Neil Young - Neil Young Official Release Series Discs 22, 23+, 24 & 25

 

Limited Edition 180-gram numbered 9LP box set!

No. 5 in the Neil Young Official Release Series!

Contains Freedom, Ragged Glory Expanded with four rare tracks, Weld on vinyl for the first time outside of Europe and Arc on vinyl for the first time!

This is the fifth volume of Reprise's chronological re-issue of Neil Young's official catalog releases. The initial pressings are numbered, and the vinyl is pressed on 180-gram vinyl. The vinyl box for the four albums is in a telescoping box.

The albums are 1989's Freedom, Ragged Glory from 1990, the live album Weld and it's experimental companion, Arc (both 1991). These are discs 22, 23+, 24 and 25 in the series. The ‘+' for Ragged Glory indicates some bonus material which is two B-sides ("Interstate" and "Don't Spook The Horse") and unreleased versions of "Box Car" and "Born To Run," the latter a 12-minute version.

In Neil Young's extensive career, this period of music came at a definite turning point. The 1990s were almost ready to start, and Young had recently returned to his long-time home at Reprise Records. It definitely appeared to be a joyous and jubilant moment for the man who had recently celebrated the 21-year anniversary of a solo career that had never stopped progressing.

The Freedom studio album relaunched Young's career to an extent and features a mix of musicians and sessions. It includes the New York anthem "Rockin' in the Free World." Ragged Glory saw Neil reunited with Crazy Horse and was recorded at Young's Broken Arrow Ranch in Northern California.

Live album Weld features performances recorded on the tour to promote the Ragged Glory album. It was originally issued as a 3-disc set with Arc, an experimental 35-minute outburst of feedback, improvisation, guitar solos and vocal fragments. This Official Release Series box marks the album's first release on vinyl.

The 9LP offering — pressed on 180-gram black vinyl — features Freedom as a 2LP set, Ragged Glory and Weld as 3LP packages, and Arc as a single vinyl record. Like all the reissues in this series, the albums are remastered from the best sources available, the original analog tape in most cases. It's the first time any of these four albums have been remastered.

 

Freedom (2LP)

Rockin' in the Free World (Live Acoustic)

Crime in the City (Sixty to Zero Part 1)

Don't Cry

Hangin' on a Limb

Eldorado

The Ways of Love

Someday

On Broadway

Wrecking Ball

No More

Too Far Gone

Rockin' in the Free World (Electric)

Ragged Glory - Smell the Horse (3LP)

Country Home

White Line

Fuckin' Up

Over and Over

Love to Burn

Farmer John

Mansion on the Hill

Days That Used to Be

Love and Only Love

Mother Earth (Natural Anthem)

Interstate

Don't Spook the Horse

Box Car

Born to Run

Weld (3LP)

Hey Hey, My My (Into the Black)

Crime in the City

Blowin' in the Wind

Welfare Mothers

Love to Burn

Cinnamon Girl

Mansion on the Hill

Fuckin' Up

Cortez the Killer

Powderfinger

Love and Only Love

Rockin' in the Free World

Like a Hurricane

Farmer John

Tonight's the Night

Roll Another Number (For the Road)

Arc (1LP)

Arc (A Compilation Composition)

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