Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Americana

or neil won't even release these songs.

^yep

Ha.

lol at first i misread "psychedelic pill" as "psychedelic PHIL"

imagining like neil invented a "towlie" style kids cartoon mascot for peyote

neil doing unspeakable things to his guitar on fuckin up

lol ok, psychedelic pill is definitely the weak link of the new songs.

Man, some of these new songs are awesome. "Walk Like a Giant" ... goosebumps!

I wonder what it must be like to be Neil Young and know that you can get away with writing two chord songs that last 25 minutes and that people will think it's awesome because it sounds like Neil Young? Seems like a terrible responsibility, but the dude has proven he knows just when to step up.

BITCHES QUIT TALKING DURING RAMADA INN

on my third listen of "walk like a giant" -- so great!

Jesus, he opens with "Love and Only Love"?! I think I might regret missing this tour.

since this is the americana thread, here's the only song he played from it http://www.bigozine2.com/TRKS6/NY2morrison/NY2morrison208.mp3
jesus chariot. pretty great -- hope he brings at least a few more to the stage for future gigs. but it seems like he's moving on to the next album already!

As well he should, man. Nothing on "Americana" is close to "Walk Like a Giant," which I'm starting to think of as one of his best songs, ever.

Comparisons are the barnacles of ILX. Americana is a different deal, and I'm sold American on it from the get-go! Though could def live without "Tom Dula" and maybe "Gallows Pole."

"Gallows Pole" was a mild disappointment for me; a bit too jaunty for the Horse. The rest of Americana is ace, though.

"Giant" is fucking insane, especially the breakdown. And the display on my iPod abbreviates the artist name to "Neil Young & Crazy Ho..."

Indeedio, glad for that too-- and weren't they gonna put out another album this year?

That's sort of my point (xposty): like "Americana" or not, there's not a single song on there I would want taking up a fraction of the time that "Walk like a Giant" takes up.

no meters, no worry. But speaking of time Here he is or was at that Outside Lands (awkward name but it is outside, in Golden Gate Park)
from RStone:
By the time Young did take the stage, with his band Crazy Horse, the infamous San Francisco fog had enveloped the main field, creating an eerie backdrop for what turned out to be a spooky feedback jam-packed session. The first song alone, "Love and Only Love," stretched past the 17-minute mark with multiple jams between verses. Midway through the set, Young played a couple of songs straightforward solo on his acoustic – "The Needle and the Damage Done" and "Twisted Road" – before getting his ya ya's out, back on the electric, including a wild improvisational romp through "Fucking Up."

Young may not have performed any actual songs from his latest album, Americana, but the point of his set was not to promote product so much as to play music of the moment, in the moment, like so many great bands have done in Golden Gate Park before. Snubbing convention and even punking the audience, Young introduced one number by saying he wrote it that very morning and that it "sounds like another, but I can’t remember which one it is." He then launched into "Cinnamon Girl" from 1969's Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere. might be more info on the site, but I gotta go

sounds like another, but I can’t remember which one it is.

LOVE

he says the same thing during one of the red rocks shows -- and then plays "psychedelic pill". which does sound like another song, but, like Neil, I can't quite place which one.

Something off Le Noise, I believe. And another Le Noise song borrows from "Like An Inca." Dude's a regular Ray Davies, with the self-plundering.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEPPuyA3GOs

"It's all one song!"

"Psychedelic Pill" = Le Noise's "Sign Of Love." Exact same riff.

ah, you are correct. thought it was something older, but no!

Wow, "Walk Like A Giant" really is good. Definitely bodes well. Wasn't that excited for "Americana" but am hepped up now.

And another Le Noise song borrows from "Like An Inca."

It's actually the other way around: "Hitchhiker" came first and "Like An Inca" borrowed from it.

Weird, didn't know that. I've been digging into his 80s stuff lately, and his stockpiling tendencies/choices are kind of bewildering (e.g., releasing something like "T-Bone" in favor of, say, "Country Home").

I know I am really late, but..

It'd be awesome if his next album was called "Canadiana," and included covers of, like, Barenaked Ladies, Rush, Leonard Cohen and BTO.

― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, April 12, 2012 4:05 PM (4 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hymns_of_the_49th_Parallel

no barenaked ladies, no credibility. or are they the backing band? [jk! that album is quite good imo]

daaaamn now that I see these setlists I might have to get tickets to one of the Brooklyn shows

er one of the new york shows I mean. one at MSG and one at the new Barclays Center in BK.

BNL wrote no one's favourite Canadian songs when we've so much else to choose from ;)

might be seeing one of the NY shows so I'm still debating whether to hear these previews or let new Neil hit me live in person the way he'd like it.

I don't think I'll listen to the bootlegs but before I would consider getting tix I had to see that the setlists weren't 90% Americana ...

You know, dumb question, but I've always wondered why "Hey Hey My My" namechecks Johnny Rotten and not Sid Vicious, when the latter (rhyme scheme aside) makes more thematic sense. Johnny Rotten never burned out or faded away, and I sometimes wonder if Neil realized he got the wrong guy and just thought, hey, it's a great song so fuck it.

if wiki is correct sid hadn't died yet when the album was recorded

plus i get the sense neil didn't even *know* that much about the pistols, he just felt something in the wind and wrote about it

Yeah, isn't the track about Elvis, really?

So it sounds like Ralph Molina is using Hot Rods exclusively, instead of sticks. Don't really see it as an aesthetic choice...maybe he's protecting his hearing?

new album according to sampedro, will be called "Psychedelic Pill"
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/inside-neil-young-and-crazy-horses-new-album-and-tour-20120814

Don't really see it as an aesthetic choice...maybe he's protecting his hearing?

Too little, too late, dude. You're in Crazy Horse!

i'm so in love with the 2nd night of the colorado bootlegs

someone just sent me a 35 minute mix of all the feedback jams at the end of Walk Like A Giant entitled Arc 2012. Noise album of the year?

Without a doubt. The "Giant" jams make Fushitsusha sound like the Magnetic Fields.

Let me be the upmteenth person to note that the noise-jam ending of "Walk Like a Giant" is completely awesome.

kind of sounds like they're slaughtering a whale

Dude, which "Walk Like A Giant" has this slaughtered whale moment, wanna listen! I guess I will listen to all of it, glowing recs, but I don't think the version I listened to reached quite those heights.

Well, there's a hair of hyperbole at work here. We're not really talking Fushitsusha (I hope). It sounds more like, dunno, Masaki Batoh. Or Neil Young.

ok judge for yourself -- here's Arc 2012: http://doomandgloomfromthetomb.tumblr.com/post/29629148690/arc-2012-for-nearly-two-decades-now-fans-have

Brilliant. Thanks for posting that!

I should admit that I've totally come around to "Americana" and now sort of view it as the closest we're going to come to a whole album of stuff like the "Farmer John" cover. As major an album as minor albums get.