Neil Young - Homegrown (June 19, 2020, at long last)

The Vacancy riff reminded me of World on a String.

Listened a few times today and actually the record it reminds me most of is Time Fades Away in the way both are more like notebooks of roughs, demos, ideas, some complete, some only partially finished and it's surreal like TFA is, though obv sadder and gentler.

I was surprised by how Ditch-y and fucked up it is, hard for me to imagine this would have been any bigger a hit than Tonight or On the Beach or TFA

yeah it feels a little like another angle on tonight's the night to me mainly for the presence of things like "florida" and "we don't smoke it no more"

Yeah, I think if he had fleshed out "Love Is A Rose" with a full band + Emmylou on backing vocals or something, he might've had a hit like "Heart of Gold" ... but really, there's nothing else that would've been a single, I don't think. Even On The Beach had "Walk On" ...

by the way, just got my Homegrown LP in the mail ... what a day, what a year.

gonna be honest, the "yes it do" in separate ways sticks out to me in a way that's annoying

I’m not sure I can mentally handle a new neil 70s album so I’m just gonna give this some time

I will say juggling a new '70s Neil album with a new Dylan (in his 70s) album on the same day is indeed kind of tough!

Yeah that too. It took me two months to process murder most foul. So

Did they coordinate release dates?

Ordered Neil today ($15), passed on Dylan ($25)--that doesn't make sense to me.

I've listened to the new Dylan four times today. Homegrown once. I've no energy for Neil. Maybe it'll come back.

Ordered Neil today ($15), passed on Dylan ($25)--that doesn't make sense to me.

I've listened to the new Dylan four times today. Homegrown once. I've no energy for Neil. Maybe it'll come back.

― Duke, Friday, June 19, 2020 4:56 PM (eighteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

this but the reverse

Oh, Zing — I was responding to Duke’s post above

A little embarrassing for Neil, Dylan’s junior, to be putting out old music on the same day D puts out new music

...is it?

no

that would be the most hilarious reason for neil to postpone homegrown again, though!

Gotta be honest, when I was looking at something I saw mention of NY & Crazy Horse's "Colorado" and wondered if he had postponed it. Then I remembered it was released last year. I should give it another shot!

vinyl sounds gorgeous

Living the middle-aged dad life. Locked myself in the garage with a bag of weed and Homegrown. The ditch era is my fave Neil, some of my favorite music ever. So this is... like, totally, fuck YES. Even Florida.

^knows

Love how loud the drums are in the mix in Separate ways

Seperate Ways sounds like an On the Beach track

Very cool hearing this version of White Line after only knowing the ragged glory version for so long

And shit, “vacancy!” So good

A little embarrassing for Neil, Dylan’s junior, to be putting out old music on the same day D puts out new music

― calstars, Friday, June 19, 2020 8:30 PM (two days ago) bookmarkflaglink

surely there is a hastily assembled and unlistenable concept album about the pandemic just around the corner

Gonna Get Me An Antifa Facemask/Hey Now Hey Now Now

Nowadays Clancy Can’t Even Get a Haircut

lol!

Deep Nasal Swab Sample and Hold

Like A Quarantine

i mean, neil has put out like 8 records since Bob's last album of original material

On The Bleach

i mean, neil has put out like 8 records since Bob's last album of original material

You say this like it's a good thing.

plant that bell and let it ring

Haters! Lol really loving this old, new to me album.

Hits me in the feels as the whippersnappers say (said?)

Florida

And, uh, looking up, they noticed the tumbling man coming through the air
And, uh, he, he came right down and landed right on them
And made an awful sound and, uh—
I ran over there, I could see that they were
They were really gone, you know
But on the ground beside them was this little baby, uh, dressed in
It just had a red blanket wrapped around it
So I picked it up and took it to my car
You know, over on the corner, which wasn't too far away
And I put it in the back seat
I don't know whether it was a boy or a girl
I, I didn't look, you know, I just put it down
It was sleeping and I looked and a crowd had gathered on the parking lot
This beautiful lady was coming down the street
And I, I looked at her, and she looked right at me and I—
She said, "That's my baby in the back of your car there"
I said, "Oh, no, no
No, that baby belongs to that, to that dead couple on the parking lot"
And, uh, she said, "No, no, you're wrong, you're wrong
What happened to them?"

"Florida" is maybe the weirdest fucking curveball he's ever thrown, which is saying a lot, love how it segues into "I woke up from a bad dream"

listening to this on headphones for the 1st time and I hadn't really noticed that segue before but WOW it just hit me, what an effect, the way "Florida" seems to cut out mid-sentence and then "Kansas" starts and "I feel like I just woke up from a bad dream"... I almost wonder if that's the idea behind recording "florida" in the first place, to have a piece leading into "Kansas" like that.

Reading the "lyrics" Karl posted, it seems Florida deals with the disintegration of his relationship with Carrie Snodgrass. The couple who had the child died and Neil is left alone to rescue/raise a child while a female stranger/fake mother attempts to make a claim on the child.

I would not be surprised if it was an actual dream Neil had. It has that dream-like logic/terror.

xxp yeah the segue is perfect and seems intentional

Can I just say how much I love the way this album sounds, how it was recorded, and how comforting I find that sound?

Wow, you got the Pono version? Cool!

But seriously, it does sound amazing in every way. And whoever mastered this, and Neil’s Official Release Series, should get a lifetime achievement Grammy.

And fun fact: “White Line” was recorded at Ramport Studios, which was designed and owned by the Who (who ended up only making two records there).

title track is such a fuckin jam, love that lurching Horse rhythm

super psyched for my vinyl to show up