neil young

Billy isn't in the band to play the songs correctly, he's in there to yell at Neil to keep him from turning into Stephen Stills

And to argue with Ralph about harmonies cf. "Muddy Track"

short review of Colorado after a few listens: three terrible songs, seven pretty good songs. not sure if there are any new classics here. quieter stuff might be the strongest.

assuming there's no Walk Like a Giant on this huh?

more and more Peace Trail I think is his best late period album, had a real unique specific dynamic with the band on that, like the sound and he wrote some really quirky stuff

yeah i like peace trail.
colorado is growing on me though -- i thought it was pretty bad at first, but i'm digging the funkier/more intimate feel that comes across on some of the songs. it's less big billowy crazy horse and more small-scale. main problem is some truly bad lyrics.

unfortunately one of the very bad songs is 13 minutes long ...

lyrically, he's been pretty bad on the whole for a long time now. every now and then there's a couple well written ones but you gotta just kinda dig it for the sound now

He was never a good lyricist.his power is/was in the melodies, his voice and of course his band. Imo.

that's crazy talk, Neil has written a lot of great lyrics.

Not many in the last 20 years though.

brb gonna get a hip hop haircut

Example?

xp he's got a million great lyrics, but yeah, few and far between this century.

He was much better in everything including lyrica in the 70's but man..
I listened to Rust Never Sleeps the other day - The lyrics of Ride My Llama..bad

welfare mothers
make better lovers

VegemiteGirl saw Kelsey Waldon cover "Powderfinger," posted this on Rolling Country

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3OXLAeQeUwU&feature=youtu.be

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3OXLAeQeUwU&feature=youtu.be

Why does ilx do this sometimes--anyway the link is on Rolling Country; also check YouTube for Lee Ann Womack's version of "Out on the Weekend."

It does show the link when I'm logged out! So maybe log out and paste it---this 'un too (Womack's "out on the Weekend")
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jtcx-zv-ijg

Tho sometimes I kinda prefer this shorter, simpler live performance---well kinda
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ecLa35QvNQ

yeah that's a good cover

idk where to start with great Neil lines, there's so many

the "she's put the kid away and she's gone to get a hit/she hates her life and what she's done to it
there's one more kid that'll never go to school/never get to fall in love, never get to be cool" verse always gets me

otm

Neil has so many great lyrics
I'm talking recent years though
I don't even need them to be great just not so bad as to be distracting which they often are now

"Country Home" has some of my favorite Neil lines; not entirely sure why I dig it so much, though Ragged Glory was the first Neil record I got heavily into.

(In keeping with the spirit of the album -- blacked-out CD booklet where the lyrics had been, because Neil decided at the last minute it was better for listeners to figure them out -- I won't quote the lines.)

And Tonight's The Night...jeez, "Lookout Joe," "Borrowed Tune," "Speakin' Out"...

The saddest thing in the whole wide world
Is to break the heart of your lover
I made a mistake and I did it again
And we struggled to recover
Then I sang in anger, hit another bad chord
But I still try to sing about love and war

^^ Le Noise, 2010 (his best album of the last 40 years imo)

i find the lyrics to 'ramada inn' to be pretty devastating (it's also a fuckin' jam with some of my favourite neil electric-playing ever)

anyway this is of course the greatest neil cover ever

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UUH8avj6hs

yeah Ramada Inn is v good lyrically

^^ Le Noise, 2010 (his best album of the last 40 years imo)

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Agreed. Well, maybe 30 years. But yeah, this is among my favorite Neil albums ever, and I am not a Lanois fan at all.

Guitar teacher and I just gave a close listen and didn't hear any bass clams on "Downtown" (either the Crazy Horse version or the TnT version, though he might have been a tiny bit out of tune on the latter), nor did we hear anything wrong on "Lotta Love" or the Larson cover of same. So ... ?

"When You Dance I Can Really Love" for sure has bum bass notes in it.

recently listened to a live tape where talbot completely forgets what key "don't cry no tears" is in sometime during Neil's solo. it's hilarious.

i adore many neil young lyrics! too many to remember
speaking of rockin' in the free world, is he the only person to have a hit featuring lyrics about/the actual words "toilet paper"?

an ambulance can only go so fast

maybe one of my favorite lyrics, period

New album sounds okay but kind of uninspired. Curious how it compares to Broken Arrow, another relatively uninspired one that I never pull out.

Ha. I've just returned from the record shop, where I couldn't resist buying Colorado, despite sensing that I might mildly regret it...

It's not bad, just nothing special. I listened to Psychedelic Pill a couple of times this week, and that one still sounds great.

Yeah, I really like Psychedelic Pill.

"Not bad, nothing special" is precisely where my expectations for this one are. Let's see

but haven't those been the expectations for everything he has released for many many years? the last album that kind of knocked me out was ragged glory . live he still kills though. with the old songs of course.

Yes, expectations haven't been high for many years. But albums like PP sometimes exceed them.

this is no Psychedelic Pill

other than the fact I find the *sound* of Crazy Horse so pleasurable it's pretty half assed on first blush

Agreed.

A review I read here in a German newspaper put it on an equal footing with "Sleeps With Angels and Tonight's the Night"....

In case Alex is interested...
'„Colorado“ ist eine überaus eingängige, widerborstig schöne Platte, die es durchaus mit Klassikern wie „Tonight’s The Night“ oder „Sleeps With Angels“ aufnehmen Mann.'

https://m.tagesspiegel.de/kultur/album-colorado-von-neil-young-jammen-auf-hohem-niveau/25156584.html

Man I love "Broken Arrow" but this new one bites.

thanks, duke. i doubt it. sleeps with angels didn't impress me much. as i said the last album i liked a lot was from 1990. since then lots of ok records and some stinkers.

just started listening to colorado. it indeed seems ok but pretty boring. she showed me love is about 7 minutes too long. olden days is a snooze fest. the best about it is that it is only 4 minutes long. help me lose my mind is quite nice as it is a little rockier. the next slow song green is blue is a beauty. shut it down is good when it trails off the refrain into improv country which it doesn't do enough. milky way is a sluggish ballad i'd rather not listen to again. eternity is just totally superfluous. i do is better and reminds me of harvest moon, an album which was ok but rather pale in comparison with harvest.

another neil young album one safely do without.

one safely can do without.

yeah I made it through, but this is pretty bad
big disappointment, esp because it's probably the last Crazy Horse record

almost picked it up yesterday but didn't want to drop that much on the LP til i heard, maybe it's good i didn't. anyway i just really want this dude to get around to reissuing some of those '90s LPs too.

like there's hardly any solos! there's more piano ballads than jams!

crazy horse is literally only good at one thing