Neil Young's "Ditch Trilogy" Poll

x-post Yes, you're right. Chrome Dreams it is. I think it has a version of Homegrown on it, hence the confusion.

Time Fades Away is a beautiful artifact. I picked up a VG+ copy for £10 around five years ago, complete with the lyric poster. It doesn't seem to be so highly prized, whereas, before the CD reissue, OTB would fetch around £50. Some great songs too - the Bridge is lovely and Don't Be Denied is one of my favourites.

Feelin left out on all the "second side of OTB" talk. Much as I love the record, I could totally take or leave those last two tracks. I understand that's not a popular opinion tho.

could anyone help a dude find the manchester 73 live boot, as a cursory search of the interwebs has yet to turn up the necessary mp3s

voted Tonight's the Night

as much as i do like most of time fades away, i would really fail to understand someone voting for it over the other two...it's just fundamentally not as good IMO.

Yeah, Time Fades Away is great, it just doesn't have as strong songs as the other two. It's obviously got an incredible vibe, and plenty of wonderful stuff, but it's not a masterpiece like TNT and OTB.

Stevie, if no one's gotten in touch with you, I can probably upload that Manchester show at some point ...

Pls upload it somewhere I can get it too thx!!!

Lemme just wrap up Jazz Week on Doom & Gloom and I'll put it up there ...

much appreciated tyler, thanx!

d&g rules btw, basically everything is some shit I love

yeah love the shit outta yer blog, man.

no doubt.

btw tyler, i KNOW i have that damn jayhawks CDR and i WILL find it but we are doing some work on the house and everything is in total disarray.

This is off topic but Tyler I just listened to your upload of Neil's SNL performance of 'Rockin In The Free World' and it gave me goose bumps all over my body. I remember watching this when it aired originally and it was easily the least genial performance of anything I've ever seen on TV. I remember NY broke at least half the strings on his instrument by the end. Thanks for including it in your In The 80s comp!

tonight's the night's my favorite album by him, so that. side 2 is some of the funniest shit ever on record. when his voice cracks in "tired eyes" i still crack up after all these years

wait which CDR? i've got some jayhawk live show (showbox in seattle) of unknown etiology

thanks for the kind words, ILM-ers. Plenty more Neil Young to come, fear not! After the Manchester show, I'll get around to doing an overview of my fave Neil bootlegs from 1976 ...

Neil's SNL performance of 'Rockin In The Free World'

his solo performance of "harvest moon" on SNL was really awesome too

yeah those SNL things are nice. to bring it back on topic, though, i wonder if there's any footage of the Tonight's the Night tour in Neil's archives? Would love to see that sleazy band in action. I think in Shakey, it says that there isn't much ...

Yeah, dying for some performance footage of the Tonight's the Night tour in the UK. Or maybe just audio, even. Will check in to the DoomGloomTomb blog.

gbx i have a really good boot of the hard to find vinyl only first jayhawks album on bunkhouse record that a friend of mine had done at a friend's recording studio through the board....lost highway was gonna reissue it on CD but never did

whoah that sounds cool

tonight's the night is some serious middle of the night, driving down country roads smoking cigarettes kinda music.

i dig the other two but it's not even close imo

middle of the night, driving down country roads smoking cigarettes kinda music.

― jØrdån (omar little), Wednesday, December 2, 2009 12:46 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

this is basically my favorite kind of music

would love to see various "the rough guide to the ditch trilogy" track listings here -- condense it down to the most hair-raising 65 minutes or whatever

someone do that plz and ysi thx

(i've only got On The Beach!)

this would be an inneresting poll

1. "On the Beach" – 6:59
2. "Motion Pictures" – 4:23
3. "Ambulance Blues" – 8:56

I'd be down for doing a ditch mix

yeah, do that

Since it's out of print and Neil refuses to release it on CD: http://musicartstyle.blogspot.com/2009/11/neil-young-time-fades-away-1973.html

While Time Fades Away is "lesser" than the others, it is totally worth hearing and it seems ridiculous that Neil keeps it out of print. I've always thought that maybe it's just a little too "personal" or something.

Like he just wants the memories connected to those songs to fade away.

if that were true he wouldn't have gone to the trouble of preparing an HDCD release

prolly more related to sound quality issues

like he wants that "time" to also fade away

tho the scrapped HDCD release sounded just fine

who knows

-\(O_o)/-

^ emoticon for head-being-crushed-by-neil's-weird-decisions

The official reason for no CD release of TFA is both sound quality and performance--Neil has said he doesn't like either.

Yeah, that's definitely what he said recently ... Still weird though -- I'm assuming that he is the one who put the album together and wanted it released in the first place. I'm sure that the record company would've loved a more conventional live album from him at that point, but Time Fades Away is not that! It's just weird that you can go on to Amazon and order 'Everybody's Rocking" but can't get "Time Fades Away."

I guess in a recent interview, he said he was going to "re-create" TFA on the Archives using different performances. Whatevs!

He won't, though.

well it'd be truly nuts if he just skipped that tour for the next archives ... it is wild, though -- he could have a 10-disc box just covering 73-74. So much activity -- TFA, TTN, OTB, Homegrown, CSNY ... The mind boggles. It'll probably be terribly disappointing .... :(

i've been listening to TFA cos of this thread and i realised that i always imagine these songs as being recorded at huge outdoor festivals, but they weren't, were they? not sure if it's the sound of the thing or the ~~vibe~~ that makes me think of wide open spaces.

yo - i just put up the three "ditch trilogy" bootlegs mentioned above over at http://doomandgloomfromthetomb.tumblr.com/ Enjoy!

you star - thank tyler

ditch mix coming soon

awesome!!!

i've been listening to TFA cos of this thread and i realised that i always imagine these songs as being recorded at huge outdoor festivals, but they weren't, were they? not sure if it's the sound of the thing or the ~~vibe~~ that makes me think of wide open spaces.

― jabba hands, Thursday, December 3, 2009 4:13 AM (6 days ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

not big outdoor shows but they were recorded at live shows, digitally i think which neil said was one of the reasons it hasn't been reissues which is a lie probably

digital wouldn't even exist then, would it? a lot of the album was recorded in the winter of 1973, Jan.-Feb ... I have a theory that the reason the tour was such a bummer is that they were traveling through the midwest/Canada in the middle of winter!

you haven't heard of the compufuck?