Barn (studio album)
by Neil Young & Crazy Horse

Barn by Neil Young & Crazy Horse
Year: 2021
Release date: 2021-12-10
Overall rank: 10,714th   Overall chart historyOverall chart history
Average Rating: 
70/100 (from 44 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 2021 (153rd)
Award Top albums of the 2020s (714th)
Award Best albums of all time (10,714th)

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Neil Young & Crazy Horse bestography

Barn is ranked 44th best out of 94 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 14,838.

Neil Young & Crazy Horse album bestography « Higher ranked (10,684th)
Year Of The Horse
This album (10,714th)
Barn
Lower ranked (11,213th) »
This Note's For You

(N.B. Bestographies include all albums by an artist (and their variations), but do not include albums ranked outside the top 100,000).

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Barn track list

  Track ratingsTrack ratings The tracks on this album have an average rating of 78 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).

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Average Rating: 
70/100 (from 44 votes)
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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 70.2/100, a mean average of 69.8/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 69.8/100. The standard deviation for this album is 10.4.

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70/100
From 02/21/2022 01:52
To me Barn is very much the equivalent of Colorado from a couple of years ago. They sound quite similar. Song of the Season is probably the standout track. Everything else is consistently decent. I do find They Might Be Lost a bit endearing just because of its simplicity. Its a solid album that is probably only worth listening to if you're already a fan.
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From 12/17/2021 08:54
I have to agree. I love Neil Young, an endlessly fascinating artist. And with Crazy Horse, a perfect match (even with Nils Lofgren instead of Frank Sampedro). But his last albums (let's say after "Storytone", which I found quite beautiful, in 2014) are decidedly underwhelming. Charming but underwhelming.
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From 12/13/2021 00:33
More of the same from Crazy Horse with Neil Young at the helm. While performed nicely, nothing really stands out lyrically or musically.

And congratulations to Neil's new US citizenship. Keep on rockin' in the free world!
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