Search and destroy: Neil Young

5-8 a must. Obviously.

natch

lol at leaving Hawks & Doves and Re-Act-Or out in the cold again by excluding them from these canonical collections.I mean, they are still gettable, but how hard would have been to throw them on the back of the last collection (particularly since the former is made up from some material dating from that period)?

well, i think they're just doing these chronologically -- the next big bestseller will be hawks / reactor / trans / everybody's rockin

TFA also on Spotify now fwiw.

https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-OogwMo3ffUI/TXpM_sbcfZI/AAAAAAAAJNI/IzIWE3hvKp0/s1600/hell_freezes_over.png

I'd buy a Reactor/Trans twofer, if they wanted to put that out at the half the price of the boxset.

really worried about Neil's health tbh

well, i think they're just doing these chronologically -- the next big bestseller will be hawks / reactor / trans / everybody's rockin

― tylerw, Monday, April 10, 2017 1:57 PM (three minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Somehow I doubt they'll try to sell t-shirts of these album covers with the set.

And then there's the issue of, are they really gonna put out a set with Old Ways, Landing on Water, Life, and This Note's For You?

Heh heh, yeah ...
this is such a good run though ... only weak link is Stills Young IMO

Neil Young
Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere
After the Goldrush
Harvest
Time Fades Away
On the Beach
Tonight's the Night
Zuma
Long May You Run
American Stars 'N Bars
Comes A Time
Rust Never Sleeps
Live Rust (1979)

I've never actually heard LMYR -- the only (pre-'80s) gap in my Neil collection -- but I'll be getting that set for the remastered Rust Never Sleeps and (unedited!) Live Rust. The mastering on 1-4 is astounding, so 8.5-12 would at least be worth it for that.

i've got all of those except American Stars 'N Bars, which isn't a weak link but is not exactly a classic. but i mean 11 classic albums, one very good one, and one inessential side project with an essential Neil Young yacht rock jam.

Hey, what about the Journey Through the Past soundtrack? Are they just pretending that didn't happen?

only weak link is Stills Young IMO

Neil's songs on this are great imo. Stills songs are absolute garbage, unfortunately.

yeah neil coasting in 1976 is still neil. stills is terrible.
ha i guess so ... i think the key stuff from that -- the "words" and "alabama" alternates and "soldier" -- were included on archives vol. 1?

(referring to the journey through the past soundtrack)

all of those are great except for long may you run, which only has a couple of decent songs

I've never heard LMYR either, the title track never really did it for me.

AMS&B is fantastic, best of the post-zuma 70s records imo

er AS&B

These collections will trailer a Still-Young Band reunion.

i love "long may you run" (the song) but there are plenty of other places to hear it. i was just listening to a pump organ live version from 2000-ish that was just gorgeous. i always want to like "fountainebleau" more, but it's a poor substitute for "pushed it over the end" ...

yeah neil coasting in 1976 is still neil. stills is terrible.
ha i guess so ... i think the key stuff from that -- the "words" and "alabama" alternates and "soldier" -- were included on archives vol. 1?

― tylerw, Monday, April 10, 2017 2:16 PM (nineteen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

(referring to the journey through the past soundtrack)

― tylerw, Monday, April 10, 2017 2:16 PM (nineteen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Good point. I've never actually seen a copy, nor have I seen the film (never found a decent-looking/sounding, um, download), but I assumed it was all live/rare. I see now that the Neil stuff is all previously released, apart from those three songs.

...and "Let's Go Away For Awhile"--Neil bringin' the Beach Boys deep cuts!

haha yeah, really is a weird release

seems he's never really considered it part of the oeuvre -- here's what neil said in 1975

So you don't really consider the soundtrack album an official Neil Young release?

No. There was an unfortunate sequence of events surrounding Journey Through the Past. The record company told me that they'd finance me doing the movie only if I gave them the soundtrack album. They took the thing [the soundtrack] and put it right out. Then they told me that they didn't want to release the movie because it wasn't...well, they wanted to group it with a bunch of other films. I wanted to get it out there on its own. So they chickened out on the movie because they thought it was weird. But they took me for the album. That's always been a ticklish subject with me. That's the only instance of discooperation and confusion that I've ever had with Warners. Somebody really missed the boat on that one. They fucked me up for sure. It's all right though.

that's interesting, i didn't know he had kind of disowned it. makes sense. you'd think it would be some prime-era neil jamming but it just kind of plods along

yeah it doesn't seem to have a whole lot of thought put into it.

anyhoo, just imagine if all of these "official release" series were complemented by a bonus disc of era-appropriate unreleased material. that would be great.

aaargh damn u tyler

Didn't know that about the soundtrack album. Makes sense.

I'd just like to point out that, in the years since Neil put out Archives 1, Dylan has released no fewer than FOUR Bootleg Series volumes.

yeah, but you have to admit that telling one of your underlings to prepare a couple boxset options and then reviewing them over a weekend a few months later is a lot of work, takes a decade at least

release fucking homegrown altready

I'd love to know where this was shot, the audience are great...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0O1v_7T6p8U

http://i.imgur.com/H08e2Z5.jpg

Amazon says those 4- and 5-CD boxes listed upthread have been pushed to September 8.

Whaaaaa? Last week they said mid-June.

They're never happening.

man those really are some awesome wtf audience shots in that vid

xxp

I like how the cameraman has picked out the coolest members of a Neil Young audience.

yes, an inspiring watch

we might have a thread for awesome audience shots

It's, like, realsville, daddy-o:

http://neilyoungnews.thrasherswheat.org/2017/05/new-album-neil-youngs-hitchhiker-due-14.html

hmmm

Maybe the best thing to come out of the archives yet

we'll see if it comes out!

so wait are these different versions of the same songs that are on the bootleg of the Chrome Dreams acetate? Because at one point he said he was going to issue Chrome Dreams.

Also what about the status of Homegrown and Oceanside/Countryside?

And I think he mentioned a Time Fades Away II once?

neil you've got me in a tizzy!!!!!!

only #braggin a little, but i've heard a stream -- i think that the "powderfinger" here is the same as on chrome dreams, but the rest of it is unbootlegged, i believe (not positive about "campaigner"). whole thing is pretty aaaaaaamazing as a whole. rumors of even more stuff coming in 2017.

awesome. pysched for this

is this the right tracklist?

Ride My Llama
Pocahontas
Powderfinger
Captain Kennedy
Campaigner
Hitchhiker
Hold Back The Tears
Stringman
Too Far Gone
Will to Love

sorry, i meant this one

Powderfinger
Hold back the tears
Human Highway
Hitchhiker
Ride my llama
Lookout for my love
Lotta love
Fontainebleau
Campaigner