Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere

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Everyone Knows This is No Place is the second studio album by Canadian musician Neil Young, released on Reprise Records RS 6349 catalog. The first with his backing band, Crazy Horse, it peaked at number 34 on the US Billboard 200 during the ninety-eight week fixed chart in August 1970 and has been getting platinum by the RIAA. This album is on the list of 1001 Albums You Should List Before You Die . In 2003, the album was ranked 208 in the Rolling Stone magazine's The 500 Greatest of All Time list.

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Accounts
The album contains four songs that become standard in Young's show repertoire: "Cinnamon Girl", "Down by the River", the title track, and "Cowgirl in the Sand", all written in one day while Young has a Fever 103Ãƒ, Ã‚ Â° F (39,5Ãƒ, Ã‚ Â° C). Young's main vocal track on the song "Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere" (in the original album) is actually a temporary scratch vocal that he sings through a low quality talkback microphone on the mixing board, without effects like a reverb. Young liked the contrast with the rest of the recording, which became one of many innovations.
Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere was remastered and released on HDCD encoded CDs and digital downloads on July 14, 2009, as part of Neil Young Archive Release Series. It was released on vinyl audiophile in December 2009, both individually and as part of the first set-box of four LPs available through its official website. (This box set is limited to 1000 copies CD version of 3000 copies is also available.) High resolution digital Blu-ray discs have been planned, even though no release date has been set.
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Reception

Once released, Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere received generally favorable reviews from critics. Bruce Miroff of Rolling Stone wrote a good review, describing Young's voice as "constantly sad, without being crybaby or pathetic." It implies a world where sadness underlies everything [...] because the world is recognizable by most of us, Young's singing often weird moves. "Despite declaring that" in some ways [the album] is less than the previous attempt "and that" the first album's lyrics can only be found in faint traces, "he went on to state that the album" offers Young's music partially redeemed the lack of grace by energy and certainty. "Robert Christgau wrote in The Village Voice that" Young is a strange artist and I have not fully known him, but this record is haunting. " The original reviews were printed with a "B" rating, but Christgau then said he would turn them into "A-".

In a retrospective review, Greg Kot wrote in Rolling Stone called "raw, hurried, energized" notes and band interaction "as well as primitive and abstract", "a noble spontaneous voice" that "will survive. , not just as a blueprint for Young... but as an influence on countless bands. "William Ruhlmann from the AllMusic music database website said about the album," released just four months after his first [album], [it] almost totally rejected from that polished effort. " He notes that "Cinnamon Girl," "Down in the River," and "Cowgirl in the Sand" is, "useful as a frame to hang an extended improvisation." Young plays with Crazy Horse and to reflect his unflattering song tone. "He concludes that the album "set the pattern of Young's music and many of his musical descent have been following since [...] and many contemporary bands playing music are clearly influenced by it." Mark Richardson of Pitchfork writes, "the opening riff for 'Cinnamon Girl' erases Neil Young's memory completely in about five seconds and that" Crazy Horse is loose and careless. special and feelings above all. "He also said that" Young sounds comfortable and confident, singing in a versatile voice that has changed very little in the 40 years since "and concluded that it" is a kind of big explosion for Young, a dense moment of creative boom who see the possibility of developing in all directions. "

In 2003, the album was ranked 208 in the Rolling Stone magazine's The 500 Greatest of All Time list.