neil young

ooh! this is something worth looking forward to
these recordings have been sitting there for this long, you know they're coming up for air eventually and now we know when!
actually i don't know exactly when -- when is this being released again?

June 19 is the latest date — it's been pushed back several times naturally ... Neil can still change his mind!

this time, though, it's showing up as "upcoming" on e.g. apple music, first time that's happened

reckon it's the same for spotify etc

yeah, i mean, for the first time Homegrown exists as an actual thing ... it's happening, one way or another.

if I recall from Shakey (tyler correct me if I'm wrong) the reasons for not releasing it were:

a) was going through a breakup and some of the songs were painful to him

or

b) he thought it was too "good" or commercial and was feeling hemmed in by his Harvest success

c) he was partying and played Tonight's the Night for some of the Band and a no doubt coked to the gills Rick Danko convinced him to release Tonight's the Night instead

d) all of that is misremembered or half true or not true

e) It's Neil!

you can preorder it on amazon, but rough trade says it's a record store day item

xp pretty much all of the above. i wouldn't say it's all that commercial, really — aside from maybe "Love Is A Rose" there's no obvious hit song, and even that is done in a very spare style.

here's my long essay about homegrown if you want the fine details as far as they are known: http://www.mediafire.com/file/gnwwten143vvdau/homegrown-section.pdf/file

NICE

i feel like i'm getting the ILX premium member benefits right now

yeah that essay is really interesting tyler, thanks for sharing!

Re:"why now" i was thinking either 1, he was waiting for the time when the world needs these jams the most. Or 2, due to lockdown its finally possible for his people to get him to sit the fuck down undistracted and actually sign off on shit

I think the RSD version has a limited poster with it or something.

PONO Download Card

Homegrown does not disappoint — definitely a worthy addition to Neil's mid-70s canon, but also pretty different from the other ditch LPs. It rules.

― tylerw, 23:20 יום חמישי 14 מאי 2020 (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

Have you listened to it?!

https://youtu.be/p5zxOWgCVbA

Great simple song

it's beautiful.

Have you listened to it?!
yes, promo streams went out in March.

Nice

The good news about the latest delay is that it now comes out on the same day as the new Bobby D so I can get my old fart fix in all at once.

xxp I thought that said "pono streams" for a sec and was like, wow, tylerw is all in

just preordered this, stoked

great article Tyler thanks for sharing

the proportions in the album art look really weird and off to me, unsurprisingly

is the cover art contemporaneous with the recording?

yes

I remember reading a Neil thread (not this one) in which someone gave a quick rundown of their favourite post-2000 NY albums. They said that Psychedelic Pill was their favourite. I can't find that thread now, does anyone know which one it is?

(It wasn't 21st century Neil Young studio albums poll, either.)

maybe this? Search and destroy: Neil Young

That's the one, thanks!

Listening to Chrome Dreams II now, wow how did I sleep on "Ordinary People" for so long

well, neil also slept on it for about 20 years

the Bluenote Cafe version is well worth hearing, some interesting differences

OOOOOOOOH YEAAAAH BABY

this is the shit

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eL_bqx4h6lU

Yeah this slaps!

HELL YEAH

album streaming at https://neilyoungarchives.com/album?id=A_089

just listened...man "Separate Ways" is a stunner, real lost classic

loved it on first impression, kind of Harvest but with the down and out druggie vibes of On the Beach?

Florida is something! N01z3 dr0n3

Loving this. Go, 1975-Neil!!

damn this is great

all her friends call her lil wayne

homegrown rules

an instant top-tier neil album for me. it's a weird experience, listening to it, because through my casual-to-intermediate fandom of his music, i've come across several of the songs, in different versions on other albums, or live. but these original versions are so fucking good! it sounds so good. the sound of mid-70s neil young is so warm, it's an instant comfort blanket

very cool to hear how part of Kansas follows the same melody line he would use later on Powderfinger...maybe a year later?

not even a year later! and also, of course, how "love is a rose" uses the melody line from "dance, dance, dance" a few years before. borrowed tunes, as it were :)

It's so fascinating to me when artists like Neil Young or Springsteen or Prince or Dylan or whomever can record albums worth of really good stuff, sometimes even their best stuff, and think, eh, and then shelve it for decades. I've always wondered if any artist can be so self aware or ego-free as to even distinguish their best albums from their worst, or if they're so busy going forward they don't even think about it. Like, I was reading the latest Tape Op, and there's a guy that worked on remastering "Band on the Run," and he's in the studio with Paul McCartney, and McCartney admits he'd never listened to the album as a finished artifact before.

neil, prince and dylan, sure, but is that actually true of springsteen? i remember thinking, the first time i heard "tracks," that springsteen had an amazing ear for his own work and instinctively understood what to keep and what to discard. i still can't think of a single track on "tracks" that i wish he had included on one of his studio albums.

holy shit, this album

"Homegrown" is an instant anthem, up there with any other tune of his you could name imo

"Florida" is maybe the weirdest fucking curveball he's ever thrown, which is saying a lot, love how it segues into "I woke up from a bad dream"

"Try" is perfect in every way

damn

yeah, honestly i don't like "florida" so much. but it really does stand out as a particularly experimental song for a musician in his position at the time

"try" otm

that's the one that jumped out at me on first listen. was it known before now? i know true neil young fans have been familiar with all this material for years, but "try" was new to me

When I first heard “Florida” I immediately thought : “This is his ‘The Gift’ “

"florida" eventually turned into dead man and le noise, at least

i peaced out on "lookin' for a leader" after "maybe it's a woman / or a black man after all"

sorry neil!

Well holy shit I was at this show

Also in the works is the concert movie The Timeless Orpheum, which was filmed at the Orpheum Theater in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on January 28th, 2019.