― 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
hahah ilm. a thread for every purpose! cheers, stormy
― Charlie Howard, Friday, 30 November 2007 02:26 (sixteen years ago) link
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v136/primrosehill/lolsobadatyoutube.jpg
― roxymuzak, Sunday, 30 December 2007 19:46 (sixteen years ago) link
they love music
― Sparkle Motion, Sunday, 30 December 2007 19:48 (sixteen years ago) link
I think Stars & Bars gets a bad rap. there's some crapola (like all of Neil's records) but on balance I would def say 'search'
― will, Sunday, 30 December 2007 20:33 (sixteen years ago) link
dumbfucks! AMERICA did "No Rain."
― da croupier, Sunday, 30 December 2007 21:17 (sixteen years ago) link
anybody who has the reservoir dogs soundtrack knows that.
― da croupier, Sunday, 30 December 2007 21:18 (sixteen years ago) link
Can anyone recommend a couple of artists that made/makes music that sounds similar to Cowgirl in the sand, Down by the River and Like a Hurricane?
Also, were there artists that before Neil Young made that kind of duelling guitar thing that's going in these songs? A few years back I thought Television were the first ones to do that!
― Lovelace, Saturday, 5 April 2008 21:04 (fifteen years ago) link
...
― Lovelace, Tuesday, 8 April 2008 16:10 (fifteen years ago) link
duelling guitar solos wasn't really common pre-late 60s
― Shakey Mo Collier, Tuesday, 8 April 2008 16:12 (fifteen years ago) link
You should check out Captain Beefheart's Mirror Man LP.
― Myonga Vön Bontee, Wednesday, 9 April 2008 00:56 (fifteen years ago) link
Search mainly what he did up to and including "Harvest". Destroy his 80s output in particular, but also some of the stuff from 1995 onwards.
― Geir Hongro, Wednesday, 9 April 2008 01:35 (fifteen years ago) link
search: arboretum, black mountain, stephen malkmus, sun kil moon, songs:ohia, uncle tupelo
― kamerad, Wednesday, 9 April 2008 03:48 (fifteen years ago) link
Don't destroy re-act-or, coz it's the crankinest, and don't destroy Trans, if you are at all interested in music that sounds like nothing else you've ever heard. Don't destroy Living With War.
Do destroy Broken Arrow, do destroy Chrome Dreams II. Destroy Landing On Water
― SecondBassman, Wednesday, 9 April 2008 17:01 (fifteen years ago) link
x-post
The first Help Yourself LP
― QuantumNoise, Wednesday, 9 April 2008 18:30 (fifteen years ago) link
The entire alt.country scene to thread then.
― Geir Hongro, Wednesday, 9 April 2008 18:30 (fifteen years ago) link
uh, thin lizzy? or like, the grateful dead?
― ian, Wednesday, 9 April 2008 21:02 (fifteen years ago) link
weed barn
― Nedlene Grendel as Basenji Holmo (map), Thursday, 16 December 2021 00:10 (two years ago) link
Yeah--well, if I'm catching his mumble right, the uncertainty of this delay seems to have spread to "the jury's still out," and he can't remember what he forgot or something like that---now he's got me doing it----which is a good idea for a song: the book that's been sitting on the shelf since '85--right here between this one and this other one, the book I was probably gonna read over Christmas---is gone. Looking and looking for it and I QUESTION MY LIFE man---But this song is just standing around and mumbling, not freaking out, not nothin much---maybe it's very very special weed, dusted with powdered elixir--maybe he paid very much up front and now it's gone solid gone---so, put out another deluxe from the vaults, recoup and reinvest, try again, so what.Several others just seem like run=throughs, low-impact stylistic exercises, despite the evident, also predictable, sincerity---but cherrypickin' tyme is no surprise, and I do find freshness, of little turns and sufficient definition, even some flair, as written and played, in "Change Ain't Never Gonna Come," "Shape of You," "Tumblin' Through The Years, "Welcome Back,"---that's my fave---and "Don't Forget Love." "Camerican" is pretty good stylistic exercise. but ends soon and abruptly, like several others
― dow, Thursday, 16 December 2021 00:38 (two years ago) link
a lot of the fade outs on this record are weird and abrupt
― Paul Ponzi, Thursday, 16 December 2021 00:59 (two years ago) link
...“We have recently found a collection of originals from 1987 named Summer Songs at the time of recording,” Young explains on his website. “That time was about 35 years ago. We are not sure of the exact original dates of these recordings yet. They were all given the same date in the NYA Vault’s records, but they all have a very similar unique sound. To give you an idea of place and time, Farm Aid and the Bridge School Concerts had just begun their long runs.”
“This group of songs had just been written and put down in the studio at Broken Arrow (as far as we can figure),” Young continued. “We cannot completely be sure of the engineer who was recording these, and I don’t remember the sessions at all! Every song in the collection was with acoustic guitar or piano and simple added embellishments — sketches of arrangements we made to preserve the initial ideas.”
“These originals were first introduced in their final master versions on the albums Freedom, American Dream, Psychedelic Pill and Harvest Moon. They will be included in NYA Volume 3 and may be released as a separate Archive album before that. It is a beautiful listen, created over a short period of time, that influenced four albums.”
Young provided the list of songs that will appear on the new release: ‘The Last of His Kind’, ‘For the Love of Man’, ‘American Dream’, ‘Name of Love’, ‘Someday’, ‘One of These Days’, ‘Hangin’ on a Limb’ and ‘Wrecking Ball’. Young also adds that “The words of these originals are significantly different from their subsequent master album releases in many cases. Several completely new and unheard verses are found in the songs of this collection.”
Summer Songs doesn’t yet have a release date, as research is still going on to decode some of the information regarding the sessions. Still, you can listen to the later versions of some of the album’s tracks as they appeared on future albums and live performances down below.from https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/neil-young-to-release-lost-album-summer-songs/
― dow, Sunday, 26 December 2021 20:32 (two years ago) link
Archive subscribers can listen to at least some of it, dunno how much.
― dow, Sunday, 26 December 2021 20:33 (two years ago) link