Post subject: [2016-06-24] Neil Young And Promise Of The Real "Earth" live 2CD and 3LP sets (Reprise)
Posted: Fri Mar 04, 2016 11:51 am
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By Brian Ives
In a recent interview with filmmaker Cameron Crowe, Neil Young confirmed that he’s currently in the studio working on his 37th solo album. Like his last one, 2015’s The Monsanto Years, his backing band is Promise of the Real, the band that features Willie Nelson’s sons Lukas and Micah.
After the event, Young told Rolling Stone that “It’s like nothing that I’ve done. It’s more like a giant radio show. It has no stops. The songs are too long for iTunes, thank God, so they won’t be on iTunes. I’m making it available in the formats that can handle it.” This likely means that the songs on the album are longer than 10 minutes. Young famously dislikes iTunes, which he feels offers poor sound quality; he has created his own digital music player, called Pono.
He says the album is “Like a live show, but it’s not like a live show. Imagine it’s a live show where the audience is full of every living thing on earth — all of the animals and insects and amphibians and birds and everybody — we’re all represented. And also they overtake the music once in a while and play the instruments. It’s not conventional … but it is based on live performance.”
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Post subject: [2016-06-24] Neil Young And Promise Of The Real "Earth" live 2CD and 3LP sets (Reprise)
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too much too fast....
neil young seems to be favoring quantity over quality of late.
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Not to deny the man his muse, but come on!
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Post subject: [2016-06-24] Neil Young And Promise Of The Real "Earth" live 2CD and 3LP sets (Reprise)
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I'm a big fan of mr young, but I don't buy everything he puts out. This one may depend on what I think about Monsanto years. I got that one upon release, but still haven't played it yet. Having said that, I hear they were great live at least and multiple 10+ minute songs are almost always a plus for me when it comes to neil.
Post subject: [2016-06-24] Neil Young And Promise Of The Real "Earth" live 2CD and 3LP sets (Reprise)
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I loved A Letter Home and am glad I own it. On the other hand I couldn't stand The Monsanto Years when I tried it out from the library, so didn't bother getting that one at all.
Post subject: [2016-06-24] Neil Young And Promise Of The Real "Earth" live 2CD and 3LP sets (Reprise)
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Geff R. wrote:
Wow, total opposite from me. I don't love Monsanto, but I definitely like it.
Agreed that Monsanto Years is pretty good.
The young, talented backing musicians seemed to inspire Neil to up his game, and about 2/3 of the album has memorable tunes and great playing. However, the sloganeering throughout the record, and a few monotonous lazy songs take the album down a notch for me.
(For me, "monotonous" and "repetitive" are two different things; for example, I love Neil's song "T-Bone" from the Re-ac-tor album, which is extremely repetitive, but far from monotonous or boring, imho)
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Posted: Sun Mar 06, 2016 4:00 pm
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I don't like Re-Ac-Tor.
I've always found it interesting how different people like & dislike different NY albums. With the obvious exceptions (Everybody, Goldrush, Harvest, Rust, etc), I usually like the ones the critics hate & vice versa.
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Geff R. wrote:
I don't like Re-Ac-Tor.
I've always found it interesting how different people like & dislike different NY albums. With the obvious exceptions (Everybody, Goldrush, Harvest, Rust, etc), I usually like the ones the critics hate & vice versa.
Exactly. One of my favorite Neil albums is Trans
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Post subject: [2016-06-24] Neil Young And Promise Of The Real "Earth" live 2CD and 3LP sets (Reprise)
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Neil Young's New LP 'Earth' Mixes Lives Tracks With Animal Sounds
Neil Young's upcoming album Earth (in stores June 17th) is one of the most unconventional releases in his long catalog: A 98-minute uninterrupted work that features 11 songs from his 2015 tour with Promise of the Real mixed with sounds of the Earth. "Our animal kingdom is well represented in the audience," Young said in a statement. "And the animals, insects, birds, and mammals actually take over the performances of the songs at times."
The songs comes from throughout Young's entire career, and most focus on the environment. They include "After the Goldrush," "Love & Only Love," "Vampire Blues," "Hippie Dream," "Mother Earth" and "Western Hero" along with four tracks from Young's 2015's LP The Monsanto Years and "I Won't Quit," a track he debuted on tour last year with Promise of the Real.
"One of the single greatest audio experiences I've ever had," Promise of the Real guitarist Lukas Nelson wrote about the album on Instagram. "Smoke some Willie Reserve [marijuana], sit back and listen to it. It's as if After The Gold Rush was a piece of just one long song that is this Earth. The quality of the live recordings mixed with the studio layer is exceptional….It's like listening/watching a Ridley Scott movie in your head, or like when I watched the original Star Wars or Blade Runner for the first time."
"We made a live record and every creature on the planet seemed to show up," Young wrote on Facebook. "Suddenly all the living things of Earth were in the audience going crazy. Then they took over the stage, letting their wild sounds mingle with the Vanilla Singers' perfect corporate harmony. Earth's creatures let loose, there were Bee breakdowns, Bird breakdowns and yes, even Wall Street breakdowns, jamming with me and Promise of the Real!"
Last month, Young spoke about Earth to Rolling Stone. "It's like nothing that I've done," he said. "It's more like a giant radio show. It has no stops. The songs are too long for iTunes, thank God, so they won't be on iTunes. I'm making it available in the formats that can handle it … Imagine it's a live show where the audience is full of every living thing on Earth. And also they overtake the music once in a while and play the instruments. It's not conventional, but it is based on live performance."
On May 6th, Young will unveil Earth at the Natural History Museum Los Angles County's First Fridays series. Young will talk about the LP and then play it utilizing his high-definition audio format Pono. It's unclear exactly how Earth will be released since it won't be available on iTunes and Young recently pulled his music from most streaming services, though it does remain on Tidal.
Young and Promise of the Real kicked off their 2016 world tour on Tuesday night at the Whitewater Amphitheater, New Braunfels, Texas. It featured the first performance of the Old Ways song "Are There Any More Real Cowboys?" since 1993 and the first live rendition of the On The Beach classic "Revolution Blues" since 1987. Willie Nelson sat in on "Are There Any More Real Cowboys?" and a cover of Merle Haggard's "Okie from Muskogee."
Earth Track Listing
1. "People Want to Hear About Love" (from The Monsanto Years) 2. "Big Box" (from The Monsanto Years) 3. "Mother Earth" (from Ragged Glory) 4. "The Monsanto Years" (from The Monsanto Years) 5. "I Won't Quit" (previously unreleased) 6. "Western Hero" (from Sleeps With Angels) 7. "Vampire Blues" (from On The Beach) 8. "Hippie Dream" (from Landing On Water) 9. "After The Gold Rush" (from After The Gold Rush) 10. "Wolf Moon" (from The Monsanto Years) 11. "Love & Only Love" (from Ragged Glory)
Post subject: [2016-06-24] Neil Young And Promise Of The Real "Earth" live 2CD and 3LP sets (Reprise)
Posted: Fri Apr 29, 2016 7:41 am
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2 CD's - only 11 songs - 80 minutes per CD - 10+ minutes per song - hmmmmmm
almost 40% of the album is from "the monsanto years" not that it was bad, but...............the other 7 (other than after the goldrush) are not really the gems of the catalog.
the obligatory 1 "new" song.......thanks neil, thanks a hell of a lot.
i am a completist, but i just don't think i will buy this one until it shows up used.
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