Young Man’s Fancy by Neil Young (Vinyl record album review)

Album name: Young Man’s Fancy

Artist name: Neil Young

Year: 1971

Number of discs: two

Label: Zerocks

Collection: Brenner / Gessner

Distinguishing characteristics: “Brenner” written on record, indicating that my mother owned it

Buy it on Ebay: $89.00

My review

Level of familiarity before listening

I’ve never heard of this Neil Young record before, but it will be his eighth that I’ve reviewed so far. The previous seven were:

Neil Young (1968): 4/5

Retrospective: The Best of Buffalo Springfield (1969): 5/5

Déjà Vu by Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young (1970): 5/5

Woodstock: Music from the Original Soundtrack and More (1970): 4/5

4 Way Street by Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young (1971): 5/5

Harvest (1972): 5/5

So Far by Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young (1974): 4/5

What I expected

This is a live double album from 1971, and appears to include a bunch of Neil Young’s hits from the peak of his (early) career.

What it was actually like

This album was packaged like a bootleg, and the performance was entirely acoustic and definitely sounded intimate and really fun. I could hear audience members coughing at a few points, and laughing when Young joked, but I wasn’t able to make out much of his discourse between the songs. In general, I loved it.

My favorites were: Tell Me Why from side one, A Heart of Gold[1] from side two, Sugar Mountain from side three and See the Girl Dance from side four.

Grade

5/5: love it

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↑1 | I’m not sure why it’s called that on the album, since it’s Heart of Gold everywhere else.