To me, Neil Young made this album for Neil Young. If he needed AM radio play, then he wouldn’t have made this one. Having an 18 minute song, a 14-minute number and even a 6 1/2 minute song only works on late night FM broadcasts- or i-need-a-fix web content. This IS a good album and only time will tell if it is better than that. Like a lot of his stuff, you need to sit back with a drink and a stogey, close your eyes and absorb it all. Some stuff will blow over like smoke from your stogey, but most of it will become a part of you - like the booze in your drink.

To me, Neil Young made this album for Neil Young. If he needed AM radio play, then he wouldn’t have made this one. Having an 18 minute song, a 14-minute number and even a 6 1/2 minute song only works on late night FM broadcasts- or i-need-a-fix web content. This IS a good album and only time will tell if it is better than that. Like a lot of his stuff, you need to sit back with a drink and a stogey, close your eyes and absorb it all. Some stuff will blow over like smoke from your stogey, but most of it will become a part of you - like the booze in your drink.

Every one of his stinging, weird old North-American solos says a resounding “yes” to the “nos” expressed in the lyrical etc. blah blah blah. How do I come up with this shit?

I agree with you about “Raising Sand”. That album should be at least 4 stars. A brilliant collaboration by two of the best singers alive today. I’ve been listening to that album nonstop since I got this Tuesday.

Funny, Neil Young got 6 stars in the danish newspapers! It also really deserved that!!!!

Robert Plant and Alison Krauss get 3 and a half stars and Neil gets 3. Get your head out of your ass Rillong Stone!!!!!!

Love it. Can’t wait to see him live. Critics are just that critics. With music being a subjective entity. A critics opinion is just that an opinion. The rest is up to you to decide.

It’s got to be frustrating for a vetern artist like Neil Young. Music critics seem like to always want a “classic” album each time they release an album. It’s hard to catch that lightening in a bottle all the time.

On the other hand, when a vetern artist doesn’t deliver a “classic” album. Some music critics call it a classic just the same. Like what happened with Bruce Springsteen with “Magic”. “Magic” is a good album, but it’s not a classic. One sign that an album is not a classic is when fans and critics are saying: This song sounds like…(anonther song). That means it’s either derivative or the artist is paying hommage to that style of music or artist.

Oh, yeah! One more thing. It’s not a new album if the songs on the album are outtakes from other albums. Nothing wrong with a B-Sides compliation. Just stop saying that the album has new material. (This goes to the Neil Young review and the Radiohead review)

I think that was a very unjust review. When Neil’s next album comes out Rolling Stone will be saying that he can’t quite capture the feeling that he did on this disc. They’re only giving it 3 stars, but they’ve obviously only listened to it maybe once. It is his most satisfying album in years, hits all the right notes. The experiments all work, the jams rock out hard, and the ballads are beautiful. This is definitely an album to buy. If you were to buy one Neil album from the last ten years, this is the one.

I have the bootleg “Chrome Dreams”
and I have to believe we will hear those tunes on the Archive Box set.
Being a die hard fan Neil’s new albums sometimes take two or three sessions to get into the music. If your a fan, Chrome Dreams II is for U, if not…Peace Out!!!

Although not on par with Praire Winds, Chome Dreams II still shows us why Neil Young is a master wordsmith when it comes to writing songs. There are few musical geniuses today and one of them is Neil Young