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
These are the Neil Young alums ya need.
― You like queer? I like queer. Still like queer. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 25 October 2018 10:41 (five years ago) link
Zuma is a good shout for #1. No Live Rust? No After the Goldrush? SMDH
― Neil S, Thursday, 25 October 2018 10:54 (five years ago) link
I like/love 'em all, really. Post-Ragged Glory albums I'd rank with his best: Harvest Moon, Greendale, Psychedelic Pill.
― Valentijn, Thursday, 25 October 2018 11:06 (five years ago) link
solid list for sure
the live at the fillmore east renditions of the everybody knows this is nowhere songs have taken over as the definitive versions for me in the last couple of years
― la bébé du nom-nom (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 25 October 2018 11:34 (five years ago) link
when Keith Richards, recording his solo album, said he’d run out of material to write about, drummer Steve Jordan reminded him, “Think of Mick. Write about Mick.”
hahahaha that's amazing
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, 25 October 2018 15:48 (five years ago) link