Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Psychedelic Pill, Oct. 2012

NEW CRAZY HORSE ALBUM IN OCTOBER
Psychedelic Pill will be released in October. It was recorded right after Americana at Audio Casa Blanca. A double-CD and triple-vinyl will be released because of the lengths of many of the songs, some of which were previewed in Crazy Horse's live performances earlier this month. In the spirit of Americana's release, full length videos for each of the songs will be available and previewed. A recommended high resolution 24/192 full fidelity version of the album Psychedelic Pill will be released on Blu-ray and will include all the videos. The low resolution iTunes downloads will also be accompanied by videos. Thanks for listening.

YES

triple LP! i guess walk like a giant will take up a whole side.

YES

How much does Neil charge for a triple LP? $100?

for real
i was all excited and then ;_; when i thought about how much it was going to cost

yeah, aren't his single LPs like $45?

the heavy ones, yeah :-/

that is absurd

I want to hear this and yet there is no way I will be able to afford it

We can pool our money and buy one copy, and than someone plays it for us in a Google Hangout. It's what Neil would want.

low resolution itunes downloads for you poor bastards.

I'm waiting for the Barn-Ray.

b-b-but the "recommended high resolution 24/192 full fidelity version"!!

Rumor is that the Smell The Horse deluxe edition comes with a plastic bag full of manure

fully compostable I assume

This should actually just be a pill that you take so you can hear the album inside your head at 24/192. And then die.

http://i1059.photobucket.com/albums/t427/sayhey1/owsley.jpg

Getting a jump on the next poll.

Truthfully, I'm not especially excited. I always hope for the best, but I know that a) I won't be buying an overpriced double-CD from anyone (much less a really overpriced triple-LP), and b) every new Neil album is greeted as an event these days, even though he churns them out regularly, and, unless you have realistic expectations (a handful of good songs), you'll probably be disappointed.

have you listened to any of the new songs? at least two of em (walk like a giant and ramada inn) are pretty classic sounding to me. title track is the weakest of the bunch thus far.

Just half of "Walk Like a Giant"; it didn't make much of an impression. It was a live version, though, so you never know.

No, Clemenza you must not imply dismissal of Americana, because I like it VERY VERY MUCH, except "Tom Dula" and maybe "Gallows Pole." I like it the way I like rock of the 60s from Turkey, SE Asia, Latin America: love the way it finds something something fresh in seemingly played-out songs and (re the international 60s) styles). Pleeeeze Nora Guthrie, give Neil & The Horse a big dose of Woody's uncut words! I'll buy a nice-priced used copy of Psychedelic Pill for my own xmas present. no prob.

The CD, that is. C'mon, Blu-Ray cavemen? Might spoil it.

Neil deals in revamping seemingly-played out songs, 60s interantionale mostly in played-out styles, that is (sorry)

fuck, 60s Internationale, that is-sorry!!

I only listened to Americana once, off YouTube, which I know is a crazy way to take in music. A friend of mine really likes it. I'm probably making broad generalizations that I should have limited to my disappointment in Le Noise. And I should probably get my head out of the 1970s.

i dunno, head in the 70s seems just right for triple LP. maybe not a triple LP that costs $100, but still.

I haven't heard anything in its entirety since Greendale (lol) but I am psyched for this

Good thing everyone has Blu-Ray players in their cars.

standard feature in all biodiesel tourbuses iirc

imo Fork in the Road, Le Noise, Americana has been a pretty damn solid run, give or take a track here and there, and judging from what everyone who's heard the recent live boots is saying, my hopes are pretty high for this one. I'm a huge Year of the Horse fan, though.

Certainly been enjoying the live sets that have turned up on Dime recently.

I like Fork in the Road and Americana about the same, which is to say they're A- records I have to remind myself to play.

Rumor is that the Smell The Horse deluxe edition comes with a plastic bag full of manure

I'm enough of a Neil fan to hope this isn't a joke.

Didn't hear any of Americana beyond "Oh Susanna"; will nevertheless check this one out in the hopes that it's some massive Rallizes-esque mind-destroyer.

Does the 30-minute jam in the original Americana teaser video have a name?

yes, Horse Back

Disc: 1
1. Driftin Back
2. Psychedelic Pill
3. Ramada Inn
4. Born In Ontario

Disc: 2
1. Twisted Road
2. She's Always Dancing
3. For The Love Of Man
4. Walk Like A Giant
5. Psychedelic Pill (Bonus Track Alternate Mix)

hey I was born in Ontario too! (still here btw)

Vinyl edition is close to $90. I can only assume this is because he can't stand the sound of vinyl, and would much rather people heard his music digitally.

haha, yikes. for that much dough, i'd want neil to hand deliver the album to me. still! an exciting october -- this album and Waging Heavy Peace, the surely to be somewhat disappointing memoir.

Yeah, I don't have massive hopes for Waging Heavy Peace. I wouldn't be surprised if more space was devoted to his train collection than to Tonight's The Night.

...or just arcane details linking the two: "Danny Whitten gave me this scale model of a post office...this H/O scale van is just like Bruce Berry's...David Briggs poured beer on this control box...shorted out the whole building...innaresting."

irl lol

haaa

Watching YouTube footage of "Walk Like a Giant" right now and will absolutely 100% buy this album if it sounds half as good as this. This sounds like it could be his best album since Ragged Glory.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6L7c1Qo22es

Man fuck that vinyl pricing :-(

yeah but dude what if the Bonus Track Alternate Mix is a 25+ minute Trans jammmmmm

most anticipated LP of the year. that youtube sounds great.

in case anyone missed this important thing http://doomandgloomfromthetomb.tumblr.com/post/29629148690/arc-2012-for-nearly-two-decades-now-fans-have

i think i'm going to have it pressed on LP and sell it for $99

Those things are giving me Sabre Pyramid flashbacks

http://img707.imageshack.us/img707/9361/sabrepyramidpresentatio.jpg

The covers record could be good! Who knows? A lot of Neil's career is bad ideas that somehow ended up great.

The PonoPlayer has 128GB of memory and can store 1000 to 2000 high-resolution digital-music albums Neil Young albums.

Love the poorly-tagged files on the players they used for that promo photo.

love that a 2014 marketing rollout is using dire straits and bob dylan as the two names to display in their ads (with neil himself lurking on the player in the background). guess they know their target audience.

also, that looks like the least portable portable player i've seen since the sony discman.

you just put it on your head and wear a top hat

The PonoPlayer has 128GB of memory and can store 1000 to 2000 high-resolution digital-music albums bob lefsetz columns.

Sorry, every time I see the word Pono, all I can think about is Chris Farley as Howard Heflin in SNL's Clarence-Thomas-confirmation-hearing sketch: "Do you think that pono is the way to go?"

Just got this order from Warner Bros!

TUNE-IN RIGHT NOW:
To Watch Neil Young Deliver the Keynote Address at SXSW
5PM CDT
http://sxsw.com/live

Today @ 5pm CDT
Rebroadcasted: 7pm CDT Wednesday & 7am CDT Thursday
(other stuff will be on here too, apparently)

http://ih.constantcontact.com/fs155/1104983095347/img/525.jpg

He's already talking to a guy about "loudness wars."

I wish he'd talk to a guy about Archives II.

....which turns out to be yet more PONO talk, followed by a Q&A with the audience (about PONO), and no keynote. Scroll down, and you'll see listings of more talk by others tomorrow, and eventually some music---but tomorrow night's showcase on NPR is a better bet
http://www.npr.org/event/music/279055940/npr-music-presents-live-from-sxsw-2014

Neil has a limited amount of years left on the planet, wish he wouldn't waste 'em on pono

^ this. I read an interview with him after Ragged Glory came out where he said something like, "I'm real happy with this record, and hey, you never know, it could all end tomorrow -- I'd be proud to go out on an up note. I'm just glad I didn't get hit by a bus after Everybody's Rockin'."

Man, which Neil Young thread ...

Anyway, vinyl box delayed, surprising no one, until November. Maybe he's focusing on PONO? Maybe he's figuring out a better way to print vinyl? Maybe he's just fucking with us?

March 19, 2014 - (Burbank, CA.) -- Neil Young and Warner Bros. Records have announced that they must delay the release of Young's upcoming Neil Young Official Series 2 Vinyl Box Set, which was intended to come out on Record Store Day, due to several other projects that Young has in the works that he wishes to focus on. A November release date for the set, which includes the classic albums Time Fades Away, On The Beach, Tonight's The Night and Zuma, will be announced soon. Rest assured, it will be worth the wait!

According to a post on Thrasher's Wheat,

At this time we are still planning on physical release for NYA V2 and yes it will be available on Pono, too in full 24/192 sound quality. I'm happy to report that we are in full on production of NYA V2 right now. Maybe I'm biased, but I think V2 might be the best one. A plethora of previously unreleased tracks.

did you guys hear about his sci fi novel

Maybe I'm biased, but I think V2 might be the best one.

Ha. Me, I'd put it in the top two or three. Maybe the top 5. I mean, there have been so many ...

Sci fi Neil is going to be so sick! The Harvest Moons of Saturn.

^^^^

A plethora!?

sounds like at least two

There better be Oceanside/Countryside & Homegrown

With Neil, I think it's safe to assume "there better be" = there won't be.

had both the NY archives box and the recent Lee Hazlewood box out next to each other a week ago, and was just like, why can't the archives be like this? beautiful book, great music, unreleased stuff, session info... doesn't seem that complicated. and the hazlewood and archives box cost pretty much the same.

who wants great packaging when you can watch weird DVDs of music on your crappy TV speakers??

it's just crazy, if you had no idea who lee hazlewood and neil young were and saw those box sets, you'd think hazlewood was by far the more famous dude.

there's a good argument to me made that an artist should not be involved in creating their own box sets

Absolutely. Pretty sure Dylan is hands-off whenever a Bootleg Series set is being developed, and those have been uniformly praised.

Springsteen sticks his nose in and re-records shit. Townshend unnecessarily adds shit to his old demos.

bootleg series has gotta be up there in terms of excellently done archival releases...it's pretty much been all home runs as far as i'm concerned

miles has a lot of cool stuff....

i guess the dead? maybe that's just quantity though

dylan probably has veto power over the bootleg series, but i'd be willing to bet he doesn't give a shit at this point.
neil should've just been doing his bootleg series since 1993 or whatever.

Nobody's "hands off" a Bootleg Series like Miles. I don't think he even knows they exist.

Ha, although Teo Macero complained loudly about some of the boxes, saying that material was unreleased for a reason.

He had a point, but I'm glad he wasn't in a position to mess with their contents or keep them from being released. I can't think of a single piece of music on any of the Miles boxes that I thought shouldn't have seen the light of day.

dylan probably has veto power over the bootleg series, but i'd be willing to bet he doesn't give a shit at this point.

"What?! I'm not going to release those horrible 1966 shows! I was booed! I have a reputation to uphold! Now, if you'll excuse me, I have a batshit Chrysler ad to film."

i don't think dylan's that precious about shit

i remember reading this thing with some vet rock writer who got to do an article on dylan recording infidels and after the thing's done he's listening to the final with dylan and the writer is going nuts because he realizes dylan's leaving off "blind willie mctell", dylan says something along the lines of "listen man, it's just an album, i've made 20 of them"

haha that's awesome

*smokes blunt*

Oh well, guess I'll roll another number for the road, and this:
https://www.youtube.com/user/neilyoungchannel

goddamn i love 'ramada inn' so so much

finally hearing this whole thing. This is... really good?

definitely has some high points... kind of wish driftin back was just an instrumental (or just the chorus). lyrics are kind of a vibe killer.

idk those are bad in a very Neil way

haha yeah... i mean, the guitar sound makes up for the lyrics.

I kind of wish "Driftin Back" were twice as long and completely it's own thing, but yeah I was just listen to this not that long ago.

The phased out vers of the title track is totally dumb

"Ramada Inn" is amazing

yeah ramada inn is heavy... still wouldn't mind hearing him break that one out as an acoustic number too.

gah i still haven't listened to the monsanto years... for some reason i just don't wanna.

Yeah, this is my favorite Neil album since harvest moon

Local sports radio morning show uses the title track as bumper music occasionally

Yeah, this is my favorite Neil album since harvest moon

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Mine too

though I really love most of Le Noise too

Monsanto album has at least one nice track on it "Wolf Moon", and some bad lyrics, band sounds good, young & a bit sloppy, perfect for Neil. Haven't heard it all but I will soon. I'm seeing the tour on Thursday, will report back.