Neil Young

Onholiday(somemightsay) said:
I played safe on my commute this morning - On the Beach.

Beautiful........
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They uploaded 50 new songs onto the NYA website yesterday, with one of the highlights being an early recording of Ambulance Blues dating from 1973. It's really worth a listen.

Of the rest of the songs released, there are around 30 versions of songs from the Buffalo Springfield era or earlier. The other 20 are from his solo career 1968-74.

The big highlight for me is the first ever release of one of his 'missing' songs from the mid 70s - Barefoot Floors. Not sure why it was left off the NYA2 box edition, it's a great tune. Until yesterday we only had the version sung by Nicolette Larsen.
 
bennyboy said:
Front cover of this months Uncut.
Looks like an article from Buffalo Springfield onwards.
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It's been an extraordinarily productive period recently for new releases, mainly a backlog of live albums and previously unreleased studio albums from the various decades, and including of course the Archives Volume 2 box set.

The online archives has also gone up another notch as an additional live concert performance (in its entirety) is being uploaded on a weekly basis, usually on a Wednesday.
 
NeilYoungIsBack said:
It's been an extraordinarily productive period recently for new releases, mainly a backlog of live albums and previously unreleased studio albums from the various decades, and including of course the Archives Volume 2 box set.

The online archives has also gone up another notch as an additional live concert performance (in its entirety) is being uploaded on a weekly basis, usually on a Wednesday.
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Are there any full show official releases from the 82 Trans tour? I know there’s a video of part of a German show that’s been around for ages, but wondered if the online archive have made a full high quality release available?
 
chesterbells said:
Are there any full show official releases from the 82 Trans tour? I know there’s a video of part of a German show that’s been around for ages, but wondered if the online archive have made a full high quality release available?
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No, not yet. Just the Berlin movie you've already seen.

Archives Vol 3 will probably cover 1982, I'll let you know as soon as I see any lists of albums and tracks.

There's also a good chance there will be a "Concert of the Week" from this period released soon (not a physical copy, but a stream you can access at any time once its been released)
 
NeilYoungIsBack said:
No, not yet. Just the Berlin movie you've already seen.

Archives Vol 3 will probably cover 1982, I'll let you know as soon as I see any lists of albums and tracks.

There's also a good chance there will be a "Concert of the Week" from this period released soon (not a physical copy, but a stream you can access at any time once its been released)
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Thanks pal, I’d appreciate that.

Live Rust is in my top 5 ever, and was that a 78 (or was it 79) concert? As such, the other shows I’d be interested would be another one from that same tour.
 
NeilYoungIsBack said:
This week's Concert of the Week on the NYA site is the Melbourne, 2013 show with Crazy Horse. Were you there?

The performance is nearly 3 hours long, and is definitely worth a listen if you haven't already checked it out.
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Wouldn't have missed it for quids.

Rod Laver Arena didn't do his best acoustics justice would have been better at the bowl but March 15 was a great night had by all.
 
Bill Walker said:
No not the City player, the Canadian one.
Any fans ?
He's just released his 1974 album Homegrown.
He recorded it just after On The Beach. But never released it till now.
Really nice laid back introspective songs like it's predecessor.
Recommended for fans of his.
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Finally got round to do a proper chronological listen to his studio albums, some for the first time ever - obviously it's taking me quite a bit and I have to stop and listen to whatever BlueHammer's album of the week is every so often, but as I expected it's all good stuff up to now (except for that country album one). Just played Trans and loved that, didn't expect him to go that route. 14 down just another 25 albums or so to do.
 
Citizen of Legoland said:
Finally got round to do a proper chronological listen to his studio albums, some for the first time ever - obviously it's taking me quite a bit and I have to stop and listen to whatever BlueHammer's album of the week is every so often, but as I expected it's all good stuff up to now (except for that country album one). Just played Trans and loved that, didn't expect him to go that route. 14 down just another 25 albums or so to do.
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That country one being Old Ways, or Comes A Time ?
 
Citizen of Legoland said:
Finally got round to do a proper chronological listen to his studio albums, some for the first time ever - obviously it's taking me quite a bit and I have to stop and listen to whatever BlueHammer's album of the week is every so often, but as I expected it's all good stuff up to now (except for that country album one). Just played Trans and loved that, didn't expect him to go that route. 14 down just another 25 albums or so to do.
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Nice one. Are you including albums like Hitchhiker and Homegrown that were recorded back in the 70s but not released until the last few years?
 
Bill Walker said:
I wouldn't class that as a country album it has one song called the Old country waltz but that's about it.
ID say he made three country style albums, Old ways, Prairie wind and Comes a time.
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Old Ways is probably regarded as his 'most country' album, but I'm not totally sure how serious it is. It seems to border on parody at times.

You probably know all this, but the 1985 Old Ways was released in the aftermath of NY's legal dispute with David Geffen. There was an earlier 1983 version with some different songs which is said by some of those involved to be much better than the 1985 one, but as far as I know no bootleg has ever emerged of the 1983 version.

Geffen would not authorise the release of the 1983 version, and as a direct result the two parties headed for the courts to sue and counter-sue.

It would be fascinating if the original 1983 Old Ways ever does get released. NY said on his website recently that there's little comparison between the two (although the original old ways was also a very Country album, which is what Geffen objected to).
 
Bill Walker said:
I wouldn't class that as a country album it has one song called the Old country waltz but that's about it.
ID say he made three country style albums, Old ways, Prairie wind and Comes a time.
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Fair enough. I had read that he'd done some "country" albums and assumed that was one of them with "The Old Country Waltz" and then he saddles up the palomino ;) Maybe Linda Ronstadt (on side one) just evoked more country to me than Nicolette Larson did on Comes A Time.
 
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