https://neilyoungarchives.com/album?id=A_089
― sleeve, Thursday, 18 June 2020 18:10 (three years ago) link
It's such an odd feeling, listening to an album that feels like it should be familiar but isn't
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 18 June 2020 19:30 (three years ago) link
yo i have the LP in my hands !!!!!
― budo jeru, Thursday, 18 June 2020 20:28 (three years ago) link
Nice! Assuming pressing is good, Neil's stuff usually is
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 18 June 2020 20:37 (three years ago) link
yeah it's dead quiet and sounds great
― budo jeru, Thursday, 18 June 2020 21:24 (three years ago) link
When I first heard “Florida” I immediately thought : “This is his ‘The Gift’ “
i feel as if it's more like his "apes-ma"
― budo jeru, Thursday, 18 June 2020 21:27 (three years ago) link
Homegrown you must be a Pink Floyd album because you RULE
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 19 June 2020 01:26 (three years ago) link
iconic url imo
― time is running out to pitch in $5 (Karl Malone), Friday, 19 June 2020 01:58 (three years ago) link
Don't really keep up with neil news but had a bit of a binge of his albums this weekend apropos of nothing and now I'm blessed with this today.
― Rik Waller-Bridge (jim in vancouver), Friday, 19 June 2020 06:56 (three years ago) link
Separate Ways is the best track here imo
― nostormo, Friday, 19 June 2020 09:09 (three years ago) link
Florida reminds me of some of Jandek's spoken word stuff
― Ward Fowler, Friday, 19 June 2020 10:34 (three years ago) link
this is really good but now I understand better Neil's observation about the middle of the road and heading for the ditch instead. well, except for "Florida".
― Joey Corona (Euler), Friday, 19 June 2020 13:35 (three years ago) link
Hi my name is Jordan and I'm listening to my first Neil Young and Bob Dylan albums today.
― change display name (Jordan), Friday, 19 June 2020 15:30 (three years ago) link
Ever !?!?! I mean, you could do worse than these new ones, but ...
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 19 June 2020 15:32 (three years ago) link
whoa Jordan
whoa
― time is running out to pitch in $5 (Karl Malone), Friday, 19 June 2020 15:32 (three years ago) link
Jordan also turning 12 today
― calstars, Friday, 19 June 2020 15:34 (three years ago) link
lmao jordan!!!
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Friday, 19 June 2020 15:41 (three years ago) link
lol I can see how someone who plays drums for a living would never have spent much time with those artists, enjoy!
― sleeve, Friday, 19 June 2020 15:44 (three years ago) link
lol fair enough, outside of the Most Famous Opening Snare Shot in Rock History, neither acts are particularly notable for their drumming. If anything, they're both famous for their looseness!
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 19 June 2020 15:50 (three years ago) link
Yeah I didn't grow up with the Beatles either, I was only really exposed to most music through playing it or the radio (and I never listened to classic rock radio or whatever).
I first consciously heard 'Heart of Gold' when the Bad Plus did it as a closer, and sang it acapella & off-mic at the end. I was probably the only person who was like 'huh, pretty good song, who wrote that?'.
Obviously I've heard a song here and there, but never a full album.
― change display name (Jordan), Friday, 19 June 2020 15:50 (three years ago) link
(Josh, which song are you referring to?)
― change display name (Jordan), Friday, 19 June 2020 15:51 (three years ago) link
Like a Rolling Stone.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 19 June 2020 15:52 (three years ago) link
#rockism
i do not mean to post more about bob dylan in this neil young thread but most of dylan's drummers are all-time, including matt chamberlain on the new one? kenneth buttrey! jim keltner!
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Friday, 19 June 2020 15:55 (three years ago) link
i mean i guess mentioning kenneth buttrey is on-topic
yeah Levon Helm whatta hack 🙄
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 19 June 2020 15:56 (three years ago) link
Oh, there are astounding drummers on Dylan (and Neil) records - Levon on "Revolution Blues" alone! - those records are just not particularly known for their drumming.
I never grew up with the Beatles, either. I've mentioned it before, but my parents only had one Beatles album and it was "Yellow Submarine." They had one Dylan album, and it was "Self-Portrait." And they had one Stones album, and it was "Goat's Head Soup" (which was missing the LP). One day I discovered a copy of Neil Young's "Everybody Knows This is Nowhere," but it was on an 8-track reel-to-reel so I never heard it as a kid. Of this batch of quality acts, I listen to Neil Young the most by far. Followed by Dylan. Followed by the Stones, with the Beatles last, because in a lot of ways they are just a permanent part of the listening environment.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 19 June 2020 15:58 (three years ago) link
Keltner played with Neil too, he's great on Peace Trail
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 19 June 2020 15:59 (three years ago) link
The bassline in 'Vacancy' reminds me of that one Radiohead song that has a similar bassline
― change display name (Jordan), Friday, 19 June 2020 16:00 (three years ago) link
i'm only now hearing this and goddamn if this isn't the neil young record i always kinda wanted
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Friday, 19 June 2020 16:48 (three years ago) link
kind of Harvest but with the down and out druggie vibes of On the Beach?
oh, no wonder
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Friday, 19 June 2020 16:49 (three years ago) link
First Dylan and Neil this week is cracking me up (no worries).
― Night of the Living Crustheads (PBKR), Friday, 19 June 2020 16:55 (three years ago) link
xps Punch-Up At A Wedding! I knew that bassline sounded familiar
― J. Sam, Friday, 19 June 2020 16:58 (three years ago) link
that's funny, "Vacancy" was also reminding me of a song, but I was thinking it was another Neil song.
― time is running out to pitch in $5 (Karl Malone), Friday, 19 June 2020 16:59 (three years ago) link
it's all one song, iirc
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 19 June 2020 17:04 (three years ago) link
Yes, Punch-Up At a Wedding! Just came here to post that after flipping through a ton of Radiohead songs to find that riff.
― change display name (Jordan), Friday, 19 June 2020 18:20 (three years ago) link
― time is running out to pitch in $5 (Karl Malone), Friday, June 19, 2020 11:59 AM (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
was it "are you ready for the country" ?
― budo jeru, Friday, 19 June 2020 19:45 (three years ago) link
YES
― time is running out to pitch in $5 (Karl Malone), Friday, 19 June 2020 19:47 (three years ago) link
thank you. i've had a busy day and haven't had a chance to search for it, but that's it.
The Vacancy riff reminded me of World on a String.
― Chris L, Friday, 19 June 2020 20:19 (three years ago) link
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
― chr1sb3singer, Friday, 19 June 2020 20:20 (three years ago) link
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"
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Friday, 19 June 2020 20:26 (three years ago) link
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" ...
― tylerw, Friday, 19 June 2020 20:32 (three years ago) link
by the way, just got my Homegrown LP in the mail ... what a day, what a year.
― tylerw, Friday, 19 June 2020 20:33 (three years ago) link
gonna be honest, the "yes it do" in separate ways sticks out to me in a way that's annoying
― time is running out to pitch in $5 (Karl Malone), Friday, 19 June 2020 22:54 (three years ago) link
I’m not sure I can mentally handle a new neil 70s album so I’m just gonna give this some time
― calstars, Friday, 19 June 2020 23:15 (three years ago) link
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!
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 19 June 2020 23:25 (three years ago) link
Yeah that too. It took me two months to process murder most foul. So
― calstars, Friday, 19 June 2020 23:28 (three years ago) link
Did they coordinate release dates?
― calstars, Friday, 19 June 2020 23:29 (three years ago) link
Ordered Neil today ($15), passed on Dylan ($25)--that doesn't make sense to me.
― clemenza, Friday, 19 June 2020 23:37 (three years ago) link
right, and also i feel like he would have been a perfect fit for the kind of sprawling double-album that finds space for a few oddities/novelty tracks on it that are actually good, like a proto-pavement
― Karl Malone, Saturday, 26 September 2020 16:41 (three years ago) link
nowadays his versions of those tracks (looking for a leader 2020) really are kind of bad (imo), but in prime ditch trilogy-era, they were all gold (imo)
― Karl Malone, Saturday, 26 September 2020 16:42 (three years ago) link
You're not counting Journey Through the Past, I assume?
― clemenza, Monday, 28 September 2020 00:12 (three years ago) link
I feel like Tonight's the Night is its own universe and would not benefit by being part of a double album
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 28 September 2020 00:17 (three years ago) link
Haha not counting journey through the past
― tylerw, Monday, 28 September 2020 00:31 (three years ago) link
the kind of sprawling double-album that finds space for a few oddities/novelty tracks on it that are actually good, like a proto-pavement
That's actually a pretty accurate description of Journey, which has ample sprawl and at least one great oddity ("Soldier"). It is, though, almost 100% previous-released songs, if not versions, including, maybe weirdest of all, "Let's Go Away for Awhile" from Pet Sounds--not a cover, the actual track.
― clemenza, Monday, 28 September 2020 00:52 (three years ago) link
The Wikipedia on this record talks about it being "rebuilt" for release, and a large number of other songs being recorded in the sessions. So is Homegrown 2020 the same mix and running order that would have been released in 1975, or is it a modern-day reappraisal?
― Halfway there but for you, Thursday, 10 June 2021 21:40 (two years ago) link
Unless there's an acetate or tape copy in his archives, I think it's impossible to know. Since a few tracks were included on later releases, it's very possible whatever master tape that was assembled for Homegrown was dismantled and never put back together (and perhaps taken apart song by song). If that happened, he could've lost track of certain songs and maybe even remixed particular songs since there was no real reason to keep the old mixes to an album that wasn't going to be released imminently.
― birdistheword, Thursday, 10 June 2021 21:54 (two years ago) link
Although I get the feeling Neil keeps everything (especially the master tape of an unreleased album), and they could have rebuilt the record to match as closely as possible to the original master.
― Halfway there but for you, Thursday, 10 June 2021 22:04 (two years ago) link
RARE DITCH PROJECT
― Ward Fowler, Thursday, 17 June 2021 15:47 (two years ago) link