New Neil Young al*** - Are you passionate

Thanks for the link - I'm listening to it whilst I try and read Stallion's Amazing Discovery (and obviously while I'm typing this).

First impressions are that it's good without having anykiller moments yet...

"Good without having any killer moments yet" -

Well we've waited long enough and after all it is only another bl**dy mains block

There could be one almighty killer moment if all this hot air is about a mains block!

Will check out the site when time permits, cheers.

Matthew

It arrived today, and I've just finished the first listen.

Curiously, one of the things I think it lacks is passion, which is rare for a Neil Young album. The one exception to that is the only track recorded with Crazy Horse, "Goin Home".

So far, so good (but no killer tracks), and definitely better than a lot of his 80's output

Mine arrived today too from Play.com, its a Canadian LP style digipak and it took me 20 minutes to slide it out of the sleeve.

Played it several times from the Website, but its nmiles better on the CDS2. Its not one of his very best but its good. I think it was Q magazine who complained he was losing his voice in his old age, but I cant concur.

BTW I also got the new Midnight Oil "capricornia" (only available at the mo on US import)and thats a goodun too

A&B are doing the 'classic' double CD compilation 'Decade' for $23.99 (Canadian)

That's about £10.50

After three or four listens, this has definitely grown on me. The passion is definitely of a "slow burn" nature.

Curiously, one track (track two from memory) is a almost note-for note the same as the main tune from Groove Armada'a "At The River"!

Surprise no one's brought up this article:
Neil and that old chestnut.

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Young dismisses music's creative and commercial slumps as mere byproducts of vinyl's extinction. He insists labels sold out quality 20 years ago and short-changed fans by pushing an inferior delivery system, the CD, into the marketplace.

"The videos that came along at the same time distracted us from the fact that music was literally losing its depth," Young argues. "A CD is a reconstruction of the sound. It's not even a clone. It's more like a toy or a robot, just a string of ones and zeros, whereas analog recording is a true reflection, like a pool or a mirror. Imagine telling Picasso, 'That's a nice painting; now we're going to fax it to the public.' There's no doubt in my mind that this is why the industry is failing."

Consequently, Young plans to issue vinyl versions of all past and future recordings, including Passionate and the archives, on his Vapor label.

"I've gone to the highest-resolution DVDs, and I still prefer to hear my music on vinyl off the analog masters," Young says. "I look at my whole life's work and realize there's no medium for it."

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Digital Young

He's been whiffling on about this for years. But I believe that just about all of his work from the mid-80's onwards has been recorded purely in the digital domain...go figure.

As for touring with CSNY, that's fine unless it means they release another Richard III like "Looking Forward".

Archives

I'm a huge fan and have pretty much everything he's ever put out (good bad and ugly), but the thought of shelling out for 32 CDs is making my credit card have nightmares.

Thanks for the link though Mike.

Must keep an ear to the ground for that vinyl as I've got around 50% of my NY collection on CD

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But I believe that just about all of his work from the mid-80's onwards has been recorded purely in the digital domain

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Nah, he gave up on digital recording after Sleeps With Angels. They are all analogue from then on.

Try comparing the CD of Harvest with an original version on Vinyl (has the word 'Sterling' and initals 'LH' in the dead wax) and its not hard to hear what he's on about.

It's a fair cop. You're right.

While the other undeceased sixties rockers are busy scoring Disney flicks and inseminating lesbian icons, he remains musically relevant. As anyone who's seen one of the recent CSNY reunion shows can attest, Young lives up to his surname by acting like an eight-year-old on a sugar high at a nursing home, running circles around his washed-up lardass bandmates. And with his old drinking buddies Crazy Horse, Neil continues to effortlessly kick up the kind of noisestorms that make Thurston Moore's toes curl in ecstasy.

Erik

I saw the movie "Bandits" last night. Bruce W and Billy Bob Thornton are playing bank robbers. At the robbings Billy Bob is wearing different wigs, all of them reflects Neil Young at different stages of his life! Very amusing.
This is mentioned in the movie att one stage. "It's meant to look like Neil Young on the cover of the album where he is leaning against a tree." One of my favourites, by the way.

JohanR