Search and destroy: Neil Young

thanks tyler! i added your blog to my reader at some point but then i stopped checking it, so i am always glad when you repost stuff.

cool. there's some key stuff on this comp, some of it more readily available than others, but all in all it's pretty solid. even all the CSNY 74 songs are great. at that point he could write a total throwaway like "hawaiian sunrise" and it would still turn out amazing.

man, I love "Heavy Love" and "Cocaine Eyes."

had no idea White Line was such an old song!

yeah, so many of those ragged glory tunes are old. here's the crazy horse version of white line from 75 or 76
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aaoi1_P8qY8

holy shit this is awesome tyler

basically at this point, i want neil to release a 10-disc archives for every year from 1973-1978. he could totally do it.

I think YOU should do it

i would if i had access to the tapes! who can give me access?!

Thanks for posting this! Can't wait to dig in.

crazy that it's just scratching the surface of unreleased material from that period. bring on archives II!!!!

I share your optimism, but we all know Neil well enough to know that "Archives II" ≠ "unreleased material."

hee hee, well, yeah, but this next volume really is going to have to include a lot of unreleased stuff. unless neil just hates us all.

i would if i had access to the tapes! who can give me access?!

heh... Neil moved his operation out of the studio my buddy was working at. to a studio around the corner from my house lol.

oh man this Home on the Range version

Do you think acts like Neil, Prince and the prolific like have it in their wills or whatever just what to do with what's in their vaults after they die?

I'd bet yes with those particular examples

Prince especially, since he doesn't have any children

i mean, prince will definitely be buried with his master tapes.
don't know about neil, i'm sure there's a fairly elaborate plan for all of that.

Stevie Wonder has a clause in his contract that all unreleased material is to be destroyed when he dies.

(all of his unreleased material, that is)

for real? crazy.

A ton of Young's albums on his MySpace. Not every track on each album, but most are complete (I think). 125 tracks from Archives, 35 from Decades, and a lot of original albums, so some duplication, but not too much (plus studio vs live presentations of Greendale etc)

okay that news about stevie is pretty depressing

little (or big, i guess) addendum to that comp of unreleased tunes i made: http://bigozine2.com/roio/?p=919
Road Of Plenty: The Unreleased Songs (1966-2010 & Live Rarities 1969-1984) [The Godfather Box, 6CD]
one or two things that i missed for my 70s comp -- "homefires" and "lady wingshot", though i think the recording quality on both is pretty dire. also some tunes that were written in the 70s but not performed until much later. "try" is particularly good, i think that's an outtake from "homegrown". they seem to have left out "pushed it over the end" which is a major miss!

http://neilyoungnews.thrasherswheat.org/2012/01/massive-news-new-crazy-horseneil-young.html

I tried and tried to like him...never really clicked until I got Tonight's The Night. Still haven't found On The Beach on vinyl...

http://devonrecordclub.wordpress.com/2012/10/24/neil-young-tonights-the-night-round-38-toms-selection/

A great, great record in my opinion.

Waging Heavy Peace vs. Shakey vs. Harvest 33 1/3. Which do I read? Both? None (spend the money at the Jamba Juice instead)?

shakey

Shakey

sufjan didn't you say you live in santa barbara? why would you go to jamba juice

Shakey!

shakey

neil does get in a dig against mcdonough in waging heavy peace -- something like "never hire some sweaty hack to write a book about you, he'll ask you questions for years and years."

Shakey is the perfect bathroom book.

neil does get in a dig against mcdonough in waging heavy peace -- something like "never hire some sweaty hack to write a book about you, he'll ask you questions for years and years."

― tylerw, Wednesday, October 24, 2012 4:39 PM (19 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol

tbh though even though mcdonough wrote the book, towards the mid-90s you get the vibe that he'd sort of become obsessed w/neil and was probably a borderline stalker

I hate the nineties too but McDo's conservativeness makes him surly.

the recent paul nelson bio/anthology talks about how he was hired to do a neil bio in the early 80s, but he couldn't deliver for various reasons. neil may have dodged a bullet -- if anything, Nelson was even more obsessive than mcdonough.

I guess Neil has his reasons, but tbh Shakey probably did more to keep his legend alive in the 2000s than any of his new albums could achieve.

it certainly works as an extended advertisement for the archives series.

Thanks, will go with Shakey first. iatee, I've never had a jamba juice. I just said jamba juice b/c we have one by the bookstore on campus. If I wanted a smoothie, I would go to Blenders In the Grass. My money is more likely to go to the Warbler, Salzer's, or Amoeba though honestly.

you should never have a jamba juice ftr but yeah blenders rules is all I was trying to say

i think shakey is pretty fantastic up through the early 80s

i kind of hope that someday there'll be a complete transcript of all those mcdonough/neil interviews that are interspersed throughout the book. pretty hilarious stuff.

There's link on one of the other Neil threads to an interview w/McDonough wherein he mentions a scrapped plan to put out a different edit of the book every couple years--a Springfield version, CSNY, Crazy Horse, TransBand etc.

Shakey is the perfect bathroom book.

Shakey is the perfect rock biog.

https://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn1/923245_10151409797990878_1615056798_n.jpg

Neil made a record @ Jack White's...will be released on Archives V, due in 3045.

So you put $0.35 in and animatronic Neil Young comes out of the booth and hands you a fortune from inside his guitar?

lmao, that was my precise thought LL

imagine a neil young instrumental record - just a single pair of bongos

My mate called me up and offered me his spare ticket to go see Young in two weeks' time. I jumped at the chance and decided to revisit his work.

Neil's early run is pretty much unimpeachable; Everybody Knows This is Nowhere is, on most days, my favourite album by him, but everything up to Rust Never Sleeps is at best classic, at worst still worth investing your time and money.

I first listened to Harvest when I picked it up from the local HMV in the last week of my first year of uni. The album's mood reflected how I was feeling, not having had the greatest of times so far. It still surprises me that Harvest was the best selling album of 1972 in America; it's a pretty down set of songs, even if the music masks it somewhat.

I think his early 90s albums aren't really given the consideration they deserve; Ragged Glory and Harvest Moon are v. good at least (not listened to many of the others, but recommendations are always appreciated).

really loved Sleeps With Angels and think his Pearl Jam collabs have a lot of charm too

just ordered shakey based on the posts above. i only really dabble with rock i suppose, but in recent years i've got hugely into neil young.