neil young

I never knew a man could tell so many lies
He had a different story for every set of eyes
How can he remember who he's talking to?
Cause I know it ain't me, and hope it isn't you.

the "on the beach" album, but especially "ambulance blues" hit really hard today

so... the upcoming album is acoustic? just Neil on guitar, Keltner on drums and some bassist Neil overheard at a session for one of the Promise bandmates... dunno how that had escaped me, but now listening to 2nd single "Show Me" and it sounds pretty good - getting excited abt this!

liking the drums a lot

"vintage Giant Sand thing" p accurate

new song is o_O

indeed

Trans fans will dig

gotta say, it sounds real nice

is there a place to hear it? or are we still talking about the title track?

oh ha, i see it is on spotify ... still not used to that.

ha, i like this! has kind of a "frankie lee and judas priest" feel?

yeah & agree w/niels i like this odd little offhand use of autotune on a mostly (to this point at least) folky feeling album...

fyi: Amazon is pre-selling this album on cassette--thought of getting it (a little cheaper and maybe longer-lasting than mp3, if my player doesn't eat it), but decided on CD so could keep the rip and send disc to my cuz for Xmas (a tradition).

haw, maybe neil will get heavy into cassettes now that pono is kaputt (or seems to be?). "that's the way 'doghouse' was meant to be heard!"

haha cassette was def the way doghouse was meant to be heard

i've thought about that before, there would have been an era...mid/late 80s for certain types of music, particularly hair metal, pop acts, rap, where i wonder if they mastered specifically for cassette? given that i'd imagine, like Poison or Janet Jackson or 2 Live Crew etc they would have sold more units on cassette than anything else?

yeah, like 85-89 was probably peak cassette. my family didn't get a CD player til about 91, I think.

think i bought my first neil albums on cassette -- harvest moon, weld, ragged glory, freedom. they must've sounded pretty good.

Archives II will be cassette and vinyl only, with the cassette version being more expensive.

late 80s rap was def all about cassettes

Ooh, I like those new tracks better than anything since Prairie Wind

...except "Doghouse"

Neil canceled his in-the-works Australian tour for next year and i started feeling ****nervous****
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/dec/02/neil-young-cancels-appearance-at-2017-bluesfest-in-byron-bay
they say it's not health related, though. if he's really taking the year off from touring, then we can expect Archives Vol. II any day now. :D

Peace Trail now on Spotify

hehe maybe we'll see Archives there too?

Archives is there

https://play.spotify.com/album/7KB2kvAO7bj7X6HRQmuZ4Q

not sure that link works in europe?

It works for me in Germany

I can follow the link, the cover art shows but no tracks

Strange. Works fine for me

lol nm it works now, dunno what happened before

archives! cool!

"My New Robot" is a pretty weird song

yes, and good

listened to this today -- pretty damn good? Need to give it a few more spins, but I thought it sounded very cool overall.

dig it:

http://societyofrock.com/rare-footage-of-neil-young-recording-alabama-surfaces-and-its-everything-weve-ever-wanted/

This 'rare footage' 'surfaced' in 2009 when Neil released it on Archives Vol. 1. thanks for the fake news

it is very cool though

haha yeah, thought that was where it was from. pretty great. i was saying over on twitter to EZ Snappin that it is ridiculous that there isn't a handy Harvest DVD collecting Live Barn footage, the BBC solo show, the documentary from around that time. easy visual companion to Neil's best selling album, rescued from an overpriced blu-ray set.

Interview w/Neil in latest Rolling Stone: He brings up meeting w/Trump a few years ago Re:funding PONO, said he told Trump "We can Make Music Great Again".

Also: PONO is heading towards becoming a Streaming Sevice.

Love the new record. Kind of reminds me of Nastasia/White's "You Follow Me" a bit.

drum sounds are so fantastic

ugh, neil should do a duo record with jim white

It is a really cool sounding record...man, it is really blowing up my own personal skirt right now...

I don't get what everyone likes about this one, and I'm a fan of both Neil in acoustic cornball mode (Silver & Gold etc) and many of his latter-day albums (Monsanto, Psychedelic Pill, etc). This record does sound good, but the songwriting here, to me, hits a new low

I dunno, the songwriting to me is the high point, maybe the lyrics are awkward & clumsy in a very neo-Neil way, but they feel less bolted on to the songs then on other records.

I listened again this morning and it was really hitting me hard.

Posted on thrashers wheat:

https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-O99UkYQ8q04/WP01GjOOepI/AAAAAAAAM4A/hIhIEKkA-rUsgEa4jH9NpX1UnYFWSvoXgCLcB/s1600/Neil-Young-Hitchhiker-500x500.jpg

saw that -- would be cool, for sure.
"One night, Mr. Briggs and I jumped into Stretch and headed for his favorite place, Indigo Ranch Studios. I spent the night there with David and recorded nine solo acoustic songs, completing a tape I called 'Hitchhiker'. It was a complete piece, although I was pretty stony on it, and you can hear it in my performances. Dean Stockwell, my friend and a great actor who I later worked with on 'Human Highway' as a co-director, was with us that night, sitting in the room with me as I laid down all of the songs in a row, pausing only for weed, beer, or cocaine. Briggs was in the control room, mixing live on his favorite console." ~ Neil Young

that sounds golden

where's the quote from?

from one of his memoirs, forgetting which one at the moment.
man, would be so good if Neil dropped a five-disc set including Hitchhiker, Homegrown, Odeon/Budokan, Chrome Dreams, Oceanside/Countryside. (this will not happen)

His attitude towards archival releases is the weirdest possible combination of "eh, fuck it, just put it out how it is" and "wait, no, I have to go over this massive project with a fine-tooth comb."

At least he's not overdubbing new elements onto old stuff, like Springsteen or Townshend or the Stones.

Wait, what! Tell me more, Tarfumes, about those old guys fucking with their stuff (disturbing thought, like when Walt Whitman/Paul Goodman/Robert Lowell kept or started fucking with their stuff).

i know springsteen "fixed" a bunch of stuff for the collection of Darkness on the Edge of Town outtakes and the Stones added to the Exile outtakes that came out a few years back.

Springsteen also re-recorded parts on his Tracks box set.