the one and only best thing Neil Young has ever done
― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 6 March 2003 02:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Thursday, 6 March 2003 02:20 (twenty-one years ago) link
I paid $7 Canadian for mine (the dollar was worth a little more then, but not much), and that was the most I ever saw it go for. The only "proper" album I've ever bought that has artwork on the interior of the jacket.
I'd like to throw in a good word for one of the sides of Hawks & Doves (the "Folk" side, not the awful "Country" side), cuz no one else will.
― Vic Funk, Thursday, 6 March 2003 03:54 (twenty-one years ago) link
― jel -- (jel), Sunday, 11 May 2003 17:51 (twenty years ago) link
destroy: harvest (exc. 'a man needs a maid') and after the goldrush (exc. actually listening to it.)
― cºzen (Cozen), Sunday, 25 July 2004 08:56 (nineteen years ago) link
has anyone ever notcied how much wany coyne sounds like teh neil jong?
― nickalicious (nickalicious), Sunday, 25 July 2004 09:00 (nineteen years ago) link
― Pete Scholtes, Sunday, 25 July 2004 20:42 (nineteen years ago) link
Destroy: Nothing. Though I wouldn't recommend stuff like Everybody's Rockin', Are You Passionate?, Old Ways and Long May You Run ... they stand as fascinating miscalculations.
― Chris O., Sunday, 25 July 2004 22:26 (nineteen years ago) link
― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Sunday, 25 July 2004 22:29 (nineteen years ago) link
― Chris O., Sunday, 25 July 2004 22:32 (nineteen years ago) link
― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Sunday, 25 July 2004 22:33 (nineteen years ago) link
― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Sunday, 25 July 2004 22:35 (nineteen years ago) link
― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Sunday, 25 July 2004 22:36 (nineteen years ago) link
― Howard Dean, Wednesday, 19 October 2005 19:55 (eighteen years ago) link
― Austin Still (Austin, Still), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 21:02 (eighteen years ago) link
― pdf (Phil Freeman), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 21:07 (eighteen years ago) link
― js (honestengine), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 21:11 (eighteen years ago) link
hrm.
― my name is john. i reside in chicago. (frankE), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 21:16 (eighteen years ago) link
― Stormy Davis (diamond), Thursday, 20 October 2005 01:44 (eighteen years ago) link
― Hurting (Hurting), Thursday, 20 October 2005 01:54 (eighteen years ago) link
― owen moorhead (i heart daniel miller), Thursday, 20 October 2005 13:26 (eighteen years ago) link
― kyle (akmonday), Thursday, 20 October 2005 14:42 (eighteen years ago) link
― Old School (sexyDancer), Thursday, 20 October 2005 14:44 (eighteen years ago) link
to know Neil is to abide his creative floundering. To love him is to know the burn. The $16.99 burn. He is all and everything else is small. There is no one greater than Neil and there probably won't ever be.
― God Body (Roger Fidelity), Thursday, 20 October 2005 14:50 (eighteen years ago) link
Certainly OTM regarding the last sentence.
― owen moorhead (i heart daniel miller), Thursday, 20 October 2005 15:14 (eighteen years ago) link
― AaronK (AaronK), Thursday, 20 October 2005 15:31 (eighteen years ago) link
― my name is john. i reside in chicago. (frankE), Thursday, 20 October 2005 15:40 (eighteen years ago) link
This might've been acceptable when the guy still cared, but I think it's a bunch of bullshit now. Young hasn't made even close to a solid album in over a decade now. It's all been half-baked, half-finished and even--dare I say it?--half-hearted. This whole 'the-song-comes-to-me-and-I-write-it-down-in-five-seconds' approach has (with very few notable exceptions, say, Bandit) has led to a very barren prairie. How interesting that he's chosen fading away over...well, you know the other one.
― lastdance, Thursday, 20 October 2005 15:53 (eighteen years ago) link
― QuantumNoise (Justin Farrar), Thursday, 20 October 2005 17:53 (eighteen years ago) link
I don't think I'd destroy any of it. Certainly "Everybody's Rockin" and "This Note's For You" you should get LAST, but you should still get 'em.
― disappointing goth fest line-up (orion), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 05:06 (seventeen years ago) link
― Susan Douglas (Susan Douglas), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 07:12 (seventeen years ago) link
― greypejooze (Ryanssssss), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 12:46 (seventeen years ago) link
About 9 or 10 years ago I saw him play with Crazy Horse, and the first note he played blew my god damned mind to bits. It was (and remains) the hugest, warmest, and intensely all encompassing sound I have ever heard. There is no possible way I could ever explain it, and none of the many live recordings I've listened to even come close to capturing it. Additionally, I would pit the slow-motion, stretched out feedback finale notes they dropped at the end of each song against any Sunn 0)) gig in a contest of sublime amplifer worship. The shit was massive indeed, and over-joyed to hear he's still doing it. This is why the fellow remains relevant, or at least the only living purveyor of 'Neil Young's guitar sound' - which is something you must hear live, not on a live album, in your lifetime.
Search -
Buffalo Springfield - Mr. Soul, Expecting to Fly, Broken Arrow, Nowadays Clancy...Neil Young - The Loner, Emporer Of Wyoming, The Old Laughing Lady - every beautiful note of-Everybody Knows This is NowhereAfter the Goldrush HarvestTonight's the Night On the BeachRust Never Sleeps (although I'm not as into this one as everyone else in the world)
Once you're in deep I'd recommend appreciating some of his weirder shit -
Trans - where Neil Young combines his own bad self, some synths he had his roadies steal from Rush, and Bruce Haack's futuristic prairie soul into an unparrelled mess of weird and wonderful.Freedom - his most linear 'story telling' with some harsh 80's bad vibes.
and the song 'Touch the Night' from Landing on Water.
Once you've read Shakey you can appreciate '...and the Shocking Pinks'
On Film - Rust Never Sleeps 'A Concert Fantasy'
Destroy -
Most of his shit in the last 15 or so years. It's really 'law of diminishing returns' at this point, but if you really dig there's a few quality songs.
― greypejooze (Ryanssssss), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 12:47 (seventeen years ago) link
i don't particularly care for harvest moon or zuma. even some of harvest is worthless.
― Charlie Howard (the sphinx), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 12:57 (seventeen years ago) link
― Charlie Howard (the sphinx), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 13:00 (seventeen years ago) link
Yes. I'm The Ocean is the best Neil Young song in probably 20 years. It's a towering achievement and should be searched. Also search Fallen Angel from the same record, which is I'm The Ocean's coda.
Other great, somewhat obscure Neil songs: Big Time and Music Arcade from Broken Arrow.
Don't Be Denied & Last Dance from Time Fades Away
― kornrulez6969 (TCBeing), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 13:05 (seventeen years ago) link
also Yonder Stands the Sinner!!!
― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 14:54 (seventeen years ago) link
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 15:13 (seventeen years ago) link
― derrick (derrick), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 08:54 (seventeen years ago) link
― A Radio Picture (Rrrickey), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 09:20 (seventeen years ago) link
― derrick (derrick), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 09:34 (seventeen years ago) link
I heard a live version of "Hello Cowgirl in the Sand" yesterday when I was shopping in an Italian gourmet food store, and I thought: this is really a depressing song, and no wonder I don't listen to Neil Young more, as good as he is. And I thought they really shouldn't be playing that song. I was tired and my allergies were bothering me, which was making me extremely emotionally hyper-sensitive. Let's all think about loss and disappointment and raw pain while we are trying to find something nice to carry home and eat.
― Rockist Scientist, Sunday, 1 July 2007 01:00 (sixteen years ago) link
I need someone to defend Landing on Water.
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Sunday, 1 July 2007 01:32 (sixteen years ago) link
I've heard a total of 5 Neil Young records, over and over: Everyone knows this is nowhere, After the Goldrush, Harvest, On the Beach, Zuma, and Trans.
Out of those, I would say Harvest and On the Beach are mindblowingly good. Zuma I've only had for a few weeks, but I love. I've listened to Cortez the Killer over and over, never gets old. Tonight's the Night, I feel it overrated, at least at this point of my life. Maybe I haven't been shitfaced enough. It seems like a record that's more interesting if you know the backstory of the artist.
― Z S, Thursday, 26 July 2007 05:06 (sixteen years ago) link
hmmm 'tonight's the night' is one headfuck of a phenomenon. somehow just so consistently good, despite the lurking threat that the whole thing's about to collapse any second under the weight of its own shaky, volatile foundations. sloppy, flippant at times, and infinitely better for it. then again, maybe it's just a fantastic set of songs, regardless of the delivery, level of tangible emotion, and drunkenness of it all!
― Charlie Howard, Thursday, 29 November 2007 14:33 (sixteen years ago) link
and i'm sorry, what the hell is 'a man needs a maid' about? sure it alludes to loneliness, but where does the maid thing factor in?
― Charlie Howard, Thursday, 29 November 2007 14:43 (sixteen years ago) link
Neil Young does a shitty job of keeping his house clean.
― da croupier, Thursday, 29 November 2007 14:54 (sixteen years ago) link
Is 'Man Needs a Maid' ridiculous?
― Stormy Davis, Thursday, 29 November 2007 15:46 (sixteen years ago) link
Live at Massey Hall is what you want. Relaxed, in great form, playing the best songs he ever wrote.
― ecuador_with_a_c, Thursday, 29 November 2007 16:34 (sixteen years ago) link
Tell Me Why fuckin rules
maybe his best opener
― a (waterface), Thursday, 4 April 2024 18:01 (two weeks ago) link
hyden and i just experience music in entirely different ways (thankfully). i can't imagine listening to "tell me why" and thinking "he sure is showing those suckers cs&n"
― the defenestration of prog (voodoo chili), Thursday, 4 April 2024 18:24 (two weeks ago) link
Tell Me Why is incredible.
― il lavoro mi rovina la giornata (PBKR), Thursday, 4 April 2024 18:26 (two weeks ago) link
Everyone on this thread needs to hear his 1987 medley "Tell Me Why (That I Got Mashed Potatoes But Ain't Got No T-Bone)"
― Halfway there but for you, Thursday, 4 April 2024 18:40 (two weeks ago) link
why does he start a list and then start another list going in the other direction within the list?
― budo jeru, Thursday, 4 April 2024 21:07 (two weeks ago) link
That seems like an appropriate format for Neil Young
― Halfway there but for you, Thursday, 4 April 2024 21:08 (two weeks ago) link
― the defenestration of prog (voodoo chili), Thursday, April 4, 2024 1:24 PM (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
lol for real
― budo jeru, Thursday, 4 April 2024 21:10 (two weeks ago) link
No motion pictures for carrie
― H.P, Thursday, 4 April 2024 21:11 (two weeks ago) link
No credibility
― H.P, Thursday, 4 April 2024 21:12 (two weeks ago) link
That's a favourite of mine that didn't make his top 100. Also "Will to Love" and "Last Dance".
― Halfway there but for you, Thursday, 4 April 2024 21:14 (two weeks ago) link
that's kind of what I thought too. of course, to really do this in true Neil style, he would have to publish the list in two parts and constantly push the publication of the second half in favor of continual updates/rewrites to entries in the first half.
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 4 April 2024 21:17 (two weeks ago) link
hyden and i just experience music in entirely different ways (thankfully). i can't imagine listening to "tell me why" and thinking "he sure is showing those suckers cs&n"― the defenestration of prog (voodoo chili), Thursday, April 4, 2024 1:24 PM (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglinklol for real
not that it matters because it's just hyden doing a glib rockcrit thing, but the first live performances of "tell me why" were with CSNY. They probably had a little something to do with the arrangement on the harmony that ended up on the record
― intheblanks, Thursday, 4 April 2024 21:22 (two weeks ago) link
He'd publish the second half of the list first, abandon the first half, then release three collections of drafts of the second list featuring several unreleased tracks from the first list.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 4 April 2024 21:23 (two weeks ago) link
oh man, everyone OTM about tell me why, one of my favorite songs period
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Thursday, 4 April 2024 21:24 (two weeks ago) link
Only two notes, really:
1) No "Cocaine Eyes" is the difference between me and Hyden, and our definitions of the verb "to rock," in a nutshell;
2) The version of "Like a Hurricane" on Live Rust is better than the version on Weld.
― Instead of create and send out, it pull back and consume (unperson), Thursday, 4 April 2024 21:28 (two weeks ago) link
definitely not denying that his time with csn influenced the harmonies on that record and his approach to harmonies in general. hyden's particular flavor of bill simmons-y music is sports brain is just nails on chalkboard to me
― the defenestration of prog (voodoo chili), Thursday, 4 April 2024 21:29 (two weeks ago) link
me as well, I totally agree with you and was trying to take a shot at hyden's tossed-off received wisdom brainlessness, but i probably wasn't being clear there
― intheblanks, Saturday, 6 April 2024 05:06 (one week ago) link
just gotta chime in, on team "tell me why" 100%
― he/him hoo-hah (map), Saturday, 6 April 2024 19:42 (one week ago) link
me too, although at this point it's hard to say i don't have a pavlovian response to it, since it heralds yet another time i get to listen to one of my very favorite records
― budo jeru, Saturday, 6 April 2024 19:52 (one week ago) link
"Cocaine Eyes" is in my top ten Neil Young songs."
Re "Tell Me Why": I've grown to like it but it...took a while. I needed Zuma to loosen me up.
― poppers fueled buttsex crescendo (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 6 April 2024 19:56 (one week ago) link
was it hard to make that arrangement with yourself?
― the defenestration of prog (voodoo chili), Saturday, 6 April 2024 20:17 (one week ago) link