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  • Issued : 18 Jul 2009
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Genre : Rock & Pop Catalogue Number : 9362.497899
Format : CD Label : Warner Bros./wea
Issued : 18 Jul 2009 Item sourced from : Europe
Number of Discs : 1
Other : Remaster, Reissue

Harvest

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  • CD   EUR Edition   ¥1,932   EUR Import   Released: 07 Jul 1987  
  • SHM-CD   Japan Edition   ¥2,300   Reissue Limited Edition SHM-CD   Released: 21 Jan 2009  
  • LP   EUR Edition   ¥2,000   EUR Import   Released: 05 May 2009  
  • LP   EUR Edition   ¥4,190   EUR Import   Released: 14 Jun 2011  
  • CD   Japan Edition   ¥1,800   Reissue CD   Released: 11 Nov 2009  
  • LP   US Edition   ¥5,345   Reissue LP (US Import)   Released: 23 Nov 2009  

HMV Review

Neil Young's most popular album, Harvest benefited from the delay in its release (it took 18 months to complete due to Young's back injury), which whetted his audience's appetite, the disintegration of Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young (Young's three erstwhile partners sang on the album, along with Linda Ronstadt and James Taylor), and most of all, a hit single. Heart of Gold, released a month before Harvest, was already in the Top 40 when the LP hit the stores, and it soon topped the charts. It's fair to say, too, that Young simply was all-pervasive by this time: Heart of Gold was succeeded at number one by A Horse with No Name by America, which was a Young soundalike record. But successful as Harvest was (and it was the best-selling album of 1972), it has suffered critically from reviewers who see it as an uneven album on which Young repeats himself. Certainly, Harvest employs a number of jarringly different styles. Much of it is country-tinged, with Young backed by a new group dubbed the Stray Gators who prominently feature steel guitarist Ben Keith, though there is also an acoustic track, a couple of electric guitar-drenched rock performances, and two songs on which Young is accompanied by the London Symphony Orchestra. But the album does have an overall mood and an overall lyric content, and they conflict with each other: The mood is melancholic, but the songs mostly describe the longing for and fulfillment of new love. Young is perhaps most explicit about this on the controversial A Man Needs a Maid, which is often condemned as sexist by people judging it on the basis of its title. In fact, the song contrasts the fears of committing to a relationship with simply living alone and hiring help, and it contains some of Young's most autobiographical writing. Unfortunately, like There's a World, the song is engulfed in a portentous orchestration. Over and over, Young sings of the need for love in such songs as Out on the Weekend, Heart of Gold, and Old Man (a Top 40 hit), and the songs are unusually melodic and accessible. The rock numbers, Are You Ready for the Country and Alabama, are in Young's familiar style and unremarkable, and There's a World and Words (Between the Lines of Age) are the most ponderous and overdone Young songs since The Last Trip to Tulsa. But the love songs and the harrowing portrait of a friend's descent into heroin addiction, The Needle and the Damage Done, remain among Young's most affecting and memorable songs. ~ William Ruhlmann, All Music Guide

Credits

Ben Keith(Guitar),  Ben Keith(Guitar (Steel)),  Ben Keith(Vocals),  David Crosby(Guitar),  David Crosby(Vocals),  Graham Nash(Vocals),  Jack Nitzsche(Guitar),  Jack Nitzsche(Keyboards),  Jack Nitzsche(Piano),  James McMahon(Piano),  James Taylor(Vocals),  James Taylor Move(Guitar),  James Taylor Move(Vocals),  John Harris(Piano),  Kenny Buttrey(Drums),  Linda Ronstadt(Vocals),  Neil Young(Guitar),  Neil Young(Vocals),  Stephen Stills(Vocals),  Teddy Irwin(Guitar),  Tim Drummond(Bass),  Tim Drummond(Drums),  Ben Keith(Dobro),  Ben Keith(Pedal Steel),  David Crosby(Vocals (Background)),  Graham Nash(Vocals (Background)),  Jack Nitzsche(Slide Guitar),  James Taylor(Vocals (Background)),  James Taylor Move(Banjo),  Linda Ronstadt(Vocals (Background)),  Neil Young(Harmonica),  Stephen Stills(Vocals (Background)),  Jack Nitzsche(Lap Steel Guitar),  Elliot Mazer(Producer),  Henry Lewy(Producer),  Jack Nitzsche(Arranger),  Jack Nitzsche(Producer),  Neil Young(Producer),  David Meecham(Conductor),  Joel Bernstein(Photography),  London Symphony Orchestra(Orchestra),  London Symphony Orchestra(Performer),  Neil Young(Composer),  Stray Gators(Performer),  Tim Mulligan(Mastering),  Tom Wilkes(Design),  John Nowland(Digital Transfers),  Stray Gators(Group),  Tim Mulligan(Digital Editing),  Elliot Mazer(Audio Production),  Henry Lewy(Audio Production),  Jack Nitzsche(Audio Production),  London Symphony Orchestra,  Neil Young(Audio Production)

Songs

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    1
    Out on the Weekend  (04:35)
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    2
    Harvest  (03:03)
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    3
    Man Needs a Maid  (04:00)
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    4
    Heart of Gold  (03:05)
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    5
    Are You Ready for the Country?  (03:21)
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    6
    Old Man  (03:22)
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    7
    There's a World  (03:00)
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    8
    Alabama  (04:02)
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    9
    Needle and the Damage Done [Live]  (02:00)
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    10
    Words (Between the Lines of Age)  (06:42)

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  • ★★★★★ 

    がすたふ孫  |  神奈川県  |  不明  |  15/September/2010

    しみる。しみる。よく染み入る。傷んだ心にそっと寄り添い、慰めてくれる大切なアルバム。のんびり生きる事を許し認めてくれるような。時を超えて、疲弊した現代に必要とされるべき音。

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    タカヒロ  |  不明  |  31/July/2009

    今回リマスターされた輸入盤はかなり安価なだけについつい買い換えたくなる衝動に何度も襲われるが…国内盤は多分、いやほぼ確実に紙ジャケSHMの形で近い将来出ると思うので我慢我慢(苦笑)

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    teex  |  郡山市  |  不明  |  25/October/2008

    “on the weekend”が心をとらえて離れなかった。どうしてだろうね。今聴いても沸々と…。

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