From All Music Guide: Recording Info: Broken Arrow, Woodside, CA; Cow Palace, San Francisco; Home Studio, Topanga; Quadrafonic Sound Studios, Nashville; Record Plant Studio 3, Hollywood; The Barn, Redwood Digital, Woodside, CA; Wally Heider Recording Studios, Hollywood; Woodland Sound Studios, Nashville

From All Music Guide: It may be hard to believe, but 2004's Greatest Hits is not only the first retrospective Neil Young has released since 1977's Decade, it's the first ever single-disc collection of his best-known songs. That's a span of 27 years separating the two collections, which is an awful long time to resist a Greatest Hits disc -- many of his peers succumbed, offering countless comps during those years -- and such a resistance to a compilation may not be much a surprise from the legendarily prickly Young, but what is a surprise is that 11 of the 16 songs on Greatest Hits were also on Decade. Of the five songs that were not on Decade, only two date from after the '70s -- 1989's "Rockin' in the Free World" and 1992's "Harvest Moon" -- while one of the remaining three (1970's "Only Love Can Break Your Heart") comes from the time chronicled on Decade; the other two, 1978's "Comes a Time" and 1979's "Hey Hey, My My (Into the Black)," arrived in the two years of the '70s not covered on the 1977 compilat...

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