that song is awesome...?
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 23 June 2015 15:45 (eight years ago) link
god neil's song catalog is just insane
Yes song rules. T-Rex on a morphine drip.
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 23 June 2015 15:45 (eight years ago) link
love vampire blues, come on. allegedly only played live once before (and there's no recording).
― tylerw, Tuesday, 23 June 2015 15:47 (eight years ago) link
I skip it as a rule, dunno, but it's cool that it's liked!
― droit au butt (Euler), Tuesday, 23 June 2015 16:02 (eight years ago) link
it would be killer to hear "The Losing End", does he ever do that?
― droit au butt (Euler), Tuesday, 23 June 2015 16:03 (eight years ago) link
not very often since 1976.
― tylerw, Tuesday, 23 June 2015 16:05 (eight years ago) link
That Neil looks awesome, though haha if I went to a show where he played that exact set I would still be crucially bummed he that he didn't play some odd personal fave
"No "Sedan Delivery'? This show is bullshit"
― chr1sb3singer, Tuesday, 23 June 2015 16:46 (eight years ago) link
GOOD TIMES ARE COMING
BUT THEY'RE SURE COMING SLOW
― Hadrian VIII, Tuesday, 23 June 2015 23:31 (eight years ago) link
^^^ I love all the stupid blues-inspired lyrics on this album, btw(SEE ALSO: "How I Write My Songs" by D. Barthelme)
― Heroic melancholy continues to have a forceful grip on (bernard snowy), Tuesday, 23 June 2015 23:37 (eight years ago) link
should say *that* albumputting on title track now"World is turning... hope it don't turn away" amen neil
― Heroic melancholy continues to have a forceful grip on (bernard snowy), Tuesday, 23 June 2015 23:39 (eight years ago) link
"The woman you were with / Was about the same / She took your money / & left town"
― Heroic melancholy continues to have a forceful grip on (bernard snowy), Tuesday, 23 June 2015 23:47 (eight years ago) link
lots of ragged glory tunes in that setlist, by no means a bad thing
― old Cary Grant fine, how you? (stevie), Wednesday, 24 June 2015 08:24 (eight years ago) link
probably should be noted that the list above is not an actual setlist--just a list of non-monsanto songs that neil has played at one of those "secret" shows this year or rehearsed. the sets for the upcoming tour could be totally different ... and apparently they'll start off w/ a solo acoustic set too.
― tylerw, Wednesday, 24 June 2015 14:09 (eight years ago) link
i'm a black bat babybangin on your window pane
is such a strange/cool little image
― kurt kobaïan (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 24 June 2015 15:34 (eight years ago) link
yep
― Hadrian VIII, Wednesday, 24 June 2015 16:57 (eight years ago) link
... not if it's happened to you before and the screen gave way and the bat got in :/
― Heroic melancholy continues to have a forceful grip on (bernard snowy), Wednesday, 24 June 2015 18:05 (eight years ago) link
well that bat was bangin on a window screen
― mad maxwell's wasteland death suite (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, 24 June 2015 18:08 (eight years ago) link
GO AROUND, RING THE BELL
― that's why god destroyed the radio (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Thursday, 25 June 2015 22:50 (eight years ago) link
There's still a buncha links upthread: Neil & Lukas etc. playing Monsanto songs and others, for instance. Seems like the new material might be good, given erratic sound quality of audience tapes.
― dow, Thursday, 25 June 2015 23:27 (eight years ago) link
Yeah so just now first listened to the finished product on First Listen. NPR's streams can seem a bit canned, but better when i turned it way up (on decent-ish headphones). Some of the bread crumb purtynotes get pretty far apart in the vaster pastures (which are subject to hot guitar winds, fracked-with bass & drums), but so far I like most of it, the overall effect. As I put it on Twitter:Neil Young, The Monsanto Years: Lotta strata of harshness x beauty; patented seeds do their thing. Stream it here:http://n.pr/1RF2QTa
― dow, Saturday, 27 June 2015 02:16 (eight years ago) link
Some of these tracks are tight enough to get some airplay (on NPR, anyway)
― dow, Saturday, 27 June 2015 02:19 (eight years ago) link
Just got the new record today. "If I Don't Know" is pretty cool! Comes with a Shakey Pictures DVD directed by Daryl Hannah.
― cwkiii, Tuesday, 30 June 2015 01:14 (eight years ago) link
Crazy to me how much Promise Of The Real sounds like Crazy Horse in places. In particular, the vocal harmonies - I had to check the liner notes to make sure it wasn't them.
Three spins in, I like this album fine. As far as latter day Neil albums go, it's way better than Storytone and A Letter Home, but it doesn't touch Psychedelic Pill or Le Noise.
Storytone will be one of Neil's most forgotten-about albums; the one you forget to mention when listing off his last ten or so. See: Fork In The Road.
So is the vinyl version of this going to cost, like, 75 bucks?
― Wimmels, Tuesday, 30 June 2015 13:39 (eight years ago) link
I like Letter Home
Storytone is no Fork in the Road
I'd really like to see him stick with this band for another record of non-Monsanto songs
btw I grew up on a farm in MN and we always said Mon-SAN-toe, but he says Mon-SAHN-toe. people in rural MN murder the pronounciation of things though, but hell Neil's Canadian so he's no better than us
― kurt kobaïan (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 30 June 2015 13:49 (eight years ago) link
what town were yr family farming in ums?
― demonic mnevice (Jon Lewis), Tuesday, 30 June 2015 19:04 (eight years ago) link
blue earth/frost area
― kurt kobaïan (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 30 June 2015 19:06 (eight years ago) link
(faribault county)
guhh still can't decide whether to shell out for one of next week's colorado shows... GUHH. funny that neil still identifies so strongly as canadian -- he's been a californian for coming up on 50 years!
― tylerw, Tuesday, 30 June 2015 19:19 (eight years ago) link
you don't need to live in Canada if Canada ~lives in you~
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Tuesday, 30 June 2015 19:36 (eight years ago) link
Yea Neil is always in a Canada of the Mind
Tyler-DO IT
― chr1sb3singer, Tuesday, 30 June 2015 19:38 (eight years ago) link
think i've listened to enough neil young over the years to qualify for honorary canadian citizenship tbh
― tylerw, Tuesday, 30 June 2015 19:38 (eight years ago) link
Judging by Promise Of The Neil audience tapes, think I'd take the plunge, Tyler. Heartening to hear Crazy Horse-associated numbers infused with youngblood x Youngblood, as well as how some of the new material---thee more epic thrash-rants---work a bit better live.So, thinking of how new material like "Let's Impeach The President" incited very mixed reactions, in Atlanta, for instance, on that there CSNY tour, will he be bringing The Monsanto Years to any likely Big Ag and/or climate change denialist strongholds?
― dow, Wednesday, 1 July 2015 18:38 (eight years ago) link
I could see the new ones being good springboards, like Year of the Horse where they are kind of uninspired until the "end" of the songs and jam out for 4 minutes
― kurt kobaïan (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 3 July 2015 00:36 (eight years ago) link
Common knowledge, probably, but I don't think I knew this:
http://dangerousminds.net/comments/when_neil_young_met_the_monkees_and_completely_tore_the_roof_off_the_sucker
― clemenza, Monday, 13 July 2015 14:12 (eight years ago) link
i totally didn't know about that song, or that neil ever played on a monkees track. was gonna check if it's mentioned in passing in shakey and discovered my copy is awol.
going to give the person who wrote that dangerousminds post the benefit of the doubt and assume they don't really think that's neil's most amazing solo ever on what should've been a massive hit, and that they were just chasing a little viral heat
― da croupier, Monday, 13 July 2015 14:37 (eight years ago) link
if they do believe that, someone should buy them a copy of decade cuz apparently all they've heard is harvest
― da croupier, Monday, 13 July 2015 14:38 (eight years ago) link
haw, dangerous minds definitely gets overheated about that kind of thing. my fave neil guest spot from that period is the elyse weinberg track, which i think most people knowhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQu6IpZ7PLc
so i skipped seeing neil + promise of the real last week. i know, lame! setlists have lookd pretty OK. saw that he did "hippie dream" this weekend! still throwing shade at Croz?
― tylerw, Monday, 13 July 2015 14:41 (eight years ago) link
the croz dissed neil's new lady
― Credit: howtokeepapositiveattitudedotcom (stevie), Monday, 13 July 2015 14:47 (eight years ago) link
Also wonder if "Walk On" has been resurrected cuz of Croz? "I hear some people been talking me down..."
I am also trying to imagine my father, whose the same age as Neil, and his friends getting in a similar social media back and forth, having a hard time picturing that
― chr1sb3singer, Monday, 13 July 2015 21:07 (eight years ago) link
I suppose if busts out "Cocaine Eyes" too we'll know for sure
― chr1sb3singer, Monday, 13 July 2015 21:11 (eight years ago) link
Has he just been touring redoing all of his old songs with anti-Monsanto lyrics. I listened through one set earlier tonight that seemed to consist of familiar tunes with different message lyrics anyway. May need to relisten though.
― Stevolende, Monday, 13 July 2015 21:25 (eight years ago) link
Anti-Monsanto/Anti-CROZ
― chr1sb3singer, Monday, 13 July 2015 21:26 (eight years ago) link
would be excited if next album is all anti-Crosby songs
― Οὖτις, Monday, 13 July 2015 22:47 (eight years ago) link
Fork in the Croz
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Monday, 13 July 2015 22:49 (eight years ago) link
Everybody Knows Croz is Nowhere
Croz Fades Away
― Οὖτις, Monday, 13 July 2015 22:53 (eight years ago) link
If I Could Only Forget Your Name
― that's why god destroyed the radio (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Monday, 13 July 2015 22:55 (eight years ago) link
lol winnah
― Οὖτις, Monday, 13 July 2015 22:56 (eight years ago) link
he's already got "Hippie Dream" in the quiver.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 13 July 2015 22:57 (eight years ago) link