Neil Young's OFFICIAL RELEASE SERIES VOLUME 5 is a stunning collection of four albums that begins with the exciting renaissance that came with the release of FREEDOM in 1989, and continues on the unequalled exploration of collections RAGGED GLORY (1990), WELD (1991) and ARC (1991). In many ways, it is a musical travelogue of how Young saw the future and opened up creative worlds for the use of sound and originality which had not been used before. 

The OFFICIAL RELEASE SERIES VOLUME 5 is available as a vinyl box set of the original four albums on 9 vinyl LPs and the CD version is now issued on 6 CDs. Like all the reissues in this series, the albums are remastered from the best source available--original analog tape in most cases. For the four albums in the series, this is the first time they have been remastered.

In addition on RAGGED GLORY, the 10-song original album is expanded for this re-issue with 4 rare tracks. “Interstate” and “Don’t Spook The Horse” were both B-sides to singles. “Box Car” and the 12 minute “Born To Run” are both previously unreleased versions.

FREEDOM
01 Rockin’ In The Free World (Live Acoustic)
02 Crime In The City (Sixty to Zero Part 1)
03 Don’t Cry
04 Hangin’ On A Limb
05 Eldorado
06 The Ways of Love
07 Someday
08 On Broadway
09 Wrecking Ball
10 No More
11 Too Far Gone
12 Rockin’ In The Free World (Electric) 
 
RAGGED GLORY – Smell The Horse
01 Country Home
02 White Line
03 Fuckin’ Up
04 Over and Over
05 Love to Burn
06 Farmer John
07 Mansion on the Hill
08 Days That Used To Be
09 Love and Only Love
10 Mother Earth (National Anthem)
11 Interstate
12 Don’t Spook The Horse
13 Box Car
14 Born To Run
  
WELD
01 Hey Hey, My My (Into The Black)
02 Crime in the City
03 Blowin’ in the Wind
04 Welfare Mothers
05 Love to Burn
06 Cinnamon Girl
07 Mansion on the Hill
08 Fuckin’ Up
09 Cortez the Killer
10 Powderfinger
11 Love and Only Love
12 Rockin’ in the Free World
13 Like A Hurricane
14 Farmer John
15 Tonight’s the Night
16 Roll Another Number 

ARC
Arc (A Compilation Composition)