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Don't look for a narrative, it's an Art Film. A series of vignettes referencing the South and a commentary on religion as opiate. See it for the live footage of Buffalo Springfield and CSNY. Don't look for a narrative, it's an Art Film. A series of vignettes referencing the South and a commentary on religion as opiate. See it for the live footage of Buffalo Springfield and CSNY. Don't look for a narrative, it's an Art Film. A series of vignettes referencing the South and a commentary on religion as opiate. See it for the live footage of Buffalo Springfield and CSNY.

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Review: Journey Through the Past: Neil Young’s Before and After

by Lee Zimmerman December 13, 2023, 4:00 am

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Neil young before and after reprise 3.5 out of five stars.

Neil Young is either the most prolific artist on the planet or the most obsessive. Of course, either way, it’s easily understood and he’s happily forgiven given his dense catalog and the generosity he demonstrates by releasing any number of archival offerings at a rate so frequent it’s dazzling in its design.

Young’s newest effort, Before and After , falls somewhere between a revisit and a historical supplement or sorts. It’s comprised of 13 songs culled from his expansive career, among them, such Buffalo Springfield classics as “Mr. Soul,” “Burned,” and “On the Way Home,” all of which are delivered in stripped-down settings that dramatically change the tone and tempo.  

Other offerings are particularly well suited to the acoustic treatment applied here, among them, “Comes A Time,” “Mother Earth” and “Birds” in particular, all of which were originally rendered in a similarly mellow, stargazing style. With that in mind, one has to wonder why Young opted to revisit those particular tracks. No matter though; they continue to rank as among the most timeless tracks in his entire repertoire. 

[RELATED: A Continuing Saga of Love and Meaning Behind Neil Young’s “Harvest Moon”]

The previously unreleased “If You Got Love” offers one of the real incentives here, and notably, despite its fairly straight-ahead motif, it also bears one of the album’s richest arrangements, courtesy of pump organ, piano, harmonica, and guitar. 

That said, many of the songs included here could be considered obscurities, numbers known only to Young’s most fastidious fans and followers. “A Dream That Can Last” is but one example, a mournful melody that’s markedly sobering and subdued, as is Young’s trademark tact.

Given that these performances take on a sparse demo-like approach, the intimacy is obvious and revealing, as if the listener is eavesdropping on the artist at a particularly vulnerable moment, or even more likely, while he’s simply opting to run through some songs for his own pleasure and satisfaction. That feeling is compounded by the fact that the tracks merge into one another as if recorded in one quick session. Notably, the album finds legendary producer Lou Adler at the helm, adding to the sense that this is a homecoming of sorts, an informal exchange between longtime pals. 

The older generation, they have something to say, but they better say it fast or get out of the way , Young declares in “When I Hold You In My Arms,” an otherwise affecting love song.  He’s never been reticent to take his own advice. 

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When Neil Young Took an Odd ‘Journey Through the Past’

Journey Through the Past remains one of the odder pieces in the Neil Young puzzle. This two-disc soundtrack, released on Nov. 7, 1972, was no way to cap Young's brightest year as a solo artist.

Young's  Harvest  had been one of 1972's biggest sellers, and the hit singles "Old Man" and "Heart of Gold" helped make Neil Young a household name in his own right. Yet, Young – in what might be seen with historical hindsight as a typical move for this endlessly idiosyncratic artist – decided to follow up those triumphs with music from a largely inexplicable film of the same name. Journey Through the Past might best be described as Young's loose, experimental take on a documentary.

That said, the film features some interesting moments from Young's then-relatively short history. Recordings from concert and television appearances by Buffalo Springfield (Hollywood Palace, 1967) and Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young (a blistering live version of "Ohio") are among the highlights.

Elsewhere, there are scraps from his solo years – including a 16-minute "Words," a fragment of "Are You Ready for the Country?" and a partial take on "Alabama" that crumbles away before emerging as "God Bless America," which is topped off with an excerpt of a Richard Nixon speech.

Listen to Neil Young Perform 'Words'

The final side of the set features various classical pieces from Journey Through the Past , ending with the Beach Boys ' "Let's Go Away for a While," a beautiful instrumental from the Pet Sounds album.

Perhaps unsurprisingly, Journey Through the Past barely made a dent in the charts – and, to this day, the album remains one of the only Young titles never to be reissued. Time Fades Away , its follow-up, is another glaring omission. The film, however, was released on DVD as part of Young's Archives box set.

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1972 Directed by Neil Young

Everybody look what's goin' down...

Self-directed combination of concert footage from 1966 onward, backstage footage and art film-like sequences.

Neil Young David Crosby Graham Nash Stephen Stills Carrie Snodgress

Director Director

Producers producers.

L.A. Johnson Will Mitchell

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Cinematography cinematography.

David Myers

Executive Producer Exec. Producer

Elliot Rabinowitz

Sound Sound

L.A. Johnson

New Line Cinema

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07 nov 1972, releases by country.

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Review by Stonefolk ★★★★

I guess I’m just the kinda guy who thinks a long take of Neil and Carrie pulling their old car over to get out and smoke a joint is better than most critically lauded films. 🤷‍♂️ I think about that shot constantly. It really does represent some kind of beautiful, hazy ideal.

Review by dankwit

rock stardom is pulling over your vintage automobile in the scenic woods to get out and share a joint with your actress wife, filming the entire thing, and dropping it uncut in the middle of your directorial debut

Review by Evan “Kaizō Haya-shill” Pincus ★★★ 3

Move over David Bowie? Isn't that the guy from Tin Machine? and The Velvet Underground? You mean Doug Yule's band? ... my new shtick is Neil Young the filmmaker has music too?

Yes, I know it's pretty much impossible to avoid his better-known career when watching his movies, but even for a guy who got sued by his label for making albums too weird to sell, his flicks really are something else entirely. Even his wildest musical experiments have their lineage in something obvious- Trans takes cues from synthpop, his Dead Man score from the soundscapes of Loren MazzaCane Connors... with his movies, especially his quasi-documentaries, the only influence I can see is all that reefer he was smoking. Otherwise, this…

Review by petra ★★★½

It was a directorial debut, so I'll be gentle. This film doesn't know what it wants to be. It's part concert performance, part off-stage goofing and part art film sequences. It is not done in the greatest way, but it was done either way.

I loved the splash, it was a nice splash. As well as Neil Young's speech about that Buick right afterwards.

Review by Derek Operle ★★★★ 2

loved when all of csny talked about the financial potential for the legalization of weed

Review by Nacho Casal

'We translate into words, in order to reassure ourselves.

And some day, the words - the reassurance by way of words - won't be necessary.

Review by momoe_nakanishi ★★★★

The things going through him and on around him at the time, stage persona and private person. Performances, backstage, rehearsal and tour footage, skits, scenes from America, plus this larger unfinished dream of a fiction film. Or maybe just scenes of which he couldn’t piece together in any other way. Maybe. Somewhere between Instrument and Renaldo and Clara, so somewhere good. A very nice experience.

Review by Nick R ★★½

Cut this down so you've got just footage of Neil smoking doobs, CSNY performances, and a few flashes of weird fictional imagery and you might have a minor masterpiece on your hands.

As is... uhhh Neil have you ever seen a movie, or only heard of them? Really, though, I have a scholarly curiosity about what underground movies he might've seen to even think to make this mess.

That soundtrack record, however - especially the 16 minute version of "Words," one of the great achievements of American music - is perfect as is.

Review by Cameren Lee ★★★½

A friend showed me his VHS bootleg of this. Is the image of Neil and his then-wife sharing a joint as they sit on the front of his jalopy not the definitive picture of marital bliss?

Review by Garret Kriston ★★★★

When it comes to indulgent experimental documentaries by classic rock icons, Bob Dylan’s work benefits from being more effortlessly intellectual, whereas Neil Young is kind of just a really stoned guy. On the other hand, Journey Through the Past is not quite 80 minutes, looks great, sounds great…so I can definitely get down with screening it every now and then along with other assorted NY related viewing materials.

Even though Neil seems to have haphazardly cobbled a bunch of barely related home movie scraps together with little aesthetic agenda beyond reaching a respectable feature length, the film at least approaches feeling of a piece with other post-hippy American independent cinema of the period…think Jon Jost or Robert Kramer, or even…

Review by reilly

pretty short, which has its pros and cons. any bad or boring idea or footage isn’t around long enough to drag, but those bits that are tantalizing and are engaging don’t get the chance to fully hit the highs one would expect. I will certainly revisit this in a higher quality but it’s certainly an interesting film and will at the very least get you listening to Neil a lot

Review by mounteerie ★★★★

YMMV but I'm a shill for Neil Young and this is some neat old footage of him, CSNY, and America, plus weird Jodorowsky style segments. Can be watched as a meditative piece, or put on in the background to set a mood.

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Neil Young – Journey Through the Past (1974)

At first glance, you might dismiss Journey Through the Past as just another sci-fi quickie. Please DON’T do that. This 75-minute, R-rated musical documentary is a probing portrait of rock star Neil Young. The film begins in 1966, when Young was still with Buffalo Springfield, and concludes in “the present”-1972, that is. Also appearing are Neil Young’s faithful companions Stephen Stills, Richie Furay, Dewey Martin, David Crosby and Graham Nash. Songs include “Only Love Can Break Your Heart” and “Heart of Gold.” The direction of Journey Through the Past is credited to one “Bernard Shakey”-who also goes by the name of Neil Young ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

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This documentary about rock musician Neil Young covers his life from 1966 through 1972, and his involvement with the bands Buffalo Springfield, and Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young are chronicled. Band mates Stephen Stills, Richie Furay, David Crosby, and Graham Nash are featured and Young's classic songs "Only Love Can Break Your Heart" and "Heart of Gold" are performed.

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