Something a little different on Neil Young playlists.
From Only Castles Burning | Substack: (thanks Dionys!)
As I was making my way through every Neil Young album, I kept a running list of my favorites songs from each release.
My intention was to distill his entire discography down so that I could just put on a playlist while working and get the songs I particularly liked from his career. Well, it turns out I like an awful lot of his songs. I took that list, compared the widely available versions of each songs, and came up with this 81 strong playlist, which runs a bit over 8 hours. This isn’t exactly reflective of the Top 3 I did for every album, though. I put them basically in order of recording, but since some of these are from live albums, they aren’t necessarily in order of composition.
It will be fun to put this on shuffle and see what happens.
I made Apple Music, Qobuz, Amazon Music, and YouTube playlists. Spotify is not here for obvious reasons. While I will also make a playlist on Neil Young Archives, I’m not prioritizing it here because NYA user playlists aren’t shareable for some reason (and they really should be, hint hint).
Apple Music: Only Castles Burning playlist
Qobuz: Only Castles Burning playlist
Thanks for all the hard work here Only Castles Burning
Admittedly, we don't mess with playlists. We prefer the concerts when we do extended Neil listening.
That said, the primary reason we posted this was because of your observation that "NYA user playlists aren’t shareable for some reason (and they really should be, hint hint). Agree 100%.
Maybe the good folks at NYA will look into sometime. hint, hint
I used to have an "All Right, Neil Young!" playlist in Spotify but I didn't restrict it to a few songs per album -- pretty much anything I liked made it in there, which made shuffle play pretty wacky, and ran well over eight hours. I tried to keep it to a single version of any song, so the Fillmore versions of EKTIN superseded the album tracks, but when they were markedly different, like the acoustic and electric "Powderfinger"s, both made it in.
ReplyDeleteI look forward to spending time with the writer's assessments of each Neil album at the Substack site -- birds of a feather and all that!
Who has time to listen to an 80-song playlist just to see whether another fan's tastes marginally differ from one's own ?...
ReplyDeleteSorry, I meant to begin with "Who has two thumbs and..." ;)