Neil Young - On The Beach

First one not too far off - there are cartoonishly cheesy horns and some sick drumming. Segues awkwardly into Where Is the Love To really keep the good times flowing.

I'll throw in The Sterile Cuckoo sdtk if someone sends me a copy of Ragged Glory.

thread got awesome

liza is cuuuute on that album cover. did she ever cover neil young?
he was pretty into her mom
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJ9AV7C7EX8

She does look super cute on the cover, that's why I posted the photo! She was cute in Sterile Cuckoo too -- one of the original MPDGs iirc. I don't know how Neil Young would feel about that, he seems like he likes his women a little more down to earth, but what do I know.
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She did work with Alice Cooper

she was dating scorsese at the time of the last waltz, maybe she was backstage? important things to know.

We're getting off topic but I love her hair and moves here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mR_mjkxc7Ys

Sorry to add to the somewhat surreal derailment--started by me, perhaps...--but I find Liza much more attractive in The Sterile Cuckoo than in Cabaret.

Guys if this thread gets derailed where will we be able to talk about Neil Young?

liza on the beach
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_XeWEPV5kBvQ/S17xCqP7XtI/AAAAAAAAFYk/NKIVzhwLwbc/s400/Liza+Minelli+bathing+suit.bmp

she is 4'4"

not that there's anything wrong with that

"Pocahontas, Liza Minelli and me"

she is 4'4"

she once recounted to Neil her deep desire to "walk like a giant"

As a person of short stature, I can identify with that.

she isn't 4'4" really is she?

Damn I just looked it up and she's taller than I am!

Google tells me she is 5'4" (1.63 m)

In a further thread-derail, and having found how easy it is to Google people's height..., I'm disappointed to learn that Iggy Pop is not actually Five Foot One, but 5'7".

Prince is 5'2" right?

You never know......

40 years young today

He should have taken a chance and held it back for three weeks--could have released it the day Nixon resigned.

heh heh.
i've been listening to this album for 20+ years now... still so good.

Motion Pictures should have been much, much higher

What would've been perfect: if Altman had interspersed the title track into The Long Goodbye the same way he used "The Stranger Song" in McCabe & Mrs. Miller

(Though I guess this album was released a year too late for that...)

Robert Altman came to my school for a Robert FIlm Festival and said that the idea for McCabe and Mrs. Miller appeared to him (in snowy images of the title characters) while listening to an LP by L. Cohen, forget which one, He was high at the time but he remembered (made notes).
As said on CSNY thread, I saw them on tour in Memphis, about five weeks after OTB was released, I think, although I hadn't heard it, and it was so exciting to encounter some of those surgin' songs in the midst of all that porridge. Y warbling true after all the "harmonies," then S-Y guitar wars wah-wahing all over C & N's hapless handclaps (okay, some of the group efforts worked, but best on Young & Stills songs). I realized that he wasn't just gonna run that Harvest sound into the ground, or turn into James Taylor. And the audience as a whole really woke up for his new stuff (though prob some wanted to get back to the mellow).

Robert Altman Film Festival, not just any Robert.

Neil Young, 6' 0" (1.82 m)

Stood in a record store and held the Ditch box set in my hand yesterday. So much money--$179. Happily, no need for it.

The Pono versions won't be near as expensive.

Idk it's hard to imagine the long goodbye having any other theme song than the long goodbye.

Wow I thought Neil was taller, not that 6 feet is short but I guess the ppl he's in band's with must by short

i'd rather start all over again

the world is turning

yow, neil played "revolution blues" last night in texas ... first time since 1987. those promise of the real-ers must be real on the beach heads.

really dug the show I saw w them even tho we didn't get any deep cut/rarities like that honestly I might put them just behind Crazy Horse as his best backing band

I like every song on this record, but could probably agree if they were ranked according to these poll results.

Feeling totally appropriate after the chaos of Christmas Day.

Underrated part

Remember your guard dog?
Well, I'm afraid that he's gone
It was such a drag to hear him whining all night long
(mocking whine)

According to setlist.fm, Vampire Weekend debuted a cover of--wait for it--"Vampire Blues" w/opener Kingfish Ingram (new blues dude) at their Austin shows,

this was one of my all-time favorite albums in college. for some reason in the past decade i haven't been putting on that much neil, but homegrown put me right back in the position to really take in how brilliant this record is on every level from songcraft to arrangement. those screaming guitar tones in "walk on" @_@

i love every song on this album

would've voted for the title track because it's the perfect encapsulation of being stoned and depressed, just this long bummed-out smear of an experience

Motion Pictures should have been much higher.Agreed on Vampire Blues though- i always skip that track

motion pictures would have been my vote

the solo on motion pictures is glorious

Can’t remember if I voted in this, but Motion Pictures is like a top 5 favorite song for me, so that would have been it