Harvest Moon
by Neil Young
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Neil Young bestography
Harvest Moon is ranked 7th best out of 98 albums by Neil Young on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Neil Young is After The Gold Rush which is ranked number 83 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 14,015.
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Harvest Moon track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 81 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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Harvest Moon rankings
Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). Click to see how the rankings are calculated (Last updated: 4 hours ago)
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 |  AAL2014 | Top 61 Music Albums of 1992 | 22/61 | 3 |
| 2026 |  rambleon80 | Top 20 Music Albums of 1992 | 13/20 | 2 |
| 2026 |  meccalecca | Top 100 Music Albums of 1992 | 30/100 | 4 |
| 2026 |  NowhereMan | Top 13 Music Albums of 1992 | 2/13 | 5 |
| 2026 |  baystateoftheart | Top 47 Music Albums of the 1990s | 29/47 | 8 |
| 2026 |  Tamthebam | Top 90 Music Albums of 1992 | 9/90 | 5 |
| 2026 | amirmishali | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1990s | 6/100 | 19 |
| 2026 | Skerns | Top 91 Music Albums of the 1990s | 38/91 | 12 |
| 2026 | henrygreen0203 | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1990s | 57/100 | 9 |
| 2026 | adbrack1988 | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1990s | 37/100 | 13 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 384 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 1,959 | |||
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Harvest Moon ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 09/03/2026 17:48 | conallmalone | 1,743 | 74/100 |
| ! | 07/12/2026 20:06 | liquidbottle | 775 | 82/100 |
| ! | 06/22/2026 13:48 | TroutMaskGreg | 1,828 | 69/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 2% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 78.6/100, a mean average of 77.4/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 78.8/100. The standard deviation for this album is 14.5.
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buzzdainer TOP 100 COMMENTER 09/02/2016 19:04 | #174108 | TOP COMMENT
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Neil Young has a knack for making exactly the album his most ardent fans don't want at any given moment. In 1992, on the heels of what was arguably his loudest, most feedback-drenched tour, the one that produced the live albums Arc and Weld, Neil Young recorded...a folk album? The sequel to his then twenty-year-old Harvest? The thing is, Harvest Moon is great. These are some of the warmest, most endearing, most emotionally vulnerable songs of Neil's career. I especially love "From Hank to Hendrix," which might sound a tad dated now (the reference to Madonna as a sex symbol seems almost hopelessly retro) but is still one of my favorite songs to play on the guitar.
mickilennial 03/16/2014 22:35 | #106503 | TOP COMMENT
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The sequel to Harvest is maybe even better. Seriously this is one of my favorite Young releases and is when I decided I was a fan of him as an artist as a whole.
teague TOP 100 COMMENTER 06/14/2020 01:49 | #253493 | TOP COMMENT
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Neil Young finally brings us the sequel to Harvest, which his record label had been begging for (basically on their hands and knees) the entirety of the last decade. And it does not disappoint. Harvest Moon is lush, nostalgic, and heavenly. The title track, Unknown Legend, and Natural Beauty are the highlights, but every song on the record is worth a listen. This is easily in his top ten.
After turning up the gain on two albums (what's with other people saying this marked a break from 80's experimentalism? Did they forget about Freedom and Ragged Glory?), Neil slows things down with this return to country rock and, what do you know, the old man's still got it!
Neil's heralded follow-up to the Harvest LP, with many people from those sessions reprising their roles.
The results are decent. Aside from retreading You and Me (sounds too much like Old Man), the record takes solid songs and treats them with light acoustic production.
Side One is mostly great, especially the dark War of Man. Side Two has Jack Nitzsche returning to arrange the disappointing Such a Woman. There's also the hokey Old King, for fans who enjoy disciplining dogs. Natural Beauty would be great if it was less than four minutes, but Dreamin' Man and One of These Days make up for the disappointments.
Despite the flaws, it's one of Neil's finest country-folk records. Highly Recommended.
A Side: Harvest Moon
B Side: From Hank to Hendrix
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