Official Neil Young Thread

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  • HughFreakingDillon
    HughFreakingDillon Winnipeg Posts: 39,473
    goldrush said:
    Also the subscription will be going up, presumably to reflect the “Uncle Eddie” discussion



    For those that missed it, “Uncle Eddie” wrote to NYA basically saying that he was worried he wouldn’t live long enough to hear all of the unreleased music. It got Neil thinking the same way, and he’s been trying to figure out how to release more stuff to stream on NYA before it gets a physical or download release. An increased subscription (which is still crazy cheap for what you get - hello Ten Club...) would allow access to more music.
    who is uncle eddie?
    By The Time They Figure Out What Went Wrong, We'll Be Sitting On A Beach, Earning Twenty Percent.




  • dankind
    dankind Posts: 20,841
    edited December 2019
    I’d love to have the Polar Vortex Lp. 

    Today I saw what I assume to be a bootleg of Le Noise at a local shop. It was marked as new with a $32 price tag.Anyone have any info on the quality of this?  I passed, but it crossed my mind.

     Same store had an OG copy of the album a few months back for $130.  
    I have the Le Noise bootleg (thanks to @lolobugg ). It doesn't sound bad, but if you already have the album in a different format that works for you, then you might want to save your money.
    I SAW PEARL JAM
  • goldrush said:
    Also the subscription will be going up, presumably to reflect the “Uncle Eddie” discussion



    For those that missed it, “Uncle Eddie” wrote to NYA basically saying that he was worried he wouldn’t live long enough to hear all of the unreleased music. It got Neil thinking the same way, and he’s been trying to figure out how to release more stuff to stream on NYA before it gets a physical or download release. An increased subscription (which is still crazy cheap for what you get - hello Ten Club...) would allow access to more music.
    who is uncle eddie?

  • jerparker20
    jerparker20 St. Paul, MN Posts: 2,529
    dankind said:
    I’d love to have the Polar Vortex Lp. 

    Today I saw what I assume to be a bootleg of Le Noise at a local shop. It was marked as new with a $32 price tag.Anyone have any info on the quality of this?  I passed, but it crossed my mind.

     Same store had an OG copy of the album a few months back for $130.  
    I have the Le Noise bootleg (thanks to @lolobugg ). It doesn't sound bad, but if you already have the album in a different format that works for you, then you might want to save your money.
    Thanks.  I have a subscription to NYA so I’ll stick with that. 
  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,662
    After another very "focused on the music" listening this evening, I'm liking Colorado more than ever.  There are at least a couple of factors that, to me anyway, make this music great:

    -The age factor.  As I was listening to the album, I had the gate-fold sleeve open to the large center spread photo.  The first part of the image I focused on was Nils head with it's thinning, grey hair and that easily recognizable visage of an old man.  And right then, I glanced over to my "recently listened to" albums and there in front was that first self titled Nils album from 1975.  On the cover is a photo of a young, brash, colorful Nils, fingers of one hand steadying himself against a wall with a large painting of a very stout seated boy on it, while the other hand tips a bottle of what appears to be some kind of liqueur from which the guitarist is taking a healthy slug.  It dawned on me, God Lord, if I'm Nils age (minus about two weeks) and he's still out there doing it.  Right on.  And Neil and the boys are even older and working like the troopers they are.  Major Kudos!

    -The damage factor.  When a person gets to be into their late sixties and on into their 70's (i.e, the members of Crazy Horse), if they've had anything other than a cushy life, they have damage.  Neil and company have plenty of it.  Neil, definitely- physical, emotional damage.  And when someone like that works past the damage to create something that is both beautiful, ragged, nasty, loving, emotional, passionate, and is carried out with conviction, it's easy to feel inspired by it and it's easy to forgive the flaws. 

    Colorado is a beautiful, ugly, tumultuous, impassioned work of art.  I have no problem ranking it among the best work Neil has done and I totally get his enthusiasm over the project.  .
    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

  • buck502000
    buck502000 Birthplace of GIBSON guitar Posts: 8,951
    I’ll go see him, but how many Neil Young Records can one have? This is his 39th studio album.....
  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,662
    I’ll go see him, but how many Neil Young Records can one have? This is his 39th studio album.....

    Apparently one too many.  I have 40. 

    LOL,  but that includes a few live LPs and on bootleg a friend gave me years ago.  I'm actually a good 9 LPs short of being a completest.  Probably never will be as I'm not a fan of Promise of the Real (respect them, just not a fan).
    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

  • Nieces birthday today. As usual me, my father and my brothers spent the cakeeating once again talking about how Neil "has lost it". This time about the Colorado album.
    "Mostly I think that people react sensitively because they know you’ve got a point"
  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,662
    Nieces birthday today. As usual me, my father and my brothers spent the cakeeating once again talking about how Neil "has lost it". This time about the Colorado album.

    Lost it good.  Damn GOOD!




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

  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,662
    Side 3 of Colorado alone makes this classic Neil/Horse.  I'd defend it to the death!
    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,662
    Put this in your pipe and smoke it!



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

  • goldrush
    goldrush everybody knows this is nowhere Posts: 7,791
    brianlux said:
    I’ll go see him, but how many Neil Young Records can one have? This is his 39th studio album.....

    Apparently one too many.  I have 40. 

    LOL,  but that includes a few live LPs and on bootleg a friend gave me years ago.  I'm actually a good 9 LPs short of being a completest.  Probably never will be as I'm not a fan of Promise of the Real (respect them, just not a fan).

    You can never have too much Neil!

    There are 68 official releases so far (studio, live, soundtracks, compilations) and that's not including the Springfield, CSNY, the Archives box or any guest appearances:

    1. Neil Young

    2. Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere

    3. After the Gold Rush

    4. Harvest

    5. Journey Through The Past OST

    6. Time Fades Away

    7. On the Beach

    8. Tonight's the Night

    9. Zuma

    10. Long May You Run

    11. American Stars 'n Bars

    12. Decade

    13. Comes a Time

    14. Rust Never Sleeps

    15. Live Rust

    16. Where The Buffalo Roam OST

    17. Hawks & Doves

    18. Re-ac-tor

    19. Trans

    20. Everybody's Rockin'

    21. Old Ways

    22. Landing on Water

    23. Life

    24. This Note's for You

    25. Eldorado EP

    26. Freedom

    27. Ragged Glory

    28. Arc/Weld

    29. Harvest Moon

    30. Lucky Thirteen

    31. Unplugged

    32. Sleeps with Angels

    33. Mirror Ball

    34. Dead Man OST

    35. Broken Arrow

    36. Year of the Horse

    37. Silver & Gold

    38. Road Rock Vol. 1

    39. Are You Passionate?

    40. Greendale

    41. Greatest Hits

    42. Prairie Wind

    43. Living with War

    44. NYA Performance Series, Vol 02: Live at the Fillmore East 

    45. Living with War: "In the Beginning"

    46. NYA Performance Series, Vol 03: Live at Massey Hall 1971

    47. Chrome Dreams II

    48. NYA Performance Series, Vol 00: Sugar Mountain – Live at Canterbury House 1968

    49. Fork in the Road

    50. NYA Performance Series, Vol 12: Dreamin' Man Live '92

    51. Le Noise

    52. NYA Performance Series, Vol 09: A Treasure

    53. Americana

    54. Psychedelic Pill

    55. NYA Performance Series, Vol 2.5: Live at the Cellar Door

    56. A Letter Home

    57. Storytone

    58. The Monsanto Years

    59. NYA Performance Series, Vol 11: Bluenote Café

    60. Earth

    61. Peace Trail

    62. Hitchhiker

    63. The Visitor

    64. Paradox OST

    65. NYA Performance Series, Vol 5: Roxy – Tonight’s The Night Live

    66. NYA Performance Series, Vol. 7: Songs For Judy

    67. NYA Performance Series, Vol. 4: Tuscaloosa

    68. Colorado 

    I was just thinking about Brian and HFD's comments on the previous page about having to "dig through the mud to get to the gold". I consider myself a pretty serious Neil fan, and I have all of the albums listed above on at least one format (I think I'm around 9 short of a full vinyl set). I think it’s clear that there is way more gold than mud, but there are quite a few songs - and in some cases whole albums - that I very rarely listen to. 
    “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: 43,662
    goldrush said:
    brianlux said:
    I’ll go see him, but how many Neil Young Records can one have? This is his 39th studio album.....

    Apparently one too many.  I have 40. 

    LOL,  but that includes a few live LPs and on bootleg a friend gave me years ago.  I'm actually a good 9 LPs short of being a completest.  Probably never will be as I'm not a fan of Promise of the Real (respect them, just not a fan).

    You can never have too much Neil!

    There are 68 official releases so far (studio, live, soundtracks, compilations) and that's not including the Springfield, CSNY, the Archives box or any guest appearances:

    1. Neil Young

    2. Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere

    3. After the Gold Rush

    4. Harvest

    5. Journey Through The Past OST

    6. Time Fades Away

    7. On the Beach

    8. Tonight's the Night

    9. Zuma

    10. Long May You Run

    11. American Stars 'n Bars

    12. Decade

    13. Comes a Time

    14. Rust Never Sleeps

    15. Live Rust

    16. Where The Buffalo Roam OST

    17. Hawks & Doves

    18. Re-ac-tor

    19. Trans

    20. Everybody's Rockin'

    21. Old Ways

    22. Landing on Water

    23. Life

    24. This Note's for You

    25. Eldorado EP

    26. Freedom

    27. Ragged Glory

    28. Arc/Weld

    29. Harvest Moon

    30. Lucky Thirteen

    31. Unplugged

    32. Sleeps with Angels

    33. Mirror Ball

    34. Dead Man OST

    35. Broken Arrow

    36. Year of the Horse

    37. Silver & Gold

    38. Road Rock Vol. 1

    39. Are You Passionate?

    40. Greendale

    41. Greatest Hits

    42. Prairie Wind

    43. Living with War

    44. NYA Performance Series, Vol 02: Live at the Fillmore East 

    45. Living with War: "In the Beginning"

    46. NYA Performance Series, Vol 03: Live at Massey Hall 1971

    47. Chrome Dreams II

    48. NYA Performance Series, Vol 00: Sugar Mountain – Live at Canterbury House 1968

    49. Fork in the Road

    50. NYA Performance Series, Vol 12: Dreamin' Man Live '92

    51. Le Noise

    52. NYA Performance Series, Vol 09: A Treasure

    53. Americana

    54. Psychedelic Pill

    55. NYA Performance Series, Vol 2.5: Live at the Cellar Door

    56. A Letter Home

    57. Storytone

    58. The Monsanto Years

    59. NYA Performance Series, Vol 11: Bluenote Café

    60. Earth

    61. Peace Trail

    62. Hitchhiker

    63. The Visitor

    64. Paradox OST

    65. NYA Performance Series, Vol 5: Roxy – Tonight’s The Night Live

    66. NYA Performance Series, Vol. 7: Songs For Judy

    67. NYA Performance Series, Vol. 4: Tuscaloosa

    68. Colorado 

    I was just thinking about Brian and HFD's comments on the previous page about having to "dig through the mud to get to the gold". I consider myself a pretty serious Neil fan, and I have all of the albums listed above on at least one format (I think I'm around 9 short of a full vinyl set). I think it’s clear that there is way more gold than mud, but there are quite a few songs - and in some cases whole albums - that I very rarely listen to. 
    " I think it’s clear that there is way more gold than mud...":

    For sure!  :smile:



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

  • goldrush
    goldrush everybody knows this is nowhere Posts: 7,791
    An interesting response to one of the recent letters about the Archives



    Hopefully this means that some of the Archives releases that are "in the can" are actually being finalised

    Neil also confirmed that Homegrown is coming in early 2020, with Archives 2 next year as well


    “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: 7,791
    Also, 'Rust Bucket' is in final production  =)


    “Do not postpone happiness”
    (Jeff Tweedy, Sydney 2007)

    “Put yer good money on the sunrise”
    (Tim Rogers)
  • bflynn1
    bflynn1 Posts: 1,394


    Spinning Greatest Hits tonight. Classic Records 200 gram version. Cheers!
  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,662
    goldrush said:
    Also, 'Rust Bucket' is in final production  =)



    Ooooooooooooooh MAN!  Yes!!!
    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

  • bflynn1 said:


    Spinning Greatest Hits tonight. Classic Records 200 gram version. Cheers!
    My local record store has 2 copies of this. 75 dollars though,
    "Mostly I think that people react sensitively because they know you’ve got a point"
  • goldrush
    goldrush everybody knows this is nowhere Posts: 7,791
    Looks like the ‘bootleg’ Homegrown artwork that has been around for years is actually the official cover art


    “Do not postpone happiness”
    (Jeff Tweedy, Sydney 2007)

    “Put yer good money on the sunrise”
    (Tim Rogers)
  • goldrush said:
    Looks like the ‘bootleg’ Homegrown artwork that has been around for years is actually the official cover art


    THE BOOTLEG IS COMING FROM INSIDE THE HOUSE


    "Mostly I think that people react sensitively because they know you’ve got a point"