neil young

it should be said because i am aware of the thread i am posting in that all of those -'cept prime of life ofc- were self-made og vinyl->320mp3s. no pirating here, neil.

yes, my rip of 'powderfinger' sounds amazing. i know. thanks.

otm I signed up to test drive Apple Music almost entirely based on how little Neil Young I’d heard in the past couple years. The interface is terrible, the animated album covers are dumb, the navigation sucked, etc etc. I canceled before the free trial was up and resigned myself to streaming his albums on youtube. Never even crossed my mind to join Tidal or whatever.

Honestly, when you've released 100 albums or whatever, 20+ of them must-haves, more if you include boxed sets, live albums, other projects, digital is sadly the best way to navigate, imo.

the archives versions of “Pocahontas” and “ride my llama” with crazy horse are so amazing, it’s absurd he chose to release those dinky solo versions on rust (sorry)

I long to be way down in the rust bucket again

During his Spotify blackout I indeed bought two (used) Neil Young albums.

I really wish he'd release the 2CD Ragged Glory as a standalone. I don't want to buy that box set.

the archives versions of “Pocahontas”...

I read that as "the Archies versions of..."

Lol

Dunno how y'all aren't making the most of sweet sweet tidal hi-fi

Neil never left for me. Austin, that's a mighty fine collection of tracks. LA was the only song I could manage to get a Keith urban obsessed guitar student to be interested in (out of ALL music. Not just neil). That guitar riff is truly too sick to deny

we could have had it all https://t.co/7vq239m3zv pic.twitter.com/f5Ma7jdEbi

— Good Steely Dan Takes (@baddantakes) March 13, 2024

Thanks Neil

Neil missing an opportunity to simply re-record his entire back catalog in super-duper double hi-fi, so that Spotify's would-be low res version is still actually regular hi-fi.

Arc (Neil's Version)

the archives versions of “Pocahontas” and “ride my llama” with crazy horse are so amazing, it’s absurd he chose to release those dinky solo versions on rust (sorry)

sorry but your apology is not accepted. rust pocanhontas is top five neil for me.

the real slander should be directed at tonight's the night's version of "new mama" when compared to the stray gators version!

stray gators "new mama" is one of my very fav neil songs

This time between the announced return and an actual return is perhaps most painful

Heh, just experienced that earlier

the archives versions of “Pocahontas” and “ride my llama” with crazy horse are so amazing, it’s absurd he chose to release those dinky solo versions on _rust_ (sorry)

Zuma versions are awesome, as are the Rust versions.

neil young rules

2012 seems to be the last year I remained aware of new Neil albums (Americana and Psychedelic Pill), even if I didn't hear them. His discography since then (discounting unreleased albums from the 70s) runs thus:

A Letter Home (2014)
Storytone (2014)
The Monsanto Years (2015) (with Promise of the Real)
Peace Trail (2016)
The Visitor (2017) (with Promise of the Real)
Colorado (2019) (with Crazy Horse)
Barn (2021) (with Crazy Horse)
Toast (2022, recorded 2001) (with Crazy Horse)
World Record (2022) (with Crazy Horse)
Before and After (2023)

The Monsanto Years I've heard of, the rest I don't even recognise the titles. Anything worth hearing in there?

the archives versions of “Pocahontas” and “ride my llama” with crazy horse are so amazing, it’s absurd he chose to release those dinky solo versions on rust (sorry)

I prefer the former (maybe Neil's biggest fun guitar sound), but wouldn't say it was an absurd choice.

i was surprised at how fully fleshed out both pocahontas and ride my llama were when the Zuma versions appeared on Archives II — maybe more elaborate arrangements than anything that actually made the album.

Ragged Glory, Sleeps With Angels, and Psychedelic Pill are my favorite NY albums although I haven’t heard them all…I hardly listen to his earlier stuff besides Tonight’s the Night….anything else along these lines I shouldn’t miss?

Rust Never Sleeps? Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere? After the Gold Rush?

Zuma. Big fat guitars, like Ragged Glory.

The Monsanto Years I've heard of, the rest I don't even recognise the titles. Anything worth hearing in there?

― feat. fish as 'the highlander' (Matt #2), Thursday, 14 March 2024 22:22 (one hour ago) link

barn is great - i'd put "they might be lost" in with his best

A Letter Home (2014)
Storytone (2014)
The Monsanto Years (2015) (with Promise of the Real)
Peace Trail (2016)
The Visitor (2017) (with Promise of the Real)
Colorado (2019) (with Crazy Horse)
Barn (2021) (with Crazy Horse)
Toast (2022, recorded 2001) (with Crazy Horse)
World Record (2022) (with Crazy Horse)
Before and After (2023)

The Monsanto Years I've heard of, the rest I don't even recognise the titles. Anything worth hearing in there?

What I ripped to my computer and still listen to once in a while:

"Who's Gonna Stand Up?" (live version with Crazy Horse) is actually not on any of those, but Storytone has different, inferior versions
"Needle of Death" from A Letter Home
The solo versions of "Plastic Flowers," "I Want to Drive My Car" and "Tumbleweed" from Storytone. FYI that's a weird release - Neil made a solo version, another version with orchestral overdubs, and a hybrid version that goes back and forth between those two.
"A New Day for Love," "Wolf Moon," "People Want to Hear About Love," "A Rock Star Bucks a Coffee Shop" from The Monsanto Years
"Peace Trail" from the album of the same name
"Forever" from The Visitor
"I Do" from Colorado
Barn is good
Toast is good - I didn't really care for Are You Passionate? and don't have it anymore, so I was surprised by how much I liked Toast

I haven't given those last two albums a good listen, but I haven't heard much about them.

i put together a playlist of my favorites from the last three Crazy Horse records — it's a solid listen, clocks in at just about LP-length:

1. Welcome Back
2. Heading West
3. Overhead
4. Olden Days
5. They Might Be Lost
6. Green Is Blue
7. Chevrolet
8. I Do

Everything I've heard from him post psychedelic pill has been at least interesting and some of it is great. But I haven't heard everything, I skipped the promise of the real collaborations, maybe not intentionally but just never got around to them. I think both Colorado and barn are really good, Barn is the better one. And I will say I didn't intend to get Colorado due to some middling reviews but I found a sealed copy for five bucks, on vinyl! Glad I made the investment.l

I just got somewhere under the rainbow in the mail yesterday, I had it in my Amazon cart for a long time, the price fluctuated from to 20 to 30 to 40 bucks and then a couple days ago dropped down to $13.98 and couldn't pass it up

That rap he does on that about Bruce Berry is haunting.

The Greatest Hits album has been added back to Spotify.

Watch, that'll be the only one.

lol, I noticed that.

Neil Young and Baby Steps

the amuse-bouche before the main course, Everybody's Rockin'

For what it's worth, Storytone to the present is my favorite era of Neil Young. (And I do love me some '60s, '70s, '80s, '90s, and '00s Neil.)

Dogg godspeed to you, that's crazy but I respect it

Is TheNuNuNu actually Neil himself!? Neil, when is Archives III coming out

looks like a lot more has been added now. re: spotify

looks like a lot more has been added now. re: spotify

no debut, nothing between Re-ac-tor and This Note's for You, but a quick scan shows everything else as far as I can tell.

NO RUST👎🏻

er WAIT IT'S THERE?!

https://i.imgur.com/1UCBuI0.jpeg

search is still playing catch up i guess.

When all 200 or whatever records are uploaded I bet Neil will really appreciate that influx of $3,000 a month.

no debut, nothing between Re-ac-tor and This Note's for You, but a quick scan shows everything else as far as I can tell.

Most of his CSNY stuff is still greyed out, except for "Helpless" on Deja Vu and their stuff that's on the Archives boxes.

I won’t rest until I can put “touch the night” on a playlist