Take a look at a bit of this video if you get a chance:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0df4vyeFhEo
It's footage shot in my hometown (Georgetown, Ontario) during the mid-'70s. Somebody put a series of them up a couple of years ago--that's where the image comes from. They're just so perfect in capturing how Time Fades Away and "Ambulance Blues" affected me at the time. Difficult to explain.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 17:00 (eleven years ago) link
Alfred otm re Thrasher's lyrics
voted for Time Fades Away as well
― t. s. idiot (loves laboured breathing), Tuesday, 10 July 2012 17:04 (eleven years ago) link
http://phildellio.tripod.com/neil33.jpg
― clemenza, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 17:05 (eleven years ago) link
"Winterlong" really came out of nowhere on the second half of ballots to arrive. (The Pixies' cover got a vote too.)
― clemenza, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 17:06 (eleven years ago) link
I like Winterlong but have never understood effusive praise for it, like when Frank Black says it's the best song the Pixies ever did
― da croupier, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 17:07 (eleven years ago) link
I'm basically with you--exciting when it showed up on Decade, but it's lost something over the years for me.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 17:09 (eleven years ago) link
"Winterlong" is very good but I never thought it would finish this high.
― cwkiii, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 17:10 (eleven years ago) link
Eric Weisbard said it sounded like peak Big Star but I don't hear it.
― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 10 July 2012 17:11 (eleven years ago) link
Wow, I missed a lot. Meetings suck. Very surprised at some of these results, but cool nonetheless. Think "I'm The Ocean" is some kinda age thing. I had not time for that record when it came out, I had other fish to fry, and it still doesn't really compute with me, but if I had been younger and more in thrall of the moment I might have seen it differently, who knows. I have never made it to the end of the song.
Also consider "Winterlong" cool but not a heavyweight, can't see it this high either.
― grandavis, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 17:12 (eleven years ago) link
that "come back now, come back now" is pretty alex chilton
― da croupier, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 17:12 (eleven years ago) link
I'm far from a Big Star expert, but I don't really hear them in "Winterlong."
― clemenza, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 17:13 (eleven years ago) link
I do love the "come back now, come back now whoaoa" part for sure.
― grandavis, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 17:14 (eleven years ago) link
"Barstool Blues" or "Lookin' For a Girl" are closer.
― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 10 July 2012 17:14 (eleven years ago) link
i can kinda hear the big star comparison in "Winterlong"s solo. beautiful tune (esp. on the fillmore disc w/ whitten). always seemed like a girl group should've covered winterlong, you know, with the be my baby bit there towards the end.
― tylerw, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 17:15 (eleven years ago) link
"Love," Alfred, "Love."
― clemenza, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 17:15 (eleven years ago) link
yeah i'd never think of comparing "winterlong" and big star myself, but it's a yearning, mega-melodic 70s song with some lurch and crunchy guitar, not an offensive stretch
― da croupier, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 17:15 (eleven years ago) link
http://phildellio.tripod.com/neil32.jpg
― clemenza, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 17:16 (eleven years ago) link
my #1
― da croupier, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 17:16 (eleven years ago) link
No one indicated "Trans version," so all votes went to Buffalo Springfield.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 17:17 (eleven years ago) link
Oh, hello
― buzza, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 17:18 (eleven years ago) link
I was oblivious to the fairly obvious "Satisfaction" rip until I read Shakey.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 17:18 (eleven years ago) link
original's the best, imo. neil's said he wanted to mix the stones with dylan and he never did it better than here. if the fifth best song on a 70s album shows up in front of this, i'm gonna be a butt, sorry in advance.
― da croupier, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 17:19 (eleven years ago) link
Did I goof, buzza? Hope not.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 17:19 (eleven years ago) link
always seemed like a girl group should've covered winterlong, you know, with the be my baby bit there towards the end.
oh wow. LIke Emmylou-Dolly-Linda?
― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 10 July 2012 17:20 (eleven years ago) link
No, just quoting the opening of the song
― buzza, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 17:21 (eleven years ago) link
woah that ontario footage + amublance blues on spotify is taking me to a weird place
fwiw i like "i'm the ocean" and had it on my ballot
mr. soul is great....the Archives Mono version is rough sounding but SO MUCH better
― wack nerd zinging in the dead of night (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 10 July 2012 17:21 (eleven years ago) link
xp no, like the ronettes. though emmylou-dolly-linda would be nice too.
― tylerw, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 17:22 (eleven years ago) link
this doesn't come up a lot as something a lot of people saw on tv that blew their minds, but i'm envious of anyone who was first introduced to neil by this tv appearance
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEqLh4-Ouck
― da croupier, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 17:23 (eleven years ago) link
Sideburns HOF.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 17:25 (eleven years ago) link
"is it strange i should change? i don't know, why don't you ask her." might be my favorite last line of a song ever
― da croupier, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 17:25 (eleven years ago) link
it just doesn't get more idgaf than that
― da croupier, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 17:26 (eleven years ago) link
http://phildellio.tripod.com/neil31.jpg
― clemenza, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 17:26 (eleven years ago) link
megaclassic guitar riffage!
― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 10 July 2012 17:27 (eleven years ago) link
"Walk On" was my number 3. Love it to pieces.
― EZ Snappin, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 17:28 (eleven years ago) link
some get stoned/some get strange
― wack nerd zinging in the dead of night (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 10 July 2012 17:29 (eleven years ago) link
"some get strange" = how perfect is this line?
― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 10 July 2012 17:29 (eleven years ago) link
Apologies if you voted for it, but this one I don't get at all. As I've mentioned many times, I'm not as big on On the Beach as most people, "Ambulance Blues" excepted. But as an album, rather than song by song, I get the appeal--I used to play it constantly myself. But "Walk On" doesn't even work for me in the context of the album. It just seems like this half-speed nothing of a song.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 17:30 (eleven years ago) link
feel like when walk on came out all of of neil's friends must've been like "oh man, does he mean me?! he totally means me!" and then sunk into a deep depression.
― tylerw, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 17:30 (eleven years ago) link
Cool clip. Who was that Hollywood Palace host? I don't recognize him.
― Neil Jung (WmC), Tuesday, 10 July 2012 17:32 (eleven years ago) link
"Walk on" has a bit of the power pop feel to it as well, though that and "Barstool Blues" placed on my ballot in the mid-twenties and "Winterlong was top 10.
I always heard "Walk On" was Neil's answer to "Sweet Home Alabama"
― t. s. idiot (loves laboured breathing), Tuesday, 10 July 2012 17:33 (eleven years ago) link
"Winterlong" probably is the best song the Pixies did; but imo that doesn't put it in Neil's top 50..... ;-)
― theStalePrince, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 17:34 (eleven years ago) link
i think sweet home alabama came out after walk on.
― tylerw, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 17:34 (eleven years ago) link
haha i was gonna make that joke but i actually love the pixies
― wack nerd zinging in the dead of night (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 10 July 2012 17:35 (eleven years ago) link
From what I've read, he was responding to some press criticism of a recent tour.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 17:35 (eleven years ago) link
http://phildellio.tripod.com/neil30.jpg
― clemenza, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 17:36 (eleven years ago) link
^ my #1
― Chuck? Chuck? It's me, your cousin, Marvin D (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Tuesday, 10 July 2012 17:37 (eleven years ago) link
La Lechera and I both voted for "When You Dance I Can Really Love". There are days when it's my favorite Neil song.
― EZ Snappin, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 17:38 (eleven years ago) link
with you 100% on "Walk On," Clemenza; if "Vampire Blues" shows up I'm really gonna lose my shit.
― theStalePrince, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 17:38 (eleven years ago) link
haha even the biggest on the beach stan couldn't put vampire blues on a top 40 neil songs list
― wack nerd zinging in the dead of night (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 10 July 2012 17:39 (eleven years ago) link
Band of Outsiders!
― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 10 July 2012 17:39 (eleven years ago) link