Search and destroy: Neil Young

haha still is a douche but i think he's kind of underrated in a way! he's a great guitar player...i like the first manassas record quite a bit, and super session w/bloomfield and kooper...plus some of the CSN stuff and Buffalo Springfield...as far as cocaine cowboy asshole dudes i have more respect for him than like henley and frey

oh for sure

evening coconut sounds great, thanks tylerw. totally has the feel of "thrasher" (which is definitely my top 5 neil tunes for sure)

yeah it is nice - though haha, stills does his best to ruin it with his weird latin patois improv vocals at the end. Stills!

i like stills fine (i'm a fan of of the roughly contemporary dark star from csn) but these songs are all pretty weak. black coral is ok.

xp Compare that to Young's desperate attempt to salvage the abomination that is "Make Love To You" with his kinda-awesome "Love you! Love you!" backing vocals on the chorus. For the most part they seem to stay out of each other's way on the rest of the record, I think.

would've been interesting if they had taken the opposite approach -- having stills come in and record with crazy horse. would probably be a weird-but-classic record. but it was probably never on the table, given the contempt CSN showed for the horse.

It's amusing to hear Neil get Old Black cranking on the Stills stuff.

Bill Wyman of the Rolling Stones plays bass on and co-authored "The Love Gangster" and is reported to have said that he would have left the Stones to join Manassas.[1]

the "Midnight, midnight!" backup vocals on "Midnight on the Bay" froze my blood.

listening to this right now for the first time

obv knew the title track

stills bringing the lols already with "make love to you.....awwwwriiight"

oh man never heard this

thing that sucks about stills is he is pretty good at guitar and he shoulda just been a real good sideman type dude, but too much ego

yeah just seems like he had this idea of "I CAN DO ANYTHING." whereas neil was aware of his limitations and made them into assets.

but too much ego cocaine

fixed that 4 u

oh man midnight on the bay is a stone groove

Stills' voice is fucking gross.

haha black coral is hilarious

take it easy DOWN THE-AH
you've only SO MUCH AIR

goddamn these lyrics are next level

Have you ever been down deep?
I mean way down under the ocean
Just inside Odin's reach
Better beware of this potion

And remember you don't belong
It always seemed so unfair
The fishes around will always remind you
Got to go slow, take it easy down there
You've only so much air

When you get a little deeper
If you slow down you might keep her
The sea, unforgiving and she's hard
But she'll make love to you
Show you glimpses of the stars

At about two hundred feet
You realize the peril
But seductive is the deep
That shark over there holds no terror

For a while you really belong
The ocean will always share
You become one like friends and lovers
But remember, take care, she'll try to keep you there

The deeper you go
'Cause of the pressure of the air
The nitrogen comes and goes, gets you high
It's an alien atmosphere

They call it rapture of the deep, be you not afraid
You're too far down by now to be scared
Two hundred and eighty-seven feet
I saw Jesus and it made sense that He was there

So belong but don't be long
There's plenty of ocean to share
Please take heed, there's mouths to feed
The ocean, she'll provide
Don't take more than you need
'Cause Heaven just might be the sea

you take that midnight on the bay, lotta love, and ocean girl and you have the beginnings of neil's great lost yacht rock album.
this could be the cover
http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ls1o32NzB51qf4c00o1_500.jpg

he has the best face!

maybe he could have repurposed "Kahuna Sunset" by Buffalo Springfield from the archives too

yeahhh, and "wind through my sails" and "sail away" would probably work in there too. there actually was supposed to be a geffen era album called "Island In The Sun."

i love this idea

and lol @

Have you ever been down deep?
I mean way down under the ocean

dancing across the water

and windward passage!

I saw Jesus and it made sense that He was there

BETTER BE-WEAH OF THESE MOOHHTIONS

i'm gonna start using "Have you ever been down deep? / I mean way down under the ocean" when i meet new people

I saw Jesus and it made sense that He was there

I actually like this line! It's my favorite part of the song, along with the weird instrumental intro/outro thing. As gross as Stills' voice is, the delivery helps; the whole song looks fucking ridiculous on paper but...ehh I give up. :)

It's Friday, Defend Stephen Stills Why Not?

That shark over there

Stills' voice is fucking gross.

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Something happens at 1:54 here that makes this^^^ feel like an understatement:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NinBbafMn3c

YouTubes of each (though a couple have already been removed), next to brief commentaries by Andy Greene (page by page, but loading pretty quickly this afternoon):
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/pictures/20-insanely-great-neil-young-songs-only-hardcore-fans-know-20140515/1-kansas-0315696

how many of these are on Tyler's Sad Movies comp

not all of 'em but if you throw in the bad news and the homegrown comps, i think that about covers it. can't believe "give me strength" isn't on the RS list.

the bad news and the homegrown comps Eh? Where are these?

yonder!
http://doomandgloomfromthetomb.tumblr.com/post/32393488141/homegrown-the-lost-album-neil-youngs-memoir-is
http://doomandgloomfromthetomb.tumblr.com/post/24071228066/bad-news-neil-young-in-the-1980s-as-a-follow-up

lol @ Neil in leather pants btw

lol yeah i like everything about that pic

Thanks! I've got Sad Movies, but don't remember seeing these at all, although Neil's pants ring a bell (not in a good way). Here he is, blazin' a 12 minute "Homegrown" with Willie and the Horse at Farm Aid:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uALLzqB9GvY

dang near 13 min., that is.

http://m.rollingstone.com/music/videos/neil-young-teams-with-new-kickstarter-campaign-to-save-the-rainforest-20140728#ixzz38nZJFctQ

Says he's gonna make an album with Willie Nelson's sons, Lukas and Michah. Lukas's voice and lead guitar is differently quirky than his Pa's, to whose Heroes he contributed rolling drama, like a somewhat diffently stoned Jimmy Webb. Hope his group Promise Of The Real get to pitch in, maybe Willie will too. Was more familiar with Micah as visual artis, but he's been showing up live with his relatives and Neil, doing his share. Pono's out now---text and more on the video, though haven't watched yet:
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/neil-young-recording-new-album-with-willie-nelsons-sons-20150108?utm_source=newsletter&utm_content=daily&utm_campaign=010815_16&utm_medium=email&ea=YmFtYWxsYW1hQGFvbC5jb20=

*are* differently quirky, duhhh

jeez typos fuc u fone

here's a show from last year w/ the nelson boys' band. "the promise of the real" is like the worst band name of all time, but I can imagine neil thinking it was real cool. http://bigozine2.com/roio/?p=1989

Silver & Gold came on shuffle yesterday. Much better than I remember it.

Album cover art done with the Game Boy printer