NEIL YOUNG ARCHIVES BOX: IT'S REALLY HAPPENING

whereas neil is currently smoking a joint and thinking ... "now what was the name of that record from 1975? oh yeah Homegrown, we should put that out. hold on a sec ... what were the songs on that one. had em on a post-it note sometime in 2002..."

yeah they obviously have very different personalities/approaches

Dylan also not cranking out new material on the regular

Blob Dylan

i see they have stuck with the whole Replicate the look and feel of a file cabinet, on a computer screen, concept

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

whereas neil is currently smoking a joint and thinking ... "now what was the name of that record from 1975? oh yeah Homegrown, we should put that out. hold on a sec ... what were the songs on that one. had em on a post-it note sometime in 2002..."

― tylerw, Tuesday, November 12, 2019 1:06 PM (thirty-nine minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

"Lessee, where's that post-it...hm, that gives me an idea. Billy, Ralph, Nils, get this riff...ok...cool, yeah, keep that going...are we rolling?...cool...[sings] POST-IT NOTE! EVERYTHING'S ON A POST-IT NOTE! I SAW A POLAR BEAR RIDING BY ON A POST-IT NOTE! [40 minutes later] OK, cool, another classic. Put it out."

"Put it out."

Twenty years pass, still not released.

Hey Now Hey Now Now

Twenty years pass, still not released.
"archivists are currently searching for this pure example of the horse"

I have a friend who was at the show where "Post-It Note" was played the first and only time. He said it was the best thing he ever heard. No recordings exist, unfortunately.

Heehaw heehaw meow meow

nei how nei how how

he is trying to figure out copy protection,omg

if anyone can do it, it's gotta be neil

That “powderfinger” can exist on an SD card is something that I’m sure blows Neil’s mind as he tokes

don't tell him that stands for Secure Digital

it's creepy how perfectly I can hear that Post-It Note song in my head.

maybe the solution is Neil recording himself talking about what these albums sound like. The real heads will get it.

would listen

When you Copy I can Really Paste

Cinnamon Bot

Tonight’s the OS Reinstall

Hard drive in the Sand

Down by the Router

Modem City

Cortez The Coder

Out of the CPU (Into the Cloud)

The Dongle and the Damage Done

Harvest Mooncoin

See the Sky About to Restart

lol

Computer Cowboy (AKA Syscrusher)

I've accepted that being a Neil Young fan means constant disappointment punctuated by occasional elation, but the fact that Homegrown still hasn't been released frustrates me more than just about anything in the world

https://scontent.fapa1-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/76916294_2571255589657223_8503476479424724992_n.jpg?_nc_cat=111&_nc_ohc=cUBGFYxszL8AQnISdZXu4Sz3ZlTMHoepPvqIYeD679FKdYUQa8o9mIq7A&_nc_ht=scontent.fapa1-1.fna&oh=d2b5c3b8900a6093bc90232c4a4dcc3b&oe=5E53B856

possible tracklisting:

Side A
1) Separate Ways (unreleased)
2) Try (unreleased)
3) Mexico (unreleased)
4) Love Is a Rose
5) Homegrown
6) Florida (unreleased)
7) Kansas (unreleased)

Side B
1) We Don't Smoke It No More (unreleased)
2) White Line
3) Vacancy (unreleased)
4) Little Wing
5) Star of Bethlehem.

ooooh this is the real shit

oh and hey here's a pdf of this homegrown essay I wrote (kind of an expanded directors cut of a section from an uncut feature i wrote a few years ago) https://we.tl/t-olOP9wZZ8A

should say that both "white line" and "homegrown" should be unheard/unreleased versions of those songs, too. Not positive about Star of Bethlehem of Little Wing.

thanks for that PDF

was just going to ask if Star was from Stars n Bars

I like how road map-y that tracklisting is, all those songs named after places or car travel stuff.

He went back to the seventies to press the vinyl? shiiiit Neil!

Love is a Rose is a real clunker

XP These are actually OG pressings he found behind a neglected Buick in one of his lesser car barns.

Sure Neil, sure you will.

Where's Delaware? I heard that's for the real heads.

I've accepted that being a Neil Young fan means constant disappointment punctuated by occasional elation, but the fact that Homegrown still hasn't been released frustrates me more than just about anything in the world

― J. Sam, Wednesday, November 13, 2019 11:15 AM (two weeks ago) bookmarkflaglink

I guess this post is what finally convinced him to pull the trigger on Homegrown :) Still bracing myself for a cancellation or delayed release tho...

or an announcement about it being PONO/NYA exclusive or whatever. maybe this is the overarching strategy - make it so the $39.99 LP release seems like a great, accessible deal

yeah tbh my first thought was "what infuriating way are they going to release this, CDROM or reel-to-reel or realaudio stream or what"

i'll be a v happy camper if i can just go into a record store and buy it on vinyl (...as it was meant to be... made in the mid-nineteen seventies!)

https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/neil-young-quotes-1068741.jpg