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Countdown of my top 101 Neil Young songs. Now with entries 102-204, notable covers and other stuff (1 Viewer)
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Neil released his first new studio album in almost 3 years, Talkin' to the Trees, last month. I have not listened to it yet. Sounds like there's more political ranting. But two notes of interest:
He's got a new backing band with him, the Chrome Hearts (name taken from a line in "Long May You Run"). It consists of Micah Nelson (Willie's son), Corey McCormick and Anthony LoGerfo from Promise of the Real, who have backed him at various times in the last decade, and legendary session keyboardist Spooner Oldham, who has played with basically everyone and has worked with Neil at various times starting with Harvest Moon.
Two of the songs address his relationship, or lack thereof, with his daughter Amber, who apparently cut him out of her life after he divorced her mother Pegi and refuses to let him see his grandchildren. I had no idea about any of that.
Other Neil releases from the past few years that I have not caught up with yet either:
Live albums:
Before and After, a solo acoustic live album recorded and released in 2023. Most of the songs are more obscure -- only "Mr. Soul" and "Comes a Time" are sure to be known by non-diehards.
Fu##in' Up, a live album with Crazy Horse (plus Micah Nelson) recorded in 2023 and released in 2024. It reimagines 9 of the 10 songs from Ragged Glory (omitting the closer "Mother Earth (Natural Anthem)") and retitles all of the originals (but not the cover "Farmer John").
Coastal: The Soundtrack is the soundtrack to the documentary Coastal, which portrays Neil's Coastal Tour and was directed by his wife Daryl Hannah. The performances were recorded in 2023 and released in April of this year. As with Before and After, the most popular songs are absent.
Archival releases:
Return to Greendale, a performance of the Greendale songs from the Greendale tour. Don't need to go through that again.
Carnegie Hall 1970, an acoustic show. Most of what you'd expect to see from Buffalo Springfield through After the Gold Rush is there, as well as a smattering of songs that weren't released at the time, including "Old Man".
Citizen Kane Junior Blues -- This is the much-circulated Bottom Line 1974 recording finally being given an official release. It is named after the original title of "Pushed It Over the End," which made its live debut at this show along with "Long May You Run" and some of the On the Beach songs.
Royce Hall 1971 -- Another early '70s acoustic show. You can never have too many of those.
Toast -- The album Neil recorded in the early '00s with Crazy Horse but then abandoned. "Goin' Home" from those sessions was included on Are You Passionate? and was by far the best thing on that otherwise lackluster record. Neil had debuted that one on tour in 2001 along with "Quit," "Standing in the Light of Love" and "Gateway of Love". Some tracks were re-recorded for Are You Passionate? with partly or completely different titles.
Noise & Flowers -- Live album recorded with Promise of the Real in 2019 and released in 2022. A very eclectic setlist including some A-listers and favorites of die-hard fans ("On the Beach," "I've Been Waiting for You," etc.)
Somewhere Under the Rainbow (Nov. 5, 1973) -- A show from the infamous Tonight's the Night tour in late 1973, when it was intended to be Neil's next release but was shelved for almost 2 years. As with all shows from the tour, the nine songs from the original version of the album are performed, but then we get nine older songs. The version of "Traces" from the TTN sessions is appended to the end.
High Flyin' (credited to The Ducks) -- Neil's short-lived 1977 bar band finally gets an official release. Which means the most obscure song in my top 101, the instrumental "Windward Passage," has an official version at last.
Chrome Dreams -- This is one of Neil's lost albums from the '70s. The "sequel" Chrome Dreams II got released before it did! All songs were officially released by 1980 -- some in the same versions, some in new and different recordings -- except for "Stringman," which finally got an official debut at the 1993 Unplugged show.
Early Daze -- material from around the Everybody Knows This is Nowhere sessions with Crazy Horse. Includes their attempt at "Helpless."
Oceanside Countryside -- another "lost" album from the mid-70s, recorded in 1977. All of these songs got released by 1980 except "It Might Have Been," a cover that appeared in his live sets at various times over the years.
Oh, and Archives Vol. 3 came out.
The post-2020 archival releases I have heard are Dume (early Zuma sessions) and Odeon Budokan (part of a 1976 show in Japan), which got standalone releases after being included as part of Archives Vol. 2.
So I have a lot of catching up to do.
He's got a new backing band with him, the Chrome Hearts (name taken from a line in "Long May You Run"). It consists of Micah Nelson (Willie's son), Corey McCormick and Anthony LoGerfo from Promise of the Real, who have backed him at various times in the last decade, and legendary session keyboardist Spooner Oldham, who has played with basically everyone and has worked with Neil at various times starting with Harvest Moon.
Two of the songs address his relationship, or lack thereof, with his daughter Amber, who apparently cut him out of her life after he divorced her mother Pegi and refuses to let him see his grandchildren. I had no idea about any of that.
Other Neil releases from the past few years that I have not caught up with yet either:
Live albums:
Before and After, a solo acoustic live album recorded and released in 2023. Most of the songs are more obscure -- only "Mr. Soul" and "Comes a Time" are sure to be known by non-diehards.
Fu##in' Up, a live album with Crazy Horse (plus Micah Nelson) recorded in 2023 and released in 2024. It reimagines 9 of the 10 songs from Ragged Glory (omitting the closer "Mother Earth (Natural Anthem)") and retitles all of the originals (but not the cover "Farmer John").
Coastal: The Soundtrack is the soundtrack to the documentary Coastal, which portrays Neil's Coastal Tour and was directed by his wife Daryl Hannah. The performances were recorded in 2023 and released in April of this year. As with Before and After, the most popular songs are absent.
Archival releases:
Return to Greendale, a performance of the Greendale songs from the Greendale tour. Don't need to go through that again.
Carnegie Hall 1970, an acoustic show. Most of what you'd expect to see from Buffalo Springfield through After the Gold Rush is there, as well as a smattering of songs that weren't released at the time, including "Old Man".
Citizen Kane Junior Blues -- This is the much-circulated Bottom Line 1974 recording finally being given an official release. It is named after the original title of "Pushed It Over the End," which made its live debut at this show along with "Long May You Run" and some of the On the Beach songs.
Royce Hall 1971 -- Another early '70s acoustic show. You can never have too many of those.
Toast -- The album Neil recorded in the early '00s with Crazy Horse but then abandoned. "Goin' Home" from those sessions was included on Are You Passionate? and was by far the best thing on that otherwise lackluster record. Neil had debuted that one on tour in 2001 along with "Quit," "Standing in the Light of Love" and "Gateway of Love". Some tracks were re-recorded for Are You Passionate? with partly or completely different titles.
Noise & Flowers -- Live album recorded with Promise of the Real in 2019 and released in 2022. A very eclectic setlist including some A-listers and favorites of die-hard fans ("On the Beach," "I've Been Waiting for You," etc.)
Somewhere Under the Rainbow (Nov. 5, 1973) -- A show from the infamous Tonight's the Night tour in late 1973, when it was intended to be Neil's next release but was shelved for almost 2 years. As with all shows from the tour, the nine songs from the original version of the album are performed, but then we get nine older songs. The version of "Traces" from the TTN sessions is appended to the end.
High Flyin' (credited to The Ducks) -- Neil's short-lived 1977 bar band finally gets an official release. Which means the most obscure song in my top 101, the instrumental "Windward Passage," has an official version at last.
Chrome Dreams -- This is one of Neil's lost albums from the '70s. The "sequel" Chrome Dreams II got released before it did! All songs were officially released by 1980 -- some in the same versions, some in new and different recordings -- except for "Stringman," which finally got an official debut at the 1993 Unplugged show.
Early Daze -- material from around the Everybody Knows This is Nowhere sessions with Crazy Horse. Includes their attempt at "Helpless."
Oceanside Countryside -- another "lost" album from the mid-70s, recorded in 1977. All of these songs got released by 1980 except "It Might Have Been," a cover that appeared in his live sets at various times over the years.
Oh, and Archives Vol. 3 came out.
The post-2020 archival releases I have heard are Dume (early Zuma sessions) and Odeon Budokan (part of a 1976 show in Japan), which got standalone releases after being included as part of Archives Vol. 2.
So I have a lot of catching up to do.
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