Neil Young

This collection of Neil Young's radio hits may seem like a watered-down version of Decade to some, while to others it could come across as the perfect amount of his more familiar cuts. Either way, you can't deny the monumental influence these songs continue to have on longhairs with guitars and stoic songwriters alike.

This flunks any reasonable redundancy test big-time--almost everything on it is from an album worth owning. Note, however. that 11 of the 16 tracks are 1971 or earlier, and also that there isn't a second that doesn't fit beautifully, "Heart of Gold" and "Harvest Moon" included. At the very least, an excellent conversion tool. (Grade - )