Neil Young With Crazy Horse Psychedelic Pill

Neil Young With Crazy Horse – Psychedelic Pill

€599,99

As it turns out, the lumbering Americana was merely an amateurish rehearsal for the reuniting Neil Young & Crazy Horse. Just a handful of months after that collection of schoolhouse folk tunes, the band released the mammoth Psychedelic Pill, Neil’s first-ever studio double LP. It’s not just the album itself that sprawls: Young rides Crazy Horse through long, long songs, kicking off the proceedings with the 27-minute “Driftin’ Back,” a song that makes the nearly 17-minute “Ramada Inn” and 16:30 “Walk Like a Giant” look comparatively svelte. No matter how many three-minute palate cleansers surround these monoliths, there’s no getting around the fact that these overdriven, overlong jams are a way of separating the men from the boys, leaving behind only those with the strength to stomach such a large, undiluted dose of the Horse. Fortunately, the band is sounding much more limber than it did on Americana, where it seemed like the group members were picking up their instruments for the first time in a decade, so they can keep things moderately enchanting as the rock rolls out with no end in sight. That heavy, churning, perpetual motion is what’s unique about Young & Crazy Horse, and Psychedelic Pill provides an abundance of it, but this feels different than their skronk-fests of the past, lacking the ballast of Ragged Glory, the sinew of Rust Never Sleeps, or the crackling, kinetic energy of Arc Weld or Live Rust. Instead, this is the sound of a veteran band settling into their familiar frayed clothes, doing precisely what they do best and nothing more. An air of tempered nostalgia permeates the album, evident not only in the unapologetic ’70s grind of the band but in Young’s lyrics, which fuzzily rhapsodize about “Drifting Back” and the first time he heard “Like a Rolling Stone.” Unlike Dylan — or many other of his baby boomer peers — Young sounds like a defiant old coot pining for his past, which makes Psychedelic Pill yet another oddity in a catalog filled with them: it’s noise rock as comfort food.

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Reprise Records – 9362-49486-0, 3 x Vinyl, LP, 180 gram, Single Sided, Etched, 2012

Side 1.

1. Driftin’ Back (Part 1) 18:14

Side 2.

1. Driftin’ Back (Part 2) 9:56
2. Psychedelic Pill (Alternate Mix) 3:11

Side 3.

1. Psychedelic Pill 3:27
2. Ramada Inn (Going South) 16:52

Side 4.

1. Born In Ontario 3:49
2. Twisted Road 3:28
3. She’s Always Dancing 8:34
4. For The Love Of Man 4:13

Side 5.

1. Walk Like A Giant 16:31

Side 6.

1. Etched Bonus Art.

Credits:

Art Direction, Design – Gary Burden, Jenice Heo
Band [Neil Young And Crazy Horse] – Billy Talbot, Poncho Sampedro, Neil Young, Ralph Molina
Bass, Vocals – Billy Talbot
Drums, Vocals – Ralph Molina
Engineer – John Hanlon
Engineer [With] – Jeff Pinn, John Hausmann
Guitar, Vocals – Poncho Sampedro
Guitar, Vocals, Pump Organ, Synthesizer [Stringman], Whistling – Neil Young
Illustration [Crazy Horse Logo] – Rebecca Holland
Illustration [Pill] – Lori Anzalone
Illustration [Psychedelic Pill Lettering Hand Coloring] – Gary Burden
Lacquer Cut By – CB
Liner Notes – NY
Management [Direction – Lookout Management] – Elliot Roberts
Mastered By [Vinyl Mastering] – Chris Bellman
Mixed By – John Hanlon, Neil Young
Photography By – Russ Avarella
Producer – John Hanlon, Neil Young
Producer [With] – Mark Humphreys
Recorded By – John Hanlon
Recorded By [Acoustic Intro] – John Nowland
Recorded By [Assisted By, Acoustic Intro] – Charles Brotman
Songwriter [All Songs Written By] – Neil Young
Tambourine, Bells – Dan Greco

Barcode (Text): 0 93624 94860 5
Barcode (Scanned): 093624948605
Label Code: LC 00322
Rights Society (For publishing): ASCAP
Matrix / Runout (Side A runout etched/stamped): 1-531980-A cB -26019- P. USA
Matrix / Runout (Side B runout etched/stamped): 1-531980-B cB -26019- P. USA
Matrix / Runout (Side C runout etched/stamped): 1-531980-C cB -26020- P. USA
Matrix / Runout (Side D runout etched/stamped): 1-531980-D cB -26020- P. USA
Matrix / Runout (Side E runout etched/stamped): 1-531980-E cB -26021- P. USA

Condition
Media: Mint- (M-)
Sleeve: Mint- (M-)

Additional information

Weight 2 kg

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