Search and destroy: Neil Young

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

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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)

Disagree twice. Zuma isn't quite my favourite Neil album (third, after Gold Rush and Everybody), but I don't think there's any filler on there--"Through My Sails" is beautiful.

yeah I was gonna say I like all the songs on Zuma

Yeah, Zuma is one that I listen to all the way through (not true of Harvest, among others, for me)

you guys live Zuma a la 11DD was so awesome, i cried a tiny bit, they did "Like A Hurricane" as encore just for fun

i also really enjoyed the other band (health and beauty), who played On the Beach and covered "Albuquerque" last time i saw them play, they had some truly sizzling jams
the vibe was super great across the board but something funny happened and i have to put it somewhere so i will put it here

I found a spot that was ok and the stranger I was standing next to asked me "Do you know Danger Bird?" and I was like "Yeah I have like 5 versions of it at home" and he looked at me straight in the face and said "you're a freak". I didn't know what to say so I shrugged and went back to enjoying the show. Lol.

Ha, half of EDD's catalog is basically punk Neil Young.

LL salute! Danger bird rules

Harvest would be helped so much if he would have swapped Man Needs a Maid for Bad Fog of Loneliness

"a man needs a maid" is a candidate for most emo song of all time. the symphonic accompaniment is the most plangent thing ever

I love "Bad Fog." If it had been on Harvest, it would have been my favourite song...replacing "A Man Needs a Maid."

it totally blows my mind that the studio version of that has still not been released

Isn't the one on Archives just a regular studio version?

no, it's live at Massey Hall iirc

no there's a studio version from the Harvest sessions on Archives

ah OK! that's the one I know from long-ago bootlegs

There’s also a tonight’s the night outtake.
I like the symphonic jams on harvest but I could see an argument for replacing them with bad fog and journey through the past ...
Through my sails is the best csny track. Zuma has no filler.

(“Stupid Girl’s vibe is not great but the guitars)

Harvest starts off with a perfectly chill, mildly melancholic vibe, slow river groove of Out on the Weekend, dreamy title track, but then stuff like A Man Needs a Maid (hilariously ott) is so overwhelming that the album ends up actually not that chill, I go with Harvest Moon for hangovers instead

so yeah would love a more gator less coke-infused (iirc?) London overdubs version of that classic

Zuma is indeed perfect, Through My Sails gorgeous

One of my favorite recent covers:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jtcx-zv-ijg

I think Zuma is perfect except for 'Lookin For A Love' which I hate and always skip. Can't understand why 'Through My Sails' could be considered filler and not that clunker. Could've had the slower 'Sedan Delivery' on there instead, or even 'Born To Run'. No real complaints with the list though - Time Fades Away is my #1 pick if I have to.

that lee ann womack cover is great

Indeed, beautiful cover. Awesome pedal steel and fiddle on it. Definitely on the good side of schmaltz.

Alfred OTM

That whole album is great

Thanks! Anyone who still thinks of Lee Ann Womack as the "I Hope You Dance" singer should listen to her last three album. Holy shit.

"Colorado". Neil and Crazy Horse went high up into their mountaintop Colorado studio with a week's supply of oxygen in tanks but it turned out to be helium. They plowed ahead. If anything I have to admire their willingness to throw any ol' fluff out there and pass it off as a NY&CH album.

This isn't bad at all.

w-w-wait a minute fellas! This is the big Neil thread these days:
neil young

I'd destroy these!

no Trans material! A+

I don't think his weakest moments have anything to do with the intent of doing something topical. He's made plenty of great records - many his best moments - that were direct social or political statements: "Pocahontas," "Rockin' in the Free World," many great anti-drug songs, "After the Gold Rush" "Southern Man," "Sixty to Zero" (not the album version but the great electrified live recording Jimmy McDonough gushed about - it was finally released on Bluenote Café), "Welfare Mothers," and "OHIO." Some of these were even done after CNN and Blitzer were household names. What went wrong is when didacticism and slogans took up his entire focus. Even then he could pull off a good track or two in that mold but there was no way he was going to come up with a great album's worth of them, not even close.

Aw, I love Cripple Creek Ferry - Neil trying to channel the easy vibe of The Band's second LP

How can anyone dislike "Through My Sails"?! It's such an unassuming little tune; it feels like we're hearing Neil sing a lullaby to himself.

yah Through My Sails is great

cripple creek ferry is borderline demented to include on a list of his worst songs

when did you stop listening to his new albums?

I like "There's a World", despite the orchestra it's the last sign of child-like Neil before the mid-70s darkness changed his outlook forever. "Captain Kennedy" isn't quite a good song, but as a character vignette, it's vivid and has a reason to exist.
My worst-of would mostly be crude electric throwaways:

We Don't Smoke It No More
Stupid Girl
Homegrown
Motorcycle Mama
Welfare Mothers
Piece of Crap

yeah stupid girl is a standout pick for worst neil songs of the first half of his career

homegrown was album of the year on the 420 thread

if you are actually talking about *actual worst* not just *worst that i am aware of* every song would be culled from the last 15 or so years

I was using Alfred's 1968 - 2003 limits, and there are several albums even from that era that I haven't heard. The bad later stuff I've heard hasn't stuck in my head at all.

Neil's released enough new (not archival) material since Americana to make a really good single-disc compilation, but you have to sift through at least six albums and some one-offs to get it.

Cripple Creek Ferry is very fun to sing.

I've enjoyed most of the new songs he's released in this century, though read and heard enough meh re Colorado and Barn, especially the former, that I may never get to those.