neil young

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

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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.

haha, yeah no kidding ... there is enough late 60s early 70s solo neil (at least compared to other stuff that should be out there). but the bootleg series is supposed to include like three separate solo shows from 1970.

ha, i think i blocked out the idea of that many more solo shows since my eyes were immediately drawn to the Ducks show

i mean the solo shows are good but i just looked and the upcoming young shakespeare tracklist is IDENTICAL to massey hall with one exception - young shakespeare has "sugar mountain" and massey hall doesn't....but of course sugar mountain is on canterbury 68

i mean if he's going to indulge in repetition, I'd rather he put out all of the 1970 Fillmore East Crazy Horse recordings. one disc of that stuff ain't enough, even if the setlists didn't change radically from night to night.

yeah totally, it's different cuz the jams will be different, but like at this point we know we was generally really excellent as a solo performer, but i don't think we are going to get anything that really turns your head

has boarding house ever been scheduled to be released?

i don't think so, but it's been on the timeline since forever

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.

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this is also why I have never entertained the idea of subscribing

and cosign on the solo Neil saturation. It isn't like the performances differ all that much. I'd honestly be more interested in Neil's always-entertaining stoned banter, which I assume varied from night to night, than yet more indistinguishable performances of "Campaigner" or "The Needle And The Damage Done"

you're missing out on the multi-part Lincvolt documentary

man, that 1990 Catalyst show... just listened to the bootleg again, it blows me away every time. can't wait for the official + video version.

So what do we think of this

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/nov/05/neil-young-every-album-ranked

Peace Trail, Silver & Gold, and Greendale are all way better than the Monsanto Years

no fucking way is landing on water worse than everybody's rockin or old ways

kinda coming around on the idea that landing on water is one of the most successful "60s dude does battle with 80s recording tech" LPs.

Agreed on those three, and Landing On Water should definitely rank above Everybody's Rockin', Old Ways and Are You Passionate for sure.

I think I'm the only poster here who rates Monsanto Years, but I do

I like it too!

And Are You Passionate! On that one I think I'm the only one.

I think if you changed the cover art of AYP and removed "Let's Roll" I'd like it a lot more.

Eh, it's been awhile since I last played AYP, but I remember it being waayyyy too much of the same tempos, song after song and it all blended into one ball of meh outside of the Crazy Horse break in the middle.

yeah probably true ... we'll see if Toast is an improvement! Lol.

I've never even heard of Paradox, Colorado or Storytone. Also, Trans below Hawks & Doves? I guess Journey Through The Past didn't qualify for this list, probably a good thing.

I like Re-Ac-Tor but I think it is a bit too high, Mirror Ball is too low, "I'm The Ocean" is one of his greatest songs!

"Let's Roll" is bad but the rest of it is a cool mellow groove, Neil crooning. getting ready for Neil's classic songbook years

Storytone should be way closer to the bottom, maybe last place

S/T debut continues to get underrated, feel like that narrative that it's not good got out there and it just sticks no matter what

Living With War is way to high, even the stripped down version without the choir