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Offiziellecharts.de – Neil Young – Chrome Dreams" (in German). GfK Entertainment Charts. Retrieved August 18, 2023. this is my favourite neil young record, and i've waited for an official release of this for a long time now. my feelings are mixed. so here is a short rundown of my 2023 chrome dreams experience. 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.”

Neil Young: Chrome Dreams II" (in Finnish). Musiikkituottajat – IFPI Finland. Retrieved October 29, 2022. 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. Alexis Petridis. "CD: Neil Young, Chrome Dreams II | Music | The Guardian". Music.guardian.co.uk . Retrieved 2015-06-03.

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It’s fair to say that Neil Young has ‘lost’ more albums than most and next month another legendary long-player that was ‘mislaid’ in the 1970s is given a full commercial release. Dutchcharts.nl – Neil Young – Chrome Dreams II" (in Dutch). Hung Medien. Retrieved October 29, 2022.

The summer 2023 release as it is coming to life now is exactly how Young perceives it and has a sense of monumentality about it that conveys a place in history,” Reprise said of the album. 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. 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.Neil Young – Chrome Dreams II – Review – Uncut.co.uk". Archived from the original on July 26, 2008 . Retrieved 2015-06-03. Weiss, Dan (2009-02-06). "It's Not Your Parents' Grammy Awards — Or Is It?". SPIN . Retrieved 2015-06-03. Neil Young – guitar, vocal; Frank “Poncho” Sampedro – guitar, vocals; Billy Talbot – bass; Ralph Molina – drums, vocal According to Young, ‘Toast’ is “an album that stands on its own in [his] collection”. He cited the record’s melancholic tone as a reason why it never left the studio, explaining in last May’s aforementioned blog post: “Unlike any other, ‘Toast’ was so sad that I couldn’t put it out. I just skipped it and went on to do another album in its place. I couldn’t handle it at that time. 2001.” a b Erlewine, Stephen Thomas (August 16, 2023). "Neil Young: Chrome Dreams Album Review". Pitchfork . Retrieved August 17, 2023.

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