell in love with Cinnamon Girl and its one note lead. My college band did Everybody Knows...., and I agree with you on Down by the River, and Cowgirl in the Sand. George Harrison ridiculed Neil's one note lead. Sorry, I love it. Also there's an acoustic take on Cowgirl in the Sand on 4 Way Street. What do you think of Susanna Hoffs/Matthew Sweet's cover Cinnamon Girl.
haven't heard that cover yet! as a new "cinnamon girl" fan i might like it. as much as i joke about the down by the river solo i do appreciate it! that must've been one damn cool band in college.