NEIL YOUNG ARCHIVES BOX: IT'S REALLY HAPPENING

It'll be an album of 20-second songs to sing whilst handwashing.

but you have to buy the special toothbrush on the NYA store

next Archives: 100 gigs of FLACs on a USB toothbrush

look out momma there's a mouth sore oozing from your gums

"I got a PONO toothbrush"

sung to the tune of "I got a hip-hop haircut"

ok so if I've got this timeline right:

-Neil tours early 71, solo sets, hangs out with Briggs who's living in Toronto
-Briggs records the Massey Hall show, tells/yells at Neil that it rules and needs to come out
-Neil hems and haws about a live album, then changes his mind and puts out Harvest instead
-Briggs, as usual, complains

Fast forward a few decades:

-Neil digs out the Massey Hall tapes, admits 'Briggs was right, this rules', puts it out
-wants visuals to go along with, so he takes the footage from the Stratford Theatre shot for a Dutch documentary, puts it together

-2020 rolls along and now Neil decides to put out the Stratford show, the audio and the film again
-claims it's 'better' than Massey, so basically back to ignoring Briggs

I say forget 'em both and stick with this:

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Record Store Day 2020 Postponed Due to Coronavirus Concerns

wasn't Homegrown supposed to come out on RSD? looooooooooooool, seriously, this album will never be released

yeah but a lot of those type of RSD "releases" are just timed to coincide with RSD and are widely available after

Did Neil create a world wide-pandemic in order to subvert the release of "Homegrown"? Eat a peach.

This place is slipping; how come I had to learn about this album on Stereogum?

Neil Young has announced a new archival album set for release in 2021. Titled Road Of Plenty, it includes a smattering of ’80s recordings including a live take of the titular “Road Of Plenty” — which later became “Eldorado” on his 1990 album Freedom — captured in Minneapolis with Crazy Horse in 1986. Young believes this to be the best version of the song. Also on the tracklist are a number of studio recordings captured at the Hit Factory in NYC while rehearsing for Young’s 1989 Saturday Night Live — the one with “Rockin’ In The Free World” that rejuvenated Young’s career and essentially launched his ’90s run as a benevolent elder of the grunge movement.

In a message on his Neil Young Archives site, Young explains:

“ROAD OF PLENTY” is a song with a long history, finally morphing into “Eldorado” on the album ‘Freedom’ back in 1990. I tried it out with Buffalo Springfield in 1986 and it was my fault we didn’t get it together at that time and have a reunion, tour and album. I don’t even know why. It was my own fault. I should have done it. Apparently I was distracted by other things at the time. Life was moving fast, perhaps a bit too fast for me to see.

‘Road of Plenty’ lived on with Crazy Horse on the road in a 1986 tour. We have a monster take of it! With the VOLUME DEALERS working again, Niko Bolas has mixed a real masterpiece! How this song escaped is hard for me to believe….

There is a ROAD OF PLENTY album coming in 2021 and it includes that magical night in Minneapolis were the Horse nailed the song. Also included are rarities from that period, including a 17 minute studio version of ’60-0′ with the Bluenotes and the original studio take of ‘Fuckin Up’ — recorded at the Hit Factory in NYC with Poncho, Charley Drayton (bass) and Steve Jordan (drums), the band that played with me on Saturday Night Live when we did ‘Rockin in the Free World’ and ‘No More.’

During the rehearsals for that show, we recorded some amazing music at the Hit Factory in NYC, all of which is in ROAD OF PLENTY. Moving around a lot during that time, I was restless and it shows in this music. Niko and (THE VOLUME DEALERS) have been working on this project now for a while and I think it will be a highlight of 2021…. ROAD OF PLENTY, another album to look forward to here at the Archives!

Hang in there folks, we will get through this all together if we are meant to. Life will never be the same and that’s not bad at all. Look at what we will have…

Love one another and be true to our beautiful EARTH. The future is ours to save.
love!
be well,
ny

So there you go, a lot of information on Road Of Plenty, albeit no official tracklist or release date. Too bad about that Buffalo Springfield reunion that never was!

This guy is a moron.

"Try" from Homegrown is now streamable from the Archives site, and it's just gorgeous: https://neilyoungarchives.com/info-card?track=t1974_1211_04

As expected, Ben Keith and Emmylou Harris make this thing glow. And the major 7th chord he sneaks under the line "We got lots of time" is a really nice touch. Will sit nicely alongside other lighthearted country/folk-mode Neil from that era like "Star of Bethlehem" and "Human Highway"--pure cozy warm-blanket music.

I've been infuriated for years that it's taken so long for Homegrown to come out, but if it's at this caliber all will be forgiven...

NEIL YOUNG ARCHIVES BOX 2: IT'S REALLY HAPPENING 2 U

(note, i haven't been able to figure out how to get the Archives website to show me the tracklist, but tylerw and pals are talking it up and it's there, so possibly i've just been fooled by the neil young archives website AGAIN! at any rate, i'm officially sounding the ilx neil young bullhorn. looks like it's out 11/20/20.)

ok tyler set me straight! it's in the tiny little icon at the top which is a link to the TIMES-CONTRARIAN

https://neilyoungarchives.com/news/1

LOL, or wait, the times-contrarian reports that it comes out 9/20, not 11/20!

note: the file cabinet folder for Archives 2 is still empty, and has a release date of 11/20

lol

lol neil young for pushing me to this point, because i cannot copy and paste the text in your NYA, or even resize the display to get a decent screenshot

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wow is this really gonna happen?

release date is listed as 11/20/20 ... no way it'd ever be delayed. no way!

I believe

even with the annoyingness of neil including previously released discs here, this looks AMAZING.

LOL, or wait, the times-contrarian reports that it comes out 9/20, not 11/20!

note: the file cabinet folder for Archives 2 is still empty, and has a release date of 11/20

― Karl Malone, Sunday, September 20, 2020 10:28 AM (twenty-two minutes ago)bookmarkflaglink

lol

― sleeve, Sunday, September 20, 2020 10:28 AM (twenty-one minutes ago)

listen, i'm just going to be straightforward with this. i was "listening to homegrown" this morning before learning about this news, and in my screenshot excitement i didn't realize that today is 9/20/20. for some reason i saw today's date above the tracklisting (seeing how it's a news item in the neil young archives time-contrarian, with a dateline) and thought it was the release date.

sorry about that neil, your website is fantastic and it all makes a lot of sense to me

in addition, time collapsed for me, personally, several months ago - it's all the same month man

This is the first Neil release announcement since, what, 2010? that does not mention vinyl.

Anyone ever use these?

https://www.nme.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/2015PonoPlayer_Press_070115-1-696x464.jpg

Have their own thread iirc

i thought about it, but i prefer my music devices to roll smoothly down ramps, and the pono seems to be designed to prevent that very thing

same deal with pockets - i need a device that will smoothly roll down a ramp AND fit in my pocket, and the pono, again, doesn't cut it

This is going to be so ill

Feel a bit better about not buying those earlier titles, except for Hitchhiker.

LA Girls and Ocean Boys is a helluva song title

Part of the vocal take from that one ended up in "Dangerbird" (the 'And we used be so calm...' part).

I was literally going to finally buy Homegrown on tomorrow. Thanks for the timely announcement Neil!

Strange that they're adding one track to the Roxy album.

Is that third disk... the acetate version of TTN???

I don't know. The Joni Mitchell song throws me off on that. In Waging Heavy Peace, he writes:

It was an LP recorded in audio vérité, if you will, while completely intoxicated on José Cuervo tequila. We would not start recording until midnight, when we were so fucked up we could hardly walk. One night Joni Mitchell came in and did “Raised on Robbery” in the most sexy and revealing version that song ever had. She still refuses to let me release it. I don’t know what the hell she was thinking when she joined us and sang the song. It kicks ass. What the fuck was that about? It was funkier than anything she has ever cut. A total gem!

Okay I really want to hear that

Is that third disk... the acetate version of TTN???

― Just a few slices of apple, Servant. Thank you. How delicious. (stevie), Monday, September 21, 2020 2:42 AM (eight hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

I was under the impression that the "Briggs version" of TNN was going to be release, tyler do you know if this represents that tracklist?

I've been following this on the Hoffman forums, sort of. It's as exhausting as one might expect.

Regarding TTN, they pointed out that all or almost all of the takes are not marked as previously unreleased, leading one to believe that this is not the Briggs version. Also, Neil was asked about it at one point and he said that version has been lost to time.

yeah i'm guessing that the tonight's the night disc is the album presented in the order in which it was recorded (plus outtakes)? maybe?

more takes from the session could be amazing, be curious how much they were mixing it up, playing it different ways from take to take

yeah, it seems silly that neil (of all people) is so stingy about putting out session outtakes etc. really, even if he didn't want to release that kind of stuff in a big way, it'd be perfect for the Archives site. Like on the the anniversary of Zuma, put up a rehearsal take of "Cortez the Killer" or something.

Pre-order is live for Vol II:

https://neilyoung.warnerrecords.com/neil-young-archives-ii-pre-order.html

Only $250 (LOL)

It seems insane they are only making 3000 of these.

The Greedy Hand indeed.

It seems insane they are only making 3000 of these.

Honestly, I'd be shocked if the first one sold much more than that. I used to work for Warner Music and there were pyramids of those things stacked up at the annual holiday charity CD sale — they were maybe $20 for employees, and nobody went near them. (On the other hand, I got a copy of the Stooges Fun House box for $10, and bought two more for friends.)

Hmmm, I wonder if that means there won't be a standard edition at some point. I can't imagine Neil leaving money on the table but then again, maybe he will. Anyway it's moot because I don't have a spare $250 lying around.

I'm guessing there will be a standard edition that more or less matches the CD version of Archives 1.

I don't want that giant stupid looking box.

So I guess "subscribe to back in stock notifications" means that thing sold out already?

there will be a non-deluxe edition

1st edition sold out

Apparently more are coming, Neil posted an apologetic note on the Archives site about how that pre-order was handled. But it reads like there may not be a non-deluxe edition. There's a whole big brouhaha over at the Hoffman forums.