Decade is back!
NEIL YOUNG TO RELEASE REMASTERED VERSION OF DECADE ON 3 LP SET, DOUBLE CD AND DIGITAL EDITIONS ON JUNE 23
June 23, 2017-- (Burbank, CA) - Neil Young will release his long out of print Decade anthology on June 23, on Reprise Records. Originally released in 1977 on a triple vinyl set and compiled by Young, Tim Mulligan and David Briggs, Decade has long been considered the definitive 35-song collection of material covering the years between1966-1976 - it features Neil Young solo and with Crazy Horse, Buffalo Springfield, CSNY and the Stills-Young Band. Each of the tracks has been remastered with the original artwork and restored with inside photos by Joel Bernstein, Gary Burdan, Henry Diltz and Tom Wilkes. Recently, Decade was re-released to its original 3-LP vinyl configuration for Record Store Day 2017 in a limited pressing. It is now widely available once more on vinyl, as a two CD set and digitally. Click here to purchase. The Decade track listing for the two-CD edition is as follows: DISC 1: 1. Down To The Wire2. Burned3. Mr. Soul4. Broken Arrow5. Expecting To Fly6. Sugar Mountain7. I Am A Child8. The Loner9. The Old Laughing Lady10. Cinnamon Girl11. Down By The River12. Cowgirl In The Sand13. I Believe In You14. After The Gold Rush15. Southern Man16. Helpless DISC 2: 1. Ohio2. Soldier3. Old Man4. A Man Needs A Maid5. Harvest6. Heart Of Gold7. Star Of Bethlehem8. The Needle And The Damage Done9. Tonight's The Night (Part 1)10. Tired Eyes11. Walk On12. For the Turnstiles13. Winterlong14. Deep Forbidden Lake15. Like A Hurricane16. Love Is A Rose17. Cortez The Killer18. Campaigner19. Long May You Run
― grawlix (unperson), Friday, 23 June 2017 13:43 (six years ago) link
Search and destroy this!
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 18 August 2018 04:43 (five years ago) link
Zuma is like half filler, man
― Paul Ponzi, Saturday, 18 August 2018 12:29 (five years ago) link
Glorious filler except the CSNY crap.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 18 August 2018 12:33 (five years ago) link
zuma top 10 sure but my favorite five
1. Tonight's the Night . . . well he shot four men in a cocaine deal2. Rust Never Sleeps . . . where the eagle glides descending3. Everybody Knows This is Nowhere . . . when you dance do your senses tingle and take a chance?4. Harvest . . . see the lonely boy out on the weekend trying to make it pay5. Time Fades Away . . . don't be denied!
― reggie (qualmsley), Saturday, 18 August 2018 13:16 (five years ago) link
i goofed -- my #3 fave should be after the gold rush (ektin i listen to roughly as much as zuma and on the beach)
― reggie (qualmsley), Saturday, 18 August 2018 13:52 (five years ago) link
Disagree twice. Zuma isn't quite my favourite Neil album (third, after Gold Rush and Everybody), but I don't think there's any filler on there--"Through My Sails" is beautiful.
― clemenza, Saturday, 18 August 2018 14:07 (five years ago) link
yeah I was gonna say I like all the songs on Zuma
― The Desus & Mero Chain (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Saturday, 18 August 2018 14:53 (five years ago) link
Yeah, Zuma is one that I listen to all the way through (not true of Harvest, among others, for me)
― Karl Malone, Saturday, 18 August 2018 14:58 (five years ago) link
you guys live Zuma a la 11DD was so awesome, i cried a tiny bit, they did "Like A Hurricane" as encore just for fun
i also really enjoyed the other band (health and beauty), who played On the Beach and covered "Albuquerque" last time i saw them play, they had some truly sizzling jams the vibe was super great across the board but something funny happened and i have to put it somewhere so i will put it here
I found a spot that was ok and the stranger I was standing next to asked me "Do you know Danger Bird?" and I was like "Yeah I have like 5 versions of it at home" and he looked at me straight in the face and said "you're a freak". I didn't know what to say so I shrugged and went back to enjoying the show. Lol.
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Saturday, 18 August 2018 15:57 (five years ago) link
Ha, half of EDD's catalog is basically punk Neil Young.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 18 August 2018 16:00 (five years ago) link
LL salute! Danger bird rulesHarvest would be helped so much if he would have swapped Man Needs a Maid for Bad Fog of Loneliness
― The Desus & Mero Chain (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Saturday, 18 August 2018 16:54 (five years ago) link
"a man needs a maid" is a candidate for most emo song of all time. the symphonic accompaniment is the most plangent thing ever
― reggie (qualmsley), Saturday, 18 August 2018 17:07 (five years ago) link
I love "Bad Fog." If it had been on Harvest, it would have been my favourite song...replacing "A Man Needs a Maid."
― clemenza, Saturday, 18 August 2018 17:11 (five years ago) link
it totally blows my mind that the studio version of that has still not been released
― sleeve, Saturday, 18 August 2018 17:16 (five years ago) link
Isn't the one on Archives just a regular studio version?
― clemenza, Saturday, 18 August 2018 17:17 (five years ago) link
no, it's live at Massey Hall iirc
― sleeve, Saturday, 18 August 2018 17:23 (five years ago) link
no there's a studio version from the Harvest sessions on Archives
― The Desus & Mero Chain (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Saturday, 18 August 2018 17:24 (five years ago) link
ah OK! that's the one I know from long-ago bootlegs
― sleeve, Saturday, 18 August 2018 17:25 (five years ago) link
There’s also a tonight’s the night outtake. I like the symphonic jams on harvest but I could see an argument for replacing them with bad fog and journey through the past ...Through my sails is the best csny track. Zuma has no filler.
― tylerw, Saturday, 18 August 2018 17:26 (five years ago) link
(“Stupid Girl’s vibe is not great but the guitars)
― tylerw, Saturday, 18 August 2018 17:35 (five years ago) link
Harvest starts off with a perfectly chill, mildly melancholic vibe, slow river groove of Out on the Weekend, dreamy title track, but then stuff like A Man Needs a Maid (hilariously ott) is so overwhelming that the album ends up actually not that chill, I go with Harvest Moon for hangovers instead
so yeah would love a more gator less coke-infused (iirc?) London overdubs version of that classic
Zuma is indeed perfect, Through My Sails gorgeous
― niels, Sunday, 19 August 2018 09:15 (five years ago) link
One of my favorite recent covers:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jtcx-zv-ijg
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 19 August 2018 12:03 (five years ago) link
I think Zuma is perfect except for 'Lookin For A Love' which I hate and always skip. Can't understand why 'Through My Sails' could be considered filler and not that clunker. Could've had the slower 'Sedan Delivery' on there instead, or even 'Born To Run'. No real complaints with the list though - Time Fades Away is my #1 pick if I have to.
― whitehallunity, Monday, 20 August 2018 15:21 (five years ago) link
that lee ann womack cover is great
― The Desus & Mero Chain (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 20 August 2018 15:45 (five years ago) link
Indeed, beautiful cover. Awesome pedal steel and fiddle on it. Definitely on the good side of schmaltz.
― Ich bin kein Berliner (alex in mainhattan), Wednesday, 22 August 2018 21:23 (five years ago) link
Alfred OTM
― Scottish Country Twerking (Tom D.), Wednesday, 22 August 2018 21:39 (five years ago) link
That whole album is great
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 22 August 2018 21:41 (five years ago) link
Thanks! Anyone who still thinks of Lee Ann Womack as the "I Hope You Dance" singer should listen to her last three album. Holy shit.
― The Silky Veils of Alfred (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 22 August 2018 21:46 (five years ago) link
"Colorado". Neil and Crazy Horse went high up into their mountaintop Colorado studio with a week's supply of oxygen in tanks but it turned out to be helium. They plowed ahead. If anything I have to admire their willingness to throw any ol' fluff out there and pass it off as a NY&CH album.
― SQUIRREL MEAT!! (Capitaine Jay Vee), Thursday, 24 October 2019 21:24 (four years ago) link
This isn't bad at all.
― billstevejim, Friday, 25 October 2019 20:33 (four years ago) link
w-w-wait a minute fellas! This is the big Neil thread these days:neil young
― dow, Friday, 25 October 2019 23:39 (four years ago) link
I'd destroy these!
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 7 December 2021 04:27 (two years ago) link
no Trans material! A+
― Western® with Bacon Flavor, Tuesday, 7 December 2021 05:12 (two years ago) link
I don't think his weakest moments have anything to do with the intent of doing something topical. He's made plenty of great records - many his best moments - that were direct social or political statements: "Pocahontas," "Rockin' in the Free World," many great anti-drug songs, "After the Gold Rush" "Southern Man," "Sixty to Zero" (not the album version but the great electrified live recording Jimmy McDonough gushed about - it was finally released on Bluenote Café), "Welfare Mothers," and "OHIO." Some of these were even done after CNN and Blitzer were household names. What went wrong is when didacticism and slogans took up his entire focus. Even then he could pull off a good track or two in that mold but there was no way he was going to come up with a great album's worth of them, not even close.
― birdistheword, Tuesday, 7 December 2021 05:25 (two years ago) link
Aw, I love Cripple Creek Ferry - Neil trying to channel the easy vibe of The Band's second LP
― Enjoy the brighter sounds of Analog on CD (stevie), Tuesday, 7 December 2021 11:08 (two years ago) link
How can anyone dislike "Through My Sails"?! It's such an unassuming little tune; it feels like we're hearing Neil sing a lullaby to himself.
― Jimmy Iovine Eat World (bernard snowy), Tuesday, 7 December 2021 13:10 (two years ago) link
yah Through My Sails is great
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 7 December 2021 13:52 (two years ago) link
cripple creek ferry is borderline demented to include on a list of his worst songswhen did you stop listening to his new albums?
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 7 December 2021 13:55 (two years ago) link
I like "There's a World", despite the orchestra it's the last sign of child-like Neil before the mid-70s darkness changed his outlook forever. "Captain Kennedy" isn't quite a good song, but as a character vignette, it's vivid and has a reason to exist.My worst-of would mostly be crude electric throwaways:
We Don't Smoke It No MoreStupid GirlHomegrownMotorcycle MamaWelfare MothersPiece of Crap
― Halfway there but for you, Tuesday, 7 December 2021 15:12 (two years ago) link
yeah stupid girl is a standout pick for worst neil songs of the first half of his career
― nobody like my rap (One Eye Open), Tuesday, 7 December 2021 15:58 (two years ago) link
homegrown was album of the year on the 420 thread
― my hands are always in my pockets or gesturing. (Karl Malone), Tuesday, 7 December 2021 16:13 (two years ago) link
if you are actually talking about *actual worst* not just *worst that i am aware of* every song would be culled from the last 15 or so years
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 7 December 2021 16:17 (two years ago) link
I was using Alfred's 1968 - 2003 limits, and there are several albums even from that era that I haven't heard. The bad later stuff I've heard hasn't stuck in my head at all.
― Halfway there but for you, Tuesday, 7 December 2021 16:24 (two years ago) link
Neil's released enough new (not archival) material since Americana to make a really good single-disc compilation, but you have to sift through at least six albums and some one-offs to get it.
― birdistheword, Tuesday, 7 December 2021 18:06 (two years ago) link
Cripple Creek Ferry is very fun to sing.
― hocus pocus, alakazam (PBKR), Tuesday, 7 December 2021 18:22 (two years ago) link
I've enjoyed most of the new songs he's released in this century, though read and heard enough meh re Colorado and Barn, especially the former, that I may never get to those.
― dow, Tuesday, 7 December 2021 18:32 (two years ago) link
I've defended "Stupid Girl" on here before--love the sound of it...Also love "Through My Sails"; if I step back and try to be objective, I can maybe see someone else finding it too CSN or something (tautological: they're all on it). "Cripple Creek Ferry" (and "Till the Morning Comes") are the most perfect distillation in miniature of Gold Rush's melodic genius.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 7 December 2021 22:19 (two years ago) link
The harmonies on Till The Morning Comes are fantastic
― Enjoy the brighter sounds of Analog on CD (stevie), Wednesday, 8 December 2021 09:46 (two years ago) link
Through My Sails??!!!!?
I’ve never been keen on Rust Never Sleeps (but love Love Rust) because the production is so dull after the preceding records. The only Neil records that actively annoy me are Change Your Mind (destroys the flow on an otherwise great record) and I’m the Ocean (it’s grating). There’s a lot of generic Neil stuff but it doesn’t like *bother* me.
― Chuck_Tatum, Wednesday, 8 December 2021 13:58 (two years ago) link