Album · 2004
Greatest Hits
by Neil Young
Greatest Hits is a 2004 rock album by Neil Young. It runs 16 tracks across 77 minutes on Reprise Records. Riffiter listeners rate it 4.5/5 from 6 ratings.
Rock · Folk Rock · Classic Rock
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- 77 min
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- 119 bpm
- Tempo
- D minor
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Greatest Hits album cover
The Greatest Hits cover was photographed by Joel Bernstein and art-directed by Gary Burden, Jenice Heo, L.A. Johnson, Neil Young and Toshi Onuki.
- Photography
- Joel Bernstein
- Art direction
- Gary Burden, Jenice Heo, L.A. Johnson, Neil Young, Toshi Onuki
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16 tracks · 77 min
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It may be hard to believe, but 2004's Greatest Hits is not only the first retrospective Neil Young has released since 1977's Decade, it's the first ever single-disc collection of his best-known songs. That's a span of 27 years separating the two collections, which is an awful long time to resist a Greatest Hits disc -- many of his peers succumbed, offering countless comps during those years -- and such a resistance to a compilation may not be much a surprise from the legendarily prickly Young, but what is a surprise is that 11 of the 16 songs on Greatest Hits were also on Decade. Of the five songs that were not on Decade, only two date from after the '70s -- 1989's "Rockin' in the Free World" and 1992's "Harvest Moon" -- while one of the remaining three (1970's "Only Love Can Break Your Heart") comes from the time chronicled on Decade; the other two, 1978's "Comes a Time" and 1979's "Hey Hey, My My (Into the Black)," arrived in the two years of the '70s not covered on the 1977 compilation. All this means is that Greatest Hits offers the basic canon, with no frills and none of Neil's trademark idiosyncrasy.
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Some may miss that cantankerous spirit, pointing out that this contains nothing from his towering twin masterpieces of dark introspection -- Tonight's the Night and On the Beach -- or that there's nothing from Buffalo Springfield (which was covered on Decade) and that noteworthy songs like "Powderfinger," "Cortez the Killer," "Lotta Love," and "Long May You Run" are missing. Ultimately, that doesn't matter much, because Greatest Hits has all the songs that every Neil Young fan, from the devoted to the casual listener, agrees are his biggest and best: "Down by the River," "Cinnamon Girl," "Helpless," "After the Gold Rush," "Southern Man," "Ohio," "The Needle and the Damage Done," "Old Man," "Heart of Gold," "Like a Hurricane." And that's why it works as an all-business introduction for the uninitiated and as a concise summary for those not willing to travel down all the long, winding roads Young has traveled over the years. In other words, it's as good a compilation as it could have been.
In brief
- Is Greatest Hits good?
- Riffiter listeners rate Greatest Hits 4.5/5 from 6 ratings.
- What is the highest-rated track on Greatest Hits?
- Down by the River, rated 4.5/5 by 2 listeners on Riffiter.
- When was Greatest Hits released?
- Greatest Hits was released in 2004 on Reprise Records.
- How many tracks are on Greatest Hits?
- Greatest Hits has 16 tracks, with a runtime of 77 minutes.
- What genre is Greatest Hits?
- Greatest Hits is catalogued under Rock, Folk Rock, Classic Rock.
- What BPM is Greatest Hits?
- Greatest Hits runs at a median tempo of 119 BPM across its tracks, most often in D minor, measured from audio analysis.
- What albums are similar to Greatest Hits?
- Listeners of Greatest Hits also rate 1 by The Beatles, Blonde on Blonde by Bob Dylan, In Rainbows by Radiohead.
- Who produced Greatest Hits?
- Greatest Hits was produced by Neil Young, David Briggs, Kendall Pacios and Tim Mulligan, among 11 credited in total. Neil Young produced 15 of them.
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