Excellent Good Fair Poor : VIDEOCASSETTES

“Neil Young in Berlin.” VidAmerica. $29.95. Director Michael Lindsay-Hogg does a fine job of maintaining the intimacy that works so well in concert videos. Still, this isn’t the essential Neil Young collection because the 1983 “Trans” tour was not his most gripping series of shows. Techno-rock numbers like “Computer Age” left the concerts merely another eccentric sidestep in the singer-songwriter’s long though fascinating career. Young connects best when he puts aside his Kraftwerk trappings and hones in on such richly satisfying material as “After the Gold Rush” and “Hurricane.” 1/2