28-minute collection of songs from his recent fireside concerts – ten of your English pounds, please.
As one wag puts it in the Amazon review, more a case of Rush After the Gold
than After the Gold Rush
Another week, another new Neil Young album…
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Don’t really think he puts out his new stuff for monetary purposes any more.
What artist does? You can’t make a record to a formula that will guarantee a nice bit of dosh. But Neil knows whatever he puts out will sell, he has his base, the Youngsters, who buy everything and anything he records. He doesn’t have to work at it – it’s easy money. I’m sure you’re right he doesn’t do it solely for the money, but it must be a consideration, especially as his creative drive seems to have burned right out. He’s not giving this stuff away, but some don’t even want to listen to it for nothing.
Still longer than the first Ramones album.
£10? Cost me £6.99 at the Dodgers.
That was 3 weeks ago.
The Dodgers?
Must have missed that one!
By 3 weeks!
It`s £7.99 at present.
The reviews are not good and I was greatly disappointed with Home Grown so will give this one a miss.
Homegrown is pretty irrelevant, as it is from 45 years ago, of course he was much better then. And it is pretty excellent, except for a couple of tracks. New one is recent Neil recordings and I have little interest in them.
Also coming soon (allegedly), Archives Vol 2, Return to Greendale (live box set), Way down in the Rust bucket (1990 concert with CH) and The Timeless Orpheum (concert film).
Someone should do a list of scheduled NY albums that never saw the light of day – two recent ones I can think of off the top of my head are Toast and the 2-disc Ragged Glory 30th anniversary set (would deffo have bought that one!)
Not in the market for this, but an album clocking in at 28 minutes is a benefit in my book.
The new Pretenders LP, Hate For Sale, is 30m 29s.
Denise Johnson – Where Does It Go is 28m 20s.
I like them both very much. Coincidence?
Probably not, keep it short.
@fentonsteve
That Pretenders album, any good?
I really like it. A bit like ACR have with their ACR Loco, they’ve finally nailed a way to sound simultaneously current and retro. Several tracks have me thinking “that bit sounds like Kid/Private Life/Chain Gang”. And it doen’t outstay its welcome.
People have said it is their best since their first, I wouldn’t disagree, but I have a soft spot for 1994’s Last of the Independents.
@fentonsteve thanks will investigate. As you say, it’s brevity is probably a good thing, bearing in mind my chronic attention…nope, it’s gone.
Always preferred their 3rd album myself , name of which deserts me at the moment….pfft
It’s great, @freddy-steady
As said it is short and pointy, with many a reminisce of their glory days. 3rd album I can’t remember either, but this really does feel more Honeyman-Scott and Farndon than anything since their demises, dodgy high pitched boysy BVs and all.
Sounds great!
3rd album is Learning to Crawl…of course!
If you are hurry and you are in UK you can catch them on the Red Button you can catch their live in the garden concert with the estimable James Walbourne and Carwyn Ellis joining Chrissie as an acoustic trio. They play a couple of songs off the new album.
Thanks!
Can’t keep up – think I’m on ‘The Visitor’.
`The Times` is a good listen and has been played quite a lot at Harkonnen Towers.