neil young

I voted Time Fades Away

this was already done.
Best of Neil Young studio records

This one has live albums.

Some of them, anyway. (Unplugged, Year of the Horse, Road Rock vol. 1)

Oh. The studio albums poll had the live albums too. Nevermind then.

I voted Ragged Glory because it needs more love and less rockism. That's a srsly good record, yo.

First person to vote "Old Ways" gets a dollar from me.

I voted for "Old Ways" just for the cash. You want my paypal address?

After The Gold Rush = the good songs are so good they make you forget about the bad ones

On The Beach = pretty much all good

I mean "When You Dance" is kind of endearing as a cornily sincere, b-level hippie artifact, but Cripple Creek Ferry is a real turd of a song, and Birds isn't great either.

I got to get away from this day to day running around

TRANS FTW!

Arc/Weld. The worst/best live albums ever.

Dead Man is actually really really good.

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

Tonight's The Night

closely followed by Goldrush and On The Beach

TTN is definitely my favourite - it's so fucked, so moving. Tender, ragged and rocking in equal measure.

Baby Mellow My Mind aches so hard - the swell of pedal steel, touch of lonesome barroom piano, and Neil's voice actually breaking up.

Come On Baby Let's Go Downtown rocks. It sounds so triumphant in its hedonism yet the undercurrent is utterly bleak.

Other favourites - Everybody Knows, Rust, Zuma, Time Fades Away, Sleeps With Angels, Live Rust. Hell, there hardly any poor ones. I've not heard the infamous Landing On Water, but Are You Passionate was bloody awful. Trans is ace though.

Ragged Glory is great fun, one of his most satisfying rock records, but I wouldn't quite put it in the top rung of Neil albums.

Harvest - handful of great songs and some dreary stuff too. Overall, it's too slick, too polite. I like Neil a little scuffed around the edges.

Rust Never Sleeps has Powderfinger, for the win.

Anyone else notice how Apatow kept dropping the cover of Landing On Water all over Knocked Up. What's the deal with that? Consensus aropund these parts on that album?

Rust Never Sleeps for "Powderfinger", but also because of the individually peculiar time and place in which I first loved this record. Also, it's an incredibly balanced album in so many ways I can't be bothered to expand on here.

Consensus aropund these parts on that album?

I noticed the curious product placement too, Tal. There's an interesting thread here devoted to Landing on Water.

no "none of the above"????

just snuck in a vote for tonight's the night. right in the nick of time.

emotion of the less contained and calculated variety

me for tonights the night, too. its so close though - there are better songs on zuma and everybody knows, and almost enough to give the nod to one of them, but TTN takes it

Yeah, Tonight's The Night would be my second or third and very close.

Rust Never Sleeps by a hair, for side one and Powderfinger alone (though nearly sunk by Welfare Mothers).

Oh c'mon, Welfare Mothers is great! My favorite Neil Young throwaway.

DIVORCEE

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

a 3-way tie this time then.

Fair result.

Wait. Zuma should've been much higher, though.

c'est vrai

Someone voted for Everybody's Rockin' again.

One vote for "Zuma"! No way!! This poll is corrupt!!!

"On the Beach" - there's an ILM album if ever there was one

Sleeps With Angels is way too high. And Freedom is way too low.

The fact that Zuma ranked below Trans completely invalidates this poll.

So, basically, I'm the only person who voted for "Zuma"? Don't believe it.

I wasn't around when CSN(and sometimes Y) were at their peak, so apologies for the following somewhat naive question:

How much of Neil Young's popularity in the 70s can be attributed to his association with CSN? The thought never really occurred to me until I was checking out CSN(Y)'s Allmusic entry today, which says "it was the only American-based band to approach the overall societal impact of the Beatles".

Personally, I like Neil Young exponentially more than CSN(Y), so my gut feeling is that the majority of Neil Young's fans were there on account of his own talent. But was there a certain contingency of fans who cheered loudest for "Ohio" and "Helpless", contemplating to themselves at the Live Rust concerts that it would be better if CSN were up on stage too? Or was it more like "Why the hell does Neil Young ever play with them? They butchered 'Helpless'..."? Just wondering what the prevalent view was back in the day.

When CSN and sometimes Y reunited for a predictably horrible album in 1988, Neil begged off the obligatory tour, saying, "I dunno man, those guys need some serious practice."

And that Allmusic statement strikes me as comically absurd.

Yeah, I admit it raised my eyebrow as well, but then I go the ILM search function, and the second thing I read on the Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young C/D S/D thread is "i'm more interested in the fact that CSN(Y) (or whatever) were actually REALLY POPULAR and BIG -- as in springsteen in '85/outkast or britney spears BIG. that's such a radical sea-change in mass public musical taste that deserves some comment, no?"

On The Beach is very good, but would have voted Everybody Knows this is Nowhere, in fact i shall play it now

hi alex, how is the weather in denver? in frankfurt it has been raining most of the day. i would have voted <i>after the goldrush</i>, i think. but <i>on the beach</i> is a decent winner, too.

i will never learn the ilm html tags...

weird

it was the only American-based band to approach the overall societal impact of the Beatles

In their time their American album sales were HUGE. Their cultural cachet was such that their public greeted "Ohio" as a major statement. I'm wary of statements like AllMusic's, but the Shakey bio also makes the same suggestion.

CSNY were huge because the Byrds, the Hollies, and the Buffalo Springfield had all been huge before.

Dead Man = Neil's best electric work?

look at the bill for this thing
http://www.vancouver2010.com/more-2010-information/cultural-festivals-and-events/event-listings/hal-willner's-neil-young-project-_70660zv.html

I'm assuming thats a different Chris Brown, otherwise o_O

yeah, probably?
a mix of eh, cool! and whaaaa?
Sam Beam of Iron & Wine
Chris Brown
Vashti Bunyan
Robert Burger
Brendan Canning
Fred Cash
Jason Collett
Julie Doiron
Kevin Drew
Sam Goldberg
Shahzad Ismaily
Eric Mingus
Sun Kil Moon
Jenni Muldaur
Ambrosia Parsley
Justin Peroff
Ben Perowsky
Joan as Policewoman
Elizabeth Powell
Bill Priddle
Lou Reed
Alasdair Roberts
Ron Sexsmith
Teddy Thompson
James Blood Ulmer
Andrew Whiteman
Doug Wieselman

Ragged Glory, Sleeps With Angels, and Psychedelic Pill are my favorite NY albums although I haven’t heard them all…I hardly listen to his earlier stuff besides Tonight’s the Night….anything else along these lines I shouldn’t miss?

Rust Never Sleeps? Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere? After the Gold Rush?

Zuma. Big fat guitars, like Ragged Glory.

The Monsanto Years I've heard of, the rest I don't even recognise the titles. Anything worth hearing in there?

― feat. fish as 'the highlander' (Matt #2), Thursday, 14 March 2024 22:22 (one hour ago) link

barn is great - i'd put "they might be lost" in with his best

A Letter Home (2014)
Storytone (2014)
The Monsanto Years (2015) (with Promise of the Real)
Peace Trail (2016)
The Visitor (2017) (with Promise of the Real)
Colorado (2019) (with Crazy Horse)
Barn (2021) (with Crazy Horse)
Toast (2022, recorded 2001) (with Crazy Horse)
World Record (2022) (with Crazy Horse)
Before and After (2023)

The Monsanto Years I've heard of, the rest I don't even recognise the titles. Anything worth hearing in there?

What I ripped to my computer and still listen to once in a while:

"Who's Gonna Stand Up?" (live version with Crazy Horse) is actually not on any of those, but Storytone has different, inferior versions
"Needle of Death" from A Letter Home
The solo versions of "Plastic Flowers," "I Want to Drive My Car" and "Tumbleweed" from Storytone. FYI that's a weird release - Neil made a solo version, another version with orchestral overdubs, and a hybrid version that goes back and forth between those two.
"A New Day for Love," "Wolf Moon," "People Want to Hear About Love," "A Rock Star Bucks a Coffee Shop" from The Monsanto Years
"Peace Trail" from the album of the same name
"Forever" from The Visitor
"I Do" from Colorado
Barn is good
Toast is good - I didn't really care for Are You Passionate? and don't have it anymore, so I was surprised by how much I liked Toast

I haven't given those last two albums a good listen, but I haven't heard much about them.

i put together a playlist of my favorites from the last three Crazy Horse records — it's a solid listen, clocks in at just about LP-length:

1. Welcome Back
2. Heading West
3. Overhead
4. Olden Days
5. They Might Be Lost
6. Green Is Blue
7. Chevrolet
8. I Do

Everything I've heard from him post psychedelic pill has been at least interesting and some of it is great. But I haven't heard everything, I skipped the promise of the real collaborations, maybe not intentionally but just never got around to them. I think both Colorado and barn are really good, Barn is the better one. And I will say I didn't intend to get Colorado due to some middling reviews but I found a sealed copy for five bucks, on vinyl! Glad I made the investment.l

I just got somewhere under the rainbow in the mail yesterday, I had it in my Amazon cart for a long time, the price fluctuated from to 20 to 30 to 40 bucks and then a couple days ago dropped down to $13.98 and couldn't pass it up

That rap he does on that about Bruce Berry is haunting.

The Greatest Hits album has been added back to Spotify.

Watch, that'll be the only one.

lol, I noticed that.

Neil Young and Baby Steps

the amuse-bouche before the main course, Everybody's Rockin'

For what it's worth, Storytone to the present is my favorite era of Neil Young. (And I do love me some '60s, '70s, '80s, '90s, and '00s Neil.)

Dogg godspeed to you, that's crazy but I respect it

Is TheNuNuNu actually Neil himself!? Neil, when is Archives III coming out

looks like a lot more has been added now. re: spotify

looks like a lot more has been added now. re: spotify

no debut, nothing between Re-ac-tor and This Note's for You, but a quick scan shows everything else as far as I can tell.

NO RUST👎🏻

er WAIT IT'S THERE?!

https://i.imgur.com/1UCBuI0.jpeg

search is still playing catch up i guess.

When all 200 or whatever records are uploaded I bet Neil will really appreciate that influx of $3,000 a month.

no debut, nothing between Re-ac-tor and This Note's for You, but a quick scan shows everything else as far as I can tell.

Most of his CSNY stuff is still greyed out, except for "Helpless" on Deja Vu and their stuff that's on the Archives boxes.

I won’t rest until I can put “touch the night” on a playlist

doghouse

doghouse

Man, there are so many Neil albums I've never heard.

the people at my gym are going lose their minds when I get my 10 hour playlist on the sound system

John Zorn OK'd access to Tzadik

say what now

lol check the Tzadik thread!

i've been away

what news

John Zorn brought most of the Tzadik catalog to streaming services, which meant an instant dump of literally hundreds of releases, somewhere between 600 and 800, iirc.

sick

80s work now up, as well as the debut (which is missing half the songs)

You can always trust Neil to do things in a baffling, half-arsed way

Those missing albums are there now.

wonder if this means Joni will also return

Just announced, Joni is indeed returning to Spotify

okay, chalk mark (+all post-mingus stuff) is already there.

!!!!

The '79-back stuff is currently present in the Complete Albums box down in her compilations.

...or really Complete Studio Albums, as Miles of Aisles is absent.

yup, that was fast!

Hi gbx, here's the entire Tzadik catalog in one massive, unwieldy playlist

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4QzGKbxwEXyW5caVfcPqm1?si=MX0OKIvlS9iSnQiZrgi9gw&pi=u-qysLtrpeRI2L

Meanwhile, imagine being part of this blunt rotation

https://www.threads.net/@therussellshaw/post/C4w5MDHuhRL/

Hi gbx, here's the entire Tzadik catalog in one massive, unwieldy playlist

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4QzGKbxwEXyW5caVfcPqm1?si=MX0OKIvlS9iSnQiZrgi9gw&pi=u-qysLtrpeRI2L🕸🕸

The '60s & '70s Joni albums are now up individually, as is Taming The Tiger (which was also absent from the initial uploads). Shine, however, is still missing.

Crosby back too