Unplugged Music Cd

Young Neil - Unplugged

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Unplugged      Artist : Neil Young      List Price : $13.98 USD        Your Price : $9.97 USD      ProductGroup: Music      Release Date : 1993-06-15      Studio : Reprise / Wea      Label : Reprise / Wea      Avg. Customer Rating : (43 reviews)

Reviews Customer Reviews for Unplugged      (2.5 stars) All good and fine, but what's the point?      Rating:      Neil Young confuses me sometimes. All his '70s albums had been bigger artistic successes than commercial ones; and his '80s albums at least proved he had little interest in stardom. But after Clapton's unplugged album jolted him out of his sales slump, our boy Neil was right behind him. But unlike Clapton's, Neil's is arguably the most redundant live album ever released - "Pocahontas", "The Needle and the Damage Done", "Harvest Moon", "Unknown Legend", and "From Hank to Hendrix" had originally been recorded acoustic in the first place, and are virtually unchanged from their studio versions. I suppose they're decent, perfectly acceptable remakes, but I'd much rather hear the originals. And when he significantly reworks the songs, they're hit-or-miss: while "The Old Laughing Lady" benefits from this more personal, less intricate setting (and actually has a melody, unlike on the original), and is a massive improvement over the decent but rambling and formless studio recording, "Mr. Soul" with harmonica blasts replacing guitar blasts and "Like a Hurricane" with church organ replacing electric guitar were two tremendously bad ideas and are, as such, the only two truly bad songs here. But Neil does show off some remarkable acoustic technique on "Look Out for My Love", and while I don't know where "Transformer Man" came from (turns out it's from Trans, the only Neil Young studio album I haven't heard), that is one great melody. Not too bad, I guess, but redundant and boring. Collectors take note: this is the only place where you can find the decent but unexceptional "Stringman", part of the aborted Chrome Dreams sessions.     Customer Reviews for Unplugged Cd      Marlon Brando and Me      Rating:      My parents (both born in 56) had Neil's Harvest album which I listened to a lot. When I was about 15 this album came out and I just happened to rent it from the library. And it's now my favorite Neil Young Album. The first part is the most amazing part. Just Neil acoustic, which he had been for most of his records anyway. Starting with the brilliantly simple 3-chord 'Old Laughing Lady', a dark 'Mr Soul', the emotional 'Stringman', the historical 'Pocahontas' and the great pipe-organ version of 'Hurricane'. All pure master pieces. If you want to start listening to him and haven't do so already. Get this one, Harvest and the Decade compilation.