Neil Young Decade (Remaster)

Release Date: 06/23/2017
Format: 3 X LP
Label: Reprise / WEA
Release type: Triple Vinyl LP Pressing

Decade is a compilation by Neil Young, originally released in 1977 as a triple album. It contains 35 of Young’s songs recorded between 1966 and 1976, among them five tracks that had been unreleased up to that point. It peaked at #43 on the Billboard Top Pop Albums chart, and was certified platinum by the RIAA in 1986. Compiled by Young himself, with his hand-written liner notes about each track, Decade represents almost every album from his career and various affiliations through 1977 with the exception of Four Way Street and Time Fades Away. Of the previously unreleased songs, “Down to the Wire” features the New Orleans pianist Dr. John with Buffalo Springfield on an item from their shelved Stampede album; “Love Is a Rose” was a minor hit for Linda Ronstadt in 1975; “Winterlong” received a cover by Pixies on the Neil Young tribute album from 1989, The Bridge; and “Campaigner” is a Young song critical of Richard Nixon. The track “Long May You Run” is a different mix to that found on the album of the same name, featuring the harmonies of the full Crosby Stills & Nash before David Crosby and Graham Nash left the recording sessions.

1. Down to the Wire
2. Burned
3. Mr. Soul
4. Broken Arrow
5. Expecting to Fly
6. Sugar Mountain
7. I Am a Child
8. The Loner
9. The Old Laughing Lady
10. Cinnamon Girl
11. Down By the River
12. Cowgirl in the Sand
13. I Believe in You
14. After the Gold Rush
15. Southern Man
16. Helpless
17. Ohio
18. Soldier
19. Old Man
20. A Man Needs a Maid
21. Harvest
22. Heart of Gold
23. Star of Bethlehem
24. The Needle and the Damage Done
25. Tonight’s the Night, Pt. 1
26. Tired Eyes
27. Walk on
28. For the Turnstiles
29. Winterlong
30. Deep Forbidden Lake
31. Like a Hurricane
32. Love Is a Rose
33. Cortez the Killer
34. Campaigner
35. Long May You Run