NEIL YOUNG ARCHIVES BOX: IT'S REALLY HAPPENING

Landing On More Water

people working for him are like "this is going to be our only chance for the next year to get him to pay attention to this shit"

I can verify this is the case from firsthand accounts

Time Fades Away-era show next up: http://ultimateclassicrock.com/neil-young-tuscaloosa/

should be good! hilarious that 30+ years into the process, Neil is still just making it up. This isn't even listed on the NYA "Timeline" and has never been mentioned as a possible release til a few months ago (ditto the Ragged Glory II thing he teased a little while back).

this year is the 25th anniversary of Sleeps With Angels, I keep hoping for a reissue...

Odeon/Budokan is ready to go, but Tuscaloosa is next."

So...we're never seeing Odeon/Budokan.

Got to see Neil last night and my god it was so great I love Neil the most

I'll take whatever he gives us, to be completely honest, even ones I wasn't all that jazzed about turned out pretty cool.

Dumb question, maybe, but would that electric '76 collection they mention in the Songs For Judy liner notes be the same thing as Odeon/Budokan? Or would that be completely different '76 stuff? Either way, I want more of that stuff soon.

Odeon / Budokan is from the Spring 1976 tour. The Electric '76 tour would be from the fall shows. (Fairly doubtful that the latter collection is forthcoming any time soon, but who knows?)
Looks like you got a great setlist, Matt! So glad that "Thrasher" is back in the mix consistently.

Thanks for clarifying Tyler, wasn't sure about the '76 timeline. I hope those both come out! But, like you said, not gonna hold my breath on either one.

Next Up On The NYA: Isolated Billy Talbot Keytar Tracks From The 'Life' Sessions!

And I'd probably still buy it :/

"He can play one note on anything!"

anyone heard the Revolution Blues outtakes 4 LP set, which is basically just a few minutes of the song and then three hours of Rusty Kershaw and Stephen Stills struggling over a knife while Neil eggs Rusty on to kill Stephen?

yeah "Thrasher" was a real moment for me

also we literally were just naming obscure songs like oh he's gonna open with this or that and I had just joked he's gonna open with "Last Trip to Tulsa" and then he actually did

first ever live "running dry" at about nine minutes here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eI0I2en5Wi0

There's a video of Neil doing a beautiful version of "Birds" from a CSNY Fillmore East show on the site right now....is that something that's been released before??

a bunch of video stuff that's new or i never noticed....in the 90s he did some weird "show" where it was model trains and they did funny voices for the little small model train model guys???

If so, I wonder if he ever ran into Ringo (of Thomas the Tank Engine game) during that period.

“Hey, how’s your make believe train world going?”
“Good, and yours?”

haha, haven't seen that ... i think the CSNY videos were on the OG BLURAY.
archives site remains totally frustrating ... whole lotta talk about unreleased stuff, not a lot of actual unreleased stuff.

IIRC, those CSNY Fillmore shows were filmed for a movie that didn't come out, but Neil hijacked the footage for Journey Through The Past and other docs.

did i plug this thing already?
https://aquariumdrunkard.com/2019/03/26/neil-young-crazy-horse-the-unreleased-albums/
(overview of the unreleased crazy horse stuff that Neil has teased so far)

no but can't wait to read it

it's super frustrating because we paid $20 to join so me, cbesigner and a friend could get presales, there's literally no benefit to being a member outside of 1 live Promise of the Real HD track I got to download

does anyone know much about Oceanside/Countryside?

here's what I know:

Neil’s Comes A Time LP went through a variety of iterations before it was finally released in 1978. The original was Oceanside-Countryside, recorded in Fort Lauderdale and Nashville in early 1977. “Oceanside-Countryside was a record I felt really good about,” Neil wrote in a recent Times-Contrarian post. “It was quite a personal record, mostly made up of acoustic songs which had no bass or drums.” The LP was done and dusted – but Reprise suggested that Neil add more instrumentation to the mix. Uncharacteristically, he took his label’s advice and recorded the more fleshed out material that ended up dominating the released Comes A Time. But Oceanside-Countryside promises a more intimate listening experience. Neil calls it “a breath of fresh air.”

hmmmm interesting...kinda like the hitchhiker vers of comes a time sounds cool....

one thing I ignored until today was the CSNY 1974 set that came out a few years ago...some Neil gems on here

man this thing is turgid on the whole

Stills is especially phlegm-y.

I mean, can a dude get an antihistamine?

yeah he's playing guitar well but he sounds cooked

I can't think of any act I like more than Neil Young that I've lost track of more. That awesome streak of Le Noise, Americana and Psychedelic Pill seemed really promising - and that was only six years ago! - but now I don't know what the hell is going on.

the archives stuff is consistently great

as far as studio stuff, the only thing you've missed is Peace Trail which is really quirky and cool

Promise of the Real sucks as a band

Don't Be Denied off CSNY 74 is really great

I really like the Neil stuff on the csny 74 set, but yeah, the rest is pretty skippable. Pretty bloated.

man them huffing and puffing through "Long Time Gone" in a football stadium is like almost cliche "death of the 60s" shit...

cool to hear Pushed it Over the End

Revolution Blues is surprisingly tuff, Crosby must've stopped wetting himself about that song

re: Oceanside/Countryside, there was one more step before it became Comes A Time, which is the rejected title (and art) of 'Give To The Wind':

https://recordmecca.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Scan-Feb-16-2015-11.56-AM-page26.jpg

https://thumbs.worthpoint.com/zoom/images2/1/0411/07/neil-young-comes-time-lp-give-wind_1_14afe4d5550ed7f531e9eb9e3c42c0fc.jpg

wow i've never heard of that, thanks!

Comes a Time (which is a good album for sure)...but it's funny, I sometimes wonder in a couple cases if there were times when Neil was running low on cash...not that they are uninspired albums at all, but Comes a Time and Harvest Moon for how contrary he is usually those both seemed like times when he was like..okay we need something people are going to like - not a problem

i like the give to the wind cover a lot better than comes a time

one time I got invited to dinner by a Mormon couple & I went & they played Comes a Time

Comes A Time (the song) is one of my all-time Neil faves

Keeping with the Rust font. Like it

Rolling Stone: Neil Young Wants You to Hear His Unreleased Music Before You Die.
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/neil-young-archives-2020-910631/

“I have been talking with our team about releasing all [the albums] here at NYA exclusively in 2020,” he writes. “Initially, these albums would not be released as CDs or vinyl. Eventually they may, but they would be here at NYA exclusively in the meantime and there are quite a few of them.”

How are they still so bad at this?

uuuuggghhhhhh

I'm guessing they'll all get released, but you have to spend hours digging through the virtual filing cabinets on his streaming site to find them.

does anyone have a rough idea of how many people are paying members of the NYA? is it like...10,000 people or so? 50K?

"I want you to hear the music but I also want to present it to you in the clunkiest, most inconvenient, most unappealing way possible. Come to think of it you are probably better off just listening to the boots."

in order for you to hear the pristine sound, i am releasing this on NYA so a friend can record it off of their computer and then send it to you after converting it to .wmv for no particular reason

Initially, these albums would not be released as CDs or vinyl. Eventually they may, but they would be here at NYA exclusively in the meantime

so long, Neil

i think the NYA has around 20,000 subscribers.
pretty much a nonstory, lol. "hmm it never occurred to me to release these things i've been talking about releasing for 25 years! i'll get right on it!"

Maybe if we all write personal letters to Neil explaining that we'd like to pay to hear some of his music before we die, he'll speed up