you can hear the distortion on the live vocals "S's" especially. imo the phasing was brought in to try and cover this up as well as enhance the watery feel.
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 26 May 2017 15:36 (seven years ago) link
i just hope this actually comes out
― a (waterface), Friday, 26 May 2017 15:36 (seven years ago) link
looking likely -- though they just delayed the "original release series" set w/ Time Fades Away on CD lolz
― tylerw, Friday, 26 May 2017 15:41 (seven years ago) link
heh, the 1977 RS review of stars 'n bars is something else
Unless one understands the "On the Beach"/"Motion Pictures"/"Ambulance Blues" trilogy from On the Beach (and "Don't Be Denied" from Time Fades Away), one simply cannot write intelligently about Neil Young. But when one understands these songs, one begins to perceive the exciting possibility that perhaps Young is rock & roll's first (and only?) postromantic. That he knows something that we don't, but should. Indeed, I suspect that Young took one of the longest journeys without maps on record, never even slowed up at the point of no return, but somehow got back anyway, a better man with all senses intact. When nearly overwhelmed by marital difficulties and the death of friends, he apparently looked into himself and managed an instinctive or willed act of Jungian purification that put him somewhat safely on the far side of paradise, if not paradox.
― Karl Malone, Friday, 26 May 2017 15:49 (seven years ago) link
haha yeah -- Paul Nelson, right?
― tylerw, Friday, 26 May 2017 15:51 (seven years ago) link
yep
― Karl Malone, Friday, 26 May 2017 15:51 (seven years ago) link
Unless one understands the "On the Beach"/"Motion Pictures"/"Ambulance Blues" trilogy from On the Beach (and "Don't Be Denied" from Time Fades Away), one simply cannot write intelligently about Neil Young.
otm
― Universal LULU Nation (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 26 May 2017 15:52 (seven years ago) link
Neil Jung
― tylerw, Friday, 26 May 2017 15:54 (seven years ago) link
hahaha fantastic
― a (waterface), Friday, 26 May 2017 15:57 (seven years ago) link
lol
― Karl Malone, Friday, 26 May 2017 15:57 (seven years ago) link
(i think i stole that from a later Nelson writeup tbh)
― tylerw, Friday, 26 May 2017 15:59 (seven years ago) link
heh heh yeah: http://www.angelfire.com/rock2/traces/pages/onestop.html
When Neil Young performed with Crazy Horse at the Palladium in New York City almost two years ago, he made such an impression on me that sometime during the opening show (for which I had a ticket), I knew I had to see them all. For the first time in my life, I patronized the scalpers. Though the tickets cost something like thirty bucks apiece, they were the only way to get in, and I just couldn't let the music stop. Here was rock & roll so primal and unexplainable that I simply wanted to let it wash over me, pulse through me. When Young wandered out and began to play songs like "Cortez The Killer" and "Like A Hurricane" on his black electric guitar, I figured I'd at last found the perfect target for the most overused of adjectives: mythic. For once, none of the answers mattered, because the questions themselves formed such complete and satisfying entities - entities that had long crossed the border of Freudian logic and were now headed out toward the farthest of the far countries. Neil Jung, I wrote in my notebook. A not-inappropriate pun.
― tylerw, Friday, 26 May 2017 16:00 (seven years ago) link
I wonder if Archives II doesn't happen as a box set, and ends up being a string of individual releases instead? Might make more sense economically. Liner notes have always been pretty thin on these, even on the first box, so it's not like we're waiting on a big accompanying book or anything.
― to fly across the city and find Aerosmith's car (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 26 May 2017 18:14 (seven years ago) link
Teenage Fanclub had a "Neil Jung" song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJpBlfJLbRM
― to fly across the city and find Aerosmith's car (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 26 May 2017 18:16 (seven years ago) link
I wonder if Archives II doesn't happen as a box set, and ends up being a string of individual releases instead?this would be ideal (especially since the CD box set packaging for archives 1 was so lame)
― tylerw, Friday, 26 May 2017 18:35 (seven years ago) link
yeah i remember someone on ilm who worked for a WEA label said that there were stacks of that box set on the free table at company functions?
― Universal LULU Nation (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 26 May 2017 18:37 (seven years ago) link
yeah i've bitched about it before, but it's just crazy that an artist of Neil Young's stature was totally outdone by, say, an obscure detroit gospel singer who was lucky enough to be reissued by Numero Group. fwiw, maybe the blu ray version was better, but that shit was way overpriced. and who has a blu ray?
― tylerw, Friday, 26 May 2017 18:41 (seven years ago) link
man imagine if Numero got ahold of NY's shit!
― a (waterface), Friday, 26 May 2017 18:49 (seven years ago) link
yeah, i can't believe that more artists aren't just like "HIRE THOSE GUYS"
― tylerw, Friday, 26 May 2017 18:51 (seven years ago) link
This was me. Not free, but like $20 or so at the annual holiday CD sale (all proceeds going to charity) and yeah, there was a whole pyramid of them. Those sales could be great; I got a copy of the Stooges Fun House box set for $10 one year.
― grawlix (unperson), Friday, 26 May 2017 19:36 (seven years ago) link
Decade is back!
NEIL YOUNG TO RELEASE REMASTERED VERSION OF DECADE ON 3 LP SET, DOUBLE CD AND DIGITAL EDITIONS ON JUNE 23
June 23, 2017-- (Burbank, CA) - Neil Young will release his long out of print Decade anthology on June 23, on Reprise Records. Originally released in 1977 on a triple vinyl set and compiled by Young, Tim Mulligan and David Briggs, Decade has long been considered the definitive 35-song collection of material covering the years between1966-1976 - it features Neil Young solo and with Crazy Horse, Buffalo Springfield, CSNY and the Stills-Young Band. Each of the tracks has been remastered with the original artwork and restored with inside photos by Joel Bernstein, Gary Burdan, Henry Diltz and Tom Wilkes. Recently, Decade was re-released to its original 3-LP vinyl configuration for Record Store Day 2017 in a limited pressing. It is now widely available once more on vinyl, as a two CD set and digitally. Click here to purchase. The Decade track listing for the two-CD edition is as follows: DISC 1: 1. Down To The Wire2. Burned3. Mr. Soul4. Broken Arrow5. Expecting To Fly6. Sugar Mountain7. I Am A Child8. The Loner9. The Old Laughing Lady10. Cinnamon Girl11. Down By The River12. Cowgirl In The Sand13. I Believe In You14. After The Gold Rush15. Southern Man16. Helpless DISC 2: 1. Ohio2. Soldier3. Old Man4. A Man Needs A Maid5. Harvest6. Heart Of Gold7. Star Of Bethlehem8. The Needle And The Damage Done9. Tonight's The Night (Part 1)10. Tired Eyes11. Walk On12. For the Turnstiles13. Winterlong14. Deep Forbidden Lake15. Like A Hurricane16. Love Is A Rose17. Cortez The Killer18. Campaigner19. Long May You Run
― grawlix (unperson), Friday, 23 June 2017 13:43 (six years ago) link
Search and destroy this!
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 18 August 2018 04:43 (five years ago) link
Zuma is like half filler, man
― Paul Ponzi, Saturday, 18 August 2018 12:29 (five years ago) link
Glorious filler except the CSNY crap.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 18 August 2018 12:33 (five years ago) link
zuma top 10 sure but my favorite five
1. Tonight's the Night . . . well he shot four men in a cocaine deal2. Rust Never Sleeps . . . where the eagle glides descending3. Everybody Knows This is Nowhere . . . when you dance do your senses tingle and take a chance?4. Harvest . . . see the lonely boy out on the weekend trying to make it pay5. Time Fades Away . . . don't be denied!
― reggie (qualmsley), Saturday, 18 August 2018 13:16 (five years ago) link
i goofed -- my #3 fave should be after the gold rush (ektin i listen to roughly as much as zuma and on the beach)
― reggie (qualmsley), Saturday, 18 August 2018 13:52 (five years ago) link
Disagree twice. Zuma isn't quite my favourite Neil album (third, after Gold Rush and Everybody), but I don't think there's any filler on there--"Through My Sails" is beautiful.
― clemenza, Saturday, 18 August 2018 14:07 (five years ago) link
yeah I was gonna say I like all the songs on Zuma
― The Desus & Mero Chain (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Saturday, 18 August 2018 14:53 (five years ago) link
Yeah, Zuma is one that I listen to all the way through (not true of Harvest, among others, for me)
― Karl Malone, Saturday, 18 August 2018 14:58 (five years ago) link
you guys live Zuma a la 11DD was so awesome, i cried a tiny bit, they did "Like A Hurricane" as encore just for fun
i also really enjoyed the other band (health and beauty), who played On the Beach and covered "Albuquerque" last time i saw them play, they had some truly sizzling jams the vibe was super great across the board but something funny happened and i have to put it somewhere so i will put it here
I found a spot that was ok and the stranger I was standing next to asked me "Do you know Danger Bird?" and I was like "Yeah I have like 5 versions of it at home" and he looked at me straight in the face and said "you're a freak". I didn't know what to say so I shrugged and went back to enjoying the show. Lol.
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Saturday, 18 August 2018 15:57 (five years ago) link
Ha, half of EDD's catalog is basically punk Neil Young.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 18 August 2018 16:00 (five years ago) link
LL salute! Danger bird rulesHarvest would be helped so much if he would have swapped Man Needs a Maid for Bad Fog of Loneliness
― The Desus & Mero Chain (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Saturday, 18 August 2018 16:54 (five years ago) link
"a man needs a maid" is a candidate for most emo song of all time. the symphonic accompaniment is the most plangent thing ever
― reggie (qualmsley), Saturday, 18 August 2018 17:07 (five years ago) link
I love "Bad Fog." If it had been on Harvest, it would have been my favourite song...replacing "A Man Needs a Maid."
― clemenza, Saturday, 18 August 2018 17:11 (five years ago) link
it totally blows my mind that the studio version of that has still not been released
― sleeve, Saturday, 18 August 2018 17:16 (five years ago) link
Isn't the one on Archives just a regular studio version?
― clemenza, Saturday, 18 August 2018 17:17 (five years ago) link
no, it's live at Massey Hall iirc
― sleeve, Saturday, 18 August 2018 17:23 (five years ago) link
no there's a studio version from the Harvest sessions on Archives
― The Desus & Mero Chain (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Saturday, 18 August 2018 17:24 (five years ago) link
ah OK! that's the one I know from long-ago bootlegs
― sleeve, Saturday, 18 August 2018 17:25 (five years ago) link
There’s also a tonight’s the night outtake. I like the symphonic jams on harvest but I could see an argument for replacing them with bad fog and journey through the past ...Through my sails is the best csny track. Zuma has no filler.
― tylerw, Saturday, 18 August 2018 17:26 (five years ago) link
(“Stupid Girl’s vibe is not great but the guitars)
― tylerw, Saturday, 18 August 2018 17:35 (five years ago) link
Harvest starts off with a perfectly chill, mildly melancholic vibe, slow river groove of Out on the Weekend, dreamy title track, but then stuff like A Man Needs a Maid (hilariously ott) is so overwhelming that the album ends up actually not that chill, I go with Harvest Moon for hangovers instead
so yeah would love a more gator less coke-infused (iirc?) London overdubs version of that classic
Zuma is indeed perfect, Through My Sails gorgeous
― niels, Sunday, 19 August 2018 09:15 (five years ago) link
One of my favorite recent covers:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jtcx-zv-ijg
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 19 August 2018 12:03 (five years ago) link
I think Zuma is perfect except for 'Lookin For A Love' which I hate and always skip. Can't understand why 'Through My Sails' could be considered filler and not that clunker. Could've had the slower 'Sedan Delivery' on there instead, or even 'Born To Run'. No real complaints with the list though - Time Fades Away is my #1 pick if I have to.
― whitehallunity, Monday, 20 August 2018 15:21 (five years ago) link
that lee ann womack cover is great
― The Desus & Mero Chain (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 20 August 2018 15:45 (five years ago) link
Indeed, beautiful cover. Awesome pedal steel and fiddle on it. Definitely on the good side of schmaltz.
― Ich bin kein Berliner (alex in mainhattan), Wednesday, 22 August 2018 21:23 (five years ago) link
Alfred OTM
― Scottish Country Twerking (Tom D.), Wednesday, 22 August 2018 21:39 (five years ago) link
That whole album is great
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 22 August 2018 21:41 (five years ago) link
Thanks! Anyone who still thinks of Lee Ann Womack as the "I Hope You Dance" singer should listen to her last three album. Holy shit.
― The Silky Veils of Alfred (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 22 August 2018 21:46 (five years ago) link
"Colorado". Neil and Crazy Horse went high up into their mountaintop Colorado studio with a week's supply of oxygen in tanks but it turned out to be helium. They plowed ahead. If anything I have to admire their willingness to throw any ol' fluff out there and pass it off as a NY&CH album.
― SQUIRREL MEAT!! (Capitaine Jay Vee), Thursday, 24 October 2019 21:24 (four years ago) link