Decade

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Decade
Neil Young studio album

Publication
(s)

October 28, 1977

Label (s) Reprise Records

Format (s)

CD, LP

Genre (s)

Country rock , folk rock , rock

Title (number)

35

running time

144 min 33 s

production

Elliot Mazer / Neil Young, Tim Mulligan, David Briggs

chronology
American Stars' n Bars
(1977) 		Decade Comes a Time
(1978)

Decade is a triple album by Neil Young released in 1977 with music from the decade 1966-1976. It contains a compilation of 35 songs, including five previously unreleased, and reached number 43 on the Billboard Top Pop Albums chart . It later became a double -CD re-released.

Young's handwritten notes on each song are remarkable.

history

This album, composed by Young himself, represents his roughly ten-year career up to 1977 and contains songs from every album he has released except 4 Way Street and Time Fades Away . The album includes recordings by Buffalo Springfield , Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young , the Stills-Young Band and many solo pieces, including (almost) all of his most important songs of his career, such as: B. Cinnamon Girl , Down by the River , and Cowgirl in the Sand , but also Old Man and Heart of Gold from the Harvest album and the milestones Cortez the Killer and Like a Hurricane .

This album was hailed by many as the best example of a retrospective of a rock 'n' roll artist career and served as the template for many other artist box sets in the 1980s and later . Even so, Decade was used by 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 of creating a self-mythology while his highlights put him on a par with his greatest Generation, such as B. Bob Dylan or the Beatles , but the entire work could not accomplish this. The original article was excluded from later editions. A summary of the original article can be found at the link below.

For many years, Decade was Neil Young's only available compilation album. Lucky Thirteen , released in 1993, only contains songs from 1982 to 1988. It wasn't until 2004 that Reprise Records released a single CD album under the simple title of Greatest Hits .

Since the 1980s, Neil Young has promised his fans to bring out a follow-up collection, occasionally called Decade II or Archives , the size of which should be between a box set and a complete series of audio and video releases. In the meantime, the archive 2006 includes the live album Live at the Fillmore East from 1970 with the original Crazy Horse together with Danny Whitten and in 2007 the live album Live at Massey Hall from 1971.

Original version

Originally, Decade should have appeared in 1976. The album, withdrawn at the last minute by Young, included the two additional live versions of Don't Cry No Tears, recorded in Japan in 1976, and Pushed It over the End, recorded in 1974, as well as additional commentary 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 an audio verite approach than satisfying the public demands for a repetition 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. "

Previously unreleased songs

  • Down to the Wire comes from the unreleased Buffalo Springfield album Stampede .
  • Love Is a Rose was a small hit by Linda Ronstadt in 1975 .
  • Winterlong was covered by the Pixies on the Neil Young tribute album The Bridge in 1989 .
  • Campaigner is one of several political songs that take a critical look at Richard Nixon .
  • Long May You Run is mixed differently on this album than on Long May You Run (by Stephen Stills and Young) and contains the harmonies from CSNY before Crosby & Nash left the recording sessions.

Track list

CD 1
  1. Down to the Wire - 2:25 *
  2. Burned - 2:14
  3. Mr. Soul - 2:41
  4. Broken Arrow - 6:13
  5. Expecting to Fly - 3:44
  6. Sugar Mountain - 5:43 *
  7. I Am a Child - 2:17
  8. The Loner - 3:50
  9. The Old Laughing Lady - 5:59
  10. Cinnamon Girl - 2:59
  11. Down by the River - 9:16 am
  12. Cowgirl in the Sand - 10:01 am
  13. I Believe in You - 3:27
  14. After the Gold Rush - 3:45
  15. Southern Man - 5:31
  16. Helpless - 3:34
CD 2
  1. Ohio - 2:56
  2. Soldier - 2:28
  3. Old Man - 3:21
  4. A Man Needs a Maid - 3:58
  5. Harvest - 3:08
  6. Heart of Gold - 3:06
  7. Star of Bethlehem - 2:46
  8. The Needle and the Damage Done - 2:02
  9. Tonight's the Night [Part 1] - 4:41
  10. Tired Eyes - 4:33
  11. Walk On - 2:40
  12. For the Turnstiles - 3:01
  13. Winter long - 3:05 *
  14. Deep Forbidden Lake - 3:39 *
  15. Like a Hurricane - 8:16 am
  16. Love Is a Rose - 2:16 *
  17. Cortez the Killer - 7:29
  18. Campaigner - 3:30 *
  19. Long May You Run - 3:48

(*) previously unpublished songs

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Paul Williams: Neil Young: Love To Burn , pp. 115, ISBN 0-934558-19-1 .

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