Search and destroy: Neil Young

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

Side One

1. Pocahontas

2. Powderfinger

3. Captain Kennedy

4. Hawaii

5. Give Me Strength

Side Two

1. Ride My Llama

2. Hitchhiker

3. Campaigner

4. Human Highway

5. The Old Country Waltz

wow!

damn tyler yr gonna be hanging at the ranch before long!

psyched this is actually happening

really have my fingers crossed for homegrown coming out

hot damn! this is fantastic news

i was kinda hoping will to love would also be on it, but maybe it's the same version from stars 'n bars, anyway?

this looks rad

xp "Will to Love" is from a different all-nighter with Briggs iirc?

yeah i believe so -- same era/studio, different night

yea will to love was recorded at neil's ranch iirc

fireside, also very stoned

think it was overdubbed at Indigo in Malibu (iirc neil recorded the basic track somewhere else on 4-track)

ya i think you are right re: overdubs

http://neilyoungnews.thrasherswheat.org/2017/03/tha-making-of-neil-youngs-will-to-love.html

i hope the hitchhiker songs have a similar "stoney" vibe, because it's my favorite neil recording

yeah it was pretty obvious the acoustic was done at a fireplace and overdubs in a studio.

you can hear the distortion on the live vocals "S's" especially. imo the phasing was brought in to try and cover this up as well as enhance the watery feel.

i just hope this actually comes out

looking likely -- though they just delayed the "original release series" set w/ Time Fades Away on CD lolz

heh, the 1977 RS review of stars 'n bars is something else

Unless one understands the "On the Beach"/"Motion Pictures"/"Ambulance Blues" trilogy from On the Beach (and "Don't Be Denied" from Time Fades Away), one simply cannot write intelligently about Neil Young. But when one understands these songs, one begins to perceive the exciting possibility that perhaps Young is rock & roll's first (and only?) postromantic. That he knows something that we don't, but should. Indeed, I suspect that Young took one of the longest journeys without maps on record, never even slowed up at the point of no return, but somehow got back anyway, a better man with all senses intact. When nearly overwhelmed by marital difficulties and the death of friends, he apparently looked into himself and managed an instinctive or willed act of Jungian purification that put him somewhat safely on the far side of paradise, if not paradox.

haha yeah -- Paul Nelson, right?

yep

Unless one understands the "On the Beach"/"Motion Pictures"/"Ambulance Blues" trilogy from On the Beach (and "Don't Be Denied" from Time Fades Away), one simply cannot write intelligently about Neil Young.

otm

Neil Jung

hahaha fantastic

lol

(i think i stole that from a later Nelson writeup tbh)

heh heh yeah: http://www.angelfire.com/rock2/traces/pages/onestop.html

When Neil Young performed with Crazy Horse at the Palladium in New York City almost two years ago, he made such an impression on me that sometime during the opening show (for which I had a ticket), I knew I had to see them all. For the first time in my life, I patronized the scalpers. Though the tickets cost something like thirty bucks apiece, they were the only way to get in, and I just couldn't let the music stop. Here was rock & roll so primal and unexplainable that I simply wanted to let it wash over me, pulse through me. When Young wandered out and began to play songs like "Cortez The Killer" and "Like A Hurricane" on his black electric guitar, I figured I'd at last found the perfect target for the most overused of adjectives: mythic. For once, none of the answers mattered, because the questions themselves formed such complete and satisfying entities - entities that had long crossed the border of Freudian logic and were now headed out toward the farthest of the far countries. Neil Jung, I wrote in my notebook. A not-inappropriate pun.

I wonder if Archives II doesn't happen as a box set, and ends up being a string of individual releases instead? Might make more sense economically. Liner notes have always been pretty thin on these, even on the first box, so it's not like we're waiting on a big accompanying book or anything.

Teenage Fanclub had a "Neil Jung" song

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

I wonder if Archives II doesn't happen as a box set, and ends up being a string of individual releases instead?
this would be ideal (especially since the CD box set packaging for archives 1 was so lame)

yeah i remember someone on ilm who worked for a WEA label said that there were stacks of that box set on the free table at company functions?

yeah i've bitched about it before, but it's just crazy that an artist of Neil Young's stature was totally outdone by, say, an obscure detroit gospel singer who was lucky enough to be reissued by Numero Group. fwiw, maybe the blu ray version was better, but that shit was way overpriced. and who has a blu ray?

man imagine if Numero got ahold of NY's shit!

yeah, i can't believe that more artists aren't just like "HIRE THOSE GUYS"

yeah i remember someone on ilm who worked for a WEA label said that there were stacks of that box set on the free table at company functions?

This was me. Not free, but like $20 or so at the annual holiday CD sale (all proceeds going to charity) and yeah, there was a whole pyramid of them. Those sales could be great; I got a copy of the Stooges Fun House box set for $10 one year.

Decade is back!

NEIL YOUNG TO RELEASE REMASTERED VERSION OF DECADE ON 3 LP SET, DOUBLE CD AND DIGITAL EDITIONS ON JUNE 23

June 23, 2017-- (Burbank, CA) - Neil Young will release his long out of print Decade anthology on June 23, on Reprise Records. Originally released in 1977 on a triple vinyl set and compiled by Young, Tim Mulligan and David Briggs, Decade has long been considered the definitive 35-song collection of material covering the years between1966-1976 - it features Neil Young solo and with Crazy Horse, Buffalo Springfield, CSNY and the Stills-Young Band. Each of the tracks has been remastered with the original artwork and restored with inside photos by Joel Bernstein, Gary Burdan, Henry Diltz and Tom Wilkes.

Recently, Decade was re-released to its original 3-LP vinyl configuration for Record Store Day 2017 in a limited pressing. It is now widely available once more on vinyl, as a two CD set and digitally. Click here to purchase.

The Decade track listing for the two-CD edition is as follows:

DISC 1:

1. Down To The Wire
2. Burned
3. Mr. Soul
4. Broken Arrow
5. Expecting To Fly
6. Sugar Mountain
7. I Am A Child
8. The Loner
9. The Old Laughing Lady
10. Cinnamon Girl
11. Down By The River
12. Cowgirl In The Sand
13. I Believe In You
14. After The Gold Rush
15. Southern Man
16. Helpless

DISC 2:

1. Ohio
2. Soldier
3. Old Man
4. A Man Needs A Maid
5. Harvest
6. Heart Of Gold
7. Star Of Bethlehem
8. The Needle And The Damage Done
9. Tonight's The Night (Part 1)
10. Tired Eyes
11. Walk On
12. For the Turnstiles
13. Winterlong
14. Deep Forbidden Lake
15. Like A Hurricane
16. Love Is A Rose
17. Cortez The Killer
18. Campaigner
19. Long May You Run

Search and destroy this!

Zuma is like half filler, man

Glorious filler except the CSNY crap.

zuma top 10 sure but my favorite five

1. Tonight's the Night . . . well he shot four men in a cocaine deal
2. Rust Never Sleeps . . . where the eagle glides descending
3. Everybody Knows This is Nowhere . . . when you dance do your senses tingle and take a chance?
4. Harvest . . . see the lonely boy out on the weekend trying to make it pay
5. Time Fades Away . . . don't be denied!

i goofed -- my #3 fave should be after the gold rush (ektin i listen to roughly as much as zuma and on the beach)