^^Imagine Neil and Van Morrison having competition for the laziest dgaf old dude swag album title.
― blue whales on ambient (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 21 June 2021 19:50 (three years ago) link
Also that photo needs to be the gatefold
― EZ Snappin, Monday, 21 June 2021 20:31 (three years ago) link
Really digging ol' Neil's geriatric cue card style here
― Paul Ponzi, Monday, 21 June 2021 20:44 (three years ago) link
that photo is amazing
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 21 June 2021 20:45 (three years ago) link
i wonder who printed those out for him
― Linda and Jodie Rocco (map), Monday, 21 June 2021 21:09 (three years ago) link
tho 50/50 on him doing it himself
I've got to be honest, I always forget Colorado (the album) exists
"I Do"'s a keeper - a beautiful track - but I haven't bothered to go back to the rest.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Czl4bwMqAg
― birdistheword, Monday, 21 June 2021 21:40 (three years ago) link
I had no idea that songs for Judy was a damn good live album from ‘76. The organ intro to “man needs a maid” is ungodly!
― brimstead, Monday, 21 June 2021 23:30 (three years ago) link
no idea until last week, that is. always saw it in the shop and thought it was a boring studio thing or something
― brimstead, Monday, 21 June 2021 23:31 (three years ago) link
Nice
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― StanM, Monday, 21 June 2021 23:49 (three years ago) link
More Horse is certainly great news, but I'm seeing that it sounds like he pulled the Bootleg Series releases from his schedule? I'm not a NYA subscriber and not about to try to navigate, but the folks over at H0ffman boards are saying they are gone from the site's calendar. Not sure if this is due to vinyl delays or what, but bummed if these aren't going to come out.
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 22 June 2021 16:11 (three years ago) link
there's always the possibility that whoever runs the archives just took down the entire bootleg "drawer" out of the "cabinet" so he could edit it (in pen, of course), so perhaps next time you "check the cabinet" it'll be back in there, possibly near the front. or the very back
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 22 June 2021 16:19 (three years ago) link
if i was running his website i would just have everything be post-it notes. the entire website, notes all over the place, buried dozens of notes deep. it would be called thispostitnoteisforyouneilyoung.com
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 22 June 2021 16:21 (three years ago) link
lolz
― tylerw, Tuesday, 22 June 2021 16:24 (three years ago) link
Not sure if this is due to vinyl delays or what,
I could see this being a possibility. I'm sure Neil would rather delay the release of all formats than release the CDs first and the vinyl later.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Tuesday, 22 June 2021 16:40 (three years ago) link
Yeah, that would make a lot of sense to me too and I hope that's the issue, rather than just another Neil plan that fizzles out just before they were to get released.
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 22 June 2021 16:41 (three years ago) link
I just saw an ad on fb for the Muddy Track DVD...has this been out for a while? I’m kind of weirded out that I missed any announcements about it.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Tuesday, 22 June 2021 23:13 (three years ago) link
Three more: This Note's for You, Chrome Dreams II (why "II"?), and Le Noise.
I'm a real downer on this thread, I know. My first engagement with Neil Young in high school was so intense--only thing ever to rival it was Husker Du in my early 20s--that everything I've listened to since exists in the shadow of that. I can count the later (meaning 1990 and beyond) songs on one hand where I felt something that came close to what I felt then: "Over and Over," "Driftin' Back," and (weird one, I know) "Scenery."
So there were a few songs that sounded pretty good--"Sunny Inside," "Ordinary People" and "Shine a Light," "Sign of Love" and "Someone's Gonna Rescue You"--and, except for the first two songs on This Note, nothing sounded egregiously bad. I'm listening in the car; most everything went right past me.
I'll plunge ahead. I see now that some of those most recent eight release are live are compilations, so when I get these eight, I'll count that as having everything (and any new studio release that appears in the interim): Greendale, Fork in the Road. A Letter Home, Storytone, The Monsanto Years, Peace Trail, The Visitor, Colorado. I could buy them all tomorrow, obviously, but I'm looking for used copies in physical record stores.
― clemenza, Sunday, 27 June 2021 19:07 (three years ago) link
"live or compilations"
― clemenza, Sunday, 27 June 2021 19:08 (three years ago) link
Chrome Dreams II is the sequel to a scuttled 70s studio album that was never released is (maybe? was?) going to be issued as part of the Archives series a la Homegrown
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Sunday, 27 June 2021 19:46 (three years ago) link
I've a lot of affection for A Letter Home, but it's a weird, weird record
― burnt hombre (stevie), Monday, 28 June 2021 09:57 (three years ago) link
I picked up a copy of Ragged Glory at the weekend, pretty pleasing as you don't see vinyl versions of that one around too much over here in the UK. Now to compare the studio recordings with those on Rust Bucket!
― Neil S, Monday, 28 June 2021 10:23 (three years ago) link
That was the first Neil studio album I bought, after entering the world of Neil with Weld. I have a beaten-up CD copy of it, was hoping Neil would get around to the vinyl reissue he trailed a couple of years ago some time soon!
― burnt hombre (stevie), Monday, 28 June 2021 10:55 (three years ago) link
hard to believe that Neil would announce something like that then it just not happen!
― Neil S, Monday, 28 June 2021 10:58 (three years ago) link
I only just found out about (or just remembered) Colorado's existence last week, so I'm listening to it this morning. I'm on the one big long track ("She Showed Me Love," 13:37) now and it's pretty good in a totally unsurprising way.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Monday, 28 June 2021 11:58 (three years ago) link
it's all one big long track
― burnt hombre (stevie), Monday, 28 June 2021 12:31 (three years ago) link
Everybody Knows This is Nowhere >> After the Goldrush for me
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 28 June 2021 12:36 (three years ago) link
i'm looking forward to my first listen to Blue Note Cafe and A Treasure! was not a fan of either of the time periods they cover, but maybe i was hearing the wrong stuff!
― Karl Malone,
Well??
If Everybody Knows This is Nowhere has fallen in favour, it might be because its three best-known songs (out of seven) appear on both Decade and Greatest Hits?
― Halfway there but for you, Monday, 28 June 2021 14:07 (three years ago) link
That is, fallen OUT OF favour.
why are we saying it's fallen out of favor?
― tylerw, Monday, 28 June 2021 14:42 (three years ago) link
oh that was just me upthread, I just feel like it doesn't get discussed as one of the very best neil records? but that could just be my impression.
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 28 June 2021 14:47 (three years ago) link
(not that people think it's bad)
EKTIN is so classic, maybe ppl just went overboard praising the ditch trilogy etc at the expense of the early classics
I suspect this may be true, people tend to go overboard on the (so-called) ditch trilogy.
― Are Animated Dads Getting Hotter? (Tom D.), Monday, 28 June 2021 14:50 (three years ago) link
I'd say every subsequent Young album follows Everybody Knows' template. If he'd died in 1972, that album would fairly represent his strengths and few of his weaknesses.
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 28 June 2021 15:16 (three years ago) link
It's his first release that reveals (one of) his own style(s), but in what sense did it set the template for Gold Rush, Harvest, Tonight's the Night etc?
― Halfway there but for you, Monday, 28 June 2021 15:26 (three years ago) link
The mournful ballads, buckets of crunch-guitar, epics, terse little indescribable things.
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 28 June 2021 15:31 (three years ago) link
From the tail-end of the Mirror Ball sessions: Merkin Ball, so-called EP, actually a single, with Neil playing and maybe singing a little back-up---listen on headphones! Too bad the album wasn't more like this, but Vedder was afraid to come out his house because stalker: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HB2W3vuzVGk
― dow, Sunday, 4 July 2021 00:36 (three years ago) link
Live acoustic version of that second song, "Long Road," also w Neil (from a fairly remarkable, barely post-9/11 benefit:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sAlS378dxHM
― dow, Sunday, 4 July 2021 00:39 (three years ago) link
"The Long Road" with Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan from the Dead Man Walking soundtrack may be the best thing Eddie Vedder ever did.
― Hideous Lump, Sunday, 4 July 2021 06:24 (three years ago) link
I Got Shit/ID is one of my favourite PJ recordings, and Neil's guitar throughout is just absolutely inspired.
― burnt hombre (stevie), Monday, 5 July 2021 08:01 (three years ago) link
“Merkin Ball?” Didn’t know these austere dudes had a sense of humor
― calstars, Monday, 5 July 2021 16:53 (three years ago) link
my Rust Bucket DVD (better audio version) is almost here - just got the bill for the EU import/border stuff
― StanM, Monday, 26 July 2021 10:27 (three years ago) link
be welllove!neil
neilllll the god pic.twitter.com/wLwUn5nyK9— not the guy (@notnotnuanced) August 4, 2021
― bon ivermectin (Murgatroid), Thursday, 5 August 2021 02:11 (three years ago) link
According to Shakey, Neil actually has seen E.C's balls, so he knows what's what.
― “Heroin” (ft. Bobby Gillespie) (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 5 August 2021 02:40 (three years ago) link
that has zero to do with lovebe wellballs!neil
― brimstead, Thursday, 5 August 2021 03:50 (three years ago) link
he signed his post like it was a fricking email
and it was perfect
― Read between the lines Zach (Karl Malone), Thursday, 5 August 2021 04:09 (three years ago) link
love!
― bon ivermectin (Murgatroid), Thursday, 5 August 2021 04:15 (three years ago) link
Eric,
Eat Balls
Neil
― “Heroin” (ft. Bobby Gillespie) (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 5 August 2021 04:29 (three years ago) link
george harrison made a big mistake in making friends with eric
― Read between the lines Zach (Karl Malone), Thursday, 5 August 2021 04:31 (three years ago) link