![]() No one who knows Young’s catalog-40-plus studio albums, with his latest, World Record, released last month-would argue that Harvest is his best. Fifty years after Harvest’s arrival, Reprise has put out a deluxe reissue that includes previously unreleased documentary footage. Its first single, “Heart of Gold,” is his only bona fide hit and quickly became his signature song, a staple of rock and pop radio. ![]() Yet as the author Sam Inglis puts it, “ Harvest is the only Neil Young album that has found its way into the record collections of people who don’t have record collections.” It was the best-selling album of 1972-and of Young’s career-with four-time platinum sales in the U.S. ![]() I also felt it fits perfectly into the whole mix.The cover of Neil Young’s fourth album, Harvest, is the color of unbleached muslin, lending a mellow vibe to a pleasant, if not groundbreaking, work. Marie interprets the song in such a personal way that it feels like, for us at least, it’s nearly a brand new tune. I thought it could be interesting to get rid of all that disco/vocoder stuff and focus on the song itself and suddenly it shined in new splendor. The song is quite far away from what I would normally listen to and so it wasn’t an obvious choice and instead I took it as a challenge to see in which direction we could take the song. I wasn’t a fan of the song and its sound in the first place, but the melody, especially the hookline, somehow caught me. With the suggestion of Marie Fisker and after long reflection I decided to cover the controversial song 'Transformer Man' from Neil Young's record 'Trans' from 1982.Īlthough I’m a huge Neil Young fan, I actually didn’t know about this song until Marie Fisker played it to me when we sat down and thought about some songs that would be fun to cover for the Harbour Boat Trips Mix I was working on. ![]() I cover a very special song by Neil Young for the 'Harbour Boat Trips Vol.2: Copenhagen' compilation that will be released on hfn music in a few months. ![]()
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