Neil Young - A Perfect Echo

Artwork (CDs 1-2)

Disc 1: 1967-1971

  1. Mr. Soul
  2. Birds
  3. I've Loved Her So Long
  4. Sea Of Madness
  5. Helpless
  6. Country Girl
  7. Broken Arrow
  8. Come On Baby Let's Go Downtown
  9. Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere
  10. Winterlong
  11. Cinnamon Girl
  12. Cowgirl In The Sand
  13. On The Way Home
  14. Tell Me Why
  15. Out On The Weekend
  16. Journey Through The Past
  17. Love In Mind

Disc 2: 1974-1976

  1. Walk On
  2. Ambulance Blues
  3. Lookin' For A Love
  4. No One Seems To Know
  5. Human Highway
  6. Cortez The Killer
  7. White Line
  8. Don't Cry No Tears
  9. Peace Of Mind
  10. A Man Needs A Maid
  11. Give Me Strength
  12. Lotta Love
  13. Like A Hurricane
  14. Harvest
  15. Campaigner
  16. Here We Are In The Years
  17. The Losing End

Disc 3: 1978-1984

  1. Thrasher
  2. Little Thing Called Love
  3. Old Man
  4. Transformer Man
  5. Sample And Hold
  6. Don't Be Denied
  7. Barstool Blues
  8. Touch The Night
  9. Tonight's The Night
  10. Comes A Time
  11. Southern Pacific
  12. Down By The River

Disc 4: 1984-1989

  1. Heart Of Gold
  2. Flying On The Ground Is Wrong
  3. Road Of Plenty
  4. Hippie Dream
  5. Prisoners Of Rock 'n' Roll
  6. When You Dance I Can Really Love
  7. See The Sky About To Rain
  8. Mideast Vacation
  9. Southern Man
  10. For The Turnstiles
  11. Sugar Mountain
  12. Four Strong Winds
  13. Cocaine Eyes
  14. Like A Hurricane
  15. Rockin' In The Free World
Artwork (CDs 3-4)
Artwork (CDs 5-6)

Disc 5: 1989-1990

  1. Rockin' In The Free World
  2. Don't Let It Bring You Down
  3. After The Goldrush
  4. Ohio
  5. Too Far Gone
  6. Crime In The City
  7. Eldorado
  8. Hangin' On A Limb
  9. Someday
  10. My My, Hey Hey (Out Of The Blue)
  11. The Old Laughing Lady
  12. The Needle And The Damage Done
  13. No More
  14. Days That Used To Be
  15. Mansion On The Hill

Disc 6: 1991-1993

  1. Love And Only Love
  2. Forever Young (Dylan)
  3. Harvest Moon
  4. Unknown Legend
  5. Dreamin' Man
  6. You And Me
  7. Natural Beauty
  8. From Hank To Hendrix
  9. Separate Ways
  10. Love To Burn
  11. Live To Ride
  12. All Along The Watchtower (Dylan)

Disc 7: 1993-1998

  1. The Loner
  2. Country Home
  3. Prime Of Life
  4. Driveby
  5. Train Of Love
  6. Change Your Mind
  7. Big Time
  8. Hey Hey, My My (Into The Black)
  9. Music Arcade
  10. Pocahontas
  11. Throw Your Hatred Down

Disc 8: 1999-2001

  1. Red Sun
  2. Distant Camera
  3. Philadelphia
  4. Buffalo Springfield Again
  5. Only Love Can Break Your Heart
  6. Looking Forward
  7. Out Of Control
  8. Slowpoke
  9. Southern Man
  10. Ohio
  11. Long May You Run
  12. Winterlong
  13. Bad Fog Of Loneliness
  14. Words
  15. World On A String
  16. Powderfinger
Artwork (CDs 7-8)
Artwork (CDs 9-10)

Disc 9: 1970-1999

  1. Wonderin'
  2. Cinnamon Girl
  3. Down By The River
  4. Only Love Can Break Your Heart
  5. Dance, Dance, Dance
  6. New Mama
  7. Nothing Is Perfect
  8. Drive Back
  9. Inca Queen
  10. American Dream
  11. Ordinary People
  12. Sixty To Zero
  13. I Am A Child

Disc 10: 2002-2003

  1. You're My Girl
  2. Differently
  3. Are You Passionate?
  4. Goin' Home
  5. Sleeps With Angels
  6. Quit (Don't Say You Love Me)
  7. She's A Healer
  8. Bandit
  9. Sedan Delivery
  10. Be The Rain
  11. Roll Another Number

Here's Braden's "introduction" to Neil Young - A Perfect Echo:

NEIL YOUNG: A PERFECT ECHO [1-8]

This is a compilation of soundboard recordings from 1967-2001. The term soundboard is a bit of a misnomer. By soundboard I mean, basically, not an audience recording. Some are true soundboards, while others are FM, TV, ALD, or video-sourced recordings. The recordings were all taken from CDRs or videos that are circulating in the trading community.

Each track was checked out in Cool Edit with headphones, and may have had some cleanup done to remove any odd clicks, hiss, or other sound quality problems. The volume was set on each track so as to have them at similar volumes. Fades were added at the beginnings and ends of each track, so the tracks don't segue, for the most part. There are a couple of segues where successive songs were taken from the same concert, so it still needs to be burned DAO. Most of the banter between tracks was removed to make room for more tracks.

There are a total of 115 tracks (109 songs, as 6 get repeated). Some years were heavy with available recordings (1976 and 1989 come to mind). I tried to balance the set by not using too many songs from a single show. The entire 8 discs run in, roughly, chronological order.

Originally, I started making this as just a personal compilation from my collection. It took about a month to put together, including the planning of what would be included, the remastering of the tracks, and, finally, the creation of the artwork. At first, I didn't have a title and was just going to call it "a soundboard archive." While fixing some soft static in Natural Beauty, the title came to me, when he sang "I heard a perfect echo die...". I was going to call it Perfect Echo Die, but Jim Leonard, our friendly AOTW coordinator, persuaded me to leave off the word "die," so now we have the title A Perfect Echo.

The intent was to make a nice sampling of soundboard recordings from throughout his career. It's sort of like an expanded Rock 'n' Roll Cowboy, with the intent to keep the sound quality higher and more consistent.

NEIL YOUNG: A PERFECT ECHO [9-10]

This is a new volume of the well known compilation A Perfect Echo which was compiled by Braden in 2001/2002 and made available in early 2002. Meanwhile this compilation is considered as one of the basics for every collection and is well known among all friends of the music of Neil Young.

Now Vol. 5 is available, including Soundboard recordings from the years 1970-1999 (Disc 9) and from 2002-2003 (Disc 10)

Some of the earlier soundboards were "discovered" only recently and consequently Disc 9 is the result. Disc 10 includes tracks from shows which took place after the original Perfect Echo was finished.

Meanwhile even more shows are available in SBD quality (Bonnaroo 2003...), so let's hope for another volume in the future.