Piper and I are currently discussing the proposition to scrap the tiers.

i think its actually a good idea .....

on the topic of Neil Young though , recently heard Ragged Glory...what a gem, and i dont care what people's view on his guitar playing is, i love it, its very effective with the music, and i think this album is among the finest examples of it .....

I love Ragged Glory!

im slowly making my way through his discog ..... i still havent been able to get my hands on Massey, though i have Weld and Live rust, which should do for live releases....i didnt like Mirror Ball much , had much better expectations from it , and i was very pleasantly surprised with Sleep with angels... i erally liked the dark vibe he had going throughout the album ... and a song like Safeway Cart just sounded so out of place ...... i liked his filmore performance, though it seemed more noodly than effective on certain cases, and i wouldnt spin that album too often , but it was still solid.... overall , its easy to see how this man continues to do so well... he really has a body of work comparable to Dylan even ....

Yes, I agree, I think his body of work is a good as Dylan's myself.

I think I prefer Live Rust to Massey Hall and Filmore East as his live albums go.

well ive only heard Filmore and some parts of Weld .... I'll get to it eventually .... I also have to go through my dylan albums...the only album ive heard in completion now is the 66 royal albert hall from the bootleg series ..... which was pretty amazing .... loved the versions of Tambourine, Ballad of a thin man and Rollin stone there, though as much as people rave about it, i prefer the studio Desolation to the live one ....

The studio version of Desolation Row is definitely better than the Live 66 version. I think that is true with most of the acoustic disc. However, every song off the Live 66 electric disc destroys the studio version imo.

destruction is an overstatement, but yeah , you could say something like that

My opinion on tiers is thus:

if they're here, that's ok

if they get scrapped, that's ok

On Neil Young, Rust Never Sleeps is still my favorite. Always gonna be, i feel.

my neil ranking goes like

Rust Never Sleeps
Tonight's the Night
Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere
After the Goldrush
On the Beach
Time Fades Away

Top 6 because I wanted to include Time Fades Away. Deal with it.

Those are my top five Neil albums as well. Although my order is a bit different:
Rust Never Sleeps
After the Gold Rush
On the Beach
Tonight's the Night
Everybody Knows This is Nowhere

And I still need to check out his 90s stuff as well.

Neil guitar fan? Then Eldorado and Ragged Glory
Neil folk-country fan? Then check out Harvest Moon

Neil guitar fan and Neil folk-country fan.

though i havent heard El dorado....but the other 2 picks of dmille are just perfect....

ive listened to most of his late 80s and 90s stuff....think its time i moved to the 70s

you mean you haven't listened to any of Neil's stuff yet?
you have a veritable goldmine ahead of you yousha

anyways, pretty much everything I've heard from neil has been perfection. After the Gold Rush, Harvest and Rust Never Sleeps are all incredible albums, and I still have stuff left to dive into.

lets just say i like sampling gold 1st before going to the platinum

it was an intentional move to listen to his recent work 1st and then move on to the best era... i have heard most of the hits from then, but just not complete albums at a go.... and yeah , i think he may be my fave solo artist from the amount of absolutely brilliant stuff he has.....i prefer him to Dylan till now .... but ive heard more till now, so not deciding till i have a more comprehensive listen of both .....