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
― nostormo, Thursday, 10 October 2019 17:48 (four years ago) link
welfare mothersmake better lovers
― Seany's too Dyche to mention (jim in vancouver), Thursday, 10 October 2019 17:49 (four years ago) link
VegemiteGirl saw Kelsey Waldon cover "Powderfinger," posted this on Rolling Country
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3OXLAeQeUwU&feature=youtu.be
― dow, Thursday, 10 October 2019 17:50 (four years ago) link
― dow, Thursday, 10 October 2019 17:51 (four years ago) link
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."
― dow, Thursday, 10 October 2019 17:53 (four years ago) link
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
― dow, Thursday, 10 October 2019 18:00 (four years ago) link
Tho sometimes I kinda prefer this shorter, simpler live performance---well kindahttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ecLa35QvNQ
― dow, Thursday, 10 October 2019 18:01 (four years ago) link
yeah that's a good cover
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 10 October 2019 18:06 (four years ago) link
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 itthere'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
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 10 October 2019 18:08 (four years ago) link
otm
― sleeve, Thursday, 10 October 2019 18:13 (four years ago) link
Neil has so many great lyricsI'm talking recent years thoughI don't even need them to be great just not so bad as to be distracting which they often are now
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 10 October 2019 18:15 (four years ago) link
"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"...
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, 10 October 2019 18:16 (four years ago) link
The saddest thing in the whole wide worldIs to break the heart of your loverI made a mistake and I did it againAnd we struggled to recoverThen I sang in anger, hit another bad chordBut I still try to sing about love and war
― sleeve, Thursday, 10 October 2019 18:17 (four years ago) link
^^ Le Noise, 2010 (his best album of the last 40 years imo)
― sleeve, Thursday, 10 October 2019 18:18 (four years ago) link
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)
― to regain his mental focus, he played video-game golf (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 10 October 2019 18:19 (four years ago) link
anyway this is of course the greatest neil cover ever
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UUH8avj6hs
― to regain his mental focus, he played video-game golf (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 10 October 2019 18:21 (four years ago) link
yeah Ramada Inn is v good lyrically
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 10 October 2019 18:22 (four years ago) link
― sleeve, Thursday, October 10, 2019 2:18 PM (eleven minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
Agreed. Well, maybe 30 years. But yeah, this is among my favorite Neil albums ever, and I am not a Lanois fan at all.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, 10 October 2019 18:31 (four years ago) link
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.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 10 October 2019 21:03 (four years ago) link
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.
― tylerw, Thursday, 10 October 2019 21:06 (four years ago) link
i adore many neil young lyrics! too many to rememberspeaking of rockin' in the free world, is he the only person to have a hit featuring lyrics about/the actual words "toilet paper"?
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Thursday, 10 October 2019 23:31 (four years ago) link
an ambulance can only go so fast
maybe one of my favorite lyrics, period
― Western® with Bacon Flavor, Friday, 11 October 2019 00:10 (four years ago) link
New album sounds okay but kind of uninspired. Curious how it compares to Broken Arrow, another relatively uninspired one that I never pull out.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 26 October 2019 18:27 (four years ago) link
Ha. I've just returned from the record shop, where I couldn't resist buying Colorado, despite sensing that I might mildly regret it...
― Duke, Saturday, 26 October 2019 18:40 (four years ago) link
It's not bad, just nothing special. I listened to Psychedelic Pill a couple of times this week, and that one still sounds great.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 26 October 2019 18:43 (four years ago) link
Yeah, I really like Psychedelic Pill.
"Not bad, nothing special" is precisely where my expectations for this one are. Let's see
― Duke, Saturday, 26 October 2019 18:46 (four years ago) link
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.
― walking towards the sun since 2007 (alex in mainhattan), Saturday, 26 October 2019 19:03 (four years ago) link
Yes, expectations haven't been high for many years. But albums like PP sometimes exceed them.
― Duke, Saturday, 26 October 2019 19:08 (four years ago) link
this is no Psychedelic Pillother than the fact I find the *sound* of Crazy Horse so pleasurable it's pretty half assed on first blush
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Saturday, 26 October 2019 19:10 (four years ago) link
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"....
― Duke, Saturday, 26 October 2019 19:34 (four years ago) link
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
― Duke, Saturday, 26 October 2019 19:38 (four years ago) link
Man I love "Broken Arrow" but this new one bites.
― SQUIRREL MEAT!! (Capitaine Jay Vee), Saturday, 26 October 2019 19:45 (four years ago) link
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.
― walking towards the sun since 2007 (alex in mainhattan), Saturday, 26 October 2019 19:55 (four years ago) link
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.
― walking towards the sun since 2007 (alex in mainhattan), Saturday, 26 October 2019 20:39 (four years ago) link
one safely can do without.
― walking towards the sun since 2007 (alex in mainhattan), Saturday, 26 October 2019 20:40 (four years ago) link
yeah I made it through, but this is pretty badbig disappointment, esp because it's probably the last Crazy Horse record
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Saturday, 26 October 2019 21:23 (four years ago) link
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.
― omar little, Saturday, 26 October 2019 21:26 (four years ago) link
like there's hardly any solos! there's more piano ballads than jams!crazy horse is literally only good at one thing
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Saturday, 26 October 2019 21:33 (four years ago) link
Is that Neil playing piano or Nils?Who knows, maybe there will be another Crazy Horse album. When Americana came out, did anybody know Psychedelic Pill was on its way? This one is just so uninspired and undercooked. I love later albums like Sleeps with Angels, Americana and Pill, because Neil sounds like he was driven back to the band for a purpose. This one, they sound incidental, there to bring a certain degree of sloppiness to songs that don't quite stand up.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 26 October 2019 21:38 (four years ago) link
IIRC, Americana was sort of pitched as openers for an original album cut at the same sessions.
― a bevy of supermodels, musicians and Lena Dunham (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 26 October 2019 22:18 (four years ago) link
Also there was that massive improv jam they put out online before either.
― a bevy of supermodels, musicians and Lena Dunham (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 26 October 2019 22:20 (four years ago) link
Psychedelic Pill stylistically falling between those poles as it happened.
― a bevy of supermodels, musicians and Lena Dunham (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 26 October 2019 22:22 (four years ago) link
Neil needs to do the weirdo Le Noize/weird tape type stuff with Crazy Horse. As with the Dead Man soundtrack, I think at times "you know what this needs...a rhythm section". I would figure this would work and be the ear candy the kids have been wanting to get.
― earlnash, Sunday, 27 October 2019 01:08 (four years ago) link
I'm so bummed out about this album
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 29 October 2019 01:41 (four years ago) link
Feel like this would have been better received as a one of those "surprise! you didn't know it was coming" Neil albums. Having it hyped up for this long, esp with Crazy Horse, allowed expectations to get a little too high I think. Like if this followed six months after another Psychedelic Pill type release, I think this would be approached a little differently. Which isn't to say I think people are underrating this, it's definitely not great.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 29 October 2019 14:18 (four years ago) link
That's why I brought up "Broken Arrow." Raging comeback with "Freedom," reunion and tour with Crazy Horse behind "Ragged Glory," "Harvest Moon" and "Mirror Ball" as successful and well received side-ventures, "Sleeps with Angels" a really cool Crazy Horse record. Neil's back and better than ever! And then ... "Broken Arrow," kind of an underwhelming afterthought album.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 29 October 2019 14:35 (four years ago) link
Makes sense, although I've always loved Broken Arrow, but mostly for it coming really early in my Neil fandom. I grew up with my dad playing him around the house all the time, but never really considered him "mine". But (of course for being 19 at the time), I was really excited when I did an album with Pearl Jam, so Broken Arrow was my third Neil album after Mirror Ball and Decade.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 29 October 2019 14:37 (four years ago) link
Mirror Ball was intended to be a surprise, left-field album, its quick turnaround was hamstrung by Epic's meddling.
― a bevy of supermodels, musicians and Lena Dunham (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 29 October 2019 14:39 (four years ago) link
yall are doing Broken Arrow dirty comparing it to this
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 29 October 2019 14:41 (four years ago) link
the first song on Broken Arrow is Big Time!
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 29 October 2019 14:42 (four years ago) link