0463. Neil Young With Crazy Horse
Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere

As of this album, Neil Young accounts for over one and a half per cent of the list (this far), and this is by the way the second entry with backing band Crazy Horse (also: it's his first recording with Crazy Horse and second album after going solo).

The feeling that 1001 Albums... at times gather everything by their favorites, no matter the quality is, in other words, not fading. The difference between Neil and Costello however, is that the former has a longer streak of good albums.

This one has the (perhaps) classical Young & Crazy Horse sound, starting with the excellent Cinnamon Girl and rolling with it from there. Also, Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere has two tracks of the type you'd almost come to expect from Young, good ten minute songs. In this case the narrative of Down By The River along the same lines as blues-classic Hey Joe about the cuckould husband killing the wife and going to jail, and the maybe not so lyrically coherent Cowgirl In The Sand [fact check: both were also written while having a thirty-nine degree fever].