Neil Young ? Everybody Knows This is Nowhere ? 1969 Reprise Original Vinyl LP ?

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Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere Studio album by  Neil Young with Crazy Horse Released May 14, 1969 Recorded January and March 1969 Studio Wally Heider Recording, Hollywood, California Genre

• Country rock[1]
• hard rock[2]

1. "Down by the River"
   Released: May 14, 1969
2. "Cinnamon Girl"
   Released: April 20, 1970

Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere is the second studio album by the Canadian / American musician Neil Young, released in May 1969 on Reprise Records catalogue RS 6349. His first with his longtime backing band Crazy Horse, it peaked at number 34 on the US Billboard 200 in August 1970 during the 98 weeks it spent on the charts and has been certified platinum by the RIAA. The album is on the list of 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die. In 2003, the album was ranked number 208 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. It was voted number 124 in the third edition of Colin Larkin's All Time Top 1000 Albums (2000).

Production

The album contains four songs that became standards in Young's performance repertoire: "Cinnamon Girl", "Down by the River", the title track, and "Cowgirl in the Sand", all of which were written in a single day while Young had a 103 °F (39.5 °C) fever. Young's lead vocal track on the song "Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere" (on the original album) was actually a temporary scratch vocal he sang through the low quality talk-back microphone on the mixing board, with no effects such as reverb. Young liked the stark contrast to the rest of the recording.

Reception

Upon its release, Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere received generally favorable reviews from critics. Bruce Miroff of Rolling Stone wrote a favorable review, describing Young's voice as "perpetually mournful, without being maudlin or pathetic. It hints at a world in which sorrow underlies everything [...] because that world is recognizable to most of us, Young's singing is often strangely moving." Despite stating that "in several respects [the album] falls short of his previous effort" and that "the lyricism of the first album can only be found in faint traces," he concluded that the album "offers ample rewards. Young's music partially makes up for its lack of grace by its energy and its assurance." Robert Christgau wrote in The Village Voice that "Young is a strange artist and I am not all the way into him yet, but this record is haunting." The original review was printed with a grade of "B+", but Christgau later said he would have changed it to an "A–".

In a retrospective review in Rolling Stone, Greg Kot called the record "raw, rushed, energised", and the band's interplay "at once primitive and abstract", a "gloriously spontaneous sound" that "would endure, not only as a blueprint for Young...but as an influence on countless bands." William Ruhlmann of music database website AllMusic said of the album, "released only four months after his first [album], [it] was nearly a total rejection of that polished effort." He noted that "Cinnamon Girl," "Down by the River," and "Cowgirl in the Sand" were, "useful as frames on which to hang the extended improvisations Young played with Crazy Horse and to reflect the ominous tone of his singing." He concluded that the album "set a musical pattern Young and his many musical descendants have followed ever since and a lot of contemporary bands were playing music clearly influenced by it." Mark Richardson of Pitchfork wrote, "the opening riff to 'Cinnamon Girl' erases the memory of Neil Young completely in about five seconds" and that "Crazy Horse were loose and sloppy, privileging groove and feeling above all." He also said that "Young sounds comfortable and confident, singing with the versatile voice that has changed remarkably little in the 40 years since" and concluded that it "was a sort of big bang for Young, a dense moment of creative explosion that saw possibilities expanding in every direction."

In 2003, the album was ranked number 208 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time, and 210 in a 2012 revised list. In 2018, the album won the Polaris Heritage Prize Audience Award in the 1960-1975 category.

Track listing

All tracks are written by Neil Young.

1. "Cinnamon Girl" – 2:58
2. "Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere" – 2:26
3. "Round & Round (It Won't Be Long)" – 5:49
4. "Down by the River" – 9:13

1. "The Losing End (When You're On)" – 4:03
2. "Running Dry (Requiem for the Rockets)" – 5:30
3. "Cowgirl in the Sand" – 10:06