Neil Young Archives Vol II status--no time soon

The linked article is a couple months old. Neil just did some Crazy Horse shows in California, and has some other live shows on the horizon according to the Thrashers Wheat website.

 

Exactly.

I have no idea why you would bump an old thread with an already old article?

 

No, totally not NY's style at all.

 

...got fed up waiting...made my own...:
(Hypothetical) Neil Young Expanded Editions: 1st 4 Albums
(...also: went a bit mad and ended up also doing: Deja Vu, Freedom, Ragged Glory, etc...)

 

Of which I’m going to the Detroit show. Thank you to the NY Archives for the great presale. This type of show would be impossible for me to see here in Toronto.

Also, it takes about two weeks for NY to decide to go in and record and finish an album if he wants to. Not much planning needed.

 

Neil Young sets a date for Archives V2 | superdeluxeedition

“May 2019 the NYA V2 CDs and a separate book by Toshi Onuki will be available. Blu Ray is no longer viable for economic reasons. NYA can give you what the blu ray had though, including Hi Res audio. Thanks NY.”

 

King Crimson and XTC can afford blu-ray but Neil can't? There's are some seriously B/C/D/F-movies that are still making the blu-ray format.

 

Holy guacamole. That's amazing; I thought that thet Neil Young Archives box set model was dead and gone, succeeded by the online subscription-based Neil Young Archives.

This is going to inspire a torrent of abuse from Neil stans who have been clamoring for this, like, forever. For starters the abandonment of Blu-ray will be the Great Satan.

 

Indeed.

What is he thinking not issuing this on Blu-Ray? Oh, I know....it’s “no longer viable for economic reasons” means that it would take away from online subscriptions.

What a crock of ****. Waiting all this time just to release it on CD. Who needs that? One of the main points of the whole thing is the High-Res that was available on the Blu-Ray, a format that Neil himself said was exactly what he was waiting for in order to release Volume 1 - now that format is no longer economically viable.

You can’t believe anything that he says. He changes his mind on everything at the drop of a hat.

Sadly, after years of waiting, I won’t be buying this.

 

The sad fact is that the NYA website will be gone and obsolete in a matter of years. So not putting it out on Blu-Ray will mean the cd version will be the only survivor, and supposedly that is the version Neil would hate the most.

 

Don't think there isn't any label pressure that influenced that decision, as well. I can easily read "no longer viable for economic reasons" to mean "Reprise/Warner Bros. doesn't want to pay to make 8-10 disc Blu-Ray sets that would most likely be too expensive the average consumer to buy...especially in a market where physical media is selling less and less [save vinyl]." This is especially true if the next volume of Archives can be released via streaming/digital on Neil's website. If the label can get a percentage of subscription fees/digital sales and not have to spend a ton on producing hundreds of thousands of Blu-Ray discs, why wouldn't they want to go that route? I can also see the CD version of the Archives (along with the book) to be a compromise between him and Reprise so that there's SOME physical version of the next volume of Archives being released.

 

Hell, I could see the entire Archives website being made as a compromise, too, so at least there's SOME way for people to listen to future Archives releases in Hi-Res audio via streaming/digital purchases.

Also, if you want my opinion, I don't care how this is released; this volume of the Archives has been my holy grail for so long that I'll buy it no matter what format it's in (CD, digital only, vinyl, Blu-Ray, DVD Audio, SACD, 8-Track, MiniDisc, whatever). This music is going to be too good to pass up, IMO.

 

So we've been waiting since the '80s for CDs? Another near-dead format? Pathetic.

 

Finally! CDs are fine with me. His recent releases have all been mixed and mastered well so let’s give him some credit for that.

 

I really wish this was true. But we all know it's not.

 

It has nothing to do with affording Blu Ray and everything to do with selling hi rez on his website.

 

I'm just glad its still being released in a physical format at all at this point.

 

That’s enough for me!

 

This post didn't age well.

 

Neil Young Archives Vol II status--no time soon

I'm still done with all this. I'm too old and have enough Neil to last a lifetime so I just don't give a **** anymore.

Unless he issues TOAST as a standalone

 

Turns out...rust sleeps after all.

 

death, taxes, complaints about Neil Young

 

I'm really not complaining, as a fellow Canadian I have nothing but love for Neil Young, but I just find it funny that he's been waiting for a format for nearly 40 years to finally encompass his concept for the Archives presentation, and in the end, a plain ole CD will do. If CD was fine now, why wasn't it good enough decades ago? God bless his twisted road.

 

I bought the Archives 1 on blu-ray when it was released, and picked up a used cd version (good price) last year for playing in the car.

Whatever physical format Archives 2 is offered, I'll get one (If its only available streaming on a website, I won't buy).

I hope blu-ray is reconsidered. I'm not an expert, but how much cost is there to put 8-10 blu rays in a small box like the Chicago Quadio box? And what is the difference between putting 8-10 CD's vs. 8-10 blu-rays in the box. Of course, there may be a minimum order on manufacturing blu-rays that creates a fixed cost...but still, its not like pressing vinyl LP's.

It seems like all the Archives 1 cd, DVD and blu-ray sets have sold out. Lowest prices I saw on eBay are $90 for CD, and $149 for DVD and blu-ray, and there are not many.

 

I did not buy Archives 1 because there was nothing on it that really would hold my interest after an initial listening, but 2 may well be a path I'll take.