neil young

Ladies and gentlemen
Van has left the building

I think he played a couple of places here in 2003, the first being the Rosemont Theatre, which is not huge, the second being the United Center, which is a lot bigger.

Man I remember going to buy tix to that Rosemont theater show having the same balking reaction at the prices as I did this week. Sorry Neil/Horse, just gonna have to relish my coupla times seeing ya in the 90s ( can still recall the old dudes just not digging SY @ their quietist) & the fine boots that are out there - that price is too f’in high (queue Used Cars gif).

I have been on a big Neil Young listening kick for the past few weeks.

Really love this ‘Way Down in the Rust Bucket’ live show from 1990. That one was new to me, but I’ve already given it a half dozen listens. The other one that I had but had not heard in years was the ‘Year of the Horse’. The “Dangerbird” on that one is ridiculously epic. It definitely sat with me as a better live album than it did when it was new.

rust bucket is phenomenal, might be favourite ny&ch live album tbh

OK, apparently the deal with the new album is, it's a re-recording of Ragged Glory with (most of) the song titles changed...

City Life (fka Country Home)
Feels Like A Railroad (fka White Line)
Heart Of Steel (fka Fuckin' Up)
Broken Circle (fka Over & Over)
Valley Of Hearts (fka Love To Burn)
Farmer John
Walkin' In My Place (fka Mansion On The Hill)
To Follow One's Own Dream (fka Days That Used To Be)
Chance On Love (??? - this is also a line from Love To Burn)

And here's "Broken Circle":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MiTaAF4S1eE

I don't know that I need this. What I need is for Neil to release the remastered Ragged Glory with the bonus tracks as a standalone, so I don't have to buy the most recent "Official Release Series" box to get it.

fu##in' up (neil's version)

lol

Well, if the tour is going to focus on the new one, you can pretend it's really a Ragged Glory tour, which is great news if you love Weld (which I do and I'm far from alone in that regard).

This release is already bizarre but the phrase “chance on love” appears nowhere in “Love and Only Love.” And he still plays that one!

For an artist that has espoused IDGAF, one wonders what nexus this project originated,

i'm watching Dead Man for the first time in a million years and his score is so fucking good

really a *million years* cmon man no one is that old

it's called "adding some spice to your social media posts to make them more interesting for the reader," you should try it sometime

i think 'dead man' is a top 5 neil release for me

a million years ago things were actually less spicy than they are now (by 5-10 degrees).

Neil's work on the Dead Man soundtrack is up there with Ry Cooder's on Paris, Texas and they make a good pair of companion records, possibly also with some later Earth records too

Another companion OST: Grizzly Man - Richard Thompson with Jim O'Rourke, Henry Kaiser, et al

Neil Young returning to Spotify is going to be the biggest single day catalog dump of goodness on that service since John Zorn OK'd access to Tzadik. I hope my family will be cool with several days worth of pent up Neil albums playing in the kitchen.

lol the announcement on his site is titled "MY RETURN TO LOW RES SPOTIFY"

Feedback is Back! (in low res)

Don't want my mp3
Don't want my mp3
I'm driftin' back
I'm driftin' back
I'm driftin' back
I'm driftin' back
I'm driftin' back
When you hear my song now
You only get five percent
You used to get it all
You used to get it all
Blocking out my anger
Blocking out my thoughts
Blocking out my anger now
Blocking out my thoughts

you know what's wild? Afaict there are like five things on Spotify that feature Neil Young, a drop in the bucket, and those five things, basically five tracks, supposedly get three and a half million listens a month.

Apparently those numbers (or some of them) are because some Buffalo Springfield stuff is additionally credited to him.

The Springfield have 6.6 million monthly listeners.

the neil songs i kept stored in my offlines during this blackout. possibly my alltime goats neil list?:

(into the black)
la
lotta love
powderfinger
prime of life
walk on

... no 'don't be denied' though - fascinating!

I bought an old cassette of On The Beach for $5 yesterday and listened to it on my Walkman - hopefully Neil is cool with this authentically shitty analogue experience

(it actually sounded pretty good to be honest)

Walk On seems underrated maybe?

It doesn’t get enough love, it’s a jam and a half.

I’d say Spotify was a business success if it can make people just wait out listening to any Neil Young on the off chance he comes back around to their platform

lol Neil's stance personally made me want to support him more via investing in some of his vinyl. Waiting it out is a little like not picking up a film widely available on DVD on the off chance it'll show up on Amazon prime streaming for a month.

it should be said because i am aware of the thread i am posting in that all of those -'cept prime of life ofc- were self-made og vinyl->320mp3s. no pirating here, neil.

yes, my rip of 'powderfinger' sounds amazing. i know. thanks.

otm I signed up to test drive Apple Music almost entirely based on how little Neil Young I’d heard in the past couple years. The interface is terrible, the animated album covers are dumb, the navigation sucked, etc etc. I canceled before the free trial was up and resigned myself to streaming his albums on youtube. Never even crossed my mind to join Tidal or whatever.

Honestly, when you've released 100 albums or whatever, 20+ of them must-haves, more if you include boxed sets, live albums, other projects, digital is sadly the best way to navigate, imo.

the archives versions of “Pocahontas” and “ride my llama” with crazy horse are so amazing, it’s absurd he chose to release those dinky solo versions on rust (sorry)

I long to be way down in the rust bucket again

During his Spotify blackout I indeed bought two (used) Neil Young albums.

I really wish he'd release the 2CD Ragged Glory as a standalone. I don't want to buy that box set.

the archives versions of “Pocahontas”...

I read that as "the Archies versions of..."

Lol

Dunno how y'all aren't making the most of sweet sweet tidal hi-fi

Neil never left for me. Austin, that's a mighty fine collection of tracks. LA was the only song I could manage to get a Keith urban obsessed guitar student to be interested in (out of ALL music. Not just neil). That guitar riff is truly too sick to deny

we could have had it all https://t.co/7vq239m3zv pic.twitter.com/f5Ma7jdEbi

— Good Steely Dan Takes (@baddantakes) March 13, 2024

Thanks Neil

Neil missing an opportunity to simply re-record his entire back catalog in super-duper double hi-fi, so that Spotify's would-be low res version is still actually regular hi-fi.

Arc (Neil's Version)

the archives versions of “Pocahontas” and “ride my llama” with crazy horse are so amazing, it’s absurd he chose to release those dinky solo versions on rust (sorry)

sorry but your apology is not accepted. rust pocanhontas is top five neil for me.

the real slander should be directed at tonight's the night's version of "new mama" when compared to the stray gators version!

stray gators "new mama" is one of my very fav neil songs

This time between the announced return and an actual return is perhaps most painful

Heh, just experienced that earlier