Here the gaunt pain of Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere fills out a littlethe voice softer, the jangling guitar muted behind a piano. Joel Bernstein's photographs are printed to order in California, please allow 2-4 weeks for delivery. The end result was disappointing, despite the fact that it had a lot of very well written songs on it, and a couple of stand out tracks, like The Loner, and 'I've Been Waiting For You, which have been Concert favorites for all of these years! That was the original reason why I made a small-sized print and solarized it; to help with the apparent sharpness. The photo was taken by photographer Joel Bernstein, most likely sometime in early 1970, as the album came out in August of that year. [27] The album was also included in the book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die. His lyrics embrace sci-fi scenarios ("After the Gold Rush"), narrate cryptic nightmares ("Don't Let It Bring You Down"), and confront smoldering injustices ("Southern Man") with equal conviction. Her cover of Birds does nothing to dissuade me. Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 22, 2020. here. This article is about the album. Staff. After The Gold Rush was the third Neil Young solo album. Revisit Thom Yorke's touching cover of Neil Young's classic 'After The Gold Rush'. My delight of KW has already been recorded here, in my review of her consummate covers classic album Relations.. I guess I'm really making an effort to listen to old music at this point. So, on his second record, Neil connected with a Rough and Ready band that he renamed Crazy Horse, and he was able to put out an electric guitar based album that featured an amazing collection of long, extended solo guitar based tracks that were not like anything else on record, at the time. Covers. Southern Man 5. And in a really welcome gesture he offered to send an unedited, full frame of the newly released photo that includes Graham Nash - but one that also that also depicted the end of the brick building on the left. The mistake, to me, was that I had in my haste focused the lens just past the two figures, closer to the fence than to Neils face. After the Gold Rush. The cover of Neil Youngs third solo album After The Gold Rush was shotby photographer Joel Bernstein as he was walking down a street in Greenwich Village, New York. It was because of this he decided to mask the blurred face by solarizing the image. Leave a note in the comments! The 37-year-old . The album's art direction and design were done by famous art director Gary Burden. see the original black-and-white photo with Graham Nash on the right here at the Morrison Hotel Website or by visiting the exhibit. There is only one electric guitar song, and it too is screaming with gut wrenching alarm and pure emotion, 'Southern Man', which needs no explanation, it's as urgent a plea for racial equality as you can make, but in the Southern states they look at the issue differently than the rest of the country! Its follow-up album, Harvest, was named the greatest Canadian album of all time in that book. There's a huge new series of glass windows mid-block, where I think the original photo was probably taken, because, as much as the space I depicted in the opening shots looks like the actual space, there's no grating behind the fence as there is in the original cover shot. One such memorable moment came from Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke in 2002 as the singer covered Young's classic track . [31] It was subsequently reissued on CD in 1986. Those songs are still a regular part of Neil's concert repertoire to this day! English, After the Gold Rush From the first song, the sound is obviously . After the Gold Rush peaked at number eight on the Billboard Top Pop Albums chart; the two singles taken from the album, "Only Love Can Break Your Heart" and "When You Dance I Can Really Love", made it to number 33 and number 93 respectively on the Billboard Hot 100. Here's a photo from the NYU Archives (and thank you to the office and staff) of the architects working to add the new basement law library under Sullivan Street sometime between 1981 and 1987 (Officially: The NYU School of Law - Law Library Extention). Young's volatile lead guitar and fragile-to-ferocious vocals are caught in peak form. About the Album: After the Gold Rush was released by Reprise Records in August 1970 and shows up on many "Top 100 Albums of All Time" lists, including those of Rolling Stone and Time Magazine. An ultra rare album cover proof for Neil Young's 1970 second album, After The Gold Rush, signed by the album cover photographer Joel Bernstein. In his time, Neil Young has played the visionary poet, the starry-eyed romantic, the maniacal garage rocker and more. I have looked but have not been able to match up an area on the brickwork like it, so I think it was replaced in adding the underground library. Acoustic, electric, all of it. Don't Let It Bring. Buyers may also request a signature below the image on the front surface. Neil Young, After the Gold Rush Album Cover, 1970 Photograph By Joel Bernstein About the image A portrait of Neil Young passing an elderly woman on the streets of New York City in June 1970. : Not on Spotify, nor (at least in my country) YouTube, and no downloads available on Amazon or iTunes. (He had previously been a member of Buffalo Springfield. 'The heroes of the Gold Rush, the places towns are named after, and the . Gary's partner, Jenice Heo, has now executed Gary's vision and created a unique take on this classic album cover. Joel also helped clear up something that had remained a mystery to me - why some of the smaller bricks above the fence weren't still there. Nina Hagens Nunsexmonkrock: Greatest (and weirdest) unsung masterpiece of the postpunk era? Coming in at a lower key than Neil, Patti Smiths simple and respectful 2012 cover of After the Gold Rush adds a layer of wistful poignancy lacking in the yearning original. At least until the playground chorale chip in toward the end, confirming yet again the adage about children and animals . At least until the playground chorale chip in toward the end, confirming yet again the adage about children and animals, especially if you are the arch-druidess of NY punk/artrock. However, Neil had written most of the songs by the time the project was shut down, and he wasn't going to stop working on this collection of songs just because the movie plans didn't work out. But the solarization in this case added a somewhat spooky dimension to the image, which Neil took to immediately.. Yet somehow, here we are." Pruitt's Tiny Desk (Home) Concert for NPR Music Out Now October 29, 2020 - Today, singer, songwriter, and musician Katie Pruitt . After The Gold Rush - Rolling Stone Music After The Gold Rush By Langdon Winner October 15, 1970 Neil Young devotees will probably spend the next few weeks trying desperately to convince. The Album cover shows Neil Young in an urban environment and no longer in the country as the covers of two previous albums. Uncertain why, as its not a bad record. One of the great benefits today is you can pick up some great remastered albums at no great expense and certainly to my ears they are a lot better than much of the manufactured music around at the moment; the thing with Neil Young is its still in a way current as he still tours and performs his music to bigger audiences than ever. Coming in at a lower key than Neil, Patti Smith's simple and respectful 2012 cover of "After the Gold Rush" adds a layer of wistful poignancy lacking in the yearning original. Indeed, there is no shortage of cover material; some of these songs have upward of 30 readily accessible versions out there. [12] The script has since been lost, though it has been described as "sort of an end-of-the-world movie. (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); Full Albums features covers of every track off a classic album. The album includes such songs as "Southern Man," "Only Love Can Break Your Heart," and "When You Dance I Can Really Love." "[15], Critical reaction has improved with time; by 1975, Rolling Stone was referring to the album as a "masterpiece",[20] and Gold Rush is now considered a classic album in Young's recording career. After The Gold Rush is an acoustic album that led to many other confessional singer/songwriter works in the early '70s (James Taylor, Carole King, etc.). Young had injured his back lifting a slab of polished walnut and standing up to play his electric guitar was impossible. ", Reviewed in the United States on August 27, 2010. Yet somehow I always seem to forget it, tending to immediately opt for the feistier, zeitgeistier options of Zuma and Ragged Glory, and the civilians always go for the milquier toast of Harvest. Worth a listen, I hope you will agree, proving again that with just a little counterpoint and syncopation, country begets soul. Please contact us with any questions! This image was chosen for the front cover of Young's third studio album, After the Gold Rush , released in August of that year. So now I am retired, settled in a cottage, and I've re-bought Neil Young. : After Egans exhaustive coverage was posted on his blog, Youngs archivist Joel Bernstein, who took the shot, wrote in with his recollection of the shoot, as well as sending in the original, uncropped photo with Graham Nash standing to the side: The photo was not a mistake. I saw the small, old woman coming towards us down the sidewalk, was intrigued, and wanted to catch her passing Neil. Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 14, 2012. Please try again. ", (And in a later email he added to Joel's story of the bricks) "Joel is correct, I did add some bricks to the top in order to have room for the title type. us down the sidewalk, was intrigued, and wanted to catch her passing Neil. How about it! After The Gold Rush 50th Anniversary 7" Neil Young (Artist) Format: Vinyl 425 ratings -19% $5697 List Price: $69.98 FREE Returns See all 2 formats and editions Audio CD $14.98 3 Used from $15.26 21 New from $13.62 Vinyl $56.97 2 Used from $80.64 21 New from $45.00 2 Collectible from $136.00 (I also recommend her best version of this.). Lary, Reviewed in the United States on October 4, 2022. Young's melodiesevery one of themare impossible to dismiss. It's here below: So I took the image and made a composite with the building on Sullivan Street to see how it matched up. Track timings are from the original 1970 vinyl release, catalogue number RS 6383.[34]. As I referred to at the beginning of this entry, in an email to PopSpots Joel Bernstein cleared up the confusion about being quoted as saying the the shot was "accidental" He writes: "The photo was not "a mistake." 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