CHROME DREAMS II
| Neil Young
CHROME DREAMS II
Chrome Dreams II is the 28th studio album by Canadian musician Neil Young. The album was released on October 23, 2007 as a double LP and as a single CD. The album is a sequel to Chrome Dreams, a legendary Neil Young album from 1977 that had originally been scheduled for release but was shelved in favor of American Stars 'N Bars. - WIKIPEDIA
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Pitchfork
Oct 17, 2007 - 30 years later, Young has decided his new album is a sequel to that career enigma, referencing a chapter only his most dedicated fans would know about.
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RollingStone
Nov 1, 2007 - The great lost Chrome Dreams was the original home of “Powderfinger” and “Like a Hurricane.”
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The Guardian
Oct 12, 2007 - The only thing Chrome Dreams II seems to have in common with its predecessor is a multiplicity of styles: raging rock songs sit alongside gentle country.
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SLANT magazine
Oct 21, 2007 - it’s a return to a time when Young albums felt like ingenious mixtapes—where Crazy Horse tracks, Stray Gators tracks, and duets with Linda Rondstadt intermingled without being jarring in the least.
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BBC
2007 - Several of the songs here have been maturing in the vaults until deemed ripe enough...
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Drowned in Sound
Oct 22, 2007 - There’s a reasonable argument that this is a good album and not a great one but, like Neil, I’m going to have to stick my neck out and give it what it deserves in the face of the dereliction of duty of those around him.
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The Observer
Oct 14, 2007 - The 12 tracks are held together by two things: a tremulous kind of optimism that sometimes extends to a dippy faith - an antidote to the righteous anger of Young's last, political outing.
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Hotpress
Nov 7, 2007 - Unlike his recent output, there’s no overarching preoccupation here, there is only a bunch of good tunes.
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Entertainment
Oct 12, 2007 - It is his most enjoyable and well-rounded one in, like, an eternity.
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Boston Globe
Oct 16, 2007 - The veteran rock 'n' roller manages a few neat tricks on this sprawling head-spinner.
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The Austin Chronicle
Oct 26, 2007 - Seven new songs polish Chrome Dreams II, which glides past Young's well-meaning but flaccid new millennial output--"Are You Passionate?" (2002), "Greendale" (2003), and "Living With War" (2006)--in pulling alongside 2005's "Prairie Wind," and near some aforementioned career peaks.
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No Depression
Oct 31, 2007 - Chrome Dreams II offers intimations of heaven.
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ALL MUSIC
Chrome Dreams II shares more similarities to Freedom than the original Chrome Dreams .
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Something Else
Oct 23, 2015 - Neil Young’s Chrome Dreams II was a smorgasbord highlighted by one epic triumph.
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Record Collector
is more like a tribute act: pleasant, nothing to say, copying the old master’s past glories.
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popMATTERS
Oct 21, 2007 - If ever an album were custom made for iTunes, this is it.
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sputnik music
Nov 19, 2007 - Too bad it's average.
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The New York Times
Oct 8, 2007 - a few of Mr. Young’s best-known songs and many rarities.
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AV/MUSIC
Oct 16, 2007 - he mostly succeeds at turning an awkward moment into a soaring one.
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SPIN
Jan 18, 2008 - it’s strange to encounter a record that’s just like he used to make — distorto riffs for their own sake and quasi roots rock with a tangible sense of loss and hope.
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exclaim
Oct 16, 2007 - totally unpredictable but gloriously raw and honest.
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Variety
Oct 22, 3007 - Although it features a serial Roman numeral, Neil Young's "Chrome Dreams II" is less a sequel to than a mirror image of the original "Chrome Dreams."
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music OHM
Oct 22, 2007 - Chrome Dreams II is, perversely, a follow-up to an unreleased album, peppered with unreleased tracks from years gone by. Confused? You will be.
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Hybrid Magazine
It is an album that his fans will adore with a few songs that a wider audience would find appealing.
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Uncut
Nov 7, 2007 - The album is a powerful exploration of faith, with Young circling his own mortality.
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Punk Rock Theory
Feb 8, 2008 - He has a way of writing timeless music.
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Wilson & Alroy's Record Reviews
2007 - You have to admire Young's stamina, at least: on this tongue-in-cheek "sequel" to an unreleased 1977 album.
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glide magazine
Oct 9, 2007 - Young is again challenging his audience to listen carefully.
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Adrian Denning
2007 - 'Chrome Dreams II' is going to be that forgettable kind of Neil Young album that merely does exactly what we would expect, and no more.
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Vintage Rock
The spiritual essence of Chrome Dreams II is almost enough to save the album from its faults, which Young fans work hard to pinpoint on every release due largely to the man’s sheer volume of work.
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laist
Oct 28, 2007 - we get all of Neil’s multiple personalities in the same room.
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Ultimate Guitar Reviews
Chrome Dreams II is classic Young with folk musings reminiscent of his hit songs Harvest Moon and his rock anthem Rockin' In The Free World, equalized by a modern Young that has found rejuvenation in gospel choirs and bluesy organ reels.
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MWE CD Reviews
Young’s electric guitar work is stunning.
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SFgae
Oct 19, 2007 - Young has made a 60-minute set of 10 fresh songs that fit him like an old shoe.
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Don Iganacio
This album is overflowing with mid-tempo, mild-mannered rock songs, and it's sure go down easily without causing audio indigestion like his grunge albums did for some of us.
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Readings
Nov 8, 2007 - Another great album from one of the world’s great musical artists.
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