ロック・シーンにおける孤高のレジェンド、ニール・ヤング。 2009年にリリースされて以降長らく入手困難となっていた、彼の貴重な音源を紐解く「ニール・ヤング・アーカイヴ」シリーズの第一弾作品『NEIL YOUNG ARCHIVES VOL. I (1963-1972)』の8枚組CDエディションが、10年以上の時を超え待望の復刻盤となって再登場! 高校在籍中の音源からCSN&Y期、ソロ・キャリア初期の貴重な音源をたっぷり収録したこのアーカイヴ・シリーズ第一弾作品、監修を担当するはもちろん、ニール・ヤングご本人!
そんな彼の貴重な音源を年代順に紐解いていく「ニール・ヤング・アーカイヴ」シリーズ。2021年にはその第二弾となる『NEIL YOUNG ARCHIVES VOL. II (1972-1976)』がリリースされているのだが、2009年にリリースされていたこのシリーズの第一弾作品は発売直後に世界的にソールド・アウトとなり、以降長らく再発されることなく10年以上の年月が過ぎていった。発売当時は10枚組DVD、10枚組BLU-RAY、そして8枚組CDという複数形態でリリースされ、その後長らく入手困難となっていたこの第一弾作品が今回、10年以上の時を経て遂に限定復刻されることとなった! 今回復刻されるのは、8枚組CDヴァージョンのみ。
各ディスクのタイトルは、下記の通り: Disc 1: EARLY YEARS (1963-1968) Disc 2: TOPANGA 1 (1968-1969) Disc 3: LIVE AT THE RIVERBOAT (TORONTO 1969) Disc 4: TOPANGA 2 (1969-1970) Disc 5: LIVE AT THE FILLMORE EAST (NEW YORK 1970) Disc 6: TOPANGA 3 (1970) Disc 7: LIVE AT MASSEY HALL (TORONTO 1971) Disc 8: NORTH COUNTRY (1971-1972)
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(2023/10/06)
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.
The entire Archives is designed to trace Neil's evolution, to explain how his dead ends were really detours and how his mood swings weren't all that wild; it preserves Young's history as he perceived it. To that end, the DVD and especially BluRay editions of the set are essential to understanding both the project and Neil himself, so much so that the CD edition feels almost like an afterthought, a skimming of the surface of a deep lake. Often, Young delayed Archives due to the limits of technology, a claim that seemed no more than an excuse to keep the project incomplete, but Archives in its BluRay incarnation lives up to all of Neil's promises over the years, coming close to collecting everything -- lyrics, press, artwork, TV performances, doodles, scraps of every sort -- in one place, letting users linger for as long as they'd like in a specific era. Surely, the sound quality on BluRay is extraordinary -- the music leaps out of the speakers yet never sounds overly clean, digital, or modern -- but it's the interactive nature of the set that impresses most. While the DVD set also is complexly interactive, BluRay is designed to be continually updated via the Internet, so Young can add songs and videos whenever he wants, placing the new material as a virtual pushpin on each disc's time line. Acting as a supplement to the text biographies on each disc -- the biography only covering the years on the disc -- the time line places Young's evolution on a broader scale and is illuminated by this extra material, such as a downright thrilling CSNY performance of "Down by the River" on ABC-TV, but this is merely a teaser for the main event: the virtual filing cabinet, where every song on the set has its own folder bulging with handwritten lyr to be continued...
Rovi
収録内容
構成数 | 8枚
合計収録時間 | 07:45:04
エディション | Reissue
1.
[CD]
EARLY YEARS (1963-1968)
1.
Aurora - The Squires
2.
The Sultan - The Squires
3.
I Wonder - The Squires
4.
Mustang - The Squires
5.
I'll Love You Forever - The Squires
6.
(I'm A Man And) I Can't Cry - The Squires
7.
Hello Lonely Woman - Neil Young & Comrie Smith
8.
Casting Me Away From You - Neil Young & Comrie Smith
9.
There Goes My Babe - Neil Young & Comrie Smith
10.
Sugar Mountain - Neil Young
11.
Nowadays Clancy Can't Even Sing - Neil Young
12.
Runaround Babe - Neil Young
13.
The Ballad Of Peggy Grover - Neil Young
14.
The Rent Is Always Due - Neil Young
15.
Extra, Extra - Neil Young
16.
Flying On The Ground Is Wrong - Neil Young
17.
Burned - Buffalo Springfield
18.
Out Of My Mind - Buffalo Springfield
19.
Down, Down, Down - Neil Young
20.
Kahuna Sunset - Buffalo Springfield
21.
Mr. Soul - Buffalo Springfield
22.
Sell Out - Buffalo Springfield
23.
Down To The Wire - Neil Young
24.
Expecting To Fly - Buffalo Springfield
25.
Slowly Burning - Neil Young
26.
One More Sign - Neil Young
27.
Broken Arrow - Buffalo Springfield
28.
I Am A Child - Buffalo Springfield
2.
[CD]
TOPANGA 1 (1968-1969)
1.
Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere - Neil Young
2.
The Loner - Neil Young
3.
Birds - Neil Young
4.
What Did You Do To My Life? - Neil Young
5.
The Last Trip To Tulsa - Neil Young
6.
Here We Are In The Years - Neil Young
7.
I've Been Waiting For You - Neil Young
8.
The Old Laughing Lady - Neil Young
9.
I've Loved Her So Long - Neil Young
10.
Sugar Mountain - Neil Young
11.
Nowadays Clancy Can't Even Sing - Neil Young
12.
Down By The River - Neil Young with Crazy Horse
13.
Cowgirl In The Sand - Neil Young with Crazy Horse
14.
Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere - Neil Young with Crazy Horse
3.
[CD]
LIVE AT THE RIVERBOAT (TORONTO 1969)
1.
Sugar Mountain - Neil Young
2.
The Old Laughing Lady - Neil Young
3.
Flying On The Ground Is Wrong - Neil Young
4.
On The Way Home - Neil Young
5.
I've Loved Her So Long - Neil Young
6.
I Am A Child - Neil Young
7.
1956 Bubblegum Disaster - Neil Young
8.
The Last Trip To Tulsa - Neil Young
9.
Broken Arrow - Neil Young
10.
Whiskey Boot Hill - Neil Young
11.
Expecting To Fly - Neil Young
4.
[CD]
TOPANGA 2 (1969-1970)
1.
Cinnamon Girl - Neil Young with Crazy Horse
2.
Running Dry (Requiem For The Rockets) - Neil Young with Crazy Horse
3.
Round And Round (It Won't Be Long) - Neil Young with Crazy Horse
4.
Oh Lonesome Me - Neil Young with Crazy Horse
5.
Birds - Neil Young with Crazy Horse
6.
Everybody's Alone - Neil Young with Crazy Horse
7.
I Believe In You - Neil Young with Crazy Horse
8.
Sea Of Madness - Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
9.
Dance Dance Dance - Neil Young with Crazy Horse
10.
Country Girl - Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
11.
Helpless - Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
12.
It Might Have Been - Neil Young with Crazy Horse
5.
[CD]
NEIL YOUNG & CRAZY HORSE-LIVE AT THE FILLMORE EAST (NEW YORK 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
6.
[CD]
TOPANGA 3 (1970)
1.
Tell Me Why - Neil Young
2.
After The Gold Rush - Neil Young
3.
Only Love Can Break Your Heart - Neil Young
4.
Wonderin' - Neil Young
5.
Don't Let It Bring You Down - Neil Young
6.
Cripple Creek Ferry - Neil Young
7.
Southern Man - Neil Young
8.
Till The Morning Comes - Neil Young
9.
When You Dance, I Can Really Love - Neil Young with Crazy Horse
10.
Ohio - Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
11.
Only Love Can Break Your Heart - Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
12.
Tell Me Why - Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
13.
Music Is Love - David Crosby, Graham Nash & Neil Young
14.
See The Sky About To Rain - Neil Young
7.
[CD]
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.
A Man Needs A Maid/Heart Of Gold (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.
The Needle And The Damage Done
13.
Ohio
14.
See The Sky About To Rain
15.
Down By The River
16.
Dance Dance Dance
17.
I Am A Child
8.
[CD]
NORTH COUNTRY (1971-1972)
1.
Heart Of Gold Neil Young
2.
The Needle And The Damage Done Neil Young
3.
Bad Fog Of Loneliness Neil Young with The Stray Gators
4.
Old Man Neil Young with The Stray Gators
5.
Heart Of Gold Neil Young with The Stray Gators
6.
Dance Dance Dance Neil Young
7.
A Man Needs A Maid Neil Young with the London Symphony Orch.
8.
Harvest Neil Young with The Stray Gators
9.
Journey Through The Past Neil Young with The Stray Gators
10.
Are You Ready For The Country? Neil Young with The Stray Gators
11.
Alabama Neil Young with The Stray Gators
12.
Words (Between The Lines Of Age) Neil Young with The Stray Gators
13.
Soldier Neil Young
14.
War Song Neil Young & Graham Nash with The Stray Gators