Hitchhiker
by Neil Young
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Hitchhiker is ranked 21st best out of 95 albums by Neil Young on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Neil Young is After The Gold Rush which is ranked number 84 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 14,628.
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The tracks on this album have an average rating of 81 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 01/10/2026 21:43 |  Martini | 737 | 96/100 |
| ! | 12/14/2025 03:57 | Proto | 3,920 | 33/100 |
| ! | 12/07/2025 18:21 | matterhornrider | 4,836 | 81/100 |
| ! | 12/05/2025 14:46 | Araldo | 1,471 | 80/100 |
| ! | 10/03/2025 01:27 |  Hayden | 7,439 | 72/100 |
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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 79.4/100, a mean average of 78.8/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 80.0/100. The standard deviation for this album is 13.6.
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teague 09/23/2021 17:02 | #274090
Whoever was stupid enough to not want to release this should have been fired immediately.
LedZep 04/15/2018 22:13 | #212971
Thanks Graeme2, didn't know that. But all the studio talking and the sounds in the background make it look like it's a bunch of demos. Great songs nontheless
Graeme2 04/15/2018 17:12 | #212949
Just a correction on the comments that this is "just a bunch of demos and not a real album". This isn't true. The man himself wanted to release it as an album soon after it was recorded but it was his label that considered it to sound like demos and wouldnt do it.. They wanted them fleshed out. This is what happened and most were heard on later releases in one form or other. I doubt he would have issued this as is unless he considered it a piece of work. Pretty sure he could release endless records of just demos from the past. This is how he originally intended these tracks to be heard. I need to go back this again to see how good it is.
LedZep 04/15/2018 16:05 | #212946
While it's not a real album (just the collection of demos), it works surprisingly well together. It almost feels like the 4th in Time Fades Away - On The Beach - Tonight's The Night series. Fantastic songs, great lyricism, very consistent and creates a cool moody atmosphere. Reminds me of Pink Moon in some aspects, like hearing musician's personal session.
RoundTheBend 01/31/2018 04:56 | #206890
I really like his lyricism, but overall I tune out and get bored quick. Probably more me, but it is what it is. 4 listens in and I've got nothing I really love other than some lyrical ideas. I really liked Human Highway.
This album got me through a cruddy fall semester. I've always enjoyed Neil's more acoustic takes like on Harvest, so when this came out I fired up Tidal and was amazed. He sounds so world-weary and regretful in this session.
One of my favorite Neil acoustic albums. Great versions of Pocahontas, Powderfinger and a lost gem in Hawaii.
It's a bit of a stretch to call it an album, just a bunch of songs Neil Young acoustically recorded in a night's session. But what a collection of songs. Intimate and beautiful. Some are familiar like, Captain Kennedy, and the brilliant, Pocahontas, but there's a couple of unreleased tracks in, Hawaii, and, Give me strength. As I said, not really a proper album, just a bunch of demo's really, but ii's an enjoyable listen.
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