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, the and Young tacked onto the end of Crosby Stills & Nash, and had probably heard Everybody Knows This is Nowhere along the way towards Harvest time, lived two doors down from an Engineering student who 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 it wasn't until I started reading about Tonight's the Night that I started out seriously listening.
The preference, still, after close to forty 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 his 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 everything he does will have something of interest…
What follows here isn’t quite the complete discography, but goes close enough to what I’ve got in the CD shelves to act as another index to keep track of things discussed in various parts of the site as well as items reviewed hereabouts.
Studio albums
1968 Neil Young
1969 Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere with Crazy Horse
1970 After the Gold Rush
1972 Harvest
1974 On the Beach
1975 Tonight's the Night
Zuma with Crazy Horse
1976 Long May You Run with Stephen Stills and the Stills-Young Band
1977 American Stars 'N Bars
1978 Comes a Time
1980 Hawks & Doves
1981 Re-ac-tor with Crazy Horse
1982 Trans
1983 Everybody's Rockin' with the Shocking Pinks
1985 Old Ways
1986 Landing on Water
1987 Life with Crazy Horse
1988 This Note's for You with the Bluenotes
1989 Eldorado with the Restless
Freedom
1990 Ragged Glory with Crazy Horse
1992 Harvest Moon
1994 Sleeps with Angels with Crazy Horse
1995 Mirror Ball featuring Pearl Jam
1996 Broken Arrow with Crazy Horse
2000 Silver & Gold
2002 Are You Passionate? featuring Booker T. & the M.G.'s
2003 Greendale with Crazy Horse
2005 Prairie Wind
2006 Living with War
Living with War: "In the Beginning"
2007 Chrome Dreams II
2009 Fork in the Road
2010 Le Noise
2012 Americana with Crazy Horse
Live albums
1973 Time Fades Away
1979 Rust Never Sleeps with Crazy Horse
Live Rust with Crazy Horse
1991 Weld with Crazy Horse
Arc with Crazy Horse
1993 Unplugged
1997 Year of the Horse with Crazy Horse
2000 Road Rock Vol. 1 with friends
Compilations
1977 Decade
1993 Lucky Thirteen
2004 Greatest Hits
Soundtracks
1972 Journey Through the Past
1980 Where the Buffalo Roam
1994 Philadelphia
1996 Dead Man
Archives series
2006 Live at the Fillmore East with Crazy Horse
2007 Live at Massey Hall 1971
2008 Sugar Mountain - Live At Canterbury House 1968
2009 The Archives Vol. 1 1963-1972
Dreamin' Man Live '92
2011 A Treasure with The International Harvesters
