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Neil Young (Music)

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 Influences: The Beatles, Chuck Berry, The Byrds, Johnny Cash, Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix, Joni Mitchell, Roy Orbison, Elvis Presley, Hank WilliamsInfluenced (among other examples): Beck, Devo, Dinosaur Jr., Nirvana, Pearl Jam, R.E.M., Radiohead, Sonic Youth, Bruce Springsteen, Uncle Tupelo, WilcoNeil Percival Young OC (born November 12, 1945 in Toronto, Ontario) is one of the most influential singer-songwriters of the late 20th century, having written and recorded numerous popular and critically-acclaimed songs and albums since the 1960s. Though best known for his solo work, he was also a member of Buffalo Springfield and has performed with Crosby, Stills, and Nash, albeit on an irregular basis. As of March 2020, he has released somewhere around forty-onenote The complexity of his discography makes defining the exact number somewhat complicated - for instance, is Rust Never Sleeps, which is a collection of previously unreleased songs that was recorded mostly live, but then had overdubs and other studio effects applied, a live album, a studio album, or both? studio albums under his own name, along with eight live albums, several compilations, and a slew of recordings with other bands and as collaborations with other artists.His style changes often, with his albums falling into blues, acoustic folk, rockabilly, jazz, and even electronic. He is sometimes called the Grandfather (or Godfather) of Grunge, as his ability to fuse harsh, noisy guitar playing with catchy tunes was a strong influence on both the bands that would later popularize that genre (Nirvana, Pearl Jam) as well as Alternative Rock in general (Sonic Youth, Dinosaur Jr.). Young is also adept with many different instruments, though is best known for the piano, harmonica, and guitar. His unique personal voice ranges from choirboy altonote especially in his younger days, when he deliberately pitched his voice in a countertenor range like Roy Orbison to growly baritone, and while his lyrics may be very strange, he enunciates clearly and you can always understand what he is saying.Though well-known in America and currently living in California, Young was a Canadian citizen until 2019. Wishing to vote in the upcoming presidential election, he applied for American citizenship status, and now holds dual citizenship, calling himself a "Canarican". He has always been very vocal about American policies and politics, and is a well-known liberal activist, focusing especially on environmental issues. He is also an active philanthropist, having founded The Bridge School and the benefit concert, Farm Aid. He is also a sometime engineer-inventor, whose most recent projects are a prototype electric carnote which Neil describes in his Autobiography as having been constantly catching fire for nearly 20 years and the PONO music system which plays extremely high-resolution digital sound.note which may have been a fundamentally misguided venture from the very beginning, as both FLAC and 320kbps MP3 existed when PONO was first conceived of by Neil. He may have simply listened to a very low-quality MP3, and believed that all MP3s just sounded like that.In December 2017, he put his entire solo discography up for $2 per month (much of it is still free) on his Neil Young Archives site. Moreover, it's all in high-quality lossless audio. Some of his works with other bands, such as the Buffalo Springfield and Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young material, still aren't up yet (presumably rights issues are involved). Young also notes on the site that "it is not yet complete as we are still adding a lot of detail to the older recordings."Rolling Stone recognizes him as the seventeenth greatest guitarist of all time on their list of 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time. Young has been inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame twice, in 1995 as a solo artist and in 1997 as a member of Buffalo Springfield. He was also named an Officer of The Order of Canada in 2009.Not to Be Confused with Young Neil.Vote for your favourite Neil Young album HERE! Major releases under his own name by release date (yyyy-mm-dd format): 1969-01-22 - Neil Young 1969-05-14 - Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere (with Crazy Horse) 1970-09-19 - After the Gold Rush 1972-04-14 - Harvest 1973-10-15 - Time Fades Away (live) 1974-07-19 - On the Beach 1975-06-20 - Tonight's the Night (in terms of recording date, this slots in between Time Fades Away and On the Beach) 1975-11-20 - Zuma (with Crazy Horse) 1977-06-13 - American Stars 'n Bars (with Crazy Horse) 1978-10-21 - Comes a Time (with Crazy Horse) 1979-06-22 - Rust Never Sleeps (with Crazy Horse, live with studio overdubs) 1979-11-19 - Live Rust (with Crazy Horse, live) 1980-10-29 - Hawks and Doves 1981-10-28 - Re·ac·tor (with Crazy Horse) 1982-12-29 - Trans 1983-07-27 - Everybody's Rockin' (with the Shocking Pinks) 1985-08-12 - Old Ways 1986-07-21 - Landing on Water 1987-07-30 - Life (with Crazy Horse) 1988-04-12 - This Note's for You (with the Bluenotes) 1989-04-17 - Eldorado (credited to "Neil Young and the Restless", EP, only released in Japan) 1989-10-02 - Freedom 1990-09-09 - Ragged Glory (with Crazy Horse) 1991-10-23 - Arc-Weld (with Crazy Horse, live; both halves also released separately, as Arc and Weld respectively) 1992-11-02 - Harvest Moon 1993-06-08 - Unplugged (live) 1994-08-06 - Sleeps with Angels (with Crazy Horse) 1995-08-07 - Mirror Ball (with Pearl Jam) 1996-07-02 - Broken Arrow (with Crazy Horse) 1997-06-17 - Year of the Horse (with Crazy Horse, live) 2000-04-25 - Silver & Gold 2000-12-05 - Road Rock Vol. 1: Friends and Relatives (live) 2002-04-09 - Are You Passionate? (with Booker T. & The MG's) 2003-08-19 - Greendale (with Crazy Horse) 2005-09-27 - Prairie Wind 2006-05-02 - Living with War 2006-11-07 - Living with War: "In the Beginning" 2007-10-16 - Chrome Dreams II (a sequel to an album from the mid-'70s that was never released in the first place, though it has been widely bootlegged) 2009-04-07 - Fork in the Road 2010-09-28 - Le Noise 2012-06-05 - Americana (with Crazy Horse, Cover Album) 2010-10-30 - Psychedelic Pill (with Crazy Horse) 2014-04-18 - A Letter Home 2014-11-04 - Storytone 2015-06-29 - The Monsanto Years (with Promise of the Real) 2016-06-24 - Earth (with Promise of the Real, live) 2016-12-09 - Peace Trail 2017-09-08 - Hitchhiker (recorded in 1976) 2017-12-01 - The Visitor 2019-10-25 - Colorado (with Crazy Horse) 2020-06-19 - Homegrown (recorded in 1974-75) 2021-12-10 - Barn (with Crazy Horse)See Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young and Buffalo Springfield for more info on his work with those bands. (This list also excludes collaborations with other artists, such as the Stills-Young Band which doesn't have its own page here yet.)
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