Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Americana

Tarfumes, you must be new to Neil's website.

Indeed I am. And yeah, maddening is the word for it.

jesus christ, this americana stuff is great

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSpnfUx_o3E

ok that one might not be one of the highlights, still not bad

yeah, my least fave so far, but the guitar does sound pretty sweet.

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.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KH-DO3FgROI

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/album-premiere-neil-young-and-crazy-horse-americana-20120528

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.

Though, who knows, you know? "Tom Dula" is pretty awesome.

OK, this version of "Get a Job" - what the hell is that doing here? - is taking the piss terrible.

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!)

loooooving this Tom Dula.

40-minute film posted over at http://neilyoung.com (incorporating all the videos previously posted). typically goofy.

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.

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.

I hope they play it in its entirety when they tour this fall.

No I don't.

While I welcome the return of the Horse, this is pretty much a one-listen novelty for me. I would have been happy with one or two of these tracks dropped in the middle of a proper album, sort of the way "Blowin' in the WInd" pops up in "Weld," but this thing? Nah. I'd sooner put on "Living with War" again.

(And I don't want to listen to "LIving with War," either)

dunno, guess it's pushing the right crazy horse buttons for me.

How were you on the electric car record? (xpost)

Not that OK in it, but this is better than that. Guy always has a track or two I dig, but this album is pretty half-assed by design in a weird way. Would have had more symbolic weight if he had given it away on his website.

josh did you ever listen to the re-release of living with war that didn't have the choir?

No, actually. That was another one just sort of spat out after the fact that I totally would have listened to were it not yet another $18 Neil Young CD on the shelves. Of all the acts you'd think would be operating outside the major label system, you'd totally think it would be Neil Young, but from his longtime relationship with Warners to his premature embrace of premium, proprietary formats to that fucking boxed set, habits like releasing an album twice in the span of months is ironically one of the reasons I stopped buying CDs!

Is the "War" re-release good? Probably!

Maybe he can release this one again in six months, comprising the second takes of all these songs.

Fans purchasing their concert tickets online will receive a copy of the brand new CD - AMERICANA, available in stores Tuesday, June 5th. Tickets for Neil Young & Crazy Horse will go on sale starting June 8th in select markets at Ticketmaster.com and LiveNation.com. General admission floor tickets available in all markets with the exception of Los Angeles.

I wonder if the tour tickets will be real expensive as he has done in the recent past?

yes, they are expensive. cheapest tix for the red rocks shows (in the nosebleeds) are $65. Best seats are over $200.

tbh, i don't know if people consider $65 "expensive" these days, but i have a hard time shelling out that much for shows. still might end up going, i haven't decided.

Springsteen tix this current tour are $45 to $105, give or take. And there are 15 people in his band.

Maybe he can release this one again in six months, comprising the second takes of all these songs.

haha what second takes

Springsteen tix this current tour are $45 to $105, give or take. And there are 15 people in his band.

you're counting wife Patty and her acoustic guitar/tambourine twice.

She's home with the kids! That's why they could shave so much off the ticket price.

i think the living with war reissue is worth hearing at least....it's on spotify

Ugh. Closest he's getting to me is a 3-hour drive. Also, I only go to concerts during a full moon.

http://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2012/05/30/neil-young-cd-10-neil-young-lp-42/

I'm really not sure what LP is worth $42, but not this one.

Yeah, new Neil vinyl is crazy expensive.

man the highs of this are awesome but the bad shit...yikes, just listened to get a job and this land is your land

Why couldn't he have just put out an album of covers of things like, I dunno, "Wooly Bully" and "Louie Louie?" He could have still called it "Americana."

Because then he wouldn't be the halfway batshit Neil we all know and love.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDTZLsscFz8

he already did!

Meh, save it for the Ramones. I wanna hear Crazy Horse do one-take covers of caveman rock.

that is but one of the 15 versions of that song i listened to yesterday, not the best one really

lol that version is pretty hilarious. i like the idea of americana being everybody's rockin': the phantom menace.

this is way better than everybody's rockin'!

that or old ways are my for-real least favorite neil albums

yeah both of those are pretty bad.
so, I'd say odds are 50/50 that Neil announces another album w/ Crazy Horse in the next couple weeks.

didnt' he already say there was another one?

did he? i'm getting confused.

It's Mexicana, where he and the Horse play banda tunes.

would listen the shit out of a Neil narcocorrido cover