"Yellow Moon" by the Neville Brothers

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Honestly speaking, I've never liked the Neville Brothers...but dang if this isn't ever a great song. First heard it in while in the throes of a depression in the early 90's (having just been dumped after a sorely ill-advised fling with a girl in my office....NEVER a good idea) and was drowning my sorrows at a bar in my then neighborhood (Upper East Side....the Gaff...don't bother looking for it, it's now something else), and my friend Rob kept putting this song on the jukebox, demanding that I snap out of it. I didn't really snap out of it until several weeks later, but this amazing has haunted me ever since.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 17 January 2004 00:49 (9 years ago) Permalink

Great album too.

― bugged out, Saturday, 17 January 2004 00:52 (9 years ago) Permalink

Produced by Daniel Lanois, no?

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Saturday, 17 January 2004 01:42 (9 years ago) Permalink

Yes. And it's a good song. Sister Rosa too.

(I live one block from the ex-GAF. Never went in but it did look like the only decent place around)

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Saturday, 17 January 2004 02:18 (9 years ago) Permalink

yeah, lanois got it right for once.

you never liked the Nevilles Alex? whilst i'd concede that a lot of the post yellow moon stuff is meh, the preceding stuff is fantastic!

― mullygrubber (gaz), Saturday, 17 January 2004 03:53 (9 years ago) Permalink

Right for once?!?!

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Saturday, 17 January 2004 04:19 (9 years ago) Permalink

okay, gimme some other examples...(i aint the worlds biggest lanois fan, but i haven't heard too much)

― mullygrubber (gaz), Saturday, 17 January 2004 04:39 (9 years ago) Permalink

I have the album, it's alright. Also have the Lanois-produced Teatro by Willie Nelson.

― Sean (Sean), Saturday, 17 January 2004 05:58 (9 years ago) Permalink

Yes -- great song, great album.

― Jazzbo (jmcgaw), Saturday, 17 January 2004 18:10 (9 years ago) Permalink

2 years pass...

Listening to this for the first time since I was a kid. Its better than I remember.

― deej.. (deej..), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 18:17 (6 years ago) Permalink

One of my favorite songs in the whole world. Regulary flirts with the top 10 (along with the likes of "The Lion Sleeps Tonight", "Sexual Healing", "The Girl from Ipanema" and about 100 others).

The rest of the album is wonderful, if not quite up to that level.

― Adam Beales (Pye Poudre), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 17:08 (6 years ago) Permalink

― winter testing (winter testing), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 21:25 (6 years ago) Permalink

― winter testing (winter testing), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 21:26 (6 years ago) Permalink

6 years pass...

Saw Aaron Neville last night (with a band featuring his brother Charles on sax) at the reopened Howard Theatre. Wow,at 71, he can still sing. Quite a range. Did 2 hours worth of covers--"A A change is Gonna Come," "Ain't No Sunshine," "Be My Baby," "Work with me Annie"....

― curmudgeon, Monday, 6 August 2012 13:55 (9 months ago) Permalink

I love this song.

― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 6 August 2012 14:00 (9 months ago) Permalink

Me too (but Aaron did not sing it last night. I forget the name of the Neville Brothers song he did. He always does "Tell it Like it is" both solo and with the Neville Brothers, but that's not the one I am thinking of.)

― curmudgeon, Monday, 6 August 2012 14:12 (9 months ago) Permalink

i also love this song. had a huge impact on me when i first heard it. i've played it for a number of people over the years, but some are turned off by the slick production & arrangement. squares.

― contenderizer, Monday, 6 August 2012 14:49 (9 months ago) Permalink

People need to get past their Daniel Lanois and slick production hatred for this song

― curmudgeon, Monday, 6 August 2012 15:00 (9 months ago) Permalink

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