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3 LPs on 2 CDs, recorded between 1966 and 1976.Personnel includes: Neil Young (vocals, guitar); Buffalo Springfield, Crosby, Stills, Nash, Crazy Horse.Compilation producers: N...Read more
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Neil's Catalog Deserves More Collections Like This
Covering the first ten years of any artist's career can be challenging to fill two LPs, but when Decade was first released, it took three records to hold the magnificent songw...Read more
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PEOPLE PLEASE JUST REVIEW THE CD!!!
Great CD on the classic Neil Young (late 60's-mid 70's). The review is about a CD review - it ticks me off when people say nothing about the music on the CD, so they give it a...Read more

Decade by Neil Young (CD, Jan-1988, 2 Discs, Reprise)

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Album Features
UPC:075992723329
Artist:Neil Young
Format:CD
Release Year:1988
Record Label:Reprise
Genre:Country Rock, Rock & Pop
Number Of Discs:2

Track Listing
DISC 1:
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. Loner, The
9. Old Laughing Lady, The
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

DISC 2:
1. Ohio
2. Soldier
3. Old Man
4. Man Needs a Maid, A
5. Harvest
6. Heart of Gold
7. Star of Bethlehem
8. Needle and the Damage Done, The
9. Tonight's the Night, Pt. 1
10. Tired Eyes
11. Walk On
12. For the Turnstiles
13. Winterlong
14. Deep Forbidden Lake
15. Like a Hurricane
16. Love Is a Rose
17. Cortez the Killer
18. Campaigner
19. Long May You Run

Details
Playing Time:144 min.
Contributing Artists:Crazy Horse, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, Buffalo Springfield, Stills-Young Band
Distributor:WEA (Distributor)
Recording Type:Studio
Recording Mode:Stereo
SPAR Code:n/a

Album Notes
3 LPs on 2 CDs, recorded between 1966 and 1976.Personnel includes: Neil Young (vocals, guitar); Buffalo Springfield, Crosby, Stills, Nash, Crazy Horse.Compilation producers: Neil Young, Tim Mulligan, David Briggs.Personnel: Neil Young (vocals, guitar, harmonica).Covering the years between 1966-1976, DECADE is a solid overview that shows off the many sides of the always iconoclastic Neil Young. Starting with Young's work in Buffalo Springfield, some of the nuggets include the psychedelic calliope that is "Down To The Wire" and the fuzz guitar/Motown-inspired "Mr. Soul." Throughout these ten years of recordings, Young constantly dug deep, touching on controversial topics be it his CSN&Y masterpiece about the student massacre at Kent State ("Ohio"), compositions dealing with the ups and downs of the drug culture ("Needle And The Damage Done," "Tonight's The Night") or history's dark chapters of racial injustice ("Cortez The Killer," "Southern Man").Neil Young's choice of accompanists also allowed him to explore many different avenues. Crazy Horse provided the sonic wallop that bore such fruit as "Like A Hurricane," whereas The Stray Gators provided the springboard for more countrycentric numbers like "Heart Of Gold" and "Harvest." Other welcome inclusions are "Star Of Bethlehem" and "Deep Forbidden Lake," from HOMEGROWN, the unreleased sequel to HARVEST. The solid material on this compilation and accompanying liner notes by Neil Young make this an essential part of any record collection.

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4 Stars - Excellent - ...reaching back to his Buffalo Springfield days, it has many of his finest [and] nothing that wastes space...
Q (19930801)

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Neil's Catalog Deserves More Collections Like This

Created: 10/07/07
Covering the first ten years of any artist's career can be challenging to fill two LPs, but when Decade was first released, it took three records to hold the magnificent songwriting and performance that began Neil Young's career. This collection, later released on two CDs, is packed with classics, and demonstrates what we knew then to be a master storyteller at his craft.

This compilation didn't stop with hits like 'Heart Of Gold' and 'Southern Man', or with work Young did with Buffalo Springfield and Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young ('Ohio' being a shining example with the latter): this 2-CD set also gave some lesser-known tracks their due, like the thoughtful track 'Campaigner' or the melodic 'Winterlong', (both of which seem to appear only on this collection), or the deeper cuts from underappreciated albums like Tonight's The Night or American Stars 'n' Bars.

It's a shame that Reprise Records never caught on to release any further collections from the next three decades of music that followed, other than a simple 'Greatest Hits' package that includes eleven songs already compiled on Decade. Songs like 'Lotta Love' from the Comes A Time album are noticeably absent, even though the title track is there, and many of his albums are completely left off. Decades 2, 3 and 4 were the collections that never were, but should have been.

If you're looking for Neil Young's hits and not much more, the 2004 Greatest Hits package might be right up your alley. But if you're more than just the casual rock fan, looking to see how Neil progressed during his early years into the superstar he became in the mid-'70s and beyond, Decade holds a lot that you can grab onto.
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PEOPLE PLEASE JUST REVIEW THE CD!!!

Created: 16/01/10
Great CD on the classic Neil Young (late 60's-mid 70's). The review is about a CD review - it ticks me off when people say nothing about the music on the CD, so they give it a "1" star because of shipping charges (wow-see below that .35 cents extra must of put you in foreclosure) or the CD was not pristine condition blah blah. DON'T post a review unless you are reviewing the CD/album!?! Enuff of my bitching for today.

Buy this CD and buy Rust Never Sleeps (Hey Hey My My) or Weld (w/a live version of Rockin in the Free World). The 2004 GH CD has most of the 70's hits and incl. Hey Hey My My & Rockin in the Free World. As a Neil Young fan, I like a lot of songs that didn't make this CD (Everybody Knows this is Nowhere, Tell Me Why (one of my fav's why didn't this make it??)Don't Let It Bring You Down, Will to Love etc.)But most of the songs were on the radio or recognizable if you know Neil's music enough. So a definite buy from this reviewer - not a bad replacement for the albums (yeah I probably have all the albums from CSNY to Rust Never Sleeps incl Harvest Moon another good one), a GH compilation is not "all-inclusive" but at least this one is a recommended buy, esp. if you like the older classic Neil & who doesn't?
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Neil Young - Decade

Created: 11/02/08
"Decade" is a 2 disc set of Neil Young's best work in the first decade of his musical career. The reason I purchased this is because I personally think it contains more of his greatest hits than "Greatest Hits". "Greatest Hits" culled out to much of what makes Neil one of my favorite artists. I can do without hearing "Hey Hey My My" or "Rockin' In The Free World", those are great songs but they're not "Tonight's The Night", "For the Turnstiles" or "Cortez The Killer". Hmmm, 35 tracks or 16?
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Created: 13/10/09
Neil Young is the finest of the Seattle Sound ever. I have been a fan of his for decades and always will be. Every song is wonderful which very rare to find with most artists. I will play this CD until it is burned through. Rock On! Excellent all the way.
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A pleasure, as always

Created: 20/06/10
I bought this CD originally back in 1992. It has been misplaced so I bought another one. This is one that should always be in your music collection. So many songs that weren't given radio air time are on this CD. As always, it's a pleasure to hear Neil Young. Brings back many memories.
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