neil young

I wonder if they've done anything different with the mix of Weld? I remember there was discussion about that at the time — that people preferred the video mix over the CD mix.

it's the same Weld mix on this latest box — I've heard both and I think people are slightly overstating the superiority of the "Briggs" mix over the CD. It's a little different, I don't know if I would say it's better.

and yeah, the Ragged glory bonuses are fantastic.

The Devo stuff is only material worth saving from Human Highway.

Late response, but the "Goin' Back" sequence in this film is several levels above the rest (and I do like Devo). It's hallucinatory, magical.

so the ragged glory outtakes are on a second cd? are any of them 10+ minutes long?

According to All Music, one is almost 8 minutes and another is a little over 12 minutes (but, oddly, All Music shows a blank where the song name is, lol).

xps lol yes I knew this sounded familiar

Can Weld be improved upon with a remastering? As in, was it not mixed to death by Neil and is unsalvageable? I'm clueless when it comes to this stuff.

― Duke, Tuesday, June 13, 2023 12:40 PM (one month ago) bookmarkflaglink

Jimmy McDonough wrote about this in Shakey, but David Briggs made a better mix that was released on the now out-of-print LaserDisc edition. Neil himself admits the album mix (used for all audio formats) wasn't good and that Briggs was right, but Neil has never bothered to correct things. Now would be a good time though!

― birdistheword, Tuesday, June 13, 2023 1:46 PM (one month ago) bookmarkflaglink

ty for new DN

― out-of-print LaserDisc edition (sleeve), Tuesday, June 13, 2023 1:49 PM (one month ago) bookmarkflaglink

My copy hasn't even shipped yet, but nears as I can tell:

“Interstate” (6:22)

“Don’t Spook The Horse” (7:51)

“Box Car” (3:16)

“Born To Run” (12:15)

"Born To Run" is great — it's basically three and a half minutes of "song" and eight and a half minutes of RAWK, and it's fast, not the typical Crazy Horse caveman dirge. Honestly, it sounds more like a Neil Young & the Restless outtake.

I wrote about the Ragged Glory reissue, and more, in this week's BA newsletter.

nice write-up, excited for my ORS box to get here to dig in.

Very appealing take, unperson, and I like "Interstate" and "Boxcar" floating in the dust of monster truck tracks (which are my main interest).

I was hoping he'd release the original Times Square version of "Boxcar," but I have to admit the Crazy Horse recording is probably better.

it's the same Weld mix on this latest box — I've heard both and I think people are slightly overstating the superiority of the "Briggs" mix over the CD. It's a little different, I don't know if I would say it's better.

and yeah, the Ragged glory bonuses are fantastic.

― tylerw, Friday, 28 July 2023 20:57 (five days ago)

Sorry if I'm being stupid... So you're saying they haven't done anything to improve the sound on Weld?

it's been remastered but not remixed

Thanks! Arrrghh I may have to get this despite owning it all already. Fuck you Neil.

Neil is playing the Roxy in LA, 50 years after playing some legendary "Tonights the Night" shows there. Face value of tickets are $1000 + fees.

first Crazy Horse shows since the pandemic, too — it's a benefit and the Roxy is tiny, but yeah, I hope the millionaires enjoy it.

"I'm playin' for Bezos, playin' for Elon..."

I think of this acoustic "Interstate" as floating in the dust of xpost "Chevrolet":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7aOE3O0l4M

not my main interest, but

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I’m not a big fan of the album but I really like the Centerstage episode that promoted it - wish the whole thing was made available on DVD or streaming. (The digitized VHS recordings floating about are all right but could be better.)

Is Odeon Budokan good?? Rust Bucket is my fave prev unleased Neil Horse, so wanting more live--

Also unleashed and unreleased!

It’s incredible. (Also it was previously included on archives vol 2)

odeon budokan is great stuff

oho--neilyoungchannel playlist here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXuCBnCHDnw

I can’t remember if unplugged or Harvest Moon was my first time hearing Neil. It would have been a monthly Columbia House thing. I have a soft spot for both of those. Unplugged has a nice “Hurricane.”

it sure does, with that pump organ

what is that little knocking sound? is he stamping his foot or somehow hitting his guitar with his palm while playing or something? it adds so much to the sound

Time Fades Away 50th Anniversary vinyl, with bonus "Last Train To Tulsa"

https://consequence.net/2023/09/neil-young-time-fades-away-50/

It's funny because it was OOP for so long, and then in less than ten years there's been a couple CDs, a couple vinyl reissues, and an alternative version in Tuscaloosa.

Yeah, I still instinctively reach for it out of reflex whenever I see it in a record store, only to immediately see the $10 price tag and remember "oh yeah, everybody has this now"

c/d paying more than $10 for any neil young record

Nice copies of the early stuff with all posters/inserts intact are usually $10+.

https://www.stereogum.com/2236914/neil-young-played-tonights-the-night-songs-for-the-first-time-in-50-years-at-roxy-anniversary-show/news/

Saw the setlist on Twitter last night - so he essentially played all of Tonight's The Night and Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere, right? JESUS!

goddamn - so they basically played a perfect, no questions asked, setlist

haha yeah, pretty wild. sounded good in the clips I've seen. funny that he could easily take that on the road to insanely positive response, but there's almost no way he will ever do that. Neil!

goddammit i had seriously considered getting on a plane and blowing a year's worth of sushi on tickets for one of these shows and now i really really really really regret that i didn't.

Storytone should be way closer to the bottom, maybe last place
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown)

(In reference to that Guardian list from a year or two ago.) Bought a bargain-bin copy the other day, along with A Treasure. Managed to get through them over a few days in the car, thinking "He really does churn them out now" the whole time.

His late, late period is kind of like Prince's where he's releasing enough newly-recorded music to fill at least two excellent CD's. Problem is, it's spread out across well over a dozen albums.

FWIW, I like A Treasure on its own - it's already a good distillation of that short-lived era and pretty much all you really need from it.

With Storytone, I do like the solo versions of "Plastic Flowers," "I Want to Drive My Car" and "Tumbleweed." Best of all is the Crazy Horse version of "Who's Gonna Stand Up?" which was a one-off single - far better than either version used for Storytone.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eROSvnr3QZM

Nice catch! I love that film - I think it's Schrader's best directorial effort - but I completely forgot he used that song.

We all know this is Schrader’s best directorial effort

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nheBN2UWAaM

FB banner changed to promote something called Before + After due out 12/8/23

"The feeling is captured, not in pieces, but as a whole piece--designed to be listened to that way. This music presentation defies shuffling, digital organization, separation. Only for listening. That says it all." - Neil

that really does say it all Neil

lmao that is exemplary self-parody. "Only for listening." i love it

Only for Listening...on PONO 2.0

these kids, with their "shuffling" and "digital organization" and "separation"