![]() ![]() ![]() me making all my friends mixed CDs instead of just saying i love them Harvest Moon - Neil Young. But, being Neil Young, he did what Neil Young does: change, again. that lets you enjoy your favorite videos with ease. It must’ve been nice, being on the edge of 50 and lionized by people half your age. At the time, Young was coming off some of the noisiest, most radical shows of Crazy Horse’s career (captured on Weld) and had been recast as the progenitor of a generation of underground bands like Nirvana and Sonic Youth-a distinction you couldn’t quite give to David Crosby, all due respect. The connection to Harvest is explicit, but the album also fits in a set of what you could call Gentle Neil: Comes a Time, Old Ways, Prairie Wind, Homegrown. The album’s most touching moment is on “Old King,” where, in the course of eulogizing a beloved dog, Young mentions having kicked him when he was bad: a moment of violence neutralized by time and made strangely beautiful by the fact that Young knows it won’t ever happen again. The effect is like looking at a hologram, or a trick image that changes when you tilt the card back and forth: The object is fixed, but what you see in it flickers-and both feel equally real. The poignancy isn’t just in the latter album’s tenderness-the string sections, the country lilt, the pedal steel guitar-but in the way that Young slips between past and present: how a memory of then becomes a vision of now (“Unknown Legend”), how circular time stirs feelings we think we’ve forgotten (“Harvest Moon”). So, while the feel of the albums is similar-gentle, plaintive, romantic-the experience is different: one, a catalog of romance according to youth, and the other according to the reflections of middle age. ![]() ![]() The same person, maybe, but separated by a Rubicon of experience. But Harvest was made by a recently divorced 26-year-old still negotiating his creative path, and Harvest Moon by a multiplatinum legend who’d secured the privilege of doing more or less whatever he wanted. Learn more at Patreon.One way to hear Harvest Moon is as an echo of 1972’s Harvest-a leap made easier by the fact that many of the same musicians played on both. There are a bunch of exclusive perks only for patrons: playlists, newsletters, downloads, discussions, polls - hell, tell us what song you would like to hear covered and we will make it happen. Check it out below.Ĭover Me is now on Patreon! If you love cover songs, we hope you will consider supporting us there with a small monthly subscription. It’s a radical take on the song that feels like a complete reinvention. This souful, rocked up vibe continues through the first four minutes, but after that Melt start a vamp that turns into a rave-up that feels about as far from the original as you could imagine without turning into, like, metal or something. The tempo is noticeably up, the vocals are more soulful, and the whole thing feels like an entirely different song. In a neat twist, the famous harmonics are now played by a horn section. There’s an electric guitar riff and pulsating drums completely replacing the original’s gentle acoustic. New York-based “indie-soul” band Melt are here to change your mind about how a “Harvest Moon” cover should sound.įrom the opening notes, it’s clear things are different. Given the song’s feel and lyrics, maybe that make sense. Most covers of “Harvest Moon” treat it pretty reverentially. Neil Young‘s sweet, gentle “Harvest Moon” has become an oft-covered classic in recent years. ![]()
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