neil young

Listening to this now. It's pretty great. If Weld was the doom metal version of this band, this is the caveman-stompin' garage-rock version.

I hardly think one needs audiophile level equipment to appreciate the crunch and squall of the Horse.

best listened to on a crappy tape deck

SPOTIFY SECURITY HQ, ALPHA ROOM
TIME ZONE: CLASSIFIED

The General: What are the most recent and severe security threats to our profit margins, Analyst III?
Analyst III: One moment, General. I will ask my team to run the Advance Scan. I know you sometimes scold me for asking your permission for this, but protocol informs that I must --
The General: It's ok, Analyst III, I understand - you have my permission to run the Advance Scan. I know it's dangerous, and it's expensive. But the Quarterly Update is just around the corner. Take the appropriate precautions, as I know you --
Analyst: As you know I always do. And as you know, I always will. I love you, General. TEAM!! ADVANCE SCAN PERMISSIONS CONFIRMED. INITIALIZE!!!!

*team searches for "Spot1fy" on ILX*

Analyst: Nothing, General. Nothing at all. It's clean.

I didn't want Neil to read that I was listening on 5p0t1fy, I know he'd be upset

any of you ever play neil young songs on guitar? he has so many songs that are actually pretty easy to play (if you're just doing the rhythm and not any wild soloing, at least)

time to play some goddamn Old Man over here, then a little Harvest Moon

Neil S, that's why the ILX security team is the most advanced on the internet. YOU are the General over here!

i might try a honey slide in a minute :D

we do a 7r1pl3 level 1337-speak on ilx, to foil anyone who might hear us

Neil Young is pretty much how I learned to play guitar (which is probably not unique).
Motion Pictures is a fun one.

One of the greatest things about Neil as guitar teacher is that few of his songs are particularly fast, so aside from some weird tunings here and there, at lot of his stuff is kind of loose and languid and easy to follow along with.

I'm trying to figure out if I should order Rust Bucket on vinyl (not super deluxe) or just listen to it on NYA. Anyone have thoughts on the vinyl?

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vinyl sounds great...also the vinyl is not a poorly designed website

gahhh ok I’m getting the vinyl

I like what you said about yknow just throwing on disc 4, the whole thing somehow seems less daunting than on cd lol

Never noticed until today that Love and Only Love and Manson On The Hill have almost identical choruses

This set is really good though

but why are there fadeouts between each song?

any of you ever play neil young songs on guitar? he has so many songs that are actually pretty easy to play

all of his songs are easy to play! hell, even crazy horse could play 'em :)

trying to get their sound, though. that takes some work.

vinyl sounds great...also the vinyl is not a poorly designed website

lol, another point in it's favor.

xxxposts about the DVD sounding "shittier" : the DVD packaging does say it's an "original film soundtrack recording" while the CD packaging says "mastered from original analog tapes"

xp yeah - getting free access to the site last year had the dual effects of convincing me to buy the new box set and also convincing me to never subscribe to the site

It's almost impressive how clunky and frustrating it is! I briefly considered subscribing when I saw there's an app for it now (since I'm very rarely in position to listen from the web), but after reading how that makes it even harder to find stuff, just, no...

My Archives II box is supposed to show up today, so that will make for some good weekend listening though.

mine hasn't even shipped :(

any of you ever play neil young songs on guitar?

i play winterlong to the point of annoying myself. great on acoustic or electric.

been way down in the rust bucket for awhile now and loving it. what a time to be alive and lovin Neil not young.

^^ I could live in the guitar tone on this thing. So good.

I'm not sure I'm ready for yet another solo Neil archival thing, need more Horse in my life right now.

one of the great versions of "cortez the killer"

oh wow - https://neilyoung.warnerartists.net/eu/delivery/ : "For orders shipping to the EU after January 1st, additional import charges/taxes may need to be paid by you upon delivery. If you are contacted by a courier and are asked to pay import duties within the EU, please contact our customer service team."

I did and I just received a mail from the customer service team asking for proof of payment and my bank account details, they're going to repay the import taxes!

nice

oh... I just got to the Cowgirl In The Sand bits with the audio problems on the DVD. Nice solution (couple of segments where there's only audience(?) audio) - they could have completely cut it too but now at least we have this.

So glad to be able to finally hold Vol. II in my hands! So excited to dig in.

enjoy jon!

hmmm, Toast might have cover art!

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Evv_F48XMAY10jq?format=jpg&name=medium

that’s great.

kind of wish he would reissue archives i, used copies are not cheap

ooh that Toast looks tasty.

Given the way Archives I & II have been organized, if he was already set on releasing entire discs as standalone releases (the live material, Homegrown), I would have preferred the remaining studio material on bonus discs paired with the relevant albums instead of mixing them together with select album tracks. (In some cases, almost the entire album.) It would have eliminated the overlap without losing the context - ah well.

(I guess there's arguably more overlap with a "deluxe edition bonus disc" type release, but I'm upgrading and buying the remastered albums anyway, so I was thinking along those lines.)

Digging STE's review on Pitchfork today, good write-up. Weird side note though, I keep seeing that cover art - is that from the vinyl or the deluxe edition?

My cover looks like this:

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61U9tuZDGIL._SY355_.jpg

jon, that's the CD cover. The vinyl/deluxe box has the big logo thing: https://neilyoung.warnerrecords.com/way-down-in-the-rust-bucket-deluxe-box-set-edition-dvd-4-lps-2-cds-1.html

Makes sense, thanks! Was just curious since I see that other one popping up all over.

strong supporter of the enhanced laughter sequence in 'over and over'

ha ha ha ha!

I had to go check how the studio version of The Days That Used To Be ends because the repeated "people say don't rock the boat" sounds like he forgot the real lyrics - but there aren't any there.

Appealing review by Erlewine. incl description of music x career context:
Recorded in 1990 at a small Santa Cruz club, this joyous live document flips the energy of 1991’s Weld on its head, swapping out incendiary arena rockers for oddball picks and warm, woolly vibes.

https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/neil-young-and-crazy-horse-way-down-in-the-rust-bucket/
Note ref to this being the 12th live album in Young’s ongoing (and now absurdly active) Archives series

the Dume disc has very good vibes

the good vibes of 'stupid girl' lol, but i get what you mean. llama handclaps really kick off the vibes.

Appropriate that the Archives Vol. 2 box shows up at the same time many of us can open our windows again for the first time in months.

yes perfect timing. disc 1 was the soundtrack to firing up the grill yesterday - feel like my Middle Aged Backyard Guy vibes were coming through very strong.

got my CDs - bummer the packaging on the non-deluxe version is a real step down from the archives I box

still, been great to listen to this away from my desk and headphones, without dealing with NYA

the version of "everybody's alone" on the tonight's the night disc might be my fav version of that song

it is so awesome, agreed

I set an informal goal to finish this year with every regular-issue Neil studio album--I won't worry about keeping up with Archive-type reissues and ephemera, and I won't overpay. I'm down to about six or seven more. (Everything through to Life on vinyl, the rest on CD.)

There's a store in Woodstock (Ontario) that has a great CD clear-out section, where I found two I'd long avoided for $2 each: Are You Passionate? and Living with War. I avoided them because of "Let's Roll" and "Let's Impeach the President"--strong dislike for both at the time. (Ditto his COVID song--his knack for politics seems long-gone to me.)

Once through in the car, I thought Are You Passionate? was pretty good. There are only two other thump-thump songs like "Let's Roll," and they're both a little better. The other eight songs I liked. It'd sound dismissive to call them pleasant or agreeable, but I don't mean it that way--simply that they're good driving music. He's written a million love songs, so I'm not sure how much more he has to say on the subject--and there were lyrics in "Quit (Don't Say You Love Me)" that were so obvious I was literally able to fill in a verse myself the first time--but the melodies are there. My favourite is the title song; I think the title's a little clunky, so that surprised me. But I was moved by both the five-note riff the title phrase wraps itself around and the on me/on you parts. In the car for a while tomorrow, so I'll move on to Living with War.

I think I bought Walter Becker's Circus Money in that same Woodstock store, my brother-in-law's family used to live there (now they live in Paris, Ontario, I'm not sure how far that is from your town).

I'm very patient and don't mind waiting to hear all the records made by artists I like, but I always believe that I will eventually. I don't think that Neil would be one where I'd search out all the records post-'95 (though my older brother seems to hear most of the newest ones). There's probably a thread for this topic; the "completist" thread seemed to be more about physical collecting .

clemenza - there's also living with war - in the beginning, a kind of let it be....naked thing where it's just the band and no choir, which gets overbearing on the regular release

Thanks. That's the kind of thing I won't worry about, for the time being anyway--maybe down the road.

(xpost) St. Marys, so pretty close to both (45 minutes to Woodstock). Looks like it was a great store at one time; like everyone, they seem to be hanging on and clearing out a lot of stuff.

I've got the completist problem for sure, but with the Neil albums, it hasn't been an obsession at all--I've been filling in gaps every so often for a couple of decades. And, as I say, I don't have any urge to start buying all the Archive stuff. (I have the first, the last "payment" I ever received for a review.) I'm close enough now, though, that finishing up seems like the thing to do. When I finish, I'm going to write up a big Consumer Guide for all 39 (I checked) of them.