neil young

hilarious that trump would choose a song so clearly a repudiation of reagan-era republican politics, right up there with reagan himself embracing born in the usa

'welfare mothers' surely just crying out to be used in support of some wingnut

the version on weld is one of the ugliest, most repellent and most thrilling rock songs in the ny canon

new album is streaming on NPR

musically it's pretty good so far...on the lyrical tip, Neil is goin' ham(fisted)

this is as much room he's given his 2nd guitarist since danny whitten

This is the one with Willie Nelson's kids?

no that was three albums ago now. this is the one about donald trump.

assuming one of willie's kids is the lead guitarist? he can really play

there's 2 or 3 songs i would consider "good" on this, otherwise some good moments when no singing is going on

you listened yet tyler?

i haven't listened! kind of scared.
i saw willie a few years ago and lucas nelson got a showcase... he was kinda sub-stevie ray at that point... but that was almost a decade ago I guess!

yeah i mean the whole band seems pretty consciously trying to get in a crazy horse zone for neil. they are pretty good at it, def more "pro" obviously but kick up a decent racket at points. though honestly i'm not sure bringing whitten back from the dead could save these songs.

Neil solo set, then set with the band

Sun July 5 Milwaukee Summer Fest Milwaukee,
Wed July 8 Red Rocks Denver, CO
Thurs July 9 Red Rocks Denver, CO
Sat July 11 Pinnacle Bank Arena Lincoln, NE
Mon July 13 Riverbend Music Center Cincinnati, OH

Tues July 14 DTE Energy Music Theatre Clarkston, MI
Thurs July16 Susquehanna Bank Center Camden, NJ
Fri July 17 Bethel Woods Center for the Arts Bethel, NY
Sun July 19 Champlain Valley Expo Essex Junction, VT
Tues July 21 Jones Beach Wantagh, NY
Wed July 22 Xfinity Center Great Woods, MA
Fri July 24 Wayhome Festival Oro-Medonte, ON

The Trump Never Sleeps 2016 tour

i saw some list of songs that have been performed and/or rehearsed for this tour thus far and it looks prettay prettay good. this is not including the new monsanto songs:
Winterlong
Hold Back the Tears
******' Up
Words
Expecting To Fly
Cortez The Killer
Homegrown
Country Home
Mansion On The Hill
Walk On
Goin' Back (electric)
Tell My Why (electric)
Vampire Blues
White Line
Down By the River
The Loner
Love and Only Love
Everybody Knows This is Nowhere
Roll Another Number

lol @ "Vampire Blues", does anyone really like that song?

that song is awesome...?

god neil's song catalog is just insane

Yes song rules. T-Rex on a morphine drip.

love vampire blues, come on. allegedly only played live once before (and there's no recording).

I skip it as a rule, dunno, but it's cool that it's liked!

it would be killer to hear "The Losing End", does he ever do that?

not very often since 1976.

That Neil looks awesome, though haha if I went to a show where he played that exact set I would still be crucially bummed he that he didn't play some odd personal fave

"No "Sedan Delivery'? This show is bullshit"

GOOD TIMES ARE COMING

BUT THEY'RE SURE COMING SLOW

^^^ I love all the stupid blues-inspired lyrics on this album, btw
(SEE ALSO: "How I Write My Songs" by D. Barthelme)

should say *that* album
putting on title track now
"World is turning... hope it don't turn away" amen neil

"The woman you were with / Was about the same / She took your money / & left town"

lots of ragged glory tunes in that setlist, by no means a bad thing

probably should be noted that the list above is not an actual setlist--just a list of non-monsanto songs that neil has played at one of those "secret" shows this year or rehearsed. the sets for the upcoming tour could be totally different ... and apparently they'll start off w/ a solo acoustic set too.

i'm a black bat baby
bangin on your window pane

is such a strange/cool little image

yep

... not if it's happened to you before and the screen gave way and the bat got in :/

well that bat was bangin on a window screen

GO AROUND, RING THE BELL

There's still a buncha links upthread: Neil & Lukas etc. playing Monsanto songs and others, for instance. Seems like the new material might be good, given erratic sound quality of audience tapes.

Yeah so just now first listened to the finished product on First Listen. NPR's streams can seem a bit canned, but better when i turned it way up (on decent-ish headphones). Some of the bread crumb purtynotes get pretty far apart in the vaster pastures (which are subject to hot guitar winds, fracked-with bass & drums), but so far I like most of it, the overall effect. As I put it on Twitter:
Neil Young, The Monsanto Years: Lotta strata of harshness x beauty; patented seeds do their thing. Stream it here:
http://n.pr/1RF2QTa

Some of these tracks are tight enough to get some airplay (on NPR, anyway)

Just got the new record today. "If I Don't Know" is pretty cool! Comes with a Shakey Pictures DVD directed by Daryl Hannah.

Crazy to me how much Promise Of The Real sounds like Crazy Horse in places. In particular, the vocal harmonies - I had to check the liner notes to make sure it wasn't them.

Three spins in, I like this album fine. As far as latter day Neil albums go, it's way better than Storytone and A Letter Home, but it doesn't touch Psychedelic Pill or Le Noise.

Storytone will be one of Neil's most forgotten-about albums; the one you forget to mention when listing off his last ten or so. See: Fork In The Road.

So is the vinyl version of this going to cost, like, 75 bucks?

I like Letter Home

Storytone is no Fork in the Road

I'd really like to see him stick with this band for another record of non-Monsanto songs

btw I grew up on a farm in MN and we always said Mon-SAN-toe, but he says Mon-SAHN-toe. people in rural MN murder the pronounciation of things though, but hell Neil's Canadian so he's no better than us

what town were yr family farming in ums?

blue earth/frost area

(faribault county)

guhh still can't decide whether to shell out for one of next week's colorado shows...
GUHH.
funny that neil still identifies so strongly as canadian -- he's been a californian for coming up on 50 years!

you don't need to live in Canada if Canada ~lives in you~

Yea Neil is always in a Canada of the Mind

Tyler-DO IT

think i've listened to enough neil young over the years to qualify for honorary canadian citizenship tbh

Judging by Promise Of The Neil audience tapes, think I'd take the plunge, Tyler. Heartening to hear Crazy Horse-associated numbers infused with youngblood x Youngblood, as well as how some of the new material---thee more epic thrash-rants---work a bit better live.
So, thinking of how new material like "Let's Impeach The President" incited very mixed reactions, in Atlanta, for instance, on that there CSNY tour, will he be bringing The Monsanto Years to any likely Big Ag and/or climate change denialist strongholds?

I could see the new ones being good springboards, like Year of the Horse where they are kind of uninspired until the "end" of the songs and jam out for 4 minutes

Common knowledge, probably, but I don't think I knew this:

http://dangerousminds.net/comments/when_neil_young_met_the_monkees_and_completely_tore_the_roof_off_the_sucker

i totally didn't know about that song, or that neil ever played on a monkees track. was gonna check if it's mentioned in passing in shakey and discovered my copy is awol.

going to give the person who wrote that dangerousminds post the benefit of the doubt and assume they don't really think that's neil's most amazing solo ever on what should've been a massive hit, and that they were just chasing a little viral heat