The Official Neil Young Thread

[Simple Torture]

It's...nice. But not like "Tune in for an announcement" exciting.

[Kevin Davis]

There are some Ragged Glory outtakes circulating on bootlegs -- nothing terribly earth-shattering, if memory serves, though the B-side "Don't Spook the Horse"' is a noisy good time and deserving of a more widespread release.

Hopefully the newly unearthed stuff gets a standalone release.

[bodysnatcher]

from an outside perspective (not nearly as engulfed in NY fandom as most of you), this sounds pretty sweet. but in the canon of NY releases, i don't know where "ragged glory" stands. out of curiosity, why is this news not as exciting?

[Simple Torture]

from an outside perspective (not nearly as engulfed in NY fandom as most of you), this sounds pretty sweet. but in the canon of NY releases, i don't know where "ragged glory" stands. out of curiosity, why is this news not as exciting?

A New Young Archives announcement sounded like maybe it was Archives Vol. II, which we've been waiting 9 1/2 years for. Getting unreleased music like this is good news, but it's not on the same level as the archive.

Just booted up the site again, and it appears that today's actual announcement was that the Neil Young Archives iOS app has been released.

[bodysnatcher]

from an outside perspective (not nearly as engulfed in NY fandom as most of you), this sounds pretty sweet. but in the canon of NY releases, i don't know where "ragged glory" stands. out of curiosity, why is this news not as exciting?

A New Young Archives announcement sounded like maybe it was Archives Vol. II, which we've been waiting 9 1/2 years for. Getting unreleased music like this is good news, but it's not on the same level as the archive.

Just booted up the site again, and it appears that today's actual announcement was that the Neil Young Archives iOS app has been released.

are releases like this new Ragged Glory a bad thing for Archives Vol 2 (or 3)? seems like a release like this is eating into the unreleased tracks that normally would come as a nice surprise and selling point of such a big box set. in the end, will Archives Vol 2 just be a collection of these individually released efforts?

(this coming from someone who doesn't have or never listened to Archives Vol 1, so i have no idea what i'm really talking about)

[iweartwoshoes]

Yeah I think releases like this and hitchhiker reduce the likelihood of big archive boxsets.

[iweartwoshoes]

There are some Ragged Glory outtakes circulating on bootlegs -- nothing terribly earth-shattering, if memory serves, though the B-side "Don't Spook the Horse"' is a noisy good time and deserving of a more widespread release.

Hopefully the newly unearthed stuff gets a standalone release.

[Simple Torture]

Yeah I think releases like this and hitchhiker reduce the likelihood of big archive boxsets.

There are 2 references to a May 2019 release for Archives 2 in the "Letters to the Editor" section of NYA. We'll see what that brings.

[bodysnatcher]

Come on, old man, just give us Mirrorball ffs

[bune]

Yeah. Old man, take a look at your life.

[Simple Torture]

Come on, old man, just give us Mirrorball ffs

At this rate, Archives Vol. 4 (which would presumably cover the 1990s) will be out in 2039.

[Strat]

ragged glory is maybe my favorite neil young album to be honest. I absolutely fucking adore it and i love the playing on it.

The announcement was the App, yea? Well i downloaded it and it is pretty awesome.

[bodysnatcher]

Come on, old man, just give us Mirrorball ffs

At this rate, Archives Vol. 4 (which would presumably cover the 1990s) will be out in 2039.

oh perfect, right around the age when i'm only listening to classical music

[Kevin Davis]

Yeah I think releases like this and hitchhiker reduce the likelihood of big archive boxsets.

Honestly I much prefer the smaller, more manageable releases to big expensive box sets substantially comprised of previously released material. Neil has kept up an awesome schedule with these archive releases, the selections have all been great, and the duplication of previously released material has been minimal. If one comes at the expense of the other, I prefer the current format.

[Strat]

Pegi young dead from cancer

[McParadigm]

Pegi young dead from cancer

Fuck, that sucks.

Eat a fucking peach, Neil.

[VinylGuy]

Incoming new album from Neil about a lost love.

[Strat]

Yesterday’s Neil young archives song of the day was harvest moon too

[bune]

Pegi young dead from cancer

Also what I get from that is that they could release a lot of tracks from the concerts instead of all these bootlegs and shit.

[VinylGuy]

IT WAS A GIFT FROM PEGI, YOU MONSTER