2009 Reprise
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Any project in the works for two decades is bound to generate its fair share of myths and so it is with Neil Young’s Archives, a series of a multi-disc box sets chronicling Young’s history. Originally envisioned in the late ’80s as a Decade II, the project quickly mutated into a monster covering every little corner of Neil’s career. With its escalation came delays, so many that it sometimes seemed that the project never really existed; it was just a shared fantasy between Neil and his faithful. During that long, long wait, fans held tight to the idea that Archives was a clearinghouse of rarities similar to Bob Dylan’s The Bootleg Series, a treasure trove of unreleased songs and epochal live performances that would trump whatever bootleggers had to offer. While rare and unheard music is certainly a key part of Archives, particularly on the first disc covering the pre-history of 1963-1965, viewing this project as merely a CD box set is wildly misleading. Neil Young has designed Archives as nothing less than an immersive multimedia autobiography, an interactive experience where the music, text, video, and pictures feed off each other, creating a virtual journey through Neil’s past.
Because this is a biography, Archives, Vol. 1 winds up relying very heavily on previously released recordings, containing almost all of Neil Young, Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere, After the Gold Rush, and Harvest, key Buffalo Springfield and Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young cuts, and the previously released archival live albums Live at the Fillmore East 1970 and Live at Massey Hall 1971. Such a large chunk of familiar material is bound to disappoint any listener expecting Archives to be a rarities-only set, forgetting that its origin was as a sequel to Decade, the triple-LP set that mixed up hits with unreleased tunes. Archives follows a similar blueprint, excavating many rare gems — some, like “Bad Fog of Loneliness” quite familiar to bootleggers; some, like an extraordinary “Dance Dance Dance” cut with Graham Nash, not — and placing them neatly alongside his well-known jewels, so the end effect isn’t a rush of discovery but ongoing quiet revelation, an impression underpinned by the set’s leisurely pace.
Neil Young Archives Vol. 1 (1963 - 1972) CD DISC 1: EARLY YEARS (1963-1968):
1. Aurora - (with The Squires)
2. Sultan, The - (with The Squires)
3. I Wonder - (previously unreleased, with The Squires)
4. Mustang - (previously unreleased, with The Squires)
5. I'Ll Love You Forever - (previously unreleased, with The Squires)
6. (I'M a Man and) I Can'T Cry - (previously unreleased, with The Squires)
7. Hello Lonely Woman - (previously unreleased, with Comrie Smith)
8. Casting Me Away From You - (previously unreleased, with Comrie Smith)
9. There Goes My Babe - (previously unreleased, with Comrie Smith)
10. Sugar Mountain - (previously unreleased)
11. Nowadays Clancy Can'T Even Sing - (previously unreleased)
12. Runaround Babe - (previously unreleased)
13. Ballad of Peggy Grover, The - (previously unreleased)
14. Rent is Always Due, The - (previously unreleased)
15. Extra, Extra - (previously unreleased)
16. Flying On the Ground is Wrong
17. Burned - (with Buffalo Springfield)
18. Out of My Mind - (with Buffalo Springfield)
19. Down, Down, Down - (previously unreleased)
20. Kahuna Sunset - (with Buffalo Springfield)
21. Mr. Soul - (with Buffalo Springfield)
22. Sell Out - (previously unreleased, with Buffalo Springfield)
23. Down To the Wire
24. Expecting To Fly - (with Buffalo Springfield)
25. Slowly Burning
26. One More Sign
27. Broken Arrow - (with Buffalo Springfield)
28. I Am a Child - (with Buffalo Springfield)
Neil Young Archives Vol. 1 (1963 - 1972) Songs DISC 2: TOPANGA 1 (1968-1969):
1. Everybody Knows This is Nowhere
2. Loner, The
3. Birds - (previously unreleased)
4. What Did You Do To My Life? - (previously unreleased)
5. Last Trip To Tulsa, The
6. Here We Are In the Years
7. I'Ve Been Waiting For You - (previously unreleased)
8. Old Laughing Lady, The
9. I'Ve Loved Her So Long
10. Sugar Mountain - (previously unreleased)
11. Nowadays Clancy Can'T Even Sing - (previously unreleased, live)
12. Down By the River - (with Neil Young & Crazy Horse)
13. Cowgirl In the Sand - (with Neil Young & Crazy Horse)
14. Everybody Knows This is Nowhere - (with Neil Young & Crazy Horse)
Neil Young Archives Vol. 1 (1963 - 1972) Album DISC 3: LIVE AT THE RIVERBOAT (TORONTO 1969):
1. Sugar Mountain - (previously unreleased, live)
2. Old Laughing Lady, The - (previously unreleased, live)
3. Flying On the Ground is Wrong - (previously unreleased, live)
4. On the Way Home - (previously unreleased, live)
5. I'Ve Loved Her So Long - (previously unreleased, live)
6. I Am a Child - (previously unreleased, live)
7. 1956 Bubblegum Disaster - (previously unreleased)
8. Last Trip To Tulsa, The - (previously unreleased, live)
9. Broken Arrow - (previously unreleased, live)
10. Whiskey Boot Hill - (previously unreleased, live)
11. Expecting To Fly - (previously unreleased, live)
Neil Young Archives Vol. 1 (1963 - 1972) CD DISC 4: TOPANGA 2 (1969-1970):
1. Cinnamon Girl - (with Neil Young & Crazy Horse)
2. Running Dry (Requiem For the Rockets) - (with Neil Young & Crazy Horse)
3. Round and Round (It Won'T Be Long) - (with Neil Young & Crazy Horse)
4. Oh Lonesome Me - (previously unreleased, with Neil Young & Crazy Horse)
5. Birds - (with Neil Young & Crazy Horse)
6. Everybody'S Alone - (previously unreleased, with Neil Young & Crazy Horse)
7. I Believe In You - (with Neil Young & Crazy Horse)
8. Sea of Madness - (with Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
9. Dance Dance Dance - (previously unreleased, with Neil Young & Crazy Horse)
10. Country Girl - (with Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
11. Helpless - (previously unreleased, with Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
12. It Might Have Been - (previously unreleased, live, with Neil Young & Crazy Horse)
Neil Young Archives Vol. 1 (1963 - 1972) Songs DISC 5: NEIL YOUNG & CRAZY HORSE: LIVE AT THE FILMORE EAST NEW YORK CITY 1970:
1. Everybody Knows This is Nowhere
2. Winterlong
3. Down By the River
4. Wonderin'
5. Come On Baby Let'S Go Downtown
6. Cowgirl In the Sand
Neil Young Archives Vol. 1 (1963 - 1972) Album DISC 6: TOPANGA 3 (1970):
1. Tell Me Why
2. After the Gold Rush
3. Only Love Can Break Your Heart
4. Wonderin' - (previously unreleased)
5. Don'T Let It Bring You Down
6. Cripple Creek Ferry
7. Southern Man
8. Till the Morning Comes
9. When You Dance, I Can Really Love - (with Neil Young & Crazy Horse)
10. Ohio - (with Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
11. Only Love Can Break Your Heart - (with Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
12. Tell Me Why - (previously unreleased, live, with Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
13. Music is Love - (with David Crosby/Graham Nash)
14. See the Sky About To Rain - (previously unreleased, live)
Neil Young Archives Vol. 1 (1963 - 1972) CD DISC 7: LIVE AT MASSEY HALL (TORONTO 1971):
1. On the Way Home
2. Tell Me Why
3. Old Man
4. Journey Through the Past
5. Helpless
6. Love In Mind
7. Man Needs a Maid/Heart of Gold, A (Suite)
8. Cowgirl In the Sand
9. Don'T Let It Bring You Down
10. There'S a World
11. Bad Fog of Loneliness
12. Needle and the Damage Done, The
13. Ohio
14. See the Sky About To Rain
15. Down By the River
16. Dance Dance Dance
17. I Am a Child
Neil Young Archives Vol. 1 (1963 - 1972) Songs DISC 8: NORTH COUNTRY (1971-1972):
1. Heart of Gold - (previously unreleased, live)
2. Needle and the Damage Done, The
3. Bad Fog of Loneliness - (previously unreleased, with Stray Gators)
4. Old Man - (with Stray Gators)
5. Heart of Gold - (with Stray Gators)
6. Dance Dance Dance - (previously unreleased)
7. Man Needs a Maid, A - (previously unreleased, with London Symphony Orchestra)
8. Harvest - (with Stray Gators)
9. Journey Through the Past - (previously unreleased, with Stray Gators)
10. Are You Ready For the Country? - (with Stray Gators)
11. Alabama - (with Stray Gators)
12. Words (Between the Lines of Age) - (with Stray Gators)
13. Soldier - (previously unreleased)
14. War Song - (with Graham Nash/Stray Gators)