Sleeps with Angels

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Sleeps With Angels
Studio album by Neil Young & Crazy Horse
Released	August 16, 1994
Recorded	Recorded at The Complex Studios, West Los Angeles, Nov. 8, 1993-Apr. 25, 1994
Genre	Rock
Length	62:06
Label	Reprise
Producer	David Briggs and Neil Young
Professional reviews
All Music Guide link
Neil Young & Crazy Horse chronology
Unplugged (1993) Sleeps with Angels (1994) Mirror Ball (1995)

Sleeps With Angels is a 1994 album by Neil Young and Crazy Horse released on the Warner Bros. Records/Reprise label.

The album was conceived as a conscious attempt to recapture some of the atmospheric experiments Young and Crazy Horse played around with in the After the Gold Rush era. Though the majority of the album was recorded before the fact, Young created the title track after the death of Kurt Cobain, who quoted him in his suicide note. As a result, Sleeps With Angels ended up more than reminiscent of Tonight's the Night; the album is practically a (more sober) 1990s update of the former record, down to the use of the old-school black Reprise label found on original vinyl pressings of Tonight's the Night and the US cd version of Sleeps With Angels. The tone of the album is dark and brooding, the one exception being the punk-influenced "Piece Of Crap". Interestingly, two songs ("Western Hero" and "Train Of Love") feature the same music just with different lyrics.

[edit] Track listing

All tracks by Neil Young, except where noted:

1. "My Heart" – 2:44
2. "Prime of Life" – 4:02
3. "Driveby" – 4:43
4. "Sleeps With Angels" – 2:44
5. "Western Hero" – 4:00
6. "Change Your Mind" – 14:39
7. "Blue Eden" (Molina/Sampedro/Talbot/Young) – 6:22
8. "Safeway Cart" – 6:29
9. "Train of Love" – 3:57
10. "Trans Am" – 4:07
11. "Piece of Crap" – 3:15
12. "A Dream That Can Last" – 5:27

[edit] Personnel

• Neil Young: guitar, tack piano, accordion, flute, harmonica, vocal
• Frank "Poncho" Sampedro: guitar, grand piano, electric piano, keyboards, bass marimba, vocal
• Billy Talbot: bass, vibes, bass marimba, vocal
• Ralph Molina: drums, vocal

[edit] Charts

Album - Billboard

Year	Chart	Position
1994	The Billboard 200	9

Singles - Billboard

Year	Single	Chart	Position
1994	"Change Your Mind"	Mainstream Rock Tracks	18

v • d • e Neil Young Crazy Horse • The Stray Gators Discography Studio albums: Neil Young • Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere • After the Gold Rush • Harvest • On the Beach • Tonight's the Night • Zuma • American Stars 'N Bars • Comes a Time • Rust Never Sleeps • Hawks & Doves • Re-ac-tor • Trans • Everybody's Rockin' • Old Ways • Landing on Water • Life • This Note's for You • Freedom • Ragged Glory • Harvest Moon • Sleeps with Angels • Mirror Ball • Broken Arrow • Silver & Gold • Are You Passionate? • Greendale • Prairie Wind • Living with War • Living with War: In the Beginning • Chrome Dreams II EPs: Eldorado Live albums: Time Fades Away • Live Rust • Weld • Arc • Unplugged • Year of the Horse • Road Rock Vol. 1 Soundtracks: Journey Through the Past • Where the Buffalo Roam • Philadelphia • Dead Man Compilations: Decade • Lucky Thirteen • Greatest Hits Archive Series: Live at the Fillmore East • Live at Massey Hall 1971 • The Archives Vol.01 1963-1972 Unreleased albums: Homegrown • Human Highway • Chrome Dreams Also see Buffalo Springfield • Crosby, Stills & Nash (and Young) • The Stills-Young Band