![]() What pushed “Like a Hurricane” ( the live version on their Death Valley Days compilation, not the album cut) to the top was the ferocity and stamina they pummel into it – a requirement with a song this long – as well as a surprising addition I didn’t notice for years. The fact that they never recorded a full Neil tribute album seems a minor crime. ![]() If they hadn’t recorded “Like a Hurricane,” we would have included their stunning “On the Beach.” If that didn’t exist either, their “Albuquerque” would be a shoo-in. No band competed more with itself for a spot on this list. Cassandra Wilson’s cover, on her also lunar-titled album New Moon Daughter, slows the song down to a contemplative crawl, backed in part by what sounds like the insects that you might hear when you’re lying outside on a warm night, staring at the moon. ![]() The title song was a gentle love song to his then-wife Pegi (who just died on New Year’s Day, a few years after the couple divorced), and features Linda Ronstadt on backing vocals. In recording a “sequel” to 1972’s Harvest, one of Young’s most popular and iconic albums, he could have done a lot worse than 1992’s Harvest Moon, an acoustic record prompted by the tinnitus that Young’s developed from the loud Ragged Glory tour.
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