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Comes a Time
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Track Listings
1 | Goin' Back |
2 | Comes a Time |
3 | Look out for My Love |
4 | Lotta Love |
5 | Peace of Mind |
6 | Human Highway |
7 | Already One |
8 | Field of Opportunity |
9 | Motorcycle Mama |
10 | Four Strong Winds |
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Product Description
Lush arrangements, love lyrics and steel guitar solos rule on this 1978 album, which features harmony vocals by Nicolette Larson. Highlights include Four Strong Winds; Already One; Look Out for My Love and Lotta Love (with Crazy Horse); Comes a Time; Motorcycle Mama; Peace of Mind , and more, 10 in all.
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Often overlooked as it comes between Young's career-defining 1977 three-LP set Decade and the decade-ending Rust Never Sleeps, Comes a Time is a gentle album that includes some of Young's most soft-spoken material. "Lotta Love" became a hit for Nicolette Larson, who adds harmonies throughout the album, and tracks such as "Look Out for My Love" and "Human Highway" are indicative of Young's divergent styles. With four producer credits, six studio listings, an orchestra, and Crazy Horse all on the same album, Comes a Time is an interesting pastiche of all the things that make Young tick. Lacking his usual conceptual thrust, you'll just have to settle for some great songs. --Rob O'Connor
Product details
- Is Discontinued By Manufacturer : No
- Language : English
- Product Dimensions : 5.12 x 5.71 x 0.39 inches; 3.67 ounces
- Manufacturer : Reprise
- Item model number : 2016323
- Original Release Date : 1990
- Date First Available : December 7, 2006
- Label : Reprise
- ASIN : B000002KCV
- Country of Origin : USA
- Number of discs : 1
- Best Sellers Rank: #3,048 in CDs & Vinyl (See Top 100 in CDs & Vinyl)
- #25 in Rock Singer-Songwriters
- #70 in Country Rock (CDs & Vinyl)
- #82 in Folk Rock (CDs & Vinyl)
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"Comes A Time" is definitely no dud. It features Young sounding mostly introspective and longing as acoustic guitars, fiddles, banjo and other electric sounds create a relaxing leaning on a chair on the porch feeling. Sometimes the music evokes images of tree-filled landscapes in full bloom. The album overall feels like a walk through a quiet green meadow.
The opening track, "Goin' Back," sets this mood with delicate guitar, strings and some electric buzzing instrument that, though somewhat bizarre, also works incredibly well for emphasis. The chorus, "I feel like goin' back, back where there's no where to stay" sounds both cryptic and familiar. The mellow music and abstract lyrics combine in a surrealistically gorgeous way that stays somewhat ineffable even after numerous listens. Though the words do suggest a melancholy desire to return to life in a pre-industrial state.
Most of the album preserves this irresistible mood. "Comes A Time" suggests the miraculous inevitability of day to day existence: "This old world keeps turning round / It's a wonder tall tree ain't layin' down" and "that's how we kept what we gave away." A surprising appearance of distorted electric guitar at one point mimicking windshield wipers, doesn't alter the mood at all during "Look Out For My Love." If anything, it intensifies it. Even "Lotta Love," which some strangely consider one of Young's weaker songs, keeps the mood going with its sparse arrangement of guitar, bass, piano and drums. Many likely heard also this song in its far more orchestrated and upbeat Nicolette Larson permutation that climbed the charts in 1978 and 1979.
Lap steel and strings beautifully undergird "Peace of Mind." This atmospheric song almost creates a sensation of floating on one's back in a placid pool. "Human Highway" explodes with folk and country of a Lead Belly and Woody Guthrie type. "How can people get so unkind" reverberates endlessly even after the first listen. "Already One" brings the album back to the mood of "Goin' Back" and "Peace of Mind" before "Field Of Opportunity" rosins the fiddle bows for a redux of "Comes A Time" and "Human Highway."
Then the strange and somewhat incongruous "Motorcycle Mama" gurgles into the serene landscape. Here Young once again becomes unpredictable within an otherwise consistent collection of songs. This one definitely stands out with its defiant stuck in the dirt imagery and churning electric guitar. And Nicolette Larson, who covered "Lotta Love," takes a few verses. The fiddles and electric guitar work surprisingly well together here. Then the album returns to mountains, trees and greenery and some melancholy with "Four Strong Winds," a rare Young cover song by Canadian singer Ian Tyson.
"Comes A Time" often gets compared to Young's highly acclaimed "Harvest" album, but the comparison really doesn't stand. This album more resembles the later "Old Ways," though it's much stronger overall and not quite as doused in mainstream country sounds. Those looking for rocking grungy Neil, side two of "Rust Never Sleeps," will not find it here at all, with the slight exception of "Motorcycle Mama," but that's even relatively toned down. But those seeking the more mellow and ruminating Neil, side one of "Rust Never Sleeps," need look no further. Put it on and head for the hills.
Comes a Time is easily my favorite of his. I love his rough and messed up electric albums, but I love the easy acoustic feel of this one. Adding Nicolette Larson on vocals really sets this album aside from his other work. She adds a great touch.
One sign of what a great album this is, is when I have my library set on shuffle and one of these tracks comes up (especially Look Out For My Love), I have to turn off the shuffle and set it to play the whole album from start to finish.
The other sign of how awesome this album is, is that you can't help but sing along to most of it. It's a great album for driving at night, because you keep yourself awake singing every track (no matter how bad your voice is).
This album is evidence of how amazing the early 70s were. We all focus on the stupid parts of the 70s, but this album goes to show just how much great art was being produced in those days. Shame on you, 90s! :)
Good stuff.