Neil Young - Decade

You gotta have a Neil Young record in your collection, he is classic rock. He influenced the entire grunge movement, he has never sold out any of his music for a commercial (wait that's not true, he let us use a song for a TV spot we did for the American Indian College fund) and he is an all around cool guy. I'll never forget when I saw him in concert in Houston back in the early 80's. Half way through the show he stopped playing and took an intermission. He said, "when we come back we are going to go way back in time." Of course everyone thought he was going to come back and play all the old tunes solo. Not the case, he came back on stage dressed like Elvis and proceeded to tear through an hour of 50's tunes. The band did not take a break the entire set, so they could drown out the boos. I looked around after three songs and half the crowd had left. I could not believe people were walking out on Neil Young. A year or two later later, the Stray Cats and a few other bands brought the 50's sound back, Neil was just a little too early.

So not that you are ready to get into Neil Young, Decade is the starter set. You get 34 songs that trace the early history from Buffalo Springfield and Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young to Crazy Horse. It's a great tw0-CD set that you will enjoy from the first song to the last.