Neil himself admits that some of the lyrics make no sense at all, but some of those songs are revered to this day. It’s a quiet album full of sparse arrangements and only a few moments of flash. I still wasn’t entirely convinced, but I had no other credible explanation for the enduring power of After the Gold Rush, which still tops most of the Best of Neil Young lists thirty-four albums later. It’s the dividing line between the 60’s and the 70’s.”
I know you’re going to tell me I’m idealizing and simplifying, but the 60’s were light, the 70’s were darkness, and I think Neil Young sensed that. Even with all the shit that went down in the 60’s, there was still hope. I would have thought you’d pick Lennon’s ‘God’ as the 60’s death knell.” I thought the best way to keep his spirits up would be to listen to his thoughts on the music of his time, so I brought my laptop along and together we worked down the list of 60’s-70’s albums on my to-do spreadsheet. My dad shared those thoughts when I visited him in the hospital a couple of weeks ago. No, I knew the 60’s were over and done the first time I heard After the Gold Rush.”
“It wasn’t The Beatles breaking up and it wasn’t Kent State.
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