Decade (Neil Young album)

Decade is a 1977 book published by Neil Young triple album with music from the decade from 1966 until 1976. It contains a compilation of 35 songs, with five of them until then were unpublished. It reached the position 43 in the Billboard Top Pop Albums chart. It was later re-released as a double CD.

Noteworthy are the handwritten notes from Young to each song.

History

This self-compiled by Young album represents his entire 10- year-old career until 1977, and includes songs from each of his released album except 4 Way Street and Time Fades Away. On the album recordings of Buffalo Springfield, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, Stills - Young Band, as well as many solo pieces can be found, including (almost) all of his most important songs of his career, such as Cinnamon Girl, Down by the River and Cowgirl in the Sand, but also Old Man and Heart of Gold from the album Harvest, as well as the milestones Cortez the Killer and Like a Hurricane.

This album has been praised by many as the best example of the retrospective of a career of a rock and roll artist and served as inspiration for many in the 80s and later following boxset collections of other artists. Nevertheless Decade was used by the critic Dave Marsh in the original article on Young in the first edition of The Rolling Stone Illustrated History of Rock and Roll to accuse Young to create a self - mythology, while its highlights him his on a level with the greatest generation, for example Bob Dylan or the Beatles set, but the entire oeuvre, this could not be accomplished. The original article was excluded from later editions. A summary of the original article can be found at the link given below.

For many years, Decade was the only available compilation album by Neil Young. The Lucky Thirteen published in 1993 contains only songs of the years 1982 to 1988. Only in 2004 was Reprise Records a single CD album under the simple title Greatest Hits out.

Since the 80s, Young promised fans a follow-up collection, isolated Decade II or archive called to bring out, the scope between a box set and a complete series of audio and video releases is. By now, under the Archives, 2006, the live album Live at the Fillmore East, the live album Live at Massey Hall from 1971 appeared in 1970 with the original Crazy Horse along with Danny Whitten and 2007.

Original version

Originally Decade should appear in 1976, but was withdrawn by Young at the last minute. This album contained the two additional live versions of Do not Cry No Tears, taken in 1976 in Japan and Pushed It Over the End, was added in 1974 as well as additional comments on Time Fades Away. The original comments are:

" 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 on audio verite approach than satisfying the public Demands for a repetition of Harvest. "

" Do not Cry No Tears. Initially titled ' I Wonder ', what this song 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. So I wrote it for myself and the Increasing distance in between me and you. "

Unpublished songs

  • Down to the Wire comes from the unreleased Buffalo Springfield album Stampede. Dr. John (Mac Rebennack ), a pianist from New Orleans to listen to Down to the Wire.
  • Love Is a Rose 1975 was a minor hit by Linda Ronstadt.
  • Winter Long in 1989 was covered by the Pixies on the Neil Young tribute album The Bridge.
  • Campaigner is one of several very political songs, which deals critically with Richard Nixon.
  • The song Long May You Run on the album was mixed differently than on the album Long May You Run, and includes a the harmonies of CSNY complete before Crosby & Nash left the recording sessions.

Title list

(*) Previously unreleased songs

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