Motion Pictures should have been much, much higher
― nostormo, Wednesday, 16 July 2014 21:48 (nine years ago) link
What would've been perfect: if Altman had interspersed the title track into The Long Goodbye the same way he used "The Stranger Song" in McCabe & Mrs. Miller
― wince (Drugs A. Money), Friday, 26 December 2014 12:11 (nine years ago) link
(Though I guess this album was released a year too late for that...)
― wince (Drugs A. Money), Friday, 26 December 2014 12:12 (nine years ago) link
Robert Altman came to my school for a Robert FIlm Festival and said that the idea for McCabe and Mrs. Miller appeared to him (in snowy images of the title characters) while listening to an LP by L. Cohen, forget which one, He was high at the time but he remembered (made notes). As said on CSNY thread, I saw them on tour in Memphis, about five weeks after OTB was released, I think, although I hadn't heard it, and it was so exciting to encounter some of those surgin' songs in the midst of all that porridge. Y warbling true after all the "harmonies," then S-Y guitar wars wah-wahing all over C & N's hapless handclaps (okay, some of the group efforts worked, but best on Young & Stills songs). I realized that he wasn't just gonna run that Harvest sound into the ground, or turn into James Taylor. And the audience as a whole really woke up for his new stuff (though prob some wanted to get back to the mellow).
― dow, Friday, 26 December 2014 15:21 (nine years ago) link
Robert Altman Film Festival, not just any Robert.
Neil Young, 6' 0" (1.82 m)
― dow, Friday, 26 December 2014 15:25 (nine years ago) link
Stood in a record store and held the Ditch box set in my hand yesterday. So much money--$179. Happily, no need for it.
― clemenza, Saturday, 27 December 2014 00:53 (nine years ago) link
The Pono versions won't be near as expensive.
― Don A Henley And Get Over It (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 27 December 2014 01:17 (nine years ago) link
Idk it's hard to imagine the long goodbye having any other theme song than the long goodbye.
― man alive, Saturday, 27 December 2014 02:13 (nine years ago) link
Wow I thought Neil was taller, not that 6 feet is short but I guess the ppl he's in band's with must by short
― Wu-Tang Clannad (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Sunday, 28 December 2014 21:04 (nine years ago) link
i'd rather start all over again
― home organ, Tuesday, 8 March 2016 02:33 (eight years ago) link
the world is turning
― home organ, Sunday, 17 April 2016 05:44 (eight years ago) link
yow, neil played "revolution blues" last night in texas ... first time since 1987. those promise of the real-ers must be real on the beach heads.
― tylerw, Wednesday, 27 April 2016 15:21 (seven years ago) link
really dug the show I saw w them even tho we didn't get any deep cut/rarities like that honestly I might put them just behind Crazy Horse as his best backing band
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 27 April 2016 16:28 (seven years ago) link
I like every song on this record, but could probably agree if they were ranked according to these poll results.
― JWoww Gilberto (man alive), Wednesday, 27 April 2016 16:30 (seven years ago) link
Feeling totally appropriate after the chaos of Christmas Day.
― piscesx, Tuesday, 26 December 2017 12:57 (six years ago) link
Underrated part
Remember your guard dog?Well, I'm afraid that he's goneIt was such a drag to hear him whining all night long(mocking whine)
― omar little, Monday, 20 August 2018 01:30 (five years ago) link
According to setlist.fm, Vampire Weekend debuted a cover of--wait for it--"Vampire Blues" w/opener Kingfish Ingram (new blues dude) at their Austin shows,
― frustration and wonky passion (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 22 August 2019 05:48 (four years ago) link
this was one of my all-time favorite albums in college. for some reason in the past decade i haven't been putting on that much neil, but homegrown put me right back in the position to really take in how brilliant this record is on every level from songcraft to arrangement. those screaming guitar tones in "walk on" @_@
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Thursday, 25 June 2020 14:47 (three years ago) link
i love every song on this album
― ACABincalifornia (voodoo chili), Thursday, 25 June 2020 15:35 (three years ago) link
would've voted for the title track because it's the perfect encapsulation of being stoned and depressed, just this long bummed-out smear of an experience
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Thursday, 25 June 2020 15:39 (three years ago) link
Motion Pictures should have been much higher.Agreed on Vampire Blues though- i always skip that track
― nostormo, Thursday, 25 June 2020 15:42 (three years ago) link
motion pictures would have been my vote
― devvvine, Thursday, 25 June 2020 21:42 (three years ago) link
the solo on motion pictures is glorious
― scampo, foggy and clegg (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 25 June 2020 21:55 (three years ago) link
Can’t remember if I voted in this, but Motion Pictures is like a top 5 favorite song for me, so that would have been it
― turn the jawhatthefuckever on (One Eye Open), Thursday, 25 June 2020 22:24 (three years ago) link
I have such vivid memories of hearing this album for the first time when I visited LA for the first time in Summer of 1999.
A friend got me super high after a night of drinking and he gave me his discman and a bootleg CD of OTB that he had burned. The first side just blew my mind and I think I passed out after Revolution Blues.
It's only been within the last five years or so that I realized the second side is just as good.
― Tōne Locatelli Romano (PBKR), Thursday, 25 June 2020 22:31 (three years ago) link
get out of towwwwn...think i'll get outta toowwwwn
― ACABincalifornia (voodoo chili), Thursday, 25 June 2020 22:49 (three years ago) link
Best song
― Spottie, Thursday, 25 June 2020 23:05 (three years ago) link
the title track and 'cortez the killer' share a lot of dna--both sun-scorched slow burns. if one of those isn't my favorite neil song, the other one is.
― ACABincalifornia (voodoo chili), Thursday, 25 June 2020 23:08 (three years ago) link
idk about these results. i think "revolution blues" is one of the weaker tracks, along with "see the sky about to rain"
"walk on" probably one of the best songs ever by anybody, that would've been my vote
the rest are top-tier neil, with possibly the exception of "vampire blues" which has great lyrics but, insofar as its more or less a genre exercise, for me functions as a bit of funky levity before the devastating closing trio of tracks
― budo jeru, Thursday, 25 June 2020 23:30 (three years ago) link
also "vampire blues" guitar solo v underrated, it's so creepy and garbled, a complete subversion of what you'd expect from "blues rock"
― budo jeru, Thursday, 25 June 2020 23:33 (three years ago) link
Young's electric piano in "See the Sky About to Rain"
.......
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 25 June 2020 23:45 (three years ago) link
I know it was easily available on vinyl, but it was a huge fuckin' deal in my circle when Young reissued it in 2003.
I love "Vampire Blues" but that may also be related to having actually seen him do a very rare live performance of it a few years back. I do think it works perfectly in the context of the album in terms of sound and feel.
― sleeve, Thursday, 25 June 2020 23:48 (three years ago) link
xp yeah i love that wurlitzer / steel guitar combo
― budo jeru, Thursday, 25 June 2020 23:58 (three years ago) link
yeah, not gonna tolerate any 'see the sky' slander. inevitably the first song i played the few times i've sat in front of an actual wurly
― ACABincalifornia (voodoo chili), Friday, 26 June 2020 01:16 (three years ago) link
it's not slander, it's an excellent song that's on a record full of perfect songs
― budo jeru, Friday, 26 June 2020 02:06 (three years ago) link
I know it was easily available on vinyl, but it was a huge fuckin' deal in my circle when Young reissued it in 2003.― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, June 25, 2020 7:45 PM (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, June 25, 2020 7:45 PM (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
Yeah, this getting reissued that year was my gateway into NY. Read lots of press around then about this masterpiece was getting rereleased. Thankfully, this was around the time you could still buy used vinyl copies of albums like that at record stores for just a few bucks.
― Western® with Bacon Flavor, Friday, 26 June 2020 02:34 (three years ago) link
There's gotta be a Bernie Sanders cover out there somewhere.
― clemenza, Friday, 22 January 2021 02:55 (three years ago) link
I saw it today but don't remember where
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 22 January 2021 02:59 (three years ago) link
Am7 has never sounded better than the opening chords of On the Beach
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Friday, 22 January 2021 04:35 (three years ago) link
Is there a bad song on this record? I don't think so. I guess See the Sky About to Rain is the weakest, but it's still pretty enjoyable and works in the flow of the record.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Friday, 22 January 2021 04:46 (three years ago) link
in terms of being furthest off the overall vibe of the record, “Walk On” is fairly singular in mood.
― Western® with Bacon Flavor, Friday, 22 January 2021 05:10 (three years ago) link
eternally grateful that I saw him jam that one live
― Überschadenfreude (sleeve), Friday, 22 January 2021 05:34 (three years ago) link
I would agree with the results of this poll that "Vampire Blues" is the weakest song, but it's still pretty good and is a nice modest closer for side one before we begin the slow healing process of side two."See the Sky" is generalized melancholy against the specific melancholy or bitterness of the other songs.
― Halfway there but for you, Friday, 22 January 2021 15:13 (three years ago) link
"see the sky" is beautiful. i can't really be objective about any of neil's ballads from this era because they all hit me where i live.
ok, maybe not "a man needs a maid"
― voodoo chili, Friday, 22 January 2021 15:32 (three years ago) link
Walk On and See the Sky sound great together.
― Florida Man vs. California Bill (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 22 January 2021 15:36 (three years ago) link
huge fan of see the sky, my fav on side 1
― nobody like my rap (One Eye Open), Friday, 22 January 2021 16:29 (three years ago) link
In this week's edition of "what was the last 'classic album' you got and were knocked out by?", I found a $4 copy of OTB at my local record store over the weekend. I was vaguely aware of it's classic status, but i've never owned any Neil Young, so I figured this might be a good entry point. And now I'm having to restrain myself from just playing it on a repeat loop and completely wearing it out in the first week. Favorite details:- the title track sounds like it's gonna be a standard I-IV-V 12-bar blues, but instead of the V, it goes somewhere else (to the III?), and it creates this sublime little oasis in the chord progression- Rick Danko's bass on Revolution Blues- "Remember your guard dog? Well, I'm afraid that he's gone. It was such a drag to hear him whining all night long. Aaa-ooooo"- when i spotted a pattern inside the record sleeve, and then realized it was the beach umbrella pattern. Did other records do this trick?
If Revolution Blues is my north star, where do I go next? (does that mean I need to get into The Band? i'm not sure if i'm ready for that)
― enochroot, Tuesday, 27 April 2021 02:44 (two years ago) link
I got my copy of this for $1 thirty years ago, when it was still unavailable.The title track is a minor blues that goes to the relative major instead of the fifth.I remember another LP that had the credits printed on the inside of the jacket, but I forget what it was.I feel that Time Fades Away is the companion to this record if you haven't heard that. The Band don't have a lot of stuff that sounds or feels like "Revolution Blues"; maybe try "Just Another Whistle Stop" ("Police siren, flashing light, and I wonder who went down tonight").
― Halfway there but for you, Tuesday, 27 April 2021 02:51 (two years ago) link