Didn't Donovan do a wandering-in-the-desert-on-mushrooms record in the 70s?
― ©Oz Quiz© (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 20 March 2015 22:00 (nine years ago) link
Alfred that rules!
don't mind me i haven't listened to neil young in months, it's friday, and hating on something harmless sounded appealing.
― mattresslessness, Friday, 20 March 2015 22:05 (nine years ago) link
speaking of inanity
― mattresslessness, Friday, 20 March 2015 22:06 (nine years ago) link
what you mean this one?http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/2e/Donovan-Cosmic_Wheels.jpg
― Οὖτις, Friday, 20 March 2015 22:08 (nine years ago) link
And now we're back to Bob Dylan imitators LOL.
― ©Oz Quiz© (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 20 March 2015 22:33 (nine years ago) link
Donovan also living in the southwest around when Dylan was living in Phoenix iirc
― Οὖτις, Friday, 20 March 2015 22:49 (nine years ago) link
"Heart of Gold" in acoustic set (but electric brings onslaught)
http://www.aquariumdrunkard.com/2012/09/24/neil-young-crazy-horse-fukuoka-japan-march-8-1976/
"Welcome to Miami Beach, ladies and gentlemen." Yes, tonight's the night:http://www.aquariumdrunkard.com/2013/03/19/neil-young-the-santa-monica-flyers-manchester-england-1973/
Thanks Tyler!
― dow, Friday, 20 March 2015 23:25 (nine years ago) link
Had to do something drastic, since we're drifting into post-sell-by-date Leitch.
― dow, Friday, 20 March 2015 23:26 (nine years ago) link
speaking of ny inanities I always liked the 'tell me why / is it hard to make arrangements with yourself / when you're old enough to repay but young enough to sell" line but iirc it's often been lambasted for its faux profundity. Beautiful melody though and the lyric is evocative enough without actually meaning anything coherent
― marcos, Saturday, 21 March 2015 00:35 (nine years ago) link
they worked a lot with George Martin. they have a pretty good song about the wizard of oz. i like america.
― mizzell, Friday, March 20, 2015 9:12 PMI like America too, but I'm not so sure that Tin Man is about the Wizard of Oz. It could equally be about the Tropic of Sir Galahad. I'm not sure, in fact, if any America song is about anything.
― Bloody Snail, Saturday, 21 March 2015 01:04 (nine years ago) link
I'm sure there were bigger corporate rock bands at the time (I know how to measure "bigger," not as sure how to determine "corporate"). Chicago, for one, comes to mind.
Nah, man, Chicago were the real revolutionaries. The inscription on the inside gatefold of Chicago II reads as follows:
"With this album, we dedicate ourselves, our futures and our energies to the people of the revolution. And the revolution in all of its forms."
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Saturday, 21 March 2015 01:07 (nine years ago) link
And from there it was but one small step to celebrating a man selling ice cream (in all of its flavors), singing Italian songs.
― clemenza, Saturday, 21 March 2015 01:20 (nine years ago) link
funny you should say that, since the hot dog place closest to me when i was growing up was owned by chicago's manager and had all their gold records on the wall, so the band chicago is inextricably linked in my mind to hot dogs, fries, and soft-serve ice cream.
anyway, this thread has gotten pretty entertaining!
please don't go dragging down "one toke over the line" with your "horse with no name," though. "one toke over the line" is a great pop song. also, this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8tdmaEhMHE
― he quipped with heat (amateurist), Saturday, 21 March 2015 03:32 (nine years ago) link
i mean, at least "one toke over the line" is genuinely weird! "horse with no name" is not weird, although it wants to be.
― he quipped with heat (amateurist), Saturday, 21 March 2015 03:33 (nine years ago) link
A horse is pretty great. The "la la la" part is spooky as hell. Who cares about the lyrics, yall hate on Toto - Africa as well?
― brimstead, Saturday, 21 March 2015 03:43 (nine years ago) link
no it's pretty great. the chorus part is melodic as hell.
― mattresslessness, Saturday, 21 March 2015 03:47 (nine years ago) link
super melodious.
― mattresslessness, Saturday, 21 March 2015 03:48 (nine years ago) link
No I like AfricaI guess I like America ok too
― kurt kobaïan (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Saturday, 21 March 2015 03:50 (nine years ago) link
They are both songs that seemed really spooky & sad & big & meaningful to me when I was a small child & even as they revealed their own cheap tackiness there's still some element of the old feelings there, like how the country fair felt at night
― kurt kobaïan (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Saturday, 21 March 2015 03:52 (nine years ago) link
it was spooky and sad and meaningful but the air was full of sound
― totally unachievable goals and no incentive to compromise (Sparkle Motion), Saturday, 21 March 2015 04:10 (nine years ago) link
yeah or just riding around in the family car at night looking out the window. the smell of dew on grass, that sort of thing. my cousin and i built this fort out of logs and scrap wood, it probably looked like a decrepit dog house, actually it was attached to the real dog house. that summer we would bring up a radio and sleep out on the roof. i remember one night being elevated into some kind of delicious ecstasy by one song that played, sailing over the moon when the guitar solo hit and then going on about how it was the kind of music i lived for and that all music should sound like it. that song was "(everything i do) i do it for you" by bryan adams.
― mattresslessness, Saturday, 21 March 2015 04:11 (nine years ago) link
the song is better if you picture he's in the desert at night
― brimstead, Saturday, 21 March 2015 04:58 (nine years ago) link
does any Neil song have such prominent bongos?
― mizzell, Saturday, 21 March 2015 11:56 (nine years ago) link
― marcos, Friday, March 20, 2015 7:35 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalinkau contraire, mein herr! "old enough to repay" all the things we've done for you, son, pay your debt to society (as a youthful offender, which you are re lawbreaking, being a hippie, or just being young and Young). How do you do this? Well, at the same time, you are "young enough to sell" your attractive wares, so get going, "make arrangements with yourself" and appointments with others. "You can't be twen-ty/On Sugar Mountain," you've either gotta be a kid or step "one toke over the line." You can't loiter. You're "sittin' downtown at a railway station" for a reason. It's a purpose-driven life and Brewer & Shipley know this. Are they "just" waiting for their man or Man? Purposeful as hell, son.
― dow, Saturday, 21 March 2015 13:56 (nine years ago) link
I can certainly see liking "One Toke Over the Line" more--I like it a lot, and anyway, we like what we like--but I have a harder time getting my head around the idea that "One Toke Over the Line" is the weirder of the two. It's sprightly country-pop--outside of the drug connotation, I think I could easily name a dozen records from the era that have a similar feel. (And lots of Jesus songs, ironic or not, from the same moment...that Lawrence Welk clip is mind-boggling). Outside of the guy whose thread this is, I can't think of anything that sounds like "A Horse with No Name."
― clemenza, Saturday, 21 March 2015 15:23 (nine years ago) link
i think there's a false dichotomy emerging here
one can like a song and still acknowledge its faults, like asinine lyrics
― he quipped with heat (amateurist), Saturday, 21 March 2015 19:54 (nine years ago) link
I'm not sure if you're referring to "One Toke Over the Line" or "A Horse with No Name," or what that has to do with the question of weirdness. I'm speculating, but simple point: get 50 people to listen to both songs for the first time, and ask them which one's weirder. I say an overwhelming majority says "A Horse with No Name."
― clemenza, Saturday, 21 March 2015 20:57 (nine years ago) link
Never thought of "One Toke" as particularly weird, just a snapshot of Jesus Freak culture from an era where even stuffy evening TV variety shows dabbled in psychedelic pandering.
― ©Oz Quiz© (Adam Bruneau), Saturday, 21 March 2015 22:21 (nine years ago) link
clemenza otm, it doesn't matter if a horse is intentionally weird, it just has this heavy 70s negative energy to it.
― brimstead, Sunday, 22 March 2015 00:24 (nine years ago) link
fading billboard in smog
― mattresslessness, Sunday, 22 March 2015 02:54 (nine years ago) link
― mizzell, Saturday, 21 March 2015 11:56 (2 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
'on the beach' is pretty bongos-forward
― bizarro gazzara, Monday, 23 March 2015 10:17 (nine years ago) link
The songs from trans that were recorded with joe lala for his scrapped yacht rock album - ie "little thing called love" and "like an inca" are bongo fever
― da croupier, Monday, 23 March 2015 17:04 (nine years ago) link
yeah and joe lala adds a tropical vibe to a lot of the stills-young band LP. though with that album, you get the feeling neil was like: "um, congas...? sure, whatever!"
― tylerw, Monday, 23 March 2015 17:30 (nine years ago) link
I just got the deeper meaning of 'I Want to Drive My Car'
― Team Foxcatcherwatcher (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, 25 March 2015 18:29 (nine years ago) link
sounds awesome: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/12/movies/neil-youngs-human-highway-finally-hits-theaters-decades-later.html?hpw&rref=movies&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region®ion=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well&_r=0
I have seen Human Highway and it is p lol and ridiculous, more curious about the Ashby thing tbh
― Οὖτις, Monday, 13 April 2015 21:13 (nine years ago) link
MUDDY TRACK
― tylerw, Monday, 13 April 2015 21:23 (nine years ago) link
looks like that solo trans thing is that youtube trans bit that got posted awhile back, I loved that
― Οὖτις, Monday, 13 April 2015 21:31 (nine years ago) link
― tylerw, Monday, April 13, 2015 4:23 PM (9 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
have you seen it????
― kurt kobaïan (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 13 April 2015 21:33 (nine years ago) link
Was just admiring the hella vocal fry on the solo acoustic greensleeves
When he goes
My laaady greee(crackle)nsleee(sizzle)ves
― demonic mnevice (Jon Lewis), Monday, 13 April 2015 21:49 (nine years ago) link
xp no! i've been thinking about it for decades, though! this will be the 1st time it's ever been screened afaik
― tylerw, Monday, 13 April 2015 21:52 (nine years ago) link
oh man if i was in nyc i would SO catch Muddy Track, always wanted to see that
― da croupier, Monday, 13 April 2015 22:06 (nine years ago) link
i have, however, seen human highway, and once was plenty
― da croupier, Monday, 13 April 2015 22:07 (nine years ago) link
I think I mentioned upthread but Trunk Show is on YouTube now and wow that is amazing
― kurt kobaïan (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 14 April 2015 14:07 (nine years ago) link
huh never seen this Blender.com exclusive
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCNPXDjpLBU
― kurt kobaïan (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 14 April 2015 14:11 (nine years ago) link
another whistling song!
http://pitchfork.com/news/59674-neil-young-previews-rock-starbucks-from-monsanto-themed-album/
also lol @ "Should I Stay or Should I Go" bit at the beginning
― Οὖτις, Friday, 22 May 2015 22:34 (eight years ago) link
Dang there's Neil Young threads. Hard to keep 'em straight, but speaking of Monsanto material, there's a bunch, in this "secret gig": rough recording, but fairly promising. Also another worth checking (these are from the neil young thread):
You can download the secret gig here: http://bigozine2.com/roio/?p=2297
― satans favourite son, Saturday, April 25, 2015 12:24 AM (3 weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Thanks! BigO still has the Neil x Willie x Lukas & POTR set from Harvest of Hope, the anti-Keystone XXL show excerpted upthread, in that 10-minute jam (those Neil & Lukas YouTube posts aren't showing up in my Firefox this morning, but they are in Chrome)Here;s the HoH set:http://bigozine2.com/roio/?p=1989 Looks like they've also still got a bunch of other Neil and Neil-related sets.
― dow, Saturday, April 25, 2015 9:19 AM
― dow, Friday, 22 May 2015 23:25 (eight years ago) link
Neil Young film fest coming to the AFI Silver theatre outside W. DC in June.
Reprise just announced this:
Neil Young + Promise of the Real have joined forces and will release a new studio album, entitled The Monsanto Years, on June 29th via Reprise Records.
The ecologically/environmentally-focused album will be released via all retailers and in the Neil Young Official Online Store. The Monsanto Years will be available in a special CD + DVD package, vinyl, iTunes, and PonoMusic high-resolution audio. The vinyl package will be released in August. Actual date to be announced shortly. Pre-orders begin today, May 26th. Click here to pre-order.
Beginning today, those who pre-order The Monsanto Years, will instantly receive downloads of two brand new tracks from the album: "Big Box" and "A Rock Star Bucks A Coffee Shop." You can view the video for "A Rock Star Bucks A Coffee Shop" right now at DemocracyNow.org.
For this guitar-centric, full steam-ahead and highly-charged rock album, Young is joined by Promise of the Real, an LA-based rock band fronted by Lukas Nelson (vocals/guitar), along with Micah Nelson (guitar, vocals), Anthony Logerfo (drums), Corey McCormick (bass) and Tato Melgar (percussion). They have performed with their father, Willie Nelson, and Young on previous occasions. For the first time, they recorded together and will now tour under the banner of the Rebel Content Tour. For further information on Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real, visit: http://www.promiseofthereal.com/
The Rebel Content Tour featuring Young + Promise of the Real will hit the road kicking off July 5th at Milwaukee Summer Fest.
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 26 May 2015 14:14 (eight years ago) link
http://www.clickhole.com/article/sooo-perfect-jimmy-fallon-dressed-neil-young-last--2478
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Wednesday, 27 May 2015 17:16 (eight years ago) link
LOL
Love that new Neil Young anti-Monsanto song! Can't wait to hear the full album.
― ©Oz Quiz© (Adam Bruneau), Thursday, 28 May 2015 16:40 (eight years ago) link