Time fades away
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| Live album by Neil Young | ||||
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Publication |
1973 |
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| Label (s) | Reprise Records | |||
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Format (s) |
LP |
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Title (number) |
8th |
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running time |
34 min 37 s |
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Time Fades Away is a live album by Neil Young released by Reprise Records in 1973 .
background
The recordings were made during Young's 90-day tour following the very successful release of Harvest . Time Fades Away comes from his so-called "Ditch Period" or "Doom Period", consisting of the album and the two releases On the Beach and Tonight's the Night . The music of this time is characterized by a dark and desperate undertone, among other things triggered by the death of Crazy Horse guitarist Danny Whitten , with whom Young was long friends, in 1972. Time Fades Away consists exclusively of previously unreleased material. A poster with the lyrics was included with the album. There was no new edition as CD.
Track list
All songs were written by Neil Young.
- Time Fades Away - 5:36
- Journey Through the Past - 3:19
- Yonder Stands the Sinner - 3:17
- LA - 3:11
- Love in Mind - 2:02
- Don`t Be Denied - 5:18
- The Bridge - 3:05
- Last Dance - 8:45
occupation
- Neil Young - vocals , guitar (on songs 1, 3, 4, 6, and 8); Harmonica (on 1 and 7); Piano (on 2, 5, 7)
- Ben Keith - vocals (on 1, 4, 6 and 8); Slide guitar (on 1, 3, 4, 6 and 8)
- Jack Nitzsche - piano (on 1, 3, 4, 6 and 8), vocals (on song 6)
- Johnny Barbata - drums (on 1, 3, 4, 6 and 8)
- Tim Drummond - bass on 1, 3, 6 and 8)
- David Crosby - vocals (on 3 and 8); Guitar (on song 3)
- Graham Nash - vocals and guitar (on song 8)
- Joe Yankee - bass (on song 4)
The name 'Joe Yankee' is a pseudonym of Neil Young.
Chart successes
Time Fades Away reached number 22 on the Billboard 200 and was awarded gold by the RIAA in December 1973 .
reception
- The music journalist Robert Christgau judged that Time Fades Away is not a hopeless throwaway product or a hasty live album. Young's backing band Stray Gators supported him as well as Crazy Horse could have. Christgau awarded an A.
- Mark Deming wrote on Allmusic that the album shows the difficult zeitgeist of the USA of the 1970s in a way that few rock musicians dared. Some of the songs are the most powerful performances that Young ever recorded on vinyl. The evaluation was Time Fades Away four out of five stars.
- For Rolling Stone , Bud Scoppa summed up that Time Fades Away is not the standard live album of a successful artist and that there are some mistakes in the performance, so that Young made a startlingly unorthodox album here - a peculiarity of one of the most peculiar rock artists. And if the recordings hadn't been a resounding success, Time Fades Away would still be a meaningful self-portrait of a fascinating person.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Time Fades Away at discogs.com
- ↑ Time Fades Away at sputnikmusic.com
- ↑ Time Fades Away at thrasherswheat.org
- ↑ Photos at discogs.com
- ↑ Time Fades Away at thrasherswheat.org
- ↑ Joe Yankee at discogs.com
- ↑ Chart success at allmusic.com
- ↑ Youngs sales successes
- ↑ Reviews at robertchristgau.com
- ↑ Time Fades Away at allmusic.com
- ^ Review at rollingstone.com
Studio albums: Neil Young (1968) | Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere (1968) | After the Gold Rush (1970) | Harvest (1972) | On the Beach (1974) | Tonight's the Night (1975) | Zuma (1975) | American Stars' n Bars (1977) | Comes a Time (1978) | Rust Never Sleeps (1979) | Hawks & Doves (1980) | Re-ac-tor (1981) | Trans (1982) | Everybody's Rockin ' (1983) | Old Ways (1985) | Landing on Water (1986) | Life (1987) | This Note's for You (1987) | Freedom (1989) | Ragged Glory (1990) | Harvest Moon (1992) | Sleeps with Angels (1994) | Mirror Ball (1995) | Broken Arrow (1996) | Silver & Gold (2000) | Are You Passionate? (2002) | Greendale (2003) | Prairie Wind (2005) | Living with War (2006) | Chrome Dreams II (2007) | Fork in the Road (2009) | Le Noise (2010) | Americana (2012) | Psychedelic Pill (2012) | A Letter Home (2014) | Storytone (2014) | The Monsanto Years (2015) | Peace Trail (2016) | Hitchhiker (2017) | The Visitor (2017) Colorado (2019)
Live albums: Time Fades Away (1973) | Live Rust (1979) | Weld (1991) | Arc (1991) | Unplugged (1993) | Year of the Horse | (1997) | Road Rock Vol. 1 (2000) | Live at the Fillmore East (2006) | Live at Massey Hall 1971 (2007) | Live in San Francisco (2007) | Sugar Mountain - Live at Canterbury House 1968 (2008) | Dreamin 'Man Live '92 (2009) | A Treasure (2011) | Cow Palace 1986 (2012) | Live at the Cellar Door (2013) | Bluenote Café (2015) | Earth (2016)