Old Young

Neil Young is one of the greatest rock stars of all time, and after 40 years in the business he certainly deserves a greatest hits collection. But does he deserve this greatest hits collection? There are sixteen tracks, but they're not at all representative of his career.

The first eleven cuts were released between 1969 and 1972, all but one of which appear on just three albums. The first fourteen tracks only go up to 1979. That means the last two songs represent his far from negligible work of the past 25 years.

I bet if his label Warner Bros. took a poll (and for all I know they did), these 16 songs would all be in the top 20 or 25 of fan favorites, but an artist such as Young deserves better.