complex sessions is a sleeps with angel-era live in the studio vhs (can't remember if it ever came out on dvd)
― tylerw, Friday, 1 December 2017 19:02 (six years ago) link
yeah I have no idea what any of you guys are talking about because navigating this thing is totally impenetrable
oh well
― Οὖτις, Friday, 1 December 2017 19:02 (six years ago) link
to think I once saw the archives with my own eyes
i was going to say "hey if anyone manages to find something cool send a link" but i'm not sure links would work?
like, this is a link to Le Noise: does it work for anyone else: http://www.neilyoungarchives.com/#/album?id=A_072&_k=x71iqr
― Karl Malone, Friday, 1 December 2017 19:05 (six years ago) link
nope
― Οὖτις, Friday, 1 December 2017 19:06 (six years ago) link
lol at this thing. there are pop-ups on top of pop-ups
― Karl Malone, Friday, 1 December 2017 19:07 (six years ago) link
that Le Noise link worked for me!
― Universal LULU Nation (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 1 December 2017 19:08 (six years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DP-YVukUEAAsOce.jpg:large
― tylerw, Friday, 1 December 2017 19:08 (six years ago) link
on the individual songs there are also "official videos" for songs i didn't know had official videos
what a lunatic
― Universal LULU Nation (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 1 December 2017 19:09 (six years ago) link
I have to say this is DEFINITELY better than Dylan's "let's release a steady stream of affordable 2CD sets with great liner notes" approach that everyone was so sick of
sort of wish neil had never heard of the internet
― tylerw, Friday, 1 December 2017 19:09 (six years ago) link
ok, maybe i should actually read through the tutorial for this, but...what is the structure of this thing? it's chronological, only some of the songs from albums are visible unless you click the folder tabs? and why do some songs have multiple tabs on the same row (left and right side)? i get that the middle tab is for albums and other official releases, but...wtf is going on here
― Karl Malone, Friday, 1 December 2017 19:10 (six years ago) link
forget it karl it's shakeytown
― tylerw, Friday, 1 December 2017 19:12 (six years ago) link
that link started working for me, but then took like 10 minutes and still didn't finish loading.
― sleeve, Friday, 1 December 2017 19:15 (six years ago) link
btw Neil Young in Berlin is on the timeline too so Solo Trans is not the concert on YouTube
Different shows. Berlin is the last TransBand show, filmed by Michael Lindsey-Hogg in late '82 and originally shown on HBO. Solo Trans is an American concert from the next year's Trans TV tour, with was Neil by himself and with the Shocking Pinks on the encore.
Solo Trans is up in bits and pieces on Youtube.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_wL1YMhLao
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IAyG_u8mWxA
― Never Learn To Mike Love (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 1 December 2017 19:18 (six years ago) link
yeah Berlin (which is readily available) is 82. solo trans is 83 w/ shocking pinks, and only popped up in full on youtube briefly a couple years ago. might've been released on VHS though?
― tylerw, Friday, 1 December 2017 19:20 (six years ago) link
also is there going to be (god help us)...an app?
― Universal LULU Nation (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 1 December 2017 19:24 (six years ago) link
that '83 tour is a great Neil time-capsule. At the time fans/critics seemed generally confused at what he was going for but in the context of the height of Reagan-era in the US Neil's p much right in stride with what was going on culturally - synthesizers, 50s nostalgia, a general hokiness and cardboard-thin optimism
― Οὖτις, Friday, 1 December 2017 19:25 (six years ago) link
browsing through this archive is a total fucking nightmare
― Karl Malone, Friday, December 1, 2017 6:39 PM (forty-six minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
classic neil
― hi i’m darren and i’m a bouncer from bendigo (bizarro gazzara), Friday, December 1, 2017 6:40 PM (forty-six minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
lol otm this is impossible to navigate ffs!
― Le Bateau Ivre, Friday, 1 December 2017 19:29 (six years ago) link
so it's basically the blu-ray version of the archives with the next 40something years tacked on (in varying stages of completion).
― tylerw, Friday, 1 December 2017 19:32 (six years ago) link
I should've just rented a U-haul, stolen all those reels, and digitized them myself
― Οὖτις, Friday, 1 December 2017 19:39 (six years ago) link
"Old man, look at my life. It's in a subfolder B after you right-click on that little LincVolt logo dealie...no, the other one."
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Friday, 1 December 2017 19:51 (six years ago) link
― hi i’m darren and i’m a bouncer from bendigo (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 1 December 2017 19:53 (six years ago) link
the icon for the "play" button is the same icon as the "next" button
― Karl Malone, Friday, 1 December 2017 19:55 (six years ago) link
― hi i’m darren and i’m a bouncer from bendigo (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 1 December 2017 19:58 (six years ago) link
it's hard to make a website with yourselfwhen you're old enough to drupaland young enough to html
― Universal LULU Nation (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 1 December 2017 19:59 (six years ago) link
Neil being a champion of all things analog, the server for the archives site is actually a giant abacus.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Friday, 1 December 2017 20:03 (six years ago) link
it will employ over 3 dozen abacus workers, toiling round the clock to keep up with the server demand
― Karl Malone, Friday, 1 December 2017 20:05 (six years ago) link
https://s7.postimg.org/xmfrmw5uj/Flipthe_Neil_Switch.jpgp
flip that neil switch!!!! not bragging just saying my audio quality is 2,877 right now, feels great
I love that the search icon is a keyhole from the game Myst
― Universal LULU Nation (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 1 December 2017 20:05 (six years ago) link
keyhole = search is seriously grade A classic neil
― Karl Malone, Friday, 1 December 2017 20:07 (six years ago) link
woah i got over 3,800 in audio quality then it crashedicarus flew too close to the sun
― Universal LULU Nation (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 1 December 2017 20:13 (six years ago) link
i'm not even gonna bother with this tbh
just gonna wait until neil dies and someone else puts this stuff out in a reasonable way
― marcos, Friday, 1 December 2017 20:15 (six years ago) link
Drawer makes clacky ratchet sound when it opens, but folders don't make whispy shuffle sound as you flip through them.
― Mungolian Jerryset (bendy), Friday, 1 December 2017 20:16 (six years ago) link
neil saw some late 90s "enhanced cd-rom" things and was impressed
― marcos, Friday, 1 December 2017 20:19 (six years ago) link
Needs to integrate winamp visualizer plugins for full psychedelic pill effect.
― Mungolian Jerryset (bendy), Friday, 1 December 2017 20:22 (six years ago) link
it is kinda hilarious how much this resembles his Blu-ray menu crap from the late 90s/early 00s
― Οὖτις, Friday, 1 December 2017 20:27 (six years ago) link
neil: gedda hold of this idea: you'll be able to click on the jpeg, and that'll open up other things you can play with!neil hanger-ons ('the booger boys'): sounds great neil
― Karl Malone, Friday, 1 December 2017 20:30 (six years ago) link
Neil would never use the word jpeg
― Οὖτις, Friday, 1 December 2017 20:32 (six years ago) link
Do you have to "log in" in order to get access? Neil, you shouldn't have to log in to get into the Doghouse
― chr1sb3singer, Friday, 1 December 2017 20:33 (six years ago) link
― Universal LULU Nation (upper mississippi sh@kedown),
Elliott Roberts kicks open the office door: "GODDAMMIT WHICH ONE OF YOU MOTHERFUCKERS SHOWED NEIL MYST?! THIS ARCHIVE IS NEVER GOING FUCKING MAKE SENSE!"
(joke h/t to trylerw)
― chr1sb3singer, Friday, 1 December 2017 20:35 (six years ago) link
Also please tell me that Neil's management office is a Mad Men/Barney Miller style office bullpen where people smoke and discuss Neil albums that don't eventually get released and there is office intrigue and Elliott Roberts has a big office at the far end of the room and omg this could be a prestige cable drama!
― chr1sb3singer, Friday, 1 December 2017 20:41 (six years ago) link
Show Me A Pono
― Never Learn To Mike Love (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 1 December 2017 20:43 (six years ago) link
Assistant: Elliott, the tracklisting for Homegrown has gone missing. I'm so sorry.
Roberts: [softly weeps]
― tylerw, Friday, 1 December 2017 20:45 (six years ago) link
at work, so I haven't tried this yet, but i'm dying reading these descriptions
― intheblanks, Friday, 1 December 2017 20:46 (six years ago) link
same here, just laughing to myself reading you guys and trying to imagine the fucking mess
― Dinsdale, Friday, 1 December 2017 20:51 (six years ago) link
ice cold
https://s7.postimg.org/6xo0p0iaj/stills.jpg
― Universal LULU Nation (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 1 December 2017 20:59 (six years ago) link
hahahahahaaaa
― Οὖτις, Friday, 1 December 2017 20:59 (six years ago) link
does anything on the search function work?
― tylerw, Friday, 1 December 2017 21:01 (six years ago) link
If you land on the front page, and click the 'back' button in the top left it takes you back to... the page you were on before you went to the Neil Young Archives! In my case: Google, googling Neil Young Archives. This is insanity!
― Le Bateau Ivre, Friday, 1 December 2017 21:02 (six years ago) link
XP 10 Men Workin' (IIRC)
― Never Learn To Mike Love (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 1 December 2017 21:02 (six years ago) link