NEIL YOUNG
Lost in Space (1980)
Stayin' Power [Hawks & Doves]
Evening Coconut**
Little Wing**
Windward Passage**
Fontainebleau [Long May You Run]
Let it Shine [Long May You Run]
Union Man [Hawks & Doves]
Hawks & Doves [Hawks & Doves]
Lost in Space [Hawks & Doves]
My least favorite Neil Young LP I own. I tried to jazz it up a bit with some unreleased live cuts from some bootleg recordings of a show with his (short lived) side group The Ducks (the electric full band take on "Little Wing" and the unreleased instrumental "Windward Passage") and a 1976 concert in Providence with The Stills-Young Band ("Evening Coconut"). I fill it out with tracks leftover from the Long May You Run LP I turned back into a CSNY project. Moving on...
NEIL YOUNG
Shakey (1981)
Opera Star [Re-ac-tor]
Surfer Joe and Moe the Sleaze [Re-ac-tor]
Get Back on It [Re-ac-tor]
The Old Country Waltz [American Stars N' Bars]
Bite the Bullet [American Stars N' Bars]
Saddle up the Palomino [American Stars N' Bars]
The Emperor of Wyoming [Neil Young]
If I Could Have Her Tonight [Neil Young]
The Old Laughing Lady [Neil Young]
I've Loved Her So Long [Neil Young]
Everybody Knows This is Nowhere (45 version)* [Archives, vol. 1]
String Quartet from Whiskey Boot Hill [Neil Young]
A collection of leftover tracks from albums I switched out for my alternate take on NY's discography. I replaced Stars N' Bars with Chrome Dreams; the self-titled LP for the Sugar Mountain live album from '68 and tracks for an alternate Buffalo Springfield Last Time Around LP ("The Loner", "I've Been Waiting For You"); and Re-ac-tor for an alternate version of Trans. In this timeline, Neil Young leaves Reprise over their lack of support for that album and they in turn release this odds n' sods LP as a 'sneer' in a similar fashion to Columbia Records releasing Dylan in response to ol' Bobby D. jumping ship to sign with David Geffen's Asylum label back in 1974. Very familiar situation, heh...but maybe that's just my sense of humour / take on the whole thing.
NEIL YOUNG
Trans (alt.)
I Wonder Why**
Computer Age
We R in Control
Transformer Man
Computer Cowboy
If You Got Love** [Island in the Sun rejected LP*]
Sample and Hold
Mr. Soul
Shots [Re-ac-tor]
Neil Young left Reprise Records after their lack of support for his latest LP with Crazy Horse--1981's Re-ac-tor. I like this album better and I read he was already writing and working up some demos for it with Crazy Horse a year earlier. Upon signing with Geffen Records, Young offered them the album Island in the Sun which they rejected. Young included some of the songs from there with this concept LP he created in honor of his son, Ben (who suffers from a non-oral type of cerebral palsy) as part of his 1982 debut on Geffen. The unreleased opening track, "I Wonder Why" kind of puts it in perspective for me. Giving neither his fans nor his new label-boss any inkling of an idea about the concept of this very personal project would put Neil Young at odds with everyone outside his own thought process! At least that's the way David Geffen seemed to feel when he would later sue his new artist for "making deliberately un-commercial music" to paraphrase. Geffen bought Everybody's Rockin' (another album I don't care for) from Reprise without even hearing it! They did this to acquire what would've been his contractual fulfilling LP for his former label--thinking they had commercial gold on their hands, I guess. Before they would regret putting that out, let's move on to our next album in this thang.
NEIL YOUNG
After Berlin (1983)
Berlin** [Archives Be Damned* bootleg]
Motor City [Re-ac-tor]
Everybody's Rockin' [Everybody's Rockin']
Southern Pacific [Re-ac-tor]
Rapid Transit [Re-ac-tor]
Love Hotel** [live bootleg recording]
Hold on to Your Love [Trans]
Raining in Paradise** [Island in the Sun rejected LP]
Like an Inca [Trans]
I don't know if this would've made David Geffen any happier, but this makes a better listen to me than say, Hawks & Doves or Re-ac-tor (just my own personal taste). The title cut and "The Love Hotel" have never been officially released nor the songs leftover from the rejected Island in the Sun album. Let's move along to the next one...
NEIL YOUNG
Old Ways (1984)
Old Ways [Old Ways]
Depression Blues* [Lucky Thirteen]
Little Thing Called Love [Trans]
Cry, Cry, Cry [Everybody's Rockin']
Mystery Train [Everybody's Rockin']
Your Love Again** [Old Ways 1 - rejected LP*]
California Sunset [Old Ways]
My Boy [Old Ways]
Leavin' the Top 40 Behind** [Old Ways 1 - rejected LP*]
Are There Any More Real Cowboys? [Old Ways]
Silver & Gold (version 2)** [Old Ways 1 - rejected LP*]
This is way better than the version of Old Ways that Geffen released in 1985 (referred to by Neil Young himself as 'Old Ways II'). The original Old Ways I album was recorded right after Trans and was promptly rejected by Geffen. Everybody's Rockin' was released instead and that's where the trouble really started, lol.
NEIL YOUNG and The International Harvesters
Farm Aid E.P. (1985)
Depression Blues [Lucky Thirteen]
Interstate* [Broken Arrow bonus 7-inch]
Grey Riders* [A Treasure]
Nothing is Perfect* [A Treasure]
Southern Pacific* [A Treasure]
This supposedly is the track listing to the unreleased Farm Aid E.P. This information has not been officially released by Neil, so there is absolutely NO guarantee that this information is correct.
This was supposed to be released in 1985 to benefit Farm Aid, but it was blocked by Geffen Records who, at the time, were still involved in litigation with Neil due to charges of Neil delivering "unrepresentative" product. This may only have been intended to include three songs. The version of "Interstate" started out as an unreleased demo circulating among the bootleg circuit (that NY overdubbed 'Big Black' and bgv with Poncho in 1986). It was belatedly released a decade later with added drums, fiddle, and a new lead vocal. "Depression Blues" I've already included on my re-do of Old Ways but it serves as an appropriate opener. The latter three songs saw the light of day just a few years ago as part of the belatedly released live album A Treasure; recorded with Neil's backing group in that period (The International Harvesters). I could continue on with this...but I'm tired and want to finish my drink. Cheers!
This was supposed to be released in 1985 to benefit Farm Aid, but it was blocked by Geffen Records who, at the time, were still involved in litigation with Neil due to charges of Neil delivering "unrepresentative" product. This may only have been intended to include three songs. The version of "Interstate" started out as an unreleased demo circulating among the bootleg circuit (that NY overdubbed 'Big Black' and bgv with Poncho in 1986). It was belatedly released a decade later with added drums, fiddle, and a new lead vocal. "Depression Blues" I've already included on my re-do of Old Ways but it serves as an appropriate opener. The latter three songs saw the light of day just a few years ago as part of the belatedly released live album A Treasure; recorded with Neil's backing group in that period (The International Harvesters). I could continue on with this...but I'm tired and want to finish my drink. Cheers!
