[The Soup Nazi]

Originally Posted by The Soup Nazi

Yeah, I think I gotta say goodbye to the Neil Young box set. [...] Eh, that's OK, I guess. I have the original 1973 Time Fades Away LP in spectacular condish and also the FLAC files from the 1995 HDCD that didn't see the light of the (commercial) day. And perhaps it'll show up at the Pono Store as well...

Originally Posted by The Soup Nazi

It's (mostly) the otherwise unavailable in lossless digital/CD format stuff, like an eventual new bitchen transfer of Time Fades Away, that I will be using the Pono store for.

Ah, my rock & roll plasma ball was once again right on the money...

 

Neil Young has revealed that his first 14 albums are due to be released on December 23, 2014 as digital downloads through the Pono Store.

As reported on Thrasher's Wheat, the Neil Young Original Releases Series 1 - 14 will see the albums remastered at resolutions of either 24/176.4 or 24/192.

Writing on the Pono community forum, Young said, "My first official release series LPs 1-14 will all be available PONO on DEC 23, in 192 and some cases 176. Beginning with Neil Young, ending with Reactor. Thanks, Enjoy!"

Many of these albums have not been digitally remastered since the original Warner Bros CD editions issued in the 1980s.

According to a further speculative post on the Steve Hoffman forum, this is the list of titles to be released and resolution:

Neil Young [PONO] {192/176.4kHz} {24bit}
Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere [PONO] {192kHz} {24bit}
After The Gold Rush [PONO] {192/176.4kHz} {24bit}
Harvest [PONO] {192kHz} {24bit}
Time Fades Away [PONO] {192/176.4kHz} {24bit}
On The Beach [PONO] {176.4kHz} {24bit}
Tonight's The Night [PONO] {192/176.4kHz} {24bit}
Zuma [PONO] {192/176.4kHz} {24bit}
American Stars 'N Bars [PONO] {176.4kHz} {24bit}
Comes A Time [PONO] {192/176.4kHz} {24bit}
Rust Never Sleeps [PONO] {192/176.4kHz} {24bit}
Live Rust [PONO] {192/176.4kHz} {24bit}
Hawks & Doves [PONO] {176.4kHz} {24bit}
re-ac-tor [PONO] {176.4kHz} {24bit}

Especially cool about Live Rust, too, because the solo on "Cortez The Killer" was brutally mauled for the CD edish.