release date: Aug. 6, 1994
format: cd
[album rate: 3 / 5] [3,12]
producer: David Briggs, Neil Young
label: Reprise Records, Germany - nationality: Canada
Track highlights: 1. "My Heart" (4 / 5) - 2. "Prime of Life" (3,5 / 5) - 6. "Change Your Mind" (3,5 / 5) - 9. "Train of Love" (3,5 / 5) - 12. "A Dream That Can Last" (3,5 / 5)
21st studio album by Neil Young is released as Neil Young & Crazy Horse. It seems Neil has found his strengths as he hasn't released a "strange" and stylistically experimental album since 1986 with Landing on Water. This is perhaps his most restrained, dark and soft rock folk rock (official) release with Crazy Horse. Only exception is the hard rock track "Piece of Crap". Overall, it appears to me to be closest related with Tonight's the Night from 1975.
Although, the album was well-received, it's not really one of my favorites. I think, it serves well as background noise for interesting conversations but somehow also bores me somewhat. The only real exceptional tracks are the first and last: "My Heart" and "A Dream That Can Last", the latter being a rare Neil Young composition that has a certain circus feel and near The Last Waltz theme by The Band to it.
[ allmusic.com 3,5 / 5 stars ]
