Neil Young - Zuma

"Stupid Girl" has great unusual chord changes.

Plus great guitar sound/playing.

Young's gee-tar has never been mixed on an album to sound this crinkly and awesome

Pretty sure every single solitary man of his generation has problematic beliefs about how to treat women.
“Stupid Girl” does not move me and I consider it filler but easy to skip/endure when every other song is good on the album.

Pretty sure every single solitary man of his generation has problematic beliefs about how to treat women.
“Stupid Girl” does not move me and I consider it filler but easy to skip/endure when every other song is good on the album.

I was thinking about "Through My Sails" and how, up to that point (it gets worse starting with Long May You Run), uniformly excellent Neil's songs are whenever he got together with CSN: "Helpless," "Country Girl," "Sea of Madness," "Ohio," "Through My Sails," probably a couple of others. I imagine--I'm sure others have suggested the same--Neil loved showing off, loved to remind them how much better a songwriter he basically was.

I could never love this record, I find the epics dull. My favourite extended Crazy Horse song is "Change Your Mind".
"Barstool Blues" would have been my pick from this one.

I tend to skip "Cortez...," yeah.

I don't object in principle to Neil playing three chords endlessly, but the song itself has to mean something to me.

If you don’t like the slow jams are you even listening to Neil Young?

"On the Beach" is more my speed.

also, technically it's three chords i guess but they are turned into quite the maze

"Cortez" means everything to me, though I might have trouble explaining why.

Neil's slow ones are spookier than his quickies: "Running Dry (Requiem for the Rockets)," my god

"On the Beach" is more my speed.

Not enough electric guitar.

Attempting to duplicate the atmosphere described in Shakey, two buddies and I about fifteen years ago tried the recipe for honey sliders at my place: honey, a little butter, lots of weed in a frying pan at low heat. We spooned the coagulated shit. It tasted like burned spaghetti. For fifteen minutes we condemned our stupidity. Then...holy shit. We couldn't move. The nicest low-hanging buzz.

I've been wondering if these archival releases will uncover a hitherto-unknown full reggae version of Cortez he laid down and then forgot about.

now I imagine Tonight-era Bowie covering it in a reggae version.

Plus marimbas.

he came dancin' across da watah mahn

Maybe as a duet with Iggy?

Iggy from "Taxi" maybe.

A calypso version, even

Guys, I'm going to bed soon, dreamlessly, I hope.

"On the Beach" is more my speed.

― Halfway there but for you, Tuesday, March 23, 2021 8:00 PM (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

so three chords is boring, but four chords is totally cool

i personally don’t think the number of chords correlated to the quality of a song, but i digress

I said I don't object to three chords.

"Cowgirl in the Sand" and "Change Your Mind" are based around the same two chords, but I find the latter more meaningful as a song, as a lyric and performance.

cowgirl in the sand has way more than two chords?

Yeah the bridge/chorus has at least 5 iirc

Yes, but at least half of each song is jamming on the same two chords.

They can’t all be “Roadrunner”!

counting the number of chords used in a song strikes me as the absolute worst way to engage with music

I still can't remember when
Or how I lost my way

dume is def my favorite disc on archives 2 so far. never loved danger bird but at the same time a 7 minute doper jam fits so well right there in the 2nd slot, especially balancing out cortez at the end. the dume version of powderfinger probably works as a good replacement

Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), my point was that the quality of Neil's songs isn't consistent with how many chords they have.

for real though, i remember the first time i heard "cortez," i thought the extended intro was like slowly pulling back layers of an onion or something, it was almost bewildering in its meandering raggedness, but obviously the feeling of the thing has a pretty direct and strong trajectory like almost everything neil did in the classic years.

One thing that can be said in favour of songs based around a limited set of chords is that the form is highly conducive to improvised lead work. (John McLaughlin would doubtless disagree, but whatevs)

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The best album ever.

The best beach ever.

Santa Monica Beach is the location chosen by photographer Bob Seidemann for the cover of Neil Young's fifth album, “On The Beach ” which was released in 1974.

why the hell would you do that when zuma is like 10 miles down the road, lol. pure laziness? some money thing?

On the Beach is a different album from Zuma

Only 70s Neil album I'm all that bothered about (and maybe Rust) and what is surely now one of my favourite album billboards.

On the Beach is a different album from Zuma

― Josefa, Wednesday, August 31, 2022 6:25 PM (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

jesus, what a brain fart lol

James Mazzeo, the Zuma (and other Neil projects) artist, passed away recently: http://neilyoungnews.thrasherswheat.org/2022/08/james-mazzeo-1944-2022.html

Wow, that Zuma drawing looks great in color.

RIP "Sandy" Mazzeo, one of the standout supporting players in Shakey