Three box sets:
Official Release Series Discs 1 - 4
Neil YoungEverybody Knows This Is NowhereAfter the GoldrushHarvest
Official Release Series Discs 5 - 8
Time Fades AwayOn the BeachTonight's the NightZuma
Official Release Series Discs 8.5 - 12
Long May You RunAmerican Stars 'N BarsComes A TimeRust Never SleepsLive Rust (1979)
― willem, Monday, 10 April 2017 09:24 (seven years ago) link
5-8 a must. Obviously.
― Punnet of the Grapes (Tom D.), Monday, 10 April 2017 09:32 (seven years ago) link
natch
― 'it's is my life' - jon bovi (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 10 April 2017 09:45 (seven years ago) link
lol at leaving Hawks & Doves and Re-Act-Or out in the cold again by excluding them from these canonical collections.I mean, they are still gettable, but how hard would have been to throw them on the back of the last collection (particularly since the former is made up from some material dating from that period)?
― to fly across the city and find Aerosmith's car (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 10 April 2017 17:55 (seven years ago) link
well, i think they're just doing these chronologically -- the next big bestseller will be hawks / reactor / trans / everybody's rockin
― tylerw, Monday, 10 April 2017 17:57 (seven years ago) link
TFA also on Spotify now fwiw.
― scattered, smothered, covered, diced and chunked (WilliamC), Monday, 10 April 2017 17:59 (seven years ago) link
https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-OogwMo3ffUI/TXpM_sbcfZI/AAAAAAAAJNI/IzIWE3hvKp0/s1600/hell_freezes_over.png
― tylerw, Monday, 10 April 2017 18:00 (seven years ago) link
I'd buy a Reactor/Trans twofer, if they wanted to put that out at the half the price of the boxset.
― Punnet of the Grapes (Tom D.), Monday, 10 April 2017 18:01 (seven years ago) link
really worried about Neil's health tbh
― Οὖτις, Monday, 10 April 2017 18:02 (seven years ago) link
― tylerw, Monday, April 10, 2017 1:57 PM (three minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Somehow I doubt they'll try to sell t-shirts of these album covers with the set.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Monday, 10 April 2017 18:04 (seven years ago) link
And then there's the issue of, are they really gonna put out a set with Old Ways, Landing on Water, Life, and This Note's For You?
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Monday, 10 April 2017 18:06 (seven years ago) link
Heh heh, yeah ...this is such a good run though ... only weak link is Stills Young IMO
Neil YoungEverybody Knows This Is NowhereAfter the GoldrushHarvestTime Fades AwayOn the BeachTonight's the NightZumaLong May You RunAmerican Stars 'N BarsComes A TimeRust Never SleepsLive Rust (1979)
― tylerw, Monday, 10 April 2017 18:06 (seven years ago) link
I've never actually heard LMYR -- the only (pre-'80s) gap in my Neil collection -- but I'll be getting that set for the remastered Rust Never Sleeps and (unedited!) Live Rust. The mastering on 1-4 is astounding, so 8.5-12 would at least be worth it for that.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Monday, 10 April 2017 18:09 (seven years ago) link
i've got all of those except American Stars 'N Bars, which isn't a weak link but is not exactly a classic. but i mean 11 classic albums, one very good one, and one inessential side project with an essential Neil Young yacht rock jam.
― nomar, Monday, 10 April 2017 18:10 (seven years ago) link
Hey, what about the Journey Through the Past soundtrack? Are they just pretending that didn't happen?
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Monday, 10 April 2017 18:10 (seven years ago) link
only weak link is Stills Young IMO
Neil's songs on this are great imo. Stills songs are absolute garbage, unfortunately.
― Οὖτις, Monday, 10 April 2017 18:15 (seven years ago) link
yeah neil coasting in 1976 is still neil. stills is terrible. ha i guess so ... i think the key stuff from that -- the "words" and "alabama" alternates and "soldier" -- were included on archives vol. 1?
― tylerw, Monday, 10 April 2017 18:16 (seven years ago) link
(referring to the journey through the past soundtrack)
all of those are great except for long may you run, which only has a couple of decent songs
― marcos, Monday, 10 April 2017 18:16 (seven years ago) link
I've never heard LMYR either, the title track never really did it for me.
― Punnet of the Grapes (Tom D.), Monday, 10 April 2017 18:17 (seven years ago) link
AMS&B is fantastic, best of the post-zuma 70s records imo
― marcos, Monday, 10 April 2017 18:18 (seven years ago) link
er AS&B
These collections will trailer a Still-Young Band reunion.
― to fly across the city and find Aerosmith's car (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 10 April 2017 18:19 (seven years ago) link
i love "long may you run" (the song) but there are plenty of other places to hear it. i was just listening to a pump organ live version from 2000-ish that was just gorgeous. i always want to like "fountainebleau" more, but it's a poor substitute for "pushed it over the end" ...
― tylerw, Monday, 10 April 2017 18:19 (seven years ago) link
yeah neil coasting in 1976 is still neil. stills is terrible.ha i guess so ... i think the key stuff from that -- the "words" and "alabama" alternates and "soldier" -- were included on archives vol. 1?
― tylerw, Monday, April 10, 2017 2:16 PM (nineteen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Good point. I've never actually seen a copy, nor have I seen the film (never found a decent-looking/sounding, um, download), but I assumed it was all live/rare. I see now that the Neil stuff is all previously released, apart from those three songs.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Monday, 10 April 2017 18:38 (seven years ago) link
...and "Let's Go Away For Awhile"--Neil bringin' the Beach Boys deep cuts!
― to fly across the city and find Aerosmith's car (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 10 April 2017 18:40 (seven years ago) link
haha yeah, really is a weird release
― tylerw, Monday, 10 April 2017 19:08 (seven years ago) link
seems he's never really considered it part of the oeuvre -- here's what neil said in 1975
So you don't really consider the soundtrack album an official Neil Young release?
No. There was an unfortunate sequence of events surrounding Journey Through the Past. The record company told me that they'd finance me doing the movie only if I gave them the soundtrack album. They took the thing [the soundtrack] and put it right out. Then they told me that they didn't want to release the movie because it wasn't...well, they wanted to group it with a bunch of other films. I wanted to get it out there on its own. So they chickened out on the movie because they thought it was weird. But they took me for the album. That's always been a ticklish subject with me. That's the only instance of discooperation and confusion that I've ever had with Warners. Somebody really missed the boat on that one. They fucked me up for sure. It's all right though.
― tylerw, Monday, 10 April 2017 19:11 (seven years ago) link
that's interesting, i didn't know he had kind of disowned it. makes sense. you'd think it would be some prime-era neil jamming but it just kind of plods along
― Karl Malone, Monday, 10 April 2017 19:16 (seven years ago) link
yeah it doesn't seem to have a whole lot of thought put into it.
anyhoo, just imagine if all of these "official release" series were complemented by a bonus disc of era-appropriate unreleased material. that would be great.
― tylerw, Monday, 10 April 2017 19:18 (seven years ago) link
aaargh damn u tyler
― sleeve, Monday, 10 April 2017 19:19 (seven years ago) link
Didn't know that about the soundtrack album. Makes sense.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Monday, 10 April 2017 19:24 (seven years ago) link
I'd just like to point out that, in the years since Neil put out Archives 1, Dylan has released no fewer than FOUR Bootleg Series volumes.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Monday, 10 April 2017 19:27 (seven years ago) link
yeah, but you have to admit that telling one of your underlings to prepare a couple boxset options and then reviewing them over a weekend a few months later is a lot of work, takes a decade at least
― Karl Malone, Monday, 10 April 2017 19:35 (seven years ago) link
release fucking homegrown altready
― a (waterface), Monday, 10 April 2017 20:19 (seven years ago) link
I'd love to know where this was shot, the audience are great...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0O1v_7T6p8U
― Punnet of the Grapes (Tom D.), Sunday, 21 May 2017 15:34 (seven years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/H08e2Z5.jpg
― Punnet of the Grapes (Tom D.), Sunday, 21 May 2017 15:41 (seven years ago) link
Amazon says those 4- and 5-CD boxes listed upthread have been pushed to September 8.
― grawlix (unperson), Sunday, 21 May 2017 17:35 (seven years ago) link
Whaaaaa? Last week they said mid-June.
They're never happening.
― to fly across the city and find Aerosmith's car (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 21 May 2017 19:37 (seven years ago) link
man those really are some awesome wtf audience shots in that vid
xxp
― Οὖτις, Monday, 22 May 2017 18:19 (seven years ago) link
I like how the cameraman has picked out the coolest members of a Neil Young audience.
― Punnet of the Grapes (Tom D.), Monday, 22 May 2017 18:30 (seven years ago) link
yes, an inspiring watch
we might have a thread for awesome audience shots
― niels, Tuesday, 23 May 2017 07:50 (seven years ago) link
It's, like, realsville, daddy-o:
http://neilyoungnews.thrasherswheat.org/2017/05/new-album-neil-youngs-hitchhiker-due-14.html
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Friday, 26 May 2017 12:14 (seven years ago) link
hmmm
― a (waterface), Friday, 26 May 2017 12:28 (seven years ago) link
Maybe the best thing to come out of the archives yet
― tylerw, Friday, 26 May 2017 12:43 (seven years ago) link
we'll see if it comes out!
― a (waterface), Friday, 26 May 2017 13:14 (seven years ago) link
so wait are these different versions of the same songs that are on the bootleg of the Chrome Dreams acetate? Because at one point he said he was going to issue Chrome Dreams.
Also what about the status of Homegrown and Oceanside/Countryside?
And I think he mentioned a Time Fades Away II once?
― Universal LULU Nation (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 26 May 2017 14:34 (seven years ago) link
neil you've got me in a tizzy!!!!!!
only #braggin a little, but i've heard a stream -- i think that the "powderfinger" here is the same as on chrome dreams, but the rest of it is unbootlegged, i believe (not positive about "campaigner"). whole thing is pretty aaaaaaamazing as a whole. rumors of even more stuff coming in 2017.
― tylerw, Friday, 26 May 2017 14:40 (seven years ago) link
awesome. pysched for this
is this the right tracklist?
Ride My LlamaPocahontasPowderfingerCaptain KennedyCampaignerHitchhikerHold Back The TearsStringmanToo Far GoneWill to Love
― mizzell, Friday, 26 May 2017 14:43 (seven years ago) link