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What’s your favorite Neil Young music style?
Classic rock
Grunge
Synth/electronic
Folk rock
Country rock
Blues
Hey guys I’m curious about what your favorite Neil young sound is. He’s played such a vast range of stuff but I wanna know where people stand with his musical styles!
Album Showcase: Neil Young: Comes a Time (1978)
Contributing Artists: Neil Young, Nicolette Larson
Release Date: October 21, 1978
Genre: Country Folk
Runtime: 37:15
Favorites: Comes a Time, Peace of Mind, Human Highway
What Went Wrong
One of my favorite things about getting really deep into someone's discography is how you can pick up on little things they recycled, accidentally or intentionally. In the latter case it can be used almost as a musical plot device, to tell a story over the span of decades.
So, I think this song...
...is a prequel to this.
I've come to understand that the Harvest -> Harvest Moon trajectory also includes Comes a Time, and since that realization I can hear their similarities throughout the entire record. In the case of these two songs, the riff is nearly identical, just played at a different tempo. The apocalyptic (?) imagery of creatures and fire introduced in "Goin Back" is recalled in "War of Man," but it's more mature, developed into a borderline hopeful story. "Living in our sleep" is replaced with a little girl dreaming of taking to the sky. "Nowhere to stay" becomes "the safety of a mother's arms."
And yet, I can't find a third positive example, because the other major change in tone is that the source of all of the destruction that persists is now given a name. The "gas and machines" that presumably gave rise to whatever devastating situation threatened these creatures and set fire to the skies are just the tools of mankind and the war we're waging with the planet. The relatively accepting "now we do what we do" becomes an outcry, knowing that if we continue as we're doing, "no one wins."
Neil Young - Comes a Time
“Comes a Time” - Neil Young
Comes a Time (1978)
You and I we were captured We took our souls and we flew away We were right we were giving That's how we kept what we gave away. Oh, this old world keeps spinning round It's a wonder tall trees ain't layin' down There comes a time.
Neil Young recorded the song for his 1978 album Comes a Time, with harmony vocals from Nicolette Larson, and on The Band's The Last Waltz. It has received significant airplay over album oriented rock and classic rock radio stations and has become part of Young's concert repertoire, including featured performances during Young's yearly appearances at Farm Aid benefit concerts.
