Comments for Young, Neil, After The Gold Rush

How can anyone not like "After the Goldrush"? It has some of Young's best work "Southern Man", "Tell Me Why" on it, and was his first concept album.

What can I say? If I'd never listened to this album I'd be different. Playing it now is like talking with a good friend.

This is one of my favorite albums. Southern Man is overrated but Cripple Creek Ferry is one of my all time favorites

This was one of the first recordings I ever owned. I had an 8-track of this album and I played it until I wore it out. Did you know that on the 8-track version of "Southern Man" that there is an extra guitar riff in the middle? I suspect it was edited in to allow for program length to be the same. I followed Neil Young ever since.

This album has some great songs on it, and is quite diverse from song to song. There is some hard rock, some slow love songs, and in between stuff as well. It doesn't take on one theme, like some of his other albums, though their is some great music on this album.

This record is hard to beat. If I could only have ten albums in my collection "After the Gold Rush" would be one of them. The lyrics, music, and the mood of the album really could not be improved upon. Some of the songs are great, others, are genius.

There's little that can beat Tell Me Why for acoustic drive and beauty. Lyrics hard to make sense of, but who cares..

We all wanted jeans with the patches like Neil's on the cover.

a truely great album one of the best, fantastic lyrics, Absoloutely adore him, what a guy!!!!!!!!!!!

I read somewhere that Iggy Pop described Dangerbird as the most intense guitar playing of the 70s. Having listened again the ATGR and Southern Man I believe this to be the most intense and angry guitar playing I have heard. The guitar on Southern Man on ATGR matches perfectly the passion and intensity of the subject theme. Obviously a fan but I rate ATGR as a 10!

A great album! Many people says songs like After The Gold Rush is used to much (and maybe that`s true), but I still think it is an incredible song. Songs like Southern Man, I Believe In You and Crippeld Creek Ferry are great, but the greatest of them all are Don`t Let It Bring You Down. Great!!!!!

A great album! Many people says songs like After The Gold Rush is used to much (and maybe that`s true), but I still think it is an incredible song. Songs like Southern Man, I Believe In You and Crippel Creek Ferry are great, but the greatest of them all are Don`t Let It Bring You Down. Great!!!!!

Born in Toronto, Neil Young also helped form Buffalo Springfiedin 1966, along with stephen Stills and Richie Furay.

I wonder if anyone might help me. There was a group that re-recorded the hit a few years later. It was very haunting, almost choral like but I cannot remember the name of the group. Its one of the songs I find most memorable from that era, and along with Neil's version, it was beautifully recorded. By the way, just as an aside, I'm from Canada and in the mid 60's, while in high school, I worked at the Toronto Globe and Mail as a copy boy, where Neil's father Scott Young, was a nationally known as an editorial sports columnist with our National paper. He was just as proud of Neil then, who was a high school dropout but was already on the road to fame. Any help you can provide would be very much appreciated. Ron Ui Edmonton, Alberta Canada

I've wondered this for over 30 years: can anyone tell me what Neil Young was trying to say in this title track? The listener is taken from knights to burned out basements to loading spaceships. With all due respect to Neil Young and his considerable talent, was he on some serious drugs when he wrote this song?

The album that established Neil Young as a superstar - this was an instant classic and an absolute masterpiece by the 24 year old musician, already famous as a member of Crosby,Stills,Nash & Young, then America's biggest group.This was widely acclaimed as the best album of 1970 - during which Let It Be, Bridge Over Troubled Water, All Things Must Pass, Sweet Baby James, Elton John, Deja Vu, etc., were also released.Accompaning himself on acoustic guitar, piano and electric guitar on his best album and the definitive singer/songwriter album, this was mainly recorded in March, 1970, in Young's basement studio in Topanga Canyon.Young's musicianship and gift for poetic lyrics and powerful, memorable melodies was stunning.His incredible lead guitar solo on the incendiary anti-racist " Southern Man " is one of the many highlights, as is the beautiful piano on " After The Goldrush ", " I Believe In You ", " Birds ", " Till The Morning Comes ". " Tell Me Why ", " Only Love Can Break Your Heart ", " Don't Let It Bring You Down ", Crippled Creek Ferry, When You Dance and the melancholy cover of " Oh Lonesome Me " are other outstanding songs. A timeless piece of music.