either way it's a hell of a lot better of an album than american stars and bars and lot of these songs i think flow together better in this form even the ones that were released otherwise
the version of Too Far Gone is a real gem, so much better than the freedom one
― l0u1s j0rdan (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 8 May 2012 15:45 (1 year ago) Permalink
yeah who knows? when neil puts it out, it'll probably have none of those songs.
― tylerw, Tuesday, 8 May 2012 15:46 (1 year ago) Permalink
haha yeah no shit
reading shakey again made me so curious about the briggs version of tonights the night, it's hilarious briggs was so pissed and acted like neil was chickenshit and put out the "clean commercial" version as if the released version of tonight's the night was rumors by fleetwood mac in comparison to his version
of course, briggs comes off as genuinely crazy though so who knows
there are so many truly insane fucked up people in shakey
― l0u1s j0rdan (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 8 May 2012 15:48 (1 year ago) Permalink
yeah judging from shakey, that's neil's MO -- find these nutty characters and feed off of them. neil might not actually be the weirdest guy in the world, but he gets a certain energy from weirdos.
― tylerw, Tuesday, 8 May 2012 15:49 (1 year ago) Permalink
would just like to say that Stringman is such a great song
― Roger Barfing (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 8 May 2012 15:55 (1 year ago) Permalink
yeah it is a beaut
― tylerw, Tuesday, 8 May 2012 15:57 (1 year ago) Permalink
I thought it was odd that, on the memo, it's credited as a Neil Young & Crazy Horse album even though the band only plays on 4 out of 12 tracks (and Poncho shows up on a 5th).
Then again, they're only on 4 of 9 tracks on Rust Never Sleeps.
― Hideous Lump, Thursday, 10 May 2012 03:07 (1 year ago) Permalink
coming round the mountain! http://www.npr.org/blogs/allsongs/2012/05/11/152486586/song-premiere-neil-young-sets-americana-on-fire
― tylerw, Friday, 11 May 2012 19:37 (1 year ago) Permalink
damn this sounds good
― Bandersnatch Cumberbund (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 11 May 2012 19:49 (1 year ago) Permalink
guitars bein' mangled!
― tylerw, Friday, 11 May 2012 19:50 (1 year ago) Permalink
is he singing "she'll lead us to portal when she comes"? or am i mis-hearing that.
― tylerw, Friday, 11 May 2012 19:51 (1 year ago) Permalink
yeah it sounds like "she'll take us to the portals when she comes"....weird...that can't be in the original verses can it? maybe he's doing some weird sci-fi after the gold rush thing
man this fucking rocks
― Bandersnatch Cumberbund (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 11 May 2012 20:00 (1 year ago) Permalink
aaaah yeah that's the fucking ticket man.....loving this.
― Bandersnatch Cumberbund (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 11 May 2012 20:06 (1 year ago) Permalink
there's a point in every neil solo where he slides up from the low register to higher on the neck and that part always rules
portal is in the lyrics of the original spiritual , it's about the second coming of christ, i guess the portal leads you to the rapture
― mizzell, Friday, 11 May 2012 20:42 (1 year ago) Permalink
cool, didn't know that
― Bandersnatch Cumberbund (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 11 May 2012 20:47 (1 year ago) Permalink
hearing chops and slices of this song, really wishin my browser would play it. >:-[
― arby's, Friday, 11 May 2012 20:57 (1 year ago) Permalink
so good
― flopson, Friday, 11 May 2012 20:59 (1 year ago) Permalink
holy shit is this good
― cwkiii, Saturday, 12 May 2012 04:23 (1 year ago) Permalink
Apparently this video was rejected by Neil's record label:
― agnosy, Friday, 18 May 2012 13:11 (1 year ago) Permalink
omg. stressful! love that these songs all sound like "fuckin' up" basically. and first takes.
― tylerw, Friday, 18 May 2012 15:26 (1 year ago) Permalink
blurgh, tix go on sale for neil & crazy horse at red rocks right now, but decent seats are well over $100. no way i can actually pay that amount.
― tylerw, Friday, 18 May 2012 16:05 (1 year ago) Permalink
Dude this is ”bad” advice, but...credit card
― Bandersnatch Cumberbund (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 18 May 2012 16:09 (1 year ago) Permalink
oh i can *afford* it w/o going into the poor house, i just have this incredible aversion to paying more than like $40 for concerts. The shitty seats are $65!
― tylerw, Friday, 18 May 2012 16:11 (1 year ago) Permalink
Yeah I guess not living there I have a way overblown idea of how amazing red rocks would be, mostly because of seeing that u2 video as a kid
― Bandersnatch Cumberbund (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 18 May 2012 16:14 (1 year ago) Permalink
eh, if you're back far enough, the sound can be pretty terrible.
― tylerw, Friday, 18 May 2012 16:15 (1 year ago) Permalink
o_0 at that video. getting more and more excited for this record!
― mizzell, Saturday, 19 May 2012 17:52 (1 year ago) Permalink
This is going to be the best kids record ever.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 19 May 2012 18:11 (1 year ago) Permalink
yeahhhh. seriously, all of these songs are sounding pretty great.
― tylerw, Saturday, 19 May 2012 18:42 (1 year ago) Permalink
Stoned at a dinner party last Saturday, I wandered into the living room where Sirius was playing. It took me a couple minutes to realize it was Neil doing "Oh Susanna."
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 19 May 2012 20:59 (1 year ago) Permalink
It's weird, his website lists a bunch of tour dates, but only a handful show the location...and some are a month apart. But I'm definitely gonna try to catch him if he gets within driving distance.
― Tarfumes The Escape Goat, Saturday, 19 May 2012 22:05 (1 year ago) Permalink
Those aren't tour dates, they are the dates of full moons. Neil has a thing about full moons.
― cwkiii, Monday, 21 May 2012 03:58 (1 year ago) Permalink
Tarfumes, you must be new to Neil's website.
a couple years back the "tour" link was a picture of the LINK/VOLT car, where the 'rivets' were meant to represent the tour dates. Lets just say that the bullet points on his website don't necessarily ever get filled in.
He's real coy about that shit.
Anyway, he always does this shit. Yeah, it's maddening
― Stormy Davis, Monday, 21 May 2012 04:21 (1 year ago) Permalink
Lots of stuff here, mainly live, but check the info links for each dl: also incl unreleased albums etc. Neil-wise: the Trans Band and many other nice things http://www.ousterhout.net/music-menu.html
― dow, Monday, 21 May 2012 16:36 (1 year ago) Permalink
Indeed I am. And yeah, maddening is the word for it.
― Tarfumes The Escape Goat, Monday, 21 May 2012 16:51 (1 year ago) Permalink
jesus christ, this americana stuff is great
― Whiney vs. (BradNelson), Monday, 21 May 2012 19:08 (1 year ago) Permalink
― tylerw, Friday, 25 May 2012 15:26 (11 months ago) Permalink
ok that one might not be one of the highlights, still not bad
― wack nerd zinging in the dead of night (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 25 May 2012 16:34 (11 months ago) Permalink
yeah, my least fave so far, but the guitar does sound pretty sweet.
― tylerw, Friday, 25 May 2012 16:35 (11 months ago) Permalink
I love Neil Young and I love most of this album but I don't know how anyone can even half-heartedly defend this steaming turd of a tune.
― Get wolves (DL), Friday, 25 May 2012 17:40 (11 months ago) Permalink
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 25 May 2012 18:17 (11 months ago) Permalink
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/album-premiere-neil-young-and-crazy-horse-americana-20120528
― mizzell, Monday, 28 May 2012 17:08 (11 months ago) Permalink
This is really fun, but I wish he had just brought in new songs. The fact that it is old folk songs is exactly what a) makes it a novelty and b) will keep me from listening to it more than once or twice.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 28 May 2012 18:11 (11 months ago) Permalink
Though, who knows, you know? "Tom Dula" is pretty awesome.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 28 May 2012 18:16 (11 months ago) Permalink
OK, this version of "Get a Job" - what the hell is that doing here? - is taking the piss terrible.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 28 May 2012 18:22 (11 months ago) Permalink
Does not exceed my expectations of the stylistic vehicle/approach, but gets its paws purty far under the hood. Might wanta fast fwd halfway through the 8-minute "Tom Dula," and a couple others get a little bogged down in the middle (also expected, of apparently live-in-the-studio [except maybe the deft backing vocals] stomping grooves with gnarly solos), but overall, damn good. No prob atall with "God Save The Queen", especially as closer--he might be singing to an American queen--esp with sweet little surprise slipped in towards the end. Good after "This Land," with verses I do not recall singing in Cold War grade school, and "God Save," at least this version, has "Con-found their politics, frustrate their e-vil tricks," amen! A very satisfying first listen, at the very least ("Get a Job" is the scariest ol' folk song!)
― dow, Monday, 28 May 2012 19:27 (11 months ago) Permalink
loooooving this Tom Dula.
― tylerw, Tuesday, 29 May 2012 15:18 (11 months ago) Permalink
40-minute film posted over at http://neilyoung.com (incorporating all the videos previously posted). typically goofy.
― tylerw, Wednesday, 30 May 2012 19:59 (11 months ago) Permalink
really enjoying this album! maybe more than any of the neil albums in the past decade or so. get a job is the outlier here, but it's got to be some kind of nod to crazy horse's origins as a vocal group. album is not a masterpiece, but it's a lot of fun.
― tylerw, Tuesday, 5 June 2012 17:24 (11 months ago) Permalink
I'm on the opposite end of the spectrum. I find this album a massive chore to listen to; I want to skip to the end of each track about half way through.
However, I think this material will be a blast live. Just don't make me listen to the record again.
― EZ Snappin, Tuesday, 5 June 2012 17:37 (11 months ago) Permalink