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THE PHILIP COHEN COLLECTION: NEIL YOUNG - ATTACK OF THE BONUS TRACKS

February 4, 2010 – 12:07 pm

Long may you run and Young wasn’t joking.

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NEIL YOUNG
Attack Of The Bonus Tracks [no label, 3CD]
Outtakes, demos, live recordings from 1965 to 1989. Quality varies from good to excellent stereo.

This 3-CD set brings together the bonus tracks only from six obsolete American CD-R bootlegs. The discs were expanded editions of “Time Fades Away”, “On The Beach”, “American Stars & Bars”, “Hawks & Doves”,”Re-Ac-Tor” and “Eldorado”.

“Eldorado” was already available officially (albeit only in Japan), “On The Beach”, “American Stars & Bars”,”Hawks & Doves” & Re-Ac-Tor” were later released officially, and there are now superior bootlegs of “Time Fades Away”. The sound quality of most of these tracks is not especially good, but it is always at least listenable. This is the one-stop destination to get all of these tracks without searching for six otherwise now worthless discs. - Philip Cohen

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Myself, I’ve not come across the 2CD expanded editions Cohen mentions although I have seen bootleg pairings of Time Fades Away and the soundtrack to Where The Buffalo Roams and On The Beach with American Stars ‘n Bars. Neither had the bonus tracks to be found here.

The nice ones are on CD2 and 3. The outtakes from the Old Ways album, that rare acetate with Bobby Charles, You’ll Always Live Inside Me. Never heard of this till now. It comes from Charles’ unreleased second album recorded for Bearsville in 1977. Young sings harmony.

Cohen has also generously included his own rarity of If You Got Love taken from a Netherlands test pressing of Trans (?). This song first appeared as one of the tracks for 1982’s Trans album but disappeared just as casually. Young has explained he thought If You Got Love was “wimpy”. The song got as far as first pressings of the Trans cover art where it was listed as track 2 of side 1.

CD3 opens with three more demos from the Trans session in 1982. Then fast forward to 1986 and you get outtakes of Weight Of The World, Hanging On A Limb and the beautiful/sad and still unreleased I Wonder Why.

This compilation also offers one of Young’s best demos, an acoustic version of Powderfinger. The released electric version always distracted with its energetic solos. While strumming his guitar, Young sings the song’s final verse as a moving anti-war statement.

Shelter me from the powder
and the finger
Cover me with the thought
that pulled the trigger
Think of me
as one you’d never figured
Would fade away so young
With so much left undone

This song was probably for all the rural country boys who were drafted or volunteered to enter the uniformed service because the “powers-that-be” felt that was the best for them. Thanks for sharing Phil.

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Disc One:
Elektra Demos 1965:
1. Sugar Mountain (Omitted. Available on “Archives Vol.1″)
2. Nowadays Clancy Can’t Even Sing (Omitted. Available on “Archives Vol.1″)
3. Run Around Babe (Omitted. Available on “Archives Vol.1″)
4. Don’t Pity Me Babe (A.K.A. “Ballad of Peggy Grover”)(Omitted. Available on “Archives Vol.1″)
Track 105. Ain’t Got The Blues (3.6MB)
6. The Rent is Always Due (Omitted. Available on “Archives Vol.1″)
7. When It Falls, It Falls on You (A.K.A. “Extra Extra”) (Omitted. Available on “Archives Vol.1″)

Track 108. The Needle & The Damage Done (from Johnny Cash T.V. show Feb.17, 1971) (3.0MB)

Live at The Boston Tea Party March 1, 1970:
Track 109. Cinnamon Girl (4.8MB)
Track 110. Cowgirl in The Sand (16.1MB - visit the html page to download the track)

Outtakes & Demos 1974:
Track 111. Pocahontas (4.5MB)
Track 112. Star of Bethlehem (3.6MB)
Track 113. Love is a Rose (3.1MB)
Track 114. Campaigner (4.7MB)

Demos & Outtakes 1975-76:
Track 115. Will to Love (9.9MB)
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Track 116. Captain Kennedy (3.9MB)
Track 117. Look Out For My Love (5.3MB)
Track 118. Too Far Gone (3.6MB)
Track 119. River of Pride (4.6MB)

Disc Two:
Track 201. Like a Hurricane (Live at Hammersmith Odeon,London Mar 31,1976) (12.4MB - visit the html page to download the track)

Outtakes 1977:
Track 202. Human Highway (4.2MB)
Track 203. Already One (6.3MB)

Acetate with Bobby Charles:
Track 204. You’ll Always Live Inside Me (4.4MB)

Outtakes 1977-78:
Track 205. Powderfinger (4.6MB)
Track 206. Hold Back The Tears (6.8MB)
Track 207. Sedan Delivery (7.4MB)

Unreleased “Farm Aid” E.P.:
Track 208. Interstate (7.4MB)
Track 209. Grey Riders (7.7MB)
Track 210. Nothing is Perfect (7.0MB)

Outtakes From “Old Ways” 1984-85:
Track 211. Old Ways (4.8MB)
Track 212. Depression Blues (5.4MB)
Track 213. California Sunset (3.8MB)
Track 214. My Boy (4.0MB)
Track 215. Are There Any More Real Cowboys? (3.9MB)
Track 216. Silver and Gold (4.4MB)

Added exclusive bonus track:
Track 217. If You Got Love (studio version from CBS international Netherlands test pressing) (4.6MB)

Disc Three:
Demos 1982:
Track 301. Raining in Paradise (6.4MB)
Track 302. If You Got Love (4.6MB)
Track 303. Mr. Soul (6.9MB)

Live at The Mike Bloomfield Tribute, The Ritz,New York City
March 2,1981:
Track 304. Baby What You Want Me to Do (8.5MB)
Track 305. Sweet Little Rock n ‘Roller/Nadine (12.4MB - visit the html page to download the track)

Live at Wembley Stadium, England April 16,1990:
Track 306. Rockin’ in The Free World (5.9MB)
Track 307. Mother Earth (6.1MB)

Demos & Outtakes 1986:
Track 308. Weight of The World (8.1MB)
Track 309. Hanging on a Limb (6.4MB)
Track 310. I Wonder Why (5.9MB)

San Francisco Earthquake Benefit, Live From The Cow Palace
Nov 26,1989:
Track 311. Hey Hey, My My (5.1MB)
Track 312. Rockin’ in The Free World (7.2MB)
Track 313. Heart of Gold (4.5MB)
Track 314. Crime in The City (10.3MB - visit the html page to download the track)

For a quick overview of Neil Young’s career, we much prefer newbies start with Decade, originally a triple-LP but now a double CD. All the songs fit on two CDs. Released in 1977, the songs cover the period from 1966 to 1976, a decade. Arguably his best years. Click on the link to order the album.