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Sleeps with Angels is the twenty-first studio album by Canadian musician Neil Young, his seventh with Crazy Horse, released on August 16, 1994, on the Warner Bros. Records/Reprise tag. 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. Although 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 tag found on original vinyl pressings of Tonight's the Night and the CD version of Sleeps with Angels. The tone of the album is dark and brooding, the one exception being the punk-influenced InchPiece of CrapInch. Two songs (InchWestern HeroInch and InchTrain of LoveInch) feature the same music with differing lyrics. Sleeps with Angels is the only Neil Young album on which he plays the flute Certified gold by the RIAA 10/94. Album Tracks 1. My Heart 2. Prime of Life 3. Driveby 4. Sleeps with Angels 5. Western Hero 6. Change Your Mind 7. Blue Eden 8. Safeway Cart 9. Train of Love 10. Trans Am 11. Piece of Crap 12. A Dream That Can Last
