neil young

he seems like the kind of artist where the fuckups/messiness are part of the appeal if you’re a real fan. which i may become one day

Coming from the guy who’s honeyslider recipe sounds horrifying- I’d say you’d be 100% right that messiness is part of the appeal!

xp yeah I think every Neil album has at least one song I routinely skip over, except for On the Beach, which is ace all the way through

I wouldn't skip over anything on Time Fades Away either. Tonight's the Night has the missable "Roll Another Number".

fuckups/messiness are part of the appeal if you’re a real fan. which i may become one day

when you feel that you're ready, visit the neil young archives website. try to find and listen to an album within it. and then find the song folders, and try to copy and paste the text you find in them. then you will know if you are a real fan or not

sweet, new release news on the archives website! let me just text this to my friend - oh wait...forgot. well, i'll just send them the link then, so -- oh shit, forgot it's one of those websites with only one URL and no shareable links. goddamn i love neil young!!

complaining about his website is my love language

^^^
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I agree with those who have said, on this thread, and maybe others, that: Blue Note Cafe redeems/makes up for/improves on, or (depending on POV) is Even Better Than! This Note's For You, and: that A Treasure does likewise for Old Ways.

yeah definitely I always forget about A Treasure

Just amazing cowboy hitchhiker railroad folk-rock honky tonk home on the cohesive range of material, and International Harvesters have no prob keeping up.

it's odd, I feel like Everybody Knows This is Nowhere has fallen out of being one of the canonical great albums, it's so great, what a perfect sounding rock record

i'm looking forward to my first listen to Blue Note Cafe and A Treasure! was not a fan of either of the time periods they cover, but maybe i was hearing the wrong stuff!

xp

ums it's gotta be top 5 for me, still. i think? trying to think of the last time i tried to do a top ten. there should be at least 7 to 10 spaces in Neil's top 5 imo

EKTIN is so classic, maybe ppl just went overboard praising the ditch trilogy etc at the expense of the early classics

what the hell is wrong with “roll another number”? :-(

yeah, that should not stand unopposed

it was either going to be roll another number or we don't smoke it no more, but either way it was going to be the part of the album where you're just lit, you're toasted and so is everyone else, and it's early enough that no one's gotten into a fight or spilled something or broken anything. it's sloppy and kind of dumb and fun, and soon enough it's back to the gutter

it's odd, I feel like Everybody Knows This is Nowhere has fallen out of being one of the canonical great albums, it's so great, what a perfect sounding rock record

that's the one NY vinyl i've bought new in the 2000s. one of the nicest pressings of anything i've ever heard.fwiw
xp

I think Everybody has possibly been pushed into the shadow of Gold Rush. I go back and forth as to which is my favourite album ever.

there's no reason to choose. if the top 5 is allowed to actually be the top 7 to 10, the favorite ever is allowed to be 2

it's odd, I feel like Everybody Knows This is Nowhere has fallen out of being one of the canonical great albums, it's so great, what a perfect sounding rock record

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If I could have a band, it would be the sound of the title track of Everybody Knows This is Nowhere. Tough, swinging, crunchy, country rock.

I think live at the Filmore East 1970 release might have passed EKTIN at this point. Whenever I need my “Cowgirl in the Sand” or “Down by the River” fix I gravitate towards those versions.

it's odd, I feel like Everybody Knows This is Nowhere has fallen out of being one of the canonical great albums, it's so great, what a perfect sounding rock record

Has it? I'd really surprised, I thought it was still considered great, partly for being the true fully-realized launch of his post-Buffalo Springfield career (with his self-titled debut being a half-great, half-overdone nice-try).

*I'd be really surprised

new horse in the works:

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I've got to be honest, I always forget Colorado (the album) exists

it exists!

it does feel like a very slight effort. some good moments, but nothing great.

I hope the album is called A Bunch of Songs.

^^Imagine Neil and Van Morrison having competition for the laziest dgaf old dude swag album title.

Also that photo needs to be the gatefold

Really digging ol' Neil's geriatric cue card style here

that photo is amazing

i wonder who printed those out for him

tho 50/50 on him doing it himself

I've got to be honest, I always forget Colorado (the album) exists

"I Do"'s a keeper - a beautiful track - but I haven't bothered to go back to the rest.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Czl4bwMqAg

I had no idea that songs for Judy was a damn good live album from ‘76. The organ intro to “man needs a maid” is ungodly!

no idea until last week, that is. always saw it in the shop and thought it was a boring studio thing or something

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More Horse is certainly great news, but I'm seeing that it sounds like he pulled the Bootleg Series releases from his schedule? I'm not a NYA subscriber and not about to try to navigate, but the folks over at H0ffman boards are saying they are gone from the site's calendar. Not sure if this is due to vinyl delays or what, but bummed if these aren't going to come out.

there's always the possibility that whoever runs the archives just took down the entire bootleg "drawer" out of the "cabinet" so he could edit it (in pen, of course), so perhaps next time you "check the cabinet" it'll be back in there, possibly near the front. or the very back

if i was running his website i would just have everything be post-it notes. the entire website, notes all over the place, buried dozens of notes deep. it would be called thispostitnoteisforyouneilyoung.com

lolz

Not sure if this is due to vinyl delays or what,

I could see this being a possibility. I'm sure Neil would rather delay the release of all formats than release the CDs first and the vinyl later.

Yeah, that would make a lot of sense to me too and I hope that's the issue, rather than just another Neil plan that fizzles out just before they were to get released.

I just saw an ad on fb for the Muddy Track DVD...has this been out for a while? I’m kind of weirded out that I missed any announcements about it.

Three more: This Note's for You, Chrome Dreams II (why "II"?), and Le Noise.

I'm a real downer on this thread, I know. My first engagement with Neil Young in high school was so intense--only thing ever to rival it was Husker Du in my early 20s--that everything I've listened to since exists in the shadow of that. I can count the later (meaning 1990 and beyond) songs on one hand where I felt something that came close to what I felt then: "Over and Over," "Driftin' Back," and (weird one, I know) "Scenery."

So there were a few songs that sounded pretty good--"Sunny Inside," "Ordinary People" and "Shine a Light," "Sign of Love" and "Someone's Gonna Rescue You"--and, except for the first two songs on This Note, nothing sounded egregiously bad. I'm listening in the car; most everything went right past me.

I'll plunge ahead. I see now that some of those most recent eight release are live are compilations, so when I get these eight, I'll count that as having everything (and any new studio release that appears in the interim): Greendale, Fork in the Road. A Letter Home, Storytone, The Monsanto Years, Peace Trail, The Visitor, Colorado. I could buy them all tomorrow, obviously, but I'm looking for used copies in physical record stores.

"live or compilations"

Chrome Dreams II is the sequel to a scuttled 70s studio album that was never released is (maybe? was?) going to be issued as part of the Archives series a la Homegrown

I've a lot of affection for A Letter Home, but it's a weird, weird record