I have to admit that it took me a while to really get Neil Young.I'd been familiar with the moody bloke out of Buffalo Springfield, as well as the and Young tacked onto the end of Crosby Stills & Nash.
I probably heard Everybody Knows This is Nowhere along the way towards Harvest time when I lived two doors down from an Engineering student. Joe thought the chorus of Don't Let it Bring You Down (it's only castles burning/find someone who's turning/and you will come around) was so true.
But I didn't start listening seriously until I started reading about Tonight's the Night that I started out seriously listening.
The preference after close to fifty years is still the post-Harvest era when he headed for the ditch because it was a more interesting place than the middle of the road. But among an extensive and varied discography, there's not much I'd actively go out of my way to avoid if you catch my drift.Not while there's a shuffle button handy on the keyboard or iPod. But you can put Hughesy in the automatic purchaser because almost everything he does will have something of interest. Iconic. File under: Crusty Individualists