Neil Young surprises me

[hal2kilo]

Not the first time musicians supported politicians that seem to go against type.

Never heard what a hard core businessman he was? I wouldn't have doubted for a minute he voted for Pubs.

 

[Meghan54]

This seems 100% on brand with his past. 404 surprise not found.

You including all his anti-GMO crap he lead?

 

[IronWing]

Never heard what a hard core businessman he was? I wouldn't have doubted for a minute he voted for Pubs.

Brown might have supported Nixon's drug war, at least until he figured out that it was a war on black people. Brown had zero tolerance for drugs through most of his career. His PCP addiction was all the more tragic.

 

[hal2kilo]

You including all his anti-GMO crap he lead?

I may be wrong, but I think it was the seed deal forced on farmers that might have made him be against it. Just pure speculation on my part. I guess I need to do some research.

 

[pmv]

edit : Oh .. anti-anti . Close the windows on them double negatives man.

There's a difference between being anti-anti-vaccine and just not being anti-vaccine. He's taking an active stance against Rogan's nonsense, which is a significant step beyond just not being anti-vax.

Besides, if two "antis" cancel-out completely, then you're just left with "Neil Young is vaccine". And I don't think Neil Young is a vaccine.

 

[hal2kilo]

I may be wrong, but I think it was the seed deal forced on farmers that might have made him be against it. Just pure speculation on my part. I guess I need to do some research.

Yep. Seems that's his main complaint about GMO.

Neil Young Takes on Monsanto and GMOs (foodrevolution.org)

 

[Moonbeam]

Yep. Seems that's his main complaint about GMO.

Neil Young Takes on Monsanto and GMOs (foodrevolution.org)

Damn. Now who can I hate?

 

[Grey_Beard]

Spotify just said they would honor his request and remove his music.

Spotify Takes Down Neil Young’s Music After His Joe Rogan Ultimatum — The Wall Street Journal

Folk-rock star had over six million monthly listeners on the service, which he blames for spreading fake info about vaccines

apple.news

 

[Muse]

Got me too.

Me too. And for the record: Rogan's a dick and an asshole, yes he's fucking himself in the asshole. I watched one Rogan video, bailed in the middle, done done done with Joe R. It was clear to me he was pandering to his idiot audience, i.e. no integrity, complete sellout.

 

[Greenman]

Spotify just said they would honor his request and remove his music.

Spotify Takes Down Neil Young’s Music After His Joe Rogan Ultimatum — The Wall Street Journal

Folk-rock star had over six million monthly listeners on the service, which he blames for spreading fake info about vaccines

apple.news

That was nice of them.

 

[HomerJS]

I wonder if Nixon called James Brown, Mr. Brown? James insisted on that.

 

[Lost_in_the_HTTP]

I don't think he called him Mister Tibbs.

 

[KMFJD]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1486628963761881089

Interesting, seems Neil highlighted a growing trend among people getting feed up with Rogan

https://twitter.com/x/status/1486752271497056268

 

[Thump553]

I was checking out streaming services and tending to go to Spotify until this came up. Like Neil Young, I will use my relatively small power as a consumer to send my business elsewhere.

BTW Neil Young got pretty much the same level of flak from righties when he released the "Living With War" album during Bush War II.

 

[Grey_Beard]

That was nice of them.

They abided by the artist’s wishes. That not nice, it’s stellar. They really had no choice, as they weren’t going to take Rogaine off their service.

 

[cytg111]

So .. what are ppl using instead of Spotify?

 

[IronWing]

So .. what are ppl using instead of Spotify?

Bandcamp, where musicians get paid for their work.

 

[Mai72]

So .. what are ppl using instead of Spotify?

I use YT music which comes with ad free YouTube. Which I'm really liking because I use YouTube a TON on my phone. YT music is decent. It doesn't have an PC app like Spotify, but you can get it to act like an app with a quick tweak. Also, its not as slick as Spotify. For example, I was looking at Ozzy's back catalog of albums and they are all lumped together. His newest album shows a few albums down from his 1980s albums. They are just all lumped together. Spotify OTOH has every album by most current to his oldest album. Hopefully YouTube, or Google will clean it up and make a slick PC app. I'm still enjoying it all though. I got rid of Spotify last month.

 

[Amused]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1486628963761881089

Interesting, seems Neil highlighted a growing trend among people getting feed up with Rogan

https://twitter.com/x/status/1486752271497056268

Yeah, that stock drop most likely has NOTHING to do with Rogan. It's tied to the overall stock drop that just happened.

The Spotify drop looks identical to the Dow drop.

 

[Lost_in_the_HTTP]

Barry's staying though. I think Mandy made him.

 

[MrSquished]

The better reason to leave Spotify, as a consumer, is that other services pay the artists 2-3x more vs Spotify. Tidal pays 3x more for example. Better quality audio if you have good equipment. Also has a desktop app.

The phone app is quite good, though not as good as Spotify. I have no need for Spotify's podcasts abilities as I have always loved the Podcast Republic app more than anything else for those.

 

[Lost_in_the_HTTP]

I'm not a pod people and I want to 'program' my own lists. I acquire tracks I want and run lists of 2,000 plus tracks that cover nearly a week at a time. It can be a month from the time I hear a song until it plays again. And only tracks I want, no ads, no talk, no interruptions.

 

[Grey_Beard]

So .. what are ppl using instead of Spotify?

I do Sirius/XM. My subscription includes a significant fee for the artists.

 

[Grey_Beard]

Looks like Joni Mitchell has joined Neil Young.

Joni Mitchell Pulling Music from Spotify in Solidarity With Neil Young

Joni Mitchell is joining Neil Young in having her music pulled from Spotify over vaccine misinformation on the "Joe Rogan Experience."

www.billboard.com

 

[MrSquished]

I'm not a pod people and I want to 'program' my own lists. I acquire tracks I want and run lists of 2,000 plus tracks that cover nearly a week at a time. It can be a month from the time I hear a song until it plays again. And only tracks I want, no ads, no talk, no interruptions.

My main playlist on Tidal is up to about 500 tracks so far. You have to pay basically around 10 bucks a month to get the ad-free tier on pretty much most of the services really.

Apple, Amazon and Tidal all offer higher bitrate files than Spotify. This does matter to a small percentage of people that do have the gear and ears to hear the difference. I like the HiFi quality of Tidal. When I put on certain tracks on my Beyers, Schiit Bifrost and Burson amp, it just sounds better.

A big differentiator as mentioned before, all the other services pay the artists significantly more.

The things that matter to people would be interface, suggestion algorithms, podcasts. I find Tidal and Spotify's interfaces to be pretty close with Spotify's a bit better, mostly in the phone app, though Tidal is no slouch. Spotify does have lots of podcasts, when I had it I tried to use it to listen to the MOTH and Radiolab but I just like the Podcast Republic app interface for podcasts much better so just went back to that. To each their own.