Neil Percival Young (born November 12, 1945) is a Canadian singer and songwriter. After embarking on a music career in Winnipeg in the 1960s, Young moved to Los Angeles, joining the folk-rock group Buffalo Springfield. He then began his solo career, often with backing by the band Crazy Horse, and was also a part-time member of Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young. He is on Rolling Stone's list of 'The 100 Greatest Musical Artists'. 21 of his albums and singles have been certified Gold and Platinum in U.S. by RIAA certification.
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22 January 1969
'Neil Young' is the debut solo studio album by Neil Young following his departure from Buffalo Springfield in 1968. The album was first released on November 12, 1968, in the so-called 'CSG mix'. It was then partially remixed and re-released in late summer 1969, but at no time has the album ever charted on the Billboard 200.
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14 May 1969
'Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere' is the second studio album by Neil Young. His first with longtime backing band Crazy Horse, it emerged as a sleeper hit amid Young's contemporaneous success with Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, ultimately peaking at number 34 on the U.S. Billboard 200 in August 1970 during a 98-week chart stay. It has been certified platinum by the RIAA.
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7 November 1972
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28 October 1977
'Decade' is a compilation album by Neil Young, originally as a triple album and later issued on two compact discs. It contains 35 of his songs recorded between 1966 and 1976, among them five tracks that had been unreleased up to that point. It peaked at No. 43 on the Billboard Top Pop Albums chart, and was certified platinum by the RIAA in 1986.
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2 July 1979
'Rust Never Sleeps' is the tenth studio album by Neil Young and Crazy Horse. It features both studio and live tracks. Most of the album was recorded live, then overdubbed in the studio, while others originated in the studio. The album peaked at No. 8 on the Billboard 200 album chart.
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14 November 1979
'Live Rust' is a live album by Neil Young and Crazy Horse, recorded during their fall 1978 'Rust Never Sleeps' tour.
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25 April 1980
'Where The Buffalo Roam (The Original Movie Soundtrack)' is a soundtrack album by various artists, with Neil Young being the lead performer. The film was scored by Young, but also includes songs by Jimi Hendrix, Bob Dylan, The Temptations, The Four Tops and Creedence Clearwater Revival. Additionally, characters played by Bill Murray and Rene Auberjonois sing 'Lucy In The Sky with Diamonds'.
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28 October 1981
'Re-ac-tor' is the eleventh studio album by Neil Young, and his fourth with Crazy Horse. It was his last album released through Reprise Records before he moved to Geffen label for his next five albums.
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29 December 1982
'Trans' is the twelfth studio album by Neil Young. Recorded and released during his Geffen label era in the 1980s, its electronic sound baffled many fans upon its initial release-a Sennheiser vocoder VSM201 features prominently in six of the nine tracks.
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27 July 1983
'Everybody's Rockin'' is the thirteenth studio album by Neil Young. The album was recorded with The Shocking Pinks (a band made up just for the occasion), and features a selection of rockabilly songs (both covers and original material). Running only 25 minutes, it is Young's shortest album. It is typical of his 1980s period in that it bears little or no resemblance to the album released before it ('Trans' (1983), a synth-heavy, electro-rock album), nor the one released after it ('Old Ways' (1985), which is pure country).
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12 August 1985
'Old Ways' is the fourteenth studio album by Neil Young. Unlike his other 80's albums, it is mostly country in style.
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21 July 1986
'Landing on Water' is the fifteenth studio album by Neil Young. The album represents a return to a contemporary rock sound after the 1985 country album 'Old Ways' and 1983 doo wop album 'Everybody's Rockin''. Young's record company, Geffen famously had sued the artist for creating albums unrepresentative of his familiar style. The album is noted for its unique production and synthetic 1980s sound with prominent drums, synclavier and synthesizers, giving it a claustrophobic feel.
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30 June 1987
'Life' is the sixteenth album by Neil Young and his backing band Crazy Horse, and it is Young's last release on the Geffen label. Most of the songs were recorded live with later studio overdubs.
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12 April 1988
'This Note's For You' is the eighteenth studio album by Neil Young. The album marked Young's return to the recently reactivated Reprise Records after a rocky tenure with Geffen Records. Part of the album's concept centred on the commercialism of rock and roll, and tours in particular (the title track, specifically, is a hostile social commentary on concert sponsorship). The music is marked by the use of a horn section.
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21 April 1989
'Eldorado' is an E.P. released only in Japan and Australia by Neil Young backed by The Restless. It contains different mixes of three songs that subsequently appeared on Young's 1989 album 'Freedom', and two tracks not available on any other album.
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28 July 1989
'The Bridge, A Tribute To Neil Young' is a tribute album that features alternative rock bands covering songs written by Neil Young. A portion of the profits from the album were donated to The Bridge School, which develops and uses advanced technologies to aid in the instruction of disabled children.
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2 October 1989
'Freedom' is the nineteenth studio album by Neil Young. It relaunched Young's career after a largely unsuccessful decade. After many arguments and a lawsuit, Young left Geffen Records in 1988 and returned to his original label, Reprise. 'Freedom' brought about a new, critical and commercially successful album.
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10 September 1990
'Ragged Glory' is the twentieth studio album by Neil Young, and his sixth album with the band Crazy Horse. 'Ragged Glory' was voted the 36th best grunge album of all time by Rolling Stone in 2019.
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23 October 1991
'Arc-Weld' is a live album by Neil Young with Crazy Horse. It comprised performances recorded on the tour to promote the Ragged Glory album. It was initially released as a limited edition three-disc set entitled Arc-Weld, with the Arc portion being a single disc consisting in its entirety of a sound collage of guitar noise and feedback.
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2 November 1992
'Harvest Moon' is the twenty-first studio album by Neil Young. Many of its backing musicians also appeared on Young's 1972 album 'Harvest', making this is a sort of sequel.
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6 January 1993
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24 August 1993
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24 December 1993
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6 August 1994
'Sleeps With Angels' is the twenty-eighth album by Neil Young. The album is Young's seventh studio album with Crazy Horse. Co-produced by David Briggs, the album is Young's last with his long-time producer, who died the following year. The title track was written and recorded as a tribute to Kurt Cobain in wake of his suicide. Although the rest of the album was recorded before that event, the album takes on a somber, subdued tone throughout.
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27 June 1995
'Mirror Ball' is the twenty-ninth album by Neil Young, and features members of Pearl Jam backing him. The album has been certified gold by the RIAA in the United States.
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2 July 1996
'Broken Arrow' is the twenty-fourth studio album by Neil Young, and his eight with Crazy Horse.
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1997
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5 December 2000
'Road Rock Vol. 1 (Friends & Relatives)' is a live album by Neil Young. The 'friends and relatives' include Ben Keith, Chrissie Hynde, Duck Dunn, Young's then wife, Pegi, and his sister, Astrid.
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9 April 2002
'Are You Passionate?' is the twenty-sixth studio album by Neil Young. It features both Booker T. & the M.G.'s and Crazy Horse as backing. The album represents Young's foray into soul music, one of many explorations into different genres during his career.
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19 August 2003
'Greendale' is the twenty-seventh studio album by Neil Young, and features Crazy Horse. It is a 10-song musical novel set in a fictional California seaside town of the same name. Based on the saga of the Green family, Greendale combines numerous themes on corruption, observation of the passing of time, environmentalism and mass media consolidation.
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16 November 2004
'Greatest Hits' is the third compilation album by Neil Young. Eleven of the first twelve tracks appear on previous compilation 'Decade' (1977), and the disc spans his solo career from 1969 through 1992. On the rear cover of the album, Young comments that the tracks were selected "based on original record sales, airplay and known download history".
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14 November 2006
'Performance Series Vol. 02 Live At The Fillmore East 1970' is a live album by Neil Young with Crazy Horse. It is the first album released as part of the Neil Young Archives series of live recordings.
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19 December 2006
'Living With War, In The Beginning' is a remix album by Neil Young. It is a stripped-down version of Young's 2006 album Living With War. The original title, according to a press release, was called Living With War - Raw. However, the title changed when the album was finally released. On this version of the album, the sound is straight-from-the-source, captured live in the studio exactly the way it was recorded, without the backing instrumentation and choral accompaniment found on the original release.
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13 March 2007
'Performance Series Vol. 03 Live At Massey Hall 1971' is a live album by Neil Young. It features a solo acoustic performance by Young at Massey Hall in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, on 19 January 1971 during his Journey Through The Past Solo Tour. It is the second release in Young's Archives Performance Series. The album reached #1 in Canada with 11,000 units sold in its first week. It debuted at #9 on the Irish Charts, #30 on the U.K. albums chart, and #6 on the Billboard 200 on 31 March 2007, with 57,000 copies sold. It spent 11 weeks on the latter chart, and in 2009 was named by Fretbase as the second-best album featuring a singer-songwriter on acoustic guitar of all time.
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23 October 2007
'Chrome Dreams II' is the thirtieth studio album by Neil Young. The album name references Chrome Dreams, a legendary Neil Young album from 1977 that had originally been scheduled for release but was shelved in favor of American Stars 'N Bars. The album debuted on the U.S. Billboard 200 chart at number 11, selling about 54,000 copies in its first week. In addition, the song 'No Hidden Path' was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Solo Rock Vocal Performance at the 51st Grammy Awards, 2009.
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18 March 2008
'Body Of War, Songs That Inspired An Iraq War Veteran is an album produced for the documentary film Body Of War, directed by Ellen Spiro and Phil Donahue. Curated by Iraq war veteran Tomas Young, it was released two days before the fifth anniversary of the United States' invasion of Iraq.
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2 December 2008
'Performance Series Vol. 00 Sugar Mountain, Live At Canterbury House 1968' is a live album by Neil Young. On November 8-10, 1968, Young performed three solo acoustic shows at Canterbury House in Ann Arbor, Michigan. The album is compiled from the performances on the 9th and 10th.
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7 April 2009
'Fork In The Road' is the twenty-ninth studio album by Neil Young. The album was inspired by Young's Lincoln Continental that had been retooled to run entirely on alternative energy, and Young's background with The Lincvolt Project he has been working on alongside mechanic Jonathan Goodwin. The project has been to develop a viable electric energy power system for automobiles.
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2 June 2009
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29 July 2009
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8 December 2009
'Dreamin' Man Live '92' is a live album by Neil Young. It features live, solo acoustic performances of all ten songs from 'Harvest Moon', recorded on tour in 1992. The album is volume twelve in Young's 'Archives Performance Series' and the fifth to be released.
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28 September 2010
'Le Noise' is the thirty-second studio album by Neil Young. The album was recorded in Los Angeles and produced by Daniel Lanois, hence the titular pun. The album consists of Young performing solo, mostly on electric guitar with echo effects, distortion and feedback. The sessions coincided with the death of two of Young's longtime collaborators, filmmaker L.A. Johnson and steel guitarist Ben Keith, influencing some of the lyrics. Lanois also experienced a near-fatal motorcycle accident during recording.
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14 June 2011
'Performance Series Vol. 09 A Treasure' is a live album by Neil Young. It features performances from his 1984-1985 U.S. tour with The International Harvesters. The album is volume nine in Young's Archives Performance Series and the sixth to be released.
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5 June 2012
'Americana' is the thirty-third studio album by Neil Young. The album was Young's first collaboration with backing band Crazy Horse since their 2003 album, 'Greendale', and its associated tour.
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10 December 2013
'Performance Series Vol. 02.5 Live At The Cellar Door' is a live album by Neil Young. It features performances from his six 1970 concerts in Washington D.C. The album is Volume 02.5 in Young's Archives Performance Series. The album features songs from both Young's early albums and Buffalo Springfield albums.
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19 April 2014
'A Letter Home' is the thirty-fifth studio album by Neil Young. The album was recorded in a refurbished 1947 Voice-o-Graph vinyl recording booth at Jack White's Third Man Records recording studio in Nashville, Tennessee.
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19 April 2014
'A Letter Home' is the thirty-fifth studio album by Neil Young. The album was recorded in a refurbished 1947 Voice-o-Graph vinyl recording booth at Jack White's Third Man Records recording studio in Nashville, Tennessee.
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3 November 2014
'Storytone' is the thirty-sixth studio album by Neil Young. The album was released in two formats: a single disc, which features orchestral and big band arrangements of the songs, and a deluxe edition which also included stripped-back solo recordings of the songs.
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3 November 2014
'Storytone' is the thirty-sixth studio album by Neil Young. The album was released in two formats: a single disc, which features orchestral and big band arrangements of the songs, and a deluxe edition which also included stripped-back solo recordings of the songs.
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28 November 2014
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29 June 2015
'The Monsanto Years' is thirty-fifth studio album by Neil Young and backed by the Promise Of The Real. It is a concept album which criticizes the agribusiness company Monsanto.
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15 November 2015
'Performance Series Vol. 11 Bluenote Cafe' is a live album by Neil Young. The album is volume eleven in Young's Archives Performance Series, and features performances from Young's 1987-88 American tours with The Bluenotes, with whom he recorded his seventeenth studio album, 'This Note's For You' (1988). The album cover art is a photograph of the frontage and marquee of the old Blue Note Cafe on Main Street in Winnipeg, where Neil grew up.
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8 September 2017
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23 March 2018
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21 April 2018
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30 November 2018
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7 June 2019
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19 June 2020
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19 June 2020
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6 November 2020
'Performance Series Vol. 16 Return To Greendale' is a live album by Neil Young and Crazy Horse. It was recorded in 2003 while touring to promote the album 'Greendale'.
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26 February 2021
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19 March 2021
'After The Goldrush [50th Anniversary Edition]' is a reissue by Neil Young.
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19 March 2021
'After The Goldrush [50th Anniversary Edition]' is a reissue by Neil Young.
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26 March 2021
'Young Shakespeare' is a live album by Neil Young. It was recorded in 1971, the performances released on Live At Massey Hall 1971 (2007), during the Journey Through the Past solo tour.
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26 March 2021
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29 April 2022
'Official Release Series (Discs 13, 14, 20, 21)' is a box set of album by Neil Young. It is the fourth release in his official reissue series.
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18 November 2022
'World Record' is the forty-fifth studio album by Neil Young and his fifteenth album with Crazy Horse. The album was produced by Young and Rick Rubin.
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'Official Release Series (Discs 22, 23+, 24 & 25)' is a box set of album by Neil Young. It is the fifth release in his official reissue series.
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8 December 2023
'Before And After' is the forty-fifth studio album by Neil Young. Consisting of 13 tracks, the album features solo acoustic re-recordings of some of his past songs. The album's arrangements were featured heavily in Young's set for his 2023 Coastal Tour.
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'Fuckin' Up' is a live album by Neil Young and his band Crazy Horse. It is a live recording of their 1990 album 'Ragged Glory', with each track retitled with a phrase taken from the lyrics (with the exception of the cover version of "Farmer John"). The final song on 'Ragged Glory', "Mother Earth (Natural Anthem)", was not performed. The album was recorded at a private birthday party for businessman Dani Reiss held at the Rivoli in Toronto, Canada on November 4, 2023.
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28 June 2024
'Early Daze' is the fourty-seventh studio album by Neil Young, featuring his backing band Crazy Horse. The album was recorded in 1969. Young has referenced it on multiple occasions, including 12 years earlier, in his biography 'Waging Heavy Peace'. After being postponed and teased several times, Neil Young announced in May that he would be releasing the album.
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7 March 2025
'Oceanside Countryside' is an album by Neil Young. It was to be released in 1977, but was shelved.
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'Talkin To The Trees' is the forty-ninth studio album by Neil Young.
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13 June 2025
'Talkin To The Trees' is the forty-ninth studio album by Neil Young.
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'Official Release Series (Discs 22, 23+, 24 & 25)' is a box set of album by Neil Young. It is the sixth release in his official reissue series.
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28 November 2026
'Tonight's The Night [50th Anniversary Edition]' is a reissue by Neil Young. It contains the original album plus a number of bonus tracks from the period.
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'Tonight's The Night [50th Anniversary Edition]' is a reissue by Neil Young. It contains the original album plus a number of bonus tracks from the period.
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