Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere

For the title song of this album, see Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere (song). For a cover of this album by Mother Hips, see Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere (Mother Hips album).
Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere
Studio album by
Neil Young with Crazy Horse
ReleasedMay 14, 1969
RecordedJanuary and March 1969
StudioWally Heider's Studio 3 (Hollywood)
Genre
Length40:02
LabelReprise
Producer
Neil Young chronology
Neil Young
(1968) 		Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere
(1969) 		After the Gold Rush
(1970)
Crazy Horse chronology
The Rockets (as the Rockets)
(1968) 		Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere
(1969) 		Crazy Horse
(1971)
Singles from Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere
  1. "Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere" / "The Emperor of Wyoming"
    Released: April 7, 1969
  2. "Down by the River" / "The Losing End (When You're On)"
    Released: May 14, 1969
  3. "Cinnamon Girl" / "Sugar Mountain"
    Released: April 20, 1970[3]

Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere is the second studio album by Canadian-American musician Neil Young, released in May 1969 on Reprise Records, catalogue number RS 6349. His first with longtime backing band Crazy Horse, it emerged as a sleeper hit amid Young's contemporaneous success with Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, ultimately peaking at number 34 on the US Billboard 200 in August 1970 during a 98-week chart stay.[4] It has been certified platinum by the RIAA.

The album is on the list of 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die.[5] In 2003, the album was ranked number 208 on Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time and at number 407 in the 2020 edition.[6] Additionally, it was voted number 124 in the third edition of Colin Larkin's All Time Top 1000 Albums (2000).[7]

  1. ^ "20 Best Second Albums of All Time". Rolling Stone. March 24, 2014. Retrieved November 10, 2016.
  2. ^ Daniel Durchholz; Gary Graff (2012-11-05). Neil Young: Long May You Run: The Illustrated History, Updated Edition. Voyageur Press. p. 76. ISBN 978-0-7603-4411-8.
  3. ^ "Neil Young singles & EP discography". Discogs. Retrieved July 22, 2024.
  4. ^ "Neil Young Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere Chart History". Billboard.com. Retrieved 8 August 2018.
  5. ^ "1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die". discogs.com. Retrieved 2015-04-03.
  6. ^ "The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time". Rolling Stone. 2020-09-22. Retrieved 2020-11-16.
  7. ^ Colin Larkin, ed. (2006). All Time Top 1000 Albums (3rd ed.). Virgin Books. p. 81. ISBN 0-7535-0493-6.