3 Classic Neil Young Albums?

Killer album, Cortez.

 

Special mention to NY -Buffalo Springfield songs. BS CD box is worth having.

 

Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere
On The Beach
Tonight's The Night

Honourable mention:

After The Goldrush
Rust Never Sleeps
Freedom

My three favourites:

Tonight's The Night
Time Fades Away
American Stars 'N' Bars

 

Harvest

After The Goldrush

Freedom

 

Top 3:
Gold Rush
Harvest
Everybody Knows This is Nowhere

Followed closely by:
Rust Never Sleeps
Tonight's the Night
Ragged Glory
Sleeps With Angels

 

Tonight's the Night
On the beach
Ragged Glory

 

After The Gold Rush
Harvest Moon
Sleeps With Angels

There's so many fantastic album, but I could probably survive an extended stay on a deserted island with those three

Alternate 3:

On The Beach
Tonights' The Night
Ragged Glory

 

Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere.....
After the Gold Rush
Harvest

 

i love greendale!

 

Tough one.
Gotta go with:

On The Beach (the album that made me a NY fan)
Zuma
Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere

 

Silver and Gold
On the Beach
Hitchhiker

 

this. (only reverse order)

 

After The Goldrush
On The Beach
Live Rust

 

Tonight’s The Night
Comes A Time
Rust Never Sleeps

 

Mine aren't in any particular order.

 

Not in any order:
Tonight's The Night
On The Beach
Zuma

 

• After the Goldrush
• Harvest
  
• Rust Never Sleeps

 

Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere
After The Guldrush
Harvest

 

He was on a roll with his early albums.

 

Zuma
Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere
Rust Never Sleeps

 

Weld
Ragged Glory
Psychadelic Pill

 

Time Fades Away
Silver & Gold
Freedom

 

hate to be such a "look back bore" but

Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere
After the Gold Rush
Harvest

is one of history's greatest TKO's

 

Must be old hippie, I like his early gold rush tunes myself.

 

Two sets of three (albums placed in order of importance):

Set One

1 - Tonight's The Night, rc. 73/rl. 75--Shakey's magnum opus. He will never top the dark, gritty, despairing, and haunting brilliance of this album; too bad it took Reprise two years to permit him to release it. An album buried in the marrow.
2 - On The Beach, 74--My "1B" to the above. He was on a roll in 73/74 despite his personal struggles, and his guitar playing was cool beyond words ("Vampire Blues," "Eponymous," and "Ambulance Blues" for proof). LOVE the hazy, narcotic vibe on this album.
3 - Everybody Knows This is Nowhere, 69--The prototype for grunge; the tandem of Shakey and Danny Whitten on the epics like "Down By The River," and "Cowgirl in the Sand" are the stuff of legend. Whitten's like a machine on rhythm.

The above three are my "Desert Island Discs"--if I can only be limited to three Shakey albums, these would be the ones.

Set Two

1 - After The Gold Rush, 70--Love the patchwork feel to this album; he put out some of his most endearing ballads with "Tell Me Why" and the "Eponymous" track. Beautiful cover of Don Gibson's "Oh, Lonesome Me."
2 - Time Fades Away, 73--Considered the first album in the highly regarded Ditch Trilogy. Worthy of a spot in one's personal archive simply for "Don't Be Denied" and "Yonder Stands The Sinner." Very glad he's warmed to this in recent years.
3 - Harvest, 72--I like to say Side Two of this album is the true beginning of The Ditch Period--"Are You Ready For The Country?," "Alabama," and "Words..." were a foreshadowing of what was around the corner in 72/73.

- siyt