Talk:Chrome Dreams

Is It or Isn't It ?
The article seems confused about whether this was a real album or not ? -- Beardo 03:07, 3 February 2007 (UTC)

-It's hard to define it. Young's official biography states that it was not an album but just an acetate culled from several studio sessions. When it was discovered years later, a mock title/cover had been made and it was considered a full-fledged unreleased album. This was egged on by reports from Rolling Stone giving Chrome Dreams as the title of Young's upcoming 1977 album, as well as an official looking document sheet (the one in the main article) that accompanied the album. However, Young's archivist Joel Berstein has statedk that the document is a fake. -- Hstfreak 19:55, 11 February 2007 (UTC)


 * At present the article is a mess - saying it was and then it wasn't. We need either to go with one or the other, or make the lack of clarity the basic point. -- Beardo 00:19, 13 February 2007 (UTC)


 * I edited it to make it clear that it is an acetate, and organized/condensed the rest of the article a bit. -- Hstfreak 03:02, 13 February 2007 (UTC)


 * The recent news about Chrome Dreams II rather points to "Chrome Dreams" as having been a real thing, even if the acetate/bootlegs weren't it. -- Beardo 00:45, 23 August 2007 (UTC)

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Place in chronology
Thanks all for this article ! What I'm failing to find quickly is where the album would have situated if it had been released in 1977. That should be made more prominent and easy to find #UX

My guess is that had Chrome Dreams been released at the time, perhaps American Stars 'n Bars would not have or at least in a different version, making Chrome Dreams an album that would have been released after Long May You Run but before Decade and Comes A Time. His 8th perhaps by the look of ASNB currently being his 8th ?

Hence, the album history section should answer a few more questions : more info on the "relationship" with American Stars 'n Bars ? Is ASNB the salvaged version of Chrome Dreams perhaps ?

Was there a projected release date initially ? American Stars 'n Bars was released on 1977-05-27.

Note how I'm using ISO 8601 the international standard for date notation.

I suppose additions need to be made to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Stars_%27n_Bars as well, and to the other titles mentioned in the tracklisting, e.g. "This track was intended for Chrome Dreams and has officially surfaced there when Chrome Dreams was finally released in 2023." 62.235.240.9 (talk) 09:19, 19 August 2023 (UTC)