Despite the albums strong sales, assessments by critics were not overwhelmingly favorable at the time. A negative review was published in Rolling Stone, where 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 — its as if he just added a steel guitar and new words to After The Gold Rush. A review in 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 records best cut. More recent evaluations of the album have been far more positive: in 1998, Q magazine readers voted Harvest to be the 64th greatest album of all time. In 1996, 2000 and 2005, 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 Mitchells Blue in 2000, and to Sloans Twice Removed in the other two polls. In 2003, a full three decades removed from its original harsh assessment, Rolling Stone named Harvest the 78th greatest album of all time. In 2007, Harvest was named the #1 Canadian Album of All Time by Bob Mersereau in his book The Top 100 Canadian Albums. Lyrics: I want to live, I want to give Ive been a miner for a heart of gold. Its these expressions I never give That keep me searching for a heart of gold And Im getting old. Keeps me searching for a heart of gold And Im getting old. Ive been to Hollywood Ive been to Redwood I crossed the ocean for a heart of gold Ive been in my mind, its such a fine line That keeps me searching for a heart of gold And Im getting old. Keeps me searching for a heart of gold And Im getting old. Keep me searching for a heart of gold You keep me searching for a heart of gold And Im growing old. Ive been a miner for a heart of gold. https://youtube/watch?v=T1HBMMDoeug#t=47
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