and fuck me but as heavy and head-caving as the last half is, i still dig the first half more
― strgn, Saturday, 5 July 2008 06:41 (fifteen years ago) link
total 4th music too, this is about as patriotic as i get
― strgn, Saturday, 5 July 2008 06:42 (fifteen years ago) link
'ride my llama' and 'pocohantas' are the shit.
― strgn, Saturday, 5 July 2008 06:52 (fifteen years ago) link
I need someone to defend Landing on Water.
-- Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Sunday, 1 July 2007 01:32 (1 year ago)
There are some great songs on this LP. "pressure", "I gotta problem"
― chad, Saturday, 5 July 2008 07:50 (fifteen years ago) link
well they say that santa fe is less than 90 miles (per gallon) away. . . .http://www.huffingtonpost.com/neil-young/perfect-storm-for-innovat_b_155148.html
― kamerad, Monday, 5 January 2009 18:04 (fifteen years ago) link
<quote>This board continually surprises me (guess that's why I'm here.) I was worried Elvis would get a right old slagging, but no, on the whole all v. respectful, whereas I thought pretty much everybody liked at least one alb by N. Young and would be rushing in to sing his praises, esp. as his vocal style has inspired loads of other whining indie boys (Mascis, Malkmus, Mercury Rev, etc.) But how wrong I was! Anyway, James, if you like 'Harvest' you'll probably dig the following just as much: Search: 'On the Beach', 'Tonight's the Night', 'Zuma', 'After the Gold Rush', 'Rust Never Sleeps', 'Decade' (one of the best 'Greatest Hits' sets ever released, imho.) Destroy: Anything with a 'tribute' to K. Cobain on it; CSNY.</quote>
Never underestimate the contrarian impulse of the modern lamebrain hipster...
― EdVonBlue, Monday, 5 January 2009 21:21 (fifteen years ago) link
This Fork in the Road sounds like it might be okay:
http://www.myspace.com/neilyoung
― _Rockist__Scientist_, Wednesday, 22 April 2009 19:16 (fifteen years ago) link
THIS is freaking great. especially because i knew so little of the 'story': http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00f815m/Neil_Young_Dont_Be_Denied/
― piscesx, Monday, 27 July 2009 23:03 (fourteen years ago) link
you basically don't want to listen to early ilm on this thread imo, everything is worth something up to the early '80s i think. there are some more dud than classic albums in there but they're still worth hearing. so yeah, search buffalo springfield, csny, all the solo shit up to and including trans.
― omar little, Monday, 27 July 2009 23:13 (fourteen years ago) link
i know this doesn't really make sense, but i wouldn't destroy anything that neil's done, i would only search it...like for some reason with him more than anyone else i think the bad albums make who he is for me as much as the great ones.....(or almost so)
― tulsa anti-juggalo league (M@tt He1ges0n), Monday, 27 July 2009 23:16 (fourteen years ago) link
like "t-bone" off re-ac-tor must be the laziest dumbest song ever "written" but i'm glad it exists.
― tulsa anti-juggalo league (M@tt He1ges0n), Monday, 27 July 2009 23:17 (fourteen years ago) link
you know what I would destroy? "Homegrown." Not the proposed album or bootleg, the song. And I say this loving both "T-Bone" and Landing On Water. Fuck "Homegrown."
― da croupier, Monday, 27 July 2009 23:19 (fourteen years ago) link
Since "star of bethelem" and "hurricane" are on decade I'd say destroy American Stars'n'Bars entirely if it wasn't for the seven minute song about being a fish. Gotta search that.
― da croupier, Monday, 27 July 2009 23:22 (fourteen years ago) link
"homegrown" brings up some good points about pot
― tulsa anti-juggalo league (M@tt He1ges0n), Monday, 27 July 2009 23:23 (fourteen years ago) link
I rocked out to Year of the Horse yesterday for the first time since I bought it, and LOVED it (even, maybe especially, the Broken Arrow songs). I'm as into Neil now as I've been since high school, probably. So yeah, search it all---though maybe I'll change my mind when I put on Are You Passionate? a little later today.
― wide swing juggalo (Euler), Tuesday, 28 July 2009 09:07 (fourteen years ago) link
maybe to be a little more precise: search the performance of "Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues" on the Dylan 30th anniversary show.
― wide swing juggalo (Euler), Tuesday, 28 July 2009 09:08 (fourteen years ago) link
"like "t-bone" off re-ac-tor must be the laziest dumbest song ever "written" but i'm glad it exists"
I LOVE T-Bone (and Homegrown too!)
― Marco Damiani, Tuesday, 28 July 2009 09:17 (fourteen years ago) link
T-Bone is great! It's so dumb it's genius.
Harvest is not a big favourite of mine. It has one great song (Out On The Weekend), a few nice ones, but also some dull ones, like Heart of Gold and Words, and some out and out stinkers (Man Needs A Maid). Harvest Moon is better. The title track is one of Neil's sweetest, most touching songs, and Dreaming Man is a sweet sigh.
Search (top rank) Everybody Knows, Tonight's The Night, On The Beach, Zuma, Rust Never SleepsAlso great: Ragged Glory, Time Fades Away, Goldrush, Sleeps With Angels, Trans!
Disappointed to see so much hate for Sleeps With Angels. It's one of his boldest records, with all that spooky stuff like Safeway Cart (there's nothing else like this in his ouvre), some heavy (emotionally as well as in terms of density) sludge, the beautiful tack piano ballads, and weird songs like the title track. He pushes Crazy Horse to be subtle throughout much of this album, resulting in some slightly clumsy, and all the more effective and characterful, arrangements and moods. Best out of tune flute solo ever from Neil on Change Your Mind. I think it's a brilliant album.Year Of The Horse live album deserves more love. It's sludgy as hell, but if you're a fan of The Melvins or Harvey Milk then that's a positive. The version of Danger Bird is so heavy on here, the lumbering chord changes verge on doom metal territory. Some incredible leads from Neil too. Also, a couple of slightly underwhelming songs from Broken Arrow are gloriously realised.
― Stew, Tuesday, 28 July 2009 10:18 (fourteen years ago) link
Sorry, flute solo is on Proof Of Life. Both great songs, with the Horse playing almost jazzy chords, like a grizzly bear trying to do melancholy.
― Stew, Tuesday, 28 July 2009 10:19 (fourteen years ago) link
For what's worth, I totally love Sleeps With Angels too: it may be flawed, but most of it has the harrowing tone of some of his best stuff. Safeway Cart and Trans Am are top notch depressed Neil and I also quite like the eerie blues of Blue Eden.
― Marco Damiani, Tuesday, 28 July 2009 10:29 (fourteen years ago) link
The BBC doc. was pretty interesting, thanks for the link.
― caek, Tuesday, 28 July 2009 10:46 (fourteen years ago) link
'will to love' is killer though.
― can-i-jus (stevie), Tuesday, 28 July 2009 10:48 (fourteen years ago) link
I dunno if you read my post as being sarcastic or if you don't realize "will to love" is the seven minute song about being a fish, but that's exactly what I said.
― da croupier, Tuesday, 28 July 2009 11:53 (fourteen years ago) link
i did not realise it was about a fish!
― can-i-jus (stevie), Tuesday, 28 July 2009 12:11 (fourteen years ago) link
Are You Passionate? is pretty great! I'm not sure I'd listened all the way through before, but I really dig the kinda spare groove throughout, almost Aja-like; and there's a nice separation of instruments, very clear sounding. I'm not sure if it's Neil on guitar on "She's a Healer", but the tone is really distinctive for a Neil album. And it starts very strongly: "Mr. Disappointment" and "Differently" are highlights, I think. I thought it let up a little on the second half, but probably I'll hear more goodness there as I listen more.
Anyway, this is a good reason for me not to get caught up in hype or backlash of new albums from old artists that I like, and just to wait a few years when I can hear it clearly. I remember the reviews being harsh for this one, but in 2009 that doesn't matter at all.
― wide swing juggalo (Euler), Tuesday, 28 July 2009 12:14 (fourteen years ago) link
Will To Love is one of Neil's best songs of the 70s, and yeah, it is about being a fish, among other things: And now my fins are in the airAnd my belly's scraping on the rocksI still think someone really caresAnd I'll keep swimming till I stop.I'm with M@tt in that I wouldn't destroy a thing, even the crap! Still haven't spent a lot of time with the newest one, though. Too busy with the Archives! But I'd agree that Are You Passionate is a bit underrated -- I think it got attention for the weird 9/11 song, but the rest of the album isn't really like that, it's more of a slow-burning soul album, or at least Neil's version of a slow-burning soul album. I think at some point I need to go back and give all the 00s albums a good listen ...
― tylerw, Tuesday, 28 July 2009 14:02 (fourteen years ago) link
Tyler, I just listened to your Bad News I mp3 comp from your blog; I think I need to give the 80s albums a good listen again b/c those are great songs. "Interstate", "Boxcar", the early "Eldorado". I hope he makes it long enough to compile the archives for that era.
― wide swing juggalo (Euler), Tuesday, 28 July 2009 14:07 (fourteen years ago) link
guitar playing below par
LOLs from 2001
― Aw naw, no' Annoni oan noo an' aw (Tom D.), Tuesday, 28 July 2009 14:10 (fourteen years ago) link
Cool, Euler, glad you're enjoying that comp -- I think it just shows that Neil was pretty confused during that era, but still capable of incredible music.
― tylerw, Tuesday, 28 July 2009 14:18 (fourteen years ago) link
i'd avoided the Hawks & Doves album until someone sent me "Lost In Space" last week. Fucking great. There's actually a lot of worthwhile material on the album too.
― ian, Saturday, 12 December 2009 02:24 (fourteen years ago) link
I just recently picked up Harvest Moon, which is the first Neil thing I've owned post-Live Rust. So I pretty much have skipped the 1980s. And I really like it a lot - more than Stars n' Bars or Comes a Time, both of which I enjoy quite a bit.
― big darn deal (Z S), Saturday, 12 December 2009 02:39 (fourteen years ago) link
hawks and doves is amazing, especially the 1st side -- even though the 2nd side has a cantankerous charm, too ...
― tylerw, Saturday, 12 December 2009 02:48 (fourteen years ago) link
listened to the new live release today, all the songs from harvest moon, and it sounds pretty great, better than you would think he would sound in the 90s.
― mizzell, Saturday, 12 December 2009 06:06 (fourteen years ago) link
Yeah, Dreamin' Man Live has me appreciating some of the lesser Harvest Moon songs, and everything sounds great stripped down and solo.
Plus he gets big points from me for changing up the sequencing. Makes it a new experience.
― Hideous Lump, Saturday, 12 December 2009 07:17 (fourteen years ago) link
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― you gone float up with it (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 21 January 2010 21:05 (fourteen years ago) link
Damn, I screwed that up big time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2WfUzNYPwo
homegrown's alright with me
― Fox Force Five Punchline (sexyDancer), Thursday, 21 January 2010 21:42 (fourteen years ago) link
I don't pay much attention to Fallon, so maybe thats a recurring thing for him, but I found it interesting to see him do a parody as early 70s Neil. I mean, does the average Fallon watcher even know who Neil is?
― you gone float up with it (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 21 January 2010 21:44 (fourteen years ago) link
My guess is yes.
― Trip Maker, Thursday, 21 January 2010 21:47 (fourteen years ago) link
Ah, I must have a fairly skewed image of his audience.
― you gone float up with it (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 21 January 2010 21:47 (fourteen years ago) link
I don't know, most of what I have watched of the Fallon show consists of aging rockers (like Christopher Cross) performing live on his show. His Neil impression is the best one I've ever see him do, so, can't hurt to trot it out in front of a young audience, imo.
― Trip Maker, Thursday, 21 January 2010 22:13 (fourteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uvAZjefHoiQ
― can it compete with the wagon wheel (Eazy), Wednesday, 3 March 2010 21:08 (fourteen years ago) link
Stringman is such a great song. weird that its only official appearance is on that Unplugged CD.
― Wet Hot American Oil Spill (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 3 March 2010 21:16 (fourteen years ago) link
love love love that Unplugged disk though...the "Transformer Man" is so great.
― begs the question, when is enough enough (Euler), Wednesday, 3 March 2010 21:17 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah! I just got it recently after having lost my copy years ago. kinda annoyed it doesn't include the other Trans track he did for the taping, or Dreaming Man
― Wet Hot American Oil Spill (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 3 March 2010 21:34 (fourteen years ago) link
what was the other trans track he did? love unplugged -- thought it was weird that the Shakey autor thinks it's horrible. Only thing that's not terribly exciting are the too-close-to-the-album Harvest Moon songs.
― tylerw, Wednesday, 3 March 2010 21:37 (fourteen years ago) link
Sample and Hold
― Wet Hot American Oil Spill (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 3 March 2010 21:39 (fourteen years ago) link
no kidding! are there bootlegs of it?
― tylerw, Wednesday, 3 March 2010 21:40 (fourteen years ago) link
thought it was weird that the Shakey autor thinks it's horrible
and yeah I thought this was inexplicable too but put it down to Neil himself hating it. which is also kinda inexplicable but lolz temperamental artists...
the pump organ Like a Hurricane is another standout for me
― Wet Hot American Oil Spill (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 3 March 2010 21:40 (fourteen years ago) link
he should play trans songs live again -- "computer age" and "sample and hold" live w/ Crazy Horse were pretty awesome
― tylerw, Wednesday, 3 March 2010 21:41 (fourteen years ago) link