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Neil Young - Decade (2 CD)

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Neil Young - Decade (2 CD)
Year: 1977/1990 Reprise Records | CD#: 7599-27233-2
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Neil Young - Decade (2 CD)


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This is an incredible collection of Neil Young's work. It includes several songs that were previously unreleased.

* "Down to the Wire" is an outtake from Buffalo Springfield Again. It features piano from Dr. John (Mac Rebennack).
* "Winterlong" was recorded during the On The Beach sessions.
* "Deep Forbidden Lake" is from the sessions for Homegrown, one of Neil's unreleased albums.
* "Love Is A Rose" is a song with the same melody as "Dance Dance Dance", a song by Neil given to Crazy Horse for their 1971 album. Linda Ronstadt later recorded "Love Is A Rose".
* "Campaigner" was written during the Stills-Young Band tour in 1976. Promo versions of Decade featured a version of "Campaigner" with a verse that was removed for the retail copies.

Decade also had several rarities…



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* Sugar Mountain was a b-side several times before it ended up on Decade, but had yet to show up on an album. This version was recorded live in concert in Ann Arbor, Michigan on November 9, 1968.
* Like A Hurricane might be a different mix than the version that is on American Stars 'N Bars, and the first pressing of Decade featured a "Like A Hurricane" with a slightly different second verse.
* "Long May You Run" is from the aborted 1976 CSN&Y album sessions. The version on Long May You Run only has the vocals of Stills and Young; this version features vocals from all four.

This is a must-have for any Neil Young fan, not only for the song selection, but also for Neil's hand-written liner notes.

[human-highway-com]





Decade is a triple album compilation by Neil Young, released in 1977, now available on two compact discs. It contains thirty-five of Young's songs recorded between 1966 and 1976, among them five tracks that had been unreleased up to that point. It peaked at #43 on the Billboard Top Pop Albums chart.


About the album:

Compiled by Young himself, with his hand-written notes about each track, representing every album from his career and various affiliations through 1977 with the exception of Four Way Street and Time Fades Away. Of the previously unreleased songs, "Down to the Wire" features the New Orleans pianist Dr. John with Buffalo Springfield on an item from their shelved Stampede album; "Love Is a Rose" was a minor hit for Linda Ronstadt in 1975; "Winterlong" received a cover by Pixies on the Neil Young tribute album from 1989, The Bridge; and "Campaigner" is yet another Young song critical of Richard Nixon. The track "Long May You Run" is a different mix to that found on the album of the same name, featuring the harmonies of the full CSNY before Crosby & Nash left the recording sessions.

The album has been lauded in many quarters as one of the best examples of a career retrospective for a rock and roll artist, and as a template for the box set collections that would follow in the 1980s and beyond. However, in the original article on Young from the first edition of the Rolling Stone Illustrated History of Rock and Roll, critic Dave Marsh used this album to accuse Young of deliberately manufacturing a self-mythology, arguing that while his highlights could be seen to place him on a level with other greats from his generation like Bob Dylan or The Beatles, the particulars of his catalogue did not bear this out. The magazine has since excised the article from subsequent editions; a somewhat messy transcription of it can be found at the link below.

For many years, Decade was the only Neil Young compilation album available. A 1993 compilation called Lucky Thirteen was released, but it only covered Young's 1982-1988 output. It was not until 2004 that Reprise Records released a single-disc retrospective, simply titled Greatest Hits. Since the 1980s, Young has promised fans a follow up collection, variously referred to as Decade II or Archives and ranging in size from a box set to an entire series of audio and/or video releases. In the meantime, the first release of archival material since Decade and Lucky Thirteen would appear in 2006, Live at the Fillmore East, a recording from a 1970 concert featuring Crazy Horse with Danny Whitten. [Wiki]


Alternate early version:

Initially, Decade was to be released in 1976, but was pulled at the last minute by Young. It was shelved until the following year, where it appeared with two songs removed from the original tracklist (a live version of "Don't Cry No Tears" recorded in Japan in 1976, and a live version of "Pushed it Over The End" recorded in 1974). Also removed were the following comments on those two songs and Time Fades Away, from Young's handwritten liner notes:

"Time Fades Away. No songs from this album are included here. It was recorded on my biggest tour ever, 65 shows in 90 days. Money hassles among everyone concerned ruined this tour and record for me but i released it anyway so you folks could see what could happen if you lose it for a while. I was becoming more interested in an audio verite approach than satistfying the public demands for a repition of Harvest."

"Don't Cry No Tears. Initially titled 'I Wonder,' this song was written in 1964. One of my first songs. This is a live recording from Japan with Crazy Horse."

"Pushed It over the End. Recorded live on the road in Chicago, 1974. Thanks to Crosby & Nash's help on the overdubbed chorus, I was able to complete this work. I wrote it for Patty Hearst and her countless brothers and sisters. Also, I wrote it for myself and the increasing distance between me and you."

[Wiki]




The first stop for anybody new to Neil Young's music, this 34-song set (originally released in 1977) traces his growth from Buffalo Springfield and Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young to Crazy Horse to his Harvest band, the Stray Gators. The album defined Young to rock radio the way Hot Rocks determined which Rolling Stones songs would become classics, but this is more than a quickie greatest-hits collection. Rarities and hits–Springfield's "Mr. Soul," CSNY's "Ohio," and Young's "Cinnamon Girl," "Heart of Gold," and the closing "Long May You Run"–develop in thematic and chronological patterns.

[Amazon]




Tracks:

Disc 1:

01. Down to the Wire (2:29)
02. Burned (2:15)
03. Mr. Soul (2:50)
04. Broken Arrow (6:13)
05. Expecting to Fly (3:47)
06. Sugar Mountain (5:41)
07. I Am a Child (2:20)
08. The Loner (3:50)
09. The Old Laughing Lady (5:38)
10. Cinnamon Girl (3:01)
11. Down by the River (9:00)
12. Cowgirl in the Sand (10:03)
13. I Believe in You (3:28)
14. After the Gold Rush (3:46)
15. Southern Man (5:30)
16. Helpless (3:33)


Disc 2:

01. Ohio (2:58)
02. Soldier (2:29)
03. Old Man (3:22)
04. A Man Needs a Maid (4:01)
05. Harvest (3:10)
06. Heart of Gold (3:07)
07. Star of Bethlehem (2:43)
08. The Needle and the Damage Done (2:06)
09. Tonight's the Night, Part 1 (4:42)
10. Tired Eyes (4:33)
11. Walk On (2:41)
12. For the Turnstiles (3:01)
13. Winterlong (3:08)
14. Deep Forbidden Lake (3:42)
15. Like a Hurricane (8:17)
16. Love Is a Rose (2:17)
17. Cortez the Killer (7:32)
18. Campaigner (3:30)
19. Long May You Run (3:48)




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