said it before and I’ll say it again- if you haven’t heard the “sample and hold” castoff from his mtv unplugged session yr missing out
― Western® with Bacon Flavor, Friday, 26 March 2021 01:05 (three years ago) link
sample and hold is sick, industrial
― brimstead, Friday, 26 March 2021 02:30 (three years ago) link
satisfaction guaranteed
― brimstead, Friday, 26 March 2021 02:31 (three years ago) link
the archives release i want the most is the "real" trans - the all synth album that was eventually turned into the existing trans where the more traditional rock songs were taken from the scrapped 82 album "johnny's island"
neil is releasing johnny's island, i hope that clears the way for the complete trans.
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/neil-young-johnnys-island-1121757/
it's supposed to contain my most desired neil unreleased track, an all-synth version of "razor love" which ended up on silver & gold, this would sound so amazing w/sequencers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OKNCAQQaNP8
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 26 March 2021 16:13 (three years ago) link
omg want
― I like signing up to dead sites (sleeve), Friday, 26 March 2021 16:16 (three years ago) link
also interestingly, on some of the first pressing of trans there was a song "if you got love" that was cut so late in the process that it's actually on the back cover tracklist, that song has never been heard either as far as i know
https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/1779/8843/products/trans3_1024x1024.jpg
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 26 March 2021 16:20 (three years ago) link
I read about "Razor Love" in Shakey, but I couldn't find the original
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 26 March 2021 16:22 (three years ago) link
yeah I don't think it's ever surfaced, tyler would know for sure but i've never seen anything
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 26 March 2021 16:23 (three years ago) link
assuming if you got love went all the way through mastering if it was listed on the cover art
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 26 March 2021 16:24 (three years ago) link
I kind of prefer the shorter version of "Sample and Hold" to the 8-minute CD version, would be good to have both easily available.
― a sad robot dancing alone in the corner of a suburban disco (Matt #2), Friday, 26 March 2021 16:30 (three years ago) link
I first knew sample and hold and transformer man via the lucky thirteen comp
― brimstead, Friday, 26 March 2021 16:32 (three years ago) link
me too! that was a cool comp back in the day esp when that era was largely unknown (to me at least)
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 26 March 2021 16:33 (three years ago) link
it's amazing that the catchy, accessible, occasionally moving (now unintentionally retrofurist) electronic stuff is what people took issue with on this album considering how dire the more traditional stuff is (the first track, my god). if had been all synth based it would be great rather than pretty good
― nothing (Left), Friday, 26 March 2021 17:29 (three years ago) link
Been saying the same for years. As I understand it, the electronic stuff was recorded first but I don't think there was enough of it for an entire album.
― Duncan Disorderly (Tom D.), Friday, 26 March 2021 17:39 (three years ago) link
... typographic mistake. The album is actually called TRAINS
― StanM, Friday, 26 March 2021 17:42 (three years ago) link
i don't think the trad stuff is that bad, but it's obvious the real meat of the album is the trans-ass trans tracks
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Friday, 26 March 2021 17:45 (three years ago) link
Like An Inca is great, the rest of the non-electronic tracks not so much
― a sad robot dancing alone in the corner of a suburban disco (Matt #2), Friday, 26 March 2021 17:52 (three years ago) link
we know you'll be satisfiedwhen you energize
― nobody like my rap (One Eye Open), Friday, 26 March 2021 17:57 (three years ago) link
As stated, the opening track is terrible.
― Duncan Disorderly (Tom D.), Friday, 26 March 2021 18:03 (three years ago) link
"Hold On to Your Love" is nice though, if a bit wet.
― Duncan Disorderly (Tom D.), Friday, 26 March 2021 18:04 (three years ago) link
because i love thematically messy albums, i have to say that —while i love trans quite a lot and consider it one of the last hurrahs of truly classic neil— it could be improved by adding 'wanderin' from everybody's rockin' because why the hell not.
― Totally different head. Totally. (Austin), Friday, 26 March 2021 18:10 (three years ago) link
the wiki for trans says "After a year of work, the album was mixed in a hurry because Young was eager to go out on tour (documented in the home video Neil Young in Berlin), and a last-minute change in the running order is evident in the inclusion of a song called "If You Got Love" in the track listing and lyric sheet, even though it is not on the album.[3] Portions of several tracks appeared in Young's 1982 feature-length comedy film Human Highway.[11]"
i've never seen human highway, so i'm not sure if this means that portions of songs that were ON trans were featured in human highway or if some of the cut songs were?
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 26 March 2021 18:16 (three years ago) link
I had that Berlin vhs, it’s great - don’t know what happened to it ☹️
― jammy mcnullity (wins), Friday, 26 March 2021 18:25 (three years ago) link
Nils Lofgren is wonderfully hamming it up in that Berlin performance iirc
― Western® with Bacon Flavor, Friday, 26 March 2021 18:37 (three years ago) link
that i know is supposed to be re-released
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 26 March 2021 18:40 (three years ago) link
I rented it from Netflix in the mid '00s.
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 26 March 2021 18:42 (three years ago) link
ha me too. nils' interpretive dancing is unforgettable
― nobody like my rap (One Eye Open), Friday, 26 March 2021 18:49 (three years ago) link
Ditto!
― Duncan Disorderly (Tom D.), Friday, 26 March 2021 18:54 (three years ago) link
if you got love has been bootlegged for ages — kind of a Santana groove meets "Flying On The Ground Is Wrong" haha.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2xasVHiL6s
The synth "Razor Love" has never shown up as far as I know.
― tylerw, Friday, 26 March 2021 21:28 (three years ago) link
I'm pretty sure the Human Highway film doesn't contain any unreleased Neil songs.
― Halfway there but for you, Friday, 26 March 2021 21:42 (three years ago) link
i find this a middling album because it's not cohesive for the reasons as noted by a bunch of people above. although i actually don't mind "a little thing call love" and I love "hold on to your love"
― 《Myst1kOblivi0n》 (jim in vancouver), Friday, 26 March 2021 21:50 (three years ago) link
Didn't Human Highway have the Devo/Neil synth version of Hey Hey My My?
― brutalism is a piss-stained multistory car park in stockport (Matt #2), Friday, 26 March 2021 21:51 (three years ago) link
I'd consider that a Devo cover with Neil guesting, not an unreleased song?
― Halfway there but for you, Friday, 26 March 2021 21:54 (three years ago) link