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    Another harvest of Neil Young

    in Someone Else's Song

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    Remember, this is Neil Young we're talking about. The guy is perverse. He's finally found a way to release the Archives and piss of his fans at the same time. Genius!

     

    he is crazy as y'all say. same shit, different decade. i mean, when will the dude mellow. blue ray will be over in the next 5 years anyway. hell, dvds were around for what, 5 years? vhs is still on the shelves of some video stores, dvd has not even totally taken over, and now it is obsolete? as with Geffen, Reprise should sue him for not putting music out in consumer friendly ways. not to mention all of his comments in the webcast and interviews are just plain goofy. just tell us when it's coming out and what the F is on the damn thing. is toast on the back burner now! :realmad

    Another harvest of Neil Young

    in Someone Else's Song

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    Still, when the frak are these gods damn things coming out!!

    pretty exciting though!

     

     

     

    SAN FRANCISCO, CA JAVAONE CONFERENCE, May 6, 2008 Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA) today announced a collaboration with Neil Young and Reprise/Warner Bros. Records for the release of the upcoming Neil Young Archive series on Blu-ray Disc, powered by Java technology. Young will join Sun CEO and president Jonathan Schwartz and Rich Green, executive vice president for Software, on stage during the JavaOne conference opening keynote to announce this revolutionary new project and demonstrate some of the interactive features of his upcoming Blu-ray Disc box set. Visit: http://www.java.com or http://www.neilyoung.com for more information.

     

    Neil Young's exciting project ties to this year's Conference theme of "Java + You" by highlighting the role Java technology plays in delivering dynamic content, sophisticated services and application mashups across consumer devices. Today, Java technology is the most widely adopted runtime in the world and is now powering compelling content and rich end-user experiences across all the "screens of your life" on billions of devices

    My New Album

    in Someone Else's Song

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    My album has been released on itunes today. I haven't got a label so i am trying to advertise it myself as best i can. If you get a chance could you please check out some samples that are up on myspace. www.myspace.com/nathanclarke82

     

     

    Cheers

     

     

    i am sure it is complete shit!

    An interview with Mark Kozelek

    in Someone Else's Song

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    Is he as big an "Indie Diva" as people make him out to be?

     

     

    don't know about that. i love that he is totally opinionated and clear about what he does. also love his opinions about music. he is right on when he says that there are just too many bands. less is more as far as i am concerned. in the 70s you were into zep and choose your other 3 favorite bands.

    30 years ago

    in Someone Else's Song

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    Huh? His debut album came out in 1973. I'm not sure what you mean by this. Born in the U.S.A. definitely has a 1980's sound to it. I've seen interviews with Bruce where he said he was looking to make an album that captured the sound that was going on at the time. Other than that record, I wouldn't say he has an "80's sound." The record you specifically say you'll go back to (Nebraska) was released in the fucking 1980's ironically enough. The Springsteen albums I cherish (Greetings, Wild/Innocent, Born to Run, Darkness, The River, Nebraska, Tunnel, Tom Joad, Devils, Rising, and Magic) don't sound very "80s" to me. I find that Springsteen haters tend to focus on Born in the U.S.A. which is like saying you don't like Neil Young because you don't like Harvest. It's such a small piece (yet highly visible piece) of what the artist is all about.

     

     

    irony seems to be the only constant in this world :)....anyway, i just associate bad times with BITUSA, TOL, LT, HT. Those are all 80s albums to me. I was introduced to him in the 80s with those tunes being played WAY too much on the radio. now to me, the 80s are 84-92...the 70s are 1968-1983 :)

    30 years ago

    in Someone Else's Song

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    i'm a casual bruce fan. been in and out of him for the last few years. his sound is just so closely associated with bad times in the 80s for me, that it's hard to take him seriously. anyway, went down to phillips arena in atlanta last friday night and got a great ticket for $20. the show was entertaining and i can see how people just love him. the new stuff sounded so much better than that brendon obrien neutered album, magic. anyway, well worth 20 bucks, not 100 bucks though. clarence looked like he is literally on his last legs and bruce is a bit tired. hope to hear some more solo stuff from him in the future. nebraska is prolly the one i go back to most.

    craig

    Speaking of Significant others....

    in Someone Else's Song

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    Everyone in the house here are music nuts. My wife likes a great deal of my music, with one glaring exception: she HATES King Crimson. I have no idea why.

     

    She's not a fan of the avant-garde jazz either, come to think of it. :ohwell

     

     

    my wife is the same way. and for some reason i don't get, she doesnt like freak folk. go figure.

     

     

    really, my wife is always helping me see that i really don't like stuff i think i am supposed to like. for example, tom waits. she likes who she likes and listens to it all the time. that would be christine kane, indigo girls, john prine, low voiced neil young, and of course gillan welch.

    A Thread for Musical Blasphemy you Truly Believe

    in Someone Else's Song

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    clapton was not God.

    Grateful dead in the early 70s is not that great

    Grateful dead from 91-end was completely unlistenable.

     

    Velvet Underground Suck...

    all early pink floyd is bad, before meddle (gilmour era pink floyd is excellent)

     

    punk rock and hip hop are totally annoying and should be done. unfortunately, they have permeated everything, but, unlike disco, they are not going away!!

     

    sgt pepper is complete novelty and cheese.

     

    i love america and the eagles!

    I need that record!

    in Someone Else's Song

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    No, I'm not Judd, but I know who you're talking about. He's a nice guy.

     

    If you're going to Criminal make sure to see Anna Kramer's set. Awesome band. I'll be there for that unless a previous engagement runs late.

     

     

    will do.

    peace

    I need that record!

    in Someone Else's Song

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    Sounds like a dcumentary I'd really enjoy.

     

    Saturday, April 19th is "Record Store Day". I know of at least three stores here in Atlanta that are having live music, free beer, discounts, etc.

     

    http://www.recordstoreday.com/

     

     

    dude, i am in the ATL too. let's see, Decatur CD, Ella Guru, Wuxtry, Wax, Criminal...?

     

    i prefer ella guru. the guy that runs it is so nice and not snoby etc. just a regular dude that actually recognizes your existence and talks to my kids! decatur cd is touch and go. very, very pretentious in a Paste magazine sort of way. Wuxtry is touch and go.

     

    Was that band the Amps, or did Kim have a band called The Pacers? Same band, maybe? The Amps' album was called "Pacer". Just curious.

     

     

    sorry, i got confused there. band=amps, album=pacer, single=tipp city....hope that clears it up!

    I need that record!

    in Someone Else's Song

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    http://ineedthatrecord.blogspot.com/

     

     

    this stuff fascinates me. i am just totally interested/disgusted/scared about the music industry. i still want cds, or at least lossless music and hope that they still exist in 10 years. i was a casualty of the closing of a record store in dayton ohio. i worked at gem city records in 1996. it was awesome! had lots of in-stores of local bands including the the pacers (kim deal's band). it was the height of GBV so people were ape shit about that stuff. and, i didn't care about a thing but jam bands! one sunday, the owner calls me in. i go in and he says i am fired along with everyone else. he hires two dudes who ran another local record store that had gone under. i was shocked and sad. the whole place closed down a few months later along with a handful of the other stores in town. all that is left is a killer used cd shop and the 'bigger' gem city records, which is basically catering to top 40 stuff now.

    interestingly, in 2004 i go to see autumn defense in atlanta and lo and behold, the bass player is morgan taylor, a dude i used to work at the store with. i was talking to stirrat and could have given two shits, i wanted to talk to morgan!!

    Toast

    in Someone Else's Song

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    i started a topic a few days ago...

     

     

    http://forums.viachicago.org/index.php?showtopic=34712

     

     

    like you, i cant believe no one is talking about this. i am really excited, more than i was for CDII. guess we'll get 'standing in the light of love' and 'gateway of love' as well as are you passionate tunes with the horse. probably some other things as well. the article also hints at neil and the horse being in the studio fixing/working on these tunes. i wonder when the release date will be? probably may or june. sooner the better. for the last 3 years neil has been putting something out every fall and spring with new albums and the performance series. so does this mean archives I in fall or is that being revamped for the unreleased album series? we'll see. can't wait for toast!!

    craig

    unreleased neil & crazy horse album to be released

    in Someone Else's Song

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    caution, this may be an april fools joke, but i hope to god it's not! this sounds so cool. would love to get unreleased albums in addition to the archives. maybe neil has changed his mind. archives on blueray and unreleased discs on cd/blueray etc.

     

     

    neilyoung.com

     

    CRAZY HORSE "TOAST"

    NY Times

    In 2000, Crazy Horse was in San Francisco, south of Market street, at an old studio called "Toast." Coltrane had recorded there, among many other jazz greats, known and unknown. The Dot Com boom was happening and buildings were being bought and turned into lofts or torn down completely and rebuilt. New money was everywhere. Toast was a target. The place was a little run down and sort of on its last legs.

    To a man, if you asked Crazy Horse about these sessions, you would learn that it was a depressing atmosphere and things were not going well. The band recorded there for months and came up with very little. Nothing, other than one song, "Goin' Home" was ever finished. But a lot was started. Several of the songs written at Toast showed up on the "Are You Passionate" album with Booker T. and the MGs. But that album met with mixed reaction.

    Now, years later, John Hanlon, the original co-producer with Neil, is at work mixing all of the Toast material. Many songs share a bluesy, jazz-tinged vibe as a common thread. Three solid rockers are interspersed in the mix. Other songs are long with extensive explorations between verses, a Crazy Horse trademark, kind of like a down-played Tonight's the Night, except these songs deal directly with love and loss, not drugs. The ambient atmosphere, foggy, blue and desolate, pervades many of the tracks, if not all, with Tommy Brea's muted trumpet and dusky male and female counter-part BGs occasionally surfacing from Poncho and Ralph on one side, Nancy Hall and Pegi Young on the other. A cool and sleepy lounge piano rises in the fog occasionally.

    The result of this is perhaps one of the most under-estimated and deceptive Crazy Horse records of all time, with many songs originally discarded, and then re-recorded with Booker T. and the MGs. The original performances now surface again through a foggy past. Like an abstract painting, lyrical images of a love lost and maybe even destroyed forever just refuse to die, creating a landscape littered with half-broken dreams and promises.

    "Toast" is coming, a dark Crazy Horse classic for the ages. This first NYA "Special Edition" is the beginning of a new series of unreleased albums.

    Obama's speech on race

    in Tongue-Tied Lightning

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    Too bad McCain is not being pressed as hard on the things said by preachers that he is actively courting because of their influence. Guys Like Tim LaHaye and Pastor Hageee down there in Texas, both virulent anti-catholics. The press has chosen not to pursue McCains courting of these guys, they choose instead to focus on Obama. Though for the life of me I can't figure it out, last week on Fox Obama was a closet Muslim waiting unleash his jihad on the US, now this week he is a christian following a radical preacher? I'm so confused.

     

    excellent point about mccain! how about the fundamentalist leaders stating that Jews and Muslims will spend eternity in a lake of fire if they don't become christians? will it ever end. how about food, houses, and jobs for everyone. then lets work the other stuff out.

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