The All-TIME 100 Albums: After the Gold Rush by Neil Young

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The All-TIME 100 Albums

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By Alan Light Published: November 13, 2006

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ALBUM: After the Gold Rush

YEAR RELEASED: 1970 LABEL: Reprise ARTIST: Neil Young

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Since coming to California from his native Toronto, Neil Young had joined Buffalo Springfield and seen the band break up; teamed with Crosby, Stills, and Nash for the massive Déjô Vu album; and released a few discs of his own, including Everybody Knows This is Nowhere, a brain-shredding guitar powerhouse. The mysterious, elusive After The Gold Rush represents the morning after the mayhem, both personal and cultural — the sound of Young waking up with a post-'60s hangover, catching his breath, and trying to sort through the wreckage. The cryptic title song and "Southern Man" are the tracks familiar to casual fans, but only Neil Young could have written the chilling "Don�t Let It Bring You Down" or the homespun "Only Love Can Break Your Heart" — much less both on the same album.