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Greatest Hits |  | Artist: Neil Young
Label: Atlantic Records/ATG
Category: Digital Music Album
Buy New: $7.99
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Seller: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
Rating:  107 reviews
Sales Rank: 349
Genre: album-oriented-rock-music
Media: MP3 Download
Running Time: 4587 Minutes
ASIN: B0018AM1YY
Release Date: November 19, 2004
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 16 Tracks And There's So Much More! September 6, 2010
J. Thompson (Essex UK)
After Bob Dylan, Neil Young is the man.
I have the remastered albums After The Goldrush and Harvest and therefore it's best of the remainder of his work that I am looking for.
I am rewarded with Helpless, Ohio and especially Like A Hurricane, Neil's guitar playing at it's best. Think Southern Man and then add much more.
I would have liked to have had these included, On The Beach and Philidelpha, from the film soundtrack.
Easily worth 4 stars, all CD collections should have this one!
 Grand father of Grundge July 19, 2010
Kenneth Kidd
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Neal Young. Need I say more? Just when counted as gone, he finds one or two more songs worth singing and making new memories with....
Good, but Could have Been Better July 13, 2010
Morten Vindberg (Denmark)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
There will be different opinions, when the selection of tracks for a best of album with an artist with a long career has to be decided for. This especially must be the case with an artist like Neil Young, partly because his career has been long but also a musician who has changed his musical expression several times during this career. Above this, when only one CD is available, it seems a thankless task to select tracks with a total playing time, which may not exceed 80 minutes.
Broadly speaking, I think that this "Greatest Hits" is an excellent bid to provide an overview of Neil Young's career from 1969-91. Naturally there is a particular focus on the early years, when Young was undoubtedly at his most productive and innovative.
I do think, though, that it is a shame to choose two very long tracks from "Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere." Both "Down By the River" and "Cowgirl In The Sand" are fine tracks, but are they suitable for a best of compilation? - they do take space for other relevant songs.
I especially miss '"See The Sky About two Rain" from "On the Beach", a strong album that is not even represented; the explanation for this must have something to do with rights.
"Do not Let It Bring You Down" and "I Believe in You" from "After the Gold Rush" would also have been an obvious choices.
I wonder also why "Out in the weekend" and the title track from "Harvest" are omitted.
Anyhow, most Young fans think that all of his 1970s records are albums to have in their whole; and this CD is only to be considered as an appetizer for more.
 Not Ideal May 23, 2010
Bill R. Moore (New York, USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Few artists are more ill-suited to a Greatest Hits than Neil Young. First, several of his albums, including some of the best, are ideally heard whole. Second, singles are rarely his best songs. Third, and perhaps most importantly, he has one of music's biggest canons, much of it excellent; no sampler could ever come close to doing him anything like justice. This is why he has wisely avoided collections on the whole; Decade, the most famous, was a highly unusual, three-record mammoth with many non-singles, rare tracks, and even previously unreleased cuts. Lucky Thirteen, the only other collection, covers his much-maligned Geffen years. Decade remains classic, and Lucky is the only Geffen album most will need, but there has long been a sizeable potential audience for a single disc compilation spanning Young's career, especially as both prior albums precede his numerous and often high quality latter-day albums. Greatest Hits is that collection -- sixteen of Young's most famous songs, mostly from his solo career with and without Crazy Horse but with two CSNY tracks. Needless to say, it is not representative, much less comprehensive. The only people to whom it could appeal are extreme casuals wanting only the songs they hear on the radio, though even here it fails to include some of his better-known and best works such as "Powderfinger." Decade remains the best compilation choice not only because it is far more representative and typical but because it has eleven of these sixteen cuts, and Greatest Hits' latter-day inclusions are shamefully scanty. No one should let this be their only Young album, and the curious are still best off with Decade plus Young's two or so best latter-day albums or, better yet, his six or so best albums overall.
the real deal April 20, 2010
John C. Fisher (philadelphia)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
in a world of hyped up releases that dont live up to expectations this is the real deal. could it have been longer and more comprehensive ? of course- but every song on this set is killer. if you are only going to own one neil young cd- this should be it....
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