Neil Young Late To The Goldrush

Neil Young Late To The Goldrush
Rock veteran Neil Young hates the low-quality digital music files that have proliferated in the last decade. He declares it to be Apple and the iPod’s fault. “Apple has taken a detour down the convenience highway,” Young said during an interview with Time editor-in-chief John Huey. “Quality has taken a complete backseat, if it even gets in the car at all.” The leap from “low quality files” to “Apple’s fault” may seem an oddly targeted attack, especially given that Apple sells digital files at the highest quality levels the music companies will allow. Neil Young is about to release his ouvre as a 10-disk series, to be made available on CD, DVD and Blu-Ray audio disk. “Blu-ray is the future,” Young told Billboard in a recent interview. “It sounds the best… If you were to get a Blu-ray of the ‘Archive,’ you would get the best.” Here was me thinking that lossless digital audio would sound the same no matter what it’s pressed on, but hey, if Blu-Ray makes it more danceable, get Blu-ray….

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