Weld (album)

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Weld
Weld cover
Live album by Neil Young and Crazy Horse
Released October 22, 1991
Recorded Recorded live on the 1991 North American tour
Genre Rock
Length 115:54
Label Reprise
Producer Neil Young, David Briggs, Billy Talbot
Professional reviews
Neil Young and Crazy Horse chronology
Ragged Glory
(1990)
Weld
(1991)
Arc
(1991)

Weld is a live album and concert video by Neil Young & Crazy Horse released in 1991, comprising performances recorded on the tour to promote the Ragged Glory album. Initially released as a limited edition three-disc set entitled Arc-Weld, with the Arc portion being a single disc consisting in its entirety of a sound collage of guitar noise and feedback, with equally discordant backing by the Horse, undoubtedly influenced by Young's choice of Sonic Youth as his opening act. Arc has since been released as a separate title.

Weld consists of rock and roll songs by Young and Crazy Horse, duplicating seven that had appeared on either Rust Never Sleeps or Live Rust from twelve years earlier. It also echoes those albums as Young, in both cases having spent most of a previous decade pursuing different musical avenues, returned to straightforward rock and roll via the acclaimed Ragged Glory album with Crazy Horse, then celebrating that return with an accompanying multi-disc live document and concert film. An interesting cut on this album is Young's "Gulf War" version of Bob Dylan's "Blowin' in the Wind", which had air raid sound effects.

Contents

[edit] Track listing

All tracks written by Neil Young except as noted.

[edit] Disc One

  1. "Hey Hey, My My (Into the Black)" - 5:42
  2. "Crime in the City" - 6:32
  3. "Blowin' in the Wind" (Bob Dylan) - 6:49
  4. "Welfare Mothers" - 7:04
  5. "Love to Burn" - 10:01
  6. "Cinnamon Girl" - 4:45
  7. "Mansion on the Hill" - 6:14
  8. "Fuckin' Up" - 7:09 [1]

[edit] Disc Two

  1. "Cortez the Killer" - 9:46
  2. "Powderfinger" - 5:58
  3. "Love and Only Love" - 9:17
  4. "Rockin' in the Free World" - 9:22
  5. "Like a Hurricane" - 14:00
  6. "Farmer John" (Don Harris, Dewey Terry)- 5:00
  7. "Tonight's the Night" - 8:45
  8. "Roll Another Number (For the Road)" - 5:19

[edit] Personnel

[edit] Charts

Album

Year Chart Position
1991 The Billboard 200 154

[edit] Certifications

Organization Level Date
BPIUK Silver November 1, 2002

[edit] References

  1. ^ Written on the inserts and labels as "F*!#in' Up"
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