NEIL YOUNG ARCHIVES BOX: IT'S REALLY HAPPENING

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

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!

so it's basically the blu-ray version of the archives with the next 40something years tacked on (in varying stages of completion).

I should've just rented a U-haul, stolen all those reels, and digitized them myself

"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."

I should've just rented a U-haul, stolen all those reels, and digitized them myself

the icon for the "play" button is the same icon as the "next" button

classic neil

it's hard to make a website with yourself
when you're old enough to drupal
and young enough to html

Neil being a champion of all things analog, the server for the archives site is actually a giant abacus.

it will employ over 3 dozen abacus workers, toiling round the clock to keep up with the server demand

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

keyhole = search is seriously grade A classic neil

woah i got over 3,800 in audio quality then it crashed
icarus flew too close to the sun

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

Drawer makes clacky ratchet sound when it opens, but folders don't make whispy shuffle sound as you flip through them.

I love that the search icon is a keyhole from the game Myst

neil saw some late 90s "enhanced cd-rom" things and was impressed

Needs to integrate winamp visualizer plugins for full psychedelic pill effect.

it is kinda hilarious how much this resembles his Blu-ray menu crap from the late 90s/early 00s

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

Neil would never use the word jpeg

Do you have to "log in" in order to get access? Neil, you shouldn't have to log in to get into the Doghouse

I love that the search icon is a keyhole from the game Myst

― 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)

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!

Show Me A Pono

Assistant: Elliott, the tracklisting for Homegrown has gone missing. I'm so sorry.

Roberts: [softly weeps]

at work, so I haven't tried this yet, but i'm dying reading these descriptions

same here, just laughing to myself reading you guys and trying to imagine the fucking mess

ice cold

https://s7.postimg.org/6xo0p0iaj/stills.jpg

hahahahahaaaa

does anything on the search function work?

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!

XP 10 Men Workin' (IIRC)

does anything on the search function work?

― tylerw, Friday, December 1, 2017 3:01 PM (two minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

not really with the exception of typing in proper names of album titles afaict

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, December 1, 2017 3:02 PM (fifty-one seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol i noticed this

now this site isn't playing music at all even with the Neil Switch flipped to low quality :(

neiltendo switch

"Neil, the servers are crashing"

"I don't care, the people must have FULL QUALITY"

Got The Quality/Ain't Got No Streamin'

Forgot about this until just now, but I'm knee-deep in this site and trying to swim. Some of the extra memorabilia is frustrating cause there's not enough info on it, like the multiple handwritten tracklists for the 1st album with titles I don't know:

http://images.contentful.com/2okapnzdylk2/1968_0828_02_docs02/9a34d36a680bd9e86ca507cc4ce7215e/1968_0828_02_docs02.png

Based on the way he's set it up, you'd think those weirdo-titles would show up as individual listings, just without a playback option, but nope.

Also, if any of you still use soulseek, I just checked and somebody's got a DVD-RIP of the Hal Ashby Solo Trans Film that downloads quick. It's a great document of that era - during Don't Be Denied the giant video screen starts playing Springfield TV and Harvest barn rehearsal clips from Journey Through, and the crowd flips out. 'I've Got A Problem' is there too, better than the Catalyst Crazy Horse version imo.

also also, if you're patient you can manage to pull the photos/scans out:

Briggs' tape box art from 'Everybody Knows' era:

http://images.contentful.com/2okapnzdylk2/1969_0123_01_memo02/b44ffe8ed59f6590e6ab08022db7ea0e/1969_0123_01_memo02.png

haha loving all these descriptions

My team and I have spent years developing this site to make it both enjoyable and easy to use.

this thing is working pretty well for me now, currently jamming the Fillmore 1970 "Cowgirl"

has anyone tried buying a track?

interesting thing lurking in the archives code ... this would be GOOD. live debut of Tonight's the Night in 1973.

https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-lL8NDNVn5zM/WigwaxJEsTI/AAAAAAAANfk/6R-GcDTWwacWt9ec8wk7uGpjsVPn_NOiwCLcBGAs/s1600/roxy-cover.jpg

I approve of this decision, Neil you can go ahead and release this

another unreleased placeholder album that either has been added or I didn't notice before:

Alchemy from 2012 (grouped w/Americana and Psychedelic Pill)...the art says it's a Crazy Horse album but when you click it says Neil Young

Toast is on there now in 01 not sure if it was

Alchemy was a post-psychedelic pill live album that Neil teased at some point if I remember correctly. Think it was touted as the completion of the Rust Trilogy, which is something Neil made up (after having forgotten about year of the horse).

I love how this whole thing creates more questions than it answers

classic neil