"Walk On" was my number 3. Love it to pieces.
― EZ Snappin, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 17:28 (twelve years ago) link
some get stoned/some get strange
― wack nerd zinging in the dead of night (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 10 July 2012 17:29 (twelve years ago) link
"some get strange" = how perfect is this line?
― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 10 July 2012 17:29 (twelve years ago) link
Apologies if you voted for it, but this one I don't get at all. As I've mentioned many times, I'm not as big on On the Beach as most people, "Ambulance Blues" excepted. But as an album, rather than song by song, I get the appeal--I used to play it constantly myself. But "Walk On" doesn't even work for me in the context of the album. It just seems like this half-speed nothing of a song.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 17:30 (twelve years ago) link
feel like when walk on came out all of of neil's friends must've been like "oh man, does he mean me?! he totally means me!" and then sunk into a deep depression.
― tylerw, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 17:30 (twelve years ago) link
Cool clip. Who was that Hollywood Palace host? I don't recognize him.
― Neil Jung (WmC), Tuesday, 10 July 2012 17:32 (twelve years ago) link
"Walk on" has a bit of the power pop feel to it as well, though that and "Barstool Blues" placed on my ballot in the mid-twenties and "Winterlong was top 10.
I always heard "Walk On" was Neil's answer to "Sweet Home Alabama"
― t. s. idiot (loves laboured breathing), Tuesday, 10 July 2012 17:33 (twelve years ago) link
"Winterlong" probably is the best song the Pixies did; but imo that doesn't put it in Neil's top 50..... ;-)
― theStalePrince, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 17:34 (twelve years ago) link
i think sweet home alabama came out after walk on.
― tylerw, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 17:34 (twelve years ago) link
haha i was gonna make that joke but i actually love the pixies
― wack nerd zinging in the dead of night (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 10 July 2012 17:35 (twelve years ago) link
From what I've read, he was responding to some press criticism of a recent tour.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 17:35 (twelve years ago) link
http://phildellio.tripod.com/neil30.jpg
― clemenza, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 17:36 (twelve years ago) link
^ my #1
― Chuck? Chuck? It's me, your cousin, Marvin D (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Tuesday, 10 July 2012 17:37 (twelve years ago) link
La Lechera and I both voted for "When You Dance I Can Really Love". There are days when it's my favorite Neil song.
― EZ Snappin, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 17:38 (twelve years ago) link
with you 100% on "Walk On," Clemenza; if "Vampire Blues" shows up I'm really gonna lose my shit.
― theStalePrince, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 17:38 (twelve years ago) link
haha even the biggest on the beach stan couldn't put vampire blues on a top 40 neil songs list
― wack nerd zinging in the dead of night (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 10 July 2012 17:39 (twelve years ago) link
Band of Outsiders!
― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 10 July 2012 17:39 (twelve years ago) link
"When You Dance I Can Really Love" was one of my two #1s.
― cwkiii, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 17:39 (twelve years ago) link
"When You Dance," "Downtown," and "Barstool Blues" are his greatest jangle of the decade for me.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 17:39 (twelve years ago) link
love the Pixies too--hmmm, maybe "Head On" is better than "Winterlong"?
― theStalePrince, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 17:40 (twelve years ago) link
"When You Dance"--great great song, but it never quite lives up to its own guitar sound for me....
The Band of Outsiders jukebox scene is so good.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 17:41 (twelve years ago) link
Walk On comes in surprisingly low. I thought that was top ten fer sure
― kornrulez6969, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 17:41 (twelve years ago) link
xpost Both Pixies Neil Young covers are awesome, and tbh probably introduced me to early Young at the time.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 17:41 (twelve years ago) link
I probably have it, but refresh my memory--what's the other one?
― clemenza, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 17:42 (twelve years ago) link
Hah, don't understand not liking "Walk On". What a gem of a song, so many things going on in such a short amount of time.
― grandavis, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 17:43 (twelve years ago) link
Like many of Neil's songs, the band does not know the song at all on the album version, but one of my favorite things about that particular recording is Jack Nitzsche on piano, just listening to him sorta figuring it out as he goes, slowly gaining confidence and then exploding.
― cwkiii, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 17:44 (twelve years ago) link
("When You Dance I Can Really Love", that is)
"Walk On" helped me through some heady shit back in the day. I can't separate the strength I took from it to judge it in any sort of subjective way.
― EZ Snappin, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 17:45 (twelve years ago) link
The secret weapon on "When You Dance..." is Jack Nitzsche. xpost
― Don't Feel Like Santana, But Oye Como Va To Them (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 10 July 2012 17:46 (twelve years ago) link
http://phildellio.tripod.com/neil29.jpg
― clemenza, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 17:46 (twelve years ago) link
I feel like most of the song, the one-chord banging on the piano is Jack going "fuck you, Neil" over and over again, and I can't tell if those runs at the end are inspiration or exasperation.
― cwkiii, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 17:46 (twelve years ago) link
Oh, to turn and see her smile.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 17:47 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_JZLns6OGE
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 17:48 (twelve years ago) link
I didn't vote for "Vampire Blues" but I will rep for it, just a simple, menacing, slightly weird-sounding blues, and because of it you can put on side 2 of OTB for non-Neil people without scaring them off. By the time the closing trio of songs hit, they're powerless to object.
― boxall, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 17:48 (twelve years ago) link
Thanks--just checked, and I do have it.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 17:49 (twelve years ago) link
"Sugar Mountain"! Not only my introduction to Neil Young, but one of my earliest memories is watching this song on my dad's copy of Rust Never Sleeps on RCS Selectavision Videodisc. So happy to see it here!
― cwkiii, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 17:50 (twelve years ago) link
love "sugar mountain," but has any singer beat Neil's "omg i'm 20!!!" in the unearned youth mourning department? Mark Kozelek started at "24", does Conor Oberst have some "dear god I'm old enough to vote" ballad?
― da croupier, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 17:50 (twelve years ago) link
on the real, "sugar mountain" is my least favorite of the canonical neil songs
― wack nerd zinging in the dead of night (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 10 July 2012 17:51 (twelve years ago) link
When "Sugar Mountain" turned up on Decade, I was positive I'd heard it before, so it must have gotten some radio airplay around here.
has any singer beat Neil's "omg i'm 20!!!" in the unearned youth mourning department?
Sinead O'Connor comes close on "Emperor's New Clothes."
― clemenza, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 17:52 (twelve years ago) link
actually sinead suggests that at 21 she's too young to know what she wants, not too old to have fun
― da croupier, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 17:53 (twelve years ago) link
Britney doing "Not a Girl, Not Yet a Woman" or whatever?
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 17:53 (twelve years ago) link
I'm not good with voices on a phone, so--after one friend got tired of me asking "Who's calling?"--we worked out a thing where he says "Sugar Mountain, Sugar Mountain" right away and I know it's him.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 17:56 (twelve years ago) link
http://phildellio.tripod.com/neil28.jpg
i think sugar mountain was the b-side to cinnamon girl? am i making that up?
― tylerw, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 17:57 (twelve years ago) link
Wow, I am surprised at all the love for "Maid."
― boxall, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 17:57 (twelve years ago) link
I would so love to have been a sensitive singer-songwriter in the early '70s. Go see a film, fall in love with the actress, make a couple of calls, marry her.
B-side to "The Loner" originally--and worth some money, according to my record guide.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 17:58 (twelve years ago) link
repeated as b-side to "cinnamon Girl" too.
― EZ Snappin, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 17:58 (twelve years ago) link
http://ring.cdandlp.com/rareandmintrecords/photo_grande/114973135.png
― tylerw, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 18:01 (twelve years ago) link
btw for whatever reason i realized i never heard Prairie Wind, or at least not all of it
listening now
"I'll never forgot what Chris Rock said" wtf
― wack nerd zinging in the dead of night (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 10 July 2012 18:01 (twelve years ago) link