Year of the Horse (album)

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Year of the Horse
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Live album by
ReleasedJune 17, 1997 (1997-06-17)
RecordedMay – November 1996
VenueVarious
Genre Rock
Length84:18
Label Reprise
Producer "Horse"
Neil Young chronology
Broken Arrow
(1996)
Year of the Horse
(1997)
Silver & Gold
(2000)
Crazy Horse chronology
Broken Arrow
(1996)
Year of the Horse
(1997)
Greendale
(2003)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [1]
Pitchfork 3.3/10 [2]
Uncut Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [3]
Robert Christgau B+ [4]

Year of the Horse is a live album by Neil Young and Crazy Horse, following the band on their 1996 tour. It accompanies the film of the same name, but has a different track listing from the film.

Contents

It peaked at number 57 on the Billboard 200 chart, [5] as well as number 36 on the UK Albums Chart. [6]

Track listing

All tracks are written by Neil Young

Disc one
No.TitleLength
1."When You Dance I Can Really Love"6:20
2."Barstool Blues"9:02
3."When Your Lonely Heart Breaks"5:04
4."Mr. Soul"5:05
5."Big Time"7:28
6."Pocahontas"4:50
7."Human Highway"4:07
Disc two
No.TitleLength
1."Slip Away"10:52
2."Scattered (Let's Think About Livin')"4:00
3."Danger Bird"13:34
4."Prisoners of Rock 'n' Roll"6:40
5."Sedan Delivery" (not included on the vinyl version)7:16

Personnel

Charts

Chart performance for Year of the Horse
Chart (1997)Peak
position
Australian Albums (ARIA) [7] 77
Austrian Albums (Ö3 Austria) [8] 31
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders) [9] 11
Canada Top Albums/CDs ( RPM ) [10] 75
Dutch Albums (Album Top 100) [11] 51
Finnish Albums (Suomen virallinen lista) [12] 19
German Albums (Offizielle Top 100) [13] 30
Norwegian Albums (VG-lista) [14] 19
Swedish Albums (Sverigetopplistan) [15] 35
UK Albums (OCC) [6] 36
US Billboard 200 [5] 57

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