First Four Neil Young Albums Being Re-Issued (On Vinyl, Too!)

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Neil Young, the godfather of grunge, whatever the hell that means, is throwing us a big bone this Holiday season. He's releasing remastered versions of his first four solo albums, 1969’s Neil Young and Everybody Knows This is Nowhere, 1970’s After the Gold Rush, and 1972’s Harvest.

The sweet part? The special edition box set, with all four albums together on 180 gram vinyl. :drool: Oh yeah, that's the stuff, right there. Looks like you can pick them up a la carte, on 140 gram, if you want it that way. Oh, and if you're still living in the 90's, back when we bought CD's, you can get them on disc, too.

You'd have to work hard to convince me that After the Gold Rush and Harvest aren't his best acoustic-y recordings. There's a lot of pain in those recordings, and Neil Young is at his best when he's hurting. I believe between the three main collaborators here, we have all of these guys on vinyl, as they were issued originally. It'd be a great 'Pepsi Challenge' to line those old pressings up against the new remasters, and see where technology can make the great even better.

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