Official Neil Young Thread

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  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,760
    Spiritual_Chaos said:
    Why are people sleeping on Broken Arrow? It's easy the second best album of NYs ninetees.
    Agreed!  Despite a few cuts I often pass on, Broken Arrow is amazing- one of my favorite Neil Young & Crazy Horse albums. 
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    -Roberto Benigni

  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,760
    "Loose Change".  The long mantra-like hammering on basically just  the one chord starting at  5:48 is pure meditation for me.  I get lost in this song every time.  One of my very favorites. Play it on a good stereo, crank it up, close your eyes.  Sweet dreams!

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7cXXNT2U7E



    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

  • Spiritual_Chaos
    Spiritual_Chaos Posts: 31,646
    brianlux said:
    Spiritual_Chaos said:
    Why are people sleeping on Broken Arrow? It's easy the second best album of NYs ninetees.
    Agreed!  Despite a few cuts I often pass on, Broken Arrow is amazing- one of my favorite Neil Young & Crazy Horse albums. 
    I love the production of it. It's soaked in mood. Reminds me a bit of Riot Act. Love it. 

    great-great-great album.
    "Mostly I think that people react sensitively because they know you’ve got a point"
  • goldrush
    goldrush everybody knows this is nowhere Posts: 7,851
    edited September 2017
    I love Broken Arrow. In fact, it's playing right now :) It has 2 of my favourite 90's Neil songs (Music Arcade and interstate)

    I've been listening to 90's Neil a lot recently. Ragged Glory / Harvest Moon / Unplugged / Sleeps With Angels / Mirror Ball / Dead Man / Broken Arrow is such a fantastic run of records, and that's without including Weld or Freedom (late 89)

    Music Arcade: 

    https://youtu.be/Ld4rcV-8XNI

    Interstate (LP bonus track)

    https://youtu.be/_xErYIU148k


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  • jjflash
    jjflash Posts: 5,041
    Hitchhiker now streaming over at NPR: http://www.npr.org/2017/08/31/547036559/first-listen-neil-young-hitchhiker
  • PJ_Soul
    PJ_Soul Vancouver, BC Posts: 50,887
    jjflash said:
    Hitchhiker now streaming over at NPR: http://www.npr.org/2017/08/31/547036559/first-listen-neil-young-hitchhiker
    Awesome, thanks!
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  • Yefa
    Yefa Posts: 1,134
    Spiritual_Chaos said:
    Why are people sleeping on Broken Arrow? It's easy the second best album of NYs ninetees.
    I like it but I would put it behind these 3 at least:

    Ragged Glory
    Sleeps With Angels
    Mirror Ball
    You see me empty, Sir, do not pause and inquire, simply assume and refill.
    - Al Swearengen

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  • lolobugg
    lolobugg BLUE RDGE MTNS Posts: 8,195
    jjflash said:
    Hitchhiker now streaming over at NPR: http://www.npr.org/2017/08/31/547036559/first-listen-neil-young-hitchhiker

    This is as good as I thought it would be.

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  • PJ_Soul
    PJ_Soul Vancouver, BC Posts: 50,887
    lolobugg said:
    jjflash said:
    Hitchhiker now streaming over at NPR: http://www.npr.org/2017/08/31/547036559/first-listen-neil-young-hitchhiker

    This is as good as I thought it would be.
    Yes, it's really good!! I'll probably buy this one.
    With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world. Be careful. Strive to be happy. ~ Desiderata
  • goldrush
    goldrush everybody knows this is nowhere Posts: 7,851
    lolobugg said:
    jjflash said:
    Hitchhiker now streaming over at NPR: http://www.npr.org/2017/08/31/547036559/first-listen-neil-young-hitchhiker

    This is as good as I thought it would be.
    Yep, it really is everything I hoped it would be. Even though most of the songs made it onto other records, hearing them together like this fantastic
    “Do not postpone happiness”
    (Jeff Tweedy, Sydney 2007)

    “Put yer good money on the sunrise”
    (Tim Rogers)
  • goldrush
    goldrush everybody knows this is nowhere Posts: 7,851
    In case anybody missed it, Neil was live on Facebook earlier telling a story of how Hitchhiker was recorded:

    https://www.facebook.com/NeilYoung/videos/10159212915430317/
    “Do not postpone happiness”
    (Jeff Tweedy, Sydney 2007)

    “Put yer good money on the sunrise”
    (Tim Rogers)
  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,760
    goldrush said:
    In case anybody missed it, Neil was live on Facebook earlier telling a story of how Hitchhiker was recorded:

    https://www.facebook.com/NeilYoung/videos/10159212915430317/
    "...followed by 'Hitchhiker'.  You may be able to hear the drugs kicking in here."
    :lol:
    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,760
    Hitchhiker arrived today. 

    Yyyyyyyyyyyyyes!!
    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

  • Spiritual_Chaos
    Spiritual_Chaos Posts: 31,646
    Saw that Hitchiker is up on Spotify. Listening now. 
    Picking up the vinyl later in the week!
    "Mostly I think that people react sensitively because they know you’ve got a point"
  • goldrush
    goldrush everybody knows this is nowhere Posts: 7,851
    If Hitchhiker is Special Release Series #5, does that mean 1-4 are the Homegrown, Chrome Dreams, Oceanside/Countryside, and Odeon-Budokan albums that were teased in 2010? Not sure if that fits chronologically, or are if there other pre-Hitchhiker albums that we don't know about yet...

    Odeon-Budokan would probably be a Performace Series disc as it's live, so maybe the Briggs edition of Tonight's The Night will finally get a release. 

    Speculating about Neil's archives is so much fun! :)
    “Do not postpone happiness”
    (Jeff Tweedy, Sydney 2007)

    “Put yer good money on the sunrise”
    (Tim Rogers)
  • goldrush
    goldrush everybody knows this is nowhere Posts: 7,851
    Another interesting thought about Hitchhiker... If it had been released in 1976, how would the other records that also feature these songs have looked, specifically Rust Never Sleeps? You could say that removing one song from Comes a Time or American Stars n Bars wouldn't make much difference, but there are 3 RNS songs on Hitchhiker. I imagine there'd be a good chance that RNS wouldn't have been released at all, and the songs split across other records, which would have deprived us of one of Neil's greatest records (and possibly Live Rust as well, depending on where the songs ended up)
    “Do not postpone happiness”
    (Jeff Tweedy, Sydney 2007)

    “Put yer good money on the sunrise”
    (Tim Rogers)
  • offhegoes32
    offhegoes32 Posts: 418
    Was this a limited run vinyl pressing?  I was behind the news on this one, and it seems to already be sold out everywhere I'm checking.
    No time to be void or save up on life, you gotta spend it all.
  • PJ_Soul
    PJ_Soul Vancouver, BC Posts: 50,887
    edited September 2017
    offhegoes32 said:
    Was this a limited run vinyl pressing?  I was behind the news on this one, and it seems to already be sold out everywhere I'm checking.
    Nope. And it's available on amazon.ca :) : https://www.amazon.ca/Hitchhiker-Vinyl-Neil-Young/dp/B072JHK8J9/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1505155553&sr=8-1&keywords=neil+young+hitchhiker+vinyl

    Amazon.com is only temporarily sold out - they'll have more soon enough. And if you wait a couple months these will likely be $10 cheaper.

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  • pjpitt89
    pjpitt89 Posts: 1,877
    Received my Hitchhiker vinyl but haven't gotten to spin it yet though, looking forward to that. I saw a few reports that people were getting warped vinyl. I did throw mine on and spin quickly and it has a little "wave" on one side when spinning but I wouldn't call it warped by any stretch. 
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  • PJ_Soul
    PJ_Soul Vancouver, BC Posts: 50,887
    edited September 2017
    pjpitt89 said:
    Received my Hitchhiker vinyl but haven't gotten to spin it yet though, looking forward to that. I saw a few reports that people were getting warped vinyl. I did throw mine on and spin quickly and it has a little "wave" on one side when spinning but I wouldn't call it warped by any stretch. 
    I figure it's not truly warped until it affects play, but some people do get bent out of shape if their record is even slightly also bent out of shape, haha. They don't like to see that cartridge bob during play I guess. I've found that a "warp" that doesn't affect play will flatten out just by putting something heavy on it for a couple days and then storing it tightly between your other albums on the shelf.
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