Me too! Hey, it’s a surf instrumental from 1963, what could go wrong?
ETA: the B-side, “The Sultan”, is also not bad. Pure surf music. Just shows that Neil has tackled almost every form of popular music in his career…
hey does it have his motown albums he did with rick james before LZ?
Sadly no, I don’t think there’s any of his recordings with Rick James. But as I understand it, the archive is a work in progress, so hopefully this will be added some time.
ETA: just saw that there’S a single by The Mynah Birds. I think that was his and James’ band.
Not available on mobile.
Why design & build a * new website* for obsolete devices first? Tablets and phones are what’s current in today’s world.
The desktop site has a very complex interface, maybe there wasn’t time enough for a mobile version yet. I’d look out for it.
Maybe the mobile site will be available early next year.
I like some of Neil’s stuff. Harvest is a must have in any record collection. I own copies on vinyl, cassette, and CD. My car player ate my 8 track three decades ago. 
I used to play it a lot on trips.
I have Tonight’s the Night and American Stars N Bars on CD.
The CD’s have been ripped to my mp3 player.
The web site can introduce me to Neil’s newer albums.
Of course Harvest is essential from his catalog, but so are *Tonight’s The Night *and American Stars’n’Bars. In fact Tonight’s The Night is my favorite album of his, though many people hate it. For me it’s like the bare guts of rock’n’roll and the most honest record I know, warts, mistakes, being out-of-tune and all.
It works on mobile. Just request desktop view in your browser. I can confirm it works in Chrome mobile.
I’ll give that a try.
Thanks for the heads up!
It is clear that - not surprisingly - this archive is, so far, only for official releases. Just out of curiosity, I searched for three of my favourite ‘mainstream’ tracks: Expecting To Fly, Southern Man and Like A Hurricane and only the obvious candidates are listed.
It will be interesting to see how this develops.
Actually, not even all the official ones are there - yet. He did a very good version of Like A hurricane ‘In Berlin’ which isn’t there.
Has this been officially released? On which album? Never heard about that version.
It’s on a wonderful DVD. Well, wonderful if you like Trans tracks, like Computer Age, Transformer Man and Sample and Hold - which I do. He interacts with Nils Lofgren very well. It’s an official release. Like A Hurricane is great, but he does have problems with keeping his tie tucked in.
I’ve said it before; I’ll say it again: Trans is one of my favorite Neil young albums. He did a lot of good work during the Geffen years, IMO.
He did, but I’ve never ever came to grips with Landing On Water. What was that shit? That was definitely his nadir in my book.
Oh well, a belatedly thanks for the tip,the concert is currently on youtube and I’m watching it right now. Great concert, great band. The audience goes berserk, and that was Berlin in 1982! You must know, Berliners are traditionally just as culturally snobbish as New Yorkers and Parisians, á la “we’ve seen all, now show us”. And Berlin in 1983 was the capital of cool, all New Wave, electronics and industrial, that’s why it’s astounding that ol’ eternal hippie Neil succeeds so well even with his classic songs, but I’m sure nobody embraced his dabbling in electronics and vocoder sounds better than Berlin on that tour.
I never liked Hippie Dream until I saw him play it live with Crazy Horse. It clicked or something- Don’t kill the machine, don’t kill the machine, don’t kill the machine.
Also featuring Buffalo Springfield’s bass player, Bruce Palmer and Neil’s long time friend Ben Keith. A really cool lineup and show.
You know, I’m sure that there are SONGS somewhere hidden beneath all the clutter of this album, but they are drowned in contemporary keyboard sounds. On Trans, he used electronics well and surprisingly for a musician with his background, but on Landing on Water the synths sound just like the standard fair of the times every hit song MUST have had. The same kind of sound that killed Dylan’s Empire Burlesque. Both products of their time.
I hear ya, and when I heard Hippie dream live it was 2 guitars, a bass, and drums. I didn’t like it before hearing it that way.