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Vinyl Record Reprise Records MSK 2261 With Custom Inner Sleeve

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Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ Reprise Records
Date First Available ‏ : ‎ September 2, 2018
Label ‏ : ‎ Reprise Records
ASIN ‏ : ‎ B07H1PX33S
Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 1

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o dubhthaigh

A Cohesive Schizophrenic Masterpiece

Reviewed in the United States on August 19, 2003

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What works against this CD is what works for it: this is very clearly a patched together release of two very different projects that had likely been started andd stopped by Young as he switched gears in mid-stream. "Funny how some things that begin spontaneously, end spontaneously, heh heh" Well this, then, is pure Neil.
Thing of it is, it is just loaded with brilliant work: "Star of Bethlehem" with Emmy Lou Harris is a thing of beauty, not to be repeated until their duet on her version of "Wrecking Ball" 25 years later. Linda Ronstadt and Nicollette Larsen deliver the goods throughout the first side. It is an acoustic wonder, absolutely pristinely recorded, full of nuances and an edge that for all intents and purposes was marking the end of this style of song from Young. These are the final descendants of "Nowadays Clancy Can't Even Sing".
Meanwhile, over on the electric side is "Hurricane," one of the greatest Young songs ever, and the song that somehow resuscitated and redeemed the reputation of Crazy Horse. Lord only knows how they could be so horrible on almost every occasion and then somehow come off with this. If everything else on this CD were just impossible to listen to, "Hurricane" would none the less justify the purchase. The remastering job here is a thing of beauty.
Keeping with the schizoid nature of this CD, the cover "art" is certainly in the worst of all possible tastes, but the music, oh the music, blows you away. "Will to Love" marks the end point of a period for Neil. All the extraordinary and disturbing events of his most horrific personal years had been unable to defeat him. This tune, like McCartney's "She's Leaving Home," hits the heart as few other pieces in the popular cannon ever have.
Absolutely, this is essential listening. The Japanese version of this has had live performances of this and other unreleased material from this period. Pity Young did not extend the schizophrenia just a bit more...

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Rich Van Vlack

Get Blown Away

Reviewed in the United States on September 9, 2022

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This one contains the original masterpiece "Like A Hurricane". Incredible. The rest has not been historically as well-received but keep an open mind because there are several other lesser-known gems here. Enjoy!

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Michael Crisp

Love it...almost a 5 star

Reviewed in the United States on December 27, 2013

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Let me start by saying I am a HUGE Neil Young fan. and I almost gave this 5 stars. The tracks "Hurricane" and "Will To Love" are masterpieces without a doubt. "Hurricane" has a rocking, melancholy, darkness that blows you away. And "Will To Love" is so incredibly mysterious, strange, lonely and beautiful that it brings you to tears. This is some of Neil Young's best work EVER.

But what makes this a 4.5 star in my opinion are some of the other tracks, which are just average country stuff. For comparison sake, the "country" sounding tracks on the Harvest album seemed to be pure MAGIC all the way through. But on Stars N Bars, some of them just don't quite muster up to that high bar. And it's a weird juxtaposition of genres that doesn't quite cut it on this album. Almost, but not to a 5 star level.

Reviewed in the United States on March 6, 2009

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I recently upgraded my stereo equipment, so I figured I'd snap up some of Neil's DVD-A's. I received this one along with Hawks & Doves yesterday in the mail. Both were mastered the same way. I have a Toshiba DVD player that can play DVD-Audio, but maxes out at 96kHz (only two choices can be made on the Toshiba's audio setup screen: 48kHz or 96kHz) . I run a digital coax from the DVD player into my new Denon 2809CI receiver and it shows that these discs are being decoded at 88.2kHz on my system... which is half of the possible 176kHz, but double the 44.1kHz of a regular CD. Anyhow, when I compare Stars 'N Bars to Hawks & Doves, it's Hawks & Doves that really shines. Stars 'N Bars wasn't all that impressive sonically. I suppose when I upgrade to a BluRay player, I'll see if the 176kHz makes any difference... but I somehow doubt it on this particular release, as it seems the limitations I'm hearing are in the master tapes, since Hawks & Doves sounds so much better.

Neil's more recent audio DVD releases (apparently not exactly DVD-audio, but DVD video containing the "hi-res" audio), were mastered at 96kHz/24 bit (Prairie Wind, Chrome Dreams II, Massey Hall, Sugar Mountain, and Live at the Fillmore East) . So I can only guess that the 176kHz/24 DVD-Audio is more than is really needed or Neil would keep pumpin' those out.

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Hurricane Appears - listener's blown away

Reviewed in the United States on August 19, 2003

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Mr. Young's American Stars N Bars is long overdue fot a re-release. The album cover art will not benefit by the reduction in size, but that is the only drawback to this reissue.
As I noted in the title, Like a Hurricane appears here first and while Mr. Young has graced us with versions of this song on five of his albms, and most of his concerts...this is the first version released of that haunting song that begins:

Once I thought I saw you
in a crowded hazy bar,
Dancing on the light
from star to star.
Far across the moonbeam
I know that's who you are,
I saw your brown eyes
turning once to fire.
And so on. ASNB has more than a single song - Star of Bethlehem, Saddle up the Palomino, Homegrown, Will to Love and The Old Country Waltz are a few of the other outstanding songs on this album.
This is a fine example of Neil's mid '70's work and it belongs in every NY collection.

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Rick

Young raises the Bar and Delivers Stars!!! AAA+++

Reviewed in the United States on April 19, 2018

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One of Young’s better records, including several songs from his failed to complete LPs Chrome Dreams & Homegrown: Like A Hurricane, Hold Back The Tears, Will To Love, Star Of Bethlehem & Homegrown.

Backed by Crazy Horse, Young plays guitar with a controlled reckless abandon! Listen to the title track and your ears will begin to smoke! Seriously, Young gives us a glimpse of what’s to come with future records Rust Never Sleeps & Live Rust.

A must have for Neil Young fans!

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Polter, Rainer

Neil's Beste

Reviewed in Germany on May 8, 2016

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Für mich mit Abstand die beste, durchgängig überzeugendste Einzel-Scheibe, die Neil jemals herausgebracht hat. Während es auf der sicher sehr brillanten ZUMA mit "Drive Back" und "Stupid Girl" zwei Skip-Kandidaten gibt, legte Young hier im Jahr 1977 ein wirklich durchgängig großartiges Album vor. Bis zu meinem Tode werde ich den Wintertag in Fürstenberg an der Havel 1980 nicht vergessen, an welchem ich das Album (das mir ein Kommilitone auf Tonband überspielt-, und mit in das Internat gebracht hatte) zum ersten Mal hören durfte. Die Songs haben mich echt erschüttert. Von den ersten Klängen an liegt eine unfassbar intensive, biiter-süße Melancholie über dieser Scheibe, die ihresgleichen sucht. Da ist der (wieder einsame, welcher sich zu den Klängen eines alten Country-Walzers mit Tequilla den Knockout gibt; denn er hat geliebt, verloren, geweint. Aus dieser Stimmung reissen uns die harten Gitarren von "Saddle Up The Palomino" und die etwas optimistischere Tönung. Immer noch melancholisch bleibt die verhaltene Hoffnung auf Liebe in "Hey, Babe", und besonders die backround Sängerinnen Linda Ronstadt und Nicolette Larson geben der Platte ein unverwechselbares Kolorit. Ben Keith in gewohnter Souveränität an der Steel Guitar. Mit dem etwas prahlerischen "Bite The Bullet" ist der wohl schwächste Song der Platte erreicht. "Star Of Betlehem" (mit Emmylou Harris) kennen wir auch von DECADE. Der 1974 aufgenommene Titel hätte auch bereits auf ON THE BEACH erscheinen können. "All deine Träume und Liebhaber können dich nicht beschützen / sie erscheinen dir nur im Sterben wieder" singt Neil melancholisch. "Will To Love", ein zum Knistern und Knacken eines Kaminfeuers aufgenommenes Gitarre-Gesang-Stück, hat mit 7:11 Minuten schon einige Längen. In einer Art somnambulen Halbschlaf-Erzählen berichtet Young von seinem Vorhaben, den Willen zur Liebe nie verlieren zu wollen. Mit "Like A Hurricane" ist das Finale erreicht, und den Kracher "Homegrown" kann mnan als Zugabe bezeichnen. "Like A Hurricane" ist für mich der zentrale Titel in Youngs Schaffen, welcher alles hat, alles beinhaltet, was Neil so einzigartig macht. Der Vocal-Take soll hier ein anderer sein als bei der Version auf DECADE, aber ich kann da nichts Abweichendes heraushören. Dieses Stück hätte bereits auf ZUMA erscheinen können. Wenn man dazu noch bedenkt, dass Neil mit CHROME DREAMS im Jahre 1976 ein mindestens ebenso überzeugendes Album hätte herausbringen können, muss man sagen: Was für eine kreative, wunderbare Periode die Zeit von 1975-1977 für Neil Young war - sicher auch durch die Reunion mit seiner Band Crazy Horse, die wie hier bei den letzten beiden Stücken hören dürfen. Country-lastig? Okay, von mir aus. Aber was ist das für eine geniale Verbindung von Country, Neils träumerischer Schwermut, verzerrten E-Gitarren und philosophischen Texten!

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The Dreamer

Half A Masterpiece

Reviewed in Italy on February 5, 2014

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Come un autogol a porta vuota. Incredibilmente Neil riesce, come pochi altri, a confezionare dei 'quasi-capolavoro' e "American Stars'n Bars" del 1977 è tra questi ,grazie alla sua caparbia, umorale irrazionalità nel selezionare le track-list dei suoi Album, dove sovente alterna brani stellari (baciati dalla musa) ad altri (meri fillers) certo indegni della sua eccellente arte di musicista e songwriter.
Dunque ancora un disco a due facce: nella prima dominano pezzi di country rock da balera campagnola, autoindulgente fino a diventar pacchiano e infarcito della goliardia più grossolana - ma non imbarazzante quanto quello che appare sulla seconda facciata di "Hawks And Doves" (1980) - e nell'altra tracce molto distanti tra loro, non solo perché registrate in momenti diversi, ma anche per il sound, il mood e l'ambientazione strumentale. Tra i pezzi country rock non deludono completamente "Hey Babe", che ripropone certi passaggi di "Tell Me Why" e, in misura minore, "Hold Back The Tears" col suo caratteristico andamento tex-mex, sottolineato da fiddle lamentosi e steel guitar, che riecheggia certe atmosfere del "Desire" di dylaniana memoria. Quasi ingombrante "Saddle Up The Palomino", aggressiva al limite della volgarità più irridente "Bite The Bullet" e poco 'istituzionale' l'ingenuo valzerone di "The Old Country Waltz". Ma veniamo alle tracce 'eccellenti': "Star Of Bethlehem", una deliziosa ballata acustica incisa nel '74 e tratta dalla scaletta di "Homegrown", il fantomatico Album mai realizzato da Neil, con un 'ronzinante' drumming di K.T. Himmel e le godibili armonie vocali di Emmylou Harris sottolineate ad arte dal dobro di Ben Keith. E poi, tra le pieghe di questo Album composito e controverso, spunta il capolavoro che non ti aspetti: "Will To Love" -uno dei pezzi che ancora oggi rendono il Canadese orgoglioso della sua abilità di songwriter- eseguito, registrato e mixato in perfetta solitudine con un mood 'out of key'. "Like A Hurricane", il pezzo più popolare dell'Album , irrompe con gli assolo della chitarra incontenibile, tumultuosa e lancinante di Neil, che ne domina gli oltre otto minuti di durata, registrato nel '75, ci riporta all'eccellente sound messo a punto in "Zuma". Ed infine la scanzonata "Homegrown" col testo cadenzato come una filastrocca -segnato dal ritmo sostenuto dalla coppia Talbot & Molina- che invita alla coltivazione in proprio di...immaginate cosa (!).
"American Stars'n Bars", uno degli Album di cui Neil osteggiò per anni la re-issue su CD, è stato pubblicato per le NYA Digital Masterpiece Series solo nel 2003! Curioso il re-packaging della cover art originale, apribile a poster, con l'emblematica foto realizzata da Dean Stockwell.
Non oso immaginare il successo di pubblico e di critica che questo disco avrebbe potuto ricevere se, in luogo del discutibile country rock della prima facciata, avesse ospitato le meravigliose prime quattro tracce di "Hawks And Doves"! Indispensabile nella collezione di ogni estimatore di Neil Young. A Rollercoaster Album!

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Stefan Borg

Ok

Reviewed in Sweden on June 19, 2023

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Bra remastrad, folder ok. Neil Young är N. Y.

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junior-soprano

Der Mann hat Humor!

Reviewed in Germany on February 22, 2008

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Das coolste Album von Neil Young bisher! Eigentlich sind die ersten vier (Country-)Songs so schwach, das ich überlegt hatte nur 3 von 5 Sternen zu vergeben, aber die restlichen 5 Stücke sind so stark, dass ich's einfach nicht übers Herz bringe. Was sind das doch für Kracher:
Bite the Bullet - eine überschwengliche Hymne auf die Freuden des Cunnilingus!
Star of Bethlehem - neben Soldier (aus dem Soundtrack zu Journey through the past und auf Decade enthalten, einem Song über Jesus aus Sicht eines römischen Soldaten) Youngs treffenste Kritik an der organisierten Religion!
Will to love - daheim am Kaminfeuer aufgenommen, ein verstörender Lovesong aus Sicht eines Fisches!
Like a hurricane - einer seiner allergrössten Rocksongs!
Homegrown - die selbstangebautes-Marihuana-ist-das-Beste Ballade, die später zum festen Bestandteil der Farm-Aid Konzerte wurde und inzwischen von der Kiffer-Hymne zum Plädoyer für Landwirtschaft vor Ort wurde!
Das Cover von American Stars Žn Bars ist das gewagteste bislang. Sturzbetrunken am Boden liegend, neben dem Spucknapf, zwischen den Beinen einer Kellnerin - das ist eine ganz andre Seite von Neil Young als auf Harvest - der Mann ist eben weit komplexer und humorvoller, als viele meinen! Auf der Rückseite der Platte ist dann wieder Youngs Ideal: die Native-Americans mit ihren Tippies und ihrer Naturverbundenheit.
Eigentlich sollte die Scheibe ein Konzeptalbum werden, über amerikanische Geschichte und amerikanische Kneipen, quasi The sacred and the profane. Aber Young änderte wieder mal seine Meinung, nachdem er zuvor grade erst das Album Chrome Dreams verworfen und kurz zuvor spontane Konzerte in amerikanischen Bars gegeben und zum ersten Mal Like a hurricane live gespielt hatte.

Das humorvollste und coolste Neil Young Album bisher!

Anspieltipps: Will to love, Like a hurricane, Homegrown

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Victor

Auténtico Neil Young para disfrutar

Reviewed in Spain on January 27, 2016

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Grabado en 1977 es el octavo album en estudio de NY. No está considerado uno de los grandes álbumes del genio de Ontario al ser el resultado de de la compilación de temas que estaban momentáneamente dejados de lado, con otros nuevos, lo que resta algo de continuidad al trabajo. A mi, de todas maneras, me encanta.
Los cinco primeros temas, grabados en el 77, tienen un claro regusto country y estan apoyados en las voces por la gran Linda Rondstadt mientras que los cuatro últimos grabados entre el 74 y el 75 son más rockeros. Todos, excepto "Star Of Bethelem" ( voces de Emmylou Harris) y "Will To Love", cuentan con la colaboración de la Crazy Horse. El tema estrella es, sin duda, "Like A Hurricane" aunque hay que escuchar los soberbios "The Old Country Waltz", "Saddle Up the Palomino", "Bite the Bullet" y "Hey Babe".
En resumen un gran trabajo a la altura, en mi opinión, de los mejores del de Ontario como "Harvest" o "Tonight's the Night".
Totalmente recomendable

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