Everybody Knows This Is Nowher

With the release of his second solo album, "Everyone Knows This Is Nowhere", a timeless gem, Neil Young took his music as a solo performer to a new level, establishing himself as a noteworthy artist at that time. The album eventually became an epic milestone in Neil Young's long career in the music business, and it was a portent of a string of wonderful albums to come! With the assistance of three(3) friends from a group called, The Rockets, Neil Young redefined his music in a big way. The music on this album was fresh--it was a harder form of West Coast folk-rock, recorded deliberately with few takes in the studio--and the album showcased the wonderful guitar interplay between Neil Young and Danny Whitten. The album included a number of extraordinary songs, among them being: "Cinnamon Girl", "Cowgirl In The Sand", and "Down By The River." And, since the album's release, its music has certainly received plenty of airplay on the radio from coast to coast (and deservedly so!) It can be said that this album has passed the crucial test of time, and as a result, it is well worth a listen, even today! Neil Young made a distinct mark for himself earlier in the California folk-rock scene as a member of the popular, but short-lived group, Buffalo Springfield, with his outstanding songwriting and guitar playing. However, Neil Young's contributions to the band were overshadowed to a degree with the songwriting by fellow band member, Stephen Stills, and the singing by Richie Furay. The group's first single entitled, "Nowadays Clancy Can't Even Sing", was released in 1966, shortly after the group's formation. The song was written by Neil Young. The group's mega-hit that year, "For What It's Worth", a protest song, was released sometime soon thereafter, and it was written by Stephen Stills. Unfortunately, the group's music was not being well produced at the time, and this deficiency was one factor that prompted Neil Young to seek someone else to produce his work in the studio. Here, he found Jack Nitzsche, a well-known producer who had worked with The Rolling Stones. Neil Young even went to the extreme and left the band entirely for a brief period of time to pursue his work in the studio in a different manner, and on his own terms, with Nitzsche's assistance. The result of this collaboration was a wonderful song by Neil Young entitled, "Expecting to Fly." Because Neil Young returned to the group shortly thereafter, the song was fortunately included on Buffalo Springfield's second album, "Buffalo Springfield Again." The album was released in October of 1967. Neil Young's solo album was recorded in January of 1969, and it was released in May of that year. At about the same time, Stephen Stills, Neil Young's former colleague from the Buffalo Springfield, joined David Crosby, a close friend from The Byrds and Graham Nash, another friend from the British band, The Hollies, to form a vocal band named, "Crosby, Stills, and Nash." The trio released a well-received album, also a gem and a milestone in rock history, only two weeks after the release of Neil Young's solo album! At the suggestion of the president of the record company, Neil Young joined the trio in the studio in a collaboration of sorts. The result was magnificent! The album entitled, "Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young", was yet another gem. And, it is worthy to note here that the group performed together live for the second time only at the infamous mega-concert of that time, Woodstock, in August of that same year!!

Exceptionally well packaged,and ahead of schedule.Thanks Gilbert for the quality and fair price for this old favorite.I’ll keep an eye out for future offers from you-and recommend your service to others.

It's Neil Young's, first album with Crazyhorse. Of course its great. Good sound quality

came earlier than scheduled and in perfect condition

I do not wish to disagree with the other 2 reviews for this LP. It is very possible that there were a group of bad records together and that's what they both had. I must say that my record is just fine! Not only fine, but amazing sounding. The remastering-from-the-original tapes thing is sometimes special, sometimes just okay - but in this case, it's very special. I have all of the reissues but Harvest and this is I think my favorite to listen to. Maybe it's because the simplicity of the sounds - there's not much on most of this record beyond guitars, bass, drums, vocals - but it sounds like it was recorded yesterday. I a/b'd it with my old copy (bought in the late 70s) and it was significantly clearer and slightly louder, too. The dynamics are greatly improved on the softer songs as well - Round and Round lost a lot of the original 'mush' quality. The packaging is really nice. I am very tired of buying 180g vinyl in cheap little sleeves and months down the road you get seam splits, etc (I'm looking at you, Simply Vinyl!) These Neil Young records come in thick, thick gatefold sleeves. The beige steamboat Reprise label is reproduced with just a tiny emblem signifying the new label. Really well worth it. I hope my luck continues with "Harvest"!

Arrived on time and in good shape. Wonderful music.

The vinyl version is better than the CD...( I have both) The CD is actually an HDCD. which is fine as long as you have a player that will read and play HDCD. In that case you will get better than CD quality out of it... And more that likely you will not have any problems with it. If not and you only have a regular CD player that is not capable of reading and playback of HDCD, you will actually get less than CD quality out of the CD.(15 bits instead of 16 bits max resolution).....I think this illustrates one of the problems with Hi rez music files...The answer is not always just throwing more bits at the problem...Using more bits increases the chance for errors, greater computations must be made at higher speeds and so recording and mastering must use more sophisticated equipment, and also more diligences skill and understanding is needed for the process to be successful. Playback also must use equipment of a higher grade and speed that is capable of keeping up with all the additional bits speed and information available...If not often the results are less than desirable, and the outcome is often a lesser product ...As all the remastered 2nd and third addition CD's ca attest to. So higher bit rate does promise the theory of better music playback but it does not guarantee it, nor is it necessarily going to be so...In fact the opportunities for error increases all through the chain making the window for higher quality playback smaller.

Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere is the Neil Young/Crazy Horse album to have! This is Neil Young rocking out big time, his guitar riff duels with Danny Whitten are especially crunchy on Down By The River. Neil Young never did get enough credit for his funky riffs. You get the eclectic melancholy Young in songs like Round and Round and Running Dry, you get the country flavor of Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere, you get a top forty pop rocker with Cinnamon Girl and the quintessential rock ramble of Cowgirl In The Sand in one short, sweet album. When this album was released all the college late night AOR FM stations were playing cuts, then it became too popular to be "cool" and then a few years later people looked back and said that maybe, just maybe, this is as good as it got with Neil Young? Not as popular as Harvest, not as off-kilter as After The Goldrush or as well known as his collaboration with Crosby, Stills and Nash. EKTIN is where Buffalo Springfield was heading had they survived, I think. If you loved Mr. Soul or Expecting To Fly then this album will be a favorite! Neil is said to have written two or three of the songs with a 103.5 fever. But he hadn't really started to rust yet. Enjoy!