http://phildellio.tripod.com/neil59.jpg
― clemenza, Monday, 9 July 2012 19:06 (eleven years ago) link
Hah, great picture!
― grandavis, Monday, 9 July 2012 19:07 (eleven years ago) link
Thumbs up for the pic, not so much for the song (one of my least favorites on TTN).
― hutlock, Monday, 9 July 2012 19:08 (eleven years ago) link
decent countryish number followed by GENIUS GODHEAD I'VE KNOWN SINCE MIDDLE SCHOOL followed by some little hippie thing...
Ha ha. OTM.
― Get wolves (DL), Monday, 9 July 2012 19:08 (eleven years ago) link
Separated by a matter of weeks: Tonight's the Night came out on June 20, 1975, the "Thrilla in Manila" was October, 1, '75.
― clemenza, Monday, 9 July 2012 19:09 (eleven years ago) link
A hip drag queen andA side-walkin' street wheeler,Comin' down the avenue.They're all your friends,You'll come to love 'emThere's a load of 'emWaitin' for you.
didn't vote for this, but i love it. kind of like neil's version of walk on the wild side? glory hallelujah!
― tylerw, Monday, 9 July 2012 19:09 (eleven years ago) link
Like I said on the other thread, just perfect in the context of the album, hard for me to detach it otherwise.
― clemenza, Monday, 9 July 2012 19:10 (eleven years ago) link
My first song to place. Chose it partly as a stand-in for TTN as a whole, but it's definitely one of my favorites. Livens up the second side of the record.
― boxall, Monday, 9 July 2012 19:12 (eleven years ago) link
yeah it's that awesome sleazoid tonight's the night vibe -- although it was recorded on the TFA tour.
― tylerw, Monday, 9 July 2012 19:12 (eleven years ago) link
"lookout joe" is definitely one of the lessers on that album for me
― da croupier, Monday, 9 July 2012 19:13 (eleven years ago) link
Back in high school, we thought Tonight's the Night was extremely lively--but a weird kind of lively, yes.
― clemenza, Monday, 9 July 2012 19:14 (eleven years ago) link
love lookout joe!
― wack nerd zinging in the dead of night (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 9 July 2012 19:14 (eleven years ago) link
"Havin' a ball ... rollin' to the bottom!" Love that verse.
― boxall, Monday, 9 July 2012 19:14 (eleven years ago) link
http://phildellio.tripod.com/neil58.jpg
― clemenza, Monday, 9 July 2012 19:16 (eleven years ago) link
Wow, another awesome pic!
― hutlock, Monday, 9 July 2012 19:17 (eleven years ago) link
Such an unusual song on Comes a Time...spooky; one of the best.
― clemenza, Monday, 9 July 2012 19:17 (eleven years ago) link
another great one that didn't make my ballot, glad it got some love. the distant, scary distorted guitar that lurks in the background is a cool touch.
― tylerw, Monday, 9 July 2012 19:18 (eleven years ago) link
xp I actually didn't vote for a single Tonight's the Night track. Love the album but none of the songs really worked in isolation when I was putting my ballot together. Guess I should have chosen a stand-in but I couldn't settle on one.
― Get wolves (DL), Monday, 9 July 2012 19:18 (eleven years ago) link
cut Lookout Joe but thought hard about it
voted Don't cry super high, love the rolling bass riff & Neils screams
― Euler, Monday, 9 July 2012 19:18 (eleven years ago) link
Back-to-back Lookouts is fun, btw.
The vocal harmonies really make this one for me, but it missed my final ballot.
― hutlock, Monday, 9 July 2012 19:20 (eleven years ago) link
Love the album but none of the songs really worked in isolation when I was putting my ballot togetheryeah i voted for less TtN tracks than i would've thought for the same reason. it's kinda one big song!
― tylerw, Monday, 9 July 2012 19:20 (eleven years ago) link
I think that's valid. I once made a list of my ten favourite Rolling Stones songs for something I was doing, and I called the entirety of Exile a "phantom 11th pick." (xxxpost)
Yeah, it's weird how the two look-out songs ended up side-by-side.
― clemenza, Monday, 9 July 2012 19:21 (eleven years ago) link
lookout mama
― tylerw, Monday, 9 July 2012 19:22 (eleven years ago) link
I voted for this one as well. The weird solo on the bridge. "I know things are going to change but I can't say bad or good" is a line that pops into my head sometimes.
― boxall, Monday, 9 July 2012 19:22 (eleven years ago) link
anybody else vote specifically for, or at least had in mind, the MTV Unplugged version of "Look Out For My Love"?
― da croupier, Monday, 9 July 2012 19:23 (eleven years ago) link
Isn't it acoustic to begin with? Maybe it's very muted electric guitar, I don't know.
― clemenza, Monday, 9 July 2012 19:25 (eleven years ago) link
http://phildellio.tripod.com/neil57.jpg
― clemenza, Monday, 9 July 2012 19:26 (eleven years ago) link
Re: TTN - I think I only wound up with one song from it on my ballot, but if I were ranking NY albums, it would be top 5, easy.
― hutlock, Monday, 9 July 2012 19:26 (eleven years ago) link
The instrumentation is less eccentric in the MTV version, goes on a little longer, etc. Love both versions but they're distinct in my mind, probably cuz I heard the MTV one first.
― da croupier, Monday, 9 July 2012 19:27 (eleven years ago) link
― da croupier, Monday, July 9, 2012 3:23 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark
yup -- Unplugged was kind of my introduction to NY and i voted for more than half the songs on it, often with those versions in mind
― some dude, Monday, 9 July 2012 19:27 (eleven years ago) link
Kind of surprised to see "Unknown Legend" on here at all - good tune, but I don't think I even thought twice about it.
― hutlock, Monday, 9 July 2012 19:28 (eleven years ago) link
"Unknown Legend" is such a lovely little song. 2nd of mine to place.
― EZ Snappin, Monday, 9 July 2012 19:28 (eleven years ago) link
Don't know who that is, but she reminds me of Theresa Russell circa Straight Time.
I don't have Harvest Moon--please don't ostracize me--but I played this a couple of times and really, really liked it.
― clemenza, Monday, 9 July 2012 19:28 (eleven years ago) link
Way too low for "Unknown Legend"!
― heated debate over derpy hooves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 9 July 2012 19:28 (eleven years ago) link
Harvest Moon > Harvest
― EZ Snappin, Monday, 9 July 2012 19:29 (eleven years ago) link
Corny but sweet.
― Get wolves (DL), Monday, 9 July 2012 19:29 (eleven years ago) link
I like Unknown Legend but the way Demme wedged it into Rachel Getting Married was a turn-off
― da croupier, Monday, 9 July 2012 19:31 (eleven years ago) link
haha, yeah, that was an odd choice.
― tylerw, Monday, 9 July 2012 19:32 (eleven years ago) link
Of all the Neil songs he coulda snuck in there too
― grandavis, Monday, 9 July 2012 19:32 (eleven years ago) link
really don't like unknown legend. ilx loves the corn.
― Jamie_ATP, Monday, 9 July 2012 19:33 (eleven years ago) link
Thought it was fine in the movie, but it made me spend more time with the original and I totally fell in love with it all over again.
― heated debate over derpy hooves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 9 July 2012 19:33 (eleven years ago) link
Demme's got great musical tastes but shit like that or a Soft Boys reunion track showing up in The Truth About Charlie is just fucking distracting, the downside of auteurism
― da croupier, Monday, 9 July 2012 19:34 (eleven years ago) link
I saw Rachel Getting Married and have no recollection of Neil whatsoever.
― clemenza, Monday, 9 July 2012 19:35 (eleven years ago) link
http://phildellio.tripod.com/neil56.jpg
― clemenza, Monday, 9 July 2012 19:36 (eleven years ago) link
tv on the radio dude chooses to sing the opening track of Harvest Moon as his marriage vow xpost
"downtown" is great but picking a whitten song was too slippery slope for me
― da croupier, Monday, 9 July 2012 19:36 (eleven years ago) link
Photo goes out to Finefinemusic!
― clemenza, Monday, 9 July 2012 19:37 (eleven years ago) link
The TV on the Radio dude sang it at the wedding.
(xpost)
― heated debate over derpy hooves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 9 July 2012 19:37 (eleven years ago) link
I didn't pick anything from HM -- my least favorite of the comeback records.
― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 9 July 2012 19:38 (eleven years ago) link
Neil co-wrote "Downtown"--I did check that to make sure it was eligible.
― clemenza, Monday, 9 July 2012 19:38 (eleven years ago) link
yeah, didn't vote for downtown because i think of it more as whitten, but so great. what a cool riff -- should be played on classic rock radio all the time.
― tylerw, Monday, 9 July 2012 19:38 (eleven years ago) link