Neil Young

Neil Young – Citizen Kane Jr. Blues 1974 (Live at The Bottom Line) (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/192kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · June 27, 2022 · Comments off

A recording of Neil Young’s surprise performance at New York’s Bottom Line on May 16, 1974 has been circulating in fan circles for decades, but now they’re finally releasing it officially as part of Young’s new official bootleg series. He calls it The Bottom Line – “Citizen Kane Jr. Blues.”

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Neil Young & Crazy Horse – Psychedelic Pill (2012) Blu-ray 1080i AVC LPCM 2.0 + BDRip 720p

Blu-Ray Audio By admin · November 5, 2021 · Comments off

Title: Neil Young & Crazy Horse – Psychedelic Pill
Release Date: 2012
Genre: Rock

Production/Label: Reprise
Duration: 1:25:18 + 00:37:08
Quality: Blu-ray
Container: BDMV
Video codec: MPEG4 AVC
Audio codec: LPCM
Video: MPEG-4 AVC Video / 22049 kbps / 1080i / 29,970 fps / 16:9 / High Profile 4.1
Audio: English LPCM Audio / 2.0 / 96 kHz / 4608 kbps / 24-bit
Audio: English LPCM Audio / 2.0 / 192 kHz / 9216 kbps / 24-bit
Size: 43.73 GB

Recorded right after Americana at Audio Casa Blanca, this Blu-ray release contains a high resolution 192kHz/24bit full fidelity version of the album Psychedelic Pill and will include videos for each of the songs.

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Neil Young – Neil Young Archives Vol. I (1963-1972) (2009) [FLAC 24bit/192kHz]

Blu-Ray Audio By admin · June 23, 2021 · Comments off

“…Extracted directly from Blu-Ray PCM streams using AnyDVD and tsMuxer. Files tracked and converted to FLAC using CDWave and tagged in Foobar. Entire 236 page book accompanying the set is included as an additional pdf file…”

This is the first volume of the Neil Young Archives series of box sets, produced by Neil Young himself. This series is the definitive, comprehensive, chronological survey of his entire body of work. Volume I covers the period from his earliest recordings with the Squires in Winnipeg, 1963, through to his classic 1972 album, Harvest and beyond, including studio and live tracks with the legendary Buffalo Springfield, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, and Neil Young with Crazy Horse. This Blu Ray disc edition contains 10 discs, each in its own custom sleeve. 9 of these discs hold a total of 128 tracks (12 hidden), all presented in ultra high resolution 24-bit/192 Khz stereo PCM state-of-the-art master quality sound, and featuring nearly 60 previously unreleased songs, versions, mixes, or rare tracks. Also found on these 9 multimedia discs are 20 special feature videos, film clips, and film trailers, an additional 55 audio tracks of rare interviews, radio spots, and concert raps, and an array of interactive features, including image galleries of archival photos, press, lyric manuscripts, documents, biographies, tour dates, and complete lyrics, as well as an interactive timeline feature which presents an in-depth overview of Young’s life and career. Each of the 10 Blu Ray discs feature 1920X1080 high definition picture quality. In addition, a Blu Ray disc of Young’s acclaimed first film, ‘Journey Through The Past’, available for the first time since its original theatrical release in 1973, is included, featuring pristine picture transfer, audio presented in both DTS 5.1 surround and stereo 24-bit/96 Khz PCM, plus archival materials. Included in the durable custom display box are a digital download card to access MP3 files of all 128 audio tracks, a lavish 236 page fullcolor hardbound book that features additional archival materials, tapes database, and detailed descriptions of the music and artwork, a foldout Archives poster, a custom keeper for the 10 sleeved discs, and more.

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Neil Young – After The Gold Rush (50th Anniversary) (2020) [Official Digital Download 24bit/192kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · February 19, 2021 · Comments off

Neil Young and Reprise Records are pleased to announce the 50th Anniversary Edition of Young’s classic record After the Gold Rush. Originally released September 19, 1970, After the Gold Rush is cemented in the annals of music history—the album has often been rightly recognized as one of the finest ever made. The collection combined Young’s poetic lyricism and wistful melodies, driven by both dreamy folk arrangements and ferocious rock ‘n’ roll, and in the decades since has been certified double platinum in both the U.S. and the U.K.

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Neil Young – This Note’s for You (1988/2019) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · November 19, 2019 · Comments off

The 16th studio album from Neil Young, This Note’s For You was released in 1988 and was originally credited to Young & The Bluenotes. The overall theme of the album relates to the commercialism of rock and roll. The video for the title track was basically a parody of corporate rock and advertising which featured a Michael Jackson look-alike whose hair catches fire. The video was nominated for a Grammy in the category of “Best Concept Video” in 1989.

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Neil Young – Hawks & Doves (1980/2003) [DVD Audio to FLAC 24bit/176,4kHz]

DVD-A By admin · October 30, 2019 · Comments off

Neil Young – Hawks & Doves (1980/2003)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/176.4kHz | Time – 00:30:33 minutes | 908 MB | Genre: Rock
Source: DVD-Audio (Watermarked!) | Front cover | © Reprise Records
Recorded: 1974–77, 1980 at Quadrafonic, Nashville; Village Recorders, LA; Indigo Recording Studio, Malibu; Triad Recording Studio, Ft. Lauderdale, FL and Gold Star Recording Studio, Hollywood, CA

Following the triumph of Rust Never Sleeps, Hawks & Doves benefited from the enormous critical goodwill Neil Young had amassed, though fans and critics nevertheless were baffled by its set of obscure acoustic and country-tinged songs. The seven-plus-minute “The Old Homestead” (copyright 1974) was interpreted by some as an allegory for Young’s relationship to CSNY, perhaps because that was the only way to make any sense of the most mysterious Young lyric since “The Last Trip to Tulsa.” In retrospect, now that it’s known Young was distracted by domestic medical concerns while working on the album, its theme of perseverance in the face of adversity, both in a personal context of family commitment (“Stayin’ Power,” “Coastline”), and in a national context of hard work and patriotism (“Union Man,” “Comin’ Apart at Every Nail,” “Hawks & Doves”) seems more apparent, as does the sense that Young may have been trying to fulfill his recording contract (even with the inclusion of trunk songs like “The Old Homestead,” the album runs less than half an hour) while devoting a bare minimum of his time and attention to the effort. The result is correspondingly slight. –William Ruhlmann

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Neil Young – Prairie Wind (2005/2016) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · October 22, 2019 · Comments off

Since Prairie Wind is a return to the soft, lush country-rock sound of Harvest; since Neil Young suffered a brain aneurysm during its recording; since it finds the singer/songwriter reflecting on life and family in the wake of his father’s death; and since it’s his most cohesive album in a decade, it would seem that all these factors add up to a latter-day masterpiece for Young, but that’s not quite the case. Prairie Wind manages to be less than the sum of its parts and the problem isn’t a lack of good songs (although it does have a few more clunkers than it should) or a botched concept. Young’s decision to revive the country-rock that brought him his greatest popularity never feels like a cynical move — the music is too warm, comfortable, and friendly to feel like anything but Neil playing to his strengths. However, since he cut this in Nashville with a bunch of studio pros including legendary keyboardist Spooner Oldham, it feels just a tad slicker than perhaps it should, since the smooth sound inadvertently highlights the sentimentality of the project. It’s hard to begrudge Young if he wants to indulge in rose-colored memories — a brush with death coupled with a loss of a parent tends to bring out sentimentality — but such backward-gazing songs as “Far from Home” feel just a hair too close to trite, and the easy-rolling nature of the record doesn’t lend them much gravity. There a few other songs that tend toward too close to the simplistic, whether it’s the specific invocations of 9/11 and Chris Rock on “No Wonder” or the supremely silly Elvis salute “He Was the King,” which are just enough to undermine the flow of the album, even if they fit into the general autumnal, reflective mood of the record. But since they do fit the overall feel of the album, and since they’re better, even with their flaws, than the best songs on, say, Silver & Gold or Broken Arrow or Are You Passionate?, they help elevate the whole of Prairie Wind, particularly because there are some genuinely strong Young songs here: the moody opener “The Painter,” the gently sighing “Fallin’ off the Face of the Earth,” the ethereal “It’s a Dream,” the sweet, laid-back “Here for Your,” the understated “This Old Guitar” (there’s also the sweeping “When God Made Me,” recorded complete with a gospel chorus, one that will either strike a listener as moving or maudlin — a latter-day “A Man Needs a Maid,” only not as strong). This set of songs does indeed make Prairie Wind a better album than anything Young has released in the past decade, which means that it’s easy to overrate it. For despite all of its strengths, neither the recording nor the songs are as memorable or as fully realized as his late-’80s/early-’90s comeback records — Freedom, Ragged Glory, and Harvest Moon — let alone his classic ’70s work. Nevertheless, it’s the closest Young has come to making a record that could hold its own with those albums in well over a decade, which means it’s worthwhile even if it’s never quite as great as it seems like it could have been. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine

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Neil Young – Live at Massey Hall 1971 (2007/2019) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · September 18, 2019 · Comments off

The acclaimed Toronto performance features classics “Old Man” and, in a suite, “A Man Needs A Maid” and “Heart Of Gold” (before they were recorded for Harvest) along with some of his most popular songs (“Cowgirl In The Sand,” “Ohio”) as well as the most obscure (“Bad Fog Of Loneliness”). Live At Massey Hall is a rock gem.

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Neil Young – Fork in the Road (2009/2015) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · March 23, 2019 · Comments off

Neil Young loves vintage automobiles so much he made an album that sounds like them. The drums powering the country-funk get-down “Fuel Line” mimic hammers bashing out dents in rusty hubcaps, while the ’50s-style rocker “Johnny Magic” roars like a muscle car tearing down the blacktop. But not every cut is so explicit. Acoustic and disarmingly honest, “Light a Candle” is a classic Young ballad that meditates on the winding journey that is life.

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Neil Young ‎- Greatest Hits (2004) [DVD-Audio ISO]

DVD-A By admin · March 1, 2018 · Comments off

It may be hard to believe, but 2004’s Greatest Hits is not only the first retrospective Neil Young has released since 1977’s Decade, it’s the first ever single-disc collection of his best-known songs. That’s a span of 27 years separating the two collections, which is an awful long time to resist a Greatest Hits disc — many of his peers succumbed, offering countless comps during those years — and such a resistance to a compilation may not be much a surprise from the legendarily prickly Young, but what is a surprise is that 11 of the 16 songs on Greatest Hits were also on Decade. Of the five songs that were not on Decade, only two date from after the ’70s — 1989’s “Rockin’ in the Free World” and 1992’s “Harvest Moon” — while one of the remaining three (1970’s “Only Love Can Break Your Heart”) comes from the time chronicled on Decade; the other two, 1978’s “Comes a Time” and 1979’s “Hey Hey, My My (Into the Black),” arrived in the two years of the ’70s not covered on the 1977 compilation. All this means is that Greatest Hits offers the basic canon, with no frills and none of Neil’s trademark idiosyncrasy. Some may miss that cantankerous spirit, pointing out that this contains nothing from his towering twin masterpieces of dark introspection — Tonight’s the Night and On the Beach — or that there’s nothing from Buffalo Springfield (which was covered on Decade) and that noteworthy songs like “Powderfinger,” “Cortez the Killer,” “Lotta Love,” and “Long May You Run” are missing. Ultimately, that doesn’t matter much, because Greatest Hits has all the songs that every Neil Young fan, from the devoted to the casual listener, agrees are his biggest and best: “Down by the River,” “Cinnamon Girl,” “Helpless,” “After the Gold Rush,” “Southern Man,” “Ohio,” “The Needle and the Damage Done,” “Old Man,” “Heart of Gold,” “Like a Hurricane.” And that’s why it works as an all-business introduction for the uninitiated and as a concise summary for those not willing to travel down all the long, winding roads Young has traveled over the years. In other words, it’s as good a compilation as it could have been. [Greatest Hits was released in several editions. In addition to the basic single CD, there was a limited edition containing a DVD video with the promo clips for “Rockin’ in the Free World” and “Harvest Moon.” There was another limited edition with a bonus 7″ record. Finally, it was also released as a high-resolution DVD Audio disc.]

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Neil Young – On The Beach (1974/2003/2014) [Official Digital Download 24bit/176,4kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · February 28, 2018 · Comments off

Neil Young – On The Beach (1974/2003/2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/176,4 kHz | Time – 39:38 minutes | 1,23 GB | Genre: Rock
Studio Master, Official Digital Download – Source: PonoMusic | © Reprise Records

On the Beach is the fifth studio album by Neil Young, released in 1974. It was unavailable on compact disc until it was released as a HDCD-encoded remastered version in 2003 as part of his Archives Digital Masterpiece Series. Here is the Hi-Res version of that remaster. (more…)

Neil Young & Promise Of The Real – The Visitor (2017) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · January 8, 2018 · Comments off

Neil Young’s first two collaborations with Promise of the Real, the band led by Willie Nelson’s son Lukas Nelson, sounded sorta like tethered Crazy Horse albums. But without the free-fall unpredictability of Young’s most reliable backing group of the past five decades, 2015’s The Monsanto Years and the following year’s embellished live record, Earth, came off like more structured attempts to capture Young at his most unhinged and plugged in. Their third record, The Visitor, is more of the same, and like The Monsanto Years and last year’s Peace Trail, it’s a political one, charged through a filter of recent news. (more…)

Neil Young & Crazy Horse – Re-ac-tor (1981/2016) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · January 8, 2018 · Comments off

Re·ac·tor is the eleventh studio album by Canadian musician Neil Young, and his fourth with Crazy Horse, released in 1981. The album combined the electric guitar-focused approach that Young took in his late 1970s records with Crazy Horse sound with early 1980s new wave rhythms. It was unavailable on compact disc until it was released as a HDCD-encoded remastered version in 2003 as part of the Neil Young Archives Digital Masterpiece Series. (more…)

Neil Young – Bluenote Cafe (2015) [Official Digital Download 24bit/192kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · April 27, 2016 · Comments off

Neil Young – Bluenote Cafe (2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192kHz | Time – 02:26:24 minutes | 5,27 GB | Genre: Rock
Official Digital Download – Source: PonoMusic | © Reprise Records

Bluenote Café is a live album by Canadian singer-songwriter Neil Young, released on November 13 2015 on Reprise. The album is volume eleven in Young’s Archives Performance Series, and features performances from Young’s 1987-1988 American tour in support of his seventeenth studio album, This Note’s for You (1988), with his then-backing band, The Bluenotes.

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Neil Young – On The Beach (1974/2004) [DVD Audio to FLAC 24bit/176.4kHz]

DVD-A By admin · February 3, 2015 · Comments off

Neil Young – On The Beach (1974/2004)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/176.4kHz | Time – 00:39:37 minutes | 1.23 GB | Genre: Rock
Source: DVD-Audio (Watermarked!) | Front cover | © Reprise Records
Recorded: November 30, 1973 – April 7, 1974 Arrow Ranch, Woodside, California; Sunset Sound Recorders, Hollywood

Following the 1973 Time Fades Away tour, Neil Young wrote and recorded an Irish wake of a record called Tonight’s the Night and went on the road drunkenly playing its songs to uncomprehending listeners and hostile reviewers. Reprise rejected the record, and Young went right back and made On the Beach, which shares some of the ragged style of its two predecessors. But where Time was embattled and Tonight mournful, On the Beach was savage and, ultimately, triumphant. “I’m a vampire, babe,” Young sang, and he proceeded to take bites out of various subjects: threatening the lives of the stars who lived in L.A.’s Laurel Canyon (“Revolution Blues”); answering back to Lynyrd Skynyrd, whose “Sweet Home Alabama” had taken him to task for his criticisms of the South in “Southern Man” and “Alabama” (“Walk On”); and rejecting the critics (“Ambulance Blues”). But the barbs were mixed with humor and even affection, as Young seemed to be emerging from the grief and self-abuse that had plagued him for two years. But the album was so spare and under-produced, its lyrics so harrowing, that it was easy to miss Young’s conclusion: he was saying goodbye to despair, not being overwhelmed by it. –William Ruhlmann

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