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Neil Young - Chrome Dreams II Audio CD

A fair review of the Neil Young "Chrome Dreams II" Audio CD. Please note that the below review is the views of the authors, and authors only. You can get a complete list of all Neil Young reviews here, or go back to the Neil Young tabs.

Neil Young Band: Neil Young
Title: Chrome Dreams II
Rating:
Release Date: 2007-10-23
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Beautiful Bluebird 3:30 2: Boxcar 3:15 3: Ordinary People 18:13 4: Shining Light 4:33 5: The Believer 2:38 6: Spirit Road 5:01 7: Dirty Old Man 2:52 8: Ever After 3:32 9: No Hidden Path 11:31 10: The Way 5:15

Chrome Dreams II
The album was met by generally positive reviews and Allmusic, Q and Uncut gave it 4 stars but Rolling Stones, The Guardian and Metro gave it 3 stars. Chrome Dreams II being Young's 30th studio album and his 2007 release is a continuation of Chrome Dreams which was supposed to have been released in 1977 but as of this day remains unreleased. I feel inclined to give it 3. 5 stars but since I can not then I give it 3. The album is quite uneven. Tracks such as boxcar and beautiful bluebird are quite good. However, Ordinary people is a rambling 18 minute track that seems happy to just ramble. The booklet is very nice with all the lyrics included, a list of whom plays what and some very nice photographs. 3/5.


A waste
OK, one and one-half times. I could only listen to this CD twice. It is a simple-minded muddle, performed poorly. As to all the five-star reviews, now I know better than to pay any attention to that. .


good collection of songs
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. 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". 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.

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Dave

Nothing more to say. Excellent mix of slow classic Young tunes with Crazy Horse type rockers.
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Good CD, Neil... not your best, but worth $10.
Check it out!. If you like Neil, and have $10 to spare, this might be worth your money.


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