Also that one-note solo in "Motor City" (I think). And the cool stuttering in "Rapid Transit".
― Telephoneface (Adam Bruneau), Thursday, 4 August 2011 02:26 (twelve years ago) link
This looks like a case of NEIL YOUNG FEVER!
On the Beach kinda kicked off an obsession a few years ago with me. I eventually worked my way through most of his stuff, and there's a tonyo love, but I think On the Beach will always be my favorite.
― future events are now current events (Z S), Thursday, 4 August 2011 12:04 (twelve years ago) link
Re: the speed of the turntable, here's some information on this issue (copied from this site)
And we can finally settle another issue that has been dogging collectors of this album on vinyl: This is bad news for UK and some German/EU fans of the vinyl - ALL UK copies regardless of vintage were mastered using a faulty cutting tape that played at the WRONG speed. The resulting LP played too fast. It really makes a difference to the sound of the songs so I suggest all UK pressing owners frame the damn thing and put it on the wall and listen to the CD. Sorry to be the bearer of bad news.This also applies to later EU and German pressings that carry the 'strawberry' mastering stamp. Original 1st press copies from Germany are OK as are most other nationality pressings to my knowledge - but if it says K54014 or 'Strawberry' in the dead wax run-out area, it plays incorrect. ALL UK pressings are affected.All US copies are OK.
I found a vinyl copy about a year or two before the cd-reissue was released and upon getting the cd I noticed the speed difference right away, checked the runout wax and yep, there was a "K54014". I quite like the slightly faster "Walk On" though...
― willem, Thursday, 4 August 2011 12:50 (twelve years ago) link
The second side of "Reactor" is really great
1st side has "Opera Star" and "T-Bone", so it's none too shabby
― R. Stornoway (Tom D.), Thursday, 4 August 2011 13:08 (twelve years ago) link
from some kind of new jonathan demme doc? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GtM87hxp2FM&feature=player_embedded
― tylerw, Friday, 2 September 2011 21:00 (twelve years ago) link
goof whitney?
― reggie (qualmsley), Friday, 2 September 2011 21:27 (twelve years ago) link
This marks the second time solo Neil has maintained more or less the exact same setlist night to night just for (I assume) the sake of a Demme film. Did this one ever get released?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpltKhz8fVM&feature=player_embedded
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 2 September 2011 22:20 (twelve years ago) link
i guess not? i haven't seen it. would watch.
― tylerw, Friday, 2 September 2011 22:21 (twelve years ago) link
um, i saw it.
― puerile fantasies (Matt P), Friday, 2 September 2011 22:39 (twelve years ago) link
it's awesome.
― puerile fantasies (Matt P), Friday, 2 September 2011 22:40 (twelve years ago) link
yeah it looks good -- that tour was really strong, excellent band.
― tylerw, Friday, 2 September 2011 22:40 (twelve years ago) link
way better than Heart of Gold imo but i'd rather see bitter rocking neil anyway. it's on netflix i think.
― puerile fantasies (Matt P), Friday, 2 September 2011 22:43 (twelve years ago) link
is it? i thought i hadn't come out on dvd. netflix sez Availability: DVD availability date unknownalso sez This movie is: Gritty
― tylerw, Friday, 2 September 2011 22:45 (twelve years ago) link
ok i'm an idiot. it played here for about a week last year. that was when i saw it. guess it hasn't been released after that. i looked on netflix for like 2 seconds and i don't even have it (netflix), lol.
it is kind of gritty tbh!
― puerile fantasies (Matt P), Friday, 2 September 2011 22:51 (twelve years ago) link
I just scored a copy of Stills-Young cheap. Any thoughts on this least lamented of Neil's oop '70s work?
― Status Update...in my Seether? (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 3 September 2011 00:36 (twelve years ago) link
"Ocean Girl" is one of my 10 favourite Neil songs--love it as much as almost anything. For me, the rest of his half is tepid--the title song's somewhat better than that, but still pretty ordinary, I think.
― clemenza, Saturday, 3 September 2011 00:40 (twelve years ago) link
yeah "ocean girl" is good. i like midnight on the bay. prefer long may you run on bootlegs / live albums. stills' songs are pretty bad.
― tylerw, Saturday, 3 September 2011 01:52 (twelve years ago) link
that's funny, i just bought stills-young the other day as well. still haven't had time to listen to it, but it was only a few bucks. looking forward to hearing "ocean rain", though...i assumed that only "long may you run" was any good!
― In the long run, we will all be cyberpunks (Z S), Saturday, 3 September 2011 02:26 (twelve years ago) link
"ocean girl", sorry. been listening to way too much echo recently
Two guys within a matter of days--Stills is on the phone to Neil as we speak. "Ocean Girl" always felt like a Zuma song to me; don't know if it was ever slated for that originally. I wonder if Neil has enough girl songs for a compilation: "Ocean Girl," "Cinnamon Girl," "Country Girl," "Stupid Girl"...
― clemenza, Saturday, 3 September 2011 02:37 (twelve years ago) link
ok, "make love to you" may be the single worst song that I've ever heard
― In the long run, we will all be cyberpunks (Z S), Sunday, 4 September 2011 20:22 (twelve years ago) link
Stills brings the goods always
― Euler, Sunday, 4 September 2011 20:24 (twelve years ago) link
Actually enjoyed this a bit. I bet Warners wished at the time Neil could have delivered an album full of the the material he put out here--perhaps the closest he came to mellow El Lay studio rock. "Let It Shine" sounds like a Zuma outtake with industrial polish applied.
As for the Stills stuff, umm, at least they aren't as bad as that singles bar song song from CSN the next year, with the lines about "she's looking at your crotch". Really didn't need to know about Stills' late-70s sex life. Musically, the last song ("Guardian Angel") remended me alot of Steely Dan.
The Neil stuff makes for a nice EP. I wonder what if any of this material will make the cut for Archives II: Ditch Boogaloo. Meanwhile, I need to dig up my copies of the tour boots i got from Tyler's blog.
― Status Update...in my Seether? (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 6 September 2011 02:46 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gHR6lDM75Y
― In the long run, we will all be cyberpunks (Z S), Tuesday, 6 September 2011 02:52 (twelve years ago) link
yes it's gonna take all night
― In the long run, we will all be cyberpunks (Z S), Tuesday, 6 September 2011 02:53 (twelve years ago) link
"...to get my flabby coke dick semi-erect."
― Three Word Username, Tuesday, 6 September 2011 14:30 (twelve years ago) link
hee hee. kind of coming around on A Treasure -- a fun listen for sure. The real "treasures" are "Southern Pacific" and "Grey Riders". Excellent band sound, great guitar from Neil. I also think the Toyota song is worth a chuckle or two -- second verse begins with the lines "Another thing that's buggin' me!" Haha. Old Man Neil writes a letter to the editor.
― tylerw, Tuesday, 6 September 2011 14:56 (twelve years ago) link
I wonder if Neil has enough girl songs for a compilation: "Ocean Girl," "Cinnamon Girl," "Country Girl," "Stupid Girl"...
Do Inca/Aztec songs on the side 2
― WARS OF ARMAGEDDON (Karaoke Version) (Sparkle Motion), Tuesday, 6 September 2011 17:15 (twelve years ago) link
that makes a lot of sense actually
I have that Stills/Young album on vinyl and let me just say it's one of the few times when I wish I had it digitally instead, Still's songs are so execrable
― I can feel it in my spiritual hat (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 6 September 2011 17:18 (twelve years ago) link
it's like him and Neil's songs are from different planets
― I can feel it in my spiritual hat (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 6 September 2011 17:19 (twelve years ago) link
yeah, one dude hitting career peaks (maybe not w/ the songs here, but just in general) and the other bottoming out. though i guess stills had plenty more bottoming out to do.
― tylerw, Tuesday, 6 September 2011 17:20 (twelve years ago) link
http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l7b58sBvr11qzsoufo1_250.jpg
― I can feel it in my spiritual hat (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 6 September 2011 17:22 (twelve years ago) link
OH MY GOD
is that stills?!
― In the long run, we will all be cyberpunks (Z S), Tuesday, 6 September 2011 17:25 (twelve years ago) link
$100 if anyone can find a live video of modern day stills performing "Make Love To You"
yes that is steven stills
― I can feel it in my spiritual hat (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 6 September 2011 17:27 (twelve years ago) link
http://img2.timeinc.net/ew/dynamic/imgs/100929/hr-pufnstuf_320.jpg
― shake it, shake it, sugary pee (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Tuesday, 6 September 2011 17:27 (twelve years ago) link
he kinda makes me think of an aged sasquatch
― tylerw, Tuesday, 6 September 2011 17:29 (twelve years ago) link
http://scaryredhair.files.wordpress.com/2010/07/harry-of-the-hendersons_2.jpg
― I can feel it in my spiritual hat (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 6 September 2011 17:46 (twelve years ago) link
I can't think of a single Stills song that's better than okay.
― Anakin Ska Walker (AKA Skarth Vader) (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 6 September 2011 19:22 (twelve years ago) link
yikes that "make love to you" song is awful
― velvet underground - reloaded (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 6 September 2011 19:26 (twelve years ago) link
"Black Coral" has a good Stills piano part but, wow, I have no idea what he's trying to do with his vocal melody -- or if he's got one!
― Anakin Ska Walker (AKA Skarth Vader) (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 6 September 2011 19:27 (twelve years ago) link
^^^
Nash has the Hollies stuff, Crosby has the Byrds + "If I Could Only Remember My Name", Neil's obviously got tons of great songs... Stills has nothing
― I can feel it in my spiritual hat (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 6 September 2011 19:29 (twelve years ago) link
i like about half of manassas a lot
― velvet underground - reloaded (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 6 September 2011 19:29 (twelve years ago) link
stills has a decent run going from springfield/csny/manassas. he's got this too, which is pretty sweet. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWkMMXgQohc
― tylerw, Tuesday, 6 September 2011 19:31 (twelve years ago) link
that's a cover!
― I can feel it in my spiritual hat (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 6 September 2011 19:34 (twelve years ago) link
as I'm sure you know
I've never heard the Manassas record
Appropriately, it's named after one of the bloodiest of Civil War battles.
― Anakin Ska Walker (AKA Skarth Vader) (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 6 September 2011 19:35 (twelve years ago) link
xp yeah it's a cover, but it shows off how good a guitarist he could be.
― tylerw, Tuesday, 6 September 2011 19:35 (twelve years ago) link
poor steven stills looks like this lil fella in a hawaiian shirt
http://www.internationalhero.co.uk/c/caveman.jpg
― i drive a wood paneled station dragon (La Lechera), Tuesday, 6 September 2011 19:38 (twelve years ago) link