Mystery Train [Import]

mystery train [import]

Editorial Reviews
Product Description
Michael and his original band perform 11 blistering rock n' roll tracks. Featrures a duet with Brian Setzer of the Stray Cats. Produced by Lee Rocker. Pepperland. 2005.

Mystery Train,Michael Ubaldini,Rock/Pop

Mystery Train [Import]
Mystery Train
Average customer rating: 2.5 out of 5 stars
  • Strictly album tracks and poorly chosen
  • Neil, the forgotten years.
 Mystery Train
Neil Young
Manufacturer: Umvd Import
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00005ASYY
Release Date: 2001-04-16

Tracks:

  1. Everybody's Rockin'
  2. Little Thing Called Love
  3. Mystery Train
  4. Around the World
  5. California Sunset
  6. Like an Inca
  7. My Boy
  8. Old Ways
  9. Once an Angel
  10. Rainin' in My Heart
  11. Transformer Man
  12. Bright Lights, Big City
  13. Bound for Glory
  14. Betty Lou's Got a New Pair of Shoes

Album Description

Budget-price compilation featuring 14 tracks including, 'Everybody's Rockin'', 'Old Ways' & 'Bound For Glory'. Universal. 2001.

Album Details

Fourteen track assemblage of cuts from Young's years on Geffen Records. He was all over the musical map in this period, experimenting with futuristic electronics, reverting to rockabilly or going even further back to his love of country music. Whatever the facade, it's the song itself that will capture your ear and this turns out to be a great value for those who may have glossed over this important era of his career.

Customer Reviews:

2 out of 5 stars Strictly album tracks and poorly chosen.......2007-04-10

This is an barely passable overview of the Geffen years. It focuses on the wrong albums for the wrong reasons and misses most of the decent material from admittedly spotty albums. The North American compilation of Young's 80s work, Lucky Thirteen, is far superior - it covers more territory (including material from Landing on Water and a pair of great live takes with the Bluenotes), contains rarities and outtakes that usually surpass the album tracks, and works amazingly well as an album on its own. Two of this album's best tracks, Around the World and Transformer Man, are shared with Lucky Thirteen. Buy this compilation only after you pick that one up, and only if you have no plans of picking up the individual albums.

How the songlist breaks down:
From Trans: Little Thing Called Love, Like an Inca, Transformer Man
From Everybody's Rockin': Everybody's Rockin', Mystery Train, Rainin' in My Heart, Bright Lights Big City, Betty Lou's Got a New Pair of Shoes
From Life: Around the World
From Old Ways: California Sunset, My Boy, Old Ways, Once an Angel, Bound for Glory

Trans is three parts synth album and one part terrible hawaii-rock(?) (leftovers from the mercifully cancelled Island in the Sun). This comp selects two of the three Hawaii tracks. Though Like an Inca (an eviscerated version of the unreleased Hitchhiker) is the best of a bad lot, Computer Age or the original version of Sample and Hold would have been much better choices than the execrable "Little Thing Called Love", which sounds like a song written for Sesame Street that its producers rejected for inanity. Augh. "Tranformer Man" is a wonderful song, but it's also included on Lucky Thirteen.

Landing on Water is an acquired taste, but has some good material, and its absence from this compilation is unwarranted. This compilation contains nearly half of the half-hearted country album Old Ways, and not its better half. This album also includes half of the silly fun Everybody's Rockin' album, but not that album's best tracks, Wonderin' and Payola Blues.

In short: look elsewhere first.

3 out of 5 stars Neil, the forgotten years........2005-10-17

This is actually a collection of some of his less popular 80's material. Songs are drawn from the albums "Trans", "Old Ways", "Everybody's Rockin'", and elswhere. His label had problems with some of these songs not sounding "Neil" enough, and though it's not "After The Gold Rush", it's no doubt still Neil. This disc is definitely short on hits, but "Old Ways" and "Transformer Man" are classic, and there's also the title track, which is a cover of the great old Elvis song. While I might not call this essential, it is the missing link between his classic 70's period, and his late 80's "comeback".

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