Fantastic photos, La Lechera--and yes, the man-sits-in-chair captions. Are these family photos, or did you come by them some other way?
― clemenza, Thursday, 12 July 2012 13:42 (eleven years ago) link
Assuming that there's very little cross-pollination between googlers interested in Ohio politics and this thread, the former. There's more to say but I don't really want to put it here. I kind of like to keep it "here are some fun and happy political people from Ohio in the 70s" neutral.
― nicest bitch of poster (La Lechera), Thursday, 12 July 2012 13:45 (eleven years ago) link
Not to worry--even Liza Minnelli made an appearance in this thread. (Oh wait, that was my doing...)
― clemenza, Thursday, 12 July 2012 13:53 (eleven years ago) link
Welcome back La Lechera! I didn't post your ballot if you want it on here for posterity.
― EZ Snappin, Thursday, 12 July 2012 13:53 (eleven years ago) link
Here it is if anyone cares/for posterity
1 Ohio2 Helpless3 Lotta Love (Neil's version, not Nicolette's)4 Cowgirl in the Sand5 Expecting to Fly6 Don't Cry No Tears7 Danger Bird8 Cortez the Killer 9 Powderfinger10 Albuquerque
11 Running Dry12 Harvest Moon13 Tired Eyes14 Old Man15 Heart of Gold16 Like a Hurricane17 Rockin in the Free World18 Wrecking Ball19 Harvest20 Bad Fog of Loneliness
21 When Your Lonely Heart Breaks22 Mellow My Mind23 Barstool Blues24 Slip Away25 Revolution Blues26 Pocahontas27 On the Beach28 Down by the River29 Don't Let it Bring You Down30 When You Dance I Can Really Love
31 Razor Love32 A Man Needs a Maid33 Pardon My Heart34 See the Sky About to Rain35 Loose Change36 Prisoners of Rock and Roll
― nicest bitch of poster (La Lechera), Thursday, 12 July 2012 13:55 (eleven years ago) link
Emperor of Wyoming dope choice buzza
― Euler, Thursday, 12 July 2012 14:28 (eleven years ago) link
That is a very cool set of photos and explanation, not that you owed me/us one - thanks. xps
― boxall, Thursday, 12 July 2012 14:29 (eleven years ago) link
xposting I'd be shocked if "Americana" played much of a part of the upcoming Crazy Horse tour. But maybe the unreleased (maybe never to be released?) other album will. Per Young, " [the tour] is going to be [songs from] the past, the present and the future."
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 12 July 2012 14:50 (eleven years ago) link
I wouldn't mind a few songs from Americana but if he busts out the unreleased 20+ minute jam and it doesn't deliver I'm gonna be bummed!
― cwkiii, Thursday, 12 July 2012 16:43 (eleven years ago) link
Pretty obsessed with Jesus' Chariot on Americana. I wish this was the version of She'll Be Coming Round the Mountain that comes out of my daughter's toy 20 times a day.
― Get wolves (DL), Thursday, 12 July 2012 16:45 (eleven years ago) link
Here's my ballot:
Mr. Soul (Mono) - Archives Vol. 1Everbody Knows This Is Nowhere - Everybody's Knows this Is NowwhereDown by the River - LIve at the FillmoreCowgirl in the Sand - LIve at the FilmoreOn the Way Home - Live at Massey HallI'm the Ocean - Mirror BallDreamin' Man - Harvest MoonRockin' the Free World - FreedomToo Far Gone - Chrome Dreams version (unreleased)Comes a Time - Comes a TimeWill to Love - American Stars n Bars/Chrome DreamsWinterlong - DecadeTonights' the Night - Tonight's the NightCome on Baby Let's Go Downtown - Tonight's the NightAlbuquerque - Tonight's the NightMellow My Mind - Tonight's the NIghtTired Eyes - Tonight's the NightDon't Cry No Tears - ZumaBarstool Blues - ZumaCortez the Killer - ZumaRevolution Blues - On the BeachFor the Turnstiles - On the BeachOut on the Weekend - HarvestHeart of Gold - HarvestOld Man - HarvestMansion on the Hill - Ragged GloryMy My Hey Hey - Into the Black - Rust Never SleepsThrasher - Rust Never SleepsPocohontas - Rust Never SleepsPowderfinger - Rust Never SleepsSedan Delivery - Rust Never SleepsPushed it Over the End - Citizen Kane Junior BluesHippie Dream - Landing on WaterTransformer Man - TransTime Fades Away - Time Fades AwayHelpless - DecadeLike a Hurricane - American Stars n BarsI've Loved Her So Long - ArchivesShots - Re Ac TorWorld on A String - Tonights't the Night
― wack nerd zinging in the dead of night (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 12 July 2012 17:08 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah "Jesus' Chariot" is the best song on that record
xpost
― cwkiii, Thursday, 12 July 2012 17:11 (eleven years ago) link
glad to see too far gone showing up on some ballots. kind of a perfect song imo. otm about the chrome dreams version being superior. the 76 live renditions are great toohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJ9AV7C7EX8
― tylerw, Thursday, 12 July 2012 17:14 (eleven years ago) link
I would have voted for Clementine from Americana if I knew about it. That is absolutely killer.
― kornrulez6969, Thursday, 12 July 2012 17:25 (eleven years ago) link
^^My last cut.
― Don't Feel Like Santana, But Oye Como Va To Them (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 12 July 2012 17:29 (eleven years ago) link
really did not expect quite so much Thrasher love but i've always been into that one. In 1981 i spent tenth grade in Israel on a kibbutz and a few classmates were Canadians and Neil was our classes' go-to fave for singalongs and late night listening. I useda listen to RNS all the time for awhile there and Thrasher in particular always meant a lot on account of the fact that the lyrics, while kinda obtuse or impenetrable maybe, def seemed Zionistic considering our circumstances. i'm no Zionist these days but Neil still rules....
― making plans for nyquil (outdoor_miner), Thursday, 12 July 2012 20:38 (eleven years ago) link
Who knew?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=to9C_S7v0zU
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 14 July 2012 21:09 (eleven years ago) link
I had to check, but I have that (called it an "ordeal" in the covers piece). Something I'd forgotten: Neil and Manson share a birthday (Nov. 12, eleven years apart).
― clemenza, Saturday, 14 July 2012 22:48 (eleven years ago) link
This interview with Neil's longtime guitar tech is pretty cool
― windjammer voyage (blank), Monday, 16 July 2012 02:28 (eleven years ago) link
I duly acquired Trans and listened to it for the first time over the weekend. Love it. I can stop saying it's NY's best album just to be contrary now (<-- jk).
― Jeff W, Monday, 16 July 2012 11:18 (eleven years ago) link
I heard "Old Man" last night at a Sunflower market, and immediately regretted that I never submitted a ballot for this.
― _Rudipherous_, Tuesday, 17 July 2012 00:06 (eleven years ago) link
Effexts this thread has on your life: watching Hell's Kitchen and the red team has a pulled pork punishment which involves them checking it hourly through the night. An alarm sounds which they cancel by pressing a "big red button at the side of the grill". So naturally I started singing that to the tune of "Don't Let It Bring You Down".
― Desire is withered away from the sons of men! (aldo), Tuesday, 17 July 2012 09:41 (eleven years ago) link
instant earworm, great
― Ismael Klata, Tuesday, 17 July 2012 09:48 (eleven years ago) link
Big red button at the side of the grillWith the pulled pork piled highMadman chef on everybody’s caseMakes a grown man want to cry
Cold wind ripping through the kitchen at dawnAs the cameras start to rollMadman chef still frothing at the mouthMakes a grown man lose his soul
Don't let it bring you downIt's only pulled pork grillingFind someone who's chillingAnd you will come around
(No excuse for that sort of thing, I know.)
― clemenza, Wednesday, 18 July 2012 18:48 (eleven years ago) link
Has this been posted here yet? Acoustic Albuquerque?Maybe I'm just in a sappy mood today (I mean obvious I totally am) but this sounds like the most poignant thing on earth atm. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CNu8Ti1RhKg&feature=related
― these albatrosses have no fear of man (La Lechera), Tuesday, 4 September 2012 22:27 (eleven years ago) link
i was gonna put this in the "last movies you watched" thread, but it fits better here I think.
Last week I screened Dusty & Sweets McGee, Floyd Mutrux's faux-documentary on heroin addicts in '70-'71 LA, and was wondering if any Neil fans here had seen it? Even though you don't actually hear any of his music in the film (and there's a bunch of music in it), it's like Time Fades Away/Tonight's The Night: The Movie! I kept expecting to see Danny Whitten or Bruce Berry pop up in the background.
Here's the only clip I could find on youtube, which has a short monologue from the dealer character, a Texan who tools around in a '70 Boss 302 Mustang. I can't help seeing him as the guy from "Tired Eyes". (discussion in clip NSFW)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atAGpJSSsrg
― Hut Stricklin at Lake Speed (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 5 September 2012 01:29 (eleven years ago) link
How did you get hold of that (or were you streaming it)? Pretty sure I remember a big Sunset Strip billboard for Time Fades Away in Mutrux's Aloha Bobby and Rose.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 5 September 2012 01:36 (eleven years ago) link
Warner Archive MOD
― Hut Stricklin at Lake Speed (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 5 September 2012 01:44 (eleven years ago) link
Great--I've got to find somewhere that'll ship reasonably to Canada. I recently bought Dealing: Or the Berkeley-to-Boston Forty-Brick Lost-Bag Blues, which is a year later and the same terrain.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 5 September 2012 01:52 (eleven years ago) link
Would watch!
― these albatrosses have no fear of man (La Lechera), Wednesday, 5 September 2012 02:05 (eleven years ago) link
I took a few days to read this whole thread and listen to every song as I've been on a major neil young dive since discovering on the beach a couple weeks ago. had only heard harvest and some of after the gold rush before that (+ a few obvious singles). always wanted to try more but finally found a way in w/ on the beach. i love every song on there.
based on my newly found love for his music i would currently go with something like this for my top ten:
1. on the beach2. thrasher3. cortez the killer4. down by the river5. danger bird6. motion pictures7. will to love8. like a hurricane9. love in mind10. don't cry
not really understanding how powderfinger won this thing but maybe it will grow on me.
think ive listened to every version of cortez the killer including all the live covers (lol @ satriani ... but the dave matthews one is not bad!).
he had such a rad guitar sound coming out of the gates (cowgirl, cinnamon girl, down by the river).
i think some of the songs off tonights the night might make there way up my list, really loving albuquerque atm.
neil young is good, is my main takeaway.
― InfoWarriors (Spottie), Wednesday, 18 July 2018 22:40 (five years ago) link
neil young is good
the tonight's the night songs, at least for me, were real slowburners, like over the course of 5-8 years, but gradually they became indispensable.
lately i have been appreciating the SNL performance of Rockin' in the Free World
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 18 July 2018 22:49 (five years ago) link
feel like quite a bit of his stuff is going to slowburn for me.
― InfoWarriors (Spottie), Wednesday, 18 July 2018 23:04 (five years ago) link
always found Powderfinger overrated, but I will say that it's an awesome moment whenever at a Neil show the song kicks off with the lines "Look out, Mama, there's a white boat coming up the river"
― niels, Thursday, 19 July 2018 06:35 (five years ago) link
karl otm
― BIG RICHARD ENERGY (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 19 July 2018 08:47 (five years ago) link
spottie otm
― BIG RICHARD ENERGY (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 19 July 2018 08:48 (five years ago) link
the snl 'rockin' in the free world' is phenomenal, one of the greatest tv musical performances ever imo
powderfinger might be my favourite neil lyric, just the right balance between poetic and specific
― BIG RICHARD ENERGY (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 19 July 2018 08:53 (five years ago) link
i saw a band cover "albuquerque" recently and it felt like a gift. i recognized it in like 3 notes and there was nothing particularly outstanding about it musically but what a pleasure to hear that song being played by people!
that SNL performance always cheers me up when i am feeling low. i feel like watching it over and over helps to reclaim that song from its truly awful fate as "escalator song" :(
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Thursday, 19 July 2018 12:42 (five years ago) link
sounds like you're travelling in some pretty rockin' elevators tbh
― BIG RICHARD ENERGY (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 19 July 2018 12:44 (five years ago) link
no elevators -- the escalator video of DJT & M descending to make his speech where he announced his candidacy that i will not link or ever watch again if i can avoid it
ALSO at the girls rock end-of-camp showcase last weekend a wee camper DJ played "rockin in the free world" during her DJ set and i shed a tear or 5
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Thursday, 19 July 2018 12:47 (five years ago) link
oh christ i'd forgotten about that ;_;
― BIG RICHARD ENERGY (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 19 July 2018 12:52 (five years ago) link
The “country ham” line in Albuquerque has always kind of taken me out of the moment.
― Naive Teen Idol, Friday, 20 July 2018 20:58 (five years ago) link
what, the fried eggs are ok but not the ham? i like that the line it rhymes with is super poignant. it elevates the ham.
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Friday, 20 July 2018 21:10 (five years ago) link
definitely makes me want some fried eggs and country ham
― tylerw, Friday, 20 July 2018 21:23 (five years ago) link
As all music should.
― Naive Teen Idol, Friday, 20 July 2018 22:02 (five years ago) link
nobody can make you feel an unexpected minor chord like neil
― ant banks and wasp (voodoo chili), Friday, 20 July 2018 22:05 (five years ago) link
ha true!
― InfoWarriors (Spottie), Friday, 20 July 2018 22:33 (five years ago) link
― gbx, Friday, 14 September 2018 02:02 (five years ago) link
can confirm
― Machine Gunk Jelly (Spottie), Thursday, 20 September 2018 20:12 (five years ago) link
http://www.sugarmtn.org/extras/198010030sticker.jpg
― tylerw, Thursday, 20 September 2018 22:17 (five years ago) link