neil young

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.

Oh yeah well more Exiles prob okay as long as they don't try to fix the pungent sound. If the Stones wanted to change some of the later stuff that would prob be okay because nobody listens to much of it. Ditto a lot of Springsteen, Townshend (long as he doesn't mess with 60s-70s Who).

I'm thinking more of that version of Blank Generation with Quine etc replaced by Frisell etc, but might be good to have both versions (I'll stick to the original for now). I don't want to be purist about it, long as the originals are still fairly easily available and the new versions are labeled as such.

was actually Destiny Street that Hell tinkered with (slightly less heretical).

If he's taking requests, what changes would we want Neil to make?

Yeah, Springsteen overdubbed new vocals (and other instruments) on a bunch of The Promise material:
https://brucebase.wikispaces.com/The+Promise+-+Studio+Sessions

And as tylerw pointed out, the Stones added to Exile outtakes, and did the same for some of the Some Girls outtakes.

Townshend hired a drummer to add drums to previously drumless demos of "Bell Boy," "I've Had Enough," and a couple of others on the Quadrophenia super deluxe. Much is made in the liner notes about "we used analog equipment for these overdubs" yadda yadda, but the drummer is way too flashy, and it's just distracting.

(long as he doesn't mess with 60s-70s Who).

Funny you should say that! He overdubbed new guitar parts on "My Generation" and one or two others for the 2014 iTunes/HDTracks reissue, subsequently released physically last year on the My Generation super deluxe. These were done because the 3-track masters were missing some 1965 overdubs, so in order to do a stereo remix, Townshend had to re-create these parts. It's actually kind of fascinating to hear 2014 Pete revisit 1965 Pete, and anyway, the original mono mixes are still out there and sound great, so he's not doing it out of any sense of revisionism.

If he's taking requests, what changes would we want Neil to make?

Re-record everything post-Ragged Glory with the Restless rhythm section, in the style of Eldorado.

re-record every track in his oeuvre as a solo pump organ performance

particularly psyched for the revamped arc

There's at least one or two Springsteen songs on Tracks or The Promise that are 100% newly recorded. Others have new vox, or backing vox, or overdubs, though not many, iirc

That stretch of Le Noise, Americana and Psychedelic Pill was so cool. Don't think I've heard a note of the last three.

feel like he coulda gotten a really great album out of those Promise of the Real guys but in typical Neil fashion he just didn't feel like it and instead we got The Monsanto Years

Earth is worth checking out, some great playing on there (and all the Monsanto Years stuff sounded superior on it, I think)

peace trail had jams

yeah i think it is a solid record, with some interesting moves.

There's at least one or two Springsteen songs on Tracks or The Promise that are 100% newly recorded. Others have new vox, or backing vox, or overdubs, though not many, iirc

And the version of "The Promise" on 18 Tracks was a completely new recording. Re:those later reissues, I think he pointed out himself that he only added what was necessary to finish the songs to bring them up to the level of the other released tracks and nothing more.

http://www.dvdactive.com/images/editorial/screenshot/2011/9/desert2004.jpg