[2022-07-08] Neil Young And Crazy Horse "Toast" previously unreleased 2001 studio album (Reprise/Rhino)

Linda · **Posted:** Fri May 27, 2022 10:09 am

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0018CK5S6/?tag=imwan-20

Description
Toast is an album that stands on its own in my collection. Unlike any other, Toast was so sad that I couldn’t put it out. I just skipped it and went on to do another album in its place. I couldn’t handle it at that time. 2001.

John Coltrane, one of my heroes, made some music at ‘Toast’ studio back in the day. It may have been called ‘Coast’ then, but maybe not. The name changed a few times back and forth. It was on Mission in SF. The back door opened onto an alley. It was so stuffy in there that we left the door open until one day we saw rats coming in and out. After that, we just went outside for a smoke.

The music of Toast is about a relationship. There is a time in many relationships that go bad, a time long before the break up, where it dawns on one of the people, maybe both, that it’s over. This was that time.

The sound is murky and dark, but not in a bad way. Fat. From the first note, you can feel the sadness that permeates the recording. That song, with its refrain, ”Don’t say you love me”, is called ‘Quit’. The next one, sort of like a Deep Purple hit, is called ‘Standing in the Light’. “I don’t wanna to get personal, or have you put me on the spot” is the opening line. Followed by ‘Goin Home’, these songs paint a landscape where time doesn’t matter - because everything is going south. A lady is lost in her car. The dark city surrounds her - past present and future. It’s a scary place. You be the judge.

Then the scene changes to a religious guy who just lost his job. He’s turning on Jesus. He can’t cut any more trees. He’s a logger. Finally, The ‘Gateway of Love’ beckons with “background noise on a changing sky”. I had forgotten about these songs, put them out of my mind and went on living my life.

It must be said that here Crazy Horse shows a depth never seen or heard before. The greatest group I have ever met. This is a pinnacle. Where they let me go, where they took me, was unbelievable. I couldn’t stay. Then, “I’d like to shake your hand, Mr. Disappointment.” I see you now eye to eye. Murky and dark. There’s no mistaking it. How can you be so real and intangible? So we continued on down on the path. “She’s a healer”. But not this time. It’s Toast.

-- Neil Young

Tracklist
1. Quit
2. Standing In The Light Of Love
3. Goin' Home
4. Timberline
5. Gateway Of Love
6. How Ya Doin'?
7. Boom Boom Boom

Packshot (click for full size):

Linda · **Posted:** Fri May 27, 2022 10:12 am

Toast is coming!

The Amazon USA pre-order link in the first post isn't active yet, but will be soon.

Canadians can pre-order already: https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B0018CK5S6/?tag=imwanca-20

And we have a sample (and it's very good):

Larry · **Joined:** 10 Feb 2008 **Posts:** 5097

I'm glad that I was sitting down when I read this. It would have hurt to have fainted and then fallen.

Thanks Linda.

Renny · 26 Jun 2006

i remember quite vividly when this was pulled, it was right before the huge downfall that was to come in his albums from around this time onward.

interestingly, when reading the info linda posted about the album that young wrote, a few of the phrases are direct from 'are you passionate?"

"quit" ('don't say you love me")
"goin home'
'mr. disappointment'
'she's a healer'

all 4 are songs on 'are you passionate'......which, by many accounts, (not mine, i really like it) is one of neil young's worst albums.....hmmmmmmmmmmmm

Linda · **Posted:** Fri May 27, 2022 4:32 pm

I like the preview track a lot, and "Goin' Home" was my favourite (of not many) on Are You Passionate?.

The general assessment of AYP is mine too, which makes me feel that Toast is the album that should have been released, and now we're finally getting it. To stretch a point, Toast is Smile while Are You Passionate? was Smiley Smile.

But Neil puts out so much that I've more or less narrowed my interest in his new work (new as in the last few decades) to the Crazy Horse albums. Toast should be just right for me. Not sure what Neil is on about in his description. I don't care if it's depressing or sad or angry as long as it's loud and harsh and messy.

Linda · **Posted:** Fri May 27, 2022 5:13 pm

The vinyl version has gone up for pre-order in the USA:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09LPD4N45/?tag=imwan-20

Still awaiting the CD.

ranasakawa · 26 Jan 2007

Looking like my first Neil Young order I'm excited about in a long time since Psychedelic Pill

ARK · **Joined:** 23 Mar 2013 **Posts:** 1320

I don’t purchase every Neil album, though sometimes it seems that way. But I’m in for this one.

Linda · **Posted:** Sun May 29, 2022 7:57 pm

Finally, the Toast CD is now pre-orderable in the USA!

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0018CK5S6/?tag=imwan-20

Linda · **Posted:** Fri Jul 01, 2022 2:51 pm

Another sample:

[2022-07-08] Neil Young And Crazy Horse "Toast" previously unreleased 2001 studio album (Reprise/Rhino)

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