Album
Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere
Neil Young With Crazy Horse
1969 · Rock
132 collectors on Gatefold own this
Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere is a Rock album by Neil Young With Crazy Horse, originally released in 1969. On Gatefold: 216 pressings tracked, owned by 132 collectors.
About
Decades after <i>Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere</i> had been absorbed into the cultural bloodstream, David Crosby complained he still didn’t get what Neil Young saw in Crazy Horse. Yeah, they were “soulful,” but so was his dog, and he didn’t let his dog play drums, either. Of course, these were men working with different creative metrics: Crosby was guided by craft, Young by the search for a more primitive truth. No matter how familiar the music here is, it still has the haunted quality of something whose looseness and imperfection (such as Crosby might call it) only make it feel realer and more alive. Isn’t the title track a little baggy? Yeah. Could “Cowgirl in the Sand” and “Down by the River” be cut in half? Probably. But then you’d lose the murky passages in the middle where the band yawns and the music suddenly comes out—an expressionism that had more in common with jazz and painting than rock ’n’ roll. It wasn’t long before Young insisted on keeping the tape rolling all the time because he realized you could practice as much as you wanted, but you’d never know you got the right take until it disappeared into the mist. In liberating himself from the professionalism of CSNY, Young cut a path not just for himself, but for generations of punk, experimental, and indie bands for whom technical correctness and creative spirit were two different vectors that didn’t always intersect. The road diverges: progressive and arena rock tightening things into science over here, Young mucking around in a barn over there. As he later put it, Crazy Horse weren’t very good. But they were great.
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Tracklist
Side A
- A1Cinnamon Girl2:58
- A2Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere2:26
- A3Round & Round (It Won't Be Long)5:49
- A4Down By The River9:13
Side B
- B1The Losing End (When You're On)4:03
- B2Running Dry (Requiem For The Rockets)5:30
- B3Cowgirl In The Sand10:03
Sound DNA
- Rock
- Folk Rock
- raw
- earnest
- southern
There’s a bunch of very similar European and German 70’s & 80’s reissues of this album with the same catalog number (44073, REP 44073). Here’s some of the key identifiers of these releases:
With Barcode:
- Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere (Europe) (opens in a new tab) (Europe) - different label design, barcode on the back cover
- Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere (Europe) (opens in a new tab) (Europe) - glossy non-gatefold cover, barcode on back cover, price codes Ⓖ and France: WE 321 on front cover, rights society GEMA / Biem, LC 0322 and PF in runout.
- Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere (Europe) (opens in a new tab) (Europe) - two label codes (LC 0322 and LC 0121) on labels, barcode on the back cover, price codes Ⓖ and France: WE 341 on the front cover, rights society GEMA / Biem. R/S Alsdorf in the runout.
Without Barcode:
- Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere (Europe) (opens in a new tab) (Europe) - no barcode, price codes Ⓩ and France: Ⓨ on the front cover, rights society GEMA / Biem
- Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere (Europe) (opens in a new tab) (Europe) - no barcode, price code France: WE 341 on the front cover, rights society GEMA / Biem
- Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere (Europe) (opens in a new tab) (Europe) - price codes Ⓩ and France: WE 341 on the front cover, no barcode, rights society GEMA / Biem, label code LC 0322 label bottom centre, no Teldec manufacturer credit on the label rim text.
- Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere (Europe) (opens in a new tab) (Germany) - STEMRA rights society credit on labels, no barcode.
- Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere (Germany 1971) (opens in a new tab) (Germany) - GEMA rights society on the labels, Kinney Music GmbH in the label rim text. Early reissue; no label codes, no European price codes.
- Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere (Germany) (opens in a new tab) (Germany) - label code LC 0322 on the upper part of the labels. Matrix number 30,910 on labels. No barcode.
- Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere (Germany) (opens in a new tab) (Germany) - label code LC 0322 at the bottom of the labels. No matrix numbers on labels. No barcode.
- Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere (Germany) (opens in a new tab) (Germany) - No barcode with "(RS 6349)" and "Ⓩ" on front sleeve, but no "France: WE 341". Orange labels with "GEMA", "LC 0322" and matrix numbers.
- Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere (Germany) (opens in a new tab) (Germany) - No barcode with "(RS 6349)", "Ⓩ" and "France: WE 341" on front sleeve. Orange labels with "GEMA", "LC 0322" (upper part of labels) and matrix numbers on labels.
Credits
The people behind it.
Performers
- Billy TalbotBASS BASS GUITAR
- Bobby NotkoffVIOLIN FEATURING FEATURING , VIOLIN
- Danny WhittenGUITAR GUITAR, VOCALS
- Neil YoungGUITAR GUITAR, VOCALS GUITAR, WRITTEN-BY
- Ralph MolinaDRUM DRUMS DRUMS, VOCALS
- Robin LaneBACKING VOCALS BACKING VOCALS, FEATURING BACKING VOCALS, GUEST
132 collectors on Gatefold own this · 216 pressings tracked on Gatefold
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