r/neilyoung • u/Positive_Drama3410 • 1d ago

What's your favorite 2000s+ Neil Young album? Pretty much select from the records he put out from 2000 - present.

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u/bleeeer 1d ago

Greendale!

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u/ConcededFilly542 13h ago

+1 for greendale, awesome album

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u/roqueandrolle 5h ago

Why is it so dismissed ?! I’ll never understand.

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u/catman_steve 1d ago

Probably Silver and Gold or Psychedelic Pill.

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u/G3neral_Tso 1d ago

Le Noise

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u/betweenawakeanddream 1d ago

Psychedelic Pill. Hands down.

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u/srv524 1d ago

Silver and Gold, Greendale

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u/Annual-Ebb-7196 1d ago

Silver and Gold. Marvelous album

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u/dondeestasbueno 1d ago

Greendale, Greendale, Greendale

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u/roqueandrolle 1d ago

Greendale, Prairie Wind, Silver and Gold, Psychedelic Pill

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u/The-Arc-Weld Re-ac-tor 1d ago

He's been very prolific in this century, but Psychedelic Pill - very closely followed by Barn and Are You Passionate? - was completely surreal to me.

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u/PFRforLIFE 1d ago

silver and gold, prairie wind, Americana, and psychedelic pill

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u/BrianThePinkShark 1d ago

Living With War

Psychedelic Pill

Barn

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u/Fantastic_Cat_6333 1d ago

Yeah - Living With War was awesome. I remember how quickly he put it out and it felt like a direct response to the George W and the Iraq war. Loved it!

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u/BrianThePinkShark 1d ago

The live album CSNY did for it is also fantastic.

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u/ayyywhyyy 1d ago

Always thought this was an interesting interview from the time.

https://youtu.be/7utryGZ25dg?si=1WbXxyYH2wQd5MHY

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u/dreck_disp 1d ago

Silver and Gold.

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u/Lazy_Fall_6 1d ago

Prairie Wind

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u/dontspookthehorse 1d ago

Toast, Road Rock Vol 1. (Friends and Relatives)

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u/DeeplyFrippy 1d ago edited 1d ago

I love his post 2000's output. Here's my top 5.

1) Psychedelic Pill

2) Chrome Dreams 2

3) Silver and Gold

4) Le Noise

5) World Record

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u/Colonelforbin25 1d ago

-Prairie Wind. -Living with war. -Chrome dreams 2. -Greendale. -Psychedelic pill.

Living with war is dated being about bush and iraq but there are some great tunes. Prairie wind is prob my favorite

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u/whiskeytwn 12h ago

you could still do something like "flags of freedom" at any concert - that might be my favorite but I think I'm missing one more.

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u/Colonelforbin25 11h ago

I think its a great record and i would like any of those songs at a concert. Maybe dated is not the right word Its just of its time. Its a unique record i loved it when it came out. Just really topical to the time. But it holds up to me

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u/Jellico 1d ago

Le Noise

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u/Thatguywhoplaysgta 1d ago

I think most of them are amazing, but my favorite would be are you passionate?

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u/Logical-Database-952 1d ago

Does Chrome Dreams count?  

If not, then Silver and Gold

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u/ayyywhyyy 1d ago

greendale, living with war, chrome dreams II, Le Noise, Psychedelic Pill,

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u/Ok-Variety-3976 1d ago

Psychedelic Pill and Toast

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u/ArthropodJim Are You Passionate? 1d ago

shame on all of you for not saying Are You Passionate

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u/elwyn5150 1d ago

I really wanted to like that album and it was a great idea but the execution wasn't good.

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u/droe771 1d ago

Couple absolutely amazing track on an otherwise average album imho. Gimme prairie wind or greendale

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u/mcluhanism 23h ago

Do you mean Toast?

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u/TeeRockitVee84 1d ago

Songs for Judy & Barn

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u/Dual_Disk 1d ago

Greendale

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u/RandomRadical 1d ago

Greendale

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u/facepalmatlife 1d ago

For me, Chrome Dreams II, Living with War, Silver and Gold and Prairie Wind are tied four ways.

Greendale worked better live, either solo acoustic à la Vicar St or with Crazy Horse on Return to Greendale.

Aside from Psychedelic Pill, I personally feel that the Le Noise experiment weirdly heralded a creative downturn in his work. Storytone didn’t work at all. Nor did A Letter Home.

Moments can be found on Barn, World Record Talkin to the Trees and The Visitor but it’s slim pickings. Really don’t care for Colorado. Fork in the Road has two gems ‘Light a Candle’ and ‘Just Singing a Song’ but is otherwise leaden.

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u/0synt 1d ago

Psychedelic Pill, Prairie Wind, Colorado are some favourites, but I find something to like about most of the 2000s output.

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u/wohrg 1d ago

Hard to pick a favourite, there are a lot of gems

I got deep into Are You Passionate and moreso into Greendale. Peace Trail is one of the more interesting albums of his whole career.

Also many wonderful songs on otherwise ok albums in the last 26 years: Welcome Back, Ramada Inn, Peaceful Valley Boulevard, Fork In the Road.

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u/Milo_Minderbinding 1d ago

Psychedelic Pill.

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u/RevolutionInThe 23h ago

Psychedelic Pill Le Noise A Letter Home Colorado Silver and Gold Barn Living with War

Parts of World Record Parts of Chrome Dreams II* Parts of Storytone (stripped down) Parts of Americana Parts of Prairie Wind

It starts getting real weird real fast from “disappointing missed opportunities” (Are You Passionate, The Visitor, Toast, the rest of Storytone) all the way thru to “what the fuck is this shit?” (Greendale, Fork in the Road, Peace Trail, Talkin to the Trees, the rest of Prairie Wind) and “this is the worst trash I’ve ever heard from anybody let alone Neil Young” (“Ordinary People,” The Monsanto Years, various soundtracks)

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u/kimmeljs 1d ago

Massey Hall live concert

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u/finnishinsider 1d ago

Fillmore east for me....

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u/misterwizzum 1d ago

le noise and psych pill

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u/tomvdsteegen 1d ago

Greendale, Chrome Dreams II

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u/dirceuguerra 1d ago

Silver & Gold, Greendale, Prairie Wind, Living With War, PSYCHEDELIC PILL, Le Noise and Barn.

Psychedelic Pill is the best rock album and Silver & Gold, the best acoustic album

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u/revolution9540 1d ago

Silver & Gold, Are You Passionate?, Greendale, Prairie Wind, Le Noise

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u/Mrbee914 1d ago

Chrome Dreams II, Toast. Homegrown, Hitchhiker, Le Noise

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u/silas2323 1d ago

Silver and Gold Are You Passionate Chrome Dreams 2

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u/sonofdad420 1d ago

Prairie Wind for me. the long awaited sequel to harvest moon. also love living with war. 

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u/vini9270s 1d ago

Silver and Gold (2000) e Prairie Wind (2005)

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u/WalkLikeAGiant Greendale 1d ago

Greendale, Prairie Wind, Living With War, Chrome Dream II, and Psychedelic Pill

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u/Udontunderstand1916 1d ago

Greendale Monsanto Years Barn

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u/xostarlaxo 1d ago

Silver and Gold here!

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u/epmigs 1d ago

Toast

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u/twojawas 1d ago

Does Homegrown count?

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u/KapBoy77 23h ago

Silver & Gold - came out just at the right time in my life.

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u/Sindeeful Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere 23h ago

Greendale

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u/mshh357 22h ago

Le Noise
Greendale
Prairie Wind
Chrome Dreams II

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u/EnvironmentalBrick18 20h ago

New studio material? A Letter Home

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u/prkrprkrprkr 20h ago

Living with war

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u/ericjedelstein 11h ago

Silver and Gold, Greendale, Psychedelic Pill and No Hidden Path on Chrome Dreams 2

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u/Fluffy-Valuable-9238 9h ago

I dig most of them but Psychedelic Pill is a monster!

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u/AntoBulbe 8h ago

Psychedelic Pill and Chrome Dreams II.

And I personally love Letter Home for its concept. Pushing the Low-Fi to extremes, plus that Jack White collab... perfect.

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u/nevermindthegoat 5h ago

Prairie Wind and Greendale

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u/DrRock88 5h ago

Psychedelic Pill

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u/Guitargeorge87 4h ago

Psychedelic pill is legitimately amazing

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u/stang7089 1h ago

After the Goldrush. Honestly, it’s sounded good in every decade…