neil young

not sure how "peace trail" is going to come to life w/o the PoTR conga guy, but maybe keltner can swing it

Bushnell? I thought you said Buckmaster!

honestly i'm a little bummed this isn't with the promise of the new
i don't think neil writes songs that are strong enough to stand up to primarily acoustic settings anymore (hope i'm wrong), so basically at this point all i ever hope for is psychedelic pill type albums where he uses them to take off...a live album culled from the last couple years of dates would have been sweet

have you already forgotten about EARTH?

MY NEW ROBOT

MY NEW DOGHOUSE

A DOGHOUSE FOR ROBOT DOGS

my new doghouse-uh
you should SEEEEEEE my new doghouse

Human Highway's in the doghouse
Meeeeeet My New Robot
[solo]

Guys I think you might be burying the lede

“Terrorist Suicide Hang Gliders”! Is this an Amon Duul II song?

that one actually sounded like the best of the bunch on the live tape i heard. it does not sound like amon duul II, though.

so this morning I had a dream where Neil discovered Flipper in 1983. At first he just started showing up to their shows, standing there grinning in the crowd, but after a while he'd regularly get on stage and do blowout 30 minute renditions of Sex Bomb and they'd let him sing back up on Sacrifice, etc. Before I woke up he was trying to convince them to let him produce their next album. Bruce Loose was saying how they didn't really want people to think they were just hiding behind his name or anything, but he kept insisting he'd use 'Bernard Shakey' and nobody would realize. Innaresting...

If Flipper had stuck with him, he might have offered them "Doghouse"!

i enjoyed this video a lot:

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

I really miss long lead-ups to album releases for some reason.

so...Pitchfork has a story on Neil sharing the song "Peace Trail"....number one...I really like how this sounds, and the song sounds way better than it did in bootlegs! after writing this one off I'm kinda excited

http://pitchfork.com/news/69373-neil-young-shares-new-song-peace-trail-listen/

also....the song is in a..........drumroll....SPOTIFY link after all that shit he talked about streaming and pono and blah blah blah his whole catalog is up again! (even some stuff like Chrome Dreams II and Road Rock that wasn't before)....looks like everything except Time Fades Away. Old coot just wanted a payday from Spotify haha

yeahhh, i like the sound of this! sounds more considered/less tossed off than I expected. getting a vintage Giant Sand thing (obviously a very Neil-influenced band).

getting a vintage Giant Sand thing (obviously a very Neil-influenced band).

yes! i was totally trying to place it...partially the electric plus really stripped down lineup...and also there's a kinda cool weird warble effect on the vox in some areas

also reminds me a bit of the living with war...naked or whatever it was called where they stripped the choir off

ha, yeah, the press release noted autotune -- though here it's subtle enough that you wonder why they bothered. i dunno, i think this sounds really solid -- the keltner percussion seems inspired.

catalog is back on spotify and apple

http://www.spin.com/2016/11/neil-youngs-music-is-back-on-spotify-and-apple-music/

let's not pretend we couldn't have all been listening to Old Ways and Everybody's Rockin on spotify for the past year, people.

lol

nice. No Zuma on Spotify for some reason, but yeah, everything else looks to be on there.

Napster ‏@napster 23m23 minutes ago
The legendary @Neilyoung entire catalog is now on @napster Listen now! http://on.napster.com/2eHBsY

can't believe Napster doesn't have Neil's classic "Horse With No Name" on there

lol

somehow i never heard the solo acoustic 'down by the river' until just now, the one on live at massey hall. whew, what a song.

Zuma and Time Fades Away now on Spotify

Nice.

haha, time fades away on spotify, what a world.

See guys President Trump isn't going to be so bad

Ordinary people! Trumpicana people!

I never knew a man could tell so many lies
He had a different story for every set of eyes
How can he remember who he's talking to?
Cause I know it ain't me, and hope it isn't you.

the "on the beach" album, but especially "ambulance blues" hit really hard today

so... the upcoming album is acoustic? just Neil on guitar, Keltner on drums and some bassist Neil overheard at a session for one of the Promise bandmates... dunno how that had escaped me, but now listening to 2nd single "Show Me" and it sounds pretty good - getting excited abt this!

liking the drums a lot

"vintage Giant Sand thing" p accurate

new song is o_O

indeed

Trans fans will dig

gotta say, it sounds real nice

is there a place to hear it? or are we still talking about the title track?

oh ha, i see it is on spotify ... still not used to that.

ha, i like this! has kind of a "frankie lee and judas priest" feel?

yeah & agree w/niels i like this odd little offhand use of autotune on a mostly (to this point at least) folky feeling album...

fyi: Amazon is pre-selling this album on cassette--thought of getting it (a little cheaper and maybe longer-lasting than mp3, if my player doesn't eat it), but decided on CD so could keep the rip and send disc to my cuz for Xmas (a tradition).

haw, maybe neil will get heavy into cassettes now that pono is kaputt (or seems to be?). "that's the way 'doghouse' was meant to be heard!"

haha cassette was def the way doghouse was meant to be heard

i've thought about that before, there would have been an era...mid/late 80s for certain types of music, particularly hair metal, pop acts, rap, where i wonder if they mastered specifically for cassette? given that i'd imagine, like Poison or Janet Jackson or 2 Live Crew etc they would have sold more units on cassette than anything else?

yeah, like 85-89 was probably peak cassette. my family didn't get a CD player til about 91, I think.

think i bought my first neil albums on cassette -- harvest moon, weld, ragged glory, freedom. they must've sounded pretty good.

Archives II will be cassette and vinyl only, with the cassette version being more expensive.

late 80s rap was def all about cassettes

Ooh, I like those new tracks better than anything since Prairie Wind