"When You Dance"--great great song, but it never quite lives up to its own guitar sound for me....
― theStalePrince, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 17:40 (twelve years ago) link
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
xp too bad there's not actually an insane crazy horse rave-up of sugar mountain.
― tylerw, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 18:02 (twelve years ago) link
Wow, I'd love to have that picture sleeve. The guide has "The Loner" 7-inch (Reprise 0785) as '68, the "Cinnamon Girl" 7-inch (Reprise 0911) as '70--and he used it again on the flip of "Heart of Gold"!
― clemenza, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 18:05 (twelve years ago) link
I have that single (w/the weird mono mix topside)! But not the picture sleeve.
― Don't Feel Like Santana, But Oye Como Va To Them (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 10 July 2012 18:06 (twelve years ago) link
http://phildellio.tripod.com/neil27.jpg
― clemenza, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 18:06 (twelve years ago) link
Haven't been there, but that's downtown Winnipeg circa 1955.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 18:07 (twelve years ago) link
that can't be '55, that truck is a '63 at earliest.
― Don't Feel Like Santana, But Oye Como Va To Them (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 10 July 2012 18:08 (twelve years ago) link
Really? Pretty sure I searched "Winnipeg 1950s"...the internet, caught in a lie.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 18:09 (twelve years ago) link
TOO LOW! such a great, raw vocal...
― theStalePrince, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 18:10 (twelve years ago) link
Winnipeg: Home of the Time-Travelling Truck
― cwkiii, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 18:13 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah amazing song. I have a live solo version (tagged 1973 in London, I must have got it from Tyler's blog?) that's especially powerful, complete with heartfelt dedication to Danny Whitten.
― boxall, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 18:14 (twelve years ago) link
Not solo, just very stripped-down, I think I meant.
― boxall, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 18:15 (twelve years ago) link
I'm joking around, but I am amazed/impressed by some people's ability to call the year on a car instantaneously. My dad was like that.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 18:15 (twelve years ago) link
Years ago, my band played the basement of some stripclub/dive-bar in Winnipeg, in November. It was snowing lightly and pretty desolate. Some guy requested the Doors, and when we didn't accommodate offered to take the stage and play it for us. That night there was a man passed out in the hall that blocked our hotel room door.
The next day we met a local for breakfast, and she took us by Neil Young's high school. I wonder if I still have the picture ... ?
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 18:15 (twelve years ago) link
With me it's like, "Wheels, doors...yep, that's a car all right." Please post if you can find the picture!
― clemenza, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 18:17 (twelve years ago) link
One more for today, the rest tomorrow. I'll probably start sometime around 10:00.
http://phildellio.tripod.com/neil26.jpg
― clemenza, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 18:18 (twelve years ago) link
"Old Man" and "Sugar Mountain" should've been a double a-side
― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 10 July 2012 18:18 (twelve years ago) link
My favourite old-man film.
Wow. "old Man" makes 5 of my top 10 showing up today. Seems a bit low, but I figure it has Harvest fatigue.
― EZ Snappin, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 18:20 (twelve years ago) link
Years ago, my band played the basement of some stripclub/dive-bar in Winnipeg, in November. It was snowing lightly and pretty desolate. Some guy requested the Doors, and when we didn't accommodate offered to take the stage and play it for us. That night there was a man passed out in the hall that blocked our hotel room door.The next day we met a local for breakfast, and she took us by Neil Young's high school. I wonder if I still have the picture ... ?
Weird, a band I used to sit in with had a bunch of slightly-scary Winnipeg touring stories. Apparently it was a regular tour stop for them.
― Chuck? Chuck? It's me, your cousin, Marvin D (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Tuesday, 10 July 2012 18:22 (twelve years ago) link