neil young

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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.

^ hate myself for not going to that

EP The Times 9/18 View Web Page:
http://view.e.warnerrecords.com/?qs=4dda2939176a3a16c44572d22e7ffea52cf92d8299130cb7cfbab299d3bc72ac5108a8845afe5b46c5dbecbb55553ee01e85334bfc894e898a872188503dbd9e894bc4b94c21f845

Neil Young Officially Releasing Legendary On The Beach Debut Concert Album

"Today Young announced that the full set is seeing official release for the first time. The Bottom Line – Citizen Cane Jr. Blues will be out in early 2021 and will mark the launch of Young’s Official Bootleg Series."

https://www.stereogum.com/2101611/neil-young-the-bottom-line-1974-official-bootleg/news/

oh awesome!!!!!

And apparently just the tip of the iceberg, at this point he has five others set for release along with that one, all due in April 2021:

The tentative release schedule is April 2021. Titles include:

Carnegie Hall Dec 4, 1970 - first show.
Royce Hall. January 30, 1971
Dorothy Chandler Pavillion (sic). Feb 1, 1971
Under The Rainbow. Nov 3, 1973
The Bottom Line aka ‘Citizen Kane Jr. Blues’ May 16, 1974
The Ducks - ‘Trick of Disaster’ August 1977

dang, i think i've only heard the Bottom Line show out of those. did they finally get the dylan team to release this shit? impressive!

Hell yeah the Ducks!!

Neil Young’s Older Brother Bob Young Releases First Song at Age 78

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/neil-young-brother-bob-young-song-1082862/

After The Gold Rush

50th Anniversary Edition

Available as LP box set and CD

Pre-order Tomorrow 10/30 at 9 AM PT pic.twitter.com/dsxrfYuTT8

— Neil Young Archives (@NeilYoungNYA) October 29, 2020

lol, ol Neil. was this even on the upcoming releases radar? not sure what's going to be on this and i don't know if you have to be an Archives subscriber to get this or not, just saw the tweet.

on the site you can listen to it but so far only extras are two version of "wonderin'" (from archives) and "wonderin' (outtake)" (kinda different version but not a big deal)

INNARRESTING NEW(??) THING:

On the timeline there is now an entry for Freedom Live from 1990 --- tyler do you know what this could be?

thanks, maybe one of these days i need to maybe sign up for that, but i am so rarely in a place where i can listen to music via browser.

i think there was some talk of an unreleased 1970 solo show being appended to the ATGR 50th thing, but I don't know whether that's actually happening.

the Freedom Live thing has been there for a while I think — it might be the old VHS performance?

https://img.discogs.com/_WvzmFiLd3SeAjEBmwJ1mA5rWPc=/fit-in/600x451/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-3335930-1411220387-1597.jpeg.jpg

hilarious that he's flooding the market in the 4th quarter, though. I just turned in my review of Archives, vol. 2! eeeeeek!

i mean, i don't wanna complain about too much neil, esp considering how many projects he ripcords, but there's a lot out there! doesn't seem like 2021 is going to slow down at all either, esp if that bootleg series thing comes to pass (and, fingers crossed sooner rather than later for the stripped down Archives 2 for the rest of us!).

i think there was some talk of an unreleased 1970 solo show being appended to the ATGR 50th thing, but I don't know whether that's actually happening.

at a certain point i'm kinda good on early 70s neil young solo shows

otm - more Crazy Horse shows, or the Ducks, i'm happy with my solo Neil stuff for a bit.