![]() Harvest (1972) [ larger cover art ] |
Think I'll pack it in and buy a pick-up
Take it down to L.A.
Find a place to call my own and try to fix up
Start a brand new day
The woman I'm thinking of, she loved me all up
But I'm so down today
She's so fine, she's in my mind
I hear her callin'
See the lonely boy out on the weekend
Trying to make it pay
Can't relate to joy, he tries to speak and
Can't begin to say
She got pictures on the wall, they make me look up
From her big brass bed
Now I'm running down the road, trying to stay up
Somewhere in her head
The woman I'm thinking of, she loved me all up
But I'm so down today
She's so fine she's in my mind
I hear her callin'
See the lonely boy, out on the weekend
Trying to make it pay
Can't relate to joy, he tries to speak and
Can't begin to say
| teleskialaska (Alaska) | Posted: Apr 23, 2013 - 13:23 Think I'll pack it in and buy a pickup......I did just that, but drove to Alaska instead of LA.....Thanks Niel. Have you ever driven through Alberta while listening to Alberta? |
| Sweet_Virginia | Posted: Apr 23, 2013 - 13:21 Been listening to this album for 30 years, never gets old. Who would have thought... |
| Scientist79 | Posted: Mar 23, 2013 - 02:05 great song from a great album by amazing artist, thanks rp |
| d-don (Oregon) | Posted: Mar 07, 2013 - 13:38 pvg44 wrote: I get it, you don't like Neil Young. Your comments about him aren't funny yet, but keep trying. |
| scrubbrush (All lost in the supermarket) | Posted: Mar 07, 2013 - 13:38 Love this song, but doesn't have exactly the same beat and tempo as "Old Man" and "Heart of Gold"? |
| Boy_Wonder (Bath, back in the UK) | Posted: Feb 04, 2013 - 05:55 stunix wrote: I think RP should have a separate Neil Young stream just for Neil Young and his brainwashed disciples. Watch it! Else I'll come down the towpath and set you adrift! |
| helgigermany (Germany) | Posted: Dec 18, 2012 - 23:38 Outstanding! |
| pvg44 (Wayland, MA) | Posted: Dec 03, 2012 - 13:06 stunix wrote: I think RP should have a separate Neil Young stream just for Neil Young and his brainwashed disciples. I get it, you don't like Neil Young. Your comments about him aren't funny yet, but keep trying. |
| lily34 (GTFO) | Posted: Dec 03, 2012 - 13:00 pvg44 wrote: Totally agree. This song in particular is so simple yet so heartfelt. Beautiful; I could listen to it for hours. same. |
| oldsaxon (Wales via Vancouver, BC.) | Posted: Dec 03, 2012 - 12:58 sounds kinda muddy to me...where's the engineer? |
| stunix (Narrowboat nr Caen Locks) | Posted: Nov 02, 2012 - 04:53 Rozsa wrote: RP been playing way too much of Neil Young lately IMHO I think RP should have a separate Neil Young stream just for Neil Young and his brainwashed disciples. |
| pvg44 (Wayland, MA) | Posted: Oct 17, 2012 - 06:20 zenhead wrote: i'd put this in the list of best albums ever. neil at his best. Totally agree. This song in particular is so simple yet so heartfelt. Beautiful; I could listen to it for hours. |
| mgkiwi (North of South and a little East of West) | Posted: Oct 17, 2012 - 06:20 Sorry Neil, but sometimes you sing a right load of old bollocks! Altogether now "sing a load of bollocks, make loadsa money, yeah yeah yeah" ![]() |
| zenhead (Maine) | Posted: Oct 17, 2012 - 06:16 i'd put this in the list of best albums ever. neil at his best. |
| TimmyMack (Brooklyn, New York) | Posted: Aug 31, 2012 - 05:54 A classic album from a legend ! |
| Ghiaap (Haarlo, The Netherlands) | Posted: Aug 15, 2012 - 05:35 9>10, love Neil. |
| kapetanc (Athens, Greece) | Posted: Jun 29, 2012 - 09:47 This song is just great!!! The whole album is great! |
| steeler (Perched on the precipice of the cauldron of truth) | Posted: Jun 29, 2012 - 09:30 Such a cohesive, wonderful album that moved a very different set of emotions than After the Gold Rush, which was another fantastic album. |
| KaiT (Toronto Canada) | Posted: May 28, 2012 - 12:16 gemtag wrote: Neil is the best. He should teach Dylan how to play harmonica. In 1960, before "Blowin’in the Wind," Bob Dylan was paid $50 for playing the harmonica on a Harry Belafonte album. I think he was overpaid. |
| KaiT (Toronto Canada) | Posted: May 28, 2012 - 12:13 See the lonely boy, |
| linzie | Posted: Apr 10, 2012 - 15:44 Rozsa wrote: RP been playing way too much of Neil Young lately IMHO never enuff.....ever |
| Eros92450 (Loveland, Colorado) | Posted: Apr 10, 2012 - 15:44 Peaceful. Thank you! Would be nice to recall all the locations/activities that I associate with this song. |
| Baketown (Maryland) | Posted: Apr 10, 2012 - 15:42 Rozsa wrote: RP been playing way too much of Neil Young lately IMHO No such thing! |
| Rozsa (Züri Oberland) | Posted: Mar 26, 2012 - 01:16 RP been playing way too much of Neil Young lately IMHO |
| Lakeview (Great White North) | Posted: Jan 06, 2012 - 12:09 Just upgraded to Godlike. Thanks Bill. Great afternoon mix. |
| gemtag (Texas) | Posted: Jan 06, 2012 - 12:09 Neil is the best. He should teach Dylan how to play harmonica. |
| Lakeview (Great White North) | Posted: Jan 06, 2012 - 12:08 Geecheeboy wrote: Did you ever try to "fix" a scratch? Gosh I did. Tried everything. rolling it backwards, weighting the needle, even taking a magnifying glass and a needle from mom's sewing. Mixed results. Mostly wasted time and frustration. I hear ya! Back in the days of 8 track tapes I had Led Zep IV on 8 track and, due to the length of the tape I believe it was Misty Mountain Hop in the middle of the album that had to be faded out and then faded back in on the next track. For years I kept awaiting that fade out - obviously not there on anything other than 8 track. |
| helgigermany (Germany) | Posted: Dec 21, 2011 - 21:56 Cream for my soul, thank you! |
| nigelr (Coffs Harbour, Australia) | Posted: Nov 04, 2011 - 02:00 Jelani wrote: I really love this song. I love this album. Can't stand his later screeching and political groaning. Yep, 'dat! |
| On_The_Beach (The Blue Planet) | Posted: Oct 19, 2011 - 14:31 Geecheeboy wrote: Did you ever try to "fix" a scratch? Gosh I did. Tried everything. rolling it backwards, weighting the needle, even taking a magnifying glass and a needle from mom's sewing. Mixed results. Mostly wasted time and frustration. Too funny! By scratch I think you mean "skip"? I too tried the magnifying glass and needle method and had a pretty good success rate. Of course when it doesn't work you end up with a record which still skips and is scratched! |
| Geecheeboy (under a crescent moon and palmetto tree) | Posted: Oct 03, 2011 - 12:56 Jelani wrote: I've got the same thing on Pink Floyd Animals album. I listened to it with that skip for so long that to this day, I still anticipate it every single fucking time, and it doesn't happen on the CD. Maybe I got a touch of the OCD? Did you ever try to "fix" a scratch? Gosh I did. Tried everything. rolling it backwards, weighting the needle, even taking a magnifying glass and a needle from mom's sewing. Mixed results. Mostly wasted time and frustration. |
| pauleywalnuts (Ontario) | Posted: Oct 03, 2011 - 12:14 Awesome! |
| meadowwoods (Dane County, WI) | Posted: Aug 17, 2011 - 13:45 My fave. 10. |
| swell_sailor (The Gorge) | Posted: Aug 17, 2011 - 13:44 That mournful harmonica gets me every time. |
| Jazbo (Beautiful Valparaiso IN.) | Posted: Aug 17, 2011 - 13:43 We still twist the disc here at home and love N.Y.'s (Neil Young) early days.... |
| Jelani (Home of the freak, land of the vague) | Posted: Aug 01, 2011 - 16:33 pauleywalnuts wrote: My vinyl copy of Harvest bought in 72 as a teenager got played and played and played. It got scratched and developed a skip right at the line "think I'll pack it in and buy a p... up" Didn't matter, it still got played over and over. To this day even with a pristine new digitally remastered version on cd I still here that skip in my head every time I play the song... I have that with some albums that I also had on 8-track. Where the song faded down to do the track change, I still fade it in my head. and there was one nasty skip in Zappa's "Apostrophe" album that I can't not hear... I've got the same thing on Pink Floyd Animals album. I listened to it with that skip for so long that to this day, I still anticipate it every single fucking time, and it doesn't happen on the CD. Maybe I got a touch of the OCD? |
| Jelani (Home of the freak, land of the vague) | Posted: Aug 01, 2011 - 16:29 I really love this song. I love this album. Can't stand his later screeching and political groaning. |
| HazzeSwede (Vinyl Land) | Posted: Jul 01, 2011 - 19:13 gigikent wrote: Never too many ones for a neil young song! Right,this one sure is an eleven ,11! |
| gigikent | Posted: Jul 01, 2011 - 07:22 Never too many ones for a neil young song! |
| sdgserv (Palm Springs) | Posted: Apr 13, 2011 - 08:31 Neil used hang out and practice in a bar I worked at. Songwriter yes.. musician yes.. singer damn it hurt.. |
| unclehud (300 feet above the planet) | Posted: Apr 13, 2011 - 08:28 dmax wrote: I have that with some albums that I also had on 8-track. Where the song faded down to do the track change, I still fade it in my head. and there was one nasty skip in Zappa's "Apostrophe" album that I can't not hear... Ahhh yes! Just another thing the younger generation will never experience. "Hiss -pop, hiss-pop, hiss-pop." |
| jerrieberrie (Omaha) | Posted: Mar 28, 2011 - 12:16 chadlymn wrote: His voice makes my ears bleed...... This graphic makes my eyes bleed. |
| svenji | Posted: Mar 28, 2011 - 12:13 chadlymn wrote: His voice makes my ears bleed...... Use some acid to clean them (your ears) maybe they wont bleed any more. |
| martinc (Ottawa Canada) | Posted: Mar 28, 2011 - 12:12 Neil won a Juno last night, Canada music gala ... alternative adult album of the year. oh yeah and artist of year beating out the Bieber kid. |
| (former member) | Posted: Mar 28, 2011 - 12:10 pauleywalnuts wrote: My vinyl copy of Harvest bought in 72 as a teenager got played and played and played. It got scratched and developed a skip right at the line "think I'll pack it in and buy a p... up" Didn't matter, it still got played over and over. To this day even with a pristine new digitally remastered version on cd I still here that skip in my head every time I play the song... I have that with some albums that I also had on 8-track. Where the song faded down to do the track change, I still fade it in my head. and there was one nasty skip in Zappa's "Apostrophe" album that I can't not hear... |
| Johnny-smooth (On my bicycle) | Posted: Feb 09, 2011 - 12:15 Businessgypsy wrote: The soundtrack of my wonderfully angst filled teenage years. I'm not sure I ever left that angst - Neil's songs still tear me up |
| helgigermany (Germany) | Posted: Dec 08, 2010 - 14:45 Very nice! |
| linzie | Posted: Dec 08, 2010 - 14:43 Soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo......GOOD!! |
| Businessgypsy (Deepest, Darkest Florida) | Posted: Nov 22, 2010 - 17:27 Glencoe_JC wrote: just heart wrenchingly awesome... The soundtrack of my wonderfully angst filled teenage years. |
| Rooney (Near Paradise) | Posted: Oct 06, 2010 - 08:21 mandolin wrote: ...man, neil young is just dragging me down today - good music for the season, but not helping my bright and chipper disposition... agreed. |

