Broken Arrow
by Neil Young & Crazy Horse

Broken Arrow by Neil Young & Crazy Horse
Year: 1996
Overall rank: 8,141st   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
72/100 (from 99 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 1996 (152nd)
Award Top albums of the 1990s (1,317th)
Award Best albums of all time (8,141st)

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Neil Young & Crazy Horse bestography

Broken Arrow is ranked 33rd 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 83 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 14,651.

Neil Young & Crazy Horse album bestography « Higher ranked (8,063rd)
Old Ways
This album (8,141st)
Broken Arrow
Lower ranked (8,341st) »
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Broken Arrow rankings

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Overall rank: 8,141st | 1990s rank: 1,317th | 1996 rank: 152nd

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Average Rating: 
72/100 (from 99 votes)
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12/19/2025 15:10 Beattieboi  Ratings distribution  1864/100
 
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10/15/2025 22:16 ExTeaSea  Ratings distribution  5,13282/100
 
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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 72.2/100, a mean average of 70.4/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 72.2/100. The standard deviation for this album is 15.2.

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75/100
From 02/05/2021 16:51 | #265817
Álbum moderado.. Sem falhas, mas tb sem grandes acertos!
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From 09/18/2020 22:27 | #258388
All of the little flaws Ragged Glory has are omnipresent on Broken Arrow. The songs are long, rambling, and incoherent and they routinely fall apart about halfway through. That being said, it is far from the worst Neil Young has put out.
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From 09/02/2019 16:08 | #242109
Not good but somethings wrong with vocal
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From 01/28/2016 21:52 | #158002
This is a great album with some classic Crazy Horse numbers like Loose Change and Slip Away and Big Time, probably the best song on the album. It's also got an amazing Neil Young ballad called Music Arcade that is a stunner.

I heard all of these songs played for the first time in a small bar called Old Princeton Landing in Half Moon Bay so yes, they mean a lot to me due to that experience, but the songs stand the test all on their own. Should be much higher on this list.
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