Neil YoungBest Neil Young Albums Ranked

Homegrown

nme

10

“‘lost’ mid-’70s album is a shimmering diamond well worth unearthing”

Tonight's the Night

pitchfork

10

“Neil Young's Tonight's the Night is a harrowing record about loss and death. Yet it often sounds like a raucous party thrown by a bunch of lovable knuckleheads having the time of their life.”

Tonight's the Night

rollingstone

10

“This review originally ran in Rolling Stone as part of a series that looked back at classic albums. Part of the genius of Neil Young’s dark masterpiece Tonight’s the Night is that it could easily have sounded like shit: The soused bar-band stomp of Young’s backing outfit Crazy Horse constantly threatens to careen out of […]”

Comes a Time

rollingstone

10

“This review originally ran in Rolling Stone as part of a series that looked back at classic albums. Quiet and sweetly melodic, Neil Young’s Comes a Time felt like folly in punk-drunk 1978 but has since become one of his most timeless and easy-to-love works, a brief but immaculate CD. It’s a magic fluke in […]”

Freedom

rollingstone

10

“The end of a decade really seems to bring out the fear and loathing in Neil Young. In 1969, he bid an embittered adieu to the shaky Sixties promise of Peace and Love with the irascible guitars and confessional despair of Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere. Ten years later, on Rust Never Sleeps, he addressed […]”

On the Beach

pitchfork

9.5

“There are few musical artists who need the old canonization speech less than Neil Young. With his reputation preserved amongst us youngsters as the Godfather of Grunge (apparently based on little more than a predilection towards flannel), he's already known by all as the hip great-uncle amidst the *Woodstock* era's senile grandparents. Still, attention must be paid to the most impressive feat of Y”