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Neil Young - Oceanside Countryside (2025)

Posted By: popsakov

Date: 11 May 2025 17:49:48

In 1977, Neil Young was stockpiling enough amazing songs to last for decades to come. Multiple albums' worth of material put to tape but never officially released around that time have gradually surfaced over the years, and Oceanside Countryside is another strong chapter in Young’s ongoing crawl through the vaults. Divided into two distinct halves, the first five songs here (the “Oceanside”) are Neil solo, playing most of the instruments and backing himself up on overdubbed vocal harmonies. More produced, re-recorded, or slightly altered versions of most of these tunes made it to official records sooner or later, making Oceanside Countryside feel less like a wholly lost album and more like a demo recording. The songs where the changes are the slightest are “Field of Opportunity,” “The Old Homestead,” “Lost in Space,” and “Captain Kennedy,” presented here in their original mixes but not too dissimilar from the versions that made it onto 1978’s Comes a Time and 1980’s Hawks & Doves. A noteworthy difference on all tracks across the board is that Young overdubs the vocal harmonies that Nicolette Larson would sing on later studio versions. The more exciting inclusions here are the songs that feel drastically unlike their better-known album counterparts. “Sail Away,” which was included in full band regalia on Rust Never Sleeps, feels insular and up close here. Stripped of the drums, fiddle, bass guitar, and studio sheen of the Comes a Time versions, “Going Back” and “Human Highway” open up to reveal a deeper curiosity and a softly glowing intimacy that gets lost beneath the layers of bigger arrangements. Not much on Oceanside Countryside will be mind-blowing for Neil Young completists, with very similar versions of some tracks already being released on proper albums and slightly different mixes having been available on various archival collections here and there. When contextualized as an album statement of its own, however, Oceanside Countryside makes more sense. These are the mixes and running order Neil took to the label as a finished album in 1977, and for one reason or another, the songs took different individual paths from there. Listening front to back, decades later, an intentionality comes out in the record’s flow, and the more withdrawn, inward-looking Oceanside gives way to the traditional country and rock group playing of the more joyous and communal Countryside. It’s a different way to experience some familiar tunes, and yet another window into one of the more vibrant periods of Young’s ever-shifting creativity.

~ Fred Thomas, All Music

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Track List:

01. Sail Away [3:50]
02. Lost In Space [4:21]
03. Captain Kennedy [2:52]
04. Goin' Back [5:08]
05. Human Highway [3:12]
06. Field of Opportunity [3:08]
07. Dance Dance Danc [2:33]
08. The Old Homestead [7:10]
09. It Might Have Been [2:37]
10. Pocahontas [3:26]

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Neil Young / Oceanside Countryside

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