Let's Talk About The New Neil Young Album...

my idea is sorta that minus the wall street journal.

his homemade videos are really endearing.

Liked the vid, didn't like the song...I just didn't want to hear the same thing over and over after a minute or so.

Well, tonight's the night: At the stroke of midnight, Neil Young will premiere his new album, Fork in the Road, on MySpace. Fans of Young's guitar salvos can stream the entire album for free before it goes on shelves April 7.

the guitar on 'cough up the bucks' is really great

this is fucking awesome

yeah so far waaaaay better than i was expecting!

guitars sound great .. so far, better than Living With War -- I was basically expecting this to part 2 of that album.

did you like Living With War? I thought it was great...

liking this so far

i liked it when it came out, but it's not something i have any urge to listen to very often.

the cover of this one is hilarious

"keep on bloggin till the power goes out, till the power goes out, twist and shout"

O_O

'fork in the road'
'off the road'
'hit the road'

surely this is on purpose, right?

'middle of the road'

"crap in my face" (inside joke)

haven't bought this yet ... but probably will ... Neil's setlists look intense on his current tour. pretty heavy tonight's the night stuff! Speakin' Out / Tonight's The Night / World On A String / Albuquerque ... urgh i may have to shell out the $100 for the Denver show.

so i went and made an 80-minute Neil Young in the 00s mix, and honestly, after listening to all these records again, it seems like kind of a weak decade. Not terrible, but just not a lot of classic tunes ... Silver & Gold is really the only album I really enjoyed hearing all the way through. But it's not a bad 80 minutes -- send me a webmail if you want to hear it ...

Can you just post the track listing?

sure, i'll do it when i get home from work ...

anyone else heard the recent Dreamin' Man live '92 set? listening now for the first time and think it's a real improvement on Harvest Moon

I like it-- wouldn't call it an improvement but I like Harvest Moon a lot.

Here's my best of the 00s tracklisting ...

Good To See You
Goin' Home
Differently
After the Garden
Falling From Above
Silver & Gold
Falling Off The Face Of The Earth
Spirit Road
It's A Dream
Light A Candle
No Hidden Path
Razor Love
A Day In The Life

Is there any other artist who's been making music for pretty much five full decades who we actually might expect would be putting out in his 6th? Like "the 00s were a little weak, but there might be some right nuggets in the 10s."

dylan's 00s were pretty tight and his 10s could be even better

really like dreamin' man too. just disappointed there will only be 9 more live archive
albums recorded between the 1970-1992 period

is that official? i remember there being a list of possible releases, but I think it turned out that was just conjecture on the part of a fan ...

(still need to get Dreamin' Man)

There's no official list, but Dreamin' Man is labelled 'Archives Performance Series No. 12', so you can probably make a decent stab at what 4-11 will be.

yeah, i mean Dreamin' Man might not be the last one ... There's gotta be an uhhh Mirror Ball tour CD, right? Right?

yeah...but i was thinking this was gonna be a really long term archive project so a bit disappointing at the small amount of shows

* for that period

I've heard Dreamin' Man and it's pretty nice but nothing more. But maybe it will reveal more secrets next listening.

Maybe discs 13-25 will just cover '93-'97 (inc. complete Old Princeton Landings recordings, obv), who knows? But yeah, considering how everyone talks about that European tour with Pearl Jam in Shakey I'd be amazed if there's nothing released from it.

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yeah, totally ... i mean, there are a ton of under-represented (and great) live bands/tours in Neil's career, esp. post 70s. Int'l Harvesters, Young & Restless, Mirror Ball Band .. . Trans Band, Shocking Pinks!

here's that list of possible performance series thangs -- again, no idea if this is official or just someone filling in the blanks
0 Canterbury 1968
1 Riverboat 1969
2 Fillmore 1970
3 Massey Hall 1971
4 Time Fades Away II 1973
5 Rainbow 1973
6 Doom Tour 1974
7 Hammersmith/Budokan 1976
8 Boarding House 1978
9 Trans Tour 1982
10 Int Harv/Grey Riders 1985
11 Bluenotes 1988
12 Dreamin Man 1992

tyler, you might know: are there any performances of "Cortez" from 1976 that are long, say 20+ minutes? I have two 1976 shows, one from March in Paris and one from November in Chicago. He only plays "Cortez" at the first and it's an 8 minute version, in the same spirit as the album version. But did he ever really cut loose on "Cortez" in 1976?

i don't think so! All the ones I've heard don't stretch past 10 minutes. even the 1976 version of Cowgirl in the Sand is on the shorter side. but that is definitely one of my fave periods for Neil's guitar playing all the same. not a single note wasted, perfect Zuma tone.

closest comparison to neil's guitar in 1976 would have to be tom verlaine, actually!

huh, I need to listen to those shows more closely then. There's a ten+ minute "Down By The River" on the Paris show, and a 12 minute "Like A Hurricane" on the Chicago show. But o/w the songs don't reach epic liftoff.

Japanese shows are probably the best of that year ... I'll get around to posting some of those soon!

hmm, neil young + lanois ... ? http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/;kw=%5B13193,138765%5D

looks liek the new solo tour is kind of interesting ... new songs + electric guitar stuff? Hitchhiker!
2010-05-18
Palace Theatre, Albany, New York, USA
Solo

1. My My, Hey Hey (Out Of The Blue) (acoustic guitar)
2. Tell Me Why (acoustic guitar)
3. Helpless (acoustic guitar)
4. You Never Call (acoustic guitar w/ pickup)
5. Peaceful Valley (acoustic guitar w/ pickup)
6. Love And War (acoustic guitar w/ pickup)
7. Down By The River (electric guitar - Old Black)
8. Hitchhiker (electric guitar - Old Black)
9. Ohio (electric guitar - white falcon)
10. Sign Of Love (electric guitar - white falcon)
11. Leia (upright piano)
12. After The Gold Rush (pump organ)
13. I Believe In You (grand piano)
14. Rumblin' (electric guitar - Old Black)
15. Cortez The Killer (electric guitar - Old Black)
16. Cinnamon Girl (electric guitar - Old Black)
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17. Walk With Me (
electric guitar - white falcon)
18. Hey Hey, My My (Into The Black) (electric guitar - Old Black)

haha, kind of a trainwreck
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6w1Pna5r_vE

"perfect!"

lol

honestly I'm kinda amazed his voice sounds so unchanged after all these years

yeah, compared to a lot of singers from his generation, he sounds pretty great. maybe neil was never a heavy smoker? of tobacco, that is?