Broken Arrow
by Neil Young & Crazy Horse

Broken Arrow by Neil Young & Crazy Horse
Year: 1996
Release date: 1996-07-02
Overall rank: 8,608th   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
72/100 (from 100 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 1996 (166th)
Award Top albums of of the 1990s (1,374th)
Award Best albums of all time (8,608th)

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Neil Young & Crazy Horse bestography

Broken Arrow is ranked 36th best out of 98 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 14,171.

Neil Young & Crazy Horse album bestography « Higher ranked (8,552nd)
Live At The Fillmore East
This album (8,608th)
Broken Arrow
Lower ranked (8,786th) »
Greendale

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Broken Arrow rankings summary
Overall rank: 8,608th | 1990s rank: 1,374th | 1996 rank: 166th  Overall chart history
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72/100 (from 100 votes)
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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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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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Not good but somethings wrong with vocal
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85/100
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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