Quoted from adamzero

Almost cut my Hair does have the immortal "let my freak flag fly" line so it can't be all bad.  And you're right, Mr. Kite, some of the crap Neil put out in the 80s is beyond cringe-worthy, more like pure crazy.

Computer cowboy . . . computer cowboy

Yeah the 1980s was a bad period for Neil Young ,but you got to give him credit for not selling out or doing what his label[geffin] told him to play
KEEP ON ROCKIN IN THE FREE WORLD  

Yeah, Neil's probably the only guy in the music industry who got away with screwing David Geffen.  Dylan kinda did too, by jumping back to CBS for Blood on the Tracks.  

As far as Neil goes, I'm a sucker for almost anything.  But Landing on Water is a nadir for me.  I can't believe Neil hasn't rereleased Time Fades Away on CD when this sucker is out there.  Not to mention Trans.  

I'm not sure you could take one song off each one of the Geffen albums and still had a passable album.  

Quoted from mr kite

Yeah the 1980s was a bad period for Neil Young ,but you got to give him credit for not selling out or doing what his label[geffin] told him to play
KEEP ON ROCKIN IN THE FREE WORLD  

To be fair to Neil though, it's hard to think of any 60's artist who wasn't cr*p in the 80's. A decade too far?

Well said.

Quoted from Kevin

To be fair to Neil though, it's hard to think of any 60's artist who wasn't cr*p in the 80's. A decade too far?

Now that's a good challenge.  The best 80s album by an artist who got started in the 1960s?  Any takers?  

Steve Winwood's album with Back in the high life?

It's a toughie. Clapton, The Stones, Beach Boys, Floyd, Dylan, Young, The Who, Macca and George were all dead in the water. The rest were, well, just dead.
I think it's not because their music declined, but that the the world changed. Not just their contempory stuff but the reputations of their past works took a dive. All  had a renaissance in the nineties. I don't recall that many sixties acts at Live Aid (UK), yet Live 8 was stacked with them.
Somehow the world went very silly in the eighties. I used to think it was down to punk.
Something about Stevie Winwood (could be the knitwear) makes me want to punch his lights out (Lionel Ritchie brings on the same urges). He sold though, and to a contempary audience so it's a good call.
I was at my record collecting peak in the eighties, desperately in love with all things sixties, and bugger me if I can remember buying a single post '80 album by any of them.

I like The Byrds, I like Buffalo Springfield and I like some of Neil Young's stuff, but I really don't like what I've heard of CSN&Y.

Quoted from Joost

I like The Byrds, I like Buffalo Springfield and I like some of Neil Young's stuff, but I really don't like what I've heard of CSN&Y.

And to be fair to Nash, your opinion of The Hollies?

Quoted from Kevin

And to be fair to Nash, your opinion of The Hollies?

I haven't heard enough of them to have an opinion.

Wow, that might be the first time ever that I don't have an opinion...  

I'm really enjoying this discussion. I thought it was just me-- that I'd grown out of my youth and lost interest in music. Now it seems that the world was just a silly place, and disco gave way to punk. It's not my fault! *feels better*

But wasn't the eighties also the decade when classic artists became classic?

Quoted from Kevin

And to be fair to Nash, your opinion of The Hollies?

I like the Hollies better than all the bands mentioned including C,S,N,&Y.

GreenApple, I do not think 'Illegal Stills' is available on CD, but I do have my Uncle looking for it as he finds a lot of obscure cd's across the pond and so forth.

Quoted from tkitna

GreenApple, I do not think 'Illegal Stills' is available on CD, but I do have my Uncle looking for it as he finds a lot of obscure cd's across the pond and so forth.

CDUniverse have it:
http://www.cduniverse.com/search/xx/music/pid/1085578/a/Illegal+Stills.htm