I just got neils archives on dvd and what a great 1st class set hopefully we can get the stones to care a little more about their legacy and produce something along these lines or at least put a little care in the exile reissue

I'm not holding my breath but one can hope...

For those interested, CDuniverse.com has the archives DVD version for "only" $185.....

if you buy the dvd version than just for the movies, the sound is much better on blue ray, if you just need the music than buy the cd. So I would say, CD or Blue-Ray, DVD is absolute worthless

I say, torrent it, and undercut Neil Young's foolishness, in making this set so expensive, and so expansive.

Somehow he is "asking for it".

I think a better idea would've been to re-release his back catalog in hi-def format and then release an "Archives" box set of purely unreleased material.
Then you could have the choice of purchasing the stuff you already own again.



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I agree, the whole thing is a batter.

Batter??? damm you pudgy fingers!



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Batter??? damm you pudgy fingers!

But you´re right about the live albums, milking the peoples hard earned money seems to be the thing.

Luckily I've fallen behind on my Neil Young albums and don't have any of the live albums in this boxset - I do have his latest archived live release, but for this one I'd be OK. As for the Blu-Ray, I don't have a player, have no plans of buying, and can't see the point of plunking over the extra dough when the DVD will do the same thing for me here...

Hi everyone,

I am new here on the Stones Board but I have been following the posts for a long time.
I have to say this about the archives because it is really bothering me:

I am a hardcore neil young fan so I bought the DVD box. Almost everything i already have on CD was in the Archives. I expected much more from the Archives, I cannot imagine Neil Young spending 20 years!! on just having us wastch a tape recorder with all the lyrics on every song!! I expected much more live material.

But is is for almost the whole DVD set the same: You'll see a turntable or a tape recorder with the lyrics and sheet music for almost every song.

The Video Footage is so minimal....to me this is a rip-off.

For people expecting live footage: don't buy the archives.

Good thing though: You can watch Neil play Alabama and Are you ready for the Country in the barn. Oh, yes, and neil in a record-store complaining about a bootleg...for only USD 200!

For me this is a complete letdown. I did not expect Neil would rip me off like this...

Well I'd be gettin the DVD to listen to in surround and of course for the film, Journey Through the Past.

Did anybody buy the Bluray box set?

I'd like to hear opinions of the "Journey Through The Past" film transfer.
This is the most tempting part of the set for me, but I don't really want to shell out big bucks if the film isnt of very good quality on there.

You cant make a silk purse out of a sow's ear. Regardless of what the transfer quality is like, it still doesnt make 'Journey Through The Past' anything other than self-indulgent dross.

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I am a hardcore neil young fan so I bought the DVD box. Almost everything i already have on CD was in the Archives. I expected much more from the Archives, I cannot imagine Neil Young spending 20 years!! on just having us wastch a tape recorder with all the lyrics on every song!! I expected much more live material.
But is is for almost the whole DVD set the same: You'll see a turntable or a tape recorder with the lyrics and sheet music for almost every song.
The Video Footage is so minimal....to me this is a rip-off.
For people expecting live footage: don't buy the archives.
Good thing though: You can watch Neil play Alabama and Are you ready for the Country in the barn. Oh, yes, and neil in a record-store complaining about a bootleg...for only USD 200!
For me this is a complete letdown. I did not expect Neil would rip me off like this...

the reason it took Neil 20 years is because he was waiting for technology to catch up to his ideas. with bluray, it has. the sound quality is up to his standard. the fact that you can hook the archives up to the internet and be able to download updates. you can explore the disc while listening to music. don't judge his final product on the dvd alone. if it were up to neil he would have released it as a bluray only, but he had to appease the mass market by releasing it on dvd and cd.

OT, but the new Neil concert film, directed by Jonathan Demme, is terrific. Called "Neil Young Trunk Show."

Well, I'm back and i have been watching/ listening to the Archives many times now. I must say, after all i am not that dissapointed in it anymore...

The point is, the ones who have all the unreleased matererial already on bootleg, there's not much new on this set.

But it is a must have for those who don't have the bootlegs. And..the sound is just much, much better!

To be honest, I find it a fantastic set now. One has to take the time to shoft through it...it IS a bunch of material...

So..now i am waiting for the follow up of Archives no.1. Imagine the good quality of the 1973 shows..

Oh...and to CC: Indeed the Trunk show will be fantastic!! I just cannot wait for it to be released here in Holland!!

Miranda,
Did you get the DVD or the Blu-Ray version?
VL

Hi VoodooLounge,

I got the DVD version, I couldn't afford the blue-ray version.
I have seen the updates available for the Blue ray version, but luckily i have these already on good bootleg quality..

I am a big Neil fan and have all his cds and his bootleg series shows he put out but I could not bring myself to buying this since I own so much of it already. Sucks that he includes all the archive series concerts that he has been releasing. Who wants to buy all these over again.

neil is very fan friendly with his catalog and archives but it helps that he is on his own. and doesn't have that "ROLLING STONES" legacy that he has to live up to. but "neil young trunk show" is great! too bad "shine a light" could not have been like that. it would have captured a small theater show perfectly.

"torrent it"
Morally I won't (it's a well-thought object that deserves my money. Otoh the super-sucking EOMS box is sth i'll gladly DL for free).

Technically I couldn't bring myself to do it : imagine 25 Gb x 10... urgh!

I shelled out the $300.00 for the blu-ray version and have NO regrets at all...the sound quality of blu-ray audio is beyond amazing! Petty's Live Anthology has a blu-ray audio disc as well...blu-ray players are down to a hundred bucks...Gazza is right about Journey Through The Past, I guess I was pretty stoned when I watched it thirty years ago!

I have not yet bought this because I don't have a new stereo receiver to hook my Blu-Ray player up too. But from what I've heard/read, Neil missed a great chance to give us loads of video. After a twenty year wait, I was expecting more. When I do upgrade, I'll look for a used copy on eBay. I have bought the limited edition box set of the first four albums on vinyl and the fidelity is outstanding. Kind of like the GYYYO remaster, I'm hearing things that I never heard before. It jumps out of the speakers. I can hear his fingers move across the strings when he changes notes. Wow! On the GYYYO remaster, you can hear people in the crowd talking in between songs like your standing next to them.

Scotty