Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Psychedelic Pill, Oct. 2012

NEW CRAZY HORSE ALBUM IN OCTOBER
Psychedelic Pill will be released in October. It was recorded right after Americana at Audio Casa Blanca. A double-CD and triple-vinyl will be released because of the lengths of many of the songs, some of which were previewed in Crazy Horse's live performances earlier this month. In the spirit of Americana's release, full length videos for each of the songs will be available and previewed. A recommended high resolution 24/192 full fidelity version of the album Psychedelic Pill will be released on Blu-ray and will include all the videos. The low resolution iTunes downloads will also be accompanied by videos. Thanks for listening.

YES

triple LP! i guess walk like a giant will take up a whole side.

YES

How much does Neil charge for a triple LP? $100?

for real
i was all excited and then ;_; when i thought about how much it was going to cost

yeah, aren't his single LPs like $45?

the heavy ones, yeah :-/

that is absurd

I want to hear this and yet there is no way I will be able to afford it

We can pool our money and buy one copy, and than someone plays it for us in a Google Hangout. It's what Neil would want.

low resolution itunes downloads for you poor bastards.

I'm waiting for the Barn-Ray.

b-b-but the "recommended high resolution 24/192 full fidelity version"!!

Rumor is that the Smell The Horse deluxe edition comes with a plastic bag full of manure

fully compostable I assume

This should actually just be a pill that you take so you can hear the album inside your head at 24/192. And then die.

http://i1059.photobucket.com/albums/t427/sayhey1/owsley.jpg

Getting a jump on the next poll.

Truthfully, I'm not especially excited. I always hope for the best, but I know that a) I won't be buying an overpriced double-CD from anyone (much less a really overpriced triple-LP), and b) every new Neil album is greeted as an event these days, even though he churns them out regularly, and, unless you have realistic expectations (a handful of good songs), you'll probably be disappointed.

have you listened to any of the new songs? at least two of em (walk like a giant and ramada inn) are pretty classic sounding to me. title track is the weakest of the bunch thus far.

Just half of "Walk Like a Giant"; it didn't make much of an impression. It was a live version, though, so you never know.

No, Clemenza you must not imply dismissal of Americana, because I like it VERY VERY MUCH, except "Tom Dula" and maybe "Gallows Pole." I like it the way I like rock of the 60s from Turkey, SE Asia, Latin America: love the way it finds something something fresh in seemingly played-out songs and (re the international 60s) styles). Pleeeeze Nora Guthrie, give Neil & The Horse a big dose of Woody's uncut words! I'll buy a nice-priced used copy of Psychedelic Pill for my own xmas present. no prob.

The CD, that is. C'mon, Blu-Ray cavemen? Might spoil it.

Neil deals in revamping seemingly-played out songs, 60s interantionale mostly in played-out styles, that is (sorry)

fuck, 60s Internationale, that is-sorry!!

I only listened to Americana once, off YouTube, which I know is a crazy way to take in music. A friend of mine really likes it. I'm probably making broad generalizations that I should have limited to my disappointment in Le Noise. And I should probably get my head out of the 1970s.

i dunno, head in the 70s seems just right for triple LP. maybe not a triple LP that costs $100, but still.

I haven't heard anything in its entirety since Greendale (lol) but I am psyched for this

Good thing everyone has Blu-Ray players in their cars.

standard feature in all biodiesel tourbuses iirc

imo Fork in the Road, Le Noise, Americana has been a pretty damn solid run, give or take a track here and there, and judging from what everyone who's heard the recent live boots is saying, my hopes are pretty high for this one. I'm a huge Year of the Horse fan, though.

Certainly been enjoying the live sets that have turned up on Dime recently.

I like Fork in the Road and Americana about the same, which is to say they're A- records I have to remind myself to play.

Rumor is that the Smell The Horse deluxe edition comes with a plastic bag full of manure

I'm enough of a Neil fan to hope this isn't a joke.

Didn't hear any of Americana beyond "Oh Susanna"; will nevertheless check this one out in the hopes that it's some massive Rallizes-esque mind-destroyer.

Does the 30-minute jam in the original Americana teaser video have a name?

yes, Horse Back

Disc: 1
1. Driftin Back
2. Psychedelic Pill
3. Ramada Inn
4. Born In Ontario

Disc: 2
1. Twisted Road
2. She's Always Dancing
3. For The Love Of Man
4. Walk Like A Giant
5. Psychedelic Pill (Bonus Track Alternate Mix)

hey I was born in Ontario too! (still here btw)

Vinyl edition is close to $90. I can only assume this is because he can't stand the sound of vinyl, and would much rather people heard his music digitally.

haha, yikes. for that much dough, i'd want neil to hand deliver the album to me. still! an exciting october -- this album and Waging Heavy Peace, the surely to be somewhat disappointing memoir.

Yeah, I don't have massive hopes for Waging Heavy Peace. I wouldn't be surprised if more space was devoted to his train collection than to Tonight's The Night.

...or just arcane details linking the two: "Danny Whitten gave me this scale model of a post office...this H/O scale van is just like Bruce Berry's...David Briggs poured beer on this control box...shorted out the whole building...innaresting."

irl lol

haaa

Watching YouTube footage of "Walk Like a Giant" right now and will absolutely 100% buy this album if it sounds half as good as this. This sounds like it could be his best album since Ragged Glory.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6L7c1Qo22es

Man fuck that vinyl pricing :-(

yeah but dude what if the Bonus Track Alternate Mix is a 25+ minute Trans jammmmmm

most anticipated LP of the year. that youtube sounds great.

in case anyone missed this important thing http://doomandgloomfromthetomb.tumblr.com/post/29629148690/arc-2012-for-nearly-two-decades-now-fans-have

i think i'm going to have it pressed on LP and sell it for $99

https://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-snc7/402899_10151068699945878_67393387_n.jpg

That can't be the cover. It's not in Neil's handwriting.

In my head this album will always be called "Pyschedelic Phil"

http://www.live4ever.us/uploaded_images/phil-collins-797506.jpg
"psychedelic? no, not really."

Tribute to Lesh.

And we've got track running times now:

Disc One:
1 Driftin' Back (27:36)
2 Psychedelic Pill (3:26)
3 Ramada Inn (16:49)
4 Born In Ontario (3:49)

Disc Two:
1 Twisted Road (3:28)
2 She's Always Dancing (8:33)
3 For The Love Of Man (4:13)
4 Walk Like A Giant (16:27)

Bonus Track:
5 Psychedelic Pill (Alternate Mix)

it's like a weird companion rec to The Seer

call it The Sear

Given that the track running times on Disc One add up to ~52 minutes and the running times given for Disc Two only add up to ~33 minutes, I'm kinda hoping the "alternate mix" of "Psychedelic Pill" is 15-20 minutes long.

intense that he's leading off with the 27-minute track.

Is the bonus track not on the vinyl then? Because damn, mixed signals there, Neil.

seems like the alt mix could be side 4 right? or is that side 6? it's a triple LP?

This is odd: it's a triple, but those times would fit on a double (although 27:36 on one side is pushing it). And even with the bonus mix, provided it's the same length as the other mix, it should all still fit on a double.

maybe there'll be a vinyl bonus track...

haha, whoa
“Driftin’ Back”, in particular, is concerned with what may be the substance of Young’s forthcoming “Waging Heavy Peace”, and the writing of that autobiography. It begins with a brilliant trick – which I won’t spoil just yet – and soon locks into a languorous and beautiful series of solos, erratically punctuated by random Young pensées on the subjects of MP3s, hip-hop haircuts, Picasso wallpaper and so on. It’s not related to the “Horse Back” jam, but it has that same deep-pile pleasure. If you believe, not unreasonably, that Young simply playing the shit out of an electric guitar is about as good as music gets, I think you’ll like it.
more: http://www.uncut.co.uk/blog/wild-mercury-sound/neil-young-crazy-horse-psychedelic-pill

i read this as neil young and crazy pill every single time i see it
can't wait to hear what he has to say about hip hop haircuts

this sounds insane

I dunno how you press 27 minutes onto a single side of vinyl without seriously compromising sound quality.

dunno, maybe that song is actually split onto two sides? that might explain why it's a triple LP.

But the LP with "Driftin' Back" is 16".

every vinyl manufacturer I've ever talked to stresses that anything over 20 minutes on a single side is pushing it. a couple minutes you can get away with and while it won't be terrible it will be noticeable. but 7? gtfo

I meant 16 inches.

Maybe it'll also that The Seer route and split that track over two sides.

$22 CD. I hope this is on Rhapsody/Spotify so I can check it out first.

Long interview for NYT magazine.

$22 CD. I hope this is on Rhapsody/Spotify so I can check it out first.

I bet the big box stores will have it significantly cheaper, at least the first week of release. At least, that's what I'm hoping for. I don't feel real guilty about buying big name major label releases from those stores.

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-UGAxaO7elig/UFYzqvPdlxI/AAAAAAAADn8/-LWfHVdoveo/s400/psychedelic-pill-cover-2.jpg
guess this is the alt cover?
& yeah, would be shocked if the price of the Cd version didn't come down via amazon or wherever.

His "Pill" looks like a urinal cake.

hahaha
it looks like a bar of crabtree & evelyn soap!

I smell a merchandising tie-in!

Farmaid yall, can watch some of it tonight on site, and guess who's scheduled for 9:30 Eastern:
http://blog.farmaid.org/2012/09/farm-aid-2012-lineup-schedule-concert.html

9:20 rather!

Well, that was by far the most messed-up FarmAid presentation, in any medium, I've ever seen in all these many years--not just the technical glitches, but we got a couple songs from several acts, between a lot of very familiar talking points. Suppose more bits may show up at trandom on Farmaid's channel, and elsewhere on YouTube. Anyway, Neil and the Horse did a real good "Mr. Soul" (with a guitar break whirling through atonality to total harmony man), and "Homegrown," with Willie fitting right in (Hey Mr. Nelson, wanna join a band, sir?) Lucas Nelson and Promise of the Real in there between Deer Tick and Creedence on this occasion (never quite know where Lucas will take it), good from Jamey Johnson and band too. Speaking of Neil, David Carr's been riding with him, good report:
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/23/magazine/neil-young-comes-clean.html?pagewanted=1&_moc.semityn.www&ref=music

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bemz-7fofcs

really digging this.

definitely already one of my top 10 neil tracks from the past 10 years or so.

Yeah, the Americana-style harmonies are welcome too.

that profile in the new york times was so boring...i expected more from david carr.

although i'm interested how neil quit smoking pot after 40 years!

ha, yeah, that was the most interesting detail.

neil has been driving journalists around forever.

I'm disappointed whenever an artist admits to abstaining from drugs and alcohol tbh

i'd take it w/ a grain of salt -- i recall an interview from 1988 or so where Neil claimed he was giving up the w33d.

I'm disappointed whenever an artist admits to abstaining from drugs and alcohol tbh

Oh, pish. Neil's smoked more weed than this collective board. He's made it this far, he's had various health scares ... him quitting alcohol and drugs is like some straight dude making it to Neil's age and suddenly deciding to take those two vices up.

This is now $12.99 on Amazon. They also now list it as being only 1 disc. Preordering, hoping not to be stuck with some weird abridged version.

Will probably pick this up at Best Buy on street date.

NYxCH & Friends Vs. Global Poverty (turn it up)
http://www.nytimes.com/pages/arts/index.html?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=edit_th_20121001

Vinyl is around $45 on amazon.de. Which, yeah, still real fucking pricey, but it's half of what it costs at amazon.com.

that nyt article was mostly neil saying "memoir's a good way to make some cash" between anecdotes from shakey

Ramada Inn is streaming online. I think I must have spent 2 hours listening to over and over. It's closest in sound to Ragged Glory but far superior to anything on that record. I'm very excited.

I’m seriously psyched about this. I didn’t listen to the LP earlier this year but this is right up my street. Listened to Walk Like A Giant which was ok, nothing remarkable I thought. Still, I love when Neil has old black in his hand.

Ramada Inn is awesome.
his best song in years.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=O8qkDQ_QP8A#!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=eCbEOT4PTDc

new song

honestly sounds like him struggling to hit the melody to "old king"

in the memoir, neil seems genuinely worried about whether he'll be able to write good songs w/o the aid of marijuana -- guess he worked through that. or he got crazy high before writing the psychedelic pill songs.

Ramada Inn is so good..
that new one is ok, i guess

uhhh this is hard...i'm going on self-imposed media blackout on new songs!

Why?

i've been avoiding the studio versions too (tho i listened to that edit of walk like a giant). i want to jam the album out in full when it comes out.

^^^ this

Don't miss Neil's first-ever LIVE chat with fans on Twitter this Wed the 24 at noon Pacific Time, using the hashtag #askneil.

haha really??

really!

he'll only be accepting questions about pono, vintage cars and model trains though.

"...going to get a hip-hop haircut/going to get a hip-hop haircut..."

Hrm...

It's out there.

gonna be so hard to stay pure

#askneil
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/A5_kSAMCQAA3x9G.jpg

holy shit the questions are coming fast...good question tyler! i asked about the status of Toast

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@neilyoung What are you reading? #askneil
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@adizzca I was reading something... what was it... it wasn't that good... so I stopped reading it #askneil

@neilyoung would you do a collaboration with @fucktyler #askneil

loooool

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You are my hero neil. Thanks for everything you do. As an aspiring musician you have any advice about getting noticed? #askneil
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.@JADoss23 Get out a little, that would be good #askneil

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@neilyoung World Series prediction? #askneil
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awesome answer, Neil! haha xp

this fuckin guy

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@neilyoung How are you preparing for the Imminent apocalypse this December? Any tips? #askneil
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.@Bad_Tweets_Guy working out #askneil

he looks fat

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Don't do Twitter but j. stannard asked what i'd want to!

Listening to the album now. Gonna buy a copy on Tuesday just for "Driftin' Back." Clearly this is one of the "there are no speakers in the world big enough" NY&CH albums. Very happy about this fact.

Driftin' Back is way too long (surprise..)

No it's not. I just wish it was an instrumental, 'cause the lyrics are spectacularly old-man boneheaded. But I could listen to these guys jam at top volume for a week straight.

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#askneil what's the significance of the name Psychedelic Pill
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@rod_sims it is a pill that induces psychedelia #askneil

2:15 PM - 24 Oct 12 · web

very sophisticated

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#askneil did u ever swallow a harmonica by accident?

shit guys don't even bother buying psychedelic pill next week

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Vinyl, CD, Blu-ray, download - Considering the strengths and weaknesses of each, which offers the best Psychedelic Pill experience? #AskNeil
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@djames2399 PONO #askneil

I'm shocked that Young would promote Pono on this chat. Shocked.

he obviously don't wanna do this

the chat that is

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@neilyoung why is 'Harvest' the only album (and almost only thing at all) that makes me cry? Why? #askneil
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SmokeyDouglas: @neilyoung From the new generation of bands coming through at the moment, who do you rate? #askneil
1:34pm, Oct 24 from Twitter for iPhone

neilyoung: .@SmokeyDouglas foster the people #askneil

never been more disappointed in neil

also said he wants to record with dave grohl D:

like somebody forced him to do it

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Elliott Roberts: "Do this chat, or I'll shoot this car" (points gun at rusty Packard) xpost

Neil's got some bad taste in music. It's documented in his book. He also calls Randy Bachman the greatest guitarist ever, blowing Hendrix and Segovia away with merely his feedback.

can't stop hearing the verses of Echo & the Bunnymen's "Silver" over the top of "Driftin' Back":

Swung from a chandelier
My planet sweet on a silver salver...
Bailed out my worst fears
'Cause man has to be his own saviour

Neil liking Foster the People is the worst thing I've ever read on Twitter.

yeah, he toured with Pearl Jam, and now with Axl Rose..

XXPOST

This is worse then when he endorsed Reagan

I refuse to believe that Neil means most of these answers, especially Foster the People. Bad taste or no, I will not believe that.

god who cares

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Foster The People shout-out reminds me of when the shakey author gets butthurt that Neil was praising human league and flock of seagulls circa trans

all the little babies down by the river
better run from my gun
faster than my bullet

best if you imagine neil singing it like the o'jays

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@glenbarkwith money money money money money money money #askneil
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can't believe neil didn't answer my question! COME ON.

anyway, about the new record- Ramada Inn and Giant are probably the best songs on it.

I refuse to believe that Neil means most of these answers, especially Foster the People. Bad taste or no, I will not believe that.

― grandavis, Wednesday, October 24, 2012 4:15 PM (38 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Why? he's just a guy

with bad taste

/unfunny

still holding off on listening to the new one. i don't know why! is the PONO available yet?
but i can recommend this
http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mcezdxRJLD1qzvt8k.jpg
http://sweetblahg.tumblr.com/post/34248881523/oct-2012-week-of-the-horse

damn awesome tyler
what's "Singer without a song"?

another new one? apparently co-written with willie nelson's son. of all things.

hahaha wtf
i'm not going to allow myself to listen to any of the songs that are on psychedelic pill

Whoa folks, take it easy. I was mainly kidding, though I can imagine endless answers to that question that are more fun/exciting than Foster the People, so yeah, wish he had said something else. The "refuse to believe" was in jest though. Got no problem with The Human League or Flock of Seagulls though, Neil otm.

apparently co-written with willie nelson's son.Assuming this is Lukas. Singer-songwriter-lead-guitarist-bandleader, his quirks are his own and often well-turned.

yeah lukas nelson. it's pretty good, one of the better recent piano neil songs, i think.

this is awesome. a really pleasant surprise. best neil album since ragged glory, or at least silver and gold?

"Driftin' Back" may be up there (down there?) with the least justified epics on "Re*ac*tor" and "Broken Arrow." But then the album takes off, so good for the misdirection.

lol at the alternate mix of Psychedelic Pill basically being "we didn't feed the entire track through the phaser"

not really feeling "driftin' back" except for the part at the beginning with the driftin' backs and the band fading in out of of sync, which made me stop what i was doing and think "wow this is cool"

Driftin' Back isn't so good, yeah.
and it's a shame for an almost 30 minutes track.

"the part at the beginning with the driftin' backs and the band fading in out of of sync":
it's like "let's do the driftin' back thing in the production too!" - it's kinda pathetic imo. like those sound effect on Psychedlic Pill (the song - kinda embarrassing.

there are some good songs in here, but the rest is somewhat superficial.

you're crazy, bro

Made it almost all the way through this monster slab today...and I'm really disappointed. I wanted it to be Ragged Glory 2: Ragged-er & Glorious-er, but it's really not. The lyrics to the first song, "Driftin' Back," are so bad you figure it's gotta be uphill from there, but then you get to songs like "Born in Ontario" and "Twisted Road," and you think, "Oh, OK, this one's a concept album, too, except the concept is 'Neil Young is a wheezing old fuck looking back on his life, only he can barely manage to string a rudimentary rhyme together since he stopped smoking pot.'" The long songs - "Driftin' Back," "Ramada Inn" (the only song on here that's not first-person grumping and whining; it's about an old married couple, and I actually think he could do a hell of a job on a solo acoustic version) and "Walk Like a Giant" - have plenty of big stomping guitar stuff, but even that's kinda reined in from where it was 20 years ago. I mean, there were moments on Ragged Glory and especially Arc/Weld that you could have put up against Fushitsusha, almost, but these days the Horse is just a caveman garage rock band. I really thought I was gonna download this record, listen to it a few times, and then go pay cash money for a physical copy on Tuesday, but I am officially un-sold. Neil is now 100 percent one of those guys who, when I hear people praising his new work, I feel like they're just listening to their memories and not the actual sounds coming out of the speakers.

The second disc isn't impressive apart from "Twisted Road" and the title track. "Walk Like a Giant" boasts good off-key Horse call and response vocals but you can hum "Like a Hurricane" over them.

What was the last great song Neil wrote, opinions

I'm fond of "Fork of the Road" although I'm not going to bother distinguishing between good and great.

Fork IN the Road obv

fixed, 46:06

A
1. Ramada Inn (16:51)
2. She's Always Dancing (8:33)

B
1. For The Love Of Man (4:15)
2. Walk Like A Giant (16:29)

See, I don't like "For the Love of Man" - I'd swap in "Born in Ontario," because as dumb as the lyrics are, at least the riff is solid.

OTM
xpost

Your right, it's a better tune but I can't get past the inanity.

I think "Walk Like a Giant" is all-time.

I do like all the different sides to Crazy Horse. There's the loud stuff captured on "Weld" and "Ragged Glory" and "Rust," but there's also the moodier stuff of "Broken Arrow" and "Sleeps With Angels." This is in between, though with weaker songs than "Sleeps" but better songs than "Broken Arrow." And really, when this immediately follows "Americana," one of the most batshit things he's done, I don't know what kind of expectations you (xpost) have, really. Heard Tyler's crazy "Walk Like a Giant" feedback mix?

xpost YOU'RE

I really don't mind the nostalgia trips...I guess the thing that most bums me out is the recurrent aching for the summer-of-love thing, I prefer Woodstock-bashing proto-punk Neil

I guess the thing that most bums me out is the recurrent aching for the summer-of-love thing

This x1000. Between this album and that song about John Lennon on the new Bob Dylan record, there's a big part of me that's inwardly screaming "JUST DIE ALREADY."

lol

Although I did dig his Jimmy Page shout-outs from whenever that was

were you guys expecting Young to remember that glorious summer he read Buddenbrooks for the first time

Yeah, is ironic that Neil waited until nobody wanted or needed hippie Neil to revert to that form. And after he stopped smoking pot, too!

xpost Ha no but it would be cool if he could touch on these things a little more artfully or obliquely, not just "Oh I remember Wavy Gravy/He was a funny guy/and he made us smile"

Also: "We came so close!" w/r/t sixties is just completely idiotic

Neil has never gone deep. He runs on instinct.

which kinda failed him now

"Oh I remember Wavy Gravy/He was a funny guy/and he made us smile"

If that's an actual lyric on this record, I'm cancelling my order.

americana was so fun i hoped this would be too, but nothing here suggests that's the case

this is a great record. don't know what you people are (or aren't) smoking

about 2/3rds through my inaugural listen to "walk like a giant" and yeah neil hasn't tossed off a solo like this for a while, but that lyric...yeah, no

"instead of free associating like i used to, maybe this time i'll just say 'riding the desert wind' a couple times cuz man that shit is profound"

i've never heard Dear heather, but the songs i've heard from pill are reminding of xgau's dear heather review

Dear Heather [Columbia, 2004]
I know it's hard to get a grip on, kids, but people keep getting older. They don't just reach some inconceivable benchmark--50 or, God, 60--and stop, Old in some absolute sense. The bones, the joints, the genitals, the juices, the delivery systems, and eventually the mind continue to break down, at an unpredictable pace in unpredictable ways. Leonard Cohen has had No Voice since he began recording at 33. But he has more No Voice today, at 70, than he did on Ten New Songs, at 67--the tenderness in his husky whisper of 2001, tenderness the way steak is tender, has dried up in his whispered husk of 2004, rendering his traditional dependence on the female backups who love him more grotesque. Nor does noblesse oblige underlie all the adaptations and settings--Lord Byron, Patti Page, a Quebecois folk song, various dead Canadian poets, himself. Rather they reflect the same diminished inspiration that makes you wonder whether his 9/11 song is enigmatic or merely inconclusive. Not only do I like the guy, I'm Old enough to identify with him. But I doubt I'll ever be Old enough to identify with this. On her deathbed, my 96-year-old mother-in-law was still relying on Willie Nelson's Stardust. That's more like it. B

though by xgau's own estimation cohen has perked up considerably since this, so knock on wood for neil won't be in king lear mode for the rest of his days

This was released here in Germany today (a few days before US and UK, for some reason). I'm really looking forward to listening when I get home.

(And I agree with the rants up-thread about Neil's vinyl releases: pricing the LP at six or seven times the price of the CD is just prohibitive. Such a pity)

Oh, and this might have Neil's worst cover-art ever. (Which might be an argument against getting the vinyl....)

Loving this album. But... it is pretty difficult to read the lyrics in the tiny half-CD-sized booklet. Maybe this is a buy-vinyl-nudge on behalf of Neil.

"Oh I remember Wavy Gravy/He was a funny guy/and he made us smile"

If that's an actual lyric on this record, I'm cancelling my order.

― 5-Hour Enmity (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Friday, October 26, 2012 11:25 AM (7 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

^^^

I mean, there were moments on Ragged Glory and especially Arc/Weld that you could have put up against Fushitsusha, almost, but these days the Horse is just a caveman garage rock band.

Please point me to the "caveman garage rock band" that sounds like "Walk Like A Giant" from around 9:38 to 12:29. SHOW ME THAT BAND!!!! Because that's some fuckin' raw shit, worthy of the PSF heights you speak of upthread.

I just listened to this album - twice - this weekend - and, uhh, I sorta love it, in spite of myself. And I really wasn't expecting to. I don't love all of it, but I love a good deal of it.

fixed, 46:06

A
1. Ramada Inn (16:51)
2. She's Always Dancing (8:33)

B
1. For The Love Of Man (4:15)
2. Walk Like A Giant (16:29)

― Hadrian VIII, Friday, October 26, 2012 10:42 AM (2 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Lose "For The Love Of Man" and replace with "Twisted Road" and that's my single disc version, and my favorite Neil since Le Noise

picked up the CD this morning at electric fetus - 16.99 on sale for the double...didn't even see the vinyl wonder if they were scared off by the list price?

gotta wait until tonight to listen cuz me and some bros are having a crazy horse beer drinking bro-down and we have to xxxSTAYPURExxx

beer and only beer will bro it down

The vinyl doesn't drop til November.

At $70, sadly out of the question for me :-(

It was $45 w/shipping on German Amazon. Just checked, though, and got the "we'll let you know when it's available" message (in German, though, so it looked threatening).

$12.99 for the CD on Amazon US. Gonna hit the local shop anyway, and if it's under $15, gonna buy it there and do the right thing.

I started to get a little worried when people were making comparisons to "broken arrow" since that's one of Neil's weakest, though occasional comparisons to "sleeps with angels" are more optimistic sounding, since that is probs his best album outside of the usually mentioned plethora of stone cold classics. Hideous '90s cover art aside.

I made it through the first disc. Don't know if I can face the second right now. Slog is a kind descriptor so far.

if it's broken arrow along the lines of "big time" I'm down but if it's more like "loose change"....idk.

Disc 2 >>>> Disc 1

But you really didn't like "Ramada Inn?"

Fuck Vinyl, Bring On The PONO!

PONO #PONO

Psychedelic Pono

Oh my god, "For The Love Of Man" is the longest 4 minute song I've heard in years. I'm sorry, but I'm basically hating this record. Just another pile of Neil droppings to add to the tall tower of crap he's released this millenium.

I was in a record store that threw this on tonight, and I thought the first three or four minutes of "Driftin' Back" (had to abandon for a movie) were really great--decided on the spot I'd buy this. (But not from this particular store, which was charging $25.) I've scrolled back and discovered I heard barely a fraction of the song, and that most of you don't care for it. I'll look for the whole song online tonight.

Dudes I got drunk listening to this, it basically rules

Listened to the whole "Driftin' Back" online last night, and think it's pretty great. A couple of clunky lines in the middle, maybe--weren't those Apple ads at least 10 years ago?--but the part about getting a hip-hop haircut made me laugh. The music is vintage, and worth the whole 27 minutes, I think.

It's an OK song, just doesn't warrant its length, and as such, is one of the lesser songs on the album. If it had been, say, 8 minutes, I'd like it better.

this album is pretty good!

yeah i think driftin' back is pretty rad, i mean, i really like the way neil young plays guitar so ... [lyrics are a little unfortunate, but the "driftin' back" chorus thing is lovely]

was genuinely disappointed when "don't want my mp3" wasn't followed by "want my PONO!"

the lyrics are pretty awful throughout but the guitars sound great

got pretty drunk last night w/some friends at an informal listening party, was a super fun time

track impressions:

driftin' back - i like it! i'm a fan of year of the horse and it reminds me of the way they jammed on that album, very dreamy and floaty feeling....parts of the guitar jams actually remind me of television a bit...the lyrics are ridic, but honestly lyrics are probably what, 5 minutes out of 30 so who cares? again, this is about as hardcore crazy horse fan shit as you can get, seems like something that should be a "legendary" bootleg or something, obv super weird choice for the first track....but i like the endless feeling of it, i feel like i could leave the house for a week, come back and they'd still be jamming until infinity....

psychedelic pill - holy fucking phaser! honestly it's like they literally ran the entire master mix through a fucking cheap DOD pedal....my friend had really nice speakers and it was kind of bizarre in a way that you don't want to listen to a gain...i've made an itunes playlist where i replace this song with the regular alt mix that they tacked on the end and i think it helps the album tremendously...the phaser really robs the guitars of their heaviness and the alt mix is really pummeling...i like it because it's a good uptempo song in the flow, but the mix on the regular one is too distracting

ramada inn - heard this on the concert boots, and it's a great song, some of neil's best lyrics in recent years, one of the better songs he's written plus some really great solos in the jams that recall ragged glory solos

born in ontario - heard the acoustic solo version on the boots, the band version is way better, kind of a fun throwaway that i'll tolerate from neil and pretty much no one else...kinda reminds me of the song "homegrown" in vibe and general goofiness...catchy as hell though

twisted road - man the lyrics to this are really bad, seems like he's pandering to the hippies/deadhead types that go to his shows...i could see this one being a fan favorite w/a certain crowd...i actually really like the chorus's melody and descending chord change....but yeah pretty lightweight....

she's always dancing - i think lots of ppl on lukewarm on this but i love it...lyrics are again throwaway but i like the horse's singing on this and the dark chord changes are a nice takeoff point for jams...really really dig this one

for the love of man - pretty spare arrangement, and feels out of place on the album...it's ok in a hokey 50s kinda way but probably the weakest song overall

walk like a giant - don't know if anything could top those colorado show boot versions of this, but goddamn this comes pretty fucking close. i love this song so much, i think it's a truly great song, best thing he's done in years and years, could be a future neil show staple like hurricane or cortez IMO...love it. giant godzilla/transformers shit at the end is genuinely bizarre and awesome, so many great things about this....

it's like they literally ran the entire master mix through a fucking cheap DOD pedal

On Pono, it sounds like a Behringer pedal. Vast improvement.

lol

one thing i like about this record is that you can totally tell it's all live in one room, you can hear the bass rattling the snare drum

yeah totally. here's the console neil uses -- the Green Board!
http://www.uaudio.com/media/blog/2008/december/heritage_610.jpg
interview w/ his engineer http://www.uaudio.com/blog/john-nowland-ua-interview/

one thing i like about this record is that you can totally tell it's all live in one room, you can hear the bass rattling the snare drum

― seasonal hugs (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, October 31, 2012 12:32 PM (12 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

maybe because when they tried to edit things together in the first two minutes of "Driftin' Back" it was such a mess that they didn't try it again

you mean the acoustic to electric thing? i guess i thought that was jarring on purpose just crossfading two different performances

either way the snare thing just means the bass cab was pretty close or maybe they don't like to use baffles

You can hear the snares buzzing on Ragged Glory, too. The cover photo is from one of the sessions: live vocals, no baffles/separation.

ah cool, it's just kinda awesome that they record like some local band in a basement

yeah i kinda like records where you can hear the snare buzz. tempted to do a thread about that.

Grand Funk's Red Album is a great one for that.

When I was studying audio engineering, the guy who handled the in-studio portion of the program asked each of us if we had an album that we loved the sound of, and wanted to know how to make records that sound like that - Grand Funk's Red Album was my pick. Everybody in one room, but every instrument perfectly clear.

neil's facebook "about" page, keeping it mature
http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mctufkzaLb1qbpzuro1_500.png

lol

Bought this on the way home. Buying new is something I basically stopped doing around the time new vinyl went for $5.99, so a compliment/gesture of faith.

Arc 2012, Part II - http://doomandgloomfromthetomb.tumblr.com/post/34835597518/arc-2012-part-ii-spirit-come-back-to-me

Woo-hoo!

I liked "Driftin' Back" at first, the lyrical zengahs, vocals (lead & harmonies both), suggestions of Television covering "Eight Miles High", groove, all very cute-but eventually seemed static, I nodded off. Woke up for the rest of Disc 1, really liked the way "Ramada Inn" is so intense ann even more when it's like a screen grab of scenes from a marriage in crisis, slowly, inexorably unfolding, but could go off the road at eny second, or not. That's life, that's what all the people say. That was the boombox, but when I tried Windows Media Player, right-clicked on the tiny HDCD in lower right, went to enhancements >graphic equalizer, with tasteful presets (incl Grunge), but started over w Custom, to maximize the shred and chaos theory around the bounce. "She's Always Dancing" is even about this aesthetic, this way of life, and is prob may fave so far, but "Driftin' Back" works much better this way, and wowww, "Walk Like A Giant", guys! By the same toke, I prefer tbe first version of the title song, with its "psychedelic Bromo-Seltzer", as Beefheart called this phasing when his album got dosed. Also like the very relevent "She's out for a good time", and your basic sonic cheap thrillz, beneath the usual nostalgic coating. And overall, despite some fatty deposits, this album seems like a strong seconding (twelthing, XXIVing) of Janis Joplin's reply to a reporter's question about what Today's Troubled Youth are searching for: "Sincerity, and a good time." Woo-hoo indeed!

"twelthing, XXIVing"--but I hear a lot of albums that try to provide this, and most of 'em just reach new heights of mediocrity, at best.

'walk like a giant' is awesome. this album isn't great, generally think the songs really aren't there, but i don't care - fave since broken arrow (and i like broken arrow alot), will always have room in my heart for neil & crazy horse just jamming records. anything w/ this much neil guitar i'm gonna have time for.

I've listened to "Driftin' Back" five or six times now, the rest of the album once through. I think (so far) the rest is okay. Nothing jumped out at me, though, "Walk Like a Giant" included.

"Driftin' Back" is my favourite Neil song in years and years--at least since "Over and Over." I honestly think it's major. (Neil's the kind of artist where you'll hear that said about every single album now; I've put a couple of songs in my Top 10s the past decade, but I don't remember making any special claims for them.) I'm glad there are few words--they're neither here nor there, but there's not enough of them to get in the way of the music. In a way, they're not necessary. I think you'd get everything you need from the chorus and the music alone--anyone who's listened to enough Neil probably has a pretty good idea of the kinds of things his mind drifts back to. And the Maharishi, digital music, and an old ad campaign aren't really great targets of scorn. (Don't know why Neil would lose interest in Picasso--the ads weren't his fault.) Anyway, like I say, the words pop in and leave quickly. The guitar work contains everything I love about "Cowgirl in the Sand" and "Cortez the Killer." It's not heavy at all, like "Walk Like a Giant"--I don't especially like Neil when he tries to sound heavy, something that crept into his work after "Out of the Blue." It doesn't feel overlong to me in the least.

You don't find it just a tad dull, though? I mean, north of minute fifteen or so?

Not at all--I'm with it the whole way. (Times out well for my drive to work.) Excessive length has never been a problem for me when it comes to music or films if I'm immersed in something. It's only a little bit longer than "Dark Star." And don't forget, we're only getting 5% of Neil's music; originally it was supposed to run nine hours.

I would love a nine hour version of it, probably. Suck it, Flaming Lips!

That said, if I went to a Crazy Horse show and a third the set was "Driftin' Back," I'd be bummed. But whomever upthread suggested that if the track had been left unreleased for years it'd be regarded as some lost classic was OTM.

i listen to "driftin' back" in the same way i listen to like eno ambient stuff or mellow techno music...it's so samey but these gradual things emerge then fall back into the fog

That's for sure, for better or for worse (like those lyrics, ugh).

yeah i guess i dunno, doesn't really bother me, i like the chorus a lot....there's what...5 minutes of singing out of 28?

Very much ambient, which is why the specificity of the lyrics is a problem (I don't think they're terrible, just intrusive)--elliptical lyrics like "Cortez" or "Cowgirl" work better in that kind of setting.

But the chorus is beautiful, yes.

more stuff like "hey now now hey now now, blockin' out my anger/finding my religion/i might be a pagan" would be better

Yeah, that's a great punchline of sorts,esp. after he goes from blocking out his thoughts, except the thought of being Jesus in His cave (not His tomb, not yet, Hallelujah), rolling away thoughts like rocks, and then getting his mantra on for 35 bucks, so "excuze my religion." Also like the "hey now" etc going to the bit about Picasso turning to wallpaper, which tends to happen even after burning out and/or fading away (can always buy some more wallpaper of your fave artiste, if the previous fades). He knows it's a near thing of ambient not turning to wallpaper at the wrong moments--"gonna get me a hip-hop haircut", not sneery but to a very Neily tune, good 'un. Those zengahs!

"Driftin Back" I could probably get really into if I had editing software and could just erase all words except the title phrase: weird Neil I love, love, love; cranky grampa Neil increasingly just makes me deeply sad....

Ramada Inn makes this album for me.

"Driftin' Back" is so totally the weakest of the long songs imo

I know it was you, Fredo. You broke my heart--you broke my heart.

(I've been playing this in its entirety for my grade 6 art classes as they work away. Almost all of them are oblivious, but one guy in my homeroom seemed to be getting right into it yesterday. Someone in this morning's class: "How long is this song?")

really fuckin' long, kid....really long

man i want to be in clemenza's class

Expect memories like this: "That guy was such a bastard...But wow, those Ditch Trilogy sketching classes were the best."

They should bring back the Health Hustle

This record is like musical heaven to me. Ramada Inn, Walk Like A Giant and Drifting Back can all go on forever and I'd be perfectly happy. His best album in 20+ years.

I like this album tons but Le Noise is better imo

Dying at the "I used to dig Picasso" lyric in Driftin' Back.

I've always thought a lot of the "Le Noise" tracks would have sounded great backed by the Horse, like "Sleeps With Angels" level of eerie and rocking.

yeah was hoping at least one of those would make it into rotation this tour.

Dying at the "I used to dig Picasso" lyric in Driftin' Back.

― This Is Not An ILX Username (LaMonte), Sunday, November 11, 2012 2:00 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah i am grateful that i did not read anything about the record before listening, so i could just crack the fuck up barely believing my ears

Ramada Inn makes this album for me.

― Duke, Wednesday, November 7, 2012 6:54 PM (4 days ago)

Still this ^^^. Best song on this album. Great lyrics, great vibe, great guitar playing...

///BRAG ALERT///

waiting to hear this until after I see the tour (got tickets today for the 30th)

so giddy right now

Listened to Broken Arrow on the train home tonight. It stomps all over this record - except for "Walk Like a Giant," which continues to rule.

Don't know if it quite "stomps" all over it, but Broken Arrow certainly never got the praise it deserves.

I guess I should revisit Broken Arrow - I never really connected with that one at the time, and oddly, the only song I remember from it is the acoustic one ("Music Arcade")

It's really good. The guitar jams are of a reasonable length (7-9 minutes), and the short songs are solid and catchy. The only thing I don't really like is the "fake live" version of "Baby What You Want Me To Do" that closes it out - it's not as loud or distorted as the bulk of the album, and the crowd noise adds nothing. He should have just released a full-on studio version.

I think it's actually live (think they did a few "secret" club shows around that time), which makes the listlessness of the performance that much more inexplicable.

That song aside, Broken Arrow is one of the better Crazy Horse dealies, just a tiny tiny notch below Ragged Glory.

I think it's several notches below "Ragged Glory," but I think being underrated for so many years has left it somewhat fresher. It's by no means one of my favorites, but when I put it on I'm always pleasantly surprised by a few tracks.

yeah, i think the opening three tracks + music arcade are kind of killer, can barely remember the rest. though i kind of like the utter halfassedness of the "baby what you want me to do" cover. those "secret show" bootlegs are great.

but back to psychedelic pill -- i'm loving it. still kinda digging in, but it's a really strong effort.

Kind of weird that the band began its tour well before the album came out, though well after the album that came out earlier this year.

Neil Young must have the shortest, most ironclad major label contract ever.

1. Never say no to Neil Young.
2. At all other times, leave Neil Young alone.

Even fucking Sinatra couldn't say no to Neil Young:

In 1976, the Reprise label was deactivated by Warner Brothers and all of its roster (except Frank Sinatra and Neil Young) was moved to the main Warner Bros. label. An unconfirmed explanation for this move is that Sinatra wanted to be the only artist on Reprise, and Young is said to have been the only Reprise act who refused to agree to a change in labels.[citation needed].

I hear they also liked big cars and model trains.

i quite like the album, esp. "ramada inn" and "she's always dancing" but what really puts me off is neil young's voice which simply totally kills all that wonderful guitar interaction. why the fuck doesn't he just shut up? don't get me wrong i like his voice in the right context like just on his own with his acoustic guitar. but here it sounds so unbelievably wrong. it makes you think that all those guitars are in reality played by mice. so crap. if the album had been 100% instrumental and it would have been condensed into 60 minutes it would have been the greatest release of 2012. but like this it is just about in the top ten. the ballads are rubbish too, eg "for the love of man".

I just spoke with Neil and he's cool with top ten.

i've been making up my own words for driftin back
"now i'm checkin' my email / got an email from my mom / hey now now hey now now"

8 debut on the billboard chartzz

"can't remember what I had for breakfast / probably had toast and eggs / hey now now hey now now."

"listenin' to oneida / man they sound far out / hey now now hey now now"

I've made my peace with "Driftin' Back"'s lyrics. If I love a song enough musically, lyrics that at first fall short eventually just become an abstraction. I sing along with every line in the car, and don't really care what they mean.

No Hip Hop Haircut for you!/Hey Now Now Hey Now Now

I used to dig Hip Hop haircuts/then Jesus came along, turned them all into mp3s/hey now now, hey now now.

8 debut on the billboard chartzz

it's a 2cd right? so it actually pushed half as many copies. considering le noise and americana debuted at 2 i'm guessing that's a drop unless it was a real busy week

lol wait i was looking at canadian number. americana debuted at 4 and lenoise at 14

pill at 34k (so really 17k iirc), americana had 44k first week sales - admittedly this is his second album in a year at a daunting price

Not that expensive - Best Buy has it for $14.99.

huh, i just assumed it was a solid 2CD price considering the vinyl price ref'd a while back was insane. If there is still a lot of Americana on the shelves that might have affected pre-orders for this

xpost Amazon had it for about the same. Perhaps Neilheads spent their $$$ that week on Taylor Swift for their kids/younger relations, or are perhaps just waiting for the Pono.

I think the 2 discers listing for old school msrps these days are the Universal (and sometimes Rhino) "deluxe editions" of old albums.

That Taylor Swift / She's got a lot of boyfriends / Hey now now hey now now

There's different one/in every song/Hey now now hey now now

I got it for 16'99 on sale at an indie store

Mine was $17.99 / $15.99 the week before / hey now now hey now now

Digital download only costs 5% of full price if I understand Neil correctly.

she's always dancing is really great, that song has grown on me so much

that's the song i purchased in the end. that plaintive guitar on it is neil's, isn't it? it kind of sounds like a human to me. with emotions, tears and stuff.

i really like this album! definitely the neil album i've enjoyed the most since ... silver & gold? probably. i get most of the complaints about the lyrics, but i don't care that much about the lyrics as long as there's that guitarrrrrrr.

Agree. My favourite new NY album in a long time. I also love the guitar. I understand those that regret that Neil isn't letting off Weld-style fireworks. I sort of do too. But we're twenty years down the line from then. This sound fits with almost-70-year-old Neil.

NEIL YOUNG & CRAZY HORSE TO PERFORM BENEFIT CONCERT FOR VICTIMS OF HURRICANE SANDY NEXT THURSDAY, DECEMBER 6TH

"A SPECIAL EVENING WITH NEIL YOUNG & CRAZY HORSE" TO TAKE PLACE AT BORGATA HOTEL CASINO & SPA IN ATLANTIC CITY

The question is: do they play "Like a Hurricane?"

UK tour 2013!

June 10th - Newcastle Metro Radio Arena
June 11th - Birmingham LG Arena
June 13th - Glasgow SECC
June 15th - Dublin RDS Arena
June 17th - London O2 Arena

seems to be a tour of the UK's most horrible venues

Yeah, what a shame. Neil is one of the few artists I'm grudgingly willing to lift my boycott of the SECC for, though - I've never seen him play with Crazy Horse before and who knows how long it'll be before they make it back to the UK?

seems relatively ambitious set of venues

no problems with getting tickets though leading up to it

listened to this album on the (long) bus ride into work today...corny lyrics eradicated by pure righteousness of the playing. twisted road sounds like an Alabama song, i realized.

Splurged for the live show and saw Neil from the floor. Was my first time seeing him since the tour with Sonic Youth and Social Distortion. It was fun. He dragged out the noise on a number of cuts and put his hand through the oversized fender speaker/amp combination thing to make even more noise. I also liked some of the little touches Neil added-- like having video clips of he and the band from the past popping up and then quickly disappearing from the live video feed on one song; the roadies (wearing yellow raincoats and hats) putting crumpled up newspaper pieces and stuff in front of a giant fan on the side of the stage sending debris flying across the stage.

he can't stand the sound of vinyl, and would much rather people heard his music digitally.

Is this true? I would've thought the exact opposite.

think that was a joke about the ridiculous price of the vinyl.

ok thats what i thought but sometimes deadpan online sarcasm is tough for me

Yeah, I was being facetious, but it's also the only explanation I could come up with for why the vinyl of PsychPill is so prohibitively expensive.

(the price has come down since then; now it's only $70!)

i only buy $60 vinyl, sorry neil

new song? http://www.rustradio.org/mp3/ny2013-03-02t05_HoleInTheSky.mp3
seems to be a lincvolt inspired tune -- at least it showed up here: http://lincvolt.tumblr.com/
not a new classic...

haha yeah p far from a new classic i'd say

"she's always dancing" has really grown on me over time.

still think this is my fave neil record in a long time...
they're playing some deep cuts down under -- "surfer joe," "opera star," "danger bird"...

yeah i know i saw opera star on a setlist and i was all jealous!

if he starts doing "Shots" with Crazy Horse I would die

yeah i don' think they've ever played that one live (tho there is the solo acoustic shots from 78). no t-bone either...

lol "t-bone", what songwriting chops neil has!

Considering what he was holding back at the time (stuff that ended up on Freedom and Ragged Glory), the fact that "t-bone" saw the light of day is baffling.

hey it's a pretty good jam.
it is too bad there isn't just one re-ac-tor era crazy horse show where they just destroy everyone.

At this point there is no chance of rescuing "T-Bone" from punchline status, but I agree that it's actually a pretty good song!

I actually don't mind it -- any Neil with the Horse on it gets a pass from me -- but considering "Country Home" was just sitting there, unloved, it kinda calls Neil's decision-making capabilities into question.

(But then, in light of "Surfer Joe and Moe the Sleaze," it's more likely he wasn't keen on giving Reprise his best shit at the time.)

from http://www.neilyoung.com/news/:

TOUR DATES CANCELLED
August 8, 2013

For immediate release: Due to an accident involving Crazy Horse, the remaining dates on the Neil Young and Crazy Horse tour of Europe and the British isles have been cancelled. We are sorry for any inconvenience this causes to our fans or the Festivals where we were scheduled to appear. As you must be, we too are disappointed at this unfortunate turn of events. -- Neil Young and Crazy Horse

!!! oh no

Shit

Yeah, I hope everyone's OK. Poncho said something in a recent interview about how they're not so young anymore, and it'd only take a little accident to knock them off the road.

eek, hope it's nothing too serious.
in other news
http://img0.etsystatic.com/009/0/7162663/il_fullxfull.443860576_2trb.jpg

I want that for my outhouse

"An accident involving Crazy Horse" is so amusingly vague. Hope they're all OK, though.

seriously. while obv with their age it's distressing, i hold out hope the issue is Neil's spontaneous passion to collaborate with Fatboy Slim or something.

rolling stone is saying sampedro broke his hand. like he needs his hand to play these songs!

If it was his left hand, he can just strum with his right. They can just have a bunch of guitars open-tuned to whatever chord, and he can just swap it out for each song. Hell, E minor would be half their set.

if it's his left hand, just bring back the keytar!

They can have roadies fret it for him.

Road-Eyes
http://o.aolcdn.com/dims-global/dims3/GLOB/resize/600x600/quality/60/http://www.blogcdn.com/www.spinner.com/media/2012/11/rust-never-sleeps-road-eyes.jpg

Or, what the hell, a giant rat.
http://www.spin.com/sites/all/files/styles/style300_200/public/120525-neil-young-lead.png

this album is really spectacular. i think it might be one of his very very best?

it's quite good, but surely not one of his best stuff, which are some of the best music ever made..

I think the long ones are some of the best CH jamming...Ramada Inn is great... I think Twisted Road & Born in Ontario are kind of throwaway

I think this, Americana and Le Noise are equally great/not disposable, though not the equal of the Freedom, Ragged Glory, Harvest Moon and Sleeps with Angels run, which are indispensable.

Since this is the currently revived NY thread, did yall see where Rolling Stone's Kory Grow mentions, among other Record Store Day(4/19) releases: ...Neil Young's Official Release Series Discs 5 – 8 box set, which binds together limited-edition, analog-remastered vinyl releases of Time Fades Away, On the Beach, Tonight's the Night and Zuma.

Fuuuuuck woah

does it cost $200?

According to this, no CDs, and no Pono.

It seems odd that they'd specify no Pono for this, since there's no Pono of anything.

no Pono is a great false palindrome. Or an anagram, for Pono: on!

god i'm so pissing in anticipation of how much that RSD box set is going to be >:(

Yeah I've already written that set off as not existing. Between only 3,500 copies and the likely insane cost, there's no way its going to happen for me.

Maybe we can all pool our money and buy one copy to share?

that's what i suggested for the DARE but it never happened :(

Maybe we can all pool our money and buy one copy to share?
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-8hG-gugTfuE/Ufxpv1pBvpI/AAAAAAAAhqE/vaz6VizAcYo/s1600/Three_Men_and_a_Comic_Book-los-simpson.png

"Nobody puts one over on Tarfumes T. Escape Goat!"

lol

Uh-oh, this Third Man solo acoustic covers album turns out to be a real thing---suspected he might yo-yo yet again, after two albums with Crazy Horse:
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/spring-music-preview-2014-27-must-hear-albums-20140303/neil-young-a-letter-home-march-19691231

Of course, reviewers were pleasantly surprised by the Cellar Door solo set of familiar originals...haven't seen the full track list yet...

I actually wish I could get excited about this, but there is almost no way this is going to be good, right?

Cellar Door is boring on paper, but amazing to listen to

also, ger ready for the PONO era: http://www.computeraudiophile.com/f8-general-forum/neil-young-announces-launch-ponomusic-19703/

"get"

Geir is probably ready for PONO.

The PonoPlayer has 128GB of memory and can store 1000 to 2000 high-resolution digital-music albums.

128GB/2000 = 64MB per album. 64MB = 1 hour of music in 128kbps AAC format. Half hour in 320kbps MP3 format. This is some bullshit.

are those e-meters?

Love the poorly-tagged files on the players they used for that promo photo.

that Pono thing is actually an announcement of their Kickstarter? oof

$25k gets you honey slides w/ Neil and Rusty Kershaw

Those things are giving me Sabre Pyramid flashbacks

http://img707.imageshack.us/img707/9361/sabrepyramidpresentatio.jpg

The covers record could be good! Who knows? A lot of Neil's career is bad ideas that somehow ended up great.

The PonoPlayer has 128GB of memory and can store 1000 to 2000 high-resolution digital-music albums Neil Young albums.

Love the poorly-tagged files on the players they used for that promo photo.

love that a 2014 marketing rollout is using dire straits and bob dylan as the two names to display in their ads (with neil himself lurking on the player in the background). guess they know their target audience.

also, that looks like the least portable portable player i've seen since the sony discman.

you just put it on your head and wear a top hat

The PonoPlayer has 128GB of memory and can store 1000 to 2000 high-resolution digital-music albums bob lefsetz columns.

Sorry, every time I see the word Pono, all I can think about is Chris Farley as Howard Heflin in SNL's Clarence-Thomas-confirmation-hearing sketch: "Do you think that pono is the way to go?"

Just got this order from Warner Bros!

TUNE-IN RIGHT NOW:
To Watch Neil Young Deliver the Keynote Address at SXSW
5PM CDT
http://sxsw.com/live

Today @ 5pm CDT
Rebroadcasted: 7pm CDT Wednesday & 7am CDT Thursday
(other stuff will be on here too, apparently)

http://ih.constantcontact.com/fs155/1104983095347/img/525.jpg

He's already talking to a guy about "loudness wars."

I wish he'd talk to a guy about Archives II.

....which turns out to be yet more PONO talk, followed by a Q&A with the audience (about PONO), and no keynote. Scroll down, and you'll see listings of more talk by others tomorrow, and eventually some music---but tomorrow night's showcase on NPR is a better bet
http://www.npr.org/event/music/279055940/npr-music-presents-live-from-sxsw-2014

Neil has a limited amount of years left on the planet, wish he wouldn't waste 'em on pono

^ this. I read an interview with him after Ragged Glory came out where he said something like, "I'm real happy with this record, and hey, you never know, it could all end tomorrow -- I'd be proud to go out on an up note. I'm just glad I didn't get hit by a bus after Everybody's Rockin'."

Man, which Neil Young thread ...

Anyway, vinyl box delayed, surprising no one, until November. Maybe he's focusing on PONO? Maybe he's figuring out a better way to print vinyl? Maybe he's just fucking with us?

March 19, 2014 - (Burbank, CA.) -- Neil Young and Warner Bros. Records have announced that they must delay the release of Young's upcoming Neil Young Official Series 2 Vinyl Box Set, which was intended to come out on Record Store Day, due to several other projects that Young has in the works that he wishes to focus on. A November release date for the set, which includes the classic albums Time Fades Away, On The Beach, Tonight's The Night and Zuma, will be announced soon. Rest assured, it will be worth the wait!

According to a post on Thrasher's Wheat,

At this time we are still planning on physical release for NYA V2 and yes it will be available on Pono, too in full 24/192 sound quality. I'm happy to report that we are in full on production of NYA V2 right now. Maybe I'm biased, but I think V2 might be the best one. A plethora of previously unreleased tracks.

did you guys hear about his sci fi novel

Maybe I'm biased, but I think V2 might be the best one.

Ha. Me, I'd put it in the top two or three. Maybe the top 5. I mean, there have been so many ...

Sci fi Neil is going to be so sick! The Harvest Moons of Saturn.

^^^^

A plethora!?

sounds like at least two

There better be Oceanside/Countryside & Homegrown

With Neil, I think it's safe to assume "there better be" = there won't be.

had both the NY archives box and the recent Lee Hazlewood box out next to each other a week ago, and was just like, why can't the archives be like this? beautiful book, great music, unreleased stuff, session info... doesn't seem that complicated. and the hazlewood and archives box cost pretty much the same.

who wants great packaging when you can watch weird DVDs of music on your crappy TV speakers??

it's just crazy, if you had no idea who lee hazlewood and neil young were and saw those box sets, you'd think hazlewood was by far the more famous dude.

there's a good argument to me made that an artist should not be involved in creating their own box sets

Absolutely. Pretty sure Dylan is hands-off whenever a Bootleg Series set is being developed, and those have been uniformly praised.

Springsteen sticks his nose in and re-records shit. Townshend unnecessarily adds shit to his old demos.

bootleg series has gotta be up there in terms of excellently done archival releases...it's pretty much been all home runs as far as i'm concerned

miles has a lot of cool stuff....

i guess the dead? maybe that's just quantity though

dylan probably has veto power over the bootleg series, but i'd be willing to bet he doesn't give a shit at this point.
neil should've just been doing his bootleg series since 1993 or whatever.

Nobody's "hands off" a Bootleg Series like Miles. I don't think he even knows they exist.

Ha, although Teo Macero complained loudly about some of the boxes, saying that material was unreleased for a reason.

He had a point, but I'm glad he wasn't in a position to mess with their contents or keep them from being released. I can't think of a single piece of music on any of the Miles boxes that I thought shouldn't have seen the light of day.

dylan probably has veto power over the bootleg series, but i'd be willing to bet he doesn't give a shit at this point.

"What?! I'm not going to release those horrible 1966 shows! I was booed! I have a reputation to uphold! Now, if you'll excuse me, I have a batshit Chrysler ad to film."

i don't think dylan's that precious about shit

i remember reading this thing with some vet rock writer who got to do an article on dylan recording infidels and after the thing's done he's listening to the final with dylan and the writer is going nuts because he realizes dylan's leaving off "blind willie mctell", dylan says something along the lines of "listen man, it's just an album, i've made 20 of them"

haha that's awesome

*smokes blunt*

Oh well, guess I'll roll another number for the road, and this:
https://www.youtube.com/user/neilyoungchannel

goddamn i love 'ramada inn' so so much

finally hearing this whole thing. This is... really good?

definitely has some high points... kind of wish driftin back was just an instrumental (or just the chorus). lyrics are kind of a vibe killer.

idk those are bad in a very Neil way

haha yeah... i mean, the guitar sound makes up for the lyrics.

I kind of wish "Driftin Back" were twice as long and completely it's own thing, but yeah I was just listen to this not that long ago.

The phased out vers of the title track is totally dumb

"Ramada Inn" is amazing

yeah ramada inn is heavy... still wouldn't mind hearing him break that one out as an acoustic number too.

gah i still haven't listened to the monsanto years... for some reason i just don't wanna.

Yeah, this is my favorite Neil album since harvest moon

Local sports radio morning show uses the title track as bumper music occasionally

Yeah, this is my favorite Neil album since harvest moon

― brimstead, Monday, October 5, 2015 7:04 PM (38 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Mine too

though I really love most of Le Noise too

Monsanto album has at least one nice track on it "Wolf Moon", and some bad lyrics, band sounds good, young & a bit sloppy, perfect for Neil. Haven't heard it all but I will soon. I'm seeing the tour on Thursday, will report back.