neil young

I voted for "Old Ways" just for the cash. You want my paypal address?

After The Gold Rush = the good songs are so good they make you forget about the bad ones

On The Beach = pretty much all good

I mean "When You Dance" is kind of endearing as a cornily sincere, b-level hippie artifact, but Cripple Creek Ferry is a real turd of a song, and Birds isn't great either.

I got to get away from this day to day running around

TRANS FTW!

Arc/Weld. The worst/best live albums ever.

Dead Man is actually really really good.

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Tonight's The Night

closely followed by Goldrush and On The Beach

TTN is definitely my favourite - it's so fucked, so moving. Tender, ragged and rocking in equal measure.

Baby Mellow My Mind aches so hard - the swell of pedal steel, touch of lonesome barroom piano, and Neil's voice actually breaking up.

Come On Baby Let's Go Downtown rocks. It sounds so triumphant in its hedonism yet the undercurrent is utterly bleak.

Other favourites - Everybody Knows, Rust, Zuma, Time Fades Away, Sleeps With Angels, Live Rust. Hell, there hardly any poor ones. I've not heard the infamous Landing On Water, but Are You Passionate was bloody awful. Trans is ace though.

Ragged Glory is great fun, one of his most satisfying rock records, but I wouldn't quite put it in the top rung of Neil albums.

Harvest - handful of great songs and some dreary stuff too. Overall, it's too slick, too polite. I like Neil a little scuffed around the edges.

Rust Never Sleeps has Powderfinger, for the win.

Anyone else notice how Apatow kept dropping the cover of Landing On Water all over Knocked Up. What's the deal with that? Consensus aropund these parts on that album?

Rust Never Sleeps for "Powderfinger", but also because of the individually peculiar time and place in which I first loved this record. Also, it's an incredibly balanced album in so many ways I can't be bothered to expand on here.

Consensus aropund these parts on that album?

I noticed the curious product placement too, Tal. There's an interesting thread here devoted to Landing on Water.

no "none of the above"????

just snuck in a vote for tonight's the night. right in the nick of time.

emotion of the less contained and calculated variety

me for tonights the night, too. its so close though - there are better songs on zuma and everybody knows, and almost enough to give the nod to one of them, but TTN takes it

Yeah, Tonight's The Night would be my second or third and very close.

Rust Never Sleeps by a hair, for side one and Powderfinger alone (though nearly sunk by Welfare Mothers).

Oh c'mon, Welfare Mothers is great! My favorite Neil Young throwaway.

DIVORCEE

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a 3-way tie this time then.

Fair result.

Wait. Zuma should've been much higher, though.

c'est vrai

Someone voted for Everybody's Rockin' again.

One vote for "Zuma"! No way!! This poll is corrupt!!!

"On the Beach" - there's an ILM album if ever there was one

Sleeps With Angels is way too high. And Freedom is way too low.

The fact that Zuma ranked below Trans completely invalidates this poll.

So, basically, I'm the only person who voted for "Zuma"? Don't believe it.

I wasn't around when CSN(and sometimes Y) were at their peak, so apologies for the following somewhat naive question:

How much of Neil Young's popularity in the 70s can be attributed to his association with CSN? The thought never really occurred to me until I was checking out CSN(Y)'s Allmusic entry today, which says "it was the only American-based band to approach the overall societal impact of the Beatles".

Personally, I like Neil Young exponentially more than CSN(Y), so my gut feeling is that the majority of Neil Young's fans were there on account of his own talent. But was there a certain contingency of fans who cheered loudest for "Ohio" and "Helpless", contemplating to themselves at the Live Rust concerts that it would be better if CSN were up on stage too? Or was it more like "Why the hell does Neil Young ever play with them? They butchered 'Helpless'..."? Just wondering what the prevalent view was back in the day.

When CSN and sometimes Y reunited for a predictably horrible album in 1988, Neil begged off the obligatory tour, saying, "I dunno man, those guys need some serious practice."

And that Allmusic statement strikes me as comically absurd.

Yeah, I admit it raised my eyebrow as well, but then I go the ILM search function, and the second thing I read on the Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young C/D S/D thread is "i'm more interested in the fact that CSN(Y) (or whatever) were actually REALLY POPULAR and BIG -- as in springsteen in '85/outkast or britney spears BIG. that's such a radical sea-change in mass public musical taste that deserves some comment, no?"

On The Beach is very good, but would have voted Everybody Knows this is Nowhere, in fact i shall play it now

hi alex, how is the weather in denver? in frankfurt it has been raining most of the day. i would have voted <i>after the goldrush</i>, i think. but <i>on the beach</i> is a decent winner, too.

i will never learn the ilm html tags...

weird

it was the only American-based band to approach the overall societal impact of the Beatles

In their time their American album sales were HUGE. Their cultural cachet was such that their public greeted "Ohio" as a major statement. I'm wary of statements like AllMusic's, but the Shakey bio also makes the same suggestion.

CSNY were huge because the Byrds, the Hollies, and the Buffalo Springfield had all been huge before.

Dead Man = Neil's best electric work?

look at the bill for this thing
http://www.vancouver2010.com/more-2010-information/cultural-festivals-and-events/event-listings/hal-willner's-neil-young-project-_70660zv.html

I'm assuming thats a different Chris Brown, otherwise o_O

yeah, probably?
a mix of eh, cool! and whaaaa?
Sam Beam of Iron & Wine
Chris Brown
Vashti Bunyan
Robert Burger
Brendan Canning
Fred Cash
Jason Collett
Julie Doiron
Kevin Drew
Sam Goldberg
Shahzad Ismaily
Eric Mingus
Sun Kil Moon
Jenni Muldaur
Ambrosia Parsley
Justin Peroff
Ben Perowsky
Joan as Policewoman
Elizabeth Powell
Bill Priddle
Lou Reed
Alasdair Roberts
Ron Sexsmith
Teddy Thompson
James Blood Ulmer
Andrew Whiteman
Doug Wieselman

hoping for a mingus/blood ulmer/reed jam on down by the river

http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j//msnbc/Components/Video/071107/tdy_chrisbrown_song3_071107.vmodv4.jpg

A MAAAAAAAAAID

Yeah, some good names on there and some wtf ones as well. I scanned it quickly the first time and saw "Bill Priddle" as "Mark Prindle".

http://celeb.wohoo.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2007/02/chris-brown.jpg
can i get a heart of gooooold?

IT'S THE WOMAN IN YOU THAT MAKES YOU WANNA PLAY THIS GAAAAAME!

TAKE IT, ULMER!

haha

Not sure I’d go that far but it’s amazing, if the classic Crazy Horse sound has any appeal to you, Cow_Art, you won’t regret it

$50 for 4 LPs, couple of CDs and a DVD? Bought.

NY reissue vinyl these days is actually reasonable compared to most legacy acts - can’t speak for the quality but $15 per LP on average these days is a bargain.

Haven't listened to Rust Bucket in a while; cranking it up on Qobuz now. It's basically the Weld tour (which I saw) as club gig. Mind-roasting.

how does he have the pull to get all these vanity releases pressed up?

Just wanted to raise a plaintive little voice in defence of Weld, which I had on double cassette and listened to many dozens of times back when it was released, it was How I Learned To Love The Horse

I think Neil heads like Weld? Just not my thing.

yeah, I never thought Weld was held in low regard in terms of his live releases with Crazy Horse. I’d probably rate my NY/CH live album preferences as:

1. Live at Fillmore East 1970
2. Way Down in the Rust Bucket
3. Weld
4. Live Rust
5. Year of the Horse

This is the first I've ever heard of someone not liking Weld.

Weld is a classic in my book

I think Western has it right

I've never heard Fillmore East 1970, but I like Year Of The Horse better than Live Rust, just for the hilarious opening line: some guy in the audience shouts, "They all sound the same!" and Neil shouts back, "It's all one song!"

oh man u should def check out that Fillmore gig asap, mindboggling

Whitten really added another dimension to Crazy Horse

I heard Weld when I was first getting into Neil and I was into his classic run. I might would like it more now. Do I remember recordings of war sounds or something?

it came with arc, a whole disc of guitar feedback collage, is there what you're thinking of?

fillmore east 1970 is also absolutely incredible

Do I remember recordings of war sounds or something?

Yeah, there are some sound effects (rockets, explosions, etc.) leading into a very loud, slow, doom-metal version of "Blowin' In The Wind."

lol that’s it, halfway into that track I bailed.

Weld was my first neil LP, hopped-up on Pearl Jam's cover of RITFW and word that Neil was the godfather of grunge, bought on sale in Our Price when they were selling all their vinyl off. I was *this* close to taking it back as I couldn't believed the guitar tone that opens Hey Hey My My wasn't a fault. Soon fell in love with it, though.

xp ha yeah ok i will admit i always found blowin’ in the wind to be tough going

that's what separates Rust Bucket and Weld - i get more of the Doghouse NY on Rust Bucket

I kind of love the sensory assault of "Blowin' in the Wind" on Weld.

i associate weld with neil having massive windswept anime hair. my dad saw that tour and said that it was so loud it was "scary".

just got the official release series 26-29 and let me tell you, if you have never seen the NY band pic on Harvest Moon, you are in for a goddamn treat.

RIYL the barenaked ladies Gordon album cover

If you can get past the revulsion to anything jam band adjacent, I actually really did this "Cortez the Killer" cover Goose and MMJ's Jim James did:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GeqldfB6uDc

"really dig" that should be

Jim redeems everything he touches, even jam bands

yeah, Jim definitely brings the right vibe to this, it would have fallen so flat had it been just Goose playing it.

jim had a nice delivery but the second the goose vocalist came in i noped out, that kinda voice gives me the heebie jeebies.

'cinnamon girl' is a top 3 neil tune for me i think. will never be able to get enough of that riff.

Oh indeed---and in the era when he wrote it, Top 40 Radio Rock could some times take catchiness way under my skin---like even vubblegum, like "Crimson and Clover" still spreads though my head w/o warning---and:
Lester Bangs: hey Lou, why doncha cover "Sugar Sugar"?
Lou: We're not good enough.
Yes you were, you jaded old hipster, who started out writing catalog songs that aspired to such catchy novelty!

also the one note guitar solo is so brilliant

EKTIN is one of the best, for me Round and Round always hits the hardest. Such a hypnotizing and tender-sounding lyric

'Round and 'round and 'round we spin
To weave a wall to hem us in

gah i love that song. love the harmonies, for some reason i thought it was emmylou harris but i'm dead wrong haha (it's robin lane). it's been way too long since i listened to everybody knows. i just listened to the way down in the rust bucket version of 'cinnamon girl' and hopped around.

then decided to start from the beginning. i haven't heard very much post-ragged glory neil. the divorced man thing has scared me off. but 'love to burn' is fantastic. was really into the soloing on that and 'country home.' switched to something else during 'bite the bullet,' not sure about that one haha. i'll probably fall in love with the rest of it.

glad that mirror ball and SWA have new standalone cd releases. have ordered and can't wait to obsess over. Haven't listened to the former since the year it was released. think remastered versions of both will kill

My friend said that "Revolution Blues" sounds like a Purple Tape-era Pixies song and now I can't unhear it.

nah, if there’s a Pixies NY song it’s “Yonder Stands the Sinner”

Dang, ain't that right

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RpYehve028w