does always seem like a weird case of neil trying to fit into someone else's scene. i dig the yacht rock slow-jamminess of Midnight On The Bay.
― tylerw, Thursday, 5 June 2014 22:00 (nine years ago) link
when in doubt, blame Stills. I blame Stills for global warming for instance, bellowing like that on "Black Queen".
― Euler, Thursday, 5 June 2014 22:36 (nine years ago) link
I really like "Black Coral", probably my favorite Stills song, but the rest of his songs on here are pretty rough. "Midnight on the Bay" is great; in general, I love the vibe of Neil's songs on this record. It was not at all a surprise to learn that he was living on a boat in Florida at the time.
― cwkiii, Thursday, 5 June 2014 23:46 (nine years ago) link
it's weird i've never actually listened to long may you run
― sinister porpoise (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 6 June 2014 13:58 (nine years ago) link
Midnight on the bay! how did I live without that one?
― lauded at conferences of deluded psychopaths (Sparkle Motion), Friday, 6 June 2014 14:01 (nine years ago) link
i guess the title track isn't too bad either
― marcos, Friday, 6 June 2014 14:16 (nine years ago) link
sounds like it could easily fit on comes a time
Title track rules!
― sinister porpoise (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 6 June 2014 14:18 (nine years ago) link
midnight on the bay is good too!
― marcos, Friday, 6 June 2014 14:21 (nine years ago) link
title track is fantastic, i just generally prefer it in live versions. here's a kinda weird unreleased track from the stills-young tour - "evening coconut," named after neil's boat. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHmU2xoQo7knot entirely sure, but he may have reworked this into "Thrasher".
― tylerw, Friday, 6 June 2014 14:25 (nine years ago) link
the only problem with this record is that they didn't put all the stills songs on side 2 so you would never have to listen to them.
― mizzell, Friday, 6 June 2014 14:27 (nine years ago) link
haha still is a douche but i think he's kind of underrated in a way! he's a great guitar player...i like the first manassas record quite a bit, and super session w/bloomfield and kooper...plus some of the CSN stuff and Buffalo Springfield...as far as cocaine cowboy asshole dudes i have more respect for him than like henley and frey
― sinister porpoise (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 6 June 2014 14:31 (nine years ago) link
oh for sure
― marcos, Friday, 6 June 2014 14:32 (nine years ago) link
evening coconut sounds great, thanks tylerw. totally has the feel of "thrasher" (which is definitely my top 5 neil tunes for sure)
― marcos, Friday, 6 June 2014 14:34 (nine years ago) link
yeah it is nice - though haha, stills does his best to ruin it with his weird latin patois improv vocals at the end. Stills!
― tylerw, Friday, 6 June 2014 14:37 (nine years ago) link
i like stills fine (i'm a fan of of the roughly contemporary dark star from csn) but these songs are all pretty weak. black coral is ok.
― mizzell, Friday, 6 June 2014 14:42 (nine years ago) link
xp Compare that to Young's desperate attempt to salvage the abomination that is "Make Love To You" with his kinda-awesome "Love you! Love you!" backing vocals on the chorus. For the most part they seem to stay out of each other's way on the rest of the record, I think.
― cwkiii, Friday, 6 June 2014 14:48 (nine years ago) link
would've been interesting if they had taken the opposite approach -- having stills come in and record with crazy horse. would probably be a weird-but-classic record. but it was probably never on the table, given the contempt CSN showed for the horse.
― tylerw, Friday, 6 June 2014 14:54 (nine years ago) link
It's amusing to hear Neil get Old Black cranking on the Stills stuff.
― Damnit Janet Weiss & The Riot Grrriel (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 6 June 2014 14:55 (nine years ago) link
Bill Wyman of the Rolling Stones plays bass on and co-authored "The Love Gangster" and is reported to have said that he would have left the Stones to join Manassas.[1]
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 6 June 2014 15:08 (nine years ago) link
the "Midnight, midnight!" backup vocals on "Midnight on the Bay" froze my blood.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 6 June 2014 15:10 (nine years ago) link
listening to this right now for the first time
obv knew the title track
stills bringing the lols already with "make love to you.....awwwwriiight"
― sinister porpoise (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 6 June 2014 16:00 (nine years ago) link
oh man never heard this
― famous instagram God (waterface), Friday, 6 June 2014 16:01 (nine years ago) link
thing that sucks about stills is he is pretty good at guitar and he shoulda just been a real good sideman type dude, but too much ego
― sinister porpoise (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 6 June 2014 16:03 (nine years ago) link
yeah just seems like he had this idea of "I CAN DO ANYTHING." whereas neil was aware of his limitations and made them into assets.
― tylerw, Friday, 6 June 2014 16:09 (nine years ago) link
but too much ego cocaine
fixed that 4 u
― it definitely wasn't designed to be a pants pocket player (stevie), Friday, 6 June 2014 16:14 (nine years ago) link
oh man midnight on the bay is a stone groove
― sinister porpoise (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 6 June 2014 17:08 (nine years ago) link
Stills' voice is fucking gross.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 6 June 2014 17:09 (nine years ago) link
haha black coral is hilarious
take it easy DOWN THE-AHyou've only SO MUCH AIR
― sinister porpoise (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 6 June 2014 17:12 (nine years ago) link
goddamn these lyrics are next level
Have you ever been down deep?I mean way down under the oceanJust inside Odin's reachBetter beware of this potion
And remember you don't belongIt always seemed so unfairThe fishes around will always remind youGot to go slow, take it easy down thereYou've only so much air
When you get a little deeperIf you slow down you might keep herThe sea, unforgiving and she's hardBut she'll make love to youShow you glimpses of the stars
At about two hundred feetYou realize the perilBut seductive is the deepThat shark over there holds no terror
For a while you really belongThe ocean will always shareYou become one like friends and loversBut remember, take care, she'll try to keep you there
The deeper you go'Cause of the pressure of the airThe nitrogen comes and goes, gets you highIt's an alien atmosphere
They call it rapture of the deep, be you not afraidYou're too far down by now to be scaredTwo hundred and eighty-seven feetI saw Jesus and it made sense that He was there
So belong but don't be longThere's plenty of ocean to sharePlease take heed, there's mouths to feedThe ocean, she'll provideDon't take more than you need'Cause Heaven just might be the sea
― sinister porpoise (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 6 June 2014 17:13 (nine years ago) link
you take that midnight on the bay, lotta love, and ocean girl and you have the beginnings of neil's great lost yacht rock album. this could be the coverhttp://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ls1o32NzB51qf4c00o1_500.jpg
― tylerw, Friday, 6 June 2014 17:13 (nine years ago) link
he has the best face!
― La Lechera, Friday, 6 June 2014 17:15 (nine years ago) link
maybe he could have repurposed "Kahuna Sunset" by Buffalo Springfield from the archives too
― sinister porpoise (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 6 June 2014 17:16 (nine years ago) link
yeahhh, and "wind through my sails" and "sail away" would probably work in there too. there actually was supposed to be a geffen era album called "Island In The Sun."
― tylerw, Friday, 6 June 2014 17:20 (nine years ago) link
i love this idea
― marcos, Friday, 6 June 2014 17:43 (nine years ago) link
and lol @
Have you ever been down deep?I mean way down under the ocean
― marcos, Friday, 6 June 2014 17:44 (nine years ago) link
dancing across the water
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Friday, 6 June 2014 17:48 (nine years ago) link
and windward passage!
― Euler, Friday, 6 June 2014 17:54 (nine years ago) link
I saw Jesus and it made sense that He was there
― famous instagram God (waterface), Friday, 6 June 2014 17:56 (nine years ago) link
BETTER BE-WEAH OF THESE MOOHHTIONS
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 6 June 2014 17:58 (nine years ago) link
i'm gonna start using "Have you ever been down deep? / I mean way down under the ocean" when i meet new people
― marcos, Friday, 6 June 2014 17:59 (nine years ago) link
I actually like this line! It's my favorite part of the song, along with the weird instrumental intro/outro thing. As gross as Stills' voice is, the delivery helps; the whole song looks fucking ridiculous on paper but...ehh I give up. :)
― cwkiii, Friday, 6 June 2014 18:41 (nine years ago) link
It's Friday, Defend Stephen Stills Why Not?
― cwkiii, Friday, 6 June 2014 18:42 (nine years ago) link
That shark over there
― Khamma chameleon (Jon Lewis), Friday, 6 June 2014 22:11 (nine years ago) link
Stills' voice is fucking gross.― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, June 6, 2014 12:09 PM (1 week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, June 6, 2014 12:09 PM (1 week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Something happens at 1:54 here that makes this^^^ feel like an understatement:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NinBbafMn3c
― cwkiii, Saturday, 14 June 2014 18:50 (nine years ago) link
YouTubes of each (though a couple have already been removed), next to brief commentaries by Andy Greene (page by page, but loading pretty quickly this afternoon):http://www.rollingstone.com/music/pictures/20-insanely-great-neil-young-songs-only-hardcore-fans-know-20140515/1-kansas-0315696
― dow, Thursday, 26 June 2014 22:14 (nine years ago) link
how many of these are on Tyler's Sad Movies comp
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 26 June 2014 22:17 (nine years ago) link
not all of 'em but if you throw in the bad news and the homegrown comps, i think that about covers it. can't believe "give me strength" isn't on the RS list.
― tylerw, Thursday, 26 June 2014 22:24 (nine years ago) link
the bad news and the homegrown comps Eh? Where are these?
― dow, Thursday, 26 June 2014 22:28 (nine years ago) link
yonder!http://doomandgloomfromthetomb.tumblr.com/post/32393488141/homegrown-the-lost-album-neil-youngs-memoir-ishttp://doomandgloomfromthetomb.tumblr.com/post/24071228066/bad-news-neil-young-in-the-1980s-as-a-follow-up
― tylerw, Thursday, 26 June 2014 22:31 (nine years ago) link