His willfulness could be as much a hindrance as an attribute - famously, Geffen Records sued him for delivering albums that were "uncharacteristic" - but his muse also led to a series of distinctive, indelible albums whose legacy sometimes only revealed itself over time eventually, the electro experiments of 1982's Trans were acknowledged as an artistic achievement, not a commercial disaster. Over the years, Young would tap back into these different sounds and personas, but his avoidance of the middle of the road pushed him into eccentric territory his singer/songwriter peers would generally avoid. Traveling there soon became a bore so I headed for the ditch." Young wrote this passage for the liner notes of Decade, a double-disc compilation that documented the first part of his career, ten years that took him from the pioneering Los Angeles rock & roll band Buffalo Springfield, through emergence as a lone folk-rock troubadour and his alliance with Crosby, Stills & Nash, to his noisy, rambling wanderings with Crazy Horse. Looking back at the blockbuster success of "Heart of Gold," the mellow country-rock tune that became his first number one single and only Billboard Top 40 hit in 1971, Neil Young remarked that the song "put me in the middle of the road.
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