# Neil Young Album Name Needed **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 14, 2007, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/neil-young-album-name-needed/400067 "2007-04-14T04:51:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![threnodyangelfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecc23a/32.png) [@threnodyangelfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/threnodyangelfire)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2007, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/neil-young-album-name-needed/400067/1 "2007-04-14T04:51:22Z")
Hello super smart dopers 😛 I am looking for the name of an album for a friend. It is a Neil Young album, and it was recorded live in a barn but not in front of an audience. They basically set up a pa in the barn on a farm and performed a concert. Anyone? Anyone? ---
**Author:** ![mamboman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecb155/32.png) [@mamboman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mamboman)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2007, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/neil-young-album-name-needed/400067/2 "2007-04-14T05:00:27Z")
Perhaps [Ragged Glory](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ragged_Glory) ? ---
**Author:** ![threnodyangelfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecc23a/32.png) [@threnodyangelfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/threnodyangelfire)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2007, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/neil-young-album-name-needed/400067/3 "2007-04-14T05:07:36Z")
[QUOTE=mamboman] Perhaps [Ragged Glory](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ragged_Glory) ? [/QUOTE] He doesn’t seem to think that’s the one. Thanks for replying, though 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![11811](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/1/9d8465/32.png) [@11811](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/11811)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2007, 12:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/neil-young-album-name-needed/400067/4 "2007-04-14T12:22:46Z")
It sounds like it was recorded in a barn. Or a portolet. ---
**Author:** ![fishbicycle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/aeb1de/32.png) [@fishbicycle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fishbicycle)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2007, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/neil-young-album-name-needed/400067/5 "2007-04-14T13:09:21Z")
Are you thinking of “Harvest?” The picture on the back is of the band set up and playing in a barn. ---
**Author:** ![zuma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e9c0ed/32.png) [@zuma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zuma)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2007, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/neil-young-album-name-needed/400067/6 "2007-04-14T13:12:25Z")
[QUOTE=11811] It sounds like it was recorded in a barn. Or a portolet. [/QUOTE] Maybe so, but it’s also one of the greatest albums ever made 🙂 (and guess where I got my user name) Yeah, I think it was Harvest. Or at least some of the songs from Harvest? ---
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2007, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/neil-young-album-name-needed/400067/7 "2007-04-14T13:36:20Z")
Yeah it’s _Harvest_. There is a [DVD](http://www.dvdactive.com/reviews/music/neil-young-harvest.html) available with pictures and interviews about the whole process. ---
**Author:** ![threnodyangelfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecc23a/32.png) [@threnodyangelfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/threnodyangelfire)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2007, 9:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/neil-young-album-name-needed/400067/8 "2007-04-15T09:52:51Z")
Thanks all for your replies. I told my friend this and this is what he said: "I’m fairly sure it was an album that was recorded live but not in front of an audience. I think on vinyl it had 2 songs on each side and it included Ohio and Cinnamon Girl It was meant to be really loud so that was why they did it in the middle of a farm. " Any ideas? Many thanks - you guys rock Thren. ---
**Author:** ![zuma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e9c0ed/32.png) [@zuma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zuma)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2007, 10:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/neil-young-album-name-needed/400067/9 "2007-04-15T10:42:08Z")
Well, Ohio was from one of the Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young albums, and Cinnamon Girl was from Neil’s “Everybody Knows This is Nowhere” album. You said there were just 2 songs on each side? Maybe some special “live” album he did? I’ve never heard of it before, but I’m sure there is a lot out there I’ve not heard of. ---
**Author:** ![Gentle\_Robot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e495f1/32.png) [@Gentle\_Robot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gentle_Robot)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2007, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/neil-young-album-name-needed/400067/10 "2007-04-15T18:56:45Z")
My idea is that your friend is on drugs and confusing at least 2 neil young albums, maybe 3. The only Neil Young album with both Cinnamon Girl & Ohio on it is the compilation _Decade_. The loud one is probably _Rust Never Sleeps_, as parts of it were recorded live, and the loud ass parts of it were overdubbed on Neil’s ranch (AFAI can recall). He might have mixed in Harvest, too. ---
**Author:** ![Dijon\_Warlock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a9a28c/32.png) [@Dijon\_Warlock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dijon_Warlock)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2007, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/neil-young-album-name-needed/400067/11 "2007-04-15T21:33:38Z")
What? No mention of _ **Arc** _? Yeah, I know, that’s not the answer to the OP, but I still love growling this out of the stereo every few years. 35 Minutes of nothing but noise/feedback with an occasional lyrical quip from “Like a Hurricane.” Don’t know where it was recorded, but I get off on it once in a while. My neighbors, evidently, do not. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2007, 5:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/neil-young-album-name-needed/400067/12 "2007-04-16T05:25:22Z")
[QUOTE=threnodyangelfire] It is a Neil Young album, and it was recorded live in a barn but not in front of an audience. They basically set up a pa in the barn on a farm and performed a concert. Anyone? Anyone? [/QUOTE] Its not an “album”, but I have a copy of something like that. He (and band) stayed at an “undisclosed location” while his California home-studio was fumigated for termite infestation and put on a rehersal or “concert” for the people that were there. I was there. I recorded it. Lets trade! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![fishbicycle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/aeb1de/32.png) [@fishbicycle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fishbicycle)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2007, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/neil-young-album-name-needed/400067/13 "2007-04-17T01:36:56Z")
It’s possible that a record like the one described in post #8 exists. There are unique records from a lot of countries that are only issued in the one place. Australia is one such place. We collectors learn of albums with alternate artwork or different mixes of songs, or promotional issues, that are years out of print by the time we find out about them. Then they’re nearly impossible to find anywhere else on the globe, and improbably expensive, if any turn up. There’s a Beatles album like that. It only came out in Australia, and it contains a different mix of one song that was never issued anywhere else. It was undocumented until the 1980s. We’re still waiting to find a person who owns a copy. So this Neil Young record may exist, exactly as remembered by your friend, but only Down Under. ---
**Author:** ![threnodyangelfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecc23a/32.png) [@threnodyangelfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/threnodyangelfire)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2007, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/neil-young-album-name-needed/400067/14 "2007-04-17T16:49:34Z")
[QUOTE=fishbicycle] So this Neil Young record may exist, exactly as remembered by your friend, but only Down Under. [/QUOTE] Oh hey cool. I’ll pass that onto him. I was beginning to think he was misremembering things from the 70’s. 😛