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Silver & Gold

Neil Young (Artist) | Format: Audio CD
4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (173 customer reviews)

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Once prone to straying all over the map, Neil Young has contented himself of late by alternating between country squire and convulsive rocker. Silver & Gold is an exquisite addition to Young's pastoral offerings.

Envisioned as the singer's first totally solo album, the 10-song set was reconceived and resequenced over the course of three years. Indeed, the four Young songs on Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young's problematic Looking Forward were taken from an earlier version of Silver & Gold, backing tracks and all. What's left is a spare, guileless assortment of tunes that owes a thematic and sonic debt to After The Gold Rush. The touchingly nostalgic "Daddy Went Walkin'" and "Red Sun" conjure up images of childhood contentment; Young's parents divorced in his youth, but they're sweethearts here. Love is on Young's mind in the idyllic tracks, "Horseshoe Man" and "Razor Love" and he reflects on his early musical career with the artless but oddly suitable "Buffalo Springfield Again". Then he pulls it all together with the cryptic closer,"Without Wings": "I'm pickin' somethin' up / I'm lettin' somethin' go" he intones. And one can only reflect on how appropriate it is that Young dropped a song called "Looking Forward" from his latest journey through the past. --Steven Stolder

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One of Neil Young's softest and most striking albums in ages, Silver & Gold recaptures the peacefulness of Comes a Time and Harvest Moon. At one point ("Buffalo Springfield Again"), Young even goes so far as to imagine the reunion of the band he left in order to pursue a solo career. It's a moment that almost overtakes Young's songs of husbandly devotion in sheer sweetness. --Rickey Wright
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5.0 out of 5 stars NEIL'S WARMEST, GENTLEST ALBUM, Feb 13 2003
This review is from: Silver & Gold (Audio CD)
Lord knows Neil has had no shortage of acoustic songs and albums throughout his career, but none sound like or bear anything but a superficial resemblance to Silver and Gold. Whereas albums like After the Gold Rush and Harvest had a yearning, desperate feel; Comes a Time a wistful aceeptance of life's challenges, here Neil sounds like he's perfectly in the moment - contented to be where and who he is, and joyed to be doing it with the people he's with (I mean his family here, not the instrumentalists on this album).

Some songs are standouts, all of them are wonderful. The album is performed in a laid-back, homedown manner, as if Neil had simply got his family together in the living room, got the fireplace going, made sure there were enough marshmallows for the hot chocolate, and simply got out his acoustic and played these songs for his loved ones.

I really recommend this album quite highly. To say "it ranks this high or that high" in his catalog is really inaccurate and unrepresentative. And I don't know if it's fair to say "if you like Tonight's the Night, but not Harvest Moon, then this won't do it for you" or "If you're a fan of Comes A Time, you'll like this". To me, this is a collection by a master songwriter not trying to impress anyone, just writing and performing songs, as he says in Buffalo Springfield Again, "for the fun of it".

Should you get this album? That depends. Do you like music?

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4.0 out of 5 stars Simple Neil., May 31 2004
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This review is from: Silver & Gold (Audio CD)
There's pretty much two sides to "Neil Young", the "Rockin' In The Free World" side, and the side that's found here on "Silver And Gold". This is a group of songs that would go well with his "Unplugged" album, or any of his mellowest work. The kind of stuff your Grandfather would sing to you on the porch, but 10 times better. Everything here is really good, but I especially like "Red Sun", "Distant Camera", and the excellent "Razor Love". If I only kept 5 of his albums, this would probably be one of them.
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5.0 out of 5 stars One of his best, Sep 5 2003
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Martin Mairesse (FLAYOSC, VAR France) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Silver & Gold (Audio CD)
How can music, so simple catch your heart! The melodies are soft but this is no softies album, because the feelings are real!

I do not like so much, the very noisy Neil Young, though I have to admit I love "on the beach", Tonights the night and Zuma.

But this, it is just marvelous and it brings me in a fantastic mood! Highly recomended!

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