Neil Young - Chrome Dreams II
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Artist: Neil YoungEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2007-10-23
Music Label: Reprise / Wea
Soundtracks:
- Beautiful Bluebird 3:30
- Boxcar 3:15
- Ordinary People 18:13
- Shining Light 4:33
- The Believer 2:38
- Spirit Road 5:01
- Dirty Old Man 2:52
- Ever After 3:32
- No Hidden Path 11:31
- The Way 5:15
Music reviews of Chrome Dreams II
Music Review: good collection of songs
Rating: 4 Stars
I'm not a Neil Young completist by any stretch but when I first put this CD on I felt the urge to email a friend to tell him I'd discovered the best Neil album since "Rust Never Sleeps". But at that point I'd only listened to the first three songs and I thought it might be prudent to wait til I'd heard the entire album. Naturally the CD is front-loaded with the best songs but this is still a good album.
Definitely better than "Sleeps With Angels", and for my taste preferable to "Prairie Wind" or "Harvest Moon", though your mileage may vary.
The long and the short of is that if you lined up every recording artist who had or started a legacy in the 1960s, Neil is #1, the top of the pack when it comes to still being relevant in the 21st century, with David Bowie's 90's renaissance bringing him in at #2. If only there was a 6CD box set containing "Decade II", "Decade III", and "Decade IV". If you like "Comes a Time" or "Rust Never Sleeps" you'll enjoy this album.
Description of Chrome Dreams II
What we have here is easily Mr. Young's finest work in years, one that erases the memory of his well-intentioned but anemic 2006 protest album, Living with War. Recorded using analog gear, with Crazy Horse drummer Ralph Molina, pedal steel guitarist Ben Keith, and Rick Rosas on bass, CD2 manages to sound both home-grown and experimental. It's the work of an artist still not afraid to take chances, who also knows what his strengths are and doesn't stray too far from them. Trainspotters will note that three of the ten songs were written but never released before, while we all might puzzle over the title. Chrome Dreams is the name of an unreleased album from 1977. So, why is this Chrome Dreams II? Is it a similar case to 1992's Harvest Moon, when Young went back to the virtual land of his 1972 hit Harvest to write more material in that vein? As the original was reportedly lost in a fire, we may never know. Chrome Dreams II offers up gorgeous, plaintive laments and country-tinged numbers sung in that achy breaky, heart-on-sleeve voice of Young's, as well as ragged barn-storming rockers delivered with a growl. There's even an 18-minute dirge that excitedly mixes R&B back-up horns with searing electric guitar leads! Wow. --Mike McGonigalAlbum-Oriented Rock (AOR) CDs
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