Offiziellecharts.de – Neil Young – Chrome Dreams II" (in German). GfK Entertainment Charts. Retrieved October 29, 2022. Neil Young – Chrome Dreams II. and Live Archives coming up – Ordinary People". Bad News Beat . Retrieved 2007-11-28. Kreps, Daniel (June 30, 2023). "Neil Young Is Finally Releasing His Long-Lost Album Chrome Dreams". Rolling Stone . Retrieved August 11, 2023. Neil Young: Chrome Dreams II" (in Finnish). Musiikkituottajat – IFPI Finland. Retrieved October 29, 2022.

a b Mitchum, Rob (August 7, 2023). "Neil Young – Chrome Dreams". Uncut . Retrieved August 11, 2023. 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. 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. But “lost” overstates the obscurity of Chrome Dreams, which was originally slated for release in 1977. Bootlegs have sat behind store counters and shady URLs for decades, and Young himself stripped it for parts almost immediately, reassigning songs to American Stars & Bars and Decade, re-recording others for Rust Never Sleep s. In recent years, he delegated Chrome Dreams exclusives to other lost records that jumped the line; most notably with the solo versions of “Pocahontas” and “Powderfinger” that came out in 2017 on Hitchhiker.The album in question is Chrome Dreams a non-release dating from 1977 that was confusingly ‘followed up’ in 2007 by Chrome Dreams II. 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. New Neil Young Album: "Chrome Dreams II" Set for Release October 16th". Warner Bros. Records . Retrieved 2007-11-28. [ dead link] All these releases come amid Young’s ongoing series of archival reissues. In April last year, he released the ‘Official Release Series Volume 4’ box set, comprising three classic albums from the 1980s – one of his own, and two collaborative efforts – as well as a rare EP that was only ever sold in Australia and Japan.

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. Stringman,” is another original performance, included on the Odeon/Budokan disc in Archives Vol. II; prior to that, the song had only appeared on Young’s Unplugged album in a later version, not the original. Hasty, Katie (2007-10-31). "Underwood Leads Three Country Debuts Onto Chart". Billboard.com . Retrieved 2007-11-28. Neil Young – guitar, vocal; Frank “Poncho” Sampedro – guitar; Billy Talbot – bass, vocal; Ralph Molina – drums, vocalThe 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. Young will embark on his first tour in several years this weekend, performing a solo acousticrun of the West Coast which will focus on songs he's never played live. Austriancharts.at – Neil Young – Chrome Dreams" (in German). Hung Medien. Retrieved August 29, 2023. Recorded everywhere from Indigo Ranch Studio in Malibu, California to Quadrafonic Sound Studios in Nashville, Tennessee to Hammersmith Apollo in London, Chrome Dreams is not just a living, breathing full moon; it’s a document of a prolific, all-time era in Young’s career that never truly was. In 1977, he released the middle-of-the-road American Stars ‘n Bars—which was heavily shouldered by “Like a Hurricane”—and then, in 1978, he put out his country-focused Comes a Time—which was headlined by “Four Strong Winds,” a song Young didn’t even write.

Writing in The Guardian, Alexis Petridis opined that the album "could have been Young's strongest album of the 70s". [4]Alexis Petridis. "CD: Neil Young, Chrome Dreams II | Music | The Guardian". Music.guardian.co.uk . Retrieved 2015-06-03. 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.” 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. so after going through 4 copies of 2 different pressings, i'm finally happy to have landed on a 'quite' flat, very clean EU pressing. actually all of the copies i got very exceptionally clean. but as written before, all of them were warped. it was a warp disaster that i haven't experienced before. and that is a shame, especially after waiting for this release for such a long time. so this really is a missed opportunity, because the standard for NY vinyl pressings used to be impeccable. things went downhill for quite some time now.