The official Neil Young Archives countdown thread

disc 2 will be the entirety of my bloody valentine's next album

discs 3-5 will be acoustic guitar feedback

disc 6 will be the original version of "powderfinger," with the long-lost second, third, fifth, sixth, seventh and ninth verses restored, finally revealing, as originally intended, what is going on

disc 7 will be the entirety of "chinese democracy"

discs 8-10 will be perpetually withheld from release because of a dispute over the digital remastering

fact checking cuz: you don't really not know what powderfinger is about, do you? That's a joke, right?

and yeah i've "heard" about this box set for at least 15 years.

these don't seem like important questions to me as far as songs go.

i know that powderfinger is about five and a half minutes long. what else am i missing?

Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere
Winterlong
Down By The River
Wonderin'
Come On Baby Let's Go Downtown
Cowgirl In The Sand

My understanding is that there will be a 8cd/dvd archives vol 1 relese covering for 63-73 period released early next year. This will have a couple of Squires tracks, Buffalo Springfield and two live solo shows as well as unreleased and previosly released material.

Bring on the archives - no one is getting a Xmas present this year!!

sounds like the version on "tonight's the night" is an edit of this version. on "ttn" they removed the "turn you around" line...

har
http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003603262

goddammit neil!!!

i know!

early 08 really fucks me up neil! big time xmas presents "hints" on the box set had been dropped to the missus! valentine's day budgetary outlays are not nearly the same dollarwise!

i know! (srsly, i had been doing the same thing with my wife). curse you, neil young. CURSE YOU.

oh jesus ...
http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003702875

I am now officially pro-piracy.

I have no plan to invest in "archives" anyway. What I would want is proper remasters of classic albums such as "Harvest", "After The Goldrush" and "Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere".

B-but, surely he knows that there will be 'rips' of these blu-ray discs all over the internet in, like, ten seconds, right?

i am glad that neil young has taken the decision of whether or not to invest in his archives out of my hands

I love how he's investing his crummy 'probably recorded on cassette' demo tapes onto this high spec facility.

wow, what a downer. I won't be buying this now, and I'd been looking forward to it for years and years. I don't want some silly "multimedia experience" with timelines and junk, circa 1994: just the tunes would be fine.

Argh. Fuck you Neil, seriously.

What's wrong with really great book of liner notes and essays? Hell, fanatics are the only folks who are going to buy Archives, and most of them know all that time line shit anyway.

However, I'm glad I read that article because I didn't now about the new documentary. That's exciting, at least. I hope it really digs into the making of Deja Vu and doesn't try to tone down all the allegedly dirty business surrounding the sessions. According to Hotel California, it was one fucked up time.

"What I would want is proper remasters of classic albums such as "Harvest", "After The Goldrush" and "Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere"."

I agree with this, and it somewhat makes up for some of Geir's egregious posts on the 2112 thread.

http://www.news.com/8301-13953_3-9937142-80.html?tag=nefd.lede

So now he's not only embracing digital sound, but wants me to buy a blu-ray player to play this thing?!? For the luvva god, just put out a Bob Dylan Scrapbook deal for those interested in all those notes. Call me when the Goldrush/Tonight's The Night remasters come out...

wow that article is the most bullshit I've read in a long time

BAN NEIL YOUNG

and yeah i've "heard" about this box set for at least 15 years.

Me too, me too. Heard about Decade II back when I was in high school.

LOL

i kinda just want more of the "performance series". it's been a year since that last one. and both are awesome.

oh and i want them on CDs, Neil. CDs.

No word if it will come with a monogramed pillowcase.

hopefully a replica of crosby's coke spoon will be included.

clip from dvd

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1wBUTMg6BFg

not actually toast, but i put together a little EP of live stuff that may or may not be on this totally legendary album.
http://doomandgloomfromthetomb.tumblr.com/post/40856432953/toast-i-know-its-been-five-minutes-since-i

The latest installment of Young's Archives series will be Live At The Cellar Door 1970, which according to Vintage Vinyl is set for a September release. The album pulls together 10 tracks recorded at a Washington, D.C. night club in 1970 and includes such Young gems as "After The Gold Rush" and "Down By The River." Neil played a series of six shows in 1970 at The Cellar Door from which this compilation is taken.

Tracklist:

On The Way Home
Tell Me Why
Only Love Can Break Your Heart
Old Man
Down By The River
After The Gold Rush
Expecting To Fly
Flying On The Ground Is Wrong
Bad Fog Of Loneliness
See The Sky About To Rain

"See The Sky" is on the archives vol. 1 iirc. not suuuuuuper excited about this. with the riverboat / canterbury / massey hall discs, we've got a ton of early solo neil. i mean, this'll be good, but considering the other stuff that is in the vaults ...

hope they get out of the early 70s with this series soon. dunno these shows but these are songs that are already well covered in this series

yeah unless miles davis pops up for a jam on down by the river here, i don't think there'll be anything radically different, arrangement-wise. maybe some new jokes.

seems like he should be commemorating the 40th anniversary of the tonight's the night tour w/ an official release of the rainbow theatre show.

tylerw otm. Seems like a lot of overlap, songwise, with those other discs.

but considering the other stuff that is in the vaults ...

There's a wonderful 1976 live Crazy Horse bootleg DVD that ain't gettin' any less bootleggy the longer he sits on it. Among about half a million other things.

have (m)any good CSNY shows been released officially? dig their take on "on the way home" more than neil's solo vs but the CSNY boots I have, have pretty crappy sound generally

yeah an official 76 live album would blow minds. wouldn't be complaining about this if it wasn't three years in between performance series releases. if he'd just stick to a schedule! [lol]

only csny live album 4 way street from the original years...there's the 1974 CSNY box set planned... but this release will probably cause that one to be delayed haha.

That CSNY '74 thing isn't happening, is it?

Xpost!

this was the last i heard of it -
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/crosby-stills-nash-young-to-release-long-awaited-1974-live-album-in-august-20130416

yea, ya'll otm. i'm sure this will be stellar, i love early 70s neil and all that music is pretty impeccable, but it's well documented elsewhere

yeah this new one is pretty lame IMO

if i'm in the mood for this era i'll just listen to that massey hall record

^

WTF NY

what i really want is a DUCKS disc.

Hokey Smokes!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_oEmZbtFU8

ha, yeah that show is pretty wild. some deep cocaine rock...

jesus dudes are so skeevy

neil on organ!

stills's guitar face is off the charts

"It doesn't sound like the ocean."
"C'mon, England, let's sound like an ocean."

The '70s.

speaking of NY releases (non-archives version), i hear this new elaborate looking 'cow palace' box set is kind of weak?

neil on organ!

This got me thinking that it's amazing that despite all the different styles he's dabbled in, he's never done a solo in the studio piano/organ & voice record.

xp haven't heard of that one -- what is it?

http://slyvinyl.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/young-620x350.jpg

it's $90 or something

xpost i didn't know about that

http://slyvinyl.com/rock/neil-young-cow-palace-1986-limited-to-1000-on-red-white-blue-vinyl-3xlp-w-hard-cover-slipcase

lol that is one fancy bootleg.

btw i am lmao at this wembley show, it's like they decided "ok guys jam every song like it's the last song of the show"

Recorded in San Francisco toward the end of his much-maligned mid-'80s Geffen period, Cow Palace 1986 shows that Neil Young was still a force to be reckoned with on the stage, if not in the studio. A bootleg of the final date of his Live in a Rusted Out Garage tour, this 25-track collection features the whole two-hour spectacle in all its glory, alongside a few less illustrious moments (the "comedy" skit "Neil's Mom Calls" and controversial standup Sam Kinison's expletive rant feel entirely out of place).

waht

I'd be more excited about that as an Archive release than the Cellar Door thing tbh.

haha, yeah, at least it'd be interesting. there are cool crazy horse versions of trans songs on there iirc.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pM7EUP-xZA0
feat. sam kinison

hahaha WOW

yeah, the dancing girl is uhhhhmmmmm

man I'd LOVE an Archives album on mid eighties Aldo Nova Neil.

http://doomandgloomfromthetomb.tumblr.com/post/24071228066/bad-news-neil-young-in-the-1980s-as-a-follow-up
here's as close as we're gonna get for a while...

WF wants his Homegrown

WF wants his Oceanside-Countryside

listen to waterface, neil!

waterface OTM

i'm in a youtube hole

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GeBYeZJ8GEg

omg 3:54 - there's this perfect shot of a totally impassive german young man slowly smoking cigarette like a member of kraftwerk or the sprockets

there's a VHS of that. it's amazing.

Yeah, I don't remember if it was supposed to be the whole show, but good selections at least. At one point, Lofgren appears in front of Neil, sans guitar, and something wrong with his face---I thought, "Oh no, he's a mime", but it was a mask with a wireless mic, he was singing through the vocoder (or maybe miming, come to think of it--wouldn't have to lipsynch, with that mask)

mimey gestures too.

audience tape of one of the hammersmith odeon 1976 gigs, which I guess is supposed to make up at least part of the Budokan Odeon archives series: http://www.guitars101.com/forums/f90/neil-young-hammersmith-odeon-1976-a-162296.html
super rockin, super ragged. awesome that they had been playing southern man every night for weeks at that point and still can't get it right.