if I recall from Shakey (tyler correct me if I'm wrong) the reasons for not releasing it were:a) was going through a breakup and some of the songs were painful to himorb) he thought it was too "good" or commercial and was feeling hemmed in by his Harvest successc) he was partying and played Tonight's the Night for some of the Band and a no doubt coked to the gills Rick Danko convinced him to release Tonight's the Night insteadd) all of that is misremembered or half true or not truee) It's Neil!
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 15 May 2020 17:25 (four years ago) link
you can preorder it on amazon, but rough trade says it's a record store day item
― mizzell, Friday, 15 May 2020 17:32 (four years ago) link
xp pretty much all of the above. i wouldn't say it's all that commercial, really — aside from maybe "Love Is A Rose" there's no obvious hit song, and even that is done in a very spare style.
here's my long essay about homegrown if you want the fine details as far as they are known: http://www.mediafire.com/file/gnwwten143vvdau/homegrown-section.pdf/file
― tylerw, Friday, 15 May 2020 17:33 (four years ago) link
NICE
i feel like i'm getting the ILX premium member benefits right now
― porlockian solicitor (Karl Malone), Friday, 15 May 2020 18:11 (four years ago) link
yeah that essay is really interesting tyler, thanks for sharing!
Re:"why now" i was thinking either 1, he was waiting for the time when the world needs these jams the most. Or 2, due to lockdown its finally possible for his people to get him to sit the fuck down undistracted and actually sign off on shit
― turn the jawhatthefuckever on (One Eye Open), Friday, 15 May 2020 20:20 (four years ago) link
I think the RSD version has a limited poster with it or something.
― Cow_Art, Friday, 15 May 2020 20:24 (four years ago) link
PONO Download Card
― "...And the Gods Socially Distanced" (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 15 May 2020 20:31 (four years ago) link
Homegrown does not disappoint — definitely a worthy addition to Neil's mid-70s canon, but also pretty different from the other ditch LPs. It rules.
― tylerw, 23:20 יום חמישי 14 מאי 2020 (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
Have you listened to it?!
― nostormo, Friday, 15 May 2020 20:33 (four years ago) link
https://youtu.be/p5zxOWgCVbA
Great simple song
― nostormo, Friday, 15 May 2020 20:34 (four years ago) link
it's beautiful.
― sleight return (voodoo chili), Friday, 15 May 2020 20:35 (four years ago) link
Have you listened to it?!yes, promo streams went out in March.
― tylerw, Friday, 15 May 2020 20:57 (four years ago) link
Nice
― nostormo, Friday, 15 May 2020 21:05 (four years ago) link
The good news about the latest delay is that it now comes out on the same day as the new Bobby D so I can get my old fart fix in all at once.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 15 May 2020 21:09 (four years ago) link
xxp I thought that said "pono streams" for a sec and was like, wow, tylerw is all in
― Yanni Xenakis (Hadrian VIII), Friday, 15 May 2020 21:59 (four years ago) link
just preordered this, stoked
great article Tyler thanks for sharing
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 15 May 2020 22:33 (four years ago) link
the proportions in the album art look really weird and off to me, unsurprisingly
― sleeve, Friday, 15 May 2020 23:15 (four years ago) link
is the cover art contemporaneous with the recording?
― devvvine, Saturday, 16 May 2020 10:45 (four years ago) link
yes
― Lee626, Saturday, 16 May 2020 11:08 (four years ago) link
I remember reading a Neil thread (not this one) in which someone gave a quick rundown of their favourite post-2000 NY albums. They said that Psychedelic Pill was their favourite. I can't find that thread now, does anyone know which one it is?
(It wasn't 21st century Neil Young studio albums poll, either.)
― the grateful dead can dance (anagram), Sunday, 17 May 2020 18:21 (four years ago) link
maybe this? Search and destroy: Neil Young
― willem, Monday, 18 May 2020 07:50 (four years ago) link
That's the one, thanks!
Listening to Chrome Dreams II now, wow how did I sleep on "Ordinary People" for so long
― the grateful dead can dance (anagram), Monday, 18 May 2020 08:59 (four years ago) link
well, neil also slept on it for about 20 years
― tylerw, Monday, 18 May 2020 17:20 (four years ago) link
the Bluenote Cafe version is well worth hearing, some interesting differences
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 18 May 2020 17:32 (four years ago) link
OOOOOOOOH YEAAAAH BABY
this is the shit
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eL_bqx4h6lU
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 12 June 2020 14:33 (three years ago) link
Yeah this slaps!
― chr1sb3singer, Friday, 12 June 2020 15:53 (three years ago) link
HELL YEAH
― sleeve, Friday, 12 June 2020 23:21 (three years ago) link
album streaming at https://neilyoungarchives.com/album?id=A_089
― fact checking cuz, Wednesday, 17 June 2020 15:39 (three years ago) link
just listened...man "Separate Ways" is a stunner, real lost classic
loved it on first impression, kind of Harvest but with the down and out druggie vibes of On the Beach?
Florida is something! N01z3 dr0n3
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 17 June 2020 15:47 (three years ago) link
Loving this. Go, 1975-Neil!!
― SQUIRREL MEAT!! (Capitaine Jay Vee), Wednesday, 17 June 2020 18:07 (three years ago) link
damn this is great
― k*r*n koltrane (Simon H.), Wednesday, 17 June 2020 20:16 (three years ago) link
all her friends call her lil wayne
― k*r*n koltrane (Simon H.), Wednesday, 17 June 2020 20:46 (three years ago) link
homegrown rules
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 17 June 2020 22:12 (three years ago) link
an instant top-tier neil album for me. it's a weird experience, listening to it, because through my casual-to-intermediate fandom of his music, i've come across several of the songs, in different versions on other albums, or live. but these original versions are so fucking good! it sounds so good. the sound of mid-70s neil young is so warm, it's an instant comfort blanket
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 17 June 2020 22:14 (three years ago) link
very cool to hear how part of Kansas follows the same melody line he would use later on Powderfinger...maybe a year later?
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 17 June 2020 22:17 (three years ago) link
not even a year later! and also, of course, how "love is a rose" uses the melody line from "dance, dance, dance" a few years before. borrowed tunes, as it were :)
― fact checking cuz, Thursday, 18 June 2020 01:21 (three years ago) link
It's so fascinating to me when artists like Neil Young or Springsteen or Prince or Dylan or whomever can record albums worth of really good stuff, sometimes even their best stuff, and think, eh, and then shelve it for decades. I've always wondered if any artist can be so self aware or ego-free as to even distinguish their best albums from their worst, or if they're so busy going forward they don't even think about it. Like, I was reading the latest Tape Op, and there's a guy that worked on remastering "Band on the Run," and he's in the studio with Paul McCartney, and McCartney admits he'd never listened to the album as a finished artifact before.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 18 June 2020 02:29 (three years ago) link
neil, prince and dylan, sure, but is that actually true of springsteen? i remember thinking, the first time i heard "tracks," that springsteen had an amazing ear for his own work and instinctively understood what to keep and what to discard. i still can't think of a single track on "tracks" that i wish he had included on one of his studio albums.
― fact checking cuz, Thursday, 18 June 2020 02:39 (three years ago) link
holy shit, this album
"Homegrown" is an instant anthem, up there with any other tune of his you could name imo
"Florida" is maybe the weirdest fucking curveball he's ever thrown, which is saying a lot, love how it segues into "I woke up from a bad dream"
"Try" is perfect in every way
damn
― sleeve, Thursday, 18 June 2020 03:59 (three years ago) link
yeah, honestly i don't like "florida" so much. but it really does stand out as a particularly experimental song for a musician in his position at the time
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 18 June 2020 04:39 (three years ago) link
"try" otm
that's the one that jumped out at me on first listen. was it known before now? i know true neil young fans have been familiar with all this material for years, but "try" was new to me
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 18 June 2020 04:40 (three years ago) link
When I first heard “Florida” I immediately thought : “This is his ‘The Gift’ “
― SQUIRREL MEAT!! (Capitaine Jay Vee), Thursday, 18 June 2020 05:49 (three years ago) link
"florida" eventually turned into dead man and le noise, at least
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 18 June 2020 05:54 (three years ago) link
i peaced out on "lookin' for a leader" after "maybe it's a woman / or a black man after all"
sorry neil!
― Give me a Chad Smith-type feel (map), Friday, 31 July 2020 21:10 (three years ago) link
Well holy shit I was at this show
Also in the works is the concert movie The Timeless Orpheum, which was filmed at the Orpheum Theater in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on January 28th, 2019.
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 14 August 2020 20:03 (three years ago) link
^ hate myself for not going to that
― budo jeru, Friday, 14 August 2020 20:06 (three years ago) link
EP The Times 9/18 View Web Page:http://view.e.warnerrecords.com/?qs=4dda2939176a3a16c44572d22e7ffea52cf92d8299130cb7cfbab299d3bc72ac5108a8845afe5b46c5dbecbb55553ee01e85334bfc894e898a872188503dbd9e894bc4b94c21f845
― dow, Sunday, 30 August 2020 03:44 (three years ago) link
Neil Young Officially Releasing Legendary On The Beach Debut Concert Album
"Today Young announced that the full set is seeing official release for the first time. The Bottom Line – Citizen Cane Jr. Blues will be out in early 2021 and will mark the launch of Young’s Official Bootleg Series."
https://www.stereogum.com/2101611/neil-young-the-bottom-line-1974-official-bootleg/news/
― nickn, Friday, 9 October 2020 04:31 (three years ago) link
oh awesome!!!!!
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 9 October 2020 14:51 (three years ago) link
And apparently just the tip of the iceberg, at this point he has five others set for release along with that one, all due in April 2021:
The tentative release schedule is April 2021. Titles include:
Carnegie Hall Dec 4, 1970 - first show.Royce Hall. January 30, 1971Dorothy Chandler Pavillion (sic). Feb 1, 1971Under The Rainbow. Nov 3, 1973The Bottom Line aka ‘Citizen Kane Jr. Blues’ May 16, 1974The Ducks - ‘Trick of Disaster’ August 1977
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 9 October 2020 14:59 (three years ago) link