Chrome Dreams

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Alexis Petridis (October 2007). "Neil Young, Chrome Dreams II". The Guardian . Retrieved 25 February 2008. Sixteen years ago, in 2007, Neil Young puzzled quite a few people when he released a new album called Chrome Dreams II. Only his most devoted followers knew that the title was a reference to Chrome Dreams, an entirely different album he had put together in 1977 before shelving it in favor of American Stars ‘n Bars. The original Chrome Dreams leaked out years later as a bootleg drawn from the ’77 acetate, and many fans felt he had made the wrong choice. “In many ways,” Young biographer Jimmy McDonough wrote in his 2002 Young biography, Shakey, “ Chrome Dreams is a more powerful collection than the haphazard collection of American Stars ‘n Bars.” Andy Greene (August 2007). "Neil Young to Release Sequel to Unreleased 1977 Album". Rolling Stone. Archived from the original on September 3, 2007 . Retrieved 26 February 2008.

Recorded at Broken Arrow Ranch, 4/25/1976 with overdubs at Indigo Ranch Recording Studio, 12/3/1976. New Neil Young Album: "Chrome Dreams II" Set for Release October 16th". Warner Bros. Records . Retrieved 2007-11-28. [ dead link]Alexis Petridis. "CD: Neil Young, Chrome Dreams II | Music | The Guardian". Music.guardian.co.uk . Retrieved 2015-06-03. Offiziellecharts.de – Neil Young – Chrome Dreams II" (in German). GfK Entertainment Charts. Retrieved October 29, 2022.

Neil Young’s deep dive into his archives will continue this August with the arrival of what’s considered one of the most mythic and desired items in his vault, his unreleased 1977 album Chrome Dreams. Chrome Dreams is the 44th album by Neil Young. It was first compiled as an acetate for consideration as an album for release in 1977. A copy of the acetate widely circulated as a bootleg in the decades prior to its release. The album was officially released on August 11, 2023 to universal acclaim from critics. Austriancharts.at – Neil Young – Chrome Dreams II" (in German). Hung Medien. Retrieved October 29, 2022. Several years into his prolific archive project, Neil Young’s vault still hasn’t come anywhere near reaching the end. Chrome Dreams, the newest member of Young’s Special Release Series, is possibly the most fabled lost album in his shadow discography, looming so large in fan lore that Young cheekily released a sequel in 2007. Both pale next to Ordinary People, which went unreleased for two decades. You have to be either supremely confident or hugely misguided to believe that any song warrants taking up 18 minutes of your listeners' lives, but nothing here feels superfluous or wasted: it races by in an exhilarating blur of gripping, witty lyrical vignettes - barflies watching a Las Vegas title fight, homeless squatters occupying the derelict factory in which they used to work, a hustler "tryin' to help the people get the drugs to the street" - blasting brass arrangements and guitar solos that sound like anger boiling over. Perversely, Ordinary People is so extraordinary that you wonder at the wisdom of its inclusion here. It's fit to stand alongside anything Young has ever recorded, but it's also 20 years old, which casts the recent material that follows in an unforgiving light.

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Neil Young: Chrome Dreams II" (in Finnish). Musiikkituottajat – IFPI Finland. Retrieved October 29, 2022. Hasty, Katie (2007-10-31). "Underwood Leads Three Country Debuts Onto Chart". Billboard.com . Retrieved 2007-11-28. Finally there's The Way. Gentle, piano-driven and meditative, it comes with both a gorgeous tune and a whopping caveat: the Young People's Chorus of New York City. Inviting a childrens' choir to needlessly dunk a beautiful song in syrup is a cussed, bewildering move. A certain strain of Neil Young fan would expect nothing less. Neil Young – guitar, vocal; Frank “Poncho” Sampedro – guitar; Billy Talbot – bass, vocal; Ralph Molina – drums, vocal Neil Young – guitar, vocal; Frank “Poncho” Sampedro – guitar, vocals; Billy Talbot – bass; Ralph Molina – drums, vocal

Weiss, Dan (2009-02-06). "It's Not Your Parents' Grammy Awards — Or Is It?". SPIN . Retrieved 2015-06-03.Another extended work-out, No Hidden Path, is four minutes shorter, half as inventive and feels five times as long. The Believer and Spirit Road pass unmemorably. But just when the listener starts reflecting on Young's waning abilities, two songs arrive that suggest the fire is far from out. Dirty Old Man offers impossibly grizzled punk: the guitars don't sound distorted so much as decomposed, Young's voice fights to be heard above the sludge, but there's something gleeful about the delivery that suggests a sneaking affection for the song's lecherous, alcoholic protagonist. The album in question is Chrome Dreams a non-release dating from 1977 that was confusingly ‘followed up’ in 2007 by Chrome Dreams II. Offiziellecharts.de – Neil Young – Chrome Dreams" (in German). GfK Entertainment Charts. Retrieved August 18, 2023. As withother albums inYoung's "Special Release Series," this one includesmostly familiar songs –"Pocahontas,""Homegrown,""Sedan Delivery" and "Look Out for My Love," among them. And like those records, the new Chrome Dreamsoffers some of those songs in previously unheard versions and positions them in a new light. Will it replace thefavorites you already know? Probably not. Isit Neil Young's best "Lost" album? Most likely.