Old man, take a look at this poll.
― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Tuesday, 10 July 2012 18:51 (eleven years ago) link
I think Neil's probably one of those people who knows yearly car models thoroughly.
Yeah, he'd appreciate any vehicle discussion.
― Don't Feel Like Santana, But Oye Como Va To Them (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 10 July 2012 18:52 (eleven years ago) link
I saw the Buffalo Springfield reunion show at Bonnaroo last year, it was fine but the volume was too low. It was sort of poignant to be in a field full of 20-somethings shouting "TURN IT UP" at the 60-somethings on stage.
― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Tuesday, 10 July 2012 18:52 (eleven years ago) link
"Don't Be Denied" was my #1. I know (from Shakey) that song was written on the day of Whitten's death.
h8 "Old Man". Hope "Heart of Gold" places tho.
― t. s. idiot (loves laboured breathing), Tuesday, 10 July 2012 18:53 (eleven years ago) link
I had "Don't Be Denied" next to "Hitchhiker" on my ballot. The latter is like Part II: The Drug Years.
― Don't Feel Like Santana, But Oye Como Va To Them (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 10 July 2012 18:56 (eleven years ago) link
12/30 so far.
I can think of 20 obvious songs that are sure to place. Which leaves a few good mystery songs.
― kornrulez6969, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 18:58 (eleven years ago) link
h8 Old Man too. My most cringey moment ever was being treated by a drunken colleague to an acapella version, complete with air guitar and teary eulogy to his dad, with colleagues in the bar at my first-ever work Christmas night out. I'd wager I was the only other person there who knew the song.
The guy in question is now a mid-ranking partner with the same firm and boasts a ftse100 company as his big client.
― Ismael Klata, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 19:06 (eleven years ago) link
wow, that sounds awkward. i voted for old man, tho, i like when the drums come in and ben keith's pedal steel. let's hear it for ben keith. piano on it is nice too, kind of buried, but blends nicely w/ neil's guitar.
― tylerw, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 19:09 (eleven years ago) link
Ben Keith is welcome whenever he pops up on a Neil song.
― EZ Snappin, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 19:13 (eleven years ago) link
yeah he's a perfect fit for neil in the 70s. kind of wish there was some unreleased solo pedal steel album from 1974 in the archives.
― tylerw, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 19:14 (eleven years ago) link
I believe I'm 11 out of 40 so far
― da croupier, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 19:16 (eleven years ago) link
Shakey is good on the circumstances around "Old Man," but the lyric has always kind of ruined that one for me.
― Brad C., Tuesday, 10 July 2012 19:18 (eleven years ago) link
I'm 10/40, but my ballot was heavy on the canon, so I expect the percentage will go up in the last third.
― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Tuesday, 10 July 2012 19:18 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.thecoolgroove.com/ben.html
Just learned that Ben Keith recorded a solo album in 1984 and apparently has unreleased solo material from 1997.
― cwkiii, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 19:19 (eleven years ago) link
And a Christmas album.
ditto, though i'm wondering if any post-rust could crack the top 25 at this point. i remember clemenza spoiling early on nothing was past 30 or so, and i could see the ragged glory hits all canceling each other out, but "rockin' in the free world" has yet to show up.
― da croupier, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 19:22 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lX2zTw7Krs0
― tylerw, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 19:24 (eleven years ago) link
Up to 12/30 now (I think) and about another 10 should make it...will be kind of bummed if "Natural Beauty" and "Journey Through the Past" don't place though.
― recordbreaking transfer to Lucknow FC (seandalai), Tuesday, 10 July 2012 19:26 (eleven years ago) link
I thought "Razor Love" would be a shoe-in, guess not?
― boxall, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 19:32 (eleven years ago) link
'Danger Bird' and 'Out on the Weekend' were both in my top 10, great to see them here.
I heard Decade long before On The Beach so it was weird hearing 'Walk On' as a taste of what I'd heard was such a downer of an album.
I can really hear the 'Winterlong'/Big Star comparisons, it's in the guitar sound.
― Gavin, Leeds, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 19:33 (eleven years ago) link
compositionally it bears a lot of resemblances to Big Star as well, imho - the chiming, ascending guitar line, complimented by the descending "come back now, come back now, whoah" vocal melody at the end of the phrase - Chilton totally used that trick.
― the alternate vision continues his vision quest! (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 10 July 2012 19:36 (eleven years ago) link
yeah i doubt it really was an "a&r wants a single" situation but that's how it feels on OTB after knowing it far longer from decade
― da croupier, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 19:38 (eleven years ago) link
i know you guys are all really interested my prairie wind liveblog
but this album is pretty damn slight
it's all a dream is nice
― wack nerd zinging in the dead of night (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 10 July 2012 19:40 (eleven years ago) link
i'll revisit Prairie Wind before Silver & Gold and Are You Passionate but I'm not in a rush
― da croupier, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 19:42 (eleven years ago) link
yeah prairie wind has a nice sound, but there's something lacking in the songwriting.
― tylerw, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 19:44 (eleven years ago) link
Haven't seen Hawks & Doves mentioned...how is it generally regarded among Neilophiles?
― Chuck? Chuck? It's me, your cousin, Marvin D (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Tuesday, 10 July 2012 19:45 (eleven years ago) link
has its fans, but i don't think there's a consensus fave track (if there is I know it's not the one i voted for)
― da croupier, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 19:46 (eleven years ago) link
i voted for little wing, almost voted for lost in space.
― tylerw, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 19:49 (eleven years ago) link
I like Hawks & Doves quite a bit, - picked it as one of my fave album covers and voted for "Little Wing." "Union Man" is pretty great too. "The gentleman said ... bumper stickers should be issued!"
― boxall, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 19:49 (eleven years ago) link
i've had the theory that had neil taken the first side of hawks n doves and the best tracks from reactor, he'd have a rust-like masterpiece. maybe?
― tylerw, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 19:54 (eleven years ago) link
I've been listening to H&D a lot the last few days. "This Old Homestead" is a weird lyric set to "For The Turnstiles"-OTB chords.
― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 10 July 2012 19:56 (eleven years ago) link
*The
that first side is such a hodgepodge, though. said it on the voting thread but I think the album's sort of American Stars'n'Bars II - one side country, one side a '70s grab-bag, just without a "Like A Hurricane." I voted for the title track, as I've got a soft spot for psycho patriot Neil.
― da croupier, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 19:57 (eleven years ago) link
I only heard H&D once or twice 20 years ago before listening to it again the other day. The slight songs are kinda fun, but otm re: best of H&D + best of Re Ac Tor = More Rust.
― Chuck? Chuck? It's me, your cousin, Marvin D (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Tuesday, 10 July 2012 19:57 (eleven years ago) link
that sorta ploy would probably strike neil as too obvious, but it'd work!
― tylerw, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 19:59 (eleven years ago) link
I think around 5/30.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 20:08 (eleven years ago) link
I'm at, I should say.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 20:09 (eleven years ago) link
I always knew Neil from classic rock stations and thought he was alright but the first time I was like "whoah this guy is rad" was in college, when a friend of mine was giving a slide show. he had recently returned from a p legit mountaineering trip to Nepal and played "walk on" as sort of an outro over a series of pictures and it was so different from old man and other MOR ny stuff that it twigged something for me. I was already a huge fan of the built to spill cover of Cortez but had never really put two and two together.
thank you based neil
also kinda tempted to go to cheapo and buy all of the ny vinyl they have, I'm missing so much
― catbus otm (gbx), Tuesday, 10 July 2012 20:34 (eleven years ago) link
and not that anyone cares but my current attending physician (basically my boss) has turned out to be a massive neil fan. we were on the way to d0rothy d4y (for u MNans) and he str8 blasted cinnamon girl the whole time, it was a ~moment~
― catbus otm (gbx), Tuesday, 10 July 2012 20:36 (eleven years ago) link
hutlock must be on diaper duty today.
Has anyone started a Spotify list yet? If so, how are we dealing with TFA songs -- are there any bad covers or live versions elsewhere?
― Naive Teen Idol, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 20:43 (eleven years ago) link
crazy low ranking for danger bird! a man needs a maid beating it out by 11 spots, wtf
cool list so far though. makes me want to really dig into the post-rust stuff that i'm less familiar with.
― the sun, a great connoisseur of eggs (buh), Tuesday, 10 July 2012 21:00 (eleven years ago) link
i made a spotify playlist of my ballot and had to say goodbye to anything from TFA, Trans or LOW
― da croupier, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 21:07 (eleven years ago) link
bummed lucky thirteen wasn't on there either
― da croupier, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 21:08 (eleven years ago) link
is lucky 13 out of print or something? that's too bad it's not even avail. on spotify. great comp, really made a case for the 80s neil when i was a kid.
― tylerw, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 21:13 (eleven years ago) link
My experience with Young and album rock radio matches gbx's. I had no idea of the depth of his fantastic, weird catalog from hearing "Old Man" and "Southern Man" over and over (har). I had to read the SPIN Alternative Guide's essay and dream of the money to find an album that was the aural equivalent of watching on screen a cow entering the water and leaving.
― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 10 July 2012 21:14 (eleven years ago) link
yeah i never got around to getting lucky 13, only song from the era that feels strikingly absent is "Prisoners"
― da croupier, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 21:16 (eleven years ago) link
I found Lucky Thirteen used for cheap a couple years ago, it definitely made me more open to the idea of exploring his 80s.
― heated debate over derpy hooves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 10 July 2012 21:18 (eleven years ago) link
The two Old Ways inclusions did not convince though.
― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 10 July 2012 21:28 (eleven years ago) link
Dunno why it's been hard for Neil to cut straight country records; Comes A Time is closer to a folk-country amalgam, I guess (with a little mellotron thrown in). Like Jagger he can't quite do it without smirking, although I'll take "Dead Flowers" over "Where is the Highway Tonight."
― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 10 July 2012 21:30 (eleven years ago) link
xp yeah those are still pretty dire. the stuff on a treasure is the best place for that era. lucky 13 really is decade II though, just, you know, a different kind of decade.
― tylerw, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 21:31 (eleven years ago) link