Harvest Moon (studio album) by Neil Young

Sorry man. All the songs sound the same. A whining monotone cracker. I don't mind some Neil, but this done nothing for me at all. All to similar sounding and verging on dull.

Enorme álbum de la faceta más folk y acústica de Young.

Neil's heralded follow-up to the Harvest LP, with many people from those sessions reprising their roles.

The results are decent. Aside from retreading You and Me (sounds too much like Old Man), the record takes solid songs and treats them with light acoustic production.

Side One is mostly great, especially the dark War of Man. Side Two has Jack Nitzsche returning to arrange the disappointing Such a Woman. There's also the hokey Old King, for fans who enjoy disciplining dogs. Natural Beauty would be great if it was less than four minutes, but Dreamin' Man and One of These Days make up for the disappointments.

Despite the flaws, it's one of Neil's finest country-folk records. Highly Recommended.

A Side: Harvest Moon
B Side: From Hank to Hendrix

Harvest Moon could possibly be Neil Young's most subdued record. Harvest Moon gets labelled the sequel to Harvest, and the two albums share a lot of musicians. Some of Neil's most personal songs are featured here and the highlights are rivals to some of the best songs in his catalogue. The mood stays a bit more consistent than Harvest because there's no rockers like Alabama. The more I've heard this record the more I've enjoyed it.

From VictorVale 01/23/2021 12:36

Grande álbum de Young. Consegue dissecar a alma e o imaginário norte-americano de forma precisa.

From teague 06/14/2020 01:49

Neil Young finally brings us the sequel to Harvest, which his record label had been begging for (basically on their hands and knees) the entirety of the last decade. And it does not disappoint. Harvest Moon is lush, nostalgic, and heavenly. The title track, Unknown Legend, and Natural Beauty are the highlights, but every song on the record is worth a listen. This is easily in his top ten.

Wonderful.

From buzzdainer 09/02/2016 19:04

Neil Young has a knack for making exactly the album his most ardent fans don't want at any given moment. In 1992, on the heels of what was arguably his loudest, most feedback-drenched tour, the one that produced the live albums Arc and Weld, Neil Young recorded...a folk album? The sequel to his then twenty-year-old Harvest? The thing is, Harvest Moon is great. These are some of the warmest, most endearing, most emotionally vulnerable songs of Neil's career. I especially love "From Hank to Hendrix," which might sound a tad dated now (the reference to Madonna as a sex symbol seems almost hopelessly retro) but is still one of my favorite songs to play on the guitar.

A decent Neil Young album, but certainly nothing special. A little to bit safe to be honest, but pleasant enough.

After turning up the gain on two albums (what's with other people saying this marked a break from 80's experimentalism? Did they forget about Freedom and Ragged Glory?), Neil slows things down with this return to country rock and, what do you know, the old man's still got it!