Editing Harvest (Neil Young album) (section)

==Critical reception==
{{Music ratings
| title = Retrospective professional reviews
| rev1 = [[AllMusic]]
| rev1score = {{Rating|4.5|5}}<ref>{{AllMusic |class=album |tab=review |id=r22504 |first=William |last=Ruhlmann |access-date=2 July 2004 }}</ref>
| rev2 = ''[[Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies|Christgau's Record Guide]]''
| rev2score = B+<ref name="CG">{{cite book|last=Christgau|first=Robert|author-link=Robert Christgau|year=1981|title=[[Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies]]|publisher=[[Ticknor & Fields]]|isbn=089919026X|chapter=Consumer Guide '70s: Y|chapter-url=https://www.robertchristgau.com/get_chap.php?k=Y&bk=70|access-date=March 23, 2019|via=robertchristgau.com}}</ref>
| rev3 = ''[[Encyclopedia of Popular Music]]''
| rev3score = {{Rating|4|5}}<ref>{{cite book |editor1-last=Larkin |editor1-first=Colin |title=The Encyclopedia of Popular Music |date=2007 |publisher=Omnibus |page=1542 |edition=5th concise |ol=11913831M}}</ref>
| rev4 = ''[[MusicHound|MusicHound Rock]]''
| rev4score = 4/5<ref>{{cite book |editor1-last=Graff |editor1-first=Gary |title=MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide |date=1996 |publisher=Visible Ink |location=Detroit |page=754 |ol=8145585M}}</ref>
| rev5 = ''[[Pitchfork (website)|Pitchfork]]''
| rev5score = 9.3/10<ref>{{cite web |work=[[pitchfork.com]] |date=December 11, 2009 |first=Mark |last=Richardson |title=Neil Young: ''Neil Young'' / ''Everybody Knows This is Nowhere'' / ''After the Gold Rush'' / ''Harvest'' > Album Reissue Reviews|url=http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/13771-neil-young-everybody-knows-this-is-nowhere-after-the-gold-rush-harvest/#review-album-14804 |access-date=11 December 2009 }}</ref>
| rev6 = ''[[The Rolling Stone Album Guide]]''
| rev6score = {{Rating|4|5}}<ref>{{cite book |editor1-last=Brackett |editor1-first=Nathan |editor2-last=Hoard |editor2-first=Christian |title=The New Rolling Stone Album Guide |date=2004 |publisher=Simon & Schuster |location=New York |page=899 |edition=4th rev. |ol=21112308M}}</ref>
| rev7 = ''[[Spin Alternative Record Guide]]''
| rev7score = 7/10<ref>{{cite book |last1=Weisbard |first1=Eric |editor1-last=Weisbard |editor1-first=Eric |editor2-last=Marks |editor2-first=Craig |title=Spin Alternative Record Guide |date=1995 |publisher=Vintage Books |location=New York |isbn=0679755748 |page=447 |chapter=Neil Young}}</ref>
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Assessments by critics were not overwhelmingly favorable at the time. ''[[Rolling Stone]]''{{'}}s [[John Mendelsohn (musician)|John Mendelsohn]] called the album a "disappointing retread" of earlier, superior efforts by Young, writing of "the discomfortingly unmistakable resemblance of nearly every song on this album to an earlier Young composition – it's as if he just added a steel guitar and new words to ''[[After The Gold Rush]]''."<ref name=RS1972>{{cite news |newspaper=[[Rolling Stone]] |issue=105 |date=March 30, 1972 |first=John |last=Mendelsohn |author-link=John Mendelsohn (musician) |title=Neil Young ''Harvest'' > Album Review |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/albumreviews/harvest-19720330 |access-date=2 July 2004 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20041013075720/http://www.rollingstone.com/reviews/album/_/id/306863 |archive-date=13 October 2004 }}</ref> A review in ''[[The Gazette (Montreal)|The Montreal Gazette]]'' gave the album a mixed verdict, calling it "embarrassing" in places but interesting lyrically, and singling out "Are You Ready for the Country?" as the record's best cut.<ref name="Montreal Gazette">{{cite journal |last1=Mann |first1=Bill |date=March 11, 1972 |title=A Big Month for Home Brews |journal=[[Montreal Gazette]] |publisher=Gazette Printing Company Ltd. |pages=50 |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=DBQyAAAAIBAJ&pg=7002,5665524&dq }}</ref> Reappraising the record in ''[[Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies]]'' (1981), ''[[Village Voice]]'' critic [[Robert Christgau]] wrote:

{{blockquote|Anticipation and mindless instant acceptance made for critical overreaction when this came out, but it stands as proof that the genteel Young has his charms, just like the sloppy one. Rhythmically it's a little wooden, and Young is guilty of self-imitation on "Alabama" and pomposity on the unbearable [[London Symphony Orchestra]] opus "There's a World." But those two excepted, even the slightest songs here are gratifying musically, and two of them are major indeed—"The Needle and the Damage Done" and the much-maligned (by feminists as well as those critics of the London Symphony Orchestra) "A Man Needs a Maid."<ref name="CG"/>}}

More recent evaluations of the album have been far more positive: in 1998, [[Q (magazine)|''Q'' magazine]] readers voted ''Harvest'' the 64th greatest album of all time. In 1996, 2000 and 2005, ''[[Chart (magazine)|Chart]]'' polled readers to determine the 50 greatest Canadian albums of all time – ''Harvest'' placed second in all three polls, losing the top spot to [[Joni Mitchell]]'s ''[[Blue (Joni Mitchell album)|Blue]]'' in 2000, and to [[Sloan (band)|Sloan]]'s ''[[Twice Removed]]'' in the other two years. In 2003, a full three decades removed from its original harsh assessment, ''Rolling Stone'' named ''Harvest'' the 78th [[Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time|greatest album of all time]],<ref name=RS500>{{cite book |chapter=78 &#124; Harvest – Neil Young |chapter-url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/500-greatest-albums-of-all-time-19691231/harvest-neil-young-19691231 |access-date=5 April 2006 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060316135517/http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/6598085/78_harvest/ |archive-date=16 March 2006 |last=Levy |first=Joe |author2=Steven Van Zandt  |title=[[Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time]] |orig-year=2005 |edition=3rd |year=2006 |publisher=Turnaround |location=London |isbn=1-932958-61-4 |oclc=70672814 |ref=RS500}}</ref> then was re-ranked 82nd in a 2012 revised list,<ref>{{cite web| url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/500-greatest-albums-of-all-time-156826/neil-young-harvest-158644/|year=2012| title=500 Greatest Albums of All Time Rolling Stone's definitive list of the 500 greatest albums of all time| publisher=[[Rolling Stone]]| access-date= September 23, 2019}}</ref> and re-ranked 72nd in the 2020 list.<ref>{{Cite magazine|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/best-albums-of-all-time-1062063/neil-young-harvest-2-1063161/|title=Harvest ranked 72nd greatest album by Rolling Stone magazine|magazine=Rolling Stone|access-date=11 August 2021}}</ref> In 2007, ''Harvest'' was named the No. 1 Canadian Album of All Time by [[Bob Mersereau]] in his book ''[[The Top 100 Canadian Albums]]''. The album was featured in [[Classic Rock (magazine)|TeamRock]]'s list of "The 10 Essential Country Rock Albums".<ref>{{cite web |url= http://teamrock.com/feature/2016-09-04/the-10-essential-country-rock-albums|title= The 10 Essential Country Rock Albums|last1= Ewing|first1= Jerry|date= September 5, 2016|website= [[Classic Rock (magazine)|TeamRock]]|access-date= September 12, 2016}}</ref> It was voted number 93 in [[Colin Larkin (writer)|Colin Larkin]]'s ''[[All Time Top 1000 Albums]]'' 3rd Edition (2000).<ref name="Larkin">{{cite book|title=[[All Time Top 1000 Albums]]|editor=Colin Larkin|editor-link=Colin Larkin (writer)|publisher=[[Virgin Books]]|date=2000|edition=3rd|isbn=0-7535-0493-6|page=73}}</ref>