The Official Neil Young Thread

[Farmer John]

How many other gems am I missing in the "subscriber-only outtakes section of the NYA"?

I've never heard Neil's original version. Sleep Baby Sleep by Nicolette Larson was our families favorite children's album after my twins were born.

Just looked up the Nicolette Larson version. That's lovely.

I wonder what the story is behind her recording this unreleased Neil tune.

[joostone]

Wait, there's a subscriber-only outtakes section of the NYA??

What else did I miss?

[Farmer John]

Wait, there's a subscriber-only outtakes section of the NYA??

What else did I miss?

I'm not even sure. I found that on YouTube and that's how it was described.

I think the outtakes and alternate versions are just scattered throughout the Timeline and file cabinet thing.

The same youtube channel also had this version of Mellow My Mind

[makeshift]

Download Soulseek. All the outtakes and subscriber concerts are on there.

[joostone]

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/neil-young-interview-crazy-horse-barn-archives-harvest-1267638/

Tell me about your time in lockdown. Between working on archival releases and new music, did you ever have any downtime?
Just a little bit of downtime with Daryl. We could put aside time for each other and do things together, but she’s very creative and she has a lot to do, too. So we just do these things, and the Archives is gigantic. Volume III is the biggest volume of all three that I’ve made so far, almost twice as big as the other ones. It covers a longer period of time. I think it has 13 albums in it. I make new albums now. The other Archives, I used to do this album or that album. And there’s highlights from albums, but I go by the period and create a new album around the making of the album that came out.

What other highlights can you share?
There’s some really beautiful things. The 13th disc is an album called Summer Songs that I put together on tape and then put it on the shelf, because I was doing these new songs I’d just written. I was going really fast at the time and writing a lot of songs. So I just put the song down and then I’d do it again and sing the harmony part, sitting in the same place without moving, after I did the first one, so it almost sounds like the two were right on top of each other, and it has a very interesting sound to it.

I located this group of songs through some questions asked by people who would write me letters at the Archives, and they are very helpful. These are the soul of the Archives community — these people who write letters and talk about things that they remember, because I can go into the Archives and find things and make them come to life, these memories that people bring out. So I found Summer Songs, there’s four albums that it’s from. These songs are real early, and they weren’t heard again for years. That’s how that ends, and there’s 11 albums in between it. It’s crazy.

Archives III is gonna be huge....

[Simple Torture]

Archives III isn't coming out until Baron Trump’s second term.

[Athletic Supporter]

All I want is the Mirrorball vinyl re-release

[liebzz]

Barn - uniquely Neil.

[tragabigzanda]

Initial thoughts on Barn, anyone? I need to spend more time with it, but knee jerk reaction is that it feels like modern day Neil's closest thing to the ditch trilogy since that era. Everything is sloppy and off-the-cuff, but oddly charming. And with just two exceptions, the songs are surprisingly succinct.

This might be much better than I'd anticipated.

[Strat]

The Horse is really old and tired. Though, this is somewhat better than expected.

[Strat]

I can't exactly pinpoint why his recent music turns me off but it has something to do with the melodies. They are very - obvious. Along with the wordplay/rhyming. I can basically guess the next word having never heard a song.

Also, Nils being a finger picking guitar player in crazy horse.....

[Kevin Davis]

Initial thoughts on Barn, anyone? I need to spend more time with it, but knee jerk reaction is that it feels like modern day Neil's closest thing to the ditch trilogy since that era. Everything is sloppy and off-the-cuff, but oddly charming. And with just two exceptions, the songs are surprisingly succinct.

This might be much better than I'd anticipated.

Listening now. I think Crazy Horse really loses something without Poncho -- Nils brings something entirely different to the table, and he's a great player, but it doesn't feel like Crazy Horse, no matter how much Neil himself gets into that mode. That said, I'm enjoying the album -- I think it's impossible for me to not at least passively enjoy any instance of Neil turning on the distortion. It's making me want to listen to Psychedelic Pill -- now that's a late-era tour de force.

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[doug rr]

i was supposed to get barn today on vinyl from amazon..got a notification today that its not arriving until early january..wtf

[Simple Torture]

i was supposed to get barn today on vinyl from amazon..got a notification today that its not arriving until early january..wtf

If you're pre-ordering vinyl from Amazon, caveat emptor. They are horrible at fulfilling.

[doug rr]

i was supposed to get barn today on vinyl from amazon..got a notification today that its not arriving until early january..wtf

If you're pre-ordering vinyl from Amazon, caveat emptor. They are horrible at fulfilling.

this was the first time ever it was delayed..

[Simple Torture]

i was supposed to get barn today on vinyl from amazon..got a notification today that its not arriving until early january..wtf

If you're pre-ordering vinyl from Amazon, caveat emptor. They are horrible at fulfilling.

this was the first time ever it was delayed..

Lucky man then! I have just stopped doing pre-orders with them.

[spike]

Supply chain issues

[tragabigzanda]

sounds like a Neil song

[spike]

sounds like a Neil song

haha, i legit had that same thought after hitting submit.

[makeshift]

The music's ok, lyrics are downright bad. Way its been since Silver and Gold