neil young

Just got the new record today. "If I Don't Know" is pretty cool! Comes with a Shakey Pictures DVD directed by Daryl Hannah.

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?

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

what town were yr family farming in ums?

blue earth/frost area

(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!

you don't need to live in Canada if Canada ~lives in you~

Yea Neil is always in a Canada of the Mind

Tyler-DO IT

think i've listened to enough neil young over the years to qualify for honorary canadian citizenship tbh

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?

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

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

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

if they do believe that, someone should buy them a copy of decade cuz apparently all they've heard is harvest

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 know
https://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?

the croz dissed neil's new lady

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

I suppose if busts out "Cocaine Eyes" too we'll know for sure

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.

Anti-Monsanto/Anti-CROZ

would be excited if next album is all anti-Crosby songs

Fork in the Croz

Everybody Knows Croz is Nowhere

Croz Fades Away

If I Could Only Forget Your Name

lol winnah

he's already got "Hippie Dream" in the quiver.

http://radaronline.com/photos/daryl-hannah-neil-young-vacation-photos/photo/1069435/

Neil needs to cover this pronto

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=087mi1e46us

Xpost sad to see Neil still trading on his sex appeal at that age

Did you see his sideboob damn

Grampbod for dayssssss

I think we need a thinkpiece about aging boomers and their violent musical back & forths and what that says about our parents

posted on facebook today:
Streaming has ended for me. I hope this is ok for my fans.
It's not because of the money, although my share (like all the other artists) was dramatically reduced by bad deals made without my consent.
It's about sound quality. I don't need my music to be devalued by the worst quality in the history of broadcasting or any other form of distribution. I don't feel right allowing this to be sold to my fans. It's bad for my music.
For me, It's about making and distributing music people can really hear and feel. I stand for that.
When the quality is back, I'll give it another look. Never say never.
Neil Young

wasn't aware any of his stuff was available for streaming anyway tbh

really? it is all on spotify

listening to monsanto years right now

xp yeah it was on everything, afaik
he came out in favor of spotify or pandora in one of his books -- said something along the lines of "it's like the radio of today"

Just about every single thing he's ever released has been on all the streaming services for as long as they've been around. As Ned said on fb, there's a distinct undertone of "OH GOD PLEASE BUY PONO HELP ME." to this.

if only someone would make a digital music recorder with true audiophile grade hardware....one that plays high resolution digital files the way they are meant to be heard....one that's shaped like...i don't know...a toblerone bar.....

eh...there i go again, dreaming out loud....never happen

the worst quality in the history of broadcasting

Man, good thing he avoided ever having listened to AM radio. Or any recordings made prior to 1950 or so.

Hell, Spotify still sounds better than even FM radio most of the time.

guys my total ignorance of what's on streaming services is due to my never using any/being opposed to all of them it's cool

more from neil -
I was there.
AM radio kicked streaming's ass.
Analog Cassettes and 8 tracks also kicked streaming's ass,
and absolutely rocked compared to streaming.
Streaming sucks. Streaming is the worst audio in history.
If you want it, you got it. It's here to stay.
Your choice.
Copy my songs if you want to. That's free.
Your choice.
All my music, my life's work, is what I am preserving the way I want it to be.
It's already started. My music is being removed from all streaming services. It's not good enough to sell or rent.
Make streaming sound good and I will be back.
Neil Young

it is crazy that he's clearly just remembering how things sounded back in the day through a veil of deep nostalgia. of course AM radio sounded great to him when he was a teenager! but if he heard it now he'd be like YOU ARE ONLY HEARING 10 PERCENT OF MY WORK.

he came out in favor of spotify or pandora in one of his books -- said something along the lines of "it's like the radio of today"

I thought he'd said piracy was the new radio

Copy my songs if you want to. That's free.

it is?

xp
he might've said that too!
"this burrito ... it's like the new radio."

8-Tracks, where a song you're listening to could possibly just STOP right in the middle and the remainder of it be picked up when the next track is engaged. Okay. That kicks streaming's ass. Sure.

guys