neil young

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2012 seems to be the last year I remained aware of new Neil albums (Americana and Psychedelic Pill), even if I didn't hear them. His discography since then (discounting unreleased albums from the 70s) runs thus:

A Letter Home (2014)
Storytone (2014)
The Monsanto Years (2015) (with Promise of the Real)
Peace Trail (2016)
The Visitor (2017) (with Promise of the Real)
Colorado (2019) (with Crazy Horse)
Barn (2021) (with Crazy Horse)
Toast (2022, recorded 2001) (with Crazy Horse)
World Record (2022) (with Crazy Horse)
Before and After (2023)

The Monsanto Years I've heard of, the rest I don't even recognise the titles. Anything worth hearing in there?

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 prefer the former (maybe Neil's biggest fun guitar sound), but wouldn't say it was an absurd choice.

i was surprised at how fully fleshed out both pocahontas and ride my llama were when the Zuma versions appeared on Archives II — maybe more elaborate arrangements than anything that actually made the album.

Ragged Glory, Sleeps With Angels, and Psychedelic Pill are my favorite NY albums although I haven’t heard them all…I hardly listen to his earlier stuff besides Tonight’s the Night….anything else along these lines I shouldn’t miss?

Rust Never Sleeps? Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere? After the Gold Rush?

Zuma. Big fat guitars, like Ragged Glory.

The Monsanto Years I've heard of, the rest I don't even recognise the titles. Anything worth hearing in there?

― feat. fish as 'the highlander' (Matt #2), Thursday, 14 March 2024 22:22 (one hour ago) link

barn is great - i'd put "they might be lost" in with his best

A Letter Home (2014)
Storytone (2014)
The Monsanto Years (2015) (with Promise of the Real)
Peace Trail (2016)
The Visitor (2017) (with Promise of the Real)
Colorado (2019) (with Crazy Horse)
Barn (2021) (with Crazy Horse)
Toast (2022, recorded 2001) (with Crazy Horse)
World Record (2022) (with Crazy Horse)
Before and After (2023)

The Monsanto Years I've heard of, the rest I don't even recognise the titles. Anything worth hearing in there?

What I ripped to my computer and still listen to once in a while:

"Who's Gonna Stand Up?" (live version with Crazy Horse) is actually not on any of those, but Storytone has different, inferior versions
"Needle of Death" from A Letter Home
The solo versions of "Plastic Flowers," "I Want to Drive My Car" and "Tumbleweed" from Storytone. FYI that's a weird release - Neil made a solo version, another version with orchestral overdubs, and a hybrid version that goes back and forth between those two.
"A New Day for Love," "Wolf Moon," "People Want to Hear About Love," "A Rock Star Bucks a Coffee Shop" from The Monsanto Years
"Peace Trail" from the album of the same name
"Forever" from The Visitor
"I Do" from Colorado
Barn is good
Toast is good - I didn't really care for Are You Passionate? and don't have it anymore, so I was surprised by how much I liked Toast

I haven't given those last two albums a good listen, but I haven't heard much about them.

i put together a playlist of my favorites from the last three Crazy Horse records — it's a solid listen, clocks in at just about LP-length:

1. Welcome Back
2. Heading West
3. Overhead
4. Olden Days
5. They Might Be Lost
6. Green Is Blue
7. Chevrolet
8. I Do

Everything I've heard from him post psychedelic pill has been at least interesting and some of it is great. But I haven't heard everything, I skipped the promise of the real collaborations, maybe not intentionally but just never got around to them. I think both Colorado and barn are really good, Barn is the better one. And I will say I didn't intend to get Colorado due to some middling reviews but I found a sealed copy for five bucks, on vinyl! Glad I made the investment.l

I just got somewhere under the rainbow in the mail yesterday, I had it in my Amazon cart for a long time, the price fluctuated from to 20 to 30 to 40 bucks and then a couple days ago dropped down to $13.98 and couldn't pass it up

That rap he does on that about Bruce Berry is haunting.

The Greatest Hits album has been added back to Spotify.

Watch, that'll be the only one.

lol, I noticed that.

Neil Young and Baby Steps

the amuse-bouche before the main course, Everybody's Rockin'

For what it's worth, Storytone to the present is my favorite era of Neil Young. (And I do love me some '60s, '70s, '80s, '90s, and '00s Neil.)

Dogg godspeed to you, that's crazy but I respect it

Is TheNuNuNu actually Neil himself!? Neil, when is Archives III coming out

looks like a lot more has been added now. re: spotify

looks like a lot more has been added now. re: spotify

no debut, nothing between Re-ac-tor and This Note's for You, but a quick scan shows everything else as far as I can tell.

NO RUST👎🏻

er WAIT IT'S THERE?!

https://i.imgur.com/1UCBuI0.jpeg

search is still playing catch up i guess.

When all 200 or whatever records are uploaded I bet Neil will really appreciate that influx of $3,000 a month.

no debut, nothing between Re-ac-tor and This Note's for You, but a quick scan shows everything else as far as I can tell.

Most of his CSNY stuff is still greyed out, except for "Helpless" on Deja Vu and their stuff that's on the Archives boxes.

I won’t rest until I can put “touch the night” on a playlist

doghouse

doghouse

Man, there are so many Neil albums I've never heard.

the people at my gym are going lose their minds when I get my 10 hour playlist on the sound system

John Zorn OK'd access to Tzadik

say what now

lol check the Tzadik thread!

i've been away

what news

John Zorn brought most of the Tzadik catalog to streaming services, which meant an instant dump of literally hundreds of releases, somewhere between 600 and 800, iirc.

sick

80s work now up, as well as the debut (which is missing half the songs)

You can always trust Neil to do things in a baffling, half-arsed way

Those missing albums are there now.

wonder if this means Joni will also return

Just announced, Joni is indeed returning to Spotify

okay, chalk mark (+all post-mingus stuff) is already there.

!!!!

The '79-back stuff is currently present in the Complete Albums box down in her compilations.

...or really Complete Studio Albums, as Miles of Aisles is absent.

yup, that was fast!

Hi gbx, here's the entire Tzadik catalog in one massive, unwieldy playlist

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4QzGKbxwEXyW5caVfcPqm1?si=MX0OKIvlS9iSnQiZrgi9gw&pi=u-qysLtrpeRI2L

Meanwhile, imagine being part of this blunt rotation

https://www.threads.net/@therussellshaw/post/C4w5MDHuhRL/

Hi gbx, here's the entire Tzadik catalog in one massive, unwieldy playlist

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4QzGKbxwEXyW5caVfcPqm1?si=MX0OKIvlS9iSnQiZrgi9gw&pi=u-qysLtrpeRI2L🕸🕸

The '60s & '70s Joni albums are now up individually, as is Taming The Tiger (which was also absent from the initial uploads). Shine, however, is still missing.

Crosby back too