Neil Young at Glastonbury 2025 | Albums That Should Exist / and Groningen NETHERLANDS (a few days later) | soundaboard

Neil Young - BBC Sessions, Volume 4: In Concert, Glastonbury Festival, Worthy Farm, Pilton, Britain, 6-28-2025

Paul says: It's time for me to finally start posting the most wanted performances from the 2025 Glastonbury Festival. Since everything I'll be posting is available with great sound quality because it was broadcast by the BBC, I'll be posting these as BBC albums. In my poll about this festival, the number one most wanted performance was by Neil Young. So here it is.

At the time of this concert, Young was 79 years old. I heard one of his concert recordings from a couple of years prior to this, and that made he concerned that his voice was starting to go. But I'm glad to say he still sings and plays lead guitar like a younger version of himself.

Young, with his latest band, the Chrome Hearts, played no songs from his most recent albums. However, his set wasn't a "best of" either, despite performing for a huge crowd that didn't buy tickets just to see him. He did play some favorites, but he also played some relative obscurities, for instance "Be the Rain" and "Sun Green" from his 2003 album "Greendale." And stylistically, he went from solo acoustic at times to long, jammy full-band songs at other times. All in all, it was a solid show.

This album is an hour and 49 minutes long. 

01 talk (Neil Young)
02 Sugar Mountain (Neil Young)
03 Be the Rain (Neil Young)
04 When You Dance, I Can Really Love (Neil Young)
05 Cinnamon Girl (Neil Young)
06 Fuckin' Up (Neil Young)
07 talk (Neil Young)
08 Hey Hey, My My [Into the Black] (Neil Young)
09 The Needle and the Damage Done (Neil Young)
10 Harvest Moon (Neil Young)
11 talk (Neil Young)
12 Looking Forward (Neil Young)
13 talk (Neil Young)
14 Sun Green (Neil Young)
15 talk (Neil Young)
16 Love and Only Love (Neil Young)
17 Like a Hurricane (Neil Young)
18 Name of Love (Neil Young)
19 Old Man (Neil Young)
20 talk (Neil Young)
21 Rockin' in the Free World (Neil Young)
22 talk (Neil Young)
23 Throw Your Hatred Down (Neil Young)

Now this is interesting and worth having for Glastonbury viewers this year . .  not least because I couldn’t find it on the BBC Glastonbury site and along with some other glaring errors of omission (no Tremolos) I was shocked but thought as he had had to be cajoled into appearing that the Beeb maybe sulked and didn’t feature Neil’s set too heavily. I may be mistaken as it seems an oversight to me but hey . . . here ’tis!

SOUNDABOARD has this set from Groningen

Neil Young and The Chrome Hearts - Summerstage Drafbaan Stadspark, Groningen, The Netherlands (2025-07-01)

This August we have aboard some shows from Neil Young's recent European tour.

They are generally good audience recordings and were were kindly provided by Vinegar Joe.

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Neil Young and The Chrome Hearts

Summerstage Drafbaan Stadspark, Groningen, The Netherlands

July 1, 2025

Track List:

Ambulance Blues

Be the Rain

When You Dance, I Can Really Love

Cinnamon Girl

Fuckin' Up

Hey Hey, My My (Into the Black)

The Needle and the Damage Done

Harvest Moon

Looking Forward

Sun Green

Love And Only Love

Like a Hurricane

Name of Love

Old Man

Throw Your Hatred Down

Rockin' in the Free World