Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Psychedelic Pill, Oct. 2012

Does the 30-minute jam in the original Americana teaser video have a name?

yes, Horse Back

Disc: 1
1. Driftin Back
2. Psychedelic Pill
3. Ramada Inn
4. Born In Ontario

Disc: 2
1. Twisted Road
2. She's Always Dancing
3. For The Love Of Man
4. Walk Like A Giant
5. Psychedelic Pill (Bonus Track Alternate Mix)

hey I was born in Ontario too! (still here btw)

Vinyl edition is close to $90. I can only assume this is because he can't stand the sound of vinyl, and would much rather people heard his music digitally.

haha, yikes. for that much dough, i'd want neil to hand deliver the album to me. still! an exciting october -- this album and Waging Heavy Peace, the surely to be somewhat disappointing memoir.

Yeah, I don't have massive hopes for Waging Heavy Peace. I wouldn't be surprised if more space was devoted to his train collection than to Tonight's The Night.

...or just arcane details linking the two: "Danny Whitten gave me this scale model of a post office...this H/O scale van is just like Bruce Berry's...David Briggs poured beer on this control box...shorted out the whole building...innaresting."

irl lol

haaa

Watching YouTube footage of "Walk Like a Giant" right now and will absolutely 100% buy this album if it sounds half as good as this. This sounds like it could be his best album since Ragged Glory.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6L7c1Qo22es

Man fuck that vinyl pricing :-(

yeah but dude what if the Bonus Track Alternate Mix is a 25+ minute Trans jammmmmm

most anticipated LP of the year. that youtube sounds great.

in case anyone missed this important thing http://doomandgloomfromthetomb.tumblr.com/post/29629148690/arc-2012-for-nearly-two-decades-now-fans-have

i think i'm going to have it pressed on LP and sell it for $99

https://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-snc7/402899_10151068699945878_67393387_n.jpg

That can't be the cover. It's not in Neil's handwriting.

In my head this album will always be called "Pyschedelic Phil"

http://www.live4ever.us/uploaded_images/phil-collins-797506.jpg
"psychedelic? no, not really."

Tribute to Lesh.

And we've got track running times now:

Disc One:
1 Driftin' Back (27:36)
2 Psychedelic Pill (3:26)
3 Ramada Inn (16:49)
4 Born In Ontario (3:49)

Disc Two:
1 Twisted Road (3:28)
2 She's Always Dancing (8:33)
3 For The Love Of Man (4:13)
4 Walk Like A Giant (16:27)

Bonus Track:
5 Psychedelic Pill (Alternate Mix)

it's like a weird companion rec to The Seer

call it The Sear

Given that the track running times on Disc One add up to ~52 minutes and the running times given for Disc Two only add up to ~33 minutes, I'm kinda hoping the "alternate mix" of "Psychedelic Pill" is 15-20 minutes long.

intense that he's leading off with the 27-minute track.

Is the bonus track not on the vinyl then? Because damn, mixed signals there, Neil.

seems like the alt mix could be side 4 right? or is that side 6? it's a triple LP?

This is odd: it's a triple, but those times would fit on a double (although 27:36 on one side is pushing it). And even with the bonus mix, provided it's the same length as the other mix, it should all still fit on a double.

maybe there'll be a vinyl bonus track...

haha, whoa
“Driftin’ Back”, in particular, is concerned with what may be the substance of Young’s forthcoming “Waging Heavy Peace”, and the writing of that autobiography. It begins with a brilliant trick – which I won’t spoil just yet – and soon locks into a languorous and beautiful series of solos, erratically punctuated by random Young pensées on the subjects of MP3s, hip-hop haircuts, Picasso wallpaper and so on. It’s not related to the “Horse Back” jam, but it has that same deep-pile pleasure. If you believe, not unreasonably, that Young simply playing the shit out of an electric guitar is about as good as music gets, I think you’ll like it.
more: http://www.uncut.co.uk/blog/wild-mercury-sound/neil-young-crazy-horse-psychedelic-pill

i read this as neil young and crazy pill every single time i see it
can't wait to hear what he has to say about hip hop haircuts

this sounds insane

I dunno how you press 27 minutes onto a single side of vinyl without seriously compromising sound quality.

dunno, maybe that song is actually split onto two sides? that might explain why it's a triple LP.

But the LP with "Driftin' Back" is 16".

every vinyl manufacturer I've ever talked to stresses that anything over 20 minutes on a single side is pushing it. a couple minutes you can get away with and while it won't be terrible it will be noticeable. but 7? gtfo

I meant 16 inches.

Maybe it'll also that The Seer route and split that track over two sides.

$22 CD. I hope this is on Rhapsody/Spotify so I can check it out first.

Long interview for NYT magazine.

$22 CD. I hope this is on Rhapsody/Spotify so I can check it out first.

I bet the big box stores will have it significantly cheaper, at least the first week of release. At least, that's what I'm hoping for. I don't feel real guilty about buying big name major label releases from those stores.

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-UGAxaO7elig/UFYzqvPdlxI/AAAAAAAADn8/-LWfHVdoveo/s400/psychedelic-pill-cover-2.jpg
guess this is the alt cover?
& yeah, would be shocked if the price of the Cd version didn't come down via amazon or wherever.

His "Pill" looks like a urinal cake.

hahaha
it looks like a bar of crabtree & evelyn soap!

I smell a merchandising tie-in!

Farmaid yall, can watch some of it tonight on site, and guess who's scheduled for 9:30 Eastern:
http://blog.farmaid.org/2012/09/farm-aid-2012-lineup-schedule-concert.html

9:20 rather!

Well, that was by far the most messed-up FarmAid presentation, in any medium, I've ever seen in all these many years--not just the technical glitches, but we got a couple songs from several acts, between a lot of very familiar talking points. Suppose more bits may show up at trandom on Farmaid's channel, and elsewhere on YouTube. Anyway, Neil and the Horse did a real good "Mr. Soul" (with a guitar break whirling through atonality to total harmony man), and "Homegrown," with Willie fitting right in (Hey Mr. Nelson, wanna join a band, sir?) Lucas Nelson and Promise of the Real in there between Deer Tick and Creedence on this occasion (never quite know where Lucas will take it), good from Jamey Johnson and band too. Speaking of Neil, David Carr's been riding with him, good report:
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/23/magazine/neil-young-comes-clean.html?pagewanted=1&_moc.semityn.www&ref=music

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bemz-7fofcs

really digging this.

i don't think dylan's that precious about shit

i remember reading this thing with some vet rock writer who got to do an article on dylan recording infidels and after the thing's done he's listening to the final with dylan and the writer is going nuts because he realizes dylan's leaving off "blind willie mctell", dylan says something along the lines of "listen man, it's just an album, i've made 20 of them"

haha that's awesome

*smokes blunt*

Oh well, guess I'll roll another number for the road, and this:
https://www.youtube.com/user/neilyoungchannel

goddamn i love 'ramada inn' so so much

finally hearing this whole thing. This is... really good?

definitely has some high points... kind of wish driftin back was just an instrumental (or just the chorus). lyrics are kind of a vibe killer.

idk those are bad in a very Neil way

haha yeah... i mean, the guitar sound makes up for the lyrics.

I kind of wish "Driftin Back" were twice as long and completely it's own thing, but yeah I was just listen to this not that long ago.

The phased out vers of the title track is totally dumb

"Ramada Inn" is amazing

yeah ramada inn is heavy... still wouldn't mind hearing him break that one out as an acoustic number too.

gah i still haven't listened to the monsanto years... for some reason i just don't wanna.

Yeah, this is my favorite Neil album since harvest moon

Local sports radio morning show uses the title track as bumper music occasionally

Yeah, this is my favorite Neil album since harvest moon

― brimstead, Monday, October 5, 2015 7:04 PM (38 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Mine too

though I really love most of Le Noise too

Monsanto album has at least one nice track on it "Wolf Moon", and some bad lyrics, band sounds good, young & a bit sloppy, perfect for Neil. Haven't heard it all but I will soon. I'm seeing the tour on Thursday, will report back.