My previous post on Neil Young's Archives set expressed my disappointment that it did not contain all of his released work thus undermining his previous claims that it would contain "everything".
Why am I not surprised at the news that his first four albums (which cover the same period as the Archives box) are now to be reissued in remastered form.
Neil clearly makes a distinction between musical notes and dollar notes.
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But Allan - would you honestly want everything? I can think of at least half a dozen NY albums I'd rather not have, certainly not if traded against some live and studio goodies from more favourite periods....
But Allan - would you honestly want everything? I can think of at least half a dozen NY albums I'd rather not have, certainly not if traded against some live and studio goodies from more favourite periods....
Well, he could have made the Archives up solely of material that had never been released officially before and still been able to fill the same number of discs. Seperately, he could then reissue the original albums. No problems with that.
But he's leaving the committed fan (and that's me and there's no such thing as a Neil album I'd rather not have - which is not to say that they are all great or even good) who will buy the Archives and still need to get the remastered albums to replace the less than excellent first generation CD's that are out there (with the exception of On The Beach, American Stars'N'Bars, Hawks And Doves and Re-Ac-Tor).
It's difficult to be happy with this just after he's included the live albums that had just been released in the Archives set as well considerably lessening the value of them.
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