― B-Rad, Thursday, 25 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
I'm prob. being too literal here, but Neil seems much more pampered and self-pitying than yer average bluesman, and more in touch w/ his feminine side. That weedy high voice of his isn't very 'masculine' - it admits to a softness, a fragility that's missing from Howlin' Wolf, say - although Ike Turner might've approved of 'Welfare Mothers' ("make better lovers") or any song called 'A Man Needs A Maid' (god I wish there was a whole alb of Young/Nietzsche orch pop, not just that track).
'After the Goldrush' has never been one of my real faves - yeah, 'On the Beach' is prob. THE one - the greatest alb in the world currently unavailable on CD? I was always slightly wary of 'Sleeps With Angels' 'cos of the Kurt trib, but actually it's one of his best recs ...
― Andrew L, Thursday, 25 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
1) I meant the song, not the LP;
2) I know it's not blues - it's not remotely blues: I meant in a Noel Coward- meets-Eric Hobsbawm sense. (Yes - *that* sense. ??)
3) Dr C - do you have a view?
― the pinefox, Thursday, 25 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Dr. C, Thursday, 25 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Matt Riedl (veal), Thursday, 25 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Nick Southall, Thursday, 25 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― davidh(owie), Thursday, 25 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― alex in mainhattan, Friday, 26 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
I read somewhere that a bunch of copies were pressed with the image in the gatefold mistakenly being the image from "The Slider".
― Sean, Friday, 26 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― David H(owie), Saturday, 27 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― alex in mainhattan, Saturday, 27 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― brian goldberg, Wednesday, 29 January 2003 04:43 (twenty-one years ago) link
exactement
Noel Coward- meets-Eric Hobsbawm
wtf does that mean?!
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Wednesday, 29 January 2003 05:10 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Amateurist (amateurist), Wednesday, 29 January 2003 07:21 (twenty-one years ago) link
TO RECAP: i am NOT a character from a TV show created by Serge Danot in 1965, all appearances to the contrary
― zebedee, Wednesday, 29 January 2003 19:06 (twenty-one years ago) link
Yay for Neil. (Three very famous women doing a pretty good cover of "After the Gold Rush" on the Grammys.)
― clemenza, Monday, 11 February 2019 02:03 (five years ago) link
Ha, just saw that. Was a little surprised.
― silent as a seashell Julia (Sund4r), Monday, 11 February 2019 02:09 (five years ago) link
easily the evening's highlight too
― Your sweetie-pie-coo-coo I love ya (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 11 February 2019 02:11 (five years ago) link
Makes me sad kacey didn't foreshadow it with "space cowboy" though (going by Twitter, anyway)
― bhad bundy (Simon H.), Monday, 11 February 2019 02:13 (five years ago) link