neil young

Ain't singin for pampers
Ain't singin for Luvs
Don't sing for no huggies
I just poop my pants

Disks 6 & 7 (the latter being Homegrown) are such awesome bummers. I like Homegrown a lot more in this context than as a standalone album. Coming after what's essentially the extended version of On The Beach on Disk 5, the bummer makes sense. Songs For Judy would have worked as a Disk 7.5 here, but maybe that would be too much of a bummer: after all the acoustic sets are always followed by an electric set and Disk 8 does that.

Anyone seen this or heard of it before? A film of Neil Young busking outside Central Station in Glasgow in 1976. "The Old Laughing Lady" with an old laughing lady and a guy selling the Socialist Worker.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2LzDI1ntZo

The entire thing is here: https://www.dailymotion.com/video/xdtv39.

I've been seeing some comments about how this blows Vol. 1 out of the water in terms of unreleased tracks. No doubt this is much better in terms of the quality of the content, but I was curious to see what the stats were between the two in terms of unreleased/alternate stuff and it turns out that they are pretty damn close, at least in terms of pure numbers.

Vol 1 - 137 total songs, 47 previously unreleased (including live/alternate versions), 13 never released in any form
Vol 2 - 131 total songs, 63 previously unreleased (including live/alternate versions), 12 never released in any form

The only “problem” with volume 1 was that the earliest demos weren’t that interesting

yeah the early years stuff is interesting / necessary, but it's not exactly great.

The book Waging Heavy Peace, is it worth reading?

it's very Neil- lots of digressions, non-linear, lots of stuff about cars, model railways, Pono etc. etc. But it's also seems to be authentically his voice, there are lots of great anecdotes, and it's an easy read. I would recommend it! I've not read Shakey though so can't compare it with that.

That busking video is excellent. Thanks for the links!

By the way, it's in colour, that's what Glasgow looked like in the 70s, they hadn't got round to sandblasting the buildings yet - or the people.

Wasn't the busking video an easter egg hidden on I want to say the blu-ray edition of Archives Vol. 1? Something like that?

i don't think so — neil put it up in the Hearse Theater for a minute a couple years ago. would be great if he actually released the whole odeon / budokan tour film, which pops up on youtube from time to time.

quality is usually not great, but a cleaned up version would be fab

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYy2XuIjhTk

The Easter egg was the one of him finding his own bootlegs in a record shop, iirc.

I still enjoy that Trans got twice as many votes as Harvest. Oh ILMPaws.

Neil's After the Goldrush 50th anniversary boxset retailing here in the UK for £95, but you do get a print and a 7" to go with your LP!
https://www.normanrecords.com/records/184444-neil-young-after-the-gold-rush-50th

I misread that as "you do get a pint," and I thought how perfect it would be if someone released a boxed set that came with a beer.

a foaming pint of Neil Young's

***important post****

Is the "are there any hounds in the house?" and on-stage howling before "Don't Cry No Tears" on Odeon Budukan to be interpreted as proto-Doghouse??

Neil Young's Doghouse Lager

Sampedro: Before the Budokan show, Neil met with some dudes from Casio — he kept telling 'em he wanted them to make a custom keyboard for him that was nothing barking dog sounds. I don't know if they spoke English, though.

tyler do you think mojo would go for the oral history of doghouse?

screw Mojo, I'm thinking the New Yorker

Sampedro: Before the Budokan show, Neil met with some dudes from Casio — he kept telling 'em he wanted them to make a custom keyboard for him that was nothing barking dog sounds. I don't know if they spoke English, though.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHalPGLmpOY

related: looks like the first excerpt of the Trans Animated Film will premiere on the Archives site next week.

Neil Young Makes Archives Free for the Holidays

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/neil-young-archives-free-holidays-1101997/

yessssssss

thanking you neil

Lol I just wasted five minutes trying to figure out how to work that offer and wtf that site does not work right, rip

oh shit, I was hoping i'd just be able to go into the archives and "open up the archives II drawer", but

I didn't check it out, just reposted. Maybe the offer hasn't started yet.

you guys need to reset your minds, this isn't a website it's an ~~~experience~~~

UX and other worldly concerns are of no import to neil

you guys better figure it out because

https://scontent-atl3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/129982357_10158892869534872_188850222621720753_o.jpg?_nc_cat=102&ccb=2&_nc_sid=825194&_nc_ohc=TvGiufIw_-MAX8WDf6t&_nc_ht=scontent-atl3-1.xx&oh=be49dfc163aa14d34e6a00f771f39c90&oe=5FF98F2F

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pv9ZGP1_JUo

you guys i'm in... the user interface is... VERY CONFUSING!

for example, i cant get no t bone

been a member since it started basically and i literally JUST figured out that there is a search function - click the unlabelled Myst keyhole looking thing in the top right

click the unlabelled Myst keyhole looking thing in the top right

lol

The real story of trains more like

Lol just spent several minutes complaining to my wife that there’s no search, and invoked Myst as a comparison

gonna be legit pissed if he doesn't release some of this on vinyls

yeah this tuscaloosa performance has some great moments! it's got a really good "old man" on it with jack nitzsche's piano chords giving the verses a different shine, it's wonderful

haven't gotten there yet! excited. . . tuscaloosa has been released on vinyl i believes

sorry for another NYA user interface comment/question, but i'm basically just wondering:

1) when you click the little folder to get supplementary info about a song (lyrics, personnel, etc), is there a way to get back to this tracklist other than clicking the "Back" file cabinet button (NOT the browser's Back button)? If you actually look through the "folder" and the photos and lyrics and all that, you end up having to click the Back file cabinet button several times to get back to the tracklist?

2) is there a simple way to see how the songs are broken up between the Archives 2 discs/LPs? Again, looking at the tracklist/UI below, you can't tell where the live performances start and end, or really how it's organized at all

https://i.imgur.com/FQOTFzM.png

3) no big deal, I'm glad to just be listening! just wondering if anyone has solved these filing cabinet dilemmas

Also, I love this Tuscaloosa "New Mama". the TTN version is classic, of course, but it's neat to hear the band power through it Harvest style.

there are separate folders for each disc on the archives II (i think placed chronologically)

I've been browsing & listening with the Archives 2 wikipedia page up in another tab just to be able to quickly glance at what song is what, where the discs begin & end, etc

i'm realizing i can also click on the cover artwork within the folder to get to a tracklist for the disc (tuscaloosa on its own, and now i'm switching over to the santa monica TTN show)

still kind of weird, but i get it now! thanks tyler

I also would like to formally rescind my groaning upthread abt there not being enough new material on the new box, been listening nonstop and it all rules, might be close to shelling out for the box now tbh

old homestead disc is truly astounding — there's a whole extra ditch album in there. The Ditch Pentalogy!

agreed, by far my favourite disc. Yesterday I put together an 74-era comp that makes On the Beach seem upbeat in comparison:

Side A
-Little Wing
-Pushed It Over the End
-The Old Homestead
-Frozen Man
-Pardon My Heart
-Winterlong

Side B
-Revolution Blues
-Vacancy
-On the Beach
-One More Sign
-See the Sky About To Rain
-Give Me Strength