i get frustrated at NYA but also love the sheer audacity of how fucking insane and backwards the ux is
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 22 October 2020 16:06 (three years ago) link
Yeah the 13 "new" songs is really misleading, One Eye Open otm. There are 13 new songs that have never been released in any for whatsoever, and I think I want to say like 58 alternate and live versions that have been previously unreleased. So I still think it's a pretty cool set, considering the era covered. But as with pretty much anything Neil does, there is a base level of confusion and disappointment that comes with anything he announces.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 22 October 2020 16:11 (three years ago) link
alternate versions in neil's case can be pretty meaningful too, for example you could say that "white line" off homegrown was already a released song on ragged glory but they might as well be different songs
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 22 October 2020 16:31 (three years ago) link
In the midst of this, there's a Greendale live archive thing out soon no one's talking about.
― "...And the Gods Socially Distanced" (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 22 October 2020 16:45 (three years ago) link
49 previously unreleased alternate versions and 13 "new" songs (most of these have not been bootlegged before either). i mean, it's not nothing!
― tylerw, Thursday, 22 October 2020 16:47 (three years ago) link
but i mean, yeah ... I must've said it at least three times before on this very thread: Neil should have started releasing definitive "deluxe" reissues of his records 15 years ago with bonus discs. And then continued the "performance series" releases. Would've made all of this very simple and straightforward.
― tylerw, Thursday, 22 October 2020 16:50 (three years ago) link
Right, weren't we supposed to be getting that deluxe Ragged Glory this year? But now we get... Greendale? Oh, Neil.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 22 October 2020 16:54 (three years ago) link
haha i mean greendale is the most *neil* of all neil boondoggles and i don't think he will ever give up on it
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 22 October 2020 17:03 (three years ago) link
He loves Greendale
― tylerw, Thursday, 22 October 2020 17:04 (three years ago) link
He isn't wrong
― chr1sb3singer, Thursday, 22 October 2020 17:05 (three years ago) link
Oh I'll buy the Greendale thing to, I just was looking forward to that Ragged Glory thing.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 22 October 2020 17:07 (three years ago) link
too, dammit, thanks Neil
the hearse theater has a song from solo trans today - "i got a problem" - oh man this is gonna be some nutty shit
also "homefires" is up on NYA, great song
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 22 October 2020 17:12 (three years ago) link
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown)
i know i make fun of it a lot, but i honestly feel this way too!
― president of my cat (Karl Malone), Thursday, 22 October 2020 17:37 (three years ago) link
it is old internet for sure
― president of my cat (Karl Malone), Thursday, 22 October 2020 17:38 (three years ago) link
its so bad
― Spottie, Thursday, 22 October 2020 17:38 (three years ago) link
ha yeah its definitely old internet, which I kind of love it for - clearly conceived for the era when people would spend a whole afternoon exploring one website
― turn the jawhatthefuckever on (One Eye Open), Thursday, 22 October 2020 17:42 (three years ago) link
"there are so many fun detours to get lost in, i feel like i always discover something new when i'm exploring it!" vs 2020: "just gimme the fuckin content as fast and plainly as possible, pls"
― turn the jawhatthefuckever on (One Eye Open), Thursday, 22 October 2020 17:44 (three years ago) link
neil young, visionary, in the late 70s: i wish there were a way for my fans to have all my music at once, like a virtual file cabinet
neil young, living legend, late 2000s: !! wait a second
― president of my cat (Karl Malone), Thursday, 22 October 2020 17:49 (three years ago) link
The purest, most analog file cabinet.
― "what are you DOING to fleetwood mac??" (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 22 October 2020 18:39 (three years ago) link
It's the most analog a digital file cabinet could be. He'll probably find some way to burn it all down in a virtual fire to get the virtual insurance money.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 22 October 2020 18:43 (three years ago) link
gotta say, for all the complaints, there are tons of amazing things on this set. neil young is the greatest.
― tylerw, Thursday, 22 October 2020 20:55 (three years ago) link
there are two tracks up from the green dale live album, they sound really great
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 22 October 2020 20:57 (three years ago) link
archives update:
10-23-20Reprise Records, my record company for about 50 years, underestimated the demand for Archives VOLUME II. We were all surprised. It is a beautiful package that I am proud to have made for you. I do feel badly that we did not deliver it to many who were waiting so long for it.
We don’t feel that offering more of a product sold as a limited edition is a good thing to do. Thank you to all who purchased this set.
In 2021 we will be offering more Archives VOLUME II products as Reprise had originally planned, available in all outlets. These, while not the boxed set, will offer all of the of the music and discs with a smaller book. The original large book will be available for separate sale.Thanks! NYA
― tylerw, Friday, 23 October 2020 18:21 (three years ago) link
ok cool, sucks it's not until 2021 though
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 23 October 2020 18:26 (three years ago) link
"as Reprise had originally planned"
i bet the folks who ponied up the $250 would have liked to know this.
― Thus Sang Freud, Friday, 23 October 2020 18:37 (three years ago) link
definitely disappointing especially because he finally relented on his ridiculous vinyl prices in the last few years, making them affordable finally
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 23 October 2020 18:40 (three years ago) link
yeah i'm hoping the prime stuff from this release will trickle out on vinyl. future record store days or whatever.
― Thus Sang Freud, Friday, 23 October 2020 18:42 (three years ago) link
yeah odeon budokan should definitely be put out as a vinyl set. he could make a killing with the unreleased zuma stuff on a single LP too.
― tylerw, Friday, 23 October 2020 19:01 (three years ago) link
^^ would buy
― howls of non-specificity (sleeve), Friday, 23 October 2020 19:26 (three years ago) link
WTF this new Powderfinger
― a (waterface), Monday, 2 November 2020 14:36 (three years ago) link
I'm listening now and I'm 2.5 minutes in and it sounds pretty normal. Then I realized there are almost 5 minutes left.
― the colour out of space (is the place) (PBKR), Monday, 2 November 2020 16:24 (three years ago) link
OMG "Love/Art Blues"
digging this thing sooo much, can't wait to make playlists of the unreleased trax
― Überschadenfreude (sleeve), Thursday, 28 January 2021 18:56 (three years ago) link
(Archives 2, natch)
Hate that I still have at least five more weeks to wait for this. :/
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 28 January 2021 18:57 (three years ago) link
has this already been posted/discussed somewhere else?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aN8tL_BHlN8
― mizzell, Saturday, 6 February 2021 15:53 (three years ago) link
Neil Young's release schedule is like the To Watch lists on my streaming services. There are a bunch of things queued up, already too many, but I still keep adding things, and as I add things some of the old things get removed, and then I end up impulsively wanting to watch something that's not on my watch list at all but can't find it so inevitably just end up having to download it somewhere else.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 6 February 2021 16:43 (three years ago) link
I wish he started doing this years, hell DECADES ago instead of cramming so much into so little time, but at least he's doing it. I'm sure mortality has been a good motivator. In the wake of the catalog sales, several of Young's peers have referenced the same thing: it's better to take care of everything while you're still around, and not have the same situation as Prince or Tom Petty where you die, your extended family is left with the responsibility, and it's a complete shit show because everyone hates each other.
― birdistheword, Saturday, 6 February 2021 21:39 (three years ago) link
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/neil-young-release-date-seventies-bootlegs-1234689995/
The Ducks Live in '77 and the '73 Rainbow show due out April 14th.
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 3 March 2023 20:19 (one year ago) link
The tour came just a year after the success of Harvest transformed Young into a superstar, but he’d recently lost Crazy Horse guitarist Danny Whitten and roadie Bruce Berry to heroin overdoses and was in a state of deep mourning. The shows were famously drunken, sloppy affairs where most of the set came from Tonight’s The Night, which wouldn’t be released for well over a year. “People booed every night,” Lofgren tells Rolling Stone. “They were incensed. They’d yell ‘Play ‘Old Man!’ Where are the hits? We don’t want this!'”Making matters worse, the Eagles opened up every night with a tight set of harmonies and crowd-pleasing hits like “Take It Easy” and “Desperado.” Melody Maker spoke for many fans with the headline “Go Home Neil Young!” “I paid £2.50 to see Neil Young and came away with a love/hate relationship,” wrote one fan, “Hating Neil Young, but loving the Eagles…All I can say is that the rumors must be true. The real Neil Young is dead.”
Making matters worse, the Eagles opened up every night with a tight set of harmonies and crowd-pleasing hits like “Take It Easy” and “Desperado.” Melody Maker spoke for many fans with the headline “Go Home Neil Young!” “I paid £2.50 to see Neil Young and came away with a love/hate relationship,” wrote one fan, “Hating Neil Young, but loving the Eagles…All I can say is that the rumors must be true. The real Neil Young is dead.”
― made a mint from mmm (Eazy), Friday, 3 March 2023 20:24 (one year ago) link
Old Man, take a look at my Well, Yeah...
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 3 March 2023 20:36 (one year ago) link
do better, England
― INDEPENDENTS DAY BY STEVEN SPILBERG (President Keyes), Friday, 3 March 2023 20:38 (one year ago) link
poll: did fans really yell "where are the hits?" and "we don't want this!"
― z_tbd, Friday, 3 March 2023 20:43 (one year ago) link
we don't want this!!
lol
― z_tbd, Friday, 3 March 2023 20:44 (one year ago) link
I have a friend that saw him on the "Greendale" tour, and he told me there was an aggrieved woman sitting behind them that just kept yelling "normal concert, normal concert!"
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 3 March 2023 20:50 (one year ago) link
"Play songs!"
― INDEPENDENTS DAY BY STEVEN SPILBERG (President Keyes), Friday, 3 March 2023 20:53 (one year ago) link
"normal concert, normal concert!"
amazing
― z_tbd, Friday, 3 March 2023 20:53 (one year ago) link
I mean, it takes all kinds, really. I'm sure I've mentioned an older friend of mine who, when I told him I was listening to the new Neil Young, "Le Noise" (this is right when it was released), said, "oh man, I love Neil Young, how is it?!" I told him it was great, lots of electric guitar and feedback and stuff, and he wrinkled his nose and said, "oh, I don't like any of his loud stuff."
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 3 March 2023 20:54 (one year ago) link
great announcement, both iconic neil boots
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 3 March 2023 20:55 (one year ago) link
When I look through the windowsAnd out on the roadThey're bringing me presentsAnd saying "we don't want this!"
― Cinta Kaz is comin' to town (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 3 March 2023 20:55 (one year ago) link