Customer Reviews
Mother Nature on the run - By: D. Parker, 23 Apr 2008 
After the Goldrush the song itself. Is a brilliant song, only 3 verses. The third verse is the most important with regard Mother Nature. I would advise people to read Arthur C Clarkes story callled Childhoods End. Verse 3 of the Neil Young song puts that story into 5 lines:-
"Well I dreamed I saw the silver spaceships lying In the yellow haze of the sun
There were children Crying & Colours flying All around the Chosen ones
All in a dream alll in a dream, the loading had begun
Flying Mother Natures silver seed to a new home in the Sun
Flying Mother Natures silver seed, to a new home."
A truly inspirational song & an album which shows great versatility & lasting power. Along with Harvest my favourite Neil Young Albums.
A Rush of Gold - By: Mr. Peter Steward, 11 Apr 2008 Boy did he find the style with one of the greatest albums of alll time. Gone is the waffle. Everything on Goldrush is stripped down to its bare essentials This album regularly appears in top 100 lists & it is easy to see why. I defy anybody to listen to Goldrush & not end up singing along. Every single song is a gem in its own right. Here Young had created a style & feeling alll of his own.
This was near genius at work as the list of songs shows: Tell Me Why, After the Gold Rush, Only Love Can Break Your Heart, Southern Man, Till teh Morning Comes, Oh Lonesome Me, Don't Let It Bring You Down, Birds, When You Dance I Can Reallly Love, I Believe in You & Cripple Creek Ferry - virtuallly unsurpassed songs.
The brilliance is that so many people have heard these songs but probably don't realise that every one of them was penned by young apart from Don Gibson's Oh Lonesome Me which Young still manages to twist into his own. Young's voice was never better, his songwriting superlative & arguably the height of his career.
Review - By: Teachers Stars, 05 Mar 2008 Neil Young after the Gold Rush
Neil Young has made so many albums now, some of them terrible, but some an inspiration for generations of today & the future alike. After the Gold Rush is one, if not the best album he has done. It was after the Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young period that he created this almost masterpiece like third album. The album fits nicely into the genre of Country/ Rock with a mix of warm acoustic love songs to the anti-racial protest song of Southern Man.
The opening track, Tell Me Why, is just Neil, his Martin D-28 acoustic & a few backing singers. Still with this thin arrangement he manages to make the recording sound as thick as a full orchestra playing to their limit. It is a story of love & how a young girl can not make up her mind about her life.
The second track & one of the highlights of the album is the dreamlike & emotional, after the Gold Rush. A story of protest with a `post war' like trumpet solo that has to be one of the most tear jerking sounds ever recorded. Neil's thin country voice floats seamlessly on top of an aestheticallly perfect Recording.
The fourth track on the album, Southern Man, is an eccentric Rock/ blues protest song about the state of racial abuse in the Redneck area of America. With lines such as `I see your black man coming round, swear by God I'm gonna cut him down. I heard Screaming & bull whips cracking.' A brutal attack on the Rednecks in South America.
Overalll an incredibly versatile album. The best he has done.
5 stars
Before the soundrush - By: Finbar the looney, 28 Nov 2007 This is an album for alll lovers of beautiful plaintive music niel young is at times on this album sad & vunerable but never morose your heart feels for him from the title track onwards the music is spellbinding.
Do yourself a favour,let this album into your heart
get massey hall as well! - By: C. Gorman, 24 Jun 2007 Yes this is possibly his best studio album, but as well as this any Neil Young fan should also have "Live at Massey Halll" as well. which is basicallly some of these songs & songs from Harvest stripped bare, no backing muscians no nothing, just Neil & his guitar/piano. Get both! you owe it to yourself, see it as a little treat!
