Re-Ac-Tor (studio album) by Neil Young & Crazy Horse
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Re-Ac-Tor is ranked 10th best out of 27 albums by Neil Young & Crazy Horse on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Neil Young & Crazy Horse is Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere which is ranked number 186 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 8,221.
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The tracks on this album have an average rating of 76 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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80/100  | 09/03/2025 16:28 | Johnnyo | | 77/100 |
75/100 | 07/22/2025 13:01 | mattmaster | | 80/100 |
70/100 | 06/28/2025 14:05 | steve397 | | 76/100 |
80/100 | 04/10/2025 02:42 | brent13 | | 72/100 |
50/100 | 03/15/2025 04:57 |  AAL2014 | | 75/100 |
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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 64.7/100, a mean average of 63.6/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 64.1/100. The standard deviation for this album is 18.1.
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Really not sure why this gets slated so much.
Not Neil’s best by any means but a very decent album. Needs more love I think
VictorVale 12/08/2020 20:52
Bem progressivo, Neil não olha só para o folk.
teague 06/05/2020 20:43
I don't know why so many critics completely panned this when it came out, it's an alright record. Not great by any means, but it just sounds like Neil and Crazy Horse doing what they do. I also don't understand why this is labeled as a new wave record. There are synths on like 3 songs, and they're never structural to the song in any way. Shots has this same synth sample every couple seconds, I think it's supposed to simulate gun sounds. Doesn't sound like a gun to me. Most every song on the record is fine, with one exception. T-Bone. It. Is. AWFUL. There's a grand total of two stupid lines throughout the entire song (Got mashed potatoes / Ain't got no T-Bone), which is just the band dickin' around for 9 whole minutes. Do yourself a favor and skip it. Rest of the album is fine, though Shots does get pretty middling at around 4 and a half minutes in.
Graeme2 10/05/2018 19:24
Decent. Not an overly enjoyable listen down to the horrible production. It sounds like it's been mixed properly pristine and then they decided to try and make it a bit lo-fi but it doesn't quite work. Though it's not classic Neil, it would have been better really rough sounding. Still better than most even when not trying. shots is a belter.
I was working in a record store when this first came out. It was brought home along with probably a dozen other lp's and somehow forgotten. To my surprise I found this hidden gem 2 weeks ago and WOW what a rocker. His guitar tone on this album is just great. Although not Mr. Youngs best, it should not be this low!
Competent garage rock from Neil and co. Not one of his best but enjoyable enough. Not bad.
Not one of NY's masterpieces but still a descent album
Very underrated lp. Shots, Southern Pacific and T-Bone are excellent.
eclab 05/19/2014 07:54
Comes across as extremely lazy.
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