Neil Young & Crazy Horse. Zuma (1975)

Zuma is a rock album by Neil Young with Crazy Horse released in 1975. It was named after Zuma Beach in Malibu.

Zuma was the first album released after the famed Ditch Trilogy, comprising the albums Time Fades Away, Tonight's the Night, and On the Beach. It has an overall more upbeat atmosphere, with a combination of country-tinged rock acoustics and lumbering hard-rock pieces similar in style to songs on Young's second album, Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere. As on the latter album, Young is backed up by Crazy Horse with the lased in 1975. It was named after Zuma Beach in Malibu.

Track Listing

All songs written by Neil Young.

Side One

1. "Don't Cry No Tears" – 2:34
2. "Danger Bird" – 6:54
3. "Pardon My Heart" – 3:49
4. "Lookin' For A Love" – 3:17
5. "Barstool Blues" – 3:02

Side Two

1. "Stupid Girl" – 3:13
2. "Drive Back" – 3:32
3. "Cortez the Killer" – 7:29
4. "Through My Sails" – 2:41

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Neil Young. Chrome Dreams (1977)

Chrome Dreams is the name of a 1977 unreleased album by Neil Young, and also of an acetate from that period which claimed to be of that album.

Jimmy McDonough's Shakey: Neil Young's Biography supports the claim that Chrome Dreams is indeed a bootlegged acetate with said title. A document that accompanied the acetate (which Young's archivist Joel Bernstein has denounced as a fake) gave the impression that Young had officially given Chrome Dreams as the title, inspired by rumours in the press of a new album with the same title. Young is quoted as saying "What Chrome Dreams really was, was a sketch that [David] Briggs drew of a grille and front of a '55 Chrysler, and if you turned it on its end, it was this beautiful chick...I called it Chrome Dreams." (McDonough)

On October 23, 2007, Neil Young released a new album entitled Chrome Dreams II.

Chrome Dreams features a large amount of still-unreleased material. The version of "Powderfinger" included is the original acoustic demo, while the "Sedan Delivery" featured is at a slower pace than the Rust Never Sleeps take and contains an additional verse. "Pocahontas" is the same version heard on Rust Never Sleeps without overdubs. "Hold Back the Tears" is a radically different take compared to the one that appears on American Stars 'N Bars, also featuring additional lyrics. "Too Far Gone" would not see release until 1989's Freedom. It is presented on Chrome Dreams with Crazy Horse's Frank "Poncho" Sampedro accompanying Young on a 1917 mandolin. "Stringman", a piano ballad, was (according to Shakey) written for Jack Nitzsche and is presented as a performance from Young's 1976 European tour with slight studio overdubs. Eighteen years later Young revived it for his Unplugged performance, never having released the song as a studio track. "Homegrown" here is a different mix than the version on American Stars 'n Bars. The rest of the songs are for the most part identical to their releases on subsequent albums.

Track listing

Side one

1. "Pocahontas" – 3:24
2. "Will to Love" – 7:11
3. "Star of Bethlehem" – 2:42
4. "Like a Hurricane" – 8:14
5. "Too Far Gone" – 2:41

Side two

1. "Hold Back the Tears" – 5:16
2. "Homegrown" – 2:20
3. "Captain Kennedy" – 2:55
4. "Stringman" – 3:32
5. "Sedan Delivery" – 5:22
6. "Powderfinger" – 3:23
7. "Look Out for My Love" – 4:06

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Neil Young. Chrome Dreams II (2007)

Chrome Dreams II is the 30th studio album by Canadian rock musician Neil Young. The album was released on October 23, 2007. The album is a sequel to Chrome Dreams, a legendary Neil Young album from 1977 that had originally been scheduled for release but was shelved in favor of American Stars 'N Bars. Chrome Dreams II was produced by Young and Niko Bolas (aka The Volume Dealers), and features the ensemble of Crazy Horse drummer Ralph Molina, pedal steel guitarist and dobro player Ben Keith (Harvest, Comes A Time, Harvest Moon) and bassist Rick Rosas (Freedom, Living With War, This Note's for You). The Blue Note Horns are on one track, "Ordinary People," and The Young People’s Chorus of New York City on "The Way." Most of the recording was done live with few overdubs at Feelgood's Garage studio near Redwood City, California, with two vintage gas pumps out front and vintage studio gear inside.

The first three songs of Chrome Dreams II date from the 1980s. "Beautiful Bluebird" was first recorded for the original version of Old Ways that was shelved by Geffen Records; "Boxcar" was a track on the unreleased Times Square album, which was scrapped in favor of the more commercially viable Freedom; and "Ordinary People," which was recorded in 1988 for the This Note's for You album, was highly regarded as one of Young's greatest unreleased songs, and was often played live during the "Sponsored By Nobody" tour with The Bluenotes to promote the album. This was the album's first single, and was sent to radio on Monday, September 10th. The length of this track (clocking in at 18:13) makes it hard to program into today's limited radio playlists, so it was initially heard on radio web sites.

A version of Chrome Dreams II with a bonus DVD, containing the album in high resolution 24 bit/96kHz stereo was also released. In addition, there will be a traditional LP pressing of the record with 180 gram vinyl.

The album debuted on the U.S. Billboard 200 chart at number 11, selling about 54,000 copies in its first week.

Track listing

1. "Beautiful Bluebird" - 4:27
2. "Boxcar" - 2:44
3. "Ordinary People" - 18:13
4. "Shining Light" - 4:44
5. "The Believer" - 2:39
6. "Spirit Road" - 6:32
7. "Dirty Old Man" - 3:17
8. "Ever After" - 3:32
9. "No Hidden Path" - 14:31
10. "The Way" - 5:15

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Neil Young. Harvest (1972)

Harvest is an album by Neil Young, which was the best-selling album of 1972. The album featured several high calibre guests, including the London Symphony Orchestra, Linda Ronstadt, Stephen Stills, Graham Nash and James Taylor. Harvest hit #1 on the Billboard Music Charts (North America) pop albums chart, spawning two hit si

ngles, "Old Man," which peaked at #31 on the Billboard Hot 100, and "Heart of Gold," which peaked at #1.

After the supergroup Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young split, Young recruited a new group of country session musicians, which he christened The Stray Gators and recorded a country rock record in Harvest. The record was a massive hit, producing a US number one single in "Heart of Gold". Other songs returned to some usual Young themes: "Alabama" was a rehash of "Southern Man"; "Words" featured a lengthy guitar workout with the band and "The Needle and the Damage Done", a lament for great artists who died of heroin addiction. The album's success caught Young off guard and his first instinct was to back away from stardom. He would later write that "Heart Of Gold put me in the middle of the road. Traveling there soon became a bore so I headed for the ditch. A rougher ride but I saw more interesting people there."

In 1998 Q magazine readers voted Harvest the 64th greatest album of all time. In 1996, 2000 and 2005, Chart's polled readers to determine the 50 greatest Canadian albums of all time; Harvest placed second in all three polls (losing the top spot to Joni Mitchell's Blue in 2000, and to Sloan's Twice Removed in the other two polls). In 2003, Rolling Stone named Harvest the 78th greatest album of all time.

According to a Rolling Stone interview, Young had wanted the album sleeve to biodegrade after the shrink-wrap was broken, but was overruled by the record company on the basis of expense and the possible product loss due to shipping accidents.

Track Listing

1. "Out on the Weekend" – 4:34
2. "Harvest" – 3:11
3. "A Man Needs a Maid"* – 4:05
4. "Heart of Gold" – 3:07
5. "Are You Ready for the Country?" – 3:23
6. "Old Man" – 3:24
7. "There's a World" – 2:59
8. "Alabama" – 4:02
9. "The Needle and the Damage Done" – 2:03
10. "Words (Between the Lines of Age)" – 6:40

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Neil Young. Unplugged (1993)

Unplugged is a 1993 live album by Neil Young. It contains a previously unreleased song "Stringman", that dates from 1976. The taping of the show was also released on VHS.

Personnel

• Neil Young: guitar, harmonica, piano, pump organ, vocal
• Nils Lofgren: guitar, autoharp, accordion, vocal
• Astrid Young: vocal
• Nicolette Larson: vocal
• Ben Keith: dobro
• Spooner Oldham: piano, pump organ
• Tim Drummond: bass
• Oscar Butterworth: drums
• Larry Cragg: broom on "Harvest Moon"

Track Listing

1. "The Old Laughing Lady" – 5:15
2. "Mr. Soul" – 3:54
3. "World on a String" – 3:02
4. "Pocahontas" – 5:06
5. "Stringman" (previously unreleased) – 4:01
6. "Like a Hurricane" – 4:44
7. "The Needle and the Damage Done" – 2:52
8. "Helpless" – 5:48
9. "Harvest Moon" – 5:20
10. "Transformer Man" – 3:36
11. "Unknown Legend" – 4:47
12. "Look Out for My Love" – 5:57
13. "Long May You Run" – 5:22
14. "From Hank to Hendrix" – 5:51

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Neil Young. After The Gold Rush (1970)

After the Gold Rush is the third album by Neil Young, and one of four high-profile albums released by each partner of Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young in the wake of their chart-topping Déjà Vu album of 1970. It peaked at #8 on the Billboard Top Pop Albums chart; two singles taken from the album, "Only Love Can Break Your Heart" and "When You Dance I Can Really Love," made it to #33 and #93 respectively on the Billboard Hot 100.

Track Listing

All songs written by Neil Young except "Oh, Lonesome Me" written by Don Gibson.

1. "Tell Me Why" – 2:54
2. "After the Gold Rush" – 3:45
3. "Only Love Can Break Your Heart" – 3:05
4. "Southern Man" – 5:41
5. "Till the Morning Comes" – 1:17
6. "Oh, Lonesome Me" – 3:47
7. "Don't Let It Bring You Down" – 2:56
8. "Birds" – 2:34
9. "When You Dance I Can Really Love" – 3:44
10. "I Believe in You" – 3:24
11. "Cripple Creek Ferry" – 1:34

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Neil Young. Freedom (1989)

Freedom relaunched Neil Young's career, after a mostly unsuccessful decade. After many arguments (and a lawsuit), Young left Geffen Records and returned to his original label, Reprise, in 1988 with This Note's for You. Freedom, however, brought about a new, critical and commercially successful album in the mold of his 1979 classic album, Rust Never Sleeps. Both albums consist of live songs with the audience track mainly removed. Freedom also contains one song, "Rockin' in the Free World", bookending the album in acoustic and electric variants, a stylistic choice previously featured on Rust Never Sleeps. "Rockin' in the Free World" became, despite its anti-George Bush lyrics and intentions, the defacto anthems of the collapse of communism (specifically the Fall of the Berlin Wall) due to its repeated chorus of 'Keep on Rockin' in the Free World'

Several of the songs on Freedom previously appeared on the Japan and Australia-only EP Eldorado.

An edited cut of the electric version of "Rockin' in The Free World" was also used over the final credits of Michael Moore's film Fahrenheit 9/11, and the song was rereleased as a single at the time of the film's release.

Track Listing:

All songs written by Neil Young, except "On Broadway" (written by Barry Mann, Cynthia Weil, Jerry LeiberMike Stoller). and

1. "Rockin' in the Free World" – 3:38
2. "Crime in the City (Sixty to Zero Part I)" – 8:45
3. "Don't Cry" – 4:14
4. "Hangin' on a Limb" – 4:18
5. "Eldorado" – 6:03
6. "The Ways of Love" – 4:29
7. "Someday" – 5:40
8. "On Broadway" – 4:57
9. "Wrecking Ball" – 5:08
10. "No More" – 6:03
11. "Too Far Gone" – 2:47
12. "Rockin' in the Free World" – 4:41

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