Neil Young Harvest Moon 2XLP Reissue for Record Store Day

That sounds about right.

 

Roughly 17 a side makes for the album length.
Looking forward to this

 

1) A member above said he thought Neil went back to analogue recording and mixing with sleeps with angels...another one said he thought it was with Mirror ball...Does someone know for sure when he gets back to analogue recording and mixing during the nineties ?
2) A member above said he thought Neil began recording digital with everybody's rocking. That surprises me as this long player was out in the summer of 1983 f I recall correctly. I thought that the main rock stars were recording on tape through 1985/1986 even if I know there was already some digital record in 1979 (I remember the sticker on a ry cooder record in 1979 saying with pride that it was recorded digitally).

 

Yeah Bop Till You Drop had the Digitally Recorded sticker on it in August 79

 

Tough to discern on a few if not publicly noted, probably a good way to test is if someone has done a transfer. As we know Fagen's 1982 'The Nightfly' was. This confirms it also...

 

Love Rothko Paintings.

 

A beautiful album that I've been searching for on vinyl (for a decent price) for years. Will definitely be lining up to grab this.

 

So what's on the side 4?

 

I believe 1980 Rush's Moving Pictures was a digital recording.

As for Neil, I think Neil was very open to technology coming off the Trans record, and what drove that record, an attempt to find a way
to communicate with their severely handicapped son. He got very into synths and vocoders to alter his vocals.
So logically, at least to me, it was the next step, to start recording digitally.

 

there are lots of vinyl versions of albums from the CD era of the 80s and 90s that have a black or etched side four.

 

I have an original pressing of this (German I think?) that I bought when released. Sounded pretty cold to me as I recall. Haven’t played in a long time.

 

I love the music. One of my fave NY CDs.

 

So does this increase or decrease the odds of there being a wider release of this? I'm likely to be out of town for BF RSD and would just generally like to avoid long lineups if this will end up being more widely available later.

 

Just an educated guess - and please correct me - but none of NY's recent reissues were limited limited. So it would be slightly daft to start this trend with the 90's albums. But it's vinyl, man. So who knows....

 

It’s not a rsd exclusive but a rsd first release, meaning it will be available after.

 

Well it's a German pressing of a winter album so what did you expect

Even though I never thought it sounded bad. Like "Ragged Glory" or "Sleeps With Angels" the original pressings are not bad at all.

 

I noticed this distinction on the RSD website, Harvest Moon is listed in the "RSD First" section,
like the previous RSD reissue of "Decade", didn't take too long to come out in wide release.

 

Record Day:
45rpm 2LP HARVEST ?

 

I have both the original German pressings of this and Ragged Glory + Weld. After that my selective Neil Young discography reverts back to CD. Back in 1991 I did have Weld on CD but it sounded very thin and brittle. The LP I replaced it with sounded a lot better. Mind you CD players back then were not as good as they are now. The WEA German pressings are mastered very quietly, presumably to counter the problem of great side length. With that said all three of these original LP's sound very good to my ears so I'll gladly pass on the reissue.

 

Seems such a waste. M83's Dead Cities, Red Seas & Lost Ghosts had a bonus track on side D that wasn't available on the original CD (although it may have been available on special editions of the CD).

 

Very odd that the reissue campaign of studio/original live releases is jumping from ‘79 to ‘92.

 

Harvest Moon followed Freedom and Ragged Glory. Right slap in the middle of a purple patch.

 

He states in Waging Heavy Peace that Mirror Ball was recorded analog with “their producer” B O’Brien because he was afraid Briggs may alienate Pearl Jam.

 

wonder if this will have any NYA or ORS branding on it.

 

My OCD really hopes so.