After the Gold Rush is Neil Young's third solo album and was mostly "inspired by the Dean Stockwell-Herb Berman screenplay" of the same name. The album spawned two minor hits, "Only Love Can Break Your Heart" (#16 in Canada, #33 in the U.S.) and "When You Dance I Can Really Love" (#54 Canada, #93 U.S.).
Released shortly after Déjà Vu, his chart-topping album with David Crosby, Stephen Stills and Graham Nash, After the Gold Rush was a bit of a disappointment commercially (reaching number 5 in Canada, 7 in the U.K. and 8 in the U.S.), but received favourable reviews from the critics (AllMusic, Robert Christgau, Pitchfork and Rolling Stone all gave it a perfect score) and is frequently included in best ever lists, such as:
This is one of the first albums I bought for my collection – "tgmartin" inked on the cover is a sure sign that it was with me during my first year at university, when I wanted to distinguish my records from those of Murry Bauman, Rob Armstrong, Keith Martin and John Baer at the house on John Street.
| Origin: | Winnipeg |
| Label: | Reprise |
| Release Date: | 19 September 1970 |
| Producer: | Neil Young and David Briggs with Kendall Pacios |
| Style: | folk rock |
| Mar*Star 125: | 14 |
| Mar*Star 150: | 5 |
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