A Ranking of Neil Young Live Albums | Medialoper

So a couple of weeks ago, as part of the excitement of seeing Neil Young & Crazy Horse for the first time in decades — did that really even happen? — I put together a highly controversial ranking of Neil Young’s studio albums.

And that should have been that, but no, Tim asked for a ranking of live albums, which as you’ll see is a slightly more malleable category. Obviously Time Fades Away doesn’t count, but A Treasure does, even though wouldn’t have if it had been released in 1985 instead of Old Ways. There are even a couple of things here that aren’t even officially Neil Young live albums.

1. Live Rust
   With Crazy Horse
   Recorded: 1978
   Released: 1979
2. Arc-Weld
   With Crazy Horse
   Recorded: 1991
   Released: 1991
3. Live at the Fillmore East
   With Crazy Horse
   Recorded: 1970
   Released: 2006
4. A Treasure
   With The International Harvesters
   Recorded: 1984-1985
   Released: 2011
5. Year of The Horse
   With Crazy Horse
   Recorded: 1996
   Released: 1997
6. Roxy: Tonight’s The Night Live
   With The Santa Monica Flyers
   Recorded: 1973
   Released: 2018
7. CSNY 1974 (Neil’s Songs Only)
   With Crosby, Stills and Nash + Tim Drummond & Russ Kunkel
   Recorded: 1974
   Released: 2014
8. Ride My Motorcycle (Bootleg)
   With Steve Cropper, Booker T Jones, “Duck” Dunn & Jim Keltner
   Recorded: 1993
   Released: 1993
9. Neil Young in Berlin (VHS & DVD)
   With Ralph Molina, Nils Lofgren, Bruce Palmer & Ben Keith
   Recorded: 1982
   Released: 1983
10. Dreamin’ Man Live ’92
    Solo acoustic
    Recorded: 1992
    Released: 2009
11. Unplugged
    With Nils Lofgren, Ben Keith, Spooner Oldham & Tim Drummond
    Recorded: 1993
    Released: 1993
12. Live at Massey Hall 1971
    Solo acoustic
    Recorded: 1971
    Released: 2007
13. Road Rock Vol. 1
    With Ben Keith, Spooner Oldham, “Duck” Dunn & Jim Keltner
    Recorded: 2000
    Released: 2000
14. Live at the Cellar Door
    Solo Acoustic
    Recorded: 1970
    Released: 2013
15. 4-Way Street (Neil’s songs only)
    With Crosby, Stills & Nash + Johnny Barbata & Fuzzy Samuels
    Recorded: 1970
    Released: 1971
16. Bluenote Cafe
    With the Bluenotes
    Recorded: 1987-1988
    Released: 2015
17. Sugar Mountain – Live at Canterbury House 1968
    Solo Acoustic
    Recorded: 1968
    Released: 2008
18. Earth
    With Promise of the Real
    Recorded: 2015
    Released: 2016

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