Re-Ac-Tor (studio album) by Neil Young & Crazy Horse

Re-Ac-Tor by Neil Young & Crazy Horse
Year: 1981
Overall rank: 13,291st   Overall chart historyOverall chart history
Average Rating: 
65/100 (from 108 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 1981 (195th)
Award Top albums of the 1980s (1,839th)
Award Best albums of all time (13,291st)

Neil Young & Crazy Horse bestography

Re-Ac-Tor is ranked 16th best out of 26 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 196 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 8,361.

Neil Young & Crazy Horse album bestography « Higher ranked (11,423rd) This album (13,291st) Lower ranked (16,433rd) »
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65/100 (from 108 votes)
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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 64.9/100, a mean average of 63.7/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 64.2/100. The standard deviation for this album is 17.5.

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75/100
From 12/08/2020 20:52
Bem progressivo, Neil não olha só para o folk.
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From 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.
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75/100
From 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.
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From 05/30/2018 18:55
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!
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75/100
From 05/08/2017 17:07
Competent garage rock from Neil and co. Not one of his best but enjoyable enough. Not bad.
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75/100
From 02/22/2017 22:58
Not one of NY's masterpieces but still a descent album
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90/100
From 12/13/2016 17:38
Very underrated lp. Shots, Southern Pacific and T-Bone are excellent.
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70/100
From 05/19/2014 07:54
Comes across as extremely lazy.
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