NEIL YOUNG ARCHIVES BOX: IT'S REALLY HAPPENING

yeah I have no idea what any of you guys are talking about because navigating this thing is totally impenetrable

oh well

to think I once saw the archives with my own eyes

i was going to say "hey if anyone manages to find something cool send a link" but i'm not sure links would work?

like, this is a link to Le Noise: does it work for anyone else: http://www.neilyoungarchives.com/#/album?id=A_072&_k=x71iqr

nope

lol at this thing. there are pop-ups on top of pop-ups

that Le Noise link worked for me!

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DP-YVukUEAAsOce.jpg:large

on the individual songs there are also "official videos" for songs i didn't know had official videos

what a lunatic

I have to say this is DEFINITELY better than Dylan's "let's release a steady stream of affordable 2CD sets with great liner notes" approach that everyone was so sick of

sort of wish neil had never heard of the internet

ok, maybe i should actually read through the tutorial for this, but...what is the structure of this thing? it's chronological, only some of the songs from albums are visible unless you click the folder tabs? and why do some songs have multiple tabs on the same row (left and right side)? i get that the middle tab is for albums and other official releases, but...wtf is going on here

forget it karl it's shakeytown

that link started working for me, but then took like 10 minutes and still didn't finish loading.

btw Neil Young in Berlin is on the timeline too so Solo Trans is not the concert on YouTube

Different shows. Berlin is the last TransBand show, filmed by Michael Lindsey-Hogg in late '82 and originally shown on HBO. Solo Trans is an American concert from the next year's Trans TV tour, with was Neil by himself and with the Shocking Pinks on the encore.

Solo Trans is up in bits and pieces on Youtube.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_wL1YMhLao

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IAyG_u8mWxA

yeah Berlin (which is readily available) is 82. solo trans is 83 w/ shocking pinks, and only popped up in full on youtube briefly a couple years ago. might've been released on VHS though?

also is there going to be (god help us)...an app?

that '83 tour is a great Neil time-capsule. At the time fans/critics seemed generally confused at what he was going for but in the context of the height of Reagan-era in the US Neil's p much right in stride with what was going on culturally - synthesizers, 50s nostalgia, a general hokiness and cardboard-thin optimism

browsing through this archive is a total fucking nightmare

― Karl Malone, Friday, December 1, 2017 6:39 PM (forty-six minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

classic neil

― hi i’m darren and i’m a bouncer from bendigo (bizarro gazzara), Friday, December 1, 2017 6:40 PM (forty-six minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol otm this is impossible to navigate ffs!

so it's basically the blu-ray version of the archives with the next 40something years tacked on (in varying stages of completion).

I should've just rented a U-haul, stolen all those reels, and digitized them myself

"Old man, look at my life. It's in a subfolder B after you right-click on that little LincVolt logo dealie...no, the other one."

I should've just rented a U-haul, stolen all those reels, and digitized them myself

the icon for the "play" button is the same icon as the "next" button

classic neil

it's hard to make a website with yourself
when you're old enough to drupal
and young enough to html

Neil being a champion of all things analog, the server for the archives site is actually a giant abacus.

it will employ over 3 dozen abacus workers, toiling round the clock to keep up with the server demand

https://s7.postimg.org/xmfrmw5uj/Flipthe_Neil_Switch.jpgp

flip that neil switch!!!! not bragging just saying my audio quality is 2,877 right now, feels great

I love that the search icon is a keyhole from the game Myst

keyhole = search is seriously grade A classic neil

woah i got over 3,800 in audio quality then it crashed
icarus flew too close to the sun

i'm not even gonna bother with this tbh

just gonna wait until neil dies and someone else puts this stuff out in a reasonable way

Drawer makes clacky ratchet sound when it opens, but folders don't make whispy shuffle sound as you flip through them.

I love that the search icon is a keyhole from the game Myst

neil saw some late 90s "enhanced cd-rom" things and was impressed

Needs to integrate winamp visualizer plugins for full psychedelic pill effect.

it is kinda hilarious how much this resembles his Blu-ray menu crap from the late 90s/early 00s

neil: gedda hold of this idea: you'll be able to click on the jpeg, and that'll open up other things you can play with!
neil hanger-ons ('the booger boys'): sounds great neil

Neil would never use the word jpeg

Do you have to "log in" in order to get access? Neil, you shouldn't have to log in to get into the Doghouse

I love that the search icon is a keyhole from the game Myst

― Universal LULU Nation (upper mississippi sh@kedown),

Elliott Roberts kicks open the office door: "GODDAMMIT WHICH ONE OF YOU MOTHERFUCKERS SHOWED NEIL MYST?! THIS ARCHIVE IS NEVER GOING FUCKING MAKE SENSE!"

(joke h/t to trylerw)

Also please tell me that Neil's management office is a Mad Men/Barney Miller style office bullpen where people smoke and discuss Neil albums that don't eventually get released and there is office intrigue and Elliott Roberts has a big office at the far end of the room and omg this could be a prestige cable drama!

Show Me A Pono

Assistant: Elliott, the tracklisting for Homegrown has gone missing. I'm so sorry.

Roberts: [softly weeps]

at work, so I haven't tried this yet, but i'm dying reading these descriptions

same here, just laughing to myself reading you guys and trying to imagine the fucking mess

ice cold

https://s7.postimg.org/6xo0p0iaj/stills.jpg

hahahahahaaaa

does anything on the search function work?

If you land on the front page, and click the 'back' button in the top left it takes you back to... the page you were on before you went to the Neil Young Archives! In my case: Google, googling Neil Young Archives. This is insanity!

XP 10 Men Workin' (IIRC)

does anything on the search function work?

― tylerw, Friday, December 1, 2017 3:01 PM (two minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

not really with the exception of typing in proper names of album titles afaict

If you land on the front page, and click the 'back' button in the top left it takes you back to... the page you were on before you went to the Neil Young Archives! In my case: Google, googling Neil Young Archives. This is insanity!

― Le Bateau Ivre, Friday, December 1, 2017 3:02 PM (fifty-one seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol i noticed this